Nocere – Earth Disasters

 

Three United States drone attacks have taken the lives of no less than 18 people at the unstable Afghan-Pakistan border according to authorities.

The first of the three attacks struck a seminary along with a compound in the South Waziristan Tribal area. A third drone struck a vehicle.

The attacks come only days following the death of al-Qaeda organizer Ilyas Kashmiri who is said to have died in the US strike in the area.

Rebels have sworn to retaliate over his death and also the death of Bin Laden just last month.

Ilyas Kashmiri...

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Out of 152 passengers on the Airbus 321, not one survived as the plane wrecked into a dense area of trees. The area is located on a hillside just over the city of Islamabad and is not easy to maneuver..

The plane had left the Karachi area.Torrential rainfall was coming down when the plane crashed. The foul weather and the rugged area has made it difficult to get in to find the missing.

At this time, 115 people who had perished had been located. Their bodies were not...

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A landslide caused by rain fall took the lives of 18 people. The landslide occurred in the eastern parts of Indonesia on the island of Buru which is located itn the Maluku province..

The landslide took out many homes as it traveled down the hill side.

Heavy rainfall and lack of trees allowed the land to start sliding down. Without trees, there is nothing to hold the mud back.

The rainfall also was the cause of floods sweeping though towns taking the lives of 3 people.

There were over 3000 families...

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The flooding that has not let up in China has caused the destruction of 5700 homes and has been the reason that there are at least 152,000 people that have  been relocated in northeastern parts of China this past week.

China has experienced some of the worst flooding this year in over a 10 years. The floods have caused the deaths of 701 people and there are another 347 that haven’t been found.

According to the China Daily, the newspaper run by the state, the flooding this year has resulted in...

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There were 18 people who perished and another 57 they are searching for as Tropical Storm Conson rages it’s fury across the Philippines.

The locals referred to Conson as Basyang.

The storm traveled through the Philippines on Wednesday. As of 4am ET it had started to grow weaker. The maximum winds were 53mph except in the center where they reached 62mph.

It was late Tuesday evening when Conson hit the shores on the north side of the Philippine island of Luzon. Luzon is located about 41 miles on the east side of...

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In the western parts of China, in three different areas, Xiaohe, Sichuan, and Sima all suffered with landslides in the predawn hours on Tuesday.

While there was activity of draining down a dangerous rapidly rising reservoir in another part of China, 17 people loss their lives in landslides.

4 people perished and another 42 missing in Xiaohe which is located in Yunnan. There were 38 others wounded.

In Sichuan, a nearby province, 7 more perished and one was still not found. While searching for a survivor, 6 others that...

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