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''== Natural Disaster News ==' September 10

On 10 September 2008, a strong earthquake with the magnitude of 6.1 on the Richter scale shook vast areas of Hormozgan province at 15:30 hour local time.

As per director of National Disaster Task Force of Hormozgan province, the epicenter of the earthquake located in Bandar Khamir, West of Bandar Abbas, Hormozgan province.

September 13 Hurican Ike hit louisana and Texas

September 16 CAIRO, 16 September 2008 (IRIN) - Thousands of slum dwellers displaced by the 6 September rockslide at Dweiqa and Ezbat Bekhiet face an uncertain fate as they camp out on the streets of Cairo's oldest slum, Manshiet Nasser. Between 30 and 50 homes collapsed, and up to 250 people have died.

September 24 BEIJING, Sep 24, 2008 (Xinhua via COMTEX News Network) -- Typhoon Hagupit has downgraded to severe tropical storm at 2 p.m. Wednesday in coastal areas of South China's Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, according to the National Meteorological Center. Ministry of Civil Affairs confirmed that typhoon Hagupit had caused five deaths and two missing in south China as of 17:00 on Wednesday. Nepal Aid agencies are struggling to provide assistance to thousands of families displaced by flooding in western Nepal.

The Himilayan nation is still recovering from floods in the southeast last month which displaced thousands more.

Torrential rainfall on 19 September resulted in serious flooding and landslides in eight western districts, including areas in the Terai (fertile flatlands in south) and hill areas.

The affected districts are Bardiya, Banke, Dang, Dadeldhura, Kailali, Kanchanpur, Doti and Salyan districts of the far western and mid-western regions, Nepal's Ministry of Home Affairs (MOHA), reported.

More than 26 people have been killed and scores more injured after heavy flooding displaced over 80,000 people, comprising some 16,000 families, the government said. However, access to the area and communication remained difficult. WTAM 1100

Ike leaves Ohio a $500 million bill

Damage caused by the remnants of Hurricane Ike in Ohio could hit $500 million or higher, making it one of the state's costliest natural disasters.

Deaths from Vietnam floods rise to 25 Floods triggered by Typhoon Hagupit have killed at least 25 people in northern Vietnam and the toll could increase as information from isolated villages trickles in, disaster officials said Saturday.

The floods also left seven people missing and injured more than 20 others, officials said.

In the worst-hit province of Son La, at least eight people were killed in the floodwaters and four were reported missing, said disaster official Nguyen Van Loan. Two people were crushed to death when houses damaged by the rushing waters collapsed on them, Loan said.

September 27, 2008

Deaths from Vietnam floods rise to 25 Floods triggered by Typhoon Hagupit have killed at least 25 people in northern Vietnam and the toll could increase as information from isolated villages trickles in, disaster officials said Saturday.

The floods also left seven people missing and injured more than 20 others, officials said.

In the worst-hit province of Son La, at least eight people were killed in the floodwaters and four were reported missing, said disaster official Nguyen Van Loan. Two people were crushed to death when houses damaged by the rushing waters collapsed on them, Loan said.

September, 30, 2008

China floods kill 17, latest typhoon downgraded Floods triggered by torrential rain have killed 17 people and six others are missing in southern China, Xinhua has reported.

October 1 2008 Tajikistan: Drought (as of 01 Oct 2008) - Location MapTABOSHAR, 1 October 2008 (IRIN) - People are beginning to leave the small town of Taboshar in the northern Tajik province of Soghd due to an acute shortage of drinking water.

Fatima Umirova, 40, told IRIN: "There is no water in the houses at all. It can be found only in few water pumps on the street."

The on-street water pumps provide water for a few hours each day. "There were days when we had no water at all. People had to queue for hours to get some water... There were many cases of people fighting over water," Umirova said.

A Tajik non-governmental organisation (NGO), Youth Group for Protection of the Environment, said water supplies had been diminishing every year. "Currently, the town's water agency cannot meet even 15-20 percent of the population's needs. Under such conditions, natural springs had become the main source of water for the local population," it said.

However, the dry summer of 2007 and the drought of 2008 had led to the drying up of many springs used to source clean drinking water. Over half of Taboshar's 11,000 people (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_cities_in_Tajikistan) are without any water at all, according to the NGO.

"Experts conducted some studies and it was found that there was no water coming into Taboshar. The last of the groundwater is currently being pumped to a pumping station, but the station could break down at any time due to its state of disrepair," Isuljon Ismoilov, head of Taboshar's water agency, told Internews, an international media support and development network.

Meanwhile, local residents are concerned about the possible rise in infectious diseases if access to clean drinking water is not restored quickly.

"Many people are now leaving Taboshar. What else can they do? We fear for our health and the health of our children," said Bakhtiyor Nizamov, a local resident.

The Taboshar authorities have called on the government and international organisations for help.

Bolivia: Drought - Oct 2008

Pakistan: Earthquake - Oct 2008

Sudan: Floods - Oct 2008

Bangladesh: Tropical Storm Rashmi - Oct 2008

Morocco: Flash Floods - Oct 2008

Yemen: Floods - Oct 2008

Colombia: Floods - Oct 2008

Sri Lanka: Floods - Oct 2008 Central America: Floods - Oct 2008

Viet Nam: Floods - Oct 2008

Hurricane Omar - Oct 2008

Russian Federation: Earthquake - Oct 2008 Mexico: Hurricane Norbert - Oct 2008

Burundi: Floods - Sep 2008

China: Earthquake - Oct 2008

Kyrgyzstan: Earthquake - Oct 2008

Rwanda: Floods - Oct 2008

Somalia: Floods - Oct 2008

Kenya: Floods - Oct 2008

Algeria: Flash Floods - Oct 2008

Kyrgyzstan: Energy/Water/Food Insecurity - Nov 2008

Colombia: Cold Wave - Nov 2008 Tropical Cyclone Nisha - Nov 2008 Brazil: Floods and Landslides - Nov 2008 Costa Rica: Floods - Nov 2008 Panama: Floods - Nov 2008

Philippines: Flash Floods - Nov 2008

Cuba: Floods - Nov 2008

Viet Nam: Tropical Storm Noul - Nov 2008

Ethiopia: Flash Floods - Nov 2008

Indonesia: Earthquake - Nov 2008 OPT: Flash Floods - Nov 2008 Bolivia: Severe Local Storm - Nov 2008 Haiti: School Collapse - Nov 2008 Tropical Storm Maysak - Nov 2008

Colombia: Machín and Nevado del Huila Volcanoes - Nov 2008 Hurricane Paloma - Nov 2008 China: Landslides - Nov 2008

December 4, 2008 The subduction zone that brought us the 2004 Sumatra-Andaman earthquake and tsunami is ripe for yet another large event, despite a sequence of quakes that occurred in the Mentawai Islands area in 2007, according to a group of earthquake researchers led by scientists from the Tectonics Observatory at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech).

AFRICAN NATURAL DISASTERS Other Current Natural Disasters in Africa

Ethiopia: Flash Floods - Nov 2008 Sudan: Floods - Oct 2008 Morocco: Flash Floods - Oct 2008

Somalia: Floods - Oct 2008

Kenya: Floods - Oct 2008

Algeria: Flash Floods - Oct 2008

Uganda: Floods - Sep 2008

Egypt: Landslide - Sep 2008

Cameroon/Chad: Floods - Aug 2008

Sudan: Floods - Aug 2008 West Africa: Floods - Jul 2008

Mozambique: Cyclone Jokwe - Mar 2008

Madagascar: Cyclone Ivan - Feb 2008