The development comes after the Hayli Gubbi volcano in Ethiopia erupted for the first time in nearly 10,000 years on Sunday, sending a massive ash plume across the Red Sea toward…
The Royal Irrigation Department says a powerful monsoon trough caused record rainfall of 630 mm in three days, triggering severe floods across ten southern provinces.
The fate of a megacity like Dhaka facing a potential major earthquake depends on its level of preparation, scientific insight, and coordinated action, says the writer. Without…
The quake struck at 10:38 am on Friday, November 21, cracking buildings, sending debris crashing down, and driving residents into the streets in fear.
After Friday's 5.7-magnitude earthquake, which caused at least four deaths in Dhaka, experts warned that far greater losses await if the authorities fail to act now.
Entire communities are still cut off as local authorities plead for urgent aid.
Reports of buildings tilting and being damaged are coming in but at the time of filing this report, they could not be verified
The 3,676-meter-high volcano spewed ash clouds reaching up to 2 kilometers above its peak, sending lava and rocks as far as 13 kilometers down its slopes, according to officials.
As of Thursday evening, flooding had damaged over 13,000 hectares of rice and crops. A total of 30,731 livestock and poultry have been killed or swept away in the regions.
Provincial authorities said nearly 9,000 homes in 14 communes and wards had been inundated, with flood depths reaching up to 1.5m in parts of the north. Landslides were…