International Alert System
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Issued the Orange alert for the fire
Satellite imagery no longer detects hotspots in Serbia's Deliblato Sands, a protected reserve about 80 kilometers from Belgrade. The fire, first detected July 21, burned 3,960 hectares and flared repeatedly in a heat wave. Environment Minister Sara Pavkov says recovery will take five to ten years.
Updated Sep 3
Issued orange alert for India floods
A flash flood tore through Nepal's Rasuwa district on August 26, sending water, rock, and debris down the Bhote Koshi and Trishuli rivers toward India. By evening, India's Central Water Commission warned the wave would hit the Gandak, and officials opened all 36 gates of the Valmikinagar barrage. Discharge peaked at 1.5 lakh cusecs (about 4.2 million liters per second) before falling to 81,000.
Issued orange alert for Saudel-26 on Aug 18, 2026
On Aug 18, an automated UN-European Commission warning network flagged a tropical depression east of the Northern Mariana Islands. Four days later it was Typhoon Saudel-26, a Category 4 storm with 213 km/h winds and 13.1 million people in its path.
Issued orange flood alert for China covering the flood that began August 22
Guangxi's Zuojiang river at Chongzuo peaked at 108.87 meters on August 26, its highest level since 1955. Typhoon Narra's rains, which displaced more than 54,000 people, pushed the river 7.67 meters above flood stage before the storm weakened.
Issued a Red alert for humanitarian impact
At 7:34 a.m. on August 10, a magnitude 7.4 earthquake struck near San José del Palmar in western Colombia's Chocó department. It was the strongest quake Colombia has recorded this century. The official death toll has reached 331.
Issued orange flood alert on Aug 28
The morning of August 26, a 600-meter-wide slab of glacier and rock peeled off Langtang Lirung, a 23,700-foot peak on the Nepal-China border, and fell 1,200 meters into the valley. The debris dammed the Lhende Khola river; hours later the dam burst, sending a wall of ice, mud, and water down the Bhotekoshi and Trishuli rivers.
Updated Sep 1
Issued orange alert for the Longchang quake
A shallow magnitude 5.0 earthquake struck near Longchang City in Sichuan Province at 1:13 p.m. local time on August 28. The quake hit 10 kilometers below the surface, within 100 kilometers of 15.8 million people.
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