The National Transportation Safety Board has tweeted more pictures from the crash of Asiana Airlines flight 214. The airplane crash landed on the runway of the San Francisco International Airport on Saturday 6 July 2013.
China’s Sichuan province has been hit with days of torrential rainfall causing deadly floods and landslides in the province. Some 220,000 people have been relocated, with 31 dead and 166 missing thus far.
What with it being storm season in Oklahoma, storm chasers are dotted around the area hoping to nab footage of monster twisters. Here’s a video of one storm chasing team who got way, way too close.
These Google images show Moore captured on 29 April 2013, before the tornado struck, and 22 May 2013, two days after the deadly tornado moved through the suburb.
Take a look at this crazy footage of flying debris and horror – incredible visuals you have never seen before.
Barbara Garcia was sitting on a stool in her bathroom, holding her dog when 350 kilometre per hour winds ripped her house down. During an interview with a local news agency following the disaster, a camera crew member noticed movement in the rubble behind Barbara.
This is devastating footage as a tornado flattens schools, homes and hospitals. The tornado swept through the town of Moore, a suburb outside of Oklahoma City. The worst affected suburb by far.
In a startling story of survival, a woman has been pulled alive from the rubble of a factory collapse in Bangladesh which claimed the lives of over 1,000 people. The survivor, Reshma Begum clung to life by eating biscuits scrounged from the backpacks of her dead colleagues who lay nearby.
On Sunday the crowd at Cuatro Vientos airfield were left flabbergasted when a jet blew up after it crashed into a hanger. The estimated 3,000 people who attended the air show in Madrid were evacuated from the grounds when this aerial acrobatics came to an abrupt halt.
Since man first penetrated Earth’s atmosphere, a slew of garbage has been piling up in Near Space. The majority of the junk up there is from space shuttles. Heiner Klinkrad, a European Space Agency (ESA) space expert estimates there to be about 27,000 objects in orbit, travelling 80 times faster than a passenger jet, and that number grows, daily.
Nami is a ghost town. Having played host to a nuclear power plant, the town became the icon of suffering in the wake of the 2011 Japanese Tsunami, which destroyed much of Japan’s North Eastern coastline. Shortly thereafter, the nuclear power plant melted down, having sustained critical damage in the wave. Google Street View has […]
A Florida man, Jeffrey Bush, disappeared into a six metre deep sinkhole, which swallowed his bedroom over the weekend. Bush has been presumed dead after rescuers were unable to make contact with the man. And the search has been postponed until rescuers are able to evaluate the situation of the ground under Bush’s house. The house is […]
An earthquake with a powerful 8.0 magnitude occurred in the Santa Cruz Islands this morning, causing a tsunami to form with its waves crashing into the Solomon Islands, which are close to Australia. Last week, seven other earthquakes with magnitudes ranging from 6.0-6.5 occurred in the same region. So far five people have died and […]
Three elephants were unloaded on to interstate 70 yesterday, after the vehicle that was transporting them slid off the road. Due to the elephants weighty stature, they had to be unloaded before the truck could be pulled back onto the road. None of the elephants were harmed. Still, none of them are going to forget this. […]
Reports have broken that a helicopter has crashed in Vauxhall, south London after striking a construction crane in the area. Vauxhall Bridge has been closed, and two vehicles are reportedly involved in the crash. Check out the latest tweets and twitpics from Londoners on the scene. Helicopter just hit a crane and crashed a few […]
Australian fire services have issued what they’ve called “catastrophic” warnings in parts of that country as temperatures are expected to breach 45C in the days to come.
Transocean, the owner of the drilling rig that sank after an explosion that killed 11 workers and led to the massive 2010 oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, has agreed to pay $1,4 billion in various penalties.
With the apocalypse almost upon us, now might be a good time to take a look at the kind of bunker you should probably have invested in. This shelter (pictured above) was designed and built by L.A.-based company, Atlas Survival Shelters. Apart from their Mayan apocalypse facilities, they also provide decked out living quarters in the event of an “errant asteroid, nuclear holocaust, or walking dead”.
Haven’t you heard? We’re standing on the precipice of eternal doom. Yes, on 21 December our jig is up. And here are the top five ways doomsayers say we’ll meet our maker. 1) Earth will collide with a rogue planet. There are a bunch of those things crusing around. 2) An “alignment of planets” will cause […]
(File Photo: March 2011 Tsunami) Japan’s northeast coast has been struck by a 7,3 magnitude undersea earthquake, and reports are that a one metre high wave has now swept ashore. The same stretch of coastline was devastated by a tsunami in March 2011. Thousands of people perished in the wave. Japan’s national broadcaster, NHK, repeatedly […]
The South African Maritime Safety Authority (Samsa) today released the findings of its investigation into the Miroshga Hout Bay boat accident. In it, they found that an incorrectly wired pump led to the blue and white catamaran taking on too much water, and eventually capsizing.
This morning, we reported on a very tragic accident that happened over the weekend in Hout Bay. A charter boat (The Maroshga) – carrying 39 people – capsised near Duiker Island around 15h00 on Saturday.
In a game of one-upmanship with itself, nature was apparently unsatisfied with the destructive force of an ordinary tornado so it decided to up the ante and add some fire, the result: a “fire devil”.
Yesterday afternoon, Guatemala’s Volcán de Fuego (Volcano of Fire), an active volcano near Antigua, Guatemala unexpectedly began erupting, causing panic and the forced evacuation of over 33 000 people. The eruption caused volcanic ash to fall more than half a kilometre down the mountain.
City of Cape Town disaster response teams are again today battling fierce conditions in efforts to clean up oil from the Seli 1 wreck at Bloubergstrand. The operation is set to cost at least R40 million.
A new study based on lessons learned from last year’s Great East Japan Earthquake indicates that if another major earthquake strikes Japan it could be one of the most fatal earthquakes in history.
Holy rocks and ash! Mount Tongariro, located in the central North Island of New Zealand, has erupted after lying dormant for 115 years. The eruption brings with it a massive cloud of ash, 115 years worth, reminding us all of the chaos of Eyjafjallajökull. Luckily it’s not so serious this time around.
A major rescue operation on Sunday saw 41 people trapped on the Butha Buthe Pass en route to Afri-Ski and the Oxbow Lodge, in Lesotho, brought to safety. Check out video footage inside.
Rescue workers at the scene of a horrific accident involving a train and a truck in Mpumalanga are having a hard time determining the extent of the damages. Officials say that identifying bodies is proving difficult as many have been torn up by the impact, with some being thrown as far as 200m.
Heavy rains and winds lashed Cape Town and its surrounds over the weekend, causing widespread damage and havoc for residents. As of this morning, disaster response teams had assisted 2 566 people in the flood-stricken areas with social relief.