Australia: Record Flooding Batters Northern NSW After Heavy Rainfall 2

Flooding has battered cities and towns across the Mid-North Coast and the Hunter Region in northern New South Wales, leaving many residents stranded or forced to evacuate after days of heavy rainfall. In the city of Taree, the Manning River surpassed its 1929 record of six meters and was still rising as of Wednesday morning, May 21. Authorities have issued 13 emergency-level alerts.

Australia: Record Flooding Batters Northern NSW After Heavy Rainfall 3

Flooding has battered cities and towns across the Mid-North Coast and the Hunter Region in northern New South Wales, leaving many residents stranded or forced to evacuate after days of heavy rainfall. In the city of Taree, the Manning River surpassed its 1929 record of six meters and was still rising as of Wednesday morning, May 21. Authorities have issued 13 emergency-level alerts.

Powerful typhoon in Japan

Powerful typhoon in Japan

A signboard at a JR Hamamatsu station ticket gate in Hamamatsu, Shizuoka Prefecture in central Japan, shows Tokaido bullet train services suspended between Mishima in the prefecture and Nagoya, Aichi Prefecture, on Aug. 30, 2024, due to the approach of Typhoon Shanshan.

Quake measures on shinkansen

Quake measures on shinkansen

SHIZUOKA, Japan - Central Japan Railway Co. shows reporters a rail (back) with anti-derailment gears in case of a major quake on the Tokaido Shinkansen Line at JR Mishima Station in Shizuoka Prefecture on Jan. 9, 2013.

Quake measures on shinkansen

Quake measures on shinkansen

SHIZUOKA, Japan - Central Japan Railway Co. shows reporters a rail with anti-derailment gears in case of a major quake on the Tokaido Shinkansen Line at Mishima Station in Shizuoka Prefecture on Jan. 9, 2013.

Drill simulating Tokai quake conducted at bullet-train station

Drill simulating Tokai quake conducted at bullet-train station

MISHIMA, Japan - Railway staff at the Tokaido Shinkansen bullet- train line's Mishima Station in Shizuoka Prefecture carry a ''wounded'' passenger in a drill simulating a huge Tokai earthquake on Aug. 28. It was the first time in Japan that an earthquake drill was conducted at a bullet-train station.

JR Tokai ordered to pay 49 mil. yen over teen's death

JR Tokai ordered to pay 49 mil. yen over teen's death

NUMAZU, Japan - Yasuo Kawasaki (L) and Nobue Kawasaki, parents of Yusuke Kawasaki, wipe away tears at a news conference in Numazu, Shizuoka Prefecture, on March 7 after the Shizuoka District Court ordered Central Japan Railway Co. (JR Tokai) to pay them 49 million yen in compensation over a 1995 bullet train accident at Mishima Station on the Tokaido Shinkansen Line. On Dec. 27, 1995, their son Yusuke, 17, died after getting his finger caught in a train door and being dragged for about 150 meters.

Hiroshige - 53 Stations of the Tokaido - Print 12

Hiroshige - 53 Stations of the Tokaido - Print 12

12 Mishima - Travellers setting forth in the mists of early morning, one on horseback and the other in a kago. Situated at the entrance to Hakone pass, this station was packed with travellers all through the year. Utagawa Hiroshige (1797 - 1858). The Fifty-Three Stations of the Tokaido - Hoeido edition (1831-4) Date: 1831 - 1834

The Hakone post town

The Hakone post town

Looking toward Odawara from the south of Mishima in Hakonejuku. The houses have not changed from the Edo era. To the left of Ashino Lake in the hills, the Hakone Rikyu can be seen, so we know that this photo was taken after 1886. The cedar tree in the centre is a remainder of the sekisho (checking station).==Date:unknown, Place:Hakone, Photo:Ogawa Kazumasa, (Credit:Nagasaki University Library/Kyodo News Images) [Cabinet Number5‐22‐0]

JR Tokai ordered to pay 49 mil. yen over teen's death

JR Tokai ordered to pay 49 mil. yen over teen's death

NUMAZU, Japan - Yasuo Kawasaki (L) and Nobue Kawasaki, parents of Yusuke Kawasaki, wipe away tears at a news conference in Numazu, Shizuoka Prefecture, on March 7 after the Shizuoka District Court ordered Central Japan Railway Co. (JR Tokai) to pay them 49 million yen in compensation over a 1995 bullet train accident at Mishima Station on the Tokaido Shinkansen Line. On Dec. 27, 1995, their son Yusuke, 17, died after getting his finger caught in a train door and being dragged for about 150 meters.