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SKY IN AUSSIE TURNS RED
Sydneysiders have woken to a red haze unlike anything seen before by residents or weather experts, as the sun struggles to pierce a thick blanket of dust cloaking the city this morning.
TROPICAL STORM KILLS 50 IN PHILIPPINES
(CNN) -- Torrential rains and subsequent flooding from Tropical Storm Ketsana have claimed at least 50 lives in the Philippines, a government official said Sunday. A state of calamity has been declared in the Philippines following the passage of tropical storm Ketsana, which ripped through Luzon on Saturday causing the worst flooding in living memory. As the storm hit, it was packing winds of around 100kph.
SECOND DUST STORM HITS AUSSIE
CANBERRA, Sept. 26 (Xinhua) -- A second dust storm in a week originating from South Australia has progressed to northern New South Wales on Saturday.
6 VOLCANOES SIMULTANEOUSLY ERUPT IN RUSSIA
Six volcanoes are currently erupting in Kamchatka, a remote region in Eastern Russia. Experts say that volcanic and earthquake activity is increasing worldwide.
NICARAGUA SAN CRISTOBAL VOLCANO ERUPTION UNDERWAY
A second advisory from the center, around 7.20 p.m. EDT, confirmed an eruption was underway and said an explosion was recorded at 8.15 p.m. GMT (3.15 p.m. EDT).
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8.3 EARTHQUAKE IN SAMOA ISLANDS CAUSES TSUNAMI
Waves "as high as coconut trees" The death toll from the Samoan earthquake and tsunami is growing fast with the devastation at its worse on the southeast coast of the Western Samoan island Upolu.
7.9 EARTHQUAKES ROCKS INDONESIA
The quake, which hit Wednesday evening just off Padang with a magnitude of 7.6, has killed at least 464 people, according to a statement from the social affairs ministry. The death toll was almost certain to rise further, officials said, as rescuers dug into collapsed homes, hospitals, offices and a school.
Death TOLL MOUNTS AS SECOND EARTHQUAKES STRIKES INDONESIA
JAKARTA, Indonesia, Oct. 1 -- A major earthquake that killed hundreds and possibly thousands of people on the Indonesian island of Sumatra follows an unusual period of seismic turmoil that scientists say likely heralds a catastrophic quake on a scale not seen in the area for more than 150 years. A 7.6 magnitude quake Wednesday leveled hundreds of buildings -- including a school, a hospital and a shopping mall -- in Padang, a boisterous port city of 900,000 people on the west coast of Sumatra. It also shook Singapore and Malaysia's capital, Kuala Lumpur. A second, less severe quake hit another part of Sumatra Thursday. Officials said at least 770 people died in the quake in and around Padang, but they predicted that the death toll would probably rise. They said many residents remain trapped in the rubble.
VIETNAME TYPHOON KETSNA KILLS 162
The death toll from Typhoon Ketsana in Vietnam jumped to 162 on Sunday with hundreds more injured, an official said, adding urgency to a Red Cross appeal launched to help more than 200,000 storm victims.
TYPHOON PARMA KILLS AT LEAST 15 IN THE PHILIPPINES
Large parts of the northern Philippines were flooded and without power on Sunday after Typhoon Parma killed at least 15 people, as authorities warned of another storm looming to the east. Exactly one week after storm Ketsana dumped the heaviest rains in more than 40 years that devastated Manila, killing nearly 300 people, Parma ripped through the north of the Philippines' main Luzon island on Saturday.
ITALY FLOODED BY RAIN CAUSES MUDSLIDE DEATH TOLL LIKE TO RISE TO 5O
The number of people killed in mudslides caused by heavy rains in southern Italy will rise to 50, Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi has warned.
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