Over 20,000 people evacuated in Canada due to wildfires

More than 20,000 residents of Canada’s Alberta, Manitoba and Saskatchewan provinces had to leave their homes due to wildfires, the CTV channel reported.

UAE registers record high temperature in May for second day in row

The air temperature in the UAE is record high in May for the second time in a row.

Death toll in Australia floods rises to four, 1 missing

Record floods cut a destructive path through eastern Australia, caking houses in silt, washing out roads and separating 50,000 people from help.

At least 21 dead after tornadoes sweep through US Midwest

At least 21 people are reported to have died after tornadoes tore through parts of two US.

Strong earthquake in Crete at dawn - magnitude 6.1

A strong earthquake measuring 6 on the Richter scale occurred a few minutes before 2 am off the coast of Crete.

According to the automatic solution of the Geodynamic Institute, the epicenter of the earthquake is located 35 kilometers south of Kassos and east of the prefecture of Lasithi and 35 kilometers south of Kassos. Its focal depth is 62.1 kilometers.

 Magnitude    6.1
Region    CRETE, GREECE
Date time    2025-05-13 22:51:15.3 UTC
Location    35.250 ; 26.946
Depth    71 km
Distance    164 km E of Irákleion, Greece / pop: 137,000 / local time: 01:51:15.3 2025-05-14
38 km SSW of Karpathos, Greece / pop: 2,200 / local time: 01:51:15.3 2025-05-14

2 Major earthquakes magnitude 7.4 & 7.1 - South Atlantic Ocean, south of Argentina and Chile – Tsunami warning

 The powerful earthquake, measuring 7.5 on the Richter scale, occurred in the Drake Passage, in the sea area south of Argentina and Chile.