China’s earth­quake – update #2
The earth­quake has killed 179 peo­ple and injured 6986. Hun­dreds of ama­teur radio oper­a­tors went to Ya’an help­ing dis­as­ter relief.
The dis­as­ter hap­pened as the Glob­al Sim­u­lat­ed Emer­gency Test was under­way head­ed in Chi­na by …

China’s earth­quake – update
A day after a strong earth­quake hit south­west China’s Sichuan province the death toll stood at least 156 with many more injured and with­out homes.
Fan Bin BA1RB report­ed that it was a 7.0 mag­ni­tude quake in …

Earth­quake hit Ya’an city, Sichuan province, China
Today 8:02am, a 7.0 scale earth­quake hit Ya’an city, Sichuan province in Chi­na. The epi­cen­ter was near Lushan Coun­ty. As of 17:24 today, 113 per­sons were killed and more than 2,000 were injured. …

Floods in Argenti­na — Final
Record flash floods have killed sev­er­al dozen peo­ple and destroyed thou­sands of homes in the Buenos Aires Province, Argenti­na, that suf­fered its heav­i­est April rain­fall since records began in 1906.
On Sat­ur­day there was heavy traf­fic on …