This gives a brief account of disasters happening around the Globe
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Istanbul (CNN)At least 19 people died and more than 600 were injured in eastern Turkey after an earthquake rattled the region on Friday evening, according to authorities. The 6.7-magnitude quake struck near the town of Sivrice, in eastern Elazig province, collapsing at least 10 buildings, Turkish Interior Minister Sulyman Soylu said. Thirteen people were killed […]
A scary video of sea foam engulfing the streets of a Spanish town due to a powerful storm is going viral. Froth covers streets of Spain Photo: Twitter/reuters A video of a town in Spain covered in frothy sea foam has gone viral on Twitter and it has left netizens questioning the alarming climate change […]
Mozambique – Disaster Risk Assessment (January 2020) 19 Jan 2020 Mozambique English Download From 18 to 27 November, in close coordination with Mozambique’s National Institute for Disaster Management (INGC), IOM Displacement Tracking Matrix (DTM) teams conducted a Disaster Risk Assessment at locality level (localidade), corresponding to the lowest administrative level in the country. This […]
Severe storms forecast to continue in many regions of New South Wales and Queensland that have not seen rain for years View of a burn bushland in Bilpin, Australia. The Gospers Mountain Fire reached the town of Bilpin on 21 December 2019. EPA View of a burn bushland in Bilpin, Australia. The Gospers […]
The thirsty koala was spotted lapping up water on Moree to Croppa Creek Road Pamela Schramm and her children spotted the marsupial on the way back home She thought the koala was injured but after a while realised he was indeed fine Ms. Schramm had a wildlife carer check out the koala who said he […]
Just before 9:00 a.m. local time on January 11, a magnitude 5.9 earthquake rattled Puerto Rico’s southwestern coast. The event comes after weeks of quakes have rumbled through the region—and odds are that the shaking is not over yet. The series includes Puerto Rico’s most destructive quake in a century, a magnitude 6.4 earthquake that […]
* Any views expressed in this opinion piece are those of the author and not of Thomson Reuters Foundation. In the past decade, Haiti has been hit by drought, cholera, hurricanes and more tremors – and is struggling to protect its people Haiti has had little reprieve from disasters in the past 10 years since […]
This article is part of the World Economic Forum Annual Meeting For the first time the Global Risks Report is dominated by the environment. Geoeconomic and political pressures top short-term concerns. Climate-linked issues like extreme heat and ecosystems loss highlighted. Following a year of floods and droughts, when fires ravaged Australia and the Amazon, and […]
Source(s): Conversation Media Group, the By Richard Aster, Professor of Geophysics and Department Head, Colorado State University Multiple strong and damaging earthquakes in southern Puerto Rico starting around Dec. 28, 2019 have killed at least one person, caused many serious injuries and collapsed numerous buildings, including a multistory school in the town of Guánica that luckily was […]
