Natural Disasters List August 14, 2014 - Flooding in New York

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Recent Natural Disasters

• Landslide in Rukum, Nepal
  -Landslide in Rukum, Nepal has claimed life of a nine years old child.
  -A 10 years old girl has gone missing in the debris. Click for detail report on Rukum landslide
  
• Thunderstorms spark fires in Washington and Oregon
  -Thunderstorms have caused forest fires in Washington and Oregon region of United States.
  -According to the Central Oregon Interagency Dispatch Center, lightning struck Oregon more than 7,000 times in 24 hours.

Recent Earthquakes 

• M 2.6 weak shallow earthquake in California (@ 7 km depth) with epicenter located 14 km S of Rio Dell. It will have well felt by the people of Fortuna, Eureka and Bayside.
  01:16 UTC (local time 2014-08-13, 18:16 @ epicenter)
• M 5.7 moderate earthquake in Chile (@ 49 km depth) with epicenter located 17 km ENE of Iquique. Light to weak shaking will have felt by the people of Iquique, Cruz de Machacamarca and Arica.
  00:02 UTC (local time 2014-08-13, 20:02 @ epicenter) 
  

Recent Flash Floods

• Flooding in New York
  -Heavy rainfall has caused flash flooding in Bay Shore in New York, the United States.
  -A rain storm hit New York City area for 10 hours on Wednesday morning.

Recent Volcanic Activity

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Recent Tropical Cyclones

• Hurricane Julio
  -As of 03:00 UTC, Hurricane Julio was located 1,075 km N of Honolulu, Hawaii.
  -Hurricane Julio weakening and moving slowly northward far north of Hawaii.
• Tropical Storm Karina
  -As of 03:00 UTC, TS Karina was located 750 km SW of the southern tip of Baja California.
  -Karina is expected to become a hurricane by Thursday night.

Natural Disaster News

• A report published by World Food Programme (WFP) on Wednesday has mentioned that a severe drought in Sri Lanka has affceted 1.5 million people with 768,000 of them in urgent need of basic food and livelihood requirements. 
• The University of Texas (UT) Health Science Center at Houston has received nearly $1.5 million  FEMA grant to address volunteer firefighter health, Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) said in its news release on August 14, 2013. Click for detail report on FEMA grant
• A research by the Natural Hazards Cooperative Research Centre (CRC) has found that the cost of natural disasters in Australia could double in next six years.

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