Turkey Earth­quake
On 23rd Octo­ber at 10.41UTC a mag­ni­tude 7.2 earth­quake struck the Van region of East­ern Turkey caus­ing great loss of life and hun­dreds of casu­al­ties. Radio Ama­teurs from the Turk­ish nation­al soci­ety TRAC are respond­ing to assist …

Flood cri­sis response by radio amateurs
Oper­a­tors are request­ed to QSY away from 7.060–7.063MHz due to use by Thai­land hams dur­ing the flood emergency.
Thai author­i­ties con­tin­ue to bat­tle the country’s worst floods in decades with the death toll at …

Lat­est from flood hit Thailand
The death toll from the most dev­as­tat­ing flood­ing to hit Thai­land in over 60 years fol­low­ing heavy rains since late July has now risen to almost 300.
Near­ly three mil­lion peo­ple are said to have …

Atlantic Hur­ri­cane Maria
Doug Mer­cer VO1DM, Emer­gency Coor­di­na­tor IARU R2 of Area A, onSep­tem­ber 14, report­ed about Trop­i­cal Storm Maria: “It is now evi­dent­that Trop­i­cal Storm Maria will have a direct impact on Newfoundland,particularly the Aval­on Penin­su­la”. Also Doug reported …

JOTA 2011 — ‘Peace, Envi­ron­ment and Nat­ur­al Disasters’
The theme of the Jam­boree on the Air to be held on the 15–16 Octo­ber is “Peace, Envi­ron­ment and Nat­ur­al Disasters”.
IARU Inter­na­tion­al Coor­di­na­tor for Emer­gency Com­mu­ni­ca­tions, Hans Zim­mer­mann F5VKP/ F/…