August, 2007
NIGER: Floods wreak havoc across the country
Submitted by administrator on Thu, 23/08/2007 - 19:39. Early warning alertsSource: IRIN Large-scale flooding has hit seven of Niger's eight regions, affecting close to 13,000 people across the country
– some of whom may be inaccessible to aid organisations, according to the Nigerien government.
NIGER: Floods wreak havoc across the country
Submitted by administrator on Thu, 23/08/2007 - 19:39. Early warning alertsSource: IRIN Large-scale flooding has hit seven of Niger's eight regions, affecting close to 13,000 people across the country
– some of whom may be inaccessible to aid organisations, according to the Nigerien government.
Mexico to assess coffee, sugar crops after storm
Submitted by administrator on Thu, 23/08/2007 - 19:07. Early warning alertsSource: Reuters MEXICO CITY, Aug 23 (Reuters) - Mexico's Agriculture Minister Alberto Cardenas said on Thursday it was too early to say if coffee and sugar crops had been damaged or output hurt after the passage of ...
Mexico to assess coffee, sugar crops after storm
Submitted by administrator on Thu, 23/08/2007 - 19:07. Early warning alertsSource: Reuters MEXICO CITY, Aug 23 (Reuters) - Mexico's Agriculture Minister Alberto Cardenas said on Thursday it was too early to say if coffee and sugar crops had been damaged or output hurt after the passage of ...
Somalia : Floods affecting vulnerable Shabelle Region
Submitted by administrator on Thu, 23/08/2007 - 16:37. Early warning alertsAs of 23 August, Somalia's Shabelle River, which passes through Middle Shabelle province in south-central Somalia has reportedly
Haiti: Floods may affect crops
Submitted by administrator on Thu, 23/08/2007 - 16:37. Early warning alertsAs of 23 August, strong winds and rains associated with hurricane Dean have caused localized flooding, structural damage and at
BANGLADESH: Effective systems keep diarrhoea in check even during floods
Submitted by administrator on Thu, 23/08/2007 - 14:33. Early warning alertsSource: IRIN Appropriate technology, strong government maintenance and repair structures, and good
preparedness are mitigating the humanitarian impact of perennial flooding in Bangladesh. In the latest crisis, more than 10 million people were affected and hundreds of people killed, after torrential
monsoon rains battered much of Bangladesh over the past month.
Floods hit Asia hard, but few states demand aid
Submitted by administrator on Thu, 23/08/2007 - 13:36. Early warning alertsSource: Reuters By Peter Apps
LONDON, Aug 23 (Reuters) - Heavy flooding across Asia has devastated crops and may cause lasting damage as well as food shortages, but experts said governments in India, China or ...
M 5.2, Fiji region
Submitted by administrator on Thu, 23/08/2007 - 12:34. Early warning alertsAugust 23, 2007 11:34:24 GMT
amp;quot;No hopeamp;quot; of survivors in China mine disaster
Submitted by administrator on Thu, 23/08/2007 - 10:32. Early warning alertsSource: Reuters BEIJING, Aug 23 (Reuters) - There is "no hope" of finding survivors from a flood in a Chinese coal mine which has trapped 181 workers, a senior official said on Thursday, adding those ...
Russia island quake on Aug. 2 left 8,000 homeless
Submitted by administrator on Thu, 23/08/2007 - 09:47. Early warning alertsSource: Reuters YUZHNO-SAKHALINSK, Russia, Aug 23 (Reuters) - An earthquake this month on Russia's Pacific island of Sakhalin left 8,000 people homeless, four times more than initially announced, the local ...
M 5.0, Guam region
Submitted by administrator on Thu, 23/08/2007 - 08:43. Early warning alertsAugust 23, 2007 07:43:21 GMT
M 5.0, Guam region
Submitted by administrator on Thu, 23/08/2007 - 08:43. Early warning alertsAugust 23, 2007 07:43:16 GMT
South Korea sends aid to flood-ravaged North
Submitted by administrator on Thu, 23/08/2007 - 07:44. Early warning alertsSource: Reuters SEOUL, Aug 23 (Reuters) - South Korea sent its first batch of emergency aid on Thursday to relieve flooding in North Korea that has killed hundreds, and a top Pyongyang official said the North is ...
Minnesota Severe Storms and Flooding
Submitted by administrator on Thu, 23/08/2007 - 06:00. Early warning alertsMajor Disaster Declaration number 1717 declared on Aug 23, 2007
M 5.0, Buryatiya, Russia
Submitted by administrator on Thu, 23/08/2007 - 05:49. Early warning alertsAugust 23, 2007 04:49:20 GMT
Hurricane Dean slams Mexicos Gulf coast, kills two
Submitted by administrator on Thu, 23/08/2007 - 05:05. Early warning alertsSource: Reuters (Updates with another death in Mexico)
By Tomas Bravo
POZA RICA, Mexico, Aug 22 (Reuters) - Hurricane Dean ripped into Mexico's Gulf coast on Wednesday with screaming winds and torrential rain ...
Hurricane Dean slams Mexicos Gulf coast, kills two
Submitted by administrator on Thu, 23/08/2007 - 05:05. Early warning alertsSource: Reuters (Updates with another death in Mexico)
By Tomas Bravo
POZA RICA, Mexico, Aug 22 (Reuters) - Hurricane Dean ripped into Mexico's Gulf coast on Wednesday with screaming winds and torrential rain ...
Hurricane Dean slams Mexicos Gulf coast, weakens
Submitted by administrator on Thu, 23/08/2007 - 03:06. Early warning alertsSource: Reuters (Updates death toll, paragraph 5)
By Tomas Bravo
POZA RICA, Mexico, Aug 22 (Reuters) - Hurricane Dean ripped into Mexico's Gulf coast on Wednesday with screaming winds and torrential rain that ...
Hurricane Dean slams Mexicos Gulf coast, weakens
Submitted by administrator on Thu, 23/08/2007 - 01:19. Early warning alertsSource: Reuters (Adds storm fizzling out, no damage to coral reef)
By Tomas Bravo
POZA RICA, Mexico, Aug 22 (Reuters) - Hurricane Dean ripped into Mexico's Gulf coast on Wednesday with screaming winds and ...
Mexican islands reefs spared by Hurricane Dean
Submitted by administrator on Wed, 22/08/2007 - 23:35. Early warning alertsSource: Reuters By Ed Stoddard
COZUMEL, Mexico, Aug 22 (Reuters) - Magnificent coral reefs on Mexico's Caribbean island of Cozumel appear to have been unscathed by Hurricane Dean, delighting dive operators and ...
Eight dead as floods plague central United States
Submitted by administrator on Wed, 22/08/2007 - 23:25. Early warning alertsSource: Reuters (Adds new data from Ohio, Iowa, Oklahoma)
CHICAGO, Aug 22 (Reuters) - Rivers from Nebraska east to Ohio climbed out of their banks on Wednesday, swollen from thunderstorms that soaked the central ...
M 5.0, Fiji region
Submitted by administrator on Wed, 22/08/2007 - 23:24. Early warning alertsAugust 22, 2007 22:24:37 GMT
Hurricane Dean slams Mexicos Gulf coast
Submitted by administrator on Wed, 22/08/2007 - 23:23. Early warning alertsSource: Reuters (Adds storm downgraded, quotes, no major crop damage seen)
By Tomas Bravo
POZA RICA, Mexico, Aug 22 (Reuters) - Hurricane Dean ripped into Mexico's Gulf coast on Wednesday with screaming winds and ...
Hurricane Dean crashes into Mexicos Gulf coast
Submitted by administrator on Wed, 22/08/2007 - 21:05. Early warning alertsSource: Reuters (Updates with quotes, color, hurricane weakens)
By Tomas Bravo
POZA RICA, Mexico, Aug 22 (Reuters) - Hurricane Dean ripped into Mexico's Gulf coast on Wednesday with screaming winds and torrential ...