Natural Disasters List May 23, 2012

Disaster Report: This natural disaster list covers important natural disasters in the world with detail update report.

                                                         Want To Share!! Let Others Know
                                                Report through contact form or write in comment section below

  Follow Disaster Report @ facebook (Natural Disasters list), twitter (Disaster_Update) and Google +(Disaster Report)
                                                    Keep This Page Open Or Visit Later To Get Update Report

Recent Natural Disasters

• Landslide in Hai Phong, Vietnam
  -Nine people killed because of sudden landslide in a quarry at Lai Xuan Commune, Thuy Nguyen District in northern Hai Phong City of Vietnam.
  -They were killed in two different landslide incidents in the interval of six hours.
  -The quarry operations produce limestone for cement factories and construction. All the fatalities were workers.
  -Heavy rainfall caused landslide in that area.
  -One month ago, a landslide at a strip coal mine's dump in Vietnam killed one people.

Recent Earthquake list
Did you feel it? - Report an Earthquake

• M 5.9 very strong harmless sea quake in Western Indian-Antarctic Ridge (@ 10 km depth) with epicenter located 1031 km SSW of Hobart, Tasmania, Australia.
  22:59 UTC (local time Thursday, May 24, 2012 at 07:59 AM @ epicenter)
• M 4.5 moderate aftershocks in Northern Italy (@ 9 km depth) with epicenter located 34 km N of Bologna Earlier M  5.9 Bologna-Verona Italy Earthquake killed 7 people three days ago.
  21:41 UTC (local time Wednesday, May 23, 2012 at 11:41 PM @ epicenter)
• M 6.1 strong sea quake in Hokkaido, Japan (@ 41 km depth) with epicenter located 69 km E Mutsu. Light shaking of MMI IV will have felt by the people of Misawa, Hachinohe, Shizunai, Hakodate, Aomori and Hirosaki. Weak shaing will have expeienced by the people of Sapporo, Morioka, Akita and Kushiro. No tsunami warning issued. No damage or injury reported.
  15:02 UTC (local time Thursday, May 24, 2012 at 12:02 AM @ epicenter)
  Update
  -Minor damage reported to schools in Noheji .
  -damage in museum of Noheji.
  -Train service temporarily closed after the quake.
• M 3.3 light shallow earthquake in Bulgaria (@ 5 km depth) today with epicenter located 4 km E Batanovci. Light to weak shaking will have felt by the people of Radomir and Sofia. It is the aftershocks of yesterday very strong Pernik-Sofia, Bulgaria quake.
  11:41 UTC (local time 14:41; 2012/0523 @ epicenter)
• M 4.6 moderate deep earthquake in Ecuador (@ 161 km depth) with epicenter located  46 km SE Puyo. Weak shaking will have felt as far as Riobamba and Quito.
  10:24 UTC (local time Wednesday, May 23, 2012 at 05:24 AM @ epicenter)
• M 4.7 moderate earthquake in Southern Alaska (@ 69 km depth) with epicenter located 66 km SW from Nanwalek. Light shaking will have felt by the people of Port Graham and Seldovia. Weak shaking will have felt as far as Homer and Anchorage.
  Homer is a city located in Kenai Peninsula Borough and Anchorage, 64th-largest city in the United States, is a unified home rule municipality in the southcentral part.
  09:35 UTC (local time Wednesday, May 23, 2012 at 01:35 AM @ epicenter)
• M 4.3 light shallow earthquake in Tanzania (@ 10 km depth) with epicenter located 30 km NE Izazi. Weak shaking will have felt by the people of Dodoma.
  05:32 UTC (local time Wednesday, May 23, 2012 at 08:32 AM @ epicenter)
• M 4.5 moderate shallow earthquake in Greece (@ 12 km depth) with epicenter located just 5 km SW Thesprotikón. Light shaking of MMI IV will have felt by the people of Arta and Ioannina. Weak shaking will have felt as far as Kerkyra and Pátrai.
  01:46 UTC (local time Wednesday, May 23, 2012 at 04:46 AM @ epicenter)
  
• M 5.0 moderate earthquake in Southern Peru (@ 101 km depth) with epicenter located 42 km N of Moquegua. Light to weak shaking will have felt by the people of Torata, Yunguyo, Arequipa and Puno.
  01:04 UTC (local time Tuesday, May 22, 2012 at 08:04 PM @ epicenter)

Volcanic Activity List
There are no recent volcanic eruptions at this time. Check back later or use search box to find earlier.
Last Volcanic Activity:

• Guatemala/Fuego recent volcanic activity
  Airplane advisory issued and sections of highway closed. However, The La Aurora international airport in Guatemala City remains open.
  

Flooding List

• Flooding in Ha Noi City of Vietnam
  -Heavy rains from several hours caused flooding in Ha Noi City of Vietnam..
  -Linh Nam, Ngoc Hoi, Nguyen Tuan Streets were flooded causing traffic jams.
  -Heavy rainfall for three to four days more may cause flooding in Hong River system.

Tropical Cyclone List

• Tropical Storm Bud
  -Bud is located 675 km SSW of Manzanillo Mexico.
  -Maximum sustained winds are near 40 mph. Some strengthening is forecast during the next 48 hours. Click for real time update on tropical storm Bud
• Tropical Storm Sanvu
  -Tropical Storm (TS) 03w (Sanvu) is located approximately 475 nm south of iwo to, Japan.

Natural Disaster News

• Tornado Victim Offers Advice For Future Natural Disasters
  Since last June’s tornado, more than 11-thousand insurance claims were filed for damages. To date, more than 98 percent of those claims have been paid totalling more than 200-million dollars. There are lessons to be learned from the tornado, lessons to better prepare people for future natural disasters.
• 5 Stocks to Prepare Your Portfolio for Natural Disasters
  Natural disasters are completely unpredictable (unless you got the memo that New Kids on the Block is back together) and seem to be on the rise over the past decade (although their occurrence is purely arbitrary).
  That doesn't mean, however, that your portfolio needs to be unprepared when natural disasters strike. It's not a matter of whether one will occur; it's simply a matter of when and where

Return to Disaster Report Home Page
___________________________________________________________________________________________________
Useful information to read this daily natural disaster list

This natural disaster list contains daily list of recent natural disasters around the world. The page is break down into various parts as Recent Natural Disasters (real time update report on rolling natural disaster around the world), Recent earthquake List  (only earthquakes which are felt by people), Recent Volcanic Activity (active volcanoes), Recent Flooding (ongoing flood event), Tropical Cyclones (active cyclones) and Natural Disaster News (natural disaster news on various topics like Tornado, Tsunami, Wildfire, Drought, Hailstorm, Heat Wave, Hurricane, Epidemic, Famine, Lahar, Limnic Eruption, Mudflow, Solar Flare and other disasters)

The major natural disasters are linked to definite page containing update report on that disaster. The reference for the time zone is UTC (Coordinated Universal Time, also called GMT).
The natural disaster data are collected from different sources like USGS, EMSC, GDACS, EDIS..

Follow Disaster Report @ facebook (Natural Disasters List), twitter (Disaster_Update) and Google +(Disaster Report)