Portal:Current events/2018 September 28
September 28, 2018 (Friday)
Disasters and accidents
- 2018 Pacific hurricane season
- Hurricane Rosa strengthens to a category 4 hurricane in the Pacific Ocean and is expected to affect parts of the coastlines of southwestern Mexico, the Baja California Peninsula, and Southern California. (NBC News)
- Air Niugini Flight 73 crashes on landing at Chuuk International Airport. All 47 people on board survive.(ABC)
- 2018 Sulawesi earthquake
- Indonesia is hit by a tsunami after being hit by a 7.7-magnitude earthquake, killing at least one person and entire families reported missing. (News.com) (CBS News)
Religion
- The Roman Catholic Church has announced that it has defrocked Father Fernando Karadima, a priest at the center of a sex abuse scandal in the Church in Chile. (Reuters)