カテゴリー: Natural disasters
Group of 120 experts including Joseph Stiglitz urge fresh debt restructuring plan given scale of destructionA group of the world’s top economists – including the Nobel prize winner Joseph Stiglitz – have called for Sri Lanka’s debt payments to be suspe…
Officials said probability of a magnitude 8 or larger quake was only about 1% but they have urged people to be preparedJapan has issued a megaquake advisory after a magnitude 7.5 earthquake struck off the eastern coast of Aomori, the northernmost prefe…
Typhoon Rai killed more than 400, displaced nearly 3.2 million, and destroyed more than a million homes in 2021Trixy Elle still weeps when she remembers how she and her family fought for their lives as Typhoon Rai tore across the Philippines days befor…
At least 60 people were reported dead by civil defence officials in the Philippines as a quake struck off Bogo, a city near the northern tip of the populous island of Cebu, late on Tuesday. Rescue teams worked through the night in an attempt to find su…
Super Typhoon Ragasa has caused widespread flooding and damaged roads in Hong Kong, which resumed international flights on Thursday but kept kindergartens and some schools closed. Ragasa, the strongest storm so far this year, killed 14 people in Taiwan…
Afghanistan is facing ‘several overlapping crises’, a UN official said, after thousands of homes were reduced to rubble in earthquakes this week. Survivors face a bleak future, with aid agencies warning of dwindling funds for food, shelter and medicine…
Villagers near epicentre of devastation in Kunar province say they have been left without adequate food, tents or medical help as harsh terrain and loss of foreign aid hamper responseIn the shattered houses of Wadeer village in Afghanistan’s Kunar prov…
People tell of losing children and other relatives and of digging their way out of the rubble after the disasterAfghanistan earthquake – latest updatesIt was almost midnight when Hameed Jan was jolted awake in his bed by a deep rumble. Powerful tremors…
More than 320 people have died in north-west Pakistan after two days of torrential rains triggered flash floods, landslides and lightning strikes. Provincial authorities have declared an emergency in the worst-hit regions, deploying military and civili…
Despite attempts to build resilience by improving infrastructure and first response, extreme weather events and US aid cuts have left many feeling vulnerableWhen the monsoon rains came last September, they swept away most of the village of Panauti, in …
We have had to be resilient because no one has come to our aid. Myanmar needs tangible support before the humanitarian crisis claims even more livesTwo thoughts entered my head as soon as I saw that Myanmar, my home country, had been hit by an earthqua…
Twenty-six-year-old rescued from hotel in Naypyidaw as agencies call for increased aid before monsoonA man has been pulled alive from the rubble of a hotel in Myanmar, five days after the country’s worst earthquake in a century flattened entire neighbo…
US president accused of blowing up country’s ability to respond to disasters by removing fundingAs aid from China, Russia, India and the UK begins to flow into Myanmar, there is a conspicuous gap in global support from the world’s richest country: the …
Woman pulled to safety after 30 hours trapped in building a rare glimmer of hope in midst of devastation• ‘No one came’: Myanmar volunteers dig with bare hands to save earthquake victimsRescue workers battled for a second night to find survivors of Mya…
People in Mandalay fear further deadly tremors amid widespread poverty and aid cuts after four years of civil warMyanmar earthquake – latest updatesAs darkness fell in Mandalay, Myanmar’s second largest city, many residents set up small tents and prepa…