Recent Natural Disasters | Calamities | Hazards

Magnitude 4.5 fresh earthquake rattled Sankhuwasabha district Tuesday morning at 08:45 am, Nepal Seismological Center reported. According to Seismological Center, the epicenter was located near Mangtewa. The earthquake occurred at a shallow depth of 10 km.

Magnitude 5.5 earthquake shook Patna and other parts of Bihar today at 11:39 pm, triggering panic among people. The epicenter was located in Nepal and was well felt in western and central parts of Nepal. According to Nepal Seismological Center, the epicenter was near Panch Khuwa Deurali -9  of Gorkha district.

An aerial view of Cyclone Winston damage in Fiji (NZDF/Facebook via Stuff) A Category 5 Tropical Cyclone Winston has claimed lives of atleast 20 people in Fiji , making a record of the strongest landfalling tropical cyclone in the South Pacific archipelago.  Tropical Cyclone Winston made landfall along the north coast of Fiji's Viti Levu Saturday evening with packing estimated maximum sustained winds of 180 mph, the U.S. Joint Typhoon Warning Center (JTWC) confirmed.

Update Atleast one person has been admitted at Gokha Hospital with leg fracture. A permanent inhabitant of Udayapur, currently living in Gorkha, Dayaram Chaudhary got injured while running out of the home during the earthquake.

Photo Source: Idaho Transportation Department About 250 people have been trapped in a massive landslide in the small remote town of Elk City in Idaho County of United States. The landslide is about 40 feet deep and is blocking approximately 500 feet of the highway, Idaho Transportation Department (ITD) said in a press release.

A lightning strike near Elim in Harding in KwaZulu-Natal Province of South Africa critically injured a person on Saturday morning. The man was rushed to a local clinic in a critical condition, News24 reported quoting KwaZulu-Natal Emergency Services spokesperson Robert McKenzie.