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Hurricane Patricia — latest

A pre­pared Mex­i­co pop­u­la­tion has escaped rel­a­tive­ly well from the fury of Pacif­ic Ocean borne Hur­ri­cane Patri­cia, now down­grad­ed to a category‑1.
How­ev­er as the weath­er sys­tem moved north the Texas in the USA, record rains have been dumped …

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Typhoon Koppu (Lando) hit the Philippines

The Nation­al Dis­as­ter Risk Reduc­tion and Man­age­ment Coun­cil (NDRRMC) reports on the com­pre­hen­sive response to Typhoon Kop­pu (local­ly Lan­do), with its dam­ag­ing winds and heavy rain.
The dis­as­ter response caused by the cat­e­­go­ry-four typhoon was led by Pres­i­dent Benigno …

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MARS to use CME as a scenario

A dis­as­trous coro­nal mass ejec­tion (CME) sce­nario will fea­ture in Novem­ber when the US Mil­i­tary Aux­il­iary Radio Sys­tem (MARS) teams up with both the Ama­teur Radio Emer­gency Ser­vices (ARES) and the Radio Ama­teur Civil …

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Wild fire in California

The emer­gency com­mu­ni­ca­tions pro­vid­ed by radio ama­teurs in Cal­i­for­nia that burnt 1,400 homes and killed at least six peo­ple, has helped author­i­ties in their response to a disaster.
The fire­fight­ers in bat­tling wild fires, the worst ever in the most …

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