Category Earth Subsistance Alert

Typhoon Koppu Bringing Life-Threatening Flooding, Damaging Winds to Philippines

Typhoon Koppu will put lives and property across Luzon Island of the Philippines in danger through early next week.   Koppu developed into a typhoon early Friday morning local time and is currently approaching the northern Philippines. Disruptive wind shear…

Massive Landslide kills At Least 17 In Hpa-saung Township, Myanmar

Photo: Lkw Lkw/Facebook Torrential rain caused a landslide on Sunday in a village in Hpa-saung Township, Kayah State, killing 17, according to a news report from the Myanmar News Agency on 12 October. Others are feared dead.   Among the…

Massive Landslide Kills At Least 30; 100’s Missing; Buries More Than 100 Homes in Guatemala

At least 30 people have died and up to 600 people are feared missing after a hillside collapsed on a town in Guatemala, burying more than 100 homes.   Aerial video showed the tree-lined hillside laid bare above a huge…

Massive landslide heralds evacuation alert for 38 properties in Birken, Canada

A two-storey house in Birken, north of Pemberton, was buried up to its roof line after a mudslide Sunday Residents of Birken, north of Pemberton, B.C., where a mudslide took place Sunday, have been put on evacuation alert as renewed…

Major landslide knocks out water main leaving 44,000 without water in Malaysia

A landslide on Jalan Lebuh Putra, Kulai, Johor, has left 44,000 people without water for four days, according to a report on The Star Online.   “My whole family was forced to take showers at different mosques,” said housewife Khairunazrifah…

USGS HAS UPGRADED QUAKE MAGNITUDE 8.3 – OFFSHORE COQUIMBO, CHILE

Subject To Change Depth: 12 km Distances: 54km (34mi) W of Illapel, Chile 76km (47mi) WNW of Salamanca, Chile 109km (68mi) NNW of La Ligua, Chile 118km (73mi) SSW of Ovalle, Chile 233km (145mi) NNW of Santiago, Chile