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New Zealand floods: Horror as 1,000 tourists stranded at resort in devastating landslide
Express   09 December 2019   New Zealand   Rangitata river  
Image: GETTY/REUTERS
<p>The huge landslip will see tourists face an uneasy wait for rescuers. Authorities in New Zealand have warned the tourists they may not be saved until Friday. The mudslides happened near the Franz and Fox glaciers, which, Sky News reports, is on the country’s ...
Five dead and eight missing after New Zealand volcano erupts
The Guardian   09 December 2019   New Zealand  
Photograph: Michael Schade/AFP/Getty
<p>Five people have died and eight are still missing after an eruption on a volcanic island in New Zealand, the country&rsquo;s prime minister has said.<br />Jacinda Ardern confirmed that New Zealanders and tourists from Australia, the US, Britain, China and ...
Bodies of 3 trapped miners recovered from gold mine near Orkney
News24   07 December 2019   South Africa  
<p>The bodies of three of the four mineworkers who were trapped in a gold mine near Orkney were recovered by rescue workers on Saturday evening.<br>Village Main Reef (VMR) spokesperson James Duncan said the recoveries at the Tau Lekoa mine were made at around ...
Woman catches 'massive' landslide on camera
Stuff.co.nz   07 December 2019   New Zealand   Rangitata river  
"It was shocking. I couldn't believe it. There was so much water it was unbelievable ... There was so much volume - it was massive."
<p>A curious Mt Somers school busdriver saw first-hand the force of nature when she went to check out the rising Rangitata River. <br />Ange Protheroe, 34, was at the right place at the right time with her husband when she captured footage of the "massive" ...
Albania earthquake: Fresh tremors as rescue effort intensifies
BBC NEWS   27 November 2019   Albania   Tirana  
Firefighters extracted this injured man from the rubble in Thumane
<p>Rescuers are scrambling to find survivors under the rubble of buildings in Albania, where a strong earthquake has killed 26 people and injured 650.<br />The magnitude-6.4 tremor struck 34km (21 miles) north-west of the capital, Tirana, as people slept in ...
Albania earthquake: at least nine dead and hundreds injured
The Guardian   26 November 2019   Albania   Tirana  
A damaged building in Thumanë. Photograph: Florion Goga/Reuters
<p>At least nine people have died and 600 people have been injured after a powerful earthquake hit Albania in the early hours of Tuesday, causing damage along the country&rsquo;s Adriatic coastline and in the capital, Tirana. Several buildings collapsed, burying ...
At least six dead as Europe battered by storms, floods and a landslide
Euronews   25 November 2019   Italy, French  
The A6 bridge near Savona Italy was swept away by a huge landslip on Sunday REUTERS
<p>Six people have been killed following a weekend of storms, floods and a landslide across parts of Europe.<br />In France and Italy, torrential rain killed four people and left one missing after it caused flooding and a landslide that swept away a motorway ...
Venice is flooding -- what lies ahead for its cultural and historical sites?
CNN   16 November 2019   Italy   Venice  
A man walks across the flooded St. Mark's Square on November 15, 2019. Credit: FILIPPO MONTEFORTE via Getty Images
<p>Images of the flooded St. Mark's Basilica in Venice have shocked many across the world this week. Since Tuesday, parts of the city were damaged by the most severe high waters Venice has seen in over half a century, with six-foot high tide levels engulfing ...
Dramatic images show impact of deadly earthquakes in Philippines
CNN   01 November 2019   Philippines  
A damaged building after a 6.5-magnitude earthquake hit Kidapawan town, north Cotabato province, on the southern island of Mindanao on October 31, 2019
<p>(CNN) At least 14 people have died after a series of earthquakes rattled the southern Philippines.<br />A 6.5 magnitude quake struck on Thursday morning, local time, in the Tulunan area of Cotabato province on the southern island of Mindanao. That jolt ...
Deadly Earthquake Strikes Southern Philippine Island
The New York Times   29 October 2019   Philippines   Mindanao  
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<p>MANILA &mdash; A magnitude-6.6 earthquake struck the southern Philippine island of Mindanao on Tuesday, sending people fleeing from their homes in panic, causing structural damage to buildings and killing at least three people.<br />The quake struck about ...