Global Hazards Weekly Bulletin – 4th - 10th January 2025

4^th - 10^th January 2025

 

Regional Hazards

China and Nepal

China, Nepal - Earthquake, update (GDACS, USGS, media) (ECHO Daily Flash of 08 January 2025) - China | ReliefWeb

Deadly earthquake hits Tibet’s Shigatse: What we know so far | Earthquakes News | Al Jazeera

At least 126 killed as powerful earthquake hits Tibet | Earthquakes News | Al Jazeera

 

UK and Ireland

UK issues fresh Amber warning for snow, 2 fatalities reported - The Watchers

UK weather latest: Flooding hits road and rail travel, with hundreds of schools closed - BBC News

Ireland: Cold snap leaves thousands without power and water - BBC News

 

Country Hazards

Afghanistan

Afghanistan: Acute Food Insecurity Situation for September - October 2024 and Projection for November 2024 - March 2025 | IPC - Integrated Food Security Phase Classification

 

Australia

Light aircraft crashes at tourist hotspot in Australia, killing 3 | Aviation News | Al Jazeera

 

Bolivia

Bolivia - Severe weather (media, Floodlist, SENAMHI) ECHO Daily Flash 10 January 2025

 

China

Powerful M7.1 earthquake hits western Xizang, leaving over 120 fatalities, China - The Watchers

Fire at market in northern China kills at least eight people and injures 15 | News | Al Jazeera

Increase in respiratory infections in China

China reports mpox clade 1b cluster | CIDRAP

 

Democratic Republic of the Congo

Democratic Republic of the Congo - Floods (METTELSAT, NOAA, media) (ECHO Daily Flash of 08 January 2025) - Democratic Republic of the Congo | ReliefWeb

 

Ethiopia

Ethiopia - Seismic and volcanic activity, update (DG ECHO, UN OCHA, PLAN INTERNATIONAL) ECHO Daily Flash 10 January 2025

 

France

France - Severe weather (COGIC, CatNat, MeteoFrance, media) ECHO Daily Flash 10 January 2025

2 people have died and 20 injured in snow and ice storm in northern France | AP News

France reports its first clade 1b mpox case | CIDRAP

 

Ghana

One Dead, 14 Injured, 30,000 Traders Displaced In Kantamanto Market Tragedy - DailyGuide Network

 

Haiti

Haiti - Food insecurity, torrential rains destroy up to 80% of crops (DG ECHO, FAO, FewsNet) (ECHO Daily Flash of 6 January 2025) - Haiti | ReliefWeb

 

India

Three feared dead in northeast India mine accident | News | Al Jazeera

Tirupati stampede: India temple apologises after six killed in crush - BBC News

 

Japan

Fishing boat capsizes off eastern Japan, leaving 2 dead, 3 missing | NHK WORLD-JAPAN News

 

Libya

Twenty missing after falling from boat in rough seas off Libya’s coast | Libya | The Guardian

 

Mozambique

Mozambique - Post election violence (DG ECHO, UNHCR, media) ECHO Daily Flash 10 January 2025

 

Nepal

Tibet earthquake: Thirteen injured in Nepal - Nepal News

 

Pakistan

Gas explosion traps 12 workers after coal mine collapses in southwest Pakistan | AP News

 

Sudan

Sudan - Famine and 2025 Humanitarian Needs and Response Plan (HNRP) (DG ECHO, DG ECHO Partners, UN OCHA, IPC) (ECHO Daily Flash of 6 January 2025) - Sudan | ReliefWeb

• FAO calls for urgent action to address widening famine in Sudan
• Sudan: Acute Food Insecurity Situation - Updated Projections and FRC conclusions for October 2024 to May 2025 | IPC - Integrated Food Security Phase Classification

 

Tunisia

At least 27 people killed, dozens rescued after two shipwrecks off Tunisia | Migration News | Al Jazeera

 

USA

LA fires latest updates: LA fire chief warns of further destruction from high winds as 10 confirmed dead - BBC News

• USA - Wildfires, update (FEMA, media, JRC GWIS) ECHO Daily Flash 10 January 2025
• LA fires: What's happening in Los Angeles, and what caused the wildfires? - BBC News
• Fires Tear Through Los Angeles
• Los Angeles fires burn 10,000 structures as new blaze spreads | News | Al Jazeera

US reports first death linked to bird flu in Louisiana | Health News | Al Jazeera

• First H5 Bird Flu Death Reported in United States | CDC Newsroom
• Avian flu risk still ‘low’ after first US patient dies from H5N1 virus: WHO | UN News

USA - Severe weather (FEMA, NOAA WPC, media) ECHO Daily Flash 07 January 2025

• At least 6 dead, more than 300 000 without power as major winter storm sweeps through U.S. - The Watchers
• Winter storm: Five dead as snow wreaks havoc across US - BBC News
• Watch: Snow blankets parts of US as cold snap takes hold - BBC News
• Cold and Snow Wallop the U.S. - NASA

Two bodies found in wheel well of JetBlue plane upon landing in Florida | Florida | The Guardian

 

Yemen

WHO EMRO | Yemen reports the highest burden of cholera globally | News | Media centre

 

Other items of interest

WHO National workforce capacity for essential public health functions Operational handbook for country-led contextualization and implementation

Climate change is showing its claws: The world is getting hotter, resulting in severe hurricanes, thunderstorms and floods [EN/DE] - World | ReliefWeb

HMPV, RSV, H5N1: Why the world is under attack from respiratory viruses

• Trends of acute respiratory infection, including human metapneumovirus, in the Northern Hemisphere

The Sudan Crisis: How Over a Year of Violence and Humanitarian Access Restrictions Have Produced Famine Conditions, January 2025 - Sudan | ReliefWeb

• A Year in Review: Displacement in Sudan (2024) | IOM Displacement Tracking Matrix
• ACAPS Briefing note - Sudan: Cholera situation, 02 January 2025 - Sudan | ReliefWeb

Flash Appeal: Lebanon, Covering the period January-March 2025 (January 2025) [EN/AR] | OCHA

Focus on saving lives, urges UNHCR as more Rohingya flee by sea | UNHCR Asia Pacific

Evidence of Influenza A(H5N1) Spillover Infections in Horses, Mongolia - Volume 31, Number 1—January 2025 - Emerging Infectious Diseases journal - CDC

River Salinisation: An invisible threat lurking in the water is slowly destroying these women’s lives

Ghana's Kantamanto fire: Clothing market devastated by blaze - BBC News

500-kilogram metallic object falls from the sky in Kenya | Space | Al Jazeera

 

Recent papers of note

• Nazarenko Y, Pal D, Dwivedi S, Ariya PA. Air quality standards and WHO's guidance on particulate matter measuring 2.5 μm (PM2.5). Bull World Health Organ. 2025 Jan 1;103(1):71–2. doi: 10.2471/BLT.23.290522. Epub 2024 Dec 3. PMCID: PMC11704637.
• Weiwei Wang et al. Canadian forests are more conducive to high-severity fires in recent decades. Science 387,91-97 (2025).DOI:1126/science.ado1006
• Wei Z, Shang Y, Liang Q, Xia X (2024) A coupled hydrological and hydrodynamic modeling approach for estimating rainfall thresholds of debris-flow occurrence. Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences, 24(10): 3357–3379.
• Orr, W., & Crawford, K. (2024). Building Better Datasets: Seven Recommendations for Responsible Design from Dataset CreatorArXiv, abs/2409.00252.
• Quaglia, I. and Visioni, D. (2024). Modeling 2020 regulatory changes in international shipping emissions helps explain anomalous 2023 warming. Earth System Dynamics, [online] 15(6), pp.1527–1541. doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/esd-15-1527-2024.
• Jesus GS, Pinto PFPS, Silva AF et al. Effects of conditional cash transfers on tuberculosis incidence and mortality according to race, ethnicity and socioeconomic factors in the 100 Million Brazilians cohort. Nat Med. 1038/s41591-024-03381-0