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Floods, blackouts after Thai storm, but tourist islands spared

Lillian Suwanrumpha and Sippachai Kunnuwong, Agence France-Presse
Posted at Jan 05 05:13 PM

Tropical Storm Pabuk left nearly 30,000 people in evacuation shelters across southern Thailand Saturday, as tourists stranded on islands further north were spared the worst. Read more »

Tourists hunker down as storm Pabuk dumps heavy rains on Thailand

Lillian Suwanrumpha and Sippachai Kunnuwong, Agence France-Presse
Posted at Jan 04 11:43 PM

Boats were recalled to shore across the Gulf of Thailand, while three key southern airports were shut until Saturday. Read more »

WATCH: Stargazer shares her predictions on disasters, health

ABS-CBN News
Posted at Jan 01 10:12 PM

Psychic Stargazer shared her predictions for 2019, this time in relation to possible natural disasters and health problems. Read more »

Indonesian tsunami volcano lost two-thirds of its height

Agence France-Presse
Posted at Dec 29 08:35 PM

A section of Anak Krakatoa's crater collapsed after an eruption and slid into the ocean, generating the tsunami last Saturday night. Read more »

Disaster-linked losses in 2018 hit $155 billion: Swiss Re

Agence France-Presse
Posted at Dec 19 09:23 AM

Events this year "highlight the increasing vulnerability of the ever-growing concentration of humans and property values on coastlines and in the urban-wildlife interface."  Read more »

OPINION: Emergency humanitarian response should be an integral part of dev planning

Fr. Edwin Gariguez
Posted at Oct 31 11:45 PM

What if disaster response and recovery (DRR) efforts started way before disasters struck? What if such efforts were planned with foresight and best practices in mind?  Read more »

Gov't mulls tsunami alert system for local communities

Jorge Cariño, ABS-CBN News
Posted at Oct 12 01:37 PM

MANILA- The Philippine government is mulling on setting up a tsunami alert system in communities following the recent quake-tsunami in Indonesia. Read more »

‘Monster’ Hurricane Michael strengthens on its way to Florida

Reuters
Posted at Oct 09 09:44 PM

Michael strengthened to a Category-2 storm, as it headed for a state where residents were ordered to get out of harm's way ahead of life-threatening waves, winds and rains. Read more »

Time running out for survivors as Indonesia toll tops 1,400

Harry Pearl with Patrick Lee in Sigi and Kiki Siregar in Jakarta, Agence France-Presse
Updated as of Oct 04 02:53 AM

Indonesian soldiers have been ordered to fire on those raiding stores on the quake and tsunami-struck island of Sulawesi. Read more »

Florence lumbers inland, leaving five dead, communities flooded

Ernest Scheyder, Reuters
Updated as of Sep 15 10:32 PM

Tropical storm Florence lumbered inland on Saturday, knocking down trees, flooding rivers, and dumping sheets of rain in the Carolinas where five people have died. Read more »

Much of Carolinas awash after Hurricane Florence moves in

Ernest Scheyder, Reuters
Posted at Sep 15 12:30 AM

About 10 million people could be affected by the storm and more than 1 million were ordered to evacuate the coasts of the Carolinas and Virginia. Read more »

Hurricane Florence makes landfall, set to deluge Carolinas

Ernest Scheyder, Reuters
Posted at Sep 14 09:09 PM

North Carolina's governor, Roy Cooper, said Florence was set to cover almost all of the state in several feet of water. Read more »

'Quiet, sunny before the storm': Ilocos Norte braces for Ompong

ABS-CBN News
Posted at Sep 14 09:56 AM

Residents of Ilocos Norte experienced quiet, sunny weather Friday morning ahead of the onslaught of Typhoon Ompong, the strongest of 15 storms to hit the Philippines this year. Read more »

Powerful quake rocks Japan’s northernmost main island of Hokkaido

Agence France-Presse
Updated as of Sep 06 03:22 AM

An earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 6.7 rocked Hokkaido, northern Japan, early Thursday, the Japan Meteorological Agency said. Read more »

Storm Gordon starts kicking up waves on US Gulf Coast

Reuters
Posted at Sep 04 09:45 PM

The storm also caused a jump in global oil prices after the evacuation of two oil platforms in the Gulf of Mexico. Read more »

'Not as bad as Ondoy': Cainta mayor says flood mitigation measures working

ABS-CBN News
Updated as of Aug 12 07:13 PM

Authorities have evacuated at least a thousand families in Cainta due to rising floods brought on by the southwest monsoon, Cainta Mayor Kit Nieto said Sunday morning.  Read more »

After Indonesian earthquake terror, hundreds trek down from volcano

Agustinus Beo Da Costa and Fergus Jensen, Reuters
Posted at Jul 30 06:47 PM

JAKARTA - Nearly 700 trekkers headed down Mount Rinjani on Indonesia's tourist island of Lombok on Monday, a day after a powerful earthquake of magnitude 6.4 terrified the climbers as boulders tumbled down the slopes of the volcano. Read more »

Inday intensifies; rains to persist till Saturday - PAGASA

ABS-CBN News
Posted at Jul 19 12:09 PM

Expect a rainy weekend as the southwest monsoon continues to be affected by tropical storm Inday, state weather bureau PAGASA said Thursday.  Read more »

Orange rainfall warning up in Metro Manila, 3 other areas

ABS-CBN News
Updated as of Jul 17 10:25 AM

State weather bureau PAGASA hoisted Tuesday morning an orange warning alert in Metro Manila, Bulacan, Bataan and Batangas due to possible floods in the next two hours.  Read more »

'Kids must also be involved in disaster risk reduction'

ABS-CBN News
Posted at Jun 29 05:53 PM

Children are the most vulnerable during disasters, which is why they must also be involved in disaster risk reduction (DDR) initiatives, say DDR stakeholders.  Read more »