Tag: Landslides and mudslides
Businesses, schools close as storm Elsa nears Caribbean
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico — Officials in St. Vincent and the Grenadines closed schools, businesses and an international airport on Friday as the eastern...
Tropical Storm Elsa, 5th named storm, forms in Atlantic
MIAMI — Tropical Storm Elsa has formed over the tropical Atlantic on Thursday morning and is expected to cause heavy rains that may lead...
Hurricane Enrique sweeping past to Mexico’s southwest coast
MEXICO CITY — The first hurricane of the eastern Pacific season brushed past the coastal shoulder of southwestern Mexico, keeping just off shore while...
Hurricane Enrique aims for brush with Mexico’s Pacific coast
MEXICO CITY — The first hurricane of the eastern Pacific season headed for a possible close brush with Mexico's southwestern shoulder Sunday night, and...
Enrique forecast to become hurricane off southwest Mexico
MEXICO CITY — Tropical Storm Enrique gained strength off southern Mexico and forecasters predicted it would become the first hurricane of the eastern Pacific...
Flooding and mudslides add to St. Vincent’s volcano woes
KINGSTOWN, St. Vincent — Heavy rains poured down on the island of St. Vincent and the Grenadines on Thursday, causing flooding and mudslides that...
Indonesia landslides death toll rises to 119, dozens missing
LEMBATA, Indonesia — The death toll from mudslides in eastern Indonesia has risen to 119 with scores still missing, officials said Wednesday, as rain...
Last body recovered following Norway’s deadly landslide
COPENHAGEN, Denmark — Nearly three months after one of the worst landslides in modern Norway’s history, search teams have found the body of the...
Hawaii town blocked by landslide launches makeshift ferry
HONOLULU — Volunteers on Kauai’s north shore have launched a makeshift ferry service across a river after a landslide along a two-lane highway cut...
2 more bodies found six weeks after Norway landslide
COPENHAGEN, Denmark — Six weeks after one of the worst landslides in modern Norway’s history, search teams have found two more bodies in the...
