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 …

Argen­tine radio ama­teurs respond to flood­ing emergency
Jorge, LU1AS reports that the Ama­teur Radio Emer­gency Ser­vice of Argenti­na are oper­at­ing fol­low­ing heavy flood­ing in the cities of Buenos Aires and La Pla­ta. The fre­quen­cies that are being used on 40 …

Philip­pines on alert for incom­ing storm
The trop­i­cal storm Crising men­ac­ing The Philip­pines arch­i­pel­ago has acti­vat­ed the Ama­teur Radio Emer­gency Ser­vice (ARES) with 7.095 MHz and local nets han­dling urgent traffic.
The Philip­pine Ama­teur Radio Asso­ci­a­tion (PARA) …