Philip­pine Earth­quake trig­gers tsuna­mi alert
The Philip­pine Insti­tute of Vol­canol­o­gy and Seis­mol­o­gy (Phivolcs) has now lift­ed its tsuna­mi alert after a 7.6 mag­ni­tude under­sea earth­quake hit east-coast vil­lages. At the ready for the worst were mem­bers of HERO, the Ham …

Typhoon wreaks hav­oc on Korea
As the pow­er­ful storm Typhoon Bolaven bat­tered South Korea radio ama­teurs joined the response and recov­ery efforts to min­imise the toll and damage.
The state dis­as­ter man­age­ment agency report­ed deaths as the storm, the strongest to …

Floods in the Philip­pines hit Manilla
The Philip­pine Ama­teur Radio Asso­ci­a­tion acti­vat­ed the Ham Emer­gency Radio Oper­a­tions (HERO) on two metre and 40 metres pass­ing essen­tial traf­fic dur­ing the recent wide­spread flood­ing in Manila.
The news media reports …

India black­out affects millions.
In the world’s worst black­out in recent times pow­er was cut to 700 mil­lion peo­ple in India.
Jayu Bhide VU2JAU reports that the North-East grid failed due to a fault in the plant and 20 states were …

Flood­ing hits Chi­nese capital
Heavy rain, described as the worst in the area in more than 60 years, hit Bei­jing last week report­ed­ly killing 37 peo­ple. The com­mer­cial com­mu­ni­ca­tion was oper­at­ing as nor­mal in the urban area. 

As part of their …