About 115 individuals died following a tropical storm strike Guatemala, Honduras as well as El Salvador over the weekend; the officials in those countries revealed this report.

The emergency officials said that Guatemala was battered hardest, with about 92 deaths, 54 individuals are missing and about 59 were injured. Nearly 112,000 individuals have been evacuated and over 29,000 are now living in temporary shelters, stated by Guatemalan President Alvaro Colom in an address to the nation late Sunday.

The destruction has been widespread all over Guatemala with mudslides devastating houses as well as buildings and burying a couple of victims. Approximately nine rivers have severely higher levels as well as 13 bridges have collapsed, which is according to the nation’s emergency services.

In the northern portion of Guatemala City, the flood created a gigantic sinkhole that swallowed up an area bigger than the space of a street intersection. In addition, the residents told CNN that a three-story building and a house descended into the giant hole.

A local newspaper reported that a private security guard was killed when the giant sinkhole opened up; however, the authorities had not yet confirmed the death. The residents stated that a deficient sewage drainage system underground was to denounce for the gigantic sinkhole. They also revealed that a same hole opened up nearby in 2009. Classes have been suspended this week all over the nation.

In Honduras, President Porfirio Lobo has declared a state of emergency on Sunday after the death of 14 individuals.

The Honduran emergency agency said on Monday that about 3,500 individuals have been evacuated from their houses and about 3,300 are living in shelters. Over 140 houses have been destroyed as well as another 700 have been ruined, which the Permanent Commission for Emergencies reported.

The situation in El Salvador, where nine individuals died, was developing on Monday, according to the officials. The officials added that rain had stopped on Sunday afternoon and the river levels were starting to decrease. All classes nationwide remained suspended, yet, until further announcement.

More rain was probably forecast for Monday, although, and Salvadoran officials stated they were observing the situation closely.

Agatha was degraded from a tropical storm to a tropical depression Saturday night and lost its status as a depression Sunday night.

It was the first named storm for the Pacific hurricane season. The Atlantic hurricane season starts on Tuesday.

One of the most tragic and very dramatic events occurred in the entire history of South Africa was the sinking of cruise ship MTS Oceanos on August 4, 1991. Oceanos sank on the eastern coast of South Africa.

According to report, while Oceanos was at the middle of the Wild Coast of the Transkei, an explosion was heard and followed by a power outage. A leak in the engine room was discovered.  Sea water started to enter the hull and flooding the generator room. The ship’s engineer reported this incident to Captain Yiannis Avranas who announced to his crews to abandon the ship. No alarm was raised. Captain Avranas’s announcement didn’t reach to the passenger’s knowledge, which remained unaware about what’s really happening. The ship was left floating adrift.

The water continuously rose inside the ship. The passenger only realized the doom of the ship when some of them witnessed that the lower deck were filled with sea water. Also, some of the eyewitness revealed that many of the crew, including Captain Avranas, already abandoned the ship, which seems to be unconcerned with the safety of the passengers.

In spite of the horrific disaster they are facing, some individual courageously step forward to lead the passengers to their safety. Entertainers Julian Butler, Moss and Tracy Hills are the ones who assisted people and made contact to authorities who can possibly help all of them. During their courageous attempt, they still managed to record their efforts to assist the passengers with a home video recorder. The South African Navy along with the South African Air Force quickly responded to their call and launched a massive rescue mission where 16 helicopters were deployed to airlift the remaining passengers on board. In addition, nearby vessels also responded to Oceano’s SOS and were the first to provide assistance.

After the seven-hour dramatic rescue to 571 passengers, Captain Avranas was accused by the passengers of leaving them behind with no one other than the ship’s onboard entertainers to help them evacuate.

In response to this, Avranas explained that he left the ship first to arrange and supervise for a rescue effort passengers who were left behind.

Captain Avranas stated, “When I give the order abandon ship, it doesn’t matter what time I leave. Abandon is for everybody. If some people want to stay, they can stay.”

As early as 6:30 A.M. of Saturday, May 22, 2010, an Air India Express aircraft flight IX-892 from Dubai has overshot the runway while landing at the Mangalore airport. According to report, the number of casualties in Air India Crash reached 165. The reason behind the incident is due to the plane overshot the runway. The Mangalore Airport Rescue operation is on with 25 Ambulance and Police officials. Most casualties have been identified.

The flight IX-892 who was operated by a Boeing 737-800 with Russian pilot and co-pilot Ahliwalia had 165 passengers, four infants and six crew members on board. Most of the passengers on the flight were from Kerala.

Affirmed by the Mangalore Rescue authorities, six people injured were rescued from ill-fated plane.

According to reports, the Boeing 737 burst into flames after overshooting the runway on a flight. Affirmed by the Inspector General of Police in Mangalore, Gopal Hosur that eight to ten people had been taken to hospitals and were immediately treated. He also added that he is still not updated about their conditions or whether they would survive from this horrific incident.

Some witnesses stated that the plane crashed through the hilltop airport’s boundary wall and fell into a valley.

Smokes were seen from the plane and the hilly and wooded surrounding terrains were hampering rescue efforts, though about 25 ambulances were on the scene. The firefighters have reached the spot and efforts are on to rescue the survivors. It is also learnt that because of the hilly terrain, the firefighters could not reach the accident site immediately.

Initial investigations reveal that the plane landed about 2000 feet away from the touch down point on the runway. The total length of the runway at Mangalore airport is 8038 feet.

The airport is at Bajpe, which is about 30 km from Mangalore. It is situated in a hilly area and is considered one of the most difficult airports to take off and land. The area has also been experiencing heavy rains for the last two days due to Cyclone Laila.

Tornadoes hit hard Oklahoma on Monday afternoon, seriously destroying houses as well as a convenience store, and with a radio station reporting one death.
The Tulsa radio station KRMG reported a hurricane hit hard a truck stop in Midwest City, which caused the death of at least one individual. With dangerous thunderstorms producing numerous hurricanes, there were also reports of damage close the Oklahoma City, Ponca City, Medford as well as Yukon, revealed by the radio station.
At least one individual suffered slight injuries when a twister strikes in northwestern Oklahoma’s Grant County area near Kansas border. One house was ruined as well as two others destroyed by the reported storm. The Oklahoma City’s KOCO-TV reported witnesses stated a twister on the city’s east portion seriously destroyed homes as well as a convenience store.
Moreover, one of the station’s photographers stated seeing a channel strike Interstates 40 as well as 240, twisting a car on its side. KOCO reported that another hurricane was criticized for upside-down cars, trucks as well as boats on the east portion of Norman where injuries were reported.
The Oklahoman reported numerous courses of clouds detected in the Oklahoma City metropolitan region yet it was not recognized how many exactly submerged. Meanwhile, Dean Bellin, Wakita Police Chief revealed that he saw about five funnels near each other as baseball-size shower struck his location, blowing down power lines as well as triggering other devastation, the newspaper reported.
The National Weather Service has ordered a tornado watch for much of Oklahoma as conditions developed for a round of dangerous weather that may create tornadoes. Below are the lists of some areas being monitored cautiously.
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The tornado watch in Oklahoma City was issued until 10 pm for much of the state, which is affirmed by the National Weather Service.

A plane crashed while it is trying to land at Libya’s Tripoli International Airport on Wednesday while an 8-year-old child survived the tragedy. The plane was reported carrying 93 passengers and 11 crew members. It was at the tail end of its nearly 9-hour-long flight when it crashed.

According to an airline spokesperson, the Afriqiyah Airways plane, Airbus 330-220, was flying in from Johannesburg, South Africa, when it suddenly crashed while trying to land at the airport in the Libyan capital.

Initial reports say that the plane crashed as it neared the threshold of Tripoli International’s main east-west runway, while preparing to touch down from the east. And the weather conditions over Tripoli’s international airport were good on Wednesday, with three-mile visibility, scattered clouds at 10,000 feet and winds of only three miles per hour. Based on its flight schedule, the plane was supposed to go on to Gatwick near London after stopping in Tripoli.

Moreover, according to Al Jazeera’s Haru Mutasa report, a news correspondent from Johannesburg, the plane was a “fairly new” Airbus. “The airport in South Africa has not yet released details about the nationalities of the passengers,” she said. “People are still struggling to find out what actually happened.”

Afriqiyah Airways operate an all Airbus fleet. The airline company started its operations with five leased planes and then signed a contract with the Airbus Company during the Paris Flight Exhibition way back in 2007 for the purchase of 11 new planes, including five Airbus A-320 and six A-350 models, and the right to purchase four more types of the same plane.

It was founded in April 2001 and is fully owned by the Libyan government.

The United States Geological Survey confirmed that two earthquakes were sited between Alaska and Russia. The USGS reported that two earthquake took place in the region of Bering Sea on Friday afternoon, 11:11pm (GMT) at the epicenter.

The epicenter was 474km from the US village of Gambell on St Lawrence Island, Alaska while the second quake happened five minutes later and had a similar depth, striking some 490km from Gambell.

The Bering Sea is situated in 474 km southwest from Gambell, Alaska, 478 km south-southwest from Provideniya, Russia, and 1510 km west from Anchorage, Alaska. The first one struck at a magnitude of 6.3 then followed by a 6.0 aftershock after five minutes of the initial quake. According to USGS, the quakes were about 300 miles off from the Alaska coast. Both quakes took place at a depth of 15 miles.

According to the past global earthquake records, Alaska takes the 8^th place of the top ten places hit by the deadliest earthquakes in the whole world followed by Missouri and California. Alaska has been in the top ten for having the deadliest earthquake recorded since then. One of the deadliest earthquake hit Alaska was recorded on March 28, 1964 in Prince William Sound, Alaska with the magnitude of 9.2 that ensued series of tsunami which tool 128 lives. The West Coast of the Unites States, Hawaii, Canada, and the towns along the Gulf of Alaska were the areas who were extremely affected by this phenomenon. This is one of the most terrifying incidents that really marked in the history of Alaska.

The quake was not felt in Anchorage, Alaska according from their local officials and residents. Fortunately, according to the West Coast and Alaska Tsunami Warning Center no tsunami warning or advisory was issued for either quake, there were no injuries or damages reported.

The current news about the mining disasters in West Virginia must serve as another reminder that there is a cost of electricity that goes over what we pay on our electric bills. Monday’s explosion at a West Virginia coal mine has become a potential test case for the advantage of rescue chambers that federal legislators mandated all mining operators have installed 4 years ago to save lives in case a disaster happens. The rescue workers have been attempting all week to reach two such chambers with the hope of saving the four West Virginia miners who are still missing. This disaster had killed 25 miners and hospitalized two other more, which is recognize as the worst mining accident in the United States over the past 25 years.

West Virginia Governor Joe Manchin leaves a news conference in Montcoal, West Virginia yesterday after speaking about the latest development of a rescue mission for the four missing coal miners in the Upper Big Branch Mine. The rescuers found no evidence for these missing miners since the explosion killed the 25 miners who sheltered in a deep underground chamber. Three of the unaccounted for are believed to be in a rescue chamber loaded with food, water and air about 400 feet/120 meters from the location where the first borehole penetrated through early on Wednesday, which was affirmed by the Governor.

Rescuers were digging five boreholes below 1,100 to split the mine of hazardous gases. The holes, about 12 inches wide to the surface and 6 inches deeper at the coal seam, would be loaded with forceful fans according to the authorities. However, the rescuers did not pursue the rescue because of the toxic gases, which is not confirmed yet if the underground gas was safe to get inside officials says.

Massey Energy owns Montcoal mine and it is the largest coal producers in Central Appalachia, were trading down about 4% at midday on the New York Stock Exchange. Although, analysts had predicted a long-term financial health for Massey Energy despite the incident and setback.

On early morning of Wednesday April 7, 2010, an earthquake has bang the Aceh coast in Indonesia with a 7.7 magnitude. The earthquake begun to struck Indonesia around 5:15 a.m. and the core was detected 205 kilometers northwest of the municipality of Sibogla in Sumatra. According to the United States Geological Survey, the depth of the earthquake is about 46 kilometers. As of this moment, there are now casualties reported, however two aftershocks were reported following the 7.7 magnitude earthquake. The Indonesian government has also warned about the possible tsunami alert, though it is already lifted earlier.

Reports say 46 people who were killed in the western part of Indonesia in Java Island. While Jakarta as well felt the tremors, which is about 200 kilometers from the epicenter of the earthquake. Because of these tremors, it also shook the earth for about hundred kilometers. This powerful earthquake hits Java Island in Indonesia on Wednesday morning. Meanwhile, the focal point of the earthquake was situated in the Indian Ocean, which is 200 kilometers in the southern part of Jakarta, Indonesia. The 46 people who were killed are from the two villages in West Java province, which include the Resort de Tasikmalaya. Records shows that it already killed about 110 wounded and fifty people are still missing.

According to spokesperson of the Indonesian Agency for Disaster Management, most of the victims were killed when their houses collapsed. In addition, the earthquake has resulted in some effect after a landslide, which cause about 40 individuals trapped under the rocks causing some mudslide as well. However, the numbers will be likely to increase, as communications with the coastal areas have been totally disconnected.

It has considerably destroyed more than 700 houses and damaged over 600 others a little in various local areas in west Java, including Cianjur, Tasikmalaya and Sukabumi. This is very dangerous because Indonesia is an area with high seismic danger. It is important that the people living here must be aware of this unexpected disaster.

The governor of Rhode Island urges the people here to get off the roads. Thousands of people have been evacuated and some of them remain but of course, they must stay off the roads especially in the evening because of the unexpected flood that might bother the whole area. The government of Rhode Island had disclosed that this year’s flooding is the worst scenario that the place had encounter over the past 100 years, sad to say that there are still hardheaded individuals who are ignoring this issue.

Today, there are no records of injuries; however, this doesn’t mean that the flooding will not occur again because there is no sign yet that it will be over. Last month, there have been about 15.39 inches of rain recorded in the area of Providence, which they consider a new high for the people living here. Flooding is as well reported on some major directions and ramps throughout the area, which include Route 24 that links eastern Rhode Island to Boston highway. They had decided to alter the transportation whenever the flood occurs. The trains for the last two stations alter the buses. While passengers on commuter trains between Providence and Boston should board the buses for the part of way due to flooding.

Lately, Senator Jack Reed and Sheldon Whitehouse are both requesting U.S. President Barrack Obama to declare that Rhode Island is in existing disaster and to declare that this state is in emergency state. Once the president does this, and then there will be emergency aids provided, which will be federal because the people here needs these means now. Bear in mind, that if you have relatives in the area or might know somebody traveling in Rhode Island, you must call them and be sure to advice them that they should not stay on the roads particularly in the evening. Tell them to stay on higher grounds and not on roads. Calling your loved ones whenever this point is crucial for them to be safe and may assure that they are out of danger as what the governor is requesting the people.