Recent Natural Disasters List February 5, 2016 — Sakurajima volcano eruption

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

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Major Natural Disasters Today

• Very strong earthquake in Taiwan
  -Magnitude 6.4 very strong earthquake rattled Taiwan.
  -A 16-storey Wei Guan (維冠) residential building on Yongda Road in Tainan City's Yongkang District collapsed during the earthquake. Click for detail report on Taiwan earthquake
  
• Sakurajima volcano eruption in southern Japan
  -Sakurajima volcano in southern Japan erupted Friday evening prompting officials to issue an orange warning.
  -According to Japanese medias, an orange burst spread out of the side of the volcano, near the summit, accompanied by lightning-like flashes around 7 pm Friday evening. Click for detail report on Sakurajima volcanic eruption

Recent Earthquakes

• M 4.7 moderate earthquake in Greece (@ 10 km depth) with epicenter located 19 km SSE of Ierapetra. Weak tremor will have been felt as far as Agios Nikolaos and Irákleion.
  23:01 UTC (local time: 01:01; 2016-02-06 @ epicenter)
• M 6.4 very strong earthquake in Taiwan (@ 23 km depth) with epicenter located 28 km NE of Pingtung. Very strong shaking will have been felt by the people of Tainan. People of Douliu and Kaohsiung will have been felt strong shaking of MMI IV. Similarly, light shaking will have been felt by the people of Taichung, Hsinchu, Taoyuan City, Taipei and Banqiao. Click for detail report on Taiwan earthquake
  19:57 UTC (local time: 03:57; 2016-02-06 @ epicenter)
• M 5.5 moderate earthquake in Nepal (@ 10 km depth) with epicenter in Sindhupalchowk district. Strong tremor will have been felt by the people of Kathmandu valley as well. Click for detail report on this post
  16:20 UTC (local time: 22:05; 2016-02-05 @ epicenter)
• M 4.6 moderate earthquake in Japan (@ 142 km depth) with epicenter located 5 km SE of Maebashi-shi. Weak shaking of MMI III will have been felt by the people of Tamamura, Takasaki,  Isesaki and Tokyo.
  07:02 UTC (local time: 16:02; 2016-02-05 @ epicenter)
• M 5.0 moderate earthquake in Chile (@ 26 km depth) with epicenter located 75 km SW of Ovalle. Weak tremor will have been felt by the people of Illapel and Monte Patria.
  05:24 UTC (local time: 02:24; 2016-02-05 @ epicenter)
• M 5.2 moderate earthquake in Philippines (@ 10 km depth) with epicenter located 8 km ESE of San Francisco. It will have been well felt by the people of Catanauan, Lopez and San Pedro.
  05:00 UTC (local time: 13:00; 2016-02-05 @ epicenter)

Recent Flash Floods

• No major flooding event reported today.

Recent Volcanic Activity

• Sakurajima volcano eruption in southern Japan
  -Sakurajima volcano in southern Japan erupted Friday evening prompting officials to issue an orange warning.
  -According to Japanese medias, an orange burst spread out of the side of the volcano, near the summit, accompanied by lightning-like flashes around 7 pm Friday evening. Click for detail report on Sakurajima volcanic eruption

Recent Tropical Cyclones

• No new cyclone formed today.

Natural Disaster News

• Registration is now open for the National Emergency Management Conference ‘The Future of Emergency Management’ to be held on 1- 2 June 2016 at Te Papa in Wellington.

Useful information to read this Recent Natural Disasters List February 5, 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.