natural disaster

Wellington, Feb 15: A cliff near New Zealand city of Christchurch collapsed on Sunday after a 5.7-magnitude quake struck the South Island city. The New Zealand government's GeoNet monitoring service said the moderate quake was centred 15 km…

Taipei, Feb 6: At least three people were reported killed and toppled several buildings on Saturday when a 6.5-magnitude earthquake hit Tainan city in southern Taiwan. According to the city's emergency response centre, a total of 127…

Imphal/Guwahati, Jan 4: An earthquake measuring 6.7 on the Richter scale jolted north-eastern states and West Bengal early on Monday, killing five people in Manipur and injuring more than 60 across the region. Those killed included four…

Srinagar, Jan 2: A moderate intensity earthquake hit Jammu and Kashmir on Saturday. "The magnitude of the tremor was 5.8 on the Richter scale with epicentre in the Hindu Khush mountain range of Afghanistan. Depth of the shock was 170 km…

Yangon, Nov 23: The toll from a landslide in Myanmar's Kachin state has risen to 104 as the rescuers recovered more bodies, officials said on Monday. A giant amount of dump soil from a jade mine collapsed in the early hours of Saturday…

Bhubaneswar, Nov 1: It's a tale which repeats itself with regularity in a state which often bears the brunt of natural disasters. Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik recently announced a Rs 1,000 crore special drought package for farmers. But…

Mexico City, Oct 24: Hurricane Patricia, a category 5 storm, made landfall on Mexico's south-western Pacific coast, a media report said on Saturday. It made landfall on Friday evening near Emiliano Zapata, a village in Jalisco state,…

Guatemala City, Oct 3: At least 29 people were killed and 600 missing following a landslide that destroyed about 125 homes on the outskirts of the Guatemalan capital, officials said. "We have 29 people confirmed dead and one still not…

Hyderabad, Sep 6: At least 20 people were killed due to lightning in different parts of Andhra Pradesh on Sunday as heavy rains lashed the state under the impact of a low pressure area over Bay of Bengal. While six people died in Nellore…

San Juan, Aug 29: A tropical storm heading across the Caribbean has killed at least 27 people on the island of Dominica, TheDominican.net reported. Dozens more were still missing in the storm "Erika". It did not cite any source for the…