Disaster Events Websites (STATIC)
- Climate Mapping for Resilience and Adaptation (Climate-Related Disaster Events Listed in Real Time)
- Disaster Alert (pdc.org)
- UNOCHA Disaster Alerts
Volcanic Threat (Iceland, November 2023)
- Iceland volcano: Emergency declared over volcano Fagradalsfjall eruption concerns (BBC, November 12, 2023)
Tunnel Collapse (India, November 2023)
- Uttarakhand tunnel collapse: Race to save 40 trapped workers (BBC, November 12, 2023)
Storm Ciaran (United Kingdom, November 2023)
- Storm Domingos to slam western Europe on the heels of deadly Ciarán (Washington Post, November 3, 2023)
- The Daily Weather Update from FOX Weather: Deadly bomb cyclone slams Europe (Fox Weather, November 3, 2023)
- Similar to Mexico’s Hurricane Otis, Storm Ciarán Took Europe by Surprise (Inside Climate News, November 3, 2023)
- Storm Ciarán: At the scene where a ‘tornado’ struck Jersey (BBC, November 2, 2023)
Earthquake (Nepal, November 2023)
- Rescue efforts called off after Nepal quake (Channel News Asia, November 5, 2023)
- Sobbing relatives of Nepal quake victims cremate loved ones (Reuters, November 5, 2023)
- Nepal Rushes Rescue Operations After Strong Earthquake Kills at Least 157 (Time, November 4, 2023)
- Video shows aftermath of Nepal earthquake that killed dozens (NBC, November 3, 2023)
Hurricane Otis (Mexico, October 2023)
- Acapulco residents struggle to access food, medicine after Hurricane Otis (Al Jazeera, November 4, 2023)
- Hurricane Otis produced 205 mph gust, among strongest ever measured (Washington Post, November 1, 2023)
- Death toll rises in Acapulco, Mexico, after direct hit by Hurricane Otis (NBC, October 30, 2023)
- Mexican president slams critics in wake of deadly hurricane: ‘They circle like vultures’ (The Hill, October 29, 2023)
- Hurricane Otis: Mexico troops tackle looting in devastated Acapulco (BBC, October 29, 2023)
- The ferocity of Hurricane Otis stunned hurricane experts and defied forecast models. Here’s why. (CBS, October 28, 2023)
- Hurricane Otis kills at least 27 in devastating blow to Acapulco, Mexico, that tore through high-rises and inundated roads (CNN, October 27, 2023)
- Desperation after Acapulco hurricane: ‘We no longer have food or water, and no one is helping us’ (LA Times, October 27, 2023)
- Mexican officials say supplies are getting into Acapulco and people are getting out (AP, October 27, 2023)
- Before-and-afters show devastation from Category 5 Hurricane Otis in Mexico (CNN, October 27, 2023)
- Hurricane Disaster in Mexico Spurs Criticism of AMLO Response (Bloomberg, October 27, 2023)
- Trying to make sense of why Otis exploded en route to Acapulco this week (Ars Technica, October 26, 2023)
- Hurricane Otis: How a tropical storm turned into a ‘nightmare scenario’ overnight (NBC News, October 25, 2023)
Volcanic Threat (Italy, October 2023)
- Earthquakes beset Italian town as supervolcano rumbles (Reuters, October 27, 2023)
Wildfires (Australia, October 2023)
- Australian towns battle fire and flood back-to-back (BBC, October 4, 2023)
Earthquake (Afghanistan, October 2023)
- Afghan women were buried alive in earthquake because they were afraid to leave home without a hijab on and rescue workers would not break Taliban rules on ‘mixing’ with females (Daily Mail, October 31, 2023)
- Afghanistan earthquake: ‘Women were prisoners in their homes and now they’re dead’ (Sky News, October 28, 2023)
- More than 3,000 dead in Afghanistan earthquakes — 90 per cent were women and children ‘imprisoned’ in their homes (Ricochet, October 26, 2023)
- Quakes killed thousands in Afghanistan. Critics say Taliban relief efforts fall short (NPR, October 25, 2023)
- Afghanistan’s Herat province hit by third earthquake in nearly a week (Al Jazeera, October 15, 2023)
- 6.3 magnitude earthquake hits Afghanistan days after devastating weekend quakes (October 10, 2023)
- Aid groups warn devastation from Afghanistan earthquake ‘worse than we imagined’ (CNN, October 10, 2023)
- Most casualties in recent Afghan earthquakes are women, children -WHO (Reuters, October 9, 2023)
- People in quake-hit Afghanistan use shovels, bare hands to pull out victims (Al Jazeera, October 8, 2023)
- Two Powerful Earthquakes Kill at Least 2,000 in Afghanistan (Wall Street Journal, October 8, 2023)
- Afghanistan earthquake death toll rises to 2,000: Taliban officials (Al Jazeera, October 8, 2023)
Flood / Glacial Dam (India, October 2023)
- Himalayan lake flooding in India kills 18, nearly 100 missing (Reuters, October 5, 2023)
Bus Crash (Italy, October 2023)
- At least 21 dead after Italian bus carrying tourists falls from Venice overpass (Reuters, October 4, 2023)
Tropical Storm Philippe (Caribbean, October 2023)
- ‘Absolutely devastated’: TS Philippe wipes out several businesses and causes island-wide damage (Antigua Observer, October 4, 2023)
Wedding Party Fire (Iraq, September 2023)
- ‘Mourning in every street’: A Pakistani city, crushed by a suicide bomb (Al Jazeera, October 1, 2023)
- At least 113 killed, over 150 injured as fire engulfs wedding party in Iraq (Al Jazeera, September 26, 2023)
Water Scarcity (Louisiana, USA, September 2023)
- Battling salt water on the Mississippi, New Orleans region faces its next challenge (USA Today, October 8, 2023)
- Louisiana officials say efforts to combat saltwater intrusion will help delay drinking water impacts (NBC, October 5, 2023)
- U.S. Army Corps of Engineers gives update on timeline of saltwater intrusion in Louisiana (WGNO, October 5, 2023)
- Louisiana’s saltwater wedge is a slow-motion disaster (Grist, October 3, 2023)
- What happened during the 1988 saltwater intrusion in New Orleans? (NOLA.Com, October 2, 2023)
- Biden approves emergency declaration in Louisiana for saltwater intrusion that threatens New Orleans (CNN, September 27, 2023)
- New Orleans officials seek to build a freshwater pipeline as saltwater wedge inches closer (CNN, September 27, 2023)
Suicide Bombing (Pakistan, September 2023)
- Suicide bombings rip through two mosques in Pakistan, killing at least 57 (Reuters, September 29, 2023)
Flood / Dam Breach (Libya, September 2023)
- U.N. Libya envoy urges unified Derna flood response (Reuters, October 2, 2023)
- ‘Devastating disaster’: Study links climate change and horrific flood that killed thousands (USA Today, September 19, 2023)
- ‘I never thought we would survive’: Derna after the deluge (The Guardian, September 18, 2023)
- U.N. radically revises death toll numbers from Libyan floods (CNN, September 18, 2023)
- Insight: ‘They knew’ – fury of Libyans that warnings went unheeded before flood (Reuters, September 18, 2023)
- Libyan survivors protest against authorities after flood disaster in Derna (Al Jazeera, September 18, 2023)
- Libyan flood survivors weigh water shortages against landmine risk (Reuters, September 17, 2023)
- Libya flood: international aid arrives as authorities open investigation (The Guardian, September 16, 2023)
- Libya floods: The Wadi Derna ‘dam of death’ — where people will ‘never forget what happened’ (NBC News, September 16, 2023)
- ‘An unimaginable scene’: Survivors describe Libya floods (BBC, September 14, 2023)
- Natural disaster or man-made, why was Libya so vulnerable to floods? (Al Jazeera, September 14, 2023)
- Libyans call for inquiry as fury grows over death toll from catastrophic floods (The Guardian, September 14, 2023)
- ‘An alarm bell’: Libyan poet warned of flood risk in Derna before dying in storms (The Guardian, September 14, 2023)
- In Libya’s flood-shattered east, a disaster of ‘mythic proportions’ (Washington Post, September 14, 2023)
- Libyans call for inquiry as fury grows over death toll from catastrophic floods (The Guardian, September 14, 2023)
- Flooding death toll soars to 11,300 in Libya’s coastal city of Derna (Al Jazeera, September 14, 2023)
- Libya floods: search for blame for thousands of deaths (Reuters, September 13, 2023)
- Mapping Libya’s catastrophic flood damage in Derna after Storm Daniel (Al Jazeera, September 13, 2023)
- Satellite images show the scale of the devastation in Libya’s floods (NBC News, September 13, 2023)
- Libya Buries Dead in Collective Graves as Estimated Storm Toll Tops 6,000 (Wall Street Journal, September 13, 2023)
- More than 5,000 presumed dead in Libya after catastrophic flooding breaks dams and sweeps away homes (CNN, September 13, 2023)
- ‘Sea is constantly dumping bodies’: fears Libya flood death toll may hit 20,000 (The Guardian, September 13, 2023)
- Bodies wash ashore in Libya as devastated city races to count its dead after floods (ABC News, September 13, 2023)
- Libya floods: Why damage to Derna was so catastrophic (BBC, September 13, 2023)
- ‘Disastrous beyond comprehension’: 10,000 missing after Libya floods (The Guardian, September 12, 2023)
- Death toll in Libya floods nearly 3,000 after Storm Daniel (Al Jazeera, September 12, 2023)
- Up to 2,000 feared drowned after Libyan city hit by ‘catastrophic’ storm floods (The Guardian, September 11, 2023)
Flood (Hong Kong, September 2023)
- Aftermath of Super Typhoon Saola, record rainfall forces 2,300 Hongkongers to apply for emergency relief funds (South China Morning Post, September 16, 2023)
- Hong Kong Observatory urges residents to stay alert to danger of river flooding after issuing red rainstorm warning for second time in 2 days (South China Morning Post, September 15, 2023)
- Hong Kong shuts schools as it issues heavy rain warning (Reuters, September 13, 2023)
- Hong Kong, Shenzhen deluged by heaviest rain on record (Reuters, September 8, 2023)
- 2 dead in Hong Kong amid extreme rain and flash floods that also struck southern China (AP, September 8, 2023)
- Hong Kong paralyzed by flash flooding after heaviest rainfall since 1884 (CNN, September 8, 2023)
Earthquake (Morocco, September 2023)
- Earthquake survivors search for loved ones in Morocco’s Atlas Mountains (AL Jazeera, September 13, 2023)
- Hundreds buried in mass graves as Libya reels from devastating flooding (Al Jazeera, September 12, 2023)
- How rigid government, state neglect hobbled Morocco’s earthquake response (The Washington Post, September 12, 2023)
- Morocco earthquake survivors say “government didn’t come,” as hope of finding anyone else alive fades (CBS News, September 12, 2023)
- Morocco’s reluctance to accept quake aid baffles foreign governments (Washington Post, September 11, 2023)
- Earthquake-Hit Moroccans Grow Desperate as Aid Faces Hurdles (Wall Street Journal, September 11, 2023)
- Some say the sky lit up before Morocco’s earthquake. It’s a real phenomenon. (Washington Post, September 11, 2023)
- What caused the rare deadly earthquake in Morocco? (Al Jazeera, September 11, 2023)
- Earthquake-hit Moroccans grow desperate as aid faces hurdles (Wall Street Journal, September 11, 2023)
- Moroccan earthquake survivors left to fend for themselves in the Atlas Mountains (CNN, September 10, 2023)
- Morocco survivors seek aid as earthquake toll passes 2,100 (Reuters, September 10, 2023)
- Morocco earthquake kills more than 2,000 people, survivors sleep outdoors (Reuters, September 10, 2023)
- Morocco earthquake kills more than 2,000 and damages historic Marrakech (CNN, September 9, 2023)
- In pictures: Powerful earthquake kills thousands in Morocco (CNN, September 9, 2023)
- Where in Morocco did the 6.8 magnitude earthquake strike? (Al Jazeera, September 9, 2023)
Floods (Greece, September 2023)
- More than 800 rescued after extreme flooding in Greece turns villages into lakes (CNN, September 7, 2023)
- See people try to save belongings in Greece’s rushing floodwaters (CNN, September 6, 2023)
Floods (Brazil, September 2023)
Death toll from Brazilian floods rises to 31 (CNN, September 6, 2023)
Hurricane Idalia (United States, August 2023)
- In Cedar Key, Hurricane Idalia turned a ‘haven for artists’ into a flooded wreck (CNN, August 31, 2023)
- In photos: See the damage left in the hurricane’s wake (Wall Street Journal, August 31, 2023)
- The ‘Hurricane Tax’ Hitting Florida Alongside Idalia (Time, August 30, 2023): “Thanks to a broken home insurance market, a particularly bad hurricane could spread financial fallout throughout the state, leaving residents from Pensacola to Key West stuck paying repair bills for years.”
- Tropical Storm Idalia threatens flooding in North Carolina after damaging thousands of Florida homes (CNN, August 31, 2023)
- Hurricane Idalia makes landfall in Florida as a dangerous Category 3 storm (CNN, August 30, 2023)
- Hurricane Idalia to Make Landfall Tomorrow (First Street Foundation, August 29, 2023)
- Feds pre-deploy to Florida in anticipation of major hurricane (GovExec, August 29, 2023)
FEMA pre-incident HAZUS Model for Hurricane Idalia, August 29, 2023Download
Building Fire (South Africa, August 2023)
- Johannesburg’s deadly apartment fire, explained (Vox, September 3, 2023)
- Johannesburg fire: Scores killed as fire guts rundown apartment block (Reuters, August 31, 2023)
Flood (China, August 2023)
- Xi Demands Answers About Flood Deaths as Five Detained for Lying (Bloomberg, August 30, 2023)
- Heavy Rain Leaves 4 Dead, 48 Missing In China’s Sichuan (Menafn, August 30, 2023)
- Seven killed in SW China floods as Beijing triples rain death toll (AFN, August 9, 2023)
Maui Wildfires (August 2023)
- Why Maui Burned (New Yorker, November 6, 2023): “Lahaina’s wildfire was the deadliest in the U.S. in more than a century. Now the community is grappling with the botched response as it tries to rebuild.“
- ‘Our grief is still too fresh’: Lahaina residents petition to delay reopening West Maui to tourists after devastating fires (CNN, October 5, 2023)
- Some Lahaina residents returned to their burned out neighborhood while dangers still loom (CNN, September 25, 2023)
- Harrowing Eyewitness Accounts Cast Doubt On Official Lahaina Fire Narrative (Honolulu Civil Beat, September 20, 2023)
- Maui Fire Death Toll Lowered From 115 To 97 (Honolulu Civil Beat, September 15, 2023)
- Hawaii’s wildfires led to fast tracking federal identity tools for unemployment claims (NextGov, September 7, 2023)
- These Maui Tenants Didn’t Lose Their Homes In The Fire, But They’re Still Being Displaced (Honolulu Civil Beat, August 29, 2023): “Advocates say the decision by some landlords to oust renters risks leaving more people homeless in an already tight housing market.”
- Hawaii officials will study longer term health consequences of Lahaina fire disaster (NPR, August 29, 2023)
- With Lahaina 100% searched, hazardous waste removal is next; Sirens to be used for emergencies (Star Advertiser, August 29, 2023)
- LATEST: 99% of Lahaina disaster area searched as death toll stands at 115 (Hawaii News Now, August 29, 2023)
- Everybody Knew the Invasive Grass of Maui Posed a Deadly Fire Threat, but Few Acted (Wall Street Journal, August 25, 2023): “Warnings went unheeded about the abandoned plantations above Lahaina; buildup of vegetation fueled ‘catastrophic’ spread that killed at least 115 on Hawaiian island”
- ‘Heaven on Earth’ turned deadly: Fire exposes Maui’s shocking lack of preparation (Los Angeles Times, August 18, 2023)
- Why was there no water to fight the fire in Maui? (The Guardian, August 17, 2023)
- What was lost in Lahaina, a glittering jewel of the Hawaiian Kingdom (National Geographic, August 14, 2023)
- Hawaii has a robust emergency siren warning system. It sat silent during the deadly wildfires (CNN, August 13, 2023)
- Hawaii underestimated the deadly threat of wildfire, records show (CNN, August 13, 2023)
- Maui Struggles To Find Housing For Displaced People As Search For Survivors Continues (August 11, 2023)
- Health officials say cleanup of toxic materials in Lāhainā may take months (Hawaii Public Radio, August 12, 2023)
- Maui death toll hits 93, making it the deadliest wildfire in modern U.S. history (San Francisco Chronicle, August 12, 2023)
- Maui officials say it was ‘impossible’ to warn everyone as wildfires spread quickly (NPR, August 12, 2023)
- President Joseph R. Biden, Jr. Approves Hawaii Disaster Declaration (White House, August 10, 2023)
Wildfires (Canada, 2023)
- Thousands scramble to evacuate capital of Canada’s Northwest Territories as more than 200 ‘unprecedented’ wildfires blanket region (August 19, 2023)
- Why can’t Canada just put the fires out? Here are 5 answers to key questions (NPR, July 21, 2023)
- Canadian wildfire smoke puts around 70 million US residents under air quality alerts (CNN, July 17, 2023)
- Canadian Wildfire Smoke Shrouds Skies From Midwest to New York (June 6, 2023)
- Firefighters in east Canada battle ‘unprecedented’ blazes (PHYS, May 31, 2023)
Heatwaves (Worldwide, 2023)
- Just how hot was July? Hotter than anything on record (NPR, August 14, 2023)
- Ignoring red flags, South Korea went ahead with Scout jamboree anyway (Washington Post, August 9, 2023)
- July hit a crucial warming threshold that scientists have warned the world should stay under (CNN, August 8, 2023)
- Iran’s surprise ‘unprecedented heat’ shutdown raises questions (Al Jazeera, August 3, 2023)
- ‘This is just the beginning’: Extreme heat around the world as fires rage in southern Europe (CNN, July 18, 2023)
- Severe and prolonged heat wave nears peak: Live weather updates (Washington Post, July 15, 2023)
- What’s Causing This Record-Breaking Heat? (Scientific American, July 11, 2023)
Wildfires (Greece, July 2023)
- Greece Battles Its Most Widespread Wildfires on Record (New York Times, August 23, 2023)
- The lesson from the Greece wildfires? The climate crisis is coming for us all (The Guardian, July 31, 2023)
- Greece fires in maps and satellite images show extent of damage (BBC, July 27, 2023)
- Tourists flee Rhodes wildfires in Greece’s largest-ever evacuation (CNN, July 24, 2023)
Flooding (Vermont, July 2023)
Catastrophic flooding swamped Vermont’s capital as intense storms forced evacuations and closures in Northeast (CNN, July 12, 2023)
Typhoon Talim (Southeast Asia, July 2023)
Tens of thousands flee as Typhoon Talim lashes China, Vietnam (Al Jazeera, July 18, 2023)