Recent Natural Disasters List January 24, 2016 — Winter Storm Jonas

Recent Natural Disasters 2016: This natural disaster list covers important natural disasters in the world with detail update report.

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Major Natural Disasters Today

• Winter Storm Jonas
  -Winter storm Jonas has claimed lives of atleast 19 people prompting emergency across Mid-Atlantic United States.
  - Emergency has been declared in Delaware, Georgia, Kentucky, Maryland, New Jersey, North Carolina, Virginia, Pennsylvania, Tennessee, West Virginia and Washington, D.C. Click for detail report on storm Jonas
• Snowstorm in Japan
  -Historical snowfall in western and central areas of the Japan has claimed lives of at least five people and injured more than 100 people.
  -Fatalities are from  Aomori, Tochigi and Niigata Prefectures. Click for detail report on Japan snowstorm

Recent Earthquakes

• M 7.1 strong earthquake in Alaska (@129 km depth) with epicenter located 83 km E of Old Iliamna. Light to weak shaking will have been felt by the people of Soldotna, Homer, Nikiski, Seward, Anchorage, Dillingham, Wasilla, Palmer and as far as Valdez, United States.
  10:30 UTC (local time: 01:30; 2016-01-24 @ epicenter)
• M 3.9 light earthquake in Kansas (@ 2 km depth) with epicenter located 13 km SSW of Caldwell. It will have been well felt by the people of Arkansas City, Ponca City and Enid, Oklahoma.
  10:01 UTC (local time: 04:01; 2016-01-24 @ epicenter)
• M 4.4 light earthquake in Afghanistan (@ 206 km depth) with epicenter located 48 km NNW of `Alaqahdari-ye Kiran wa Munjan. Weak tremor will have been felt as far as Kabul.
  06:05 UTC (local time: 10:35; 2016-01-24 @ epicenter)

Recent Flash Floods

• Flooding in Jersey
  -Flooding hit Atlantic and Cape May counties.
  -The winter storm caused coastal flooding and widespread power outages along numerous Jersey Shore towns Saturday.

Recent Volcanic Activity

• Popocatépetl volcano in Mexico
  -Popocatépetl volcano sent a mile high plume of ash into the air.
  -Thousands of people have been put on evacuation alert.

Recent Tropical Cyclones

• As of 02:00UTC, TC Corentin was located approximately 976 nm east-southeast of port Louis, Mauritius.

Natural Disaster News

• President Obama has declared disaster for State of Alabama. According to the U.S. Department of Homeland Security's Federal Emergency Management Agency, the federal disaster aid has been made available to the State of Alabama to supplement state, tribal, and local recovery efforts in the area affected by severe storms, tornadoes, straight-line winds, and flooding during the period of December 23-31, 2015.

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This natural disaster list contains daily list of natural disasters around the world. The page is break down into various parts as Major Natural Disasters Today (real time update report on rolling major natural disaster around the world), Recent Earthquakes (only earthquakes which are felt by people), Recent Volcanic Activity (erupting volcanoes), Recent Flash Floods (ongoing flood information), Recent Tropical Cyclones (active cyclones) and Natural Disaster News (facts and news about natural/environmental disasters and hazards 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 and catastrophes are linked to definite page containing update report on that disaster and also provides early disaster emergency notification if available.

The global natural disaster data and natural calamities statistics are collected from different sources like USGS, EMSC, GDACS, EDIS and others.