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Recent Natural Disasters List January 29, 2016 — Oregon Sinkhole

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By Disaster Report
Recent Natural Disasters 2016: This natural disaster list covers important natural disasters in the world with detail update report.

Keep this page open or visit later to get update report.
Check Worldwide Natural Disasters List + Detail Report

Major Natural Disasters Today
  • Massive sinkhole in southern Oregon
    -A massive sinkhole has been reported on a road near Highway 101 along the coast of southern Oregon.
    -The sinkhole widened Thursday afternoon west of the highway in the town of Harbor. Click for detail report on Oregon sinkhole

Recent Earthquakes
  • M 3.5 light earthquake in Oklahoma (@ 5 km depth) with epicenter located 31 km NW of Fairview. Weak shaking of MMI III will have been felt by the people of Woodward and Enid.
    21:58 UTC (local time: 15:58; 2016-01-29 @ epicenter)
  • M 5.3 moderate earthquake in Chile (@ 41 km depth) with epicenter located 43 km NW of Ovalle. It will have been well felt by the people of Coquimbo, La Serena and Monte Patria.
    20:07 UTC (local time: 17:07; 2016-01-29 @ epicenter)
  • M 4.2 light earthquake in New Zealand (@ 57 km depth) with epicenter located 27km SW of Brooklyn. Weak tremor will have been felt by the people of Karori, Wellington, Blenheim and Lower Hutt.
    02:20 UTC (local time: 15:20; 2016-01-29 @ epicenter)

Recent Flash Floods
  • No major flood reported today.

Recent Volcanic Activity
  • No major volcanic eruption recorded today.

Recent Tropical Cyclones
  • Tropical Cyclone Stan
    -At 05:00 UTC, TC Stan was located approximately 131 nm north-northwest of Port Hedland,
    Australia.
    -Stan is expected to become category three cyclone when it makes landfall near Port Hedland late on Saturday morning.

Natural Disaster News
  • The drought relief effort in Ethiopia needs about $500 million to support programmes beyond April aimed at providing support to 10.2 million people facing severe food shortage, the U.N. World Food Programme said on Thursday. Click for detail report on Ethiopia drought relief
  • An avalanche warning has been issued in four districts of Kashmir, including Kupwara, Baramulla, Bandipora and Ladakh. 

Useful information to read this Recent Natural Disasters List January 29, 2016

This natural disaster list contains daily list of natural disasters around the world. The page is break down into various parts as Major Natural Disasters Today (real time update report on rolling major natural disaster around the world), Recent Earthquakes (only earthquakes which are felt by people), Recent Volcanic Activity (erupting volcanoes), Recent Flash Floods (ongoing flood information), Recent Tropical Cyclones (active cyclones) and Natural Disaster News (facts and news about natural/environmental disasters and hazards on various topics like Tornado, Tsunami, Wildfire, Drought, Hailstorm, Heat Wave, Hurricane, Epidemic, Famine, Lahar, Limnic Eruption, Mudflow, Solar Flare and other disasters).

The major natural disasters and catastrophes are linked to definite page containing update report on that disaster and also provides early disaster emergency notification if available.

The global natural disaster data and natural calamities statistics are collected from different sources like USGS, EMSC, GDACS, EDIS and others.
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