Recent Natural Disasters | Calamities | Hazards

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

The Waiho River burst its banks in Australia Wednesday night flooding an area of 1 km north of Franz Josef and forced the evacuation of 186 people.  The Mueller hotel near Franz Josef has also been flooded after the Waiho River broke its banks. Earlier, a boil water notice and local state of emergency was declared on Thursday which was lifted another day.

Nepal Seismological Center has recorded magnitude 4.1 light earthquake in eastern region. The epicenter was located near Lelep, Taplejung. According to the Seismological Center, it's a fresh earthquake not an aftershock of Gorkha earthquake. The earthquake occurred at 11:11 pm Thursday night.

Landslide in east China's Jiangxi Province over the past five days has claimed lives of three people. Two people died in a landslide at the entrance of a tunnel on the Daqing-Guangzhou expressway in Longnan County, another person was killed in another landslide in Ganzhou city, Xinhua News Agency reported quoting the provincial civil affairs department.

Prince Harry visited patients at the burn unit of Kanti Children's Hospital in Kathmandu (Twitter/@KensingtonRoyal) Britain's Prince Harry has extended his trip for spending next six days with Team Rubicon working with the community to rebuild a school damaged by the earthquake. "The people I have met and the beauty of this country make it very hard to leave. Thankfully however, I'm not leaving just yet," Kensington Palace mentioned in a tweet.

Palau has declared state of emergency over drought. Koror, the most populous area of Palau, has recorded the lowest rainfall in 65 years over the past four months. According to National Weather Service, the Ngerimel dam has run out of water and flow from the Ngerikill river is very low.