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Another typhoon in the northern Philippines really is something to be scared about, and Mirinae is expected to make landfall there in the mid-morning hours on Halloween, October 31st.
Read MoreIP Access International provided a demo of their new satellite video communication services with a weekend web-broadcast of Urban Shield 2009.
Read MoreTyphoon Lupit (called Ramil in the Philippines) is already raining over the northern Luzon as of October 22.
Read MoreIn the wake of a magnitude 8.0 earthquake that struck on September 29, 2009, tsunami waves rolled onto the Tongan island of Niuatoputapu.
Read MoreResidents in southern Baja California, Mexico still haven't recovered from last month's Hurricane Jimena, and Tropical Storm Rick is now bringing rains to southern tip of the Baja.
Read MoreTyphoon Lupit is closing in on northern Luzon, the Philippines, and its center is expected to make a short landfall (of about 24 hours) there October 22 before heading into the South China Sea.
Read MoreBased on computer forecast models, the residents of southern and central Baja California should prepare over the weekend for now Tropical Storm Rick.
Read MoreOn September 29, 2009, a tsunami struck the southern shoreline of Upolu, the easternmost of the Samoan islands. The tsunami killed nearly 200 people in Samoa, American Samoa, and Tonga, according to Reuters.
Read MoreITU, Inmarsat, and Vizada SAS have reached an agreement to improve emergency communications for disaster preparedness and to coordinate relief activities in the aftermath of a disaster.
Read MoreAlready two announcements from Telecoms Sans Frontieres in one week regading assisting two countries in emergency situations. Floods in the Philippines and earthquakes in Samoa and the subsequent tsunami, and now the 7.6 earthquake that struck Indonesia on September 30th, off the city of Padang, in the Western coast of Sumatra.
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