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Torrential rain combined with suspected dam water release caused severe flooding in Yola, Adamawa State, Nigeria, on July 27, 2025, leaving at least 25 people dead, 55 injured, and thousands displaced.
A tsunami generated by the M8.8 earthquake off Russia’s Kamchatka Peninsula on July 29, 2025, produced waves of up to 1.7 m (5.7 ft) across parts of Hawaii, prompting evacuations, port closures, and widespread coastal alerts. No significant damage or casualties have been reported.
A destructive derecho swept through the central United States from the evening of July 28 into early July 29 2025, producing wind gusts up to 160 km/h (99 mph), toppling trees, and causing widespread power outages.
At least 30 people died and more than 80 000 were evacuated in Beijing, China, after record rainfall from July 26–28, 2025, caused severe flooding and landslides.
Severe flooding affected parts of Jharkhand, India, from July 26 to 28, 2025, following persistent heavy rainfall since mid-July. In Jamshedpur, approximately 60 homes were fully submerged, and around 100 were partially flooded. At least five fatalities were reported, including four youths who drowned while bathing in a check-dam in Seraikela-Kharsawan district.
Tampa saw its hottest temperature on record after reaching 37.8°C (100 °F) at 15:30 local time on July 27, 2025.
A deadly wildfire burned through approximately 3 000 ha (7 413 acres) of forest land in Bursa Province, northwestern Türkiye, forcing the evacuation of at least 1 765 people as of July 28, 2025. At least 17 fatalities have been confirmed in Türkiye since late June as wildfires intensified under extreme heat, including multiple deaths in Bursa over the weekend.
A rapidly spreading wildfire forced the evacuation of 102 people, including 12 children, by sea at Punta Molentis beach in Villasimius, Sardinia, Italy, on July 27, 2025. The fire destroyed dozens of vehicles and cut off all land escape routes. Environmental organizations described the destruction as the loss of one of Sardinia’s coastal jewels.
A new study published on July 18, 2025, in Science Advances presents the first high-resolution seismic images of a nascent subduction zone off the coast of British Columbia’s Haida Gwaii archipelago, revealing a developing megathrust fault capable of producing powerful earthquakes and tsunamis.
Machine learning algorithms applied to waveform data from 2008 to 2022 have revealed 86 276 earthquakes beneath the Yellowstone caldera, U.S., approximately 10 times more than previously recorded. The revised catalogue, published in Science Advances on July 18, 2025, was created by researchers from Western University, Universidad Industrial de Santander, and the U.S. Geological Survey.
