In 2024, the Emergency Events Database (EM-DAT) recorded 393 natural hazard-related disasters. These events caused 16,753 fatalities and affected 167.2 million people. Economic losses totaled US$241.95 billion. The year 2024 was marked by extreme temperature events in Asia that caused thousands of deaths, severe droughts in Africa affecting over 25 …
While most eyes warily watched the shoreline during Hurricane Irene’s grinding ride up the East Coast, it was inland — sometimes hundreds of miles inland — where the most serious damage actually occurred. And the major culprit was not wind, but water. As blue skies and temperate breezes returned on …
The economic damage wrought by Hurricane Irene—everything from washed-out roads to lost hotel bookings—could hit $12 billion or more. That's the initial assessment of economists and insurance-industry officials who are beginning to count what was lost in the storm. Tallying hurricane costs means looking both at the physical damage as …
Cuts a path of destruction; becomes a tropical storm Having cut a path of destruction that stretched from the Outer Banks of North Carolina to the eastern tip of Long Island in a 24-hour period that killed at least nine people in five states and caused an unprecedented shutdown of …
Tropical Storm Jose formed near Bermuda on Sunday, becoming the 10th named storm of the 2011 Atlantic hurricane season, U.S. forecasters said. At 2 p.m. EDT, the U.S. National Hurricane Center said Jose was 60 miles west of Bermuda and churning northward over the central Atlantic Ocean. It posed no …
Tropical Storm Irene swept through the desolate streets of New York on Sunday, flooding low-lying areas and leaving millions of homes without power along the Eastern Seaboard as it continued on to New England. Most New Yorkers emerged from their makeshift bunkers to find little of the widespread devastation the …
— As Tropical Storm Irene drenched New York and New England on Sunday, the states where the hurricane first made landfall faced a sun-drenched — yet often powerless — day to assess loss of life, property damage and widespread inconvenience that, while significant, fell short of the worst forecasts of …
It began as something far off and dangerous — a monster storm, a Category 3 hurricane that packed winds of 115 miles an hour as it buzz-sawed through the Caribbean last week, causing more than a billion dollars of destruction in the Bahamas alone. But when Hurricane Irene finally chugged …
Losses from Hurricane Irene are estimated to total about $7 billion, much less than what was feared from the massive storm that battered the US East Coast over the week-end, initial estimates say. The total damage by Irene may reach $7 billion by the time the storm tapers in the …
With Hurricane Irene threatening a full-force hit, New York City on Thursday ordered the evacuation of nursing homes and senior centers in low-lying areas and made plans for the possible shutdown of the entire transit system. The governors of New York, New Jersey and Connecticut declared states of emergency, and …
Tropical storm Harvey hit the coast of Central America on Saturday, lashing Belize with strong winds and rain and threatening to dump more on sugar- and coffee-producing areas in the region. The U.S. National Hurricane Center (NHC) said Harvey would probably weaken as it moved inland but could still strafe …
A violent storm that lashed an outdoor rock music festival in northern Belgium killed five people, Hasselt mayor Hilde Claes said yesterday. Ten more were seriously injured with three in critical condition, police said, as two stages collapsed, trees were uprooted and hailstones "the size of golf balls" rained down …
A storm battering the northeast Chinese coast on Monday whipped up waves that threatened a dyke protecting a chemical plant, forcing residents to flee while soldiers and firefighters rushed to fill the breaches, news media said. The waves slamming the coast near the port city of Dalian in Liaoning province …
China evacuated more than 200,000 people on its east coast and cancelled nearly 200 flights yesterday in preparation for the most powerful typhoon to hit the country in years. Typhoon Muifa, which was packing winds of up to 162 kilometres per hour, is expected to make landfall on China's east …
High-level meeting on Aug 8 to discuss their demands Apple growers of the state, who have been suffering heavy losses due to large-scale import of the fruit, are pinning hopes on a high-level meeting convened by Union Agriculture Minister Sharad Pawar on August 8 to find a lasting solution to …
More than 200,000 coastal residents in eastern China have evacuated and thousands of ships were called back to shore Saturday as Typhoon Muifa bore down on the country after battering the Philippines, Taiwan and Japan. Zhejiang province moved just over 200,000 people from its coastal areas while an additional 80,400 …
CHENNAI: Finance minister O Panneerselvam on Thursday announced two major initiatives for Chennai city —the Chennai Mega City Development Mission (CMCDM), to be implemented at Rs 500 crore, and augmentation of the reservoir capacity by 4.20 tmcft at a cost of Rs 1,851 crore. Presenting the Budget for 2011-12 in …
Tropical Storm Emily took aim at Haiti on Wednesday, threatening to add to the misery of a chronically poor nation struggling to recover from last year's devastating earthquake. Emily was about 60 miles southeast of Isla Beata in the Dominican Republic, near its border with Haiti, at 5 p.m. EDT …
Tropical Storm Emily formed near the Caribbean's Lesser Antilles islands on Monday, far from oil and gas-production facilities in the U.S. Gulf of Mexico. The Miami-based National Hurricane Center said Emily, the fifth named storm of the Atlantic hurricane season, was packing maximum sustained winds of 40 miles per hour. …
Answers to why dust storms are on the rise in East Asia. Over the past two decades there has been an increase in the outbreak of dust storms over East Asia. Large quantities of dust particles suspended in the air not only block the amount of sunlight reaching the earth, …
The death toll in the Philippines from tropical storm Nock-ten climbed to 41 yesterday, as millions of people across the main island of Luzon mopped up after a week of heavy rain, officials said. Food and medical supplies were being sent by land to hard-hit areas, especially Bicol on the …
