Disaster News
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Jakarta -
Relatives of Indonesia's plane crash victims formed a grim procession at a Jakarta morgue Tuesday, to give blood so investigators can try to match their DNA to body parts plucked from the murky depths of the Java Sea.
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Jakarta -
A Boeing passenger jet carrying 62 people crashed into the sea minutes after taking off from the Indonesian capital Jakarta at the weekend. Here's what we know about the disaster so far:- What happened?
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Jakarta -
The crew of an Indonesian passenger jet that crashed off Jakarta at the weekend with 62 people aboard did not declare an emergency or report technical problems before it suddenly plunged into the sea, an investigator said Monday.
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Fukushima -
The removal of nuclear debris from Japan's crippled Fukushima power plant will be delayed by about a year, because the pandemic has set back development of specialised equipment, the plant's operator said Thursday.
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Stockholm -
Sweden said Friday it would seek to lift a ban on inspections of the wreck of the Estonia ferry, which sank in the Baltic Sea in 1994 with the loss of 852 lives in one of the worst maritime disasters of the 20th century.
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One person was killed and dozens feared trapped after a five-storey apartment building collapsed late Monday in western India, officials said.Estimates of the number of missing people range from 51 to 200, according to various local officials.
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Salmon returns on the west coast look bleak this year. Alaska's salmon returns have been so poor that some communities already are claiming fishery disasters. The sockeye salmon run on B.C.'s Fraser River is expected to be the worst ever recorded.
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Beirut -
An entire port engulfed in fire, ships ablaze at sea and crumbling buildings: the site of the massive blast in Beirut's harbour area resembled a post-nuclear landscape.
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Shanghai -
Floods across central and eastern China have left more than 140 people dead or missing and are swelling major rivers and lakes to record-high levels, with authorities warning that the worst was yet to come.
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Kiev -
Three people have died and hundreds have fled their homes in western Ukraine following the worst flooding in a decade, authorities said Wednesday.
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Bejing -
Floods and mudslides in south China have uprooted hundreds of thousands of people and left dozens dead or missing, state media reported Thursday.
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Manila -
A powerful typhoon hit the central Philippines Thursday, forcing a complicated and risky evacuation for tens of thousands of people, many of them heading to cramped shelters without proper safety gear to guard against the coronavirus.
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Manila -
A powerful typhoon hit the central Philippines Thursday, forcing a complicated and risky evacuation for tens of thousands already hunkered down at home during the coronavirus pandemic.
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Seoul -
A former South Korean coast guard chief was indicted Tuesday for allegedly bungling rescue operations at one of the country's deadliest maritime disasters, when more than 300 people were killed, most of them schoolchildren.
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Ankara -
At least 33 people were killed in eastern Turkey Wednesday by a second avalanche which buried a team of rescuers searching for people hit by the first the day before.
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Brumadinho -
Before saying a prayer for her older sister, Natalia de Oliveira lights a candle and places it next to rosary beads and a photo of her sibling killed in a massive dam collapse in Brazil.
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Belo Horizonte -
State prosecutors in Brazil on Tuesday charged the ex-boss of mining giant Vale and 15 others with intentional homicide in a massive dam collapse that killed 270 people last year.
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Belo Horizonte -
State prosecutors in Brazil on Tuesday charged mining giant Vale, its German auditor and 16 individuals over a massive dam collapse that killed 270 people last year.
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Manila -
The number of deaths from a powerful storm that hit the Philippines on Christmas has climbed to 41, authorities said Sunday, with tens of thousands still in evacuation centres.
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Manila -
The death toll from Typhoon Phanfone's battering of the Philippines on Christmas Day has risen to 28, and will likely climb further, authorities said on Friday.
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Manila -
A typhoon that swept across remote villages and popular tourist areas of the central Philippines on Christmas day claimed at least 16 lives, authorities said on Thursday.
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Banda Aceh -
Thousands of mourners flocked to mass graves Thursday in Indonesia's Aceh province to commemorate the 15th anniversary of the 2004 Boxing Day tsunami, one of the worst natural disasters in history.
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Manila -
Tourists on the popular Philippine holiday island of Boracay were stranded on Thursday after a typhoon swept across on Christmas Day, killing at least 16 people in other parts of the country.
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Madrid -
The United States was accused Wednesday of using crunch UN talks to avoid compensating poorer nations hit by climate change, despite its decision to leave the process to limit global warming.
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Manila -
The number of people killed by Typhoon Kammuri's pounding of the Philippines this week has hit 13, officials said Thursday, as authorities confirmed reports of storm-related deaths.
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Madrid -
Japan, the Philippines and Germany top a list of countries worst hit by climate-enhanced extreme weather last year, with Madagascar and India close behind, researchers said Wednesday.
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Taree -
Sydney is facing a "catastrophic" fire threat, authorities said on Sunday, as firefighters in eastern Australia raced to prepare for worsening conditions after ferocious bushfires devastated communities.
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Rio De Janeiro -
Mining giant Vale failed to report problems at a massive tailings dam in Brazil that could have averted its collapse, killing hundreds, a government agency said Tuesday.
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Manila -
The death toll in two powerful quakes that struck the southern Philippines in the past week has risen to 21, authorities said Sunday, as survivors struggled to access food and water.The 6.6-magnitude and 6.
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Rio De Janeiro -
The death toll from a building collapse in Brazil has risen to four, officials said Thursday, but the figure could go higher as rescuers search for another six people reported missing.
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Disaster Image
Amex mailer sent out to customers yesterday Flickr - puclic domain, mailer
Protest on the 29th Anniversary of the Bhopal disaster. Sanjay Verma
Tsunami, Pacific coast of Japan March 11, 2011. Photo taken March 24, 2011 Motoyan
Woman expresses grief and anger at the lives lost during the disaster. Sanjay Verma
Last Sunday morning's earthquake was powerful enough to damage hundreds of Northern California homes and businesses. Sscknapa/Wikimedia Commons
JETLINER: A Germanwings Airbus jetliner lands in Dusseldorf in 2012. Humphrey Manusiwa/Wikimedia Commons
Flooded houses at Harbor Town in Memphis Chris Weiland
Fires in Texas are the kind that often require FEMA information or assistance.
A U.S. Air Force search and rescue team spots a boat tossed on its side amid residential buildings and other debris in Japan U.S. Air Force photo by Airman 1st Class Katrina R. Menchaca
A 3-day long media workshop, organized by global environment forum Third Pole in Kathmandu, Nepal from 13-16 October brought together, for the first time, journalists from China, India and Bangladesh to deliberate upon the effects of climate change in Brahmaputra/Yurlung Zangbo river basin
Many historic Northern California buildings were damaged in the West Napa quake, including the city of Napa's 1870 courthouse, shown here surrounded by emergency fencing after the 6.0 shaker. Cullen328/Wikimedia Commons
File photo: Coal Miner at work Library of Congress
Workers must wear plastic suits and respirators for protection inside Reactor #4, where radiation levels remain so high shifts are limited to only 15 minutes per day. © Gerd Ludwig/INSTITUTE
The ferry Sewol sinking. Korean Coast Guard
Protester carries a photo of imprisoned American activist Jeremy Hammond during Bhopal protest. Sanjay Verma
RESOURCES: This open pit coal mine is in Mugla, Turkey, about 150 miles south of Soma where the Tuesday's disaster occurred. Memty/Wikimedia Commons
The widows waiting at the Fairmont Mine Disaster in 1907 Mine Safety and Health Administration of Dept of Labor
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MOURNING: Visitors linger May 1 at a public memorial for victims of the South Korea ferry disaster at the Hwarang Public Garden in Ansan, the location of the high school where most of the victims attended. Piotrus/Wikimedia Commons
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