The New­cas­tle Earth­quake Dis­as­ter hap­pened at 1027 hours on Decem­ber 28, 1989, that is 25 years ago — with those involved and offi­cials hold­ing a memo­r­i­al ceremony. 

Although only at 5.5 on the Richter scale, the earth­quake had dev­as­tat­ing effects …

Per­haps the most destruc­tive tsuna­mi in his­to­ry killed about 230,000 peo­ple and engulfed Indi­an Ocean coastal areas in 12 coun­tries on Decem­ber 26, 2004. 

The Suma­­tra-Andaman earth­quake, also known as the Box­ing Day Tsuna­mi, start­ed as a mas­sive under­sea 9.1 magnitude …

Severe flood­ing described as the worst for a long time in the north of Malaysia dur­ing the mon­soon sea­son has tak­en five lives with about 160,000 peo­ple evacuated. 

John­ny Tan 9M8DB of the Malaysian Ama­teur Radio Trans­mit­ters’ Soci­ety (MARTS…

In was in 1974 on Christ­mas Eve that Trop­i­cal Cyclone Tra­cy destroyed Dar­win in Aus­trali­a’s North­ern Territory.
The death toll was 66, but may be high­er because of unrecord­ed peo­ple liv­ing in Dar­win. Back then there were many sin­­gle-storey flimsy …

For those inter­est­ed, the full final report of Typhoon Hagupit (local­ly called 

Ruby) can be read at the fol­low­ing URL: 

http://www.para.org.ph/legacy/downloads/HERO%20Final%20Report.pdf

— Jim Lin­ton VK3PC, Chair­man IARU Region 3 Dis­as­ter Com­mu­ni­ca­tions Committee.…