Hurricane Patricia — Mexico
The strongest ever hurricane recorded in the Americas is heading towards Mexico’s Pacific coast causing a state of emergency to be declared in three states in its path. Hurricane Patricia is expected to make landfall on Friday afternoon with winds of …
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Typhoon warning in the Philippines
Authorities are concerned about the effects of Typhoon Koppu that may last three days, as the weather system is trapped in its movement by another typhoon. So far it’s a wait and see matter, but the Philippine Amateur Radio Association (PARA) …
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Italy-Malta Co-operation in Emergency Communications
Following their successful involvement in an Earthquake simulation exercise in September Maltese Radio Amateurs were invited to take part in a second phase of the exercise on the Italian island of Lampedusa between 28th September and 1st October. The team was …
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Chile Earthquake — 16 Sept 2015
At 2245 UTC on 16th September an 8.3 Magnitude earthquake struck off the coast of Chile causing Tsunami waves along the coast up to 4.5m high in places. 11 people are known to have died with many more evacuated from …
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Amateur Radio involved in major exercise in Malta
Radio Amateurs of the Malta Amateur Radio League (MARL) have completed their involvement in a European Union supported Earthquake simulation exercise in their country. Around 300 participants simulated the scenario in which Malta was hit by a 7.6 magnitude earthquake in the …
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