Heavy rain leaves 14 dead, 2 missing in central, SW China

230 dead in floods in South India: Centre intensifies rescue ...

By: jonnalagadda3

Heavy rain and rampaging flood have wreaked havoc in Karnataka, Andhra Pradesh and Maharashtra claiming 230 lives and displacing lakhs in the past one week. Karnataka accounted for 168 fatalities, Andhra Pradesh 37 and Maharashtra 25 as heavy downpour ravaged the three states flattening over two lakh homes, extensively damaging crops and uprooting ...

about 1 month ago

New storms Parma and Melor form in Pacific

By: northsunm32

  The tropical storm Parma is strengthening into a super typhoon. It could hit the north eastern coast of Luzon in the Philippines as early as Friday bringing more flooding and destruction, although it is far from Manila there still could be rain from the system in areas that are already badly flooded. East of Parma another storm still Melor ...

2 months ago

Italian Prime Minister Berlusconi traces the report on Messina ...

By: Ricky7524

In a press conference held on Sunday, Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi has traced the provisional report on the landslides in the areas around Messina, after heavy rains and mud occurred during the night between the first and the second of October: 23 dead, about 40 people missed and more than 500 people left homeless. The premier pledged ...

about 1 month ago

Floods in Taiwan

By: weikuo

88 flood , is August 6, 2009 to August 10 during the day occurred in central and southern Taiwan, and southeast of serious flooding from a typhoon hit Taiwan Morak brought record rain, resulting in the aforementioned region floods and debris flows in Taiwan since 1959 the worst floods in 87 of the flooding and triggered the famous tourist ...

about 1 month ago