Global Hazards Weekly Bulletin – 18th - 24th January 2025

18^th - 24^th January 2025

 

Regional Hazards

Ireland, United Kingdom

Ireland, United Kingdom - Storm Eowyn (GOV IE , MET OFFICE, ECMWF, GOV UK, media) 24 January 2025 Daily Flash

Storm Éowyn live: Danger to life warnings as 'once in a generation' storm batters UK and Ireland - BBC News

 

Country Hazards

Angola

Angola: Cholera Flash Update 1 - Reporting period: 13-19 January 2025 - Angola | ReliefWeb

 

Brazil

Brazil - Floods and landslides (media, INMET) (ECHO Daily Flash of 20 January 2025) - Brazil | ReliefWeb

 

Bolivia

WHO Disease Outbreak News_Chapare haemorrhagic fever- the Plurinational State of Bolivia

 

Chile

Chile - Wildfire (WHO PAHO, SENAPRED, JRC GWIS, media) (ECHO Daily Flash of 23 January 2025) - Chile | ReliefWeb

 

Colombia

Eruption at Purace volcano sends ash to 5.8 km (19 000 feet) a.s.l., ashfall reported in Coconuco and Purace, Colombia - The Watchers

Colombia - Armed conflict and humanitarian impacts (DG ECHO Partners, UN OCHA) 24 January 2025 Daily Flash

• Colombia - Armed conflict and humanitarian impacts (DG ECHO Partners, UN OCHA)(ECHO Daily Flash of 21 January 2025) - Colombia | ReliefWeb

 

Côte d’Ivoire

At least 17 dead in bus-truck collision in Ivory Coast | AP News

 

Czech Republic

 

Six dead in a restaurant explosion in the Czech city of Most | CTIF - International Association of Fire Services for Safer Citizens through Skilled Firefighters

 

Democratic Republic of the Congo

Democratic Republic of the Congo - Conflict intensification and M23 advances in the North of South Kivu (DG ECHO, UN OCHA) (ECHO Daily Flash of 22 January 2025) - Democratic Republic of the Congo | ReliefWeb

 

Ecuador

Ecuador - Severe weather (SGR Ecuador, NOAA-CPC) (ECHO Daily Flash of 23 January 2025) - Ecuador | ReliefWeb

 

India

At least 12 rail passengers killed in western India after jumping onto tracks over train fire alert | AP News

Rajouri, Jammu: India officials investigate cause of 'mysterious' deaths - BBC News

 

Indonesia

Death toll in deadly flooding and landslides in Indonesia rises to 21 | AP News

Indonesia - Landslides and floods, update (BNPB, BMKG) (ECHO Daily Flash of 21 January 2025) - Indonesia | ReliefWeb

 

Italy

Gas leak in Italy destroyed three story building and injured 14 | CTIF - International Association of Fire Services for Safer Citizens through Skilled Firefighters

 

Lebanon

Food insecurity deepens in Lebanon following conflict, new report shows | World Food Programme

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

 

Mozambique

Mozambique - Tropical cyclone DIKELEDI, update (GDACS, IOM DTM, UN OCHA, NOAA Southern Africa) (ECHO Daily Flash of 20 January 2025) - Mozambique | ReliefWeb

56 000 homes destroyed or damaged by Tropical Cyclone Dikeledi in Mozambique - The Watchers

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

 

Nigeria

Nigerian gasoline tanker explosion death toll rises to 86, with 55 others injured | AP News

 

Poland

One miner dies and 15 others injured after methane fire at a coal mine in Poland | AP News

 

Portugal

Portugal - Severe weather and floods (ANEPC, IPMA, media, Floodlist) 24 January 2025  Daily Flash

 

Serbia

8 people die in a fire at a home for the elderly in Serbia, officials say | AP News

 

Slovenia

Coal mine accident in Slovenia kills at least 1 miner, leaves 2 missing | AP News

 

Spain

Spain: Two women remain in intensive care after ski lift collapse - BBC News

 

Sri Lanka

Sri Lanka - Severe weather and floods, update (DMC Sri Lanka, IFRC, Floodlist, Meteo Sri Lanka) 24 January 2025 Daily Flash

 

Switzerland

Switzerland - Snow avalanches (Meteo Swiss, media) 22 January 2025 Daily Flash

 

Syria

Syrians returning home face deadly threat of landmines - BBC News

Syria - Escalation of hostilities in Northeast Syria (DG ECHO Partners, NES Forum, local media reports) (ECHO Daily Flash of 20 January 2025) - Syrian Arab Republic | ReliefWeb

 

Taiwan

M6.4 earthquake strikes southern Taiwan, 44 injured

At least 27 injured after M6.4 earthquake hits Taiwan, equivalent to ‘two atomic bombs’ - The Watchers

 

Tanzania

Tanzania confirms outbreak of Marburg virus disease | WHO | Regional Office for Africa

 

Turkey

Witnesses describe chaos and panic at Turkish ski resort as fire ripped through hotel where 79 died | AP News

Turkey fire: Scores killed as hotel engulfed by flames in ski resort of Bolu - BBC News

 

USA

USA - Severe weather, update (NOAA, media) 24 January 2025 Daily Flash

• Historic winter storm claims 10 lives across U.S. Gulf Coast, shatters snowfall records - The Watchers
• Southern States Frozen Over NASA

Yet another LA wildfire prompts new mandatory evacuations near Santa Clarita | CTIF - International Association of Fire Services for Safer Citizens through Skilled Firefighters

• Rapidly spreading Hughes Fire puts 54 000 under evacuation orders or warnings as investigators probe possible human cause, California - The Watchers
• Unhealthy Skies over Los Angeles County NASA
• Watch: New LA wildfire engulfs sky with plumes of smoke - BBC News
• SoCal Wildfires: Brush fire prompts new evacuations of 1000 people in San Diego's Mission Valley | CTIF - International Association of Fire Services for Safer Citizens through Skilled Firefighters

A family of 4 die in fire at an apartment in the Kansas City suburb of Independence | AP News

 

Other items of interest

Global Risks Report 2025 | World Economic Forum

• Insuring extreme heat: navigating risks in a warming world | World Economic Forum
• Climate emergency: 2025 declared international year of glaciers | UN News

World Economic Situation and Prospects 2025 | Department of Economic and Social Affairs

World Population Prospects 2024 UNDESA

• United Nations (2024). World Population Prospects 2024: Summary of Results. UN DESA/POP/2024/TR/NO. 9. New York: United Nations.

Framework for health in the humanitarian-development-peace nexus in Africa WHO

Towards a just and circular shipbreaking industry in South Asia | circular economy earth | Chatham House

Harnessing Development Financing for Solutions to Displacement in the context of disasters and climate change in Asia and the Pacific | IDMC - Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre

Solar radiation modification – Scientific Advice Mechanism

ESA - Mitigating space debris generation

• SpaceX Starship debris littered islands, Turks and Caicos officials say
• Starship’s seventh test flight fails after mid-flight fire causes spectacular explosion - The Watchers
• Home security camera captures first-ever sound of meteorite impact, Canada - The Watchers
• Small meteorite hits a car near Birmingham, UK - The Watchers

Guterres voices alarm over M23 rebel offensive in DR Congo, ‘devastating toll’ on civilians | UN News

The climate science behind the California wildfires – Red Cross Red Crescent Climate Centre

• Why are lone homes left standing after the fires? It's not entirely luck | AP News

Argentina - Wildfire (GWIS, IFRC, media) (ECHO Daily Flash of 21 January 2025) - Argentina | ReliefWeb

Half of Australia under heatwave warning as slow-moving cyclone lingers off WA - ABC News

Georgia certified malaria-free by WHO

Strong tornado hits Senganan village, Indonesia - The Watchers

Pakistan - Tribal conflicts in Kurram district in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province (DG ECHO, UN OCHA, Local Media) 23 January 2025 Daily Flash

Russia suffering 'environmental catastrophe' after oil spill in Kerch Strait - BBC News

South Sudan - Displacements from Sudan (DG ECHO, IOM, UNHCR) (ECHO Daily Flash of 22 January 2025) - South Sudan | ReliefWeb

National Risk Register 2025 - GOV.UK

Drone footage shows fire at one of world's largest battery plants - BBC News

 

Recent Papers of Note

• Cabral-Ramírez, M., Niño-Barrero, Y. & DiBella, J. Lessons from the Implementation of the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction from Latin America and the Caribbean.Int J Disaster Risk Sci (2025). https://doi.org/10.1007/s13753-025-00613-w
• European Commission: Directorate-General for Research and Innovation and Group of Chief Scientific Advisors, One Health Governance in the European Union, Publications Office of the European Union, 2024,https://data.europa.eu/doi/10.2777/8697309
• Guillot, Michel et al. Life expectancy losses in the Gaza Strip during the period October, 2023, to September, 2024 - The Lancet, The Lancet (2025)