Recent Natural Disasters List January 8, 2020 — Israel flooding kills 1

Recent Natural Disasters 2020: This natural disaster list covers important natural disasters in the world with detail update report.

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Major Natural Disasters Today

• Flooding in Northern Israel
  -Flooding in the northern city of Nahariya has claimed life of one people.
  -The railroad in the Haifa Center HaShmona railway station has been flooded causing the suspension of trains traveling north from Haifa.
  -Last week, flooding in Tel Aviv killed two people.

Recent Earthquakes

• Magnitude 4.8 moderate earthquake on Canada (@ 10 km depth) with epicenter located 215 km W of Port Hardy, BC. Click for detail report on this Vancouver earthquake
  20:20 UTC (local time: 12:20; 2020-01-08 @ epicenter)
• Magnitude 3.3 weak earthquake in Southern California (@ 6.5 km depth) with epicenter located 13 km far from Ridgecrest. Click for detail report on Ridgecrest earthquake
  16:11 UTC (local time: 08:11; 2020-01-08 @ epicenter)
• Magnitude 2.8 weak earthquake in Northern California (@ 6 km depth) with epicenter located 5 km S of Gilroy. Click for detail report on this Gilroy earthquake
  09:46 UTC (local time: 01:46; 2020-01-08 @ epicenter)
• Magnitude 4.9 moderate earthquake in Southern Iran (@ 10 km depth) with epicenter located 21 km SE of Borāzjān. Click for detail report on this Iranian earthquake
  02:20 UTC ( local time: 05:50:02.5 2020-01-08 @ epicenter)
• Magnitude 4.3 light earthquake in Puerto Rico Region (@ 10 km depth) with epicenter located 8 km S of Guánica.
  00:59 UTC (local time: 20:59; 2020-01-07 @ epicenter)

Recent Flash Floods

• Flooding in Northern Israel
  -Flooding in the northern city of Nahariya has claimed life of one people.
  -The railroad in the Haifa Center HaShmona railway station has been flooded causing the suspension of trains traveling north from Haifa.
  -Last week, flooding in Tel Aviv killed two people.

Recent Volcanic Activity

• Shishaldin volcano eruption in Alaska
  -Shishaldin volcano in Alaska shot an ash cloud about 8 km into the sky on Tuesday.
  -According to the Alaska Volcano Observatory, wind continued to push the ash cloud northeast into the eastern Bering Sea. Click for detail report on Shishaldin volcanic eruption

Recent Tropical Cyclones

• Tropical Cyclone Blake
  -At 01:00 UTC, Tropical Cyclone Blake was located approx. 6 NM ESE of Port Hedland, Australia.
  -Heavy downpours have been expected in the eastern Pilbara and far south-western Kimberley.

Natural Disaster News

• President Donald J. Trump has signed emergency declaration for Puerto Rico. FEMA announced that federal emergency aid has been made available to the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico to supplement Commonwealth and local response efforts to the emergency conditions in the area affected by earthquakes beginning on Dec. 28, 2019, and continuing.

Useful information to read this Recent Natural Disasters List January 8, 2020

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.