Tag: Natural disaster

• Tuesday, June 2nd 2020 - 07:58 UTC

  Storm in Central America leaves at least 18 dead, and hundreds homeless

  

  Emergency workers were searching for seven people still missing Monday as El Salvador and its Central American neighbors picked through the destruction after the first-named Pacific storm of the year left at least 18 people dead.

• Monday, December 30th 2019 - 08:58 UTC

  Australia orders the evacuation of 30.000 tourists as temperature rises to 40 Celsius

  

  Thousands of residents and holiday makers have been told to evacuate a swathe of Victoria as soaring temperatures and strong winds fan massive bushfires in the Australian state.

• Friday, September 6th 2019 - 09:18 UTC

  Desperate need for medicines, food and shelter in Bahamas ravaged by hurricane Dorian

  

  More than 76,000 people out of a population of 395.000, could require food and other aid in the Bahamas after the Caribbean nation was ravaged by Hurricane Dorian, the UN's World Food Program said on Thursday, with eight tons of supplies ready to arrive.

• Saturday, April 6th 2019 - 09:58 UTC

  Heavy rains with flash floods in northeast Brazil and in Paraguay

  

  Civil defense officials have reported that heavy rains in northeastern Brazil have killed at least three people and displaced 3,600, while apparently unrelated flooding far to the south in Paraguay has forced some 20,000 people from their homes.

• Saturday, March 23rd 2019 - 09:21 UTC

  Africa's cyclone Idai batters 1.7 million people: now outbreaks of cholera and malaria

  

  A week after the flooded Mozambican port of Beira was hit by Cyclone Idai, cases of cholera have been recorded, a humanitarian aid group said on Friday. The International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC) warned of the risk of other outbreaks, already noting an increase in malaria.

• Wednesday, March 20th 2019 - 09:53 UTC

  Hundreds killed by cyclone Idai in Mozambique, Zimbabwe and Malawi

  

  Cyclone Idai has triggered a “massive disaster” in southern Africa affecting hundreds of thousands if not millions of people, the UN says. The region has been hit by widespread flooding and devastation affecting Mozambique, Zimbabwe and Malawi.

• Friday, March 1st 2019 - 20:05 UTC

  Peru hit by earthquake also felt in Bolivia, Brazil and Chile

  

  An earthquake measuring 7.0 degrees on the Richter scale Friday rattled southern Peru, 67 km (41 miles) north-northwest of Juliaca, near the Bolivian border, it was reported.

• Monday, January 28th 2019 - 09:33 UTC

  Cuba: Three dead and 170 injured after tornado passage through Havana

  

  At least three people lost their lives and more than 170 were wounded on Sunday night by the onslaught of a tornado in Havana as a result of an extratropical drop from the Gulf of Mexico that transits the territory of the island, local media confirmed.

• Saturday, January 19th 2019 - 09:22 UTC

  Extreme wet January displaces thousands and floods farmland in Mercosur member countries

  

  Intense rainfall in northeast Argentina and neighbouring areas in Mercosur members has caused devastating floods, amplifying the economic burdens of Argentina's recession. Over 5,000 people have evacuated the region, and millions of hectares of crops have been sent underwater.

• Friday, December 28th 2018 - 08:35 UTC

  Indonesia volcano activity on the rise: exclusion area expanded and flights rerouted

  

  The alert level for Indonesia's Anak Krakatau volcano has been raised to the second-highest level possible, after a series of eruptions, while all flights around the volcano have been rerouted and a 5km (three-mile) exclusion zone has also been imposed.