Himalaya and Other Mountainous Regions
Indonesia (Java Mountains – Mount Semeru)
Ongoing eruptions since a major pyroclastic flow on November 20 have produced a massive lahar (volcanic mudflow) today, traveling 13 km down channels designed to protect nearby villages.
Triggered by heavy rains on fresh ash deposits, it caused no immediate casualties but led to ashfall and evacuations within a 5-8 km radius. Alert level remains high.
Indonesia (Java Mountains – Mount Merapi)
A hot cloud avalanche extended 2 km from the summit last night (November 21, 21:23 local time), with seismic amplitude peaking at 57 mm.
Ash drifted northwest, prompting warnings for a 5 km exclusion zone. No injuries reported, but activity follows a pattern of increased unrest.
Major Disasters in Other Areas
Vietnam (Central Region)
Flooding from relentless rains has claimed 55 lives, with over a dozen still missing as rescuers comb debris today. This follows Typhoon Kalmaegi’s earlier impacts, contributing to 279 disaster-related deaths nationwide in 2025 so far, with damages exceeding $2 billion. Evacuations continue in low-lying areas.
DRR & CCA Conferences, Workshops, Reports, Concerns and Incidences
G20 Summit Focus
The G20 summit in Johannesburg, South Africa, is today adopting a Leaders’ Declaration that stresses the seriousness of climate change. Prime Minister Narendra Modi is proposing a profound rethinking of global development parameters to focus on inclusive and sustainable growth, emphasizing the need for a global healthcare response team and an initiative to counter the drug-terror nexus.
Climate and Conflict Nexus
The G20 summit discussion on the drug-terror nexus links political instability and conflict directly with climate-driven issues that exacerbate global suffering.
Fossil Fuel Dependence
The G20 summit’s adoption of the climate declaration comes amidst continued pressure on nations to curb fossil fuel use. The high frequency and severity of global extreme weather events (like the Vietnam floods) serve as a daily incidence of the cost of continued reliance on high-emission energy sources.
Resilience Report Highlight
The Global Infrastructure Resilience Report 2025 (GIR 2025) emphasizes the urgent need to incorporate resilience into infrastructure planning. It reveals that economic losses from service disruptions after disasters are, on average, 7.4 times higher than the direct damage to infrastructure, underscoring the immense value of proactive investment in resilience.
Adaptation Fund
Capacity-building events continue to focus on helping Small Island Developing States (SIDS) access funding and implement resilience projects, a critical component of global CCA.
Historical Disasters on This Day (October 21)
1718 – Death of Blackbeard
The infamous British pirate Edward Teach (Blackbeard) was killed off the coast of North Carolina during a bloody battle with a British naval force.
1942 – Battle of Stalingrad
General Friedrich Paulus, commanding the German 6th Army, sent a telegram to Adolf Hitler informing him that the German army was fully surrounded by Soviet forces at Stalingrad, marking a decisive turning point in World War II.
1943 – Cairo Conference
U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, and Chinese Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek met in Cairo to discuss the strategy for the war against Japan and the future of Asia.
1946 – Haiphong disaster in Vietnam
The port city of Haiphong in Vietnam endured a man-made catastrophe when French naval forces bombarded the area amid colonial tensions, killing an estimated 6,000 civilians in a hail of shells that leveled homes and markets, igniting fires that raged unchecked. This assault, part of the First Indochina War, symbolized the brutal intersection of geopolitics and urban devastation, leaving scars that echoed through Vietnam’s turbulent history.
1950 – New York Railroad Crash
A railroad crash in Richmond Hill, New York, killed 79 people.
1963 – Assassination of JFK
U.S. President John F. Kennedy was assassinated in Dallas, Texas. This tragic event marked a profound moment of crisis and political instability in the United States.
1971 – Britain’s Deadliest Mountaineering Disaster
The disaster unfolded on the Cairngorm Plateau in the Scottish Highlands, where a school group from Ainslie Park High School in Edinburgh ventured into a fierce blizzard during an orienteering exercise. Five teenage boys and their 21-year-old instructor, John Smith, succumbed to hypothermia and exposure after becoming disoriented in whiteout conditions, their bodies discovered days later amid a landscape that had turned from rugged beauty into a frozen tomb. The event, dubbed the Cairngorm Plateau Disaster, exposed gaps in outdoor safety protocols and led to reforms in British mountaineering training, a stark reminder of how quickly mountains can claim the unprepared.
These events, separated by geography and intent, both highlight November 22’s legacy of sudden, overwhelming loss—whether from nature’s indifference or human conflict.
Stay vigilant; history whispers warnings.
यह हमारा एक छोटा सा प्रयास हैं, आपको हर दिन आपदा से जुड़ी नवीनतम जानकारियाँ प्रदान करने का –
विशेष रूप से वह आपदायें जो हिमालय व अन्य पहाड़ी क्षेत्रों में घटित हों.
हमारा यह प्रयास आपको कैसा लगा और कैसे हम इसे बेहतर व उपयोगी बना सकते हैं ?
हमेशा की तरह आपके सुझावों का हमें इंतजार रहेगा.
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