Natural Disasters List January 29, 2013-Flash floods in Ireland

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• Flooding in Ireland
  -Heavy rainfall has caused flooding in the Spanish Arch, Galway city of Ireland.
  -The gale force winds, high tides and heavy rain caused flash flooding in Galway city. Galway city is currently on high alert.
  -Floods also closed Wolfe Tone Bridge and Lough Atalia Road.
  -The 2012 Great Britain and Ireland floods killed at least 9 people and caused damage of £1 billion (Photo: Galway city; Fujifilm Shop Street facebook page).
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  Tidal flooding in Dublin, Ireland
  Flooding in Belfast And Lisburn, Ireland
  Tornado in Donegal, Ireland
• Lightning in Argyll, Scotland
  -Lightning in Scotland has killed a scientist. Heavy storm caused thunder and lightning in Port Appin, Argyll area of Scotland.
  -Dr Boyd who died in the natural disaster tragedy worked at the Scottish Association of Marine Science (Sams) in Oban.
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  Lightning kills 10 in Bihar, India
  Glencoe, Scotland Avalanche kills 4

Recent Earthquakes
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• M 4.4 light shallow aftershocks in Eastern Kazakhstan (@ 10 km depth) with epicenter located 73 km SE of Kegen. Yesterday's magnitude 6.0 earthquake in Kazakhstan shook Almaty.
  08:57 UTC (local time Tuesday, January 29, 2013 at 02:57 PM @ epicenter)
• M 4.1 light deep earthquake in Southern Peru (@ 100 km depth) with epicenter located 42 km SE of Orcopampa. Weak shaking of MMI II-III will have felt by the people of Arequipa, Camana and Mollendo.
  03:31 UTC (local time Monday, January 28, 2013 at 10:31:23 PM @ epicenter)
• M 4.4 light earthquake in Dodecanese Islands, Greece (@ 27 km depth) with epicenter located 15 km S of Karpathos. People of Agios Nikolaos, Ierapetra and Trianta will have felt just a weak shaking of MMI III.
  01:48 UTC (local time Tuesday, January 29, 2013 at 03:48 AM @ epicenter)

Recent Flash Floods
Ongoing Major River Floods (Based on Satellite observation): Afghanistan (Amu Darya), Australia (Darling), Bolivia (Madre de Dios), Brazil (Tocantins), Chad (N Djamena), China (Mekong and Huang He), Democratic Republic of the Congo (Ubangi), Dominican Republic, Honduras, Indonesia, Iran, Iraq (Shatt al Arab and Tigris), Kenya (Tana), Philippines, Sudan (Blue Nile, White Nile), Syria (Euphrates), Tanzania.


Recent Volcanic Activity
Erupting Volcanoes: Fuego, Santiago, Poas, Reventador, Nyiragongo, Ol Doniyo Lengai, Raung, Erta Ale, Paluweh, Gamalama, Batu Tara, Sakurajima, Manam, Ulawun, Tolbachik and Kilauea volcano.


Recent Tropical Cyclones

• Tropical Cyclone Felleng
  -As of 09:00 UTC, TC Felleng was located 460 nm north of La Reunion.
  -Felleng is predicted to continue to intensify as it nears Madagascar. Felleng will travel between eastern Madagascar and La Reunion Island by Feb. 1.

Natural Disaster News

• Hailstorms have displaced hundreds of families in Mzimba and Chitipa district of Malawi, Africa.
• Natural disaster areas has been declared in ten local government areas hit by flooding in northern NSW. Now natural disaster assistance would be available to flood affected residents. Flooding in Queensland, Australia killed four people and destroyed 40 houses in Bundaberg. At least five tornadoes hit Queensland coastal towns some days ago.
• A wildfire arsonist was sentenced to death in California. The man was convicted of setting a massive wildfire that killed five people and damaged 1,000 plus homes in San Bernardino.

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