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  WEATHER, QUAKE, AND ACCIDENT NEWS: 1-JAN-11 - 31-DEC-11      
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To 31-Dec-11  
Days 365  
News Items 2076
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2-Jan-11 AOG WEATH Australian flooding at 'biblical proportions' 1-Jan-11: Australia: hit by a flood of 'biblical proportions' (half of Queensland's 1.8 million square kilometres) CBC News 1
2-Jan-11 ACC Russia grounds all Tu-154Bs after fatal fire Russia: Tu-154 plane hit by fire; 3 people were killed BBC News 2
2-Jan-11 AOG QUAK Magnitude 7.1 - ARAUCANIA, CHILE Chile: Magnitude 7.1 quake USGS 3
5-Jan-11 ACC CHEM Chemical plant blaze at Moerdijk sparks Dutch alert The Netherlands: state of alert after explosions at a chemical plant holding carcinogenic material BBC News 4
6-Jan-11 ACC OIL Commission Releases Chapter on BP Well Blowout Investigation in Advance of Full Report National Commission Oil Spill Commission: "most of the mistakes and oversights at Macondo can be traced back to . . . a failure of management. Better management by BP, Halliburton, and Transocean would almost certainly have prevented the blowout by improving the ability of individuals involved to identify the risks they faced, and to properly evaluate, communicate, and address them.” National Commission Oil Spill Commission 5
7-Jan-11 ACC CHEM HEAL Frederik Pleitgen Charges filed as farm quarantines grow in German tainted egg scandal
 Germany: tainted egg scandal; 4,709 pig/poultry farms quarantined CNN International 6
10-Jan-11 ACC Yan (ed.) 77 killed, 27 injured in air crash in northwest Iran 9-Jan-11: Iran: Ira-Air passenger plane crashed; 77 killed Xinhua 7
10-Jan-11 AOG WEATH Flood situation remains grim in Sri Lanka Sri Lanka: floods and mudslide killed ≥8 Times of India 8
11-Jan-11 AOG WEATH More Deaths Likely in Australian Flooding Disaster Australia: flash flood hit the town of Toowomba; 9 killed; 66 missing VOA News 9
12-Jan-11 AOG WEATH Jamie Walker; Michael McKenna Deadly wave heads for Brisbane Australia: massive flood heading for Brisbane: 30 killed; 78 missing The Australian-AAP 10
12-Jan-11 AOG WEATH Pedro Fonseca; Rodrigo Viga Gaier At least 257 dead as rains pummel Brazil
 Brazil: floods and landslides killed ≥257 Reuters 11
14-Jan-11 AOG WEATH Jeff Fick; Paulo Prada  Nearly 500 Are Dead in Brazil Flooding Brazil: floods and landslides killed ≥470 WSJ 12
18-Jan-11 AOG WEATH Death Toll Rises in Philippine Weather Disaster Philippines: floods and landslides killed 53 people; >12 are missing VOA News 13
18-Jan-11 AOG QUAK Magnitude 7.2 - SOUTHWESTERN PAKISTAN Pakistan: magnitude 7.2 quake USGS 14
19-Jan-11 AOG WEATH Reporting: Rodrigo Viga Gair; Stuart Grudgings; Writing: Stuart Grudgings; Editing: Bill Trott; Sandra Maler UPDATE 1-At least 207 missing in Brazil floods, 741 dead Brazil: floods and landslides around 14-Jan-11 killed 741 people; 207 are missing Reuters 15
22-Jan-11 ACC Russian shopping mall blaze kills at least two, injures five (Update 1) Russia: shopping mall fire killed ≥2 RIA Novosti 16
23-Jan-11 AOG WEATH Brazil flood deaths top 800 with 400 still missing Brazil: floods and landslides killed >800 in Jan-11; >400 are still missing BBC News 17
28-Jan-11 ACC Aubrey Belford Indonesia Investigates Deadly Ferry Fire, Train Collision Indonesia: ferry fire and train collision killed ≥14 people NYT 18
30-Jan-11 ACC Wang Guanqun (ed.) Train collision kills 10 in eastern Germany 29-Jan-11: Germany: train collision killed ≥10 Xinhua 19
4-Feb-11 AOG WEATH Australia Deploys Troops to Help in Storm Recovery Australia: recovering from category-5 cyclone Yasi VOA News 20
4-Feb-11 ACC Turkey factory blasts: Ankara explosions kill 16 Turkey: 2 explosions in an industrial zone killed 16 people BBC News 21
5-Feb-11 ACC OIL Nayla Razzouk; Ola Galal; Peter Hirschberg (ed.) Egypt Halts Gas Pipeline Feeding Israel, Jordan Egypt: explosion at a natural-gas pipeline feeding both Israel and Jordan Bloomberg 22
5-Feb-11 ACC JET Muhanad Mohammmed (Reporting); Jim Loney (Writing) Business executives killed in Iraq plane crash
 Iraq: plane crash on 4-Feb-11 killed 7, including the chief executive of MerchantBridge and 2 JPMorgan executives  Reuters 23
9-Feb-11 ACC OIL One missing after fire at Texas natural gas plant 8-Feb-11: TX: explosion reported at a natural gas processing plant by Enterprise Products Partners; 1 person missing AHN 24
13-Feb-11 ACC Christian Purefoy 11 killed at stampede at Nigerian campaign event Nigeria: stampede at an election rally killed 11 people CNN International 25
17-Feb-11 ACC MIL Ali Sultan. Jason Straziuso (AP); AP Contributors: Malkhadir M. Muhumed; Carley Petesch 25 killed in Tanzania blasts after explosion at military base 16-17-Feb-11: Tanzania: explosions at a military munitions depot killed ≥25 people Toronto Star 26
17-Feb-11 ACC Nguyen Kieu Giang; Diep Ngoc Pham. Editors: Ryan Woo; Oanh Ha.  Vietnam Tourist Boat Sinks in Halong Bay, Killing 12 Vietnam: tourist boat sank killing 12 people Bloomberg 27
21-Feb-11 ACC 36 killed in stampede at Mali stadium: official Mali: stampede in a stadium killed ≥36 people AFP 28
22-Feb-11 AOG New Zealand quake kills 65 as dozens trapped New Zealand: 6.3-magnitude earthquake hit Christchurch: ≥65 people killed; >100 people trapped in rubble CBC News 29
24-Feb-11 AOG QUAK Death Toll from New Zealand Earthquake Exceeds 100 New Zealand: 6.3-magnitude earthquake of 22-Feb-2011 killed 113 people; >200 are missing VOA News 30
10-Mar-11 AOG QUAK China earthquake kills 24, injures 200 China: a magnitude 5.4 quake [USGS] killed 24 people CBC News: AP 31
11-Mar-11 AOG QUAK Magnitude 8.9 - NEAR THE EAST COAST OF HONSHU, JAPAN Japan: Magnitude 8.9 quake hit near the East coast of Honshu [USGS updated magnitude to 9.0 on 14-Mar-11] USGS 32
11-Mar-11 AOG QUAK Martin Fackler, Kevin Drew; Contributors: Bettina Wassener, Alan Cowell, Richard Berry  Huge Earthquake Triggers Tsunami Off Japan’s Coast Japan: massive quake triggers catastrophic tsunami NYT 33
11-Mar-11 AOG QUAK NUC Matthew L. Wald; Contributor: Ken Belson Japan Orders Evacuation Near 2nd Nuclear Plant Japan declared states of emergency for 5 reactors at 2 nuclear plants (Daiichi and Daini, operated by Tokyo Electric Power) NYT 34
12-Mar-11 AOG QUAK Chico Harlan Japan quake: With two natural disasters and a nuclear emergency, recovery begins Japan: ~9,500 people in Minamisanriku remain missing [Kyodo news agancy] Washington Post 35
12-Mar-11 AOG QUAK SCIE Japan Earthquake Alters Coast Line, Changes Earth's Axis Japan magnitude-8.9 quake on 11-Mar-11 shifted: part of Japan's land mass by ~2.5 meters; and earth off its axis point by ≥8 centimeters VOA News-Reuters 36
12-Mar-11 AOG QUAK MON Alert Worldwide: Tohoku Japan Earthquake AIR Worldwide estimated the insured property losses from the Japan M9.1 quake to be in the range from $14.5 billion to $34.6 billion (losses from the tsunami excluded) Air Worldwide 37
13-Mar-11 AOG QUAK Damage from mega quake increasing, death toll feared to top 1,800 Japan: preliminary estimates: effects of combined magnitude 8.9 quake and tsunami on 11-Mar-11: death toll expected to exceed 1,800; ~3,000 people were rescued; ~3,400 buildings were destroyed; 5.57 million households lost power; water supply cut off for >1 million households Kyodo News 38
13-Mar-11 AOG QUAK Japanese Quake Survivors Await Relief as Engineers Battle Japan: death toll from quake and tsunami could exceed 10,000 in Miyagi prefecture alone VOA News 39
14-Mar-11 AOG QUAK SCIE USGS Updates Magnitude of Japan’s 2011 Tohoku Earthquake to 9.0 USGS: magnitude of Japan’s 2011 Tohoku quake updated to 9.0 USGS 40
14-Mar-11 AOG QUAK NUC Hydrogen blast occurs at Fukushima plant's No. 3 reactor: agency Japan: hydrogen explosion at the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant's No. 3 reactor; the plant is operated by Tokyo Electric Power Co. (TEPCO) Kyodo News 41
15-Mar-11 AOG QUAK NUC Container damaged, radiation leak feared at Fukushima No.2 reactor Japan: explosion at the No. 2 reactor of the Fukushima nuclear plant; potential for a "meltdown"; high level radiation reported Kyodo News 42
15-Mar-11 AOG QUAK NUC Hiroko Tabuchi, Keith Bradsher; Contributors: David E. Sanger, Matthew L. Wald  Japan Says 2nd Reactor May Have Ruptured With Radioactive Release Japan: a vessel at the Fukushima Daiichi plant appeared to be compromised; radiation levels spiked NYT 43
16-Mar-11 AOG QUAK Steve Gelsi Combined dead, missing in quake exceeds 13,000 Japan: death toll from magnitude-9.0 quake, 4,277; misssing, 8,194 MarketWatch 44
19-Mar-11 AOG QUAK Japan Death Toll Rises Above 7,000 Japan: confirmed death toll from the 11-Mar-11 quake and tsunami, 7,300 people: in addition, ~11,000 people are still missing VOA News 45
21-Mar-11 AOG QUAK Over 21,000 dead or missing in quake-hit Japan: police Japan: death toll from 11-Mar-11 quake and tsunami, 8,805; number of people reported missing, 12,654  Kyodo News 46
25-Mar-11 AOG QUAK Fang Yang (ed.) Death toll of Myanmar's earthquake rises to 74, 111 people injured 24-Mar-11: Myanmar: magnitude-6.8 quake killed ≥74 people  Xinhua 47
12-Apr-11 GOV ACC NUC Martyn Williams Japan Raises Severity of Fukushima Accident to Highest Level Japan raised the level of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster to 7 (the highest level on the international nuclear accident scale) VOA News 48
27-Apr-11 AOG WEATH Anahad O’Connor; Timothy Williams. Contributor: Jim Noles Scores Die in Storms Across South; Tornado Ravages City Storms hit Atlanta, Mississippi, Georgia and Tennessee; ≥60 people were killed NYT 49
28-Apr-11 AOG WEATH U.S. severe storms kill 200 U.S.: Severe storms killed at least 200 people; the National Weather Service's Storm Prediction Center received 137 tornado reports into 27-Apr-11 CBC News: AP 50
30-Apr-11 AOG WEATH US Tornadoes Killed at Least 350 US: tornadoes killed ≥350 over 1 week VOA News-AP-AFP 51
7-May-11 ACC JET 15 Bodies Recovered in Indonesian Plane Crash Indonesia: Merpati airline plane carrying ≥25 people crashed; 15 bodies were recovered VOA News-AP-AFP 52
19-May-11 ACC JET Nelson Quinones Plane crash kills 22 in Argentina 18-May-11: Argentina: Sol Lineas Aereas plane crashed; 22 people were killed CNN International 53
22-May-11 AOG WEATH 16 Dead in Malaysia Orphanage Landslide Malaysia: landslide killed 16 people in an orphanage VOA News 54
24-May-11 AOG WEATH Greg Flakus Search for Survivors Continues After Devastating US Tornado Joplin, MO: death toll from F-4 tornado of 22-May-11: 116 VOA News 55
26-May-11 AOG WEATH Colleen Jenkins. Contributor: Mary Wisniewski; Greg McCune (ed.) 2011 tornado death toll tops 500 and season not over U.S. National Weather Service: 2011 tornado death toll to date: >500 Reuters 56
29-May-11 AOG WEATH Suzanne Presto Obama Offers Message of Hope and Support to Tornado-Damaged Joplin, Missouri Joplin, MO: death toll from tornado of 22-May-11: 142 VOA News 57
17-Jun-11 AOG WEATH Helena Hong Torrential rains hit south China, killing 25 China: torrential rains/floods killed 25 people; 25 people are missing CNN International 58
20-Jun-11 ACC JET Russian plane crash leaves 44 dead Russia: RusAir Tu-134 passenger jet crashed killing 44 people  CBC News: AP 59
22-Jun-11 AOG QUAK Magnitude 6.7 - Near The East Coast Of Honshu, Japan Japan: 6.7-magnitude quake USGS 60
24-Jun-11 AOG WEATH Tropical storm in Philippines kills 11, forces 40,000 out of homes Philippines: tropical storm Meari killed ≥11 people and displaced 40,000 people CNN World 61
24-Jun-11 AOG QUAK Magnitude 7.2 - Fox Islands, Aleutian Islands, Alaska USGS: Fox Islands, Aleutian Islands, Alaska: magnitude 7.2 quake USGS 62
2-Jul-11 ACC OIL ECO Statement by ExxonMobil Pipeline Company Regarding Crude Oil Release into Yellowstone River in Montana ExxonMobil Pipeline Company: crude oil was released into the Yellowstone River from an ExxonMobil Pipeline Company (EMPCo) pipeline ExxonMobil-Business Wire 63
3-Jul-11 AOG WEATH Mexico Confirms 11 Deaths After Tropical Storm Arlene Mexico: flooding and mudslides triggered by Tropical Storm Arlene killed 11 people VOA News 64
6-Jul-11 ACC JET Cargo plane crash in Afghanistan Afghanistan: an Azeri Russian-made Ilyushin IL-76  carrying 9 crew crashed BBC News 65
9-Jul-11 ACC WEATH JET Contributor: Pierre Meilhan Report: Plane crash in Congo kills at least 90 people Congo: Boeing 727 passenger plane crashed and killed ≥90 people CNN International 66
10-Jul-11 ACC One killed, over 100 missing as cruise ship sinks in Central Russia (WRAPUP) Russia: cruise ship sunk on the Volga river; 77 people were saved, 1 person was killed, up to 110 people are missing RIA Novosti 67
10-Jul-11 ACC India: Train crash in Uttar Pradesh kills dozens India: 2 train crashes killed ≥69 people in 1 week BBC News 68
10-Jul-11 AOG QUAK Magnitude 7.0 - Off The East Coast Of Honshu, Japan East Coast Of Honshu, Japan: Magnitude 7.0 quake USGS 69
11-Jul-11 ACC MIL Cyprus naval blast a 'catastrophe of biblical proportions' Cyprus: explosion at the National Guard's Evangelos Florakis Naval Base killed 12 people CBC News: AP 70
22-Jul-11 ACC Zhang Xiang (ed.) 41 dead in bus fire in central China China: bus fire killed 41 people in Xinyang City, Henan Province Xinhua 71
25-Jul-11 ACC Wang Guanqun (ed.) Death toll from China's train crash rises to 39, including two Americans 23-Jul-11: China: bullet train crash in Zhejiang Province killed 39 people, including 2 Americans Xinhua 72
26-Jul-11 MIL ACC J. David Goodman 78 Killed in Military Plane Crash in Morocco Morocco: a military C-130 troop transport jet crashed killing ≥78 people NYT 73
27-Jul-11 AOG WEATH Lee Sun-young  At least 38 dead as heavy rains batter nation South Korea: torrential rains and mudslides killed ≥38 people Korea Herald 74
27-Jul-11 AOG WEATH CNN Wire Staff Slow-moving tropical storm kills 27 in Philippines Philippines: a tropical storm killed 27 people  CNN International 75
31-Jul-11 ACC Bus Crash in Zimbabwe Kills 18 30-Jul-11: Zimbabwe: bus crash killed ≥18 people VOA News 76
31-Jul-11 ACC Russian Pleasure Boat Hits Barge in Moscow River, 9 Killed Moscow, Russia: a crash between a pleasure boat and a barge killed 9 people VOA News-AP-AFP-Reuters 77
1-Aug-11 ACC Xiong Tong (ed.) 25 people found dead on immigration boat to Italy Italy: the Coast Guard found 25 persons dead on an boat carrying ~300 immigrants/refugees from North Africa to Italy Xinhua 78
10-Aug-11 ACC JET No survivors found in crashed Russian cargo plane 9-Aug-11: Russia: an Antonov An-12 transport plane crashed; 11 people were killed RIA Novosti 79
13-Aug-11 ACC OIL Gannet oil leak Shell U.K. Limited confirmed an oil leak in a flow line to its Gannet Alpha platform is "under control"; the well was shut in on 10-Aug-11 Shell 80
20-Aug-11 AOG JET Plane crash near Resolute Bay kills 12 Nunavut, Canada: a First Air passenger jet crashed killing 12 people  CBC News 81
23-Aug-11 AOG QUAK Magnitude 5.8 - VIRGINIA Virginia, U.S.: magnitude 5.8 quake USGS 82
24-Aug-11 ACC SPACE SCIE Russia likely to suspend space deliveries over loss of Progress freighter Roscosmos: the Progress M-12M space freighter failed to separate from the Soyuz-U carrier rocket engine RIA Novosti 83
24-Aug-11 AOG QUAK Magnitude 7.0 - NORTHERN PERU Peru: magnitude 7.0 quake USGS 84
27-Aug-11 AOG WEATH Hurricane IRENE Public Advisory Hurricane Irene NOAA-National Hurricane Center 85
28-Aug-11 AOG WEATH CNN Wire Staf Typhoon reaches Taiwan after killing 7 in Philippines Philippines: Typhoon Nanmadol killed ≥7 people CNN International 86
28-Aug-11 ACC JET Quebec helicopter crash killed 4 people Quebec: helicopter crash killed 4 people  CBC News 87
29-Aug-11 AOG WEATH FIN Drew Armstrong; Mark Tannenbaum (ed.) Irene State-by-State: Deaths, Flooding, Power Losses Hurricane Irene: ≥26 people killed; ~$2.6 billion in damage [Kinetic Analysis Corp.]; >6 million homes and businesses without power Bloomberg 88
29-Aug-11 AOG Landslide Kills 23 in Eastern Uganda Uganda: landslide killed 23 people VOA News 89
29-Aug-11 AOG WEATH FIN Daniel Wagner; Christopher S. Rugaber. Contributor: Eileen AJ Connelly Irene likely to lead to higher insurance premiums The losses from Hurricane Irene are estimated at $7 billion; still, big insurance companies can expect profits and insurance customers can expect higher premiums Yahoo! Finance: AP 90
30-Aug-11 AOG WEATH Kevin Dolak; Olivia Katrandjian; Ben Forer Irene Flooding: Death Toll Rises to 40 The death toll from Hurricane Irene rose to 40  ABC News-AP 91
5-Sep-11 AOG WEATH Typhoon leaves 27 dead, 51 missing, causing worst damage since 2004 Japan: Typhoon Talas killed 27 people; 51 are missing Kyodo News 92
5-Sep-11 ACC JET Chile mourns as search continues for air crash bodies 2-Sep-11: Chile: a Casa-212 turboprop plane crashed in the Pacific Ocean with 21 people on board BBC News 93
7-Sep-11 ACC JET Lynn Berry Russian jet carrying hockey team crashes, 43 dead Russia: Yak-42 plane crashed killing ≥43 people AP 94
10-Sep-11 ACC Zanzibar mourns ferry disaster victims Zanzibar, Tanzania: overloaded ferry sank killing ~200 people BBC News 95
10-Sep-11 ACC ENER Michael White; Anthony Palazzo (ed.) San Diego Bartender Defies Power Blackout 8-Sep-11: blackout in Southern California and Arizona; reported cause: failure of a transmission line Bloomberg 96
11-Sep-11 AOG WEATH Xiong Tong (ed.) 141 killed, 4 mln homeless as floods hit S Pakistan Pakistan: rains and floods killed ≥141 people Xinhua 97
12-Sep-11 ACC OIL Cathy Majtenyi Nairobi Pipeline Explosion Kills at Least 61 Kenya: gasoline pipeline explosion killed ≥61 people in Nairobi VOA News 98
12-Sep-11 ACC NUC Explosion at French nuclear site of Marcoule France: explosion at the Centraco radioactive waste storage site of Marcoule killed 1 person and injured 4; no radioactive leaks reported BBC News 99
14-Sep-11 ACC Michael Warren Argentines point fingers in deadly bus-train crash 13-Sep-11: Argentina: bus-train collision killed 11 people and injured >200  AP 100
14-Sep-11 ACC OIL Joel Achenbach BP’s cost cuts contributed to oil spill disaster, federal probe finds Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, Regulation and Enforcement (BOEMRE) reports on the 20-Apr-2010 Macondo well blowout and the resulting spill (87-day spill that released ~5 million barrels of oil into the gulf): "“BP’s cost or time saving decisions without considering contingencies and mitigation were contributing causes of the Macondo blowout" Washington Post 101
14-Sep-11 ACC OIL Report Regarding The Causes Of The April 20, 2010 Macondo Well Blowout BOEMRE: Report Regarding The Causes Of The April 20, 2010 Macondo Well Blowout: Conclusions include: (0) "the blowout at the Macondo well on April 20, 2010 was the result of a series of decisions that increased risk and a number of actions that failed to fully consider or mitigate those risks"; (1) "BP well designers set the casing in a location that created additional risks of hydrocarbon influx. Even knowing this, BP did not set additional cement or mechanical barriers in the well. . . ; (2) BP personnel and Transocean personnel failed to conduct an accurate negative test to assess the integrity of the production casing cement job. . . ; (3) "The Deepwater Horizon rig crew missed signs of a kick and thus was delayed in reacting to the well control situation. . . " Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, Regulation and Enforcement 102
17-Sep-11 ACC JET 9 dead in Reno air race crash 16-Sep-11: Reno, NV: plane crash at the Reno air show killed 9 people CBC News: AP 103
18-Sep-11 AOG QUAK Strong Quake Kills At Least 12 in India, Nepal India and Nepal: magnitude 6.9 quake killed ≥12 people [see 20-Sep-11] VOA News-AP-AFP-Reuters 104
20-Sep-11 AOG QUAK Contributors: Harmeet Singh; Manesh Shrestha; Bharati Naik  Death toll from India-centered quake jumps to 81 18-Sep-11: India, Nepal, China: the death toll from the magnitude 6.9 quake rose to 81 CNN 105
20-Sep-11 AOG SCIE JUST Nicole Winfield. Contributor: Alicia Change Trial opens against scientists for Italy quake Italy: 7 scientists are on trial for allegedly failing to sufficiently warn residents of a magnitude-6.3 quake that killed 308 people in 2009 AP 106
22-Sep-11 AOG WEATH Yuri Kageyama. Contributor: Mari Yamaguchi 16 Dead or Missing as Typhoon Hits Japan Japan: Typhoon Roke hit Japan on 21-Sep-11; 16 people are dead or missing Time: AP 107
26-Sep-11 ACC JET Rajneesh Bhandari; Mark Magnier Nepal plane crash kills 19 after Mt. Everest flight 25-Sep-11: Nepal: Buddha Air Beechcraft 1900D plane crashed killing 19 people Los Angeles Times 108
29-Sep-11 ACC ENER OIL Luke Pachymuthu; Yaw Yan Chong. Contributors: Harry Suhartono; Alejandro Barbajosa; Seng Li Peng; Francis Kan; Jasmin Choo; Manash Goswami; Michael Urquhart (ed.); Simon Webb (ed.) Shell shuts most of Singapore refinery as fire rages Singapore: blaze reported at Royal Dutch Shell Plc refinery in Singapore; Shell shut much of the refinery Reuters 109
29-Sep-11 ACC Indonesia plane crashes in North Sumatra Indonesia: Casa C-212 aircraft with 18 passengers and crew members crashed BBC News 110
4-Oct-11 ACC JET James Barron. Contributors: Al Baker; Matt Flegenheimer; Joseph Goldstein; Rob Harris; Colin Moynihan; Andy Newman; Patrick McGeehan; Patrick Wall Helicopter Plunges Into East River, Killing a Passenger; 4 People Survive New York, NY: a Bell 206 JetRanger helicopter crashed in the East River; 4 people were rescued, 1 person was killed NYT 111
7-Oct-11 ACC CHEM Mark Guarino Illinois train explosion: How safe are ethanol tankers? Illinois, U.S.: a freight train carrying ethanol derailed and exploded Christian Science Monitor 112
7-Oct-11 ACC OIL 2 still in hospital after Regina refinery explosion 6-Oct-11: Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada: blast and  fire at Consumers' Co-operative Refineries Ltd. injured 13 people CBC News 113
9-Oct-11 AOG WEATH Philippines Typhoon Death Toll Tops 100 Philippines: 2 typhoons killed ≥101 people; 27 people are missing VOA News 114
9-Oct-11 ACC OIL New Zealand oil spill cleanup begins amid storm fears New Zealand: a Liberian-flagged ship (Rena) hit the Astrolabe Reef; oil spill cleanup begins CBC News-AP 115
10-Oct-11 AOG WEATH Death Tolls Rise From Southeast Asia Flooding Death toll from typhoons: Cambodia, >200 since Sep-11; Thailand, >250 since Jul-11; Philippines, 101 (17 people are missing) on 27-Sep-11 and 1-Oct-11; Vietnam, 24 VOA News-AP-AFP-Reuters 116
23-Oct-11 ACC 31 Dead in Indian Bridge Collapse India: a bridge collapsed killing ≥31 people VOA News 117
24-Oct-11 AOG QUAK Diana Magnay; Yesim Comert More than 230 dead in Turkey quake; 1,300 more hurt 23-Oct-11: Turkey: 7.2-magnitude quake killed >230 people; 970 buildings collapsed CNN 118
30-Oct-11 AOG QUAK Turkey Earthquake Cleanup Under Way as Searches Wind Down 23-Oct-11: Turkey: 7.2-magnitude quake killed 582 people VOA News-AP-Reuters 119
6-Nov-11 AOG WEATH Thai Flood Death Toll Rises Past 500 Thailand: the death toll from flood rose to 506; 3 million households were affected; ~10,000 factories were inundated VOA News-AP-Reuters 120
21-Nov-11 ACC OIL LAW Chevron Takes Responsibility for Brazil Oil Spill, May Face $51M Fine Brazil: Chevron may face ≥$51 million in fines and reparations for an oil spill in Brazil [source: Estado de Sao Paulo] Fox News-Dow Jones Newswires 121
28-Nov-11 ACC 11 Dead in Indonesia Bridge Collapse, 30 Missing Indonesia; a bridge collapsed killing 11 people; 30 people are missing VOA News-AP-AFP-Reuters 122
9-Dec-11 ACC HEAL Anjana Pasricha 89 Die in India Hospital Blaze India: fire at a hospital in Kolkata killed 89 people VOA News 123
12-Dec-11 GOV WEATH SCIE Canada pulls out of Kyoto Protocol Canada's Conservative government to withdraw from the Kyoto Protocol and save ~$14 billion in penalties CBC News 124
18-Dec-11 AOG WEATH Clarissa Batino; Joel Guinto; Paul Tighe (ed.) Philippine Flooding, Landslides Kill 652 17-Dec-11: Philippines: Tropical Storm Washi caused floodings and landslides killing 652 people [Red Cross] Bloomberg 125
18-Dec-11 ACC OIL 4 Dead, 49 Missing in Russia Oil Platform Accident Russia: "Kolskaya" oil drilling platform capsized and sank; 4 people were killed, 49 are missing VOA News-AFP-Reuters 126
30-Dec-11 AOG WEATH 11 Killed in Indian Cyclone India: cyclone Thane killed ≥11 people VOA News-AP-AFP 127