The World Meteorological Organization’s State of the Climate in Asia 2024 report warns that the region is warming nearly twice as fast as the global average, driving more extreme weather and posing serious threats to lives, ecosystems, and economies. In 2024, Asia experienced its warmest or second warmest year on …
Aizawl: Natural disasters have claimed the lives of altogether 71 persons and injured 82 others during the last eight years, Disaster Management and Rehabilitation officials said here on Thursday. Landslides and land sinking claimed the highest number of lives, killing 31 persons, followed by house fire (15 persons), forest fire …
At least 12 families have been displaced due to landslip occurred after the earthquake on September 18 in Sirdibas VDC of Gorkha district. A huge hill if the village had fallen down into the Budhigandaki River after the earthquake. Villagers have shifted to safer places after seeing the river closer …
At least four people were killed when a mudslide swept away houses in a village in northern Thailand, raising the death toll from two months of flooding to 173, the government said Wednesday. The victims, who included a nine-year-old girl, were members of the same family whose house was destroyed …
MUMBAI: The Bombay high court on Tuesday directed the Slum Rehabilitation Authority (SRA) and the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) to ensure that there is no untoward incident or landslide on the eastern slopes of Cumballa Hill, where drilling for soil testing was underway by a developer. Captain Ashok Batra of …
DARJEELING, 26 SEPT: A major landslide in Lebong Cart Road, Darjeeling near Sharma Garage that took place last night has snapped road connectivity in the interiors of Darjeeling. Traffic in the road that links Singamari, Lebong, and other parts in the region has come to a grinding halt following the …
Heavy rains have wreaked havoc in eastern Uttar Pradesh leaving 28 people dead, while the water level in major rivers is rising. While 18 people were killed in incidents of wall and house collapse in Jaupur district, 10 deaths were reported from Mirzapur district which received 120 mm and 150 …
A powerful typhoon that barrelled through Japan and threatened the crippled Fukushima nuclear power plant killed at least 11 people including a woman aged 101, officials and reports said Thursday. Typhoon Roke, which churned across the main island of Honshu and through the already disaster-ravaged northeast, caused flooding and triggered …
Five women were killed and 13 others injured in a landslide at Sanghukhola in Resh VDC-3, Baglung, on Thursday. The lanslide buried them while they were clearing a blocked irrigation canal, police said. A group of 18 women had been working on the irrigation canal when the incident occurred.
Rescuers on Thursday finally reached some of the villages in India's remote northeast that were cut off by a powerful earthquake that rattled the Himalayan region last weekend, as the death toll in the disaster climbed past 100. An Indian villager and a child, evacuated by helicopter from Chungthang, de-board …
There is still no trace of 120 residents of Bay village in North Sikkim, located between Lachung and Chungthang, after Sunday’s powerful quake even as a flash flood at Lachung poses a fresh threat of landslides. “We find no trace as yet of 120 people living in 14 huts at …
A landslide in northern Guatemala on Tuesday killed three children and another 12 people buried in the disaster are believed dead, a local official said. Heavy predawn rains caused the disaster that buried four homes while families slept. "They have been trapped under heavy mud. It's unlikely that anyone is …
A company building a hydroelectric power plant confirmed Wednesday that 17 of its workers had died and seven were critically injured as a result of the earthquake that shook the Himalayas in and around the northeastern Indian state of Sikkim on Sunday. The state’s chief minister, Pawan Chamling, told reporters …
More than 3,000 persons were rescued in quake-hit areas of Sikkim by defence forces which scrambled hard to clear debris of collapsed structures and landslides as the death toll in Sunday's powerful temblor shot up to 92, including 53 in the Himalayan state. Of the 53, 36 persons died in …
Gangtok: Battling landslides and torrential rains in quake-hit Sikkim, rescue teams got into full swing on Monday as the death toll in the 6.8 magnitude temblor mounted to 72, including 41 in the Himalayan state. Sunday evening’s earthquake with its epicentre near the border with Nepal, left a trail of …
A landslide caused by heavy rain plowed into two small factories in northwestern China, killing at least 10 people and leaving 22 others missing, state-run media reported. The Xinhua News Agency said the landslide engulfed a brick factory and destroyed part of a ceramics factory in a suburb of Xi'an, …
There persons of a family were killed and another one injured when their house was swept away by a landslide in Rasnalu VDC in Ramechhap district on Saturday night. The village lies in the northern part of the district. According to District Police Office Ramecchap, the house belonging to Shyam …
Nine persons have been killed including four in Kathmandu Valley in the 6.8 magnitude earthquake that rocked Nepal Sunday evening. In Kathmandu, three persons were killed after the compound wall of the British Embassy at Lainchaur collapsed following the earthquake. Sajan Shrestha, 36, who is originally from Gorkha, and his …
Monsoon rains, floods and mudslides in Thailand have killed at least 98 people since July, including a French tourist, authorities said on Friday, posing a test for the new government of Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra. Flooding in 29 of Thailand's 76 provinces has destroyed or damaged more then 300,000 homes, …
At least seven people were killed and over a dozen injured when their houses were hit by landslides triggered by torrential rainfall in Ruinibang bazaar in Rolpa district in the wee hours of Saturday morning. Six houses, some of them lodges, were buried by the landslides. According to police, at …
The National Institute of Infotech & Management (NIIM), Shillong is holding the 2nd National Congress on Indian Landslides with a two-day programme from tomorrow at the Indian Institute of Entrepreneurship (IIE) here. The main theme of the congress is seismicity and landslides and its subthemes include state specific case studies …
