Showing posts from April, 2016
Magnitude 7.0 powerful earthquake rocked Vanuatu at 06:33 am local time Friday morning on April 29, 2016 prompting tsunami warning in the area. The earthquake occured at 27.2 miles depth with epicenter located just 1 …
Landslide triggered by heavy rainfall has claimed lives of two people and left 20 others missing in Guatemala's landfill Wednesday afternoon. Injured people are having treatment at San de Dios Hospital, EFE reported quo…
Source: GeoNet An eruption occurred at White Island (Whaakari) volcano in New Zealand about 9:50 pm on 27 April 2016, GeoNet volcanologist Agnes Mazot confirmed. GNS volcanologists found dark-green ash deposit from the …
Mount Karangetang volcano in North Sulawesi region of Indonesia erupted on Wednesday evening sending hot lava as far as 2 kilometers from its crater. Lava from Mt. Karangetang went toward the Kahetang River, around 2,000 met…
Bangladesh is a sovereign South Asian country bordered by India and Myanmar. Bangladesh lies in top five countries with high natural disaster risk according to World Risk Report. Q: What is the most serious natural hazard i…
A magnitude 5.2 earthquake rocked La Rochelle, the southwestern city of France on Thursday morning at 08:46 am local time. According to the Central French Seismic Office, the earthquake occurred on April 28, 2016 with epi…
Magnitude 4.0 light earthquake rattled Whakatane town of New Zealand at 02:25 pm Wednesday afternoon. According to GeoNet, the epicenter was located 10 km north-east of Opotiki. The earthquake occurred at 46 km depth.
Recent floods in Haiti caused by the torrential rainfall have claimed lives of at least four people including three children. Torrential rains have affected 112 families in Port-au-Prince, 2,500 in Cite Soleil and 1,800 in C…
Magnitude 4.3 light tremor has been felt around Gosainkunda Festival Spot of Rasuwa district. According to Nepal's National Seismological Center, the quake occurred at 03:18 pm Tuesday afternoon on April 26, 2016. Thi…
Image Courtesy: pnsn.org The Nepal Academy of Science and Technology (NAST) has installed four earthquake early warning sensors in Kathmandu valley on the first anniversary of the Gorkha earthquake . These sensors can infor…
A light earthquake of magnitude 4.2 rattled Vienna and Lower Austria at 12:28 pm Monday afternoon on April 25, 2016. According to the Austrian Central Institute for Meteorology and Geo dynamics, the quake's epicenter wa…
Recent hailstorm in Myanmar has claimed lives of at least eight people and destroyed around 7,500 houses. Six people died in Yay Tha Yauk village in the central region of Mandalay, Phyu Lei Lei Tun, director of the Ministry of…
This is the list of earthquake recorded in India today, April 24, 2016. The earthquake information are extracted from official seismological site of India (IMD).
Today is the first anniversary of 2015 Gorkha earthquake according to Nepali calendar. Magnitude 7.9 earthquake on Baisakh 12, 2072 killed at least 8,778 people. Around 450 aftershocks of local magnitude 4 and greater have been…
A landslide at hotel construction site in the tourist town of Tawang in Arunachal Pradesh of India has claimed lives of 16 construction workers. The massive landslide buried 16 people in the tin-shed house at around 3:30 am …
A landslide in Maimana, the capital of northwestern Faryab province of Afghanistan has claimed lives of two children and injured one other. The children aged between 10 and 15 died in the landslide disaster in the Bibi Ayen…
Flooding triggered by torrential downpours in Houston area has claimed lives of eight people and damaged some 1,150 homes this week. The catastrophic flooding has caused more than $5 billion in damage, CNN reported. The Hou…
At least 507 people have died after magnitude 7.8 earthquake rattled Ecuador on April 16, 2016. The earthquake occurred a depth of 11.9 miles approximately 27 km south-southeast of Muisne, in Esmeraldas province of Ecuador.
A series of earthquakes in Kumamoto city of Kumamoto Prefecture in Kyushu region of Japan have claimed lives of at least 44 people and injured about 3,000 people. On April 14, 2016, magnitude 6.2 foreshock rattled the region. Tw…
Recent flooding in central Bamyan province of Afghanistan has claimed lives of at least five people and damaged about 350 houses. According to Pajhwok Afghan News , fatalities are from Wars and Panjab districts. Natural disaster…
An earthquake has been felt in parts of Bangladesh including capital Dhaka today. The tremor was the result of magnitude 6.9 very strong earthquake with its epicenter in Myanmar. The earthquake occurred at 07:55 pm Wednes…
Stormy weather in Arkansas has claimed life of a woman early Monday in Crawford County, The Arkansas State Police said. According to Arkansas Online , fatality has been identified as Andrea D. Pense, a 22-year-old woman driving…
Magnitude 4.6 moderate earthquake rattled Imphal, the capital city of Manipur state on Wednesday morning, India Meteorological Department reported. According to Meteorological Department, the tremor was recorded at 09:26 am on…
Magnitude 4.4 light earthquake has been recorded in Dolakha district of Nepal Tuesday night. According to Nepal Seismological Center, the epicenter was located near Hanwa along Tama Koshi River. The tremor was felt at 08:26 …
A tremor has been felt in New Delhi, the capital city of India at 03:58 pm Sunday afternoon on April 10, 2016. According to India Meteorological Department, the earthquake of magnitude 6.8 had its epicenter in Hindukush regi…
Magnitude 4.5 moderate tremor has been recorded in Bhaisepati area of Lalitpur, Nepal Seismological Center reported. The earthquake occurred at 07:05 pm on April 09, 2016. The epicenter was located near Pancha Kanya Temple…
Two people died after their vehicle was swept away by flood waters in Wadi Kabeel of Qurayat province of Oman on Friday. Three other Omanis were rescued in Wadi Bani Karoos in the Dhank province, Gulf News reported quoting …
Magnitude 3.5 light earthquake shakes Nagaur district of Rajasthan Friday, India Meteorological Department reported. According to the Meteorological Department, the earthquake occurred at a depth of 15 km. The quake was felt…
Flooding in Pakistan (Fayaz Aziz/Reuters) Flash floods in northwest Pakistan have claimed lives of at least 63 people and injured 34 others. Heavy rainfall caused havoc in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province including the Pakis…
Magnitude 4.7 moderate aftershock shakes Dolakha district on April 4, 2016 at 10:16 am. According to Nepal Seismological Center, the epicenter was located near Sunkhani. The tremor was well felt in nearby Bhimeshwor Munici…
A fresh earthquake of magnitude 4.3 has been recorded in Bajhang district of Nepal on April 4, 2016 at 09:40 am. According to Nepal Seismological Center, the quake's epicenter was located near Mount Saipal in northwest…
A research paper published on March 30, 2016 in the journal Nature has predicted that the global warming could melt the West Antarctic ice sheet within decades—far faster than previously predicted. The melting of ice sheet …
The death toll from last week's storm in Lake Albert in Buliisa District of Uganda has risen to 29. The storm has destroyed more than 600 houses.
Flyover collapse in Kolkata, India (PTI via India Today) People were panicked after a flyover collapsed in Indian central Kolkata's near the famous Ganesh Talkies with a loud boom. The eyewitnesses initially thought of …