A tornado damaged hundreds of homes in Indonesia on Friday afternoon (October 23rd). The powerful whirlwind ripped through the town of Bekasi in West Java province shortly after 1 pm local time.
Terrifying footage shows how roofs were blown off and carts were tossed aside as sheets of corrugated metal and other debris were hurled through the air by the gusts of wind.
Clouds of dust and dirt were also seen being whipped up by the powerful vortex as it moved through the residential area.
The Bekasi Municipality Disaster Mitigation Agency said at least 125 homes were damaged.
Residents whose properties were damaged were evacuated into temporary shelters while repairs were carried out. Electricity and telephone networks were also cut off by the mini tornado. There were no casualties reported.
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The Minister of Interior and Municipalities in Lebanon issued a new decision on Sunday, October 25th, regarding the closure of 63 towns and villages in Lebanon.
Baabda:
El-Merdashah
Kfarselwan
El-Metn:
El-Mansourieh
El-Daichounieh
El-Mkalles
El-Chouf:
Chehim
Daria
Kfarmaya
Barja
El-Jiyyeh
El-Zaarourieh
El-Jehilieh
Niha
Aley:
Ain
Anoub
Houmal
Baissour
Majdel
Baana
Kesserwan:
Ballouneh
Aintour
El-Kfour
Byblos:
Hboub
Blat
Amchit
Nahr Ibrahim
El-Monsef
Ehmej
Mechmoch
708 new COVID-19 infections were confirmed by the Ministry of Health in Kuwait, taking the number to 121,635. With the addition of two additional casualties, deaths have reached 746 today.
Dr Abdullah Al-Sanad, the official spokesman for the Ministry of Health, said that 121 patients were undergoing treatment in intensive care units. Those still undergoing treatment totaled 8,118.
In the past 24 hours, health authorities have performed 5,496 swab tests, raising the number to 876,250, Dr. Sanad added. The ministry previously announced that 661 people in the last 24 hours had recovered from the novel coronavirus, taking the number to 112,771.
OUT OF THE FIRST RESULTS FROM THE 300,000 TAKEN CORONA PRC TESTS IN THE AREA OF KASHGAR A ADDITIONAL 136 ASYNTOMATIC CASES WERE DISCOVERED. A TOTAL OF 700,000 PEOPLE SHOULD BE TESTED.
THIS IS THE RESULT OF A ASYNTOMATIC CORONAVIRUS OUTBREAK AT A 17 YEAR OLD STUDENT. ALL SOCIAL LIFE GOT SHUT DOWN ONLY SUPERMARKETS AND PHARMACIES ARE ACTUAL OPEN.
Data according to local MoH Stand 2PM local
In the next two days the remaining 400,000 residents of Kashgar in North western Xinjiang should be tested.
This plot shows 1 hour of data from the nearest available seismic station in the Global Seismographic Network.
NVAR Array Site 31, Mina, NV, USA (38.4328° N x 118.155403° W)
Turkey announced that it had extended the seismic survey work of its ship Oruc Reis in the disputed area of the eastern Mediterranean until 4 November, taking a step towards increasing the region's tensions.
NATO members Turkey and Greece are locked in a dispute over the size of their continental shelves and competing claims in the eastern Mediterranean for hydrocarbon resources. When Turkey sent Oruc Reis into waters also claimed by Greece and Cyprus, the row erupted in August.
Together with two other ships, Ataman and Cengiz Han, Oruc Reis will continue to operate until Nov. 4 in the region south of the Greek island of Rhodes, a Turkish naval maritime notice said late on Saturday. A prior notice scheduled survey work until Oct. 27 in the region.
Almost all of the 53 districts and cities in North Rhine-Westphalia are now considered to be corona risk areas. According to data from the Robert Koch Institute (RKI) and the Health Center from Sunday (midnight),
only the districts of Euskirchen, Paderborn and Soest were below the warning threshold of 50 new infections per 100,000 inhabitants in seven days. According to the RKI, the city of Solingen had the highest value with 200.3.
The Landeszentrum Gesundheit (LZG) registered a seven-day incidence of 199.7 for the city on Sunday. According to the RKI and LZG, the city of Duisburg was behind with 174.1 and the district of Düren with 170.0.