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Kenya - More fatalities after floods in south

Richard Davies
Floodlist
Tue, 04 Apr 2023 18:58 UTC
Searching for missing people after flash floods in Mwatate, Taita Taveta County, Kenya, April 2023.
© Government of Taita Taveta CountySearching for missing people after flash floods in Mwatate, Taita Taveta County, Kenya, April 2023.
Flash floods caused severe damage in Taita-Taveta County, southern Kenya, on 02 April 2023. Four people are feared dead.

Heavy rain fell in hilly areas surrounding the settlement of Kironge in Mwatate Sub-County on 02 April, triggering flash floods. Four people from the same family - an expectant mother and 3 children - were reported missing after their home was swept away late on 02 April. The body of one of the victims was later found. The search for the missing victims is ongoing.

Christine Saru Kilalo, Deputy Governor Taita Taveta County, visited the affected community on 03 April. She said the floods have left a "trail of destruction".

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Cloud Precipitation

Italy - Deadly flash floods in Calabria

Richard Davies
Floodlist
Tue, 04 Apr 2023 17:55 UTC
Fire service helicopter searching for missing man in floods in Corigliano-Rossano, Calabria, Italy, 03 April 2023
© Vigili del FuocoFire service helicopter searching for missing man in floods in Corigliano-Rossano, Calabria, Italy, 03 April 2023
Firefighters in Italy report one person died after a vehicle was swept away by flash floods in the Calabria Region.

Stormy weather caused flash floods, landslides and wind damage in Calabria on 03 April. The worst affected areas were the provinces of Cosenza and Crotone.

Schools were closed in Savelli in the Province of Crotone due to adverse weather conditions. The commune recorded 118.2 mm of rain on 03 April.

Italy's Fire Service Vigili del Fuoco reported 13 interventions carried out by the firefighters in Cosenza Province. Vigili del Fuoco firefighters used a helicopter to search for a man reported missing after being swept away by floods in Corigliano-Rossano. Vigili del Fuoco later reported the man was found dead.

Several roads were closed, blocked by floods, fallen trees or landslide debris in the municipalities of ​​Acri and Longobucco.
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Seismograph

Shallow magnitude 6.2 earthquake strikes off coast of Viga in Philippines


alarabiya.net
Tue, 04 Apr 2023 17:45 UTC
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A 6.2-magnitude earthquake struck in the ocean off the coast of the eastern Philippines on Tuesday, the US Geological Survey said, with local authorities warning of aftershocks and possible damage.

The shallow quake hit around 9:00 pm (1300 GMT) about 120 kilometers (74 miles) from Catanduanes Island, off the main island of Luzon, the USGS said.

Shallow quakes tend to cause more damage than deeper ones, but so far there have been no immediate reports of damage on Catanduanes.
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Dingo mauls swimming girl, 6, pulling her underwater in terrifying beach attack in Queensland, Australia

Alice Scarsi
Daily Express
Mon, 03 Apr 2023 12:43 UTC
A little girl has been flown to hospital after she was attacked by a dingo which held her underwater and repeatedly bit her on the head.
A little girl has been flown to hospital after she was attacked by a dingo which held her underwater and repeatedly bit her on the head.
The incident occurred in shallow water at Waddy Point Beach, on Fraser Island, also known as K-gari - a World Heritage-listed island in Australia's Queensland region.

The girl was bitten on the back of her head, suffered puncture wounds around one of her ears and was also hurt on her hands.

A rescue helicopter was sent to the island to support the victim of the attack, which took place just after 4pm on Tuesday.

The young child was treated by paramedics at the scene before being flown, in stable conditions, to Hervey Bay Hospital in central Queensland.

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Attention

Dozens of dolphins have washed up on Japan's beaches - No one knows why


VICE
Tue, 04 Apr 2023 12:19 UTC
SURFERS AND PASSERSBY TRIED TO RETURN
SURFERS AND PASSERSBY TRIED TO RETURN THE WASHED UP DOLPHINS INTO THE OCEAN.
Eight dolphins were found washed up on beaches in the Greater Tokyo Area on Tuesday morning, according to local news reports.

The mammals, identified as melon-headed whales, looked like they were struggling to breathe, said Mibu Saito, a local official who visited the site nearby Isumi and Ichinomiya in Chiba Prefecture.

"I felt sorry for all those weak dolphins that had washed ashore and we still don't know why they were stranded there," Saito told VICE World News.

Of the eight found, four were dead, while the rest were returned to the ocean. A day earlier, 33 dolphins were also found beached just a few hundred meters away. Passersby and surfers tried to carry or roll the dolphins towards the ocean, but two died, Saito said.

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Attention

Dolphin found dead on New Jersey beach, 24th since December

Dan Alexander
nj1015.com
Mon, 03 Apr 2023 11:48 UTC
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A dolphin was found dead on the Baltimore Avenue beach in Cape May Saturday morning, the 24th dolphin to become stranded on a New Jersey beach since December.

The Marine Mammal Stranding Center said an adult female common dolphin was found Saturday and was taken by some of its team for a necropsy. Fox Philadelphia reported the dolphin was found on the Baltimore Avenue beach.

A porpoise washed up on a beach in the Ortley Beach section of Toms River on Tuesday. Necropsy results are pending from the Marine Mammal Stranding Center. Porpoises and dolphins are both species of odontocetes or toothed whales.

Porpoises have rounder faces and more triangular dorsal fins, while dolphins have more pointed beaks and dorsal fins.
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6.1-magnitude quake strikes off Indonesia's Sumatra island: USGS


Channel News Asia
Tue, 04 Apr 2023 08:37 UTC
The epicentre of the earthquake off Indonesia on Apr 3, 2023.
The epicentre of the earthquake off Indonesia on Apr 3, 2023.
A 6.1-magnitude earthquake struck off Sumatra island in western Indonesia on Monday (Apr 3), shaking homes of panicked residents but causing no casualties or damage.

The quake's epicentre was at sea southwest of Padangsidempuan city in northern Sumatra at a depth of 84 kilometres, the United States Geological Survey (USGS) reported.

It occurred around 9.59pm.

The country's meteorology and geophysics agency said there was no tsunami warning after the tremor but told residents nearest the epicentre to beware of potential aftershocks.
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Rare ELVE photographed during intense lightning storm over Italy


Space Weather
Mon, 27 Mar 2023 12:00 UTC
Elves
Elves
Taken by Valter Binotto on March 27, 2023 @ possagno, TV Italy
For a few milliseconds last Monday night, March 27th, an enormous red ring of light appeared in the sky over central Italy. Valter Binotto photographed it from the small town of Possagno in the foothills of the Italian Alps:

This is an "ELVE"--short for Emissions of Light and Very Low Frequency Perturbations due to Electromagnetic Pulse Sources. It's a rare species of sprite discovered in 1990 by cameras onboard the space shuttle. Binotto may have just taken the best ever picture of one from the ground.

"The ELVE was generated by intense lightning in a storm near Ancona about 285 km south of me," says Binotto. One bolt was so strong, it generated an intense electromagnetic pulse (EMP). The red ring marks the spot where the EMP hit Earth's ionosphere. Normal lightning bolts carry 10 to 30 kilo-ampères of current; this bolt was about 10 times stronger than normal.

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Latvia - Augšdaugava communities isolated after Daugava river floods

Richard Davies
Floodlist
Mon, 03 Apr 2023 13:53 UTC
Floods in Augšdaugava Municipality, Latvia,
© VUGDFloods in Augšdaugava Municipality, Latvia, 31 March 2023.
Local authorities in the Augšdaugava Municipality in southern Latvia have requested a state of emergency due to severe flooding along the Daugava River and tributaries since late March 2023. Flooding has also affected several regions in neighbouring Belarus.

At least 8 roads in Augšdaugava Municipality, Latvia, are underwater, leaving communities isolated and children unable to attend school. Images from Latvia's State Fire and Rescue Service (Valsts ugunsdzēsības un glābšanas dienests - VUGD) showed dozens of buildings in residential areas have been flooded.

The Augšdaugava municipality has asked the national government to declare a state of emergency. Some evacuations were reported but exact details and numbers had not yet been released by the local authorities, as of 03 April.

Recent rainfall and melting snow in southern parts of the country and the bordering country of Belarus caused rivers in the Daugava basin to rise from late March.

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Democratic Republic of the Congo - 20 killed in North Kivu landslide

Richard Davies
Floodlist
Mon, 03 Apr 2023 13:39 UTC
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At least 20 people died after a landslide struck in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) on 02 April 2023.

The disaster occurred in the village of Bulwa in the Masisi territory of the North Kivu Province. News media in the country, quoting local officials and observers, said provisional figures show at least 19 people were killed and that the search for other victims was to continue.

The Provincial deputy of North Kivu, Alexis Bahunga, gave an update on the situation in a statement of early 03 April 2023. The Deputy said:

"More than 20 people have died in a landslide this Sunday 02.03.2023 in Bulwa, Gpt Buabo, in Masisi Territory; I offer my condolences to the population of Buabo and ask the Govt to assist these victim families by organizing a dignified funeral."

Heavy rain has also affected South Kivu Provine in recent days and road traffic linking the city of Uvira to Bukavu was suspended.

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