Showing posts with label south Korea. Show all posts
Showing posts with label south Korea. Show all posts

Tuesday, 17 November 2015

Disease

Acute respiratory syndrome – Republic of Korea

On 29 October 2015, the National IHR Focal Point of the Republic of Korea notified WHO of a cluster of cases with respiratory symptoms in Seoul. Between 19 and 29 October, 3 people who work in the same facility developed symptoms of pneumonia. From 22 to 24 October, they were admitted to hospital.

Sunday, 10 March 2013

Wildfires

Forest Fires in South Korea


Forest fire in Pohang has killed one Korean and injured 14 others. The fire destroyed about 53 houses after it entered a residential area and burned five hectares of homes.


More than 2,000 firefighters, soldiers and rescue employees are struggling to control the blaze.


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Another forest fire in Ulsan, southeast of Seoul has injured three people.

Sunday, 16 September 2012

Storms and Floods

Tropical Storm Lane forms far out in Pacific, poses no land threat.

Nadine becomes Hurricane in Atlantic, moving away from USA, may hit the Azores next week.

Powerful Typhoon Sanba has hit the Japanese island of Okinawa. 74,500 homes left without power. The powerful typhoon passing over southwestern Japan has brought transportation in the region by sea and air to a standstill. Several flights were cancelled. Typhoon Sanba was aiming squarely at South Korea today and was located approximately 485 nm south of Busan, South Korea. Sanba is expected to make landfall west of Busan.

Flooding in the province of Balochistan in Pakistan has left at least half a million people marooned, besides destroying over 2,000 houses. The flood-affected people of Balochistan are fighting yet another menace after flooding which is the unavailability of clean drinking water and the resultant waterborne diseases which are affecting women and children in particular.

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Parts of Metro Manila experienced intense and torrential rainfall early yesterday due to the southwest monsoon enhanced by typhoon “Karen” (international name “Sanba”), causing floods in some parts of the metropolis. At least nine people have been reported dead.

One person was injured and several buildings were damaged when a tornado hit a town in Zamboanga Sibugay, Philippines.

Alaska - A series of extremely powerful fronts that moved across Southeast Alaska this week brought record level amounts of rainfall for the area accompanied by high winds.

Monday, 27 August 2012

Storms and Floods

Tropical Storm Isaac grounds hundreds of flights in Miami and Fort Lauderdale, Florida, USA before moving away from Florida towards the eastern Gulf of Mexico.

Typhoon Bolaven heads for South Korea slowly after injuring 4 people in Japan but causing no major damage beyond disrupting transportation and shipping and cutting pose to 75 000 homes.

Thursday, 19 July 2012

Storms

Tropical Storm Fabio weakens and heads for California, USA. Expected to bring rain.

Tropical storm Khanun is about to make landfall in South Korea.

 

Wednesday, 27 June 2012

Drought

Both North and South Korea suffer their worst drought in over a century.