"Landslide buries village; hundreds missing; Typhoon batters, floods China, Taiwan" by Peter Enav, Associated Press | August 11, 2009
TAIPEI, Taiwan - A mudslide buried a mountain village in Taiwan yesterday and another toppled seven apartment buildings in China today, leaving hundreds of people missing as officials feared the death toll from two typhoons in the Far East would skyrocket.
Typhoon Morakot slammed Taiwan during the weekend with as much as 80 inches of rain before crossing the 112-mile-wide Taiwan Strait and hitting China. The storm inflicted the worst flooding the island of Taiwan has seen in at least a half-century, submerging large swaths of farmland in chocolate-brown muck and swamping city streets....
Early reports in China said six people had died. In Japan, another typhoon, Etau, slammed into the western part of the island nation, creating floods and landslides. At least 12 people were killed, according to Japanese officials yesterday....
--more--""Earthquakes shake Tokyo area, Indian Ocean; Bullet trains, nuclear sites shut down" by Mari Yamaguchi, Associated Press | August 11, 2009
TOKYO - A powerful earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 6.6 hit Tokyo and nearby areas shortly after dawn today, halting trains and forcing two nuclear reactors to be shut down for safety checks.
The US Geological Survey said another, unrelated quake with a 7.6 magnitude hit the Indian Ocean about 160 miles north of Port Blair in India’s Andaman Islands. A tsunami watch was called for India, Myanmar, Indonesia, Thailand, and Bangladesh. The caution was later lifted without any tsunami being recorded....
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