Nigeria annual flood outlook 2024
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Natural Disasters
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Storm lashes Narsingdi villages: One killed, 50 hurt
A hailstorm swept through eight villages of Monohardi upazila of the district on Monday night, leaving a man dead and 50 others injured.
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Strong earthquake rattles northwest China
China's northwestern region of Xinjiang was hit by a major earthquake and several strong aftershocks early Friday, the country's official media and earthquake monitoring centers reported.
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Rs 112 cr for tsunami rehab in Nagercoil
More than three years after the devastating tsunami hit the Tamil Nadu coast, rehabilitation measures are still underway.
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Downpour wreaks havoc
Heavy rains are wreaking havoc in north Telangana districts with standing crops getting damaged resulting in huge losses to the farmers.
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Natural disasters hamper socio - economic growth
Ninety per cent of natural disasters are weather, climate and water related, Meteorology Department Director G. B. Samarasinghe said.
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Severe cyclonic storm hits Badarpur
A severe cyclonic storm hit Badarpur at midnight on Friday. The storm damaged a large numbers of houses, trees, electric posts, telephone wires etc in the town and adjacent villages.
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Heavy rain claims six lives in A.P.
Widespread heavy rain, caused by an upper air cyclonic trough, lashed the State for the second day on Sunday, claiming six lives and extensively damaging standing crops in several districts.
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Eight killed, crops damaged in rain across the State
Several parts of Karnataka have been receiving unseasonable rain damaging a variety of summer crops and forcing people to remain indoors in urban areas.
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Rain claims more lives, crops in Kerala
The heavy rain over the past one week and more has claimed more lives and caused further crop loss across the State.
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La Nina and positive SO cause for unusual rain?
The unusually-heavy rains over Tamil Nadu and other parts of southern peninsula may have been caused by La Nina and the positive phase of southern oscillation (SO), global scale circulation features.