While the toll mounts from the wide­spread area hit by the 7.7 scale earth­quake on Tues­day in south-west­­ern Pak­istan, an army heli­copter with VIPs came under attack mak­ing it unsafe in that area for ground workers. 

Pres­i­dent of the Pak­istan …

An earth­quake mea­sur­ing 7.8 on the Richter scale struck on Tues­day in the Balochis­tan province that has claimed more than 330 lives in the remote and sparse­ly pop­u­lat­ed south-west­­ern area. 

Imran Mujta­ba AP2MI reports that mem­bers of the Pak­istan Ama­teur Radio …

The toll from dev­as­tat­ing storms of Ingrid and Manuel has reached 80 with many strand­ed and more than 50 miss­ing in a mas­sive land­slide north of Acapulco.
The Mex­i­can IARU mem­ber soci­ety, Fed­era­cion Mex­i­cana De Radio Exper­i­men­ta­dores (FMRE) …

The recent ‘bat­tery only’ pow­er train­ing exer­cise in Malaysia, aimed at pass­ing mes­sages and test­ing day-time prop­a­ga­tion paths, involved around 30 radio ama­teurs who were assist­ed by five short­wave listeners.

IARU Region 3 Dis­as­ter Com­mu­ni­ca­tions Com­mit­tee’s John­ny Tan 9M8DB noted …

Flood­ing dis­as­ter con­tin­ues to hit the US state of Col­orado as rivers over­flowed dam­ag­ing roads and prop­er­ty in the Rocky Moun­tain foothills. Four peo­ple have died since the floods began Wednes­day. Hun­dreds have not been heard from as res­cuers make …