Global Hazards Weekly Bulletin – 26th October – 1st November 2024

UK Health Security Agency sent this bulletin at 01-11-2024 03:24 PM GMT

GHWB UKHSA

26th October – 1st November 2024

 

Regional Hazards

Taiwan and Philippines

Typhoon Kong-rey hits Taiwan - BBC News

Typhoon Kong-rey hits Taiwan's east coast, leaving 2 dead, hundreds injured | AP News

 

Philippines, Vietnam and China

Tropical Storm Trami - Oct 2024 | ReliefWeb

Philippines: Tropical Cyclone Trami/Kristine - Flash Update No.2, As of 28 October 2024, 5pm local time - Philippines | ReliefWeb

Viet Nam, China - Tropical Cyclone TRAMI, update (NOAA-CPC, ADINet, media) (ECHO Daily Flash of 31 October 2024) - Viet Nam | ReliefWeb

 

Country Hazards

Argentina

Argentina hotel collapse kills one, say reports - BBC News

 

Brazil

Brazil, Uruguay - Severe weather (INMET, WHO PAHO, Reliefweb, media) (ECHO Daily Flash of 29 October 2024) - Brazil | ReliefWeb

 

Ethiopia

WHO Disease Outbreak News - Malaria - Ethiopia

 

India

India - Tropical cyclone DANA, update (GDACS, NDMIndia, IMD, media) (ECHO Daily Flash of 28 October 2024) - India | ReliefWeb

Delhi: Worry over toxic air as pollution worsens - BBC News

 

Indonesia

Indonesia - Severe weather (ADINet, BMKG, NOAA-CPC) (ECHO Daily Flash of 31 October 2024) - Indonesia | ReliefWeb

 

Italy

Italy - Floods and landslides (Italian Civil Protection, Meteo AM, media)(ECHO Daily Flash of 28 October 2024)

 

Malaysia

Japanese tourist killed, 12 hurt in Malaysia bus accident | NHK WORLD-JAPAN News

 

Mexico

Bus crash in central Mexico kills 19 people | CNN

Mexico - Flood (Copernicus EMSR, CONAGUA Mexico, media) (ECHO Daily Flash of 31 October 2024) - Mexico | ReliefWeb

12 dead and 1 injured in explosion at steel plant in central Mexico | AP News

 

Nigeria

Building collapse in Nigeria's capital leaves at least 7 dead | AP News

 

Pakistan

Pakistan - Severe Weather (PMD, PDMA) (ECHO Daily Flash of 30 October 2024) - Pakistan | ReliefWeb

 

Spain

Spain Valencia floods latest: More than 200 killed in Valencia floods as torrential rain hits another Spain region - BBC News

Death toll from Spanish floods climbs to 205 as shock turns to anger and frustration | AP News

Valencia Floods (NASA)

 

Sri Lanka

A bus carrying students skids off a road in Sri Lanka, killing 2 and injuring 39 others | AP News

 

Philippines

More than 150 dead or missing from flooding, landslides in the Philippines : NPR

WFP Philippines - Severe Tropical Storm Kristine (Trami) Situation Report #1 - 1 November 2024 - Philippines | ReliefWeb

A powerful typhoon nears the Philippines, with many shelters still crammed after a recent storm | AP News

 

Serbia

Eight dead in Serbia railway station canopy collapse - BBC News

 

South Sudan

South Sudan declares cholera outbreak in Renk, Upper Nile State | WHO | Regional Office for Africa

 

Taiwan

Kong-rey makes landfall in Taiwan as strongest typhoon since 1996 and first ever after mid-October - The Watchers

 

UK

BAE Systems: Two in hospital after fire at Barrow's nuclear submarine shipyard - BBC News

 

USA

United States - Wildfires (FEMA, JRC GWIS, media) (ECHO Flash of 30 October 2024)

 

Vietnam

Over 28 000 homes flooded, 58 villages issolated as Tropical Storm “Trami” claims 3 lives in Vietnam - The Watchers

 

Zambia

Zambia bus crash: Seven Chavuma Town Council FC players killed in accident - BBC Sport

8 miners are dead and 1 is missing after a mine collapse in Zambia | AP News

 

Other items of interest

New UN Climate Change Report Shows National Climate Plans 'Fall Miles Short of What's Needed' | UNFCCC

COP29 Presidency Shares Operational Update on Preparations for COP29 UN Climate Change Conference

Effective emergency preparedness for flooding and drought: A guide for cities - World | ReliefWeb

WHO and partners activate Global Health Emergency Corps for the first time in response to mpox outbreak

Scaling Up Early Action Beyond 2025: A Call for Sustained Commitment and Collective Action | REAP

WHO and partners activate Global Health Emergency Corps for the first time in response to mpox outbreak

Harvard Humanitarian Initiative Impact Report 2023

Three times more land in drought than in 1980s, study finds - BBC News

Displacement in Sudan Crosses 11 Million as Devastating Crisis Reaches New Heights: IOM Chief  | International Organization for Migration

Bovine H5N1 influenza from infected worker transmissible and lethal in animal models | National Institutes of Health (NIH)

Cambodia launches national measles-rubella vaccination campaign to protect over 1.5 million children - Cambodia | ReliefWeb

Massive column of smoke as fire engulfs Brazil shopping centre - BBC News

Japan's Mount Fuji remains snowless later in year than ever recorded - BBC News

Mining giants sign $30bn settlement for Brazil 2015 dam collapse - BBC News

 

Recent papers of note