Water cascaded into subway stations and flooded streets, with people seen wading through water.
Peruvian authorities say the magnitude 5.1 and 3.7 quakes were in the mountainous Junin region east of Lima.
At least six people were killed and 21 injured after two earthquakes struck a mountainous region of Peru, the country’s civil defence chief said on Sunday. The earthquakes, measuring magnitudes 5.1 and 3.7, hit on Saturday night in Chupaca province in the Junin region, about 300km (186 miles) east of Lima, according to Peru’s National Seismological Centre post on social media. The first earthquake struck at a depth of 24km (15 miles) and the second at 18km, the centre said. The...
Footage shows firefighters looking for a missing person amongst the rubble of a collapsed building in Pumpunya, Peru.
Heavy incessant rainfall and a cloudburst caused widespread destruction at various locations in and around Mon town; State announces ex-gratia of ₹4 lakh for kin of deceased, ₹74,000 for each of the injured
4 dead, several missing as flash floods, landslides batter Poonch district
Dozens of vehicles were swept away or submerged after overflowing rivers breached their banks, causing widespread disruption, the officials said
Volunteers made a giant cake to cheer up around 3,000 Venezuelan children displaced by last month's powerful twin quakes
Drone video shows the scale of a major wildfire in northern Spain where more than 150 square kilometres have burned
IMF releases £346m in emergency funds as new details emerge about the disaster response.
The Canadian military was preparing on Saturday to evacuate a remote community of 600 people threatened by forest wildfires that have spread, choking smoke across a broad swathe of the United States. Federal Emergencies Minister Eleanor Olszewski said late on Friday that the armed forces would use aircraft to evacuate the inhabitants of Fort Hope in sparsely populated northwestern Ontario, where some of the most intense fires are burning. The region has few roads and relies heavily on air...
Millions in China have been moved by a man who swam for three hours through floods to check on his parents’ status. The floods in southern China’s Guangxi Zhuang autonomous region, caused by torrential rains and a number of dam collapses, have reportedly left 39 people dead and affected nearly 400,000 residents. From July 3 to 6, cumulative rainfall in Guangxi’s southern region reached 400 mm to 600 mm, with Qinzhou city receiving over 800 mm of precipitation. On July 6, a 30-year-old man...
The blaze has destroyed more than 100 homes in Drammen and has spread to a nearby forest, authorities say.
The landslide contained about 18,000 cubic meters of rocks and debris, and the largest single rock was around 3,000 cubic meters, Wang Chuanjun, head of Planning and Natural Resources in Pengshui County, told a news conference on July 17
A landslide on the outskirts of the southwestern Chinese city of Chongqing has killed at least eight and left 34 missing
Officials in the southern state have seen new warning systems tested by the floods, after last year's deadly rainfall.
Chilean President Jose Antonio Kast says that he is travelling to the Biobio region to survey flood damage.
A powerful magnitude 7.3 earthquake struck off the coast of Mexico’s southernmost state of Chiapas on Friday, shaking buildings as far away as Guatemala and El Salvador, though authorities said there were no immediate reports of casualties or major damage. Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum said emergency protocols were activated but that neither Chiapas nor the neighbouring state of Tabasco reported issues, and Guatemalan President Bernardo Arevalo said there were no deaths. In some parts of...
The US Tsunami Warning Center issued a warning and has recorded waves 0.3m (1.1 feet) high in Puerto Madero and Chiapas in Mexico.
Landslide has buried homes and forced more than 1,100 people to evacuate.
It says that the District Disaster Management Authority had directed the executing agencies that the excavated earth near the Anakkampoyil–Kalladi–Meppaditwin tube tunnel road project site be removed, to avert a disaster
Deadly storm leaves half a million without power in Chile
Footage shows a rescuer reaching a family of three stranded by floods that destroyed their house in Uvalde county.
Sugarcane growers seek waiver of crop loans availed from nationalised, co-operative and private banks
Hundreds of rescuers are racing against incoming thunderstorms in southwestern China after a landslide struck Chongqing’s Pengshui county on Friday morning, destroying buildings and leaving residents trapped under mud and debris. The disaster is among several brought about by heavy rainfall and extreme weather to hit parts of China in recent weeks, and has resulted in senior rescue officials being sent to the scene from Beijing. Local community officials in Hanjia subdistrict of Chongqing’s...
At least 2 people are dead, and over 200 were rescued in catastrophic floods in the Texas Hill Country region.
The Hong Kong Observatory has issued the amber rainstorm warning and urged residents to brace for widespread heavy rain and potential flooding under the influence of a broad trough of low pressure. The signal, sent out at 9.50am, was the second amber rainstorm warning to be issued on Friday. An earlier alert went out just after midnight and was cancelled at 2.15am. The Observatory urged residents to take all necessary precautions to reduce their exposure to risks posed by the heavy rain and...
The UN estimates 50,000 are missing, with many more feared dead under the rubble as the focus shifts to rebuilding.
Mandatory evacuations across the Texas Hill Country are under way as life-threatening flash floods wreck bridges and roads with more heavy rain expected overnight. A wide swathe of Texas is forecast to receive as much as 20cm (eight inches) of additional precipitation through Friday morning to cap off a week of downpours that revived memories of the catastrophic deluge that killed more than 130 people a year ago. Evacuations have been complicated by almost 90 road and highway closures between...
The same area devastated by floods last year - causing more than 130 deaths, including those at Camp Mystic - is once again being hit.
Wildfires in Ontario have blanketed US and Canadian cities with dangerous smoke.
Powerful storm floods hundreds of homes in Russia's urals
The air quality in large parts of Michigan, Minneapolis and Minnesota is deemed "hazardous" by authorities.
In Venezuela, the focus has shifted from rescue to rebuilding three weeks after devastating earthquakes.
The country, which suffers each summer, builds an arsenal of high-tech surveillance to help pre-position firefighters.
The package provides lump-sum financial assistance to street vendors, handcart operators and owners of small and large cabins to help resume business operations in the affected areas
Wildfire smoke turned skies orange over Toronto and the rest of Ontario.
There are currently 838 wildfires actively burning across the country, according to the Canadian Interagency Forest Fire Centre.
Hong Kong suspended classes on Thursday morning after the city’s weather forecaster issued a red rainstorm warning. The Education Bureau said students attending morning and whole-day schools were not required to go to class after the signal was raised at 7.40am. Schools should nevertheless keep their premises open to care for students who have already arrived, the bureau added. The Hong Kong Observatory warned that further rainfall could cause, or might have already caused, serious road...
A gas tanker exploded after soaring temperatures sparked a fire near the Lebanese Army barracks in Hermel.
The Regional Meteorological Centre said the earthquake originated at a depth of 10 km
Unexploded munitions were hampering efforts by firefighters to tackle a blaze in a national park in northern Germany, local officials said on Wednesday. Old munitions buried in the soil from an abandoned military training ground have forced them to stay at least 1,000 metres (3,300 feet) from the flames, officials from the Mecklenburg Seenplatte district said. “Emergency services cannot actively put out the fire – that is the problem,” district spokesman Marten Schroeder said of the fire in...
Chinese forecasters warned that more extreme weather was on the horizon as the country continued to battle the aftereffects of former typhoon Bavi on Wednesday. Jilin province in the northeast issued an emergency alert on Tuesday night for flooding of multiple rivers. Authorities called for traffic controls, cautioned residents to stay home and ordered people near the rivers to evacuate. Jilin weather authorities said that due to heavy rain, at least 10 cities in the foothills of the Changbai...
It is part-boat, part-bridge and part-life raft – and in the massive floods in southern China, it has been all rescue vehicle. The foldable, self-propelled pontoon barge has emerged as a powerful new tool in the response to the disaster, used to rescue thousands of people trapped by rising waters in Guangxi Zhuang autonomous region. One of the biggest rescue operations took place last week at the Guangxi Logistics Vocational and Technical College in Guigang, where more than 6,000 staff and...
Chinese motorcycle tycoon Zhang Xue has donated five million yuan (US$735,000) to flood-stricken Guangxi right after clearing a 100-million-yuan (US$15 million) corporate debt, moving many online. Guangxi Zhuang autonomous region, in southern China, was hit by heavy rains that caused dam breaches and flooding, which had killed 39 people. On July 9, the founder of motorcycle manufacturer ZXMOTO posted on his social media account that the company had donated five million yuan to the Guangxi...
The Hong Kong Observatory issued an amber rainstorm warning at 10.05am on Wednesday and urged residents to take precautions such as staying away from watercourses. The forecaster warned that widespread heavy rain could affect Hong Kong in a couple of hours and that intense gusts could continue to affect the city. It told residents to stay vigilant during the adverse weather. “This means that heavy rain has fallen or is expected to fall generally over Hong Kong, exceeding 30mm in an hour, and is...
Twelve of the 13 victims were foreign nationals, Spanish authorities said on Tuesday.
A devastating mudslide in Wayanad, Kerala, was triggered by heavy rains and poor construction practices, resulting in multiple casualties.
Wildfires near Paris scorch 1,300 hectares as France endures its third heatwave in three months.
Photos and discussions about China’s recent use of heavy-duty drones to “airlift” villagers affected by flooding in Guangxi have gone viral but almost two decades ago, the disaster-prone country once relied on risky, low-tech means to fight natural calamities. China’s rapid tech advancement, represented by the development and deployment of drones, has helped it better handle emergencies, such as how first responders have been rescuing residents from widespread rainstorms and floods since...
Typhoon Bavi is continuing to bring torrential downpours to northeast China, forcing the transport and economic hub of Shenyang to halt non-essential travel and shut down parts of its subway network. Emergency measures remain in place on Tuesday in Shenyang, capital of Liaoning province, where Bavi continues to lash the city, despite weakening into a tropical storm. Across the province, more than 360,000 people have been evacuated as a result of the weather system, according to state...
Spain’s Prime Minister, Pedro Sanchez met with firefighters and emergency crews who battled a wildfire in Almeria.
Malcolm Timbrell's wife and their friends are thought to have died when a devastating wildfire tore through their village in Spain.
The Fontainebleau forest blaze, described by officials as of 'exceptional scale', continues to rage for the second day.
Around 200 travellers remained stranded at Bualte village in Lunglei due to a massive landslide on the National Highway 54 that links Lawngtlai and Siaha districts
At least 97,182 people have been affected by the flood in 425 villages in all 26 districts. The calamity has caused widespread damage to agriculture and public infrastructure
Wildfires spread over 800 hectares near Fontainebleau, as authorities sent two waterbombing planes to tackle blazes.
Dramatic video captured the moment waves caused by Typhoon Bavi slammed into a house in China’s Zhejiang province.
Thousands have lost their homes as flash floods and landslides have hit large parts of the country.
Bridges are under water, cornfields are flooded and classes and work are cancelled in northeast China as Typhoon Bavi continues moving north, prompting several local governments to issue emergency alerts. On Monday, Shenyang, capital of the northeastern province of Liaoning, said all classes at junior high, primary schools and kindergartens were suspended for the day, along with construction work and outdoor activities, while 94 tourist attraction sites remain closed. A government notice...
It was the first time firefighting planes had been sent up from the normally drier and hotter south of the country to tackle fires in the Paris region.
There were no reports of any damage or casualties
At least 13 people, including five believed to be Britons, were killed by Thursday's wildfire in Spain's Almeria province.
The BBC's Nick Beake sees homes razed to the ground and "a sea of black" in one of the villages hit hardest by Spain's deadly wildfires.
Storm the size of France expected to bring days of heavy rains and strong winds to eastern and northern provinces.
The unnamed pair were found semi-conscious with 40% burns after being trapped by the blazes raging through Almeria province.
The deceased identified as Bikram Singh Rana from Himachal Pradesh; all missing people accounted for
Continuous heavy rainfall on July 11 triggered a major landslide scare in Shimla’s Sanjauli area, forcing residents of Bothwell Estate to remain outdoors since around 3 a.m amid fears that their houses could collapse
A sudden spell of intense rainfall, possibly caused by a localised cloudburst, struck the forest areas of Awoora and Dehwathu in Pahalgam, in south Kashmir's Anantnag district, says officials
The body of Waman Kasbe, the last missing person, was recovered from the rubble in the wee hours of Sunday, raising the death toll to nine, while 14 persons have been rescued, officials said.
Typhoon Bavi made landfall in eastern China on Saturday night, the second major storm to hit the country in a week, causing thousands of flight and train cancellations while more than 2.4 million people were evacuated from areas in the path of the storm. More than 2,800 flights were likely to be cancelled by Chinese airlines as of 8pm on Saturday, the state news agency Xinhua reported. Shanghai’s Pudong and Hongqiao airports were set to cancel over 650 flights, about 30 per cent of their...
The quake originated at 05:05:46 IST at a depth of 10 km, with its epicentre located at 16.805° N, 84.381° E, the NCS said. The event has since been classified as “Reviewed” by the agency.
As the death toll in Venezuela surges past 4,000, families continue to hold out hope that loved ones might be found.
A landslide during heavy monsoon rains tore through the Indian hill town of Shimla, forcing villagers to evacuate.
Joint task force’s efforts to trace Bikram Singh Rana, a project manager from Himachal Pradesh, yields no results as of late July 11 evening
Rescue personnel secured a rope along an alternative path and carefully guided the stranded travellers across one by one
China prepares as Typhoon Bavi leaves Taiwan
Hundreds of thousands of people are evacuated from eastern Zhejiang province, with the city of Wenzhou close to the path of the storm.
Nearly 10 houses have been affected, with at least three homes facing an immediate threat due to the landslip; residents alleged that construction activity continued in the area despite the monsoon construction ban
Hundreds of firefighters in Spain have been battling a deadly wildfire in the south of the country.
Super Typhoon Bavi has been downgraded but is still dangerous, meteorologists say.
More than 130 flights between Hong Kong, Taiwan, mainland China and Japan have been cancelled, while 10 high-speed rail services have been suspended as Typhoon Bavi barrels towards China’s east coast. Hong Kong International Airport’s webpage showed that 64 inbound flights and 71 outbound flights were cancelled on Saturday, with more than half scheduled to travel between the city and Taipei. Services between Hong Kong and Kaohsiung, Shanghai and Hangzhou were cancelled, while a handful of...
Mr. Rana, a project manager from Himachal Pradesh, remains unaccounted for after a massive debris slide struck the under-construction Wayanad twin-tunnel road project at Kalladi
The committee comprises Dr. C.P. Rajendran, geologist; Dr. Vishnudas, ecologist; Dr. P. Pugazhendi, Chief Wildlife Warden, Kerala; the Secretary, Public Works Department; and the Secretary, Revenue and Disaster Management Department (convenor)
Volunteers in La Guaira have transformed a fast-food restaurant into an emergency clinic.
At least four Britons are believed to be among the victims of the blaze, which left another 23 people missing.
Widespread rainfall lashed large parts of Uttar Pradesh on July 10, bringing daytime temperatures below normal at several places, with heavy to very heavy rainfall being forecast at isolated places
Authorities across eastern China have stepped up their emergency preparations and cancelled hundreds of flights as Typhoon Bavi, the ninth storm of the season, intensified overnight and barrelled towards the coast on Saturday. The storm is forecast to make landfall between Taizhou in Zhejiang province and Fuding in Fujian province in the early hours of Sunday, packing winds of up to 45 metres per second (148 feet per second), according to the National Meteorological Centre (NMC). In its 6am...
As residents of eastern China brace for Typhoon Bavi to make landfall, bloggers have turned to AI weather models to post forecasts on social media, prompting criticism from state media, which warned that the amateur predictions could fall foul of the law. State broadcaster China Media Group reported on Thursday that some bloggers claiming to be “weather enthusiasts” were issuing forecasts using data from various open-source artificial intelligence weather models. Some have even begun offering...
Holidaymakers tell the BBC how they grabbed a change of clothes, bundled into cars and fled the flames and smoke.
As Super Typhoon Bavi approaches, residents in Taiwan, Japan and China have been stockpiling supplies.
Typhoon Bavi is intensifying seasonal monsoon rains across the region as it moves towards Taiwan and China.
Landslides, rockfalls and other rain-related incidents have also been reported at more than 29 locations across the State, though no casualty or loss of life has been reported so far
Headed for Taiwan and south-eastern China, the 1,000 km-wide Bavi is forecast to be one of the strongest storms in decades.
Eleven people were killed and 19 are missing after a wildfire tore through a Spanish village, with four victims who may have been British who were burned in their car, authorities said on Friday. Authorities said many of the victims may be foreign tourists visiting Bedar, a small village in Los Gallardos district, but that they were still confirming their identities. They described victims trying to flee the fast-moving blaze through difficult, forested terrain. About 400 firefighters and troops...