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tinmenace

12-09-2007, 12:46 PM

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Two powerful earthquakes reported in Indonesia with preliminary magnitudes of 7.8 and 8.0. Tsunami alert issued. - CNN

JAKARTA, Indonesia (CNN) -- A strong earthquake measuring 7.9 in magnitude struck Wednesday near southern Indonesia, the U.S. Geological Survey said.

A tsunami watch was immediately issued for the area.

The earthquake, which struck at 1810 local time (1110 GMT) Bengkulu province, Sumatra, has caused buildings to sway in Indonesia's capital city, Jakarta, but there are no reports of damage.

Ken Navidad at the USGS in Denver said the tsunami centers in the Pacific and Alaska initially said two quakes, but he did not know why. He said his agency has measured only one.

Tsunami warning centers in Hawaii and Alaska said no tsunamis were expected in their areas.

Indonesia, which sits on the Pacific Basin's "Ring of Fire" - an arc of volcanos and fault lines, is prone to seismic upheaval.

In December 2004, a massive earthquake off Sumatra island triggered a tsunami that killed more than 230,000 people, including 160,000 people in Indonesia's province of Aceh.

Source (http://www.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/asiapcf/09/12/indonesia.quake/index.html)

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tinmenace

13-09-2007, 11:55 AM

New 6.2 earthquake strikes Sumatra

The 7.8-magnitude earthquake struck about 6:45 a.m. (1145 GMT), according to the USGS. The epicenter was about 185 km (115 miles) south-southeast of Padang and about 210 km northwest of Bengkulu.

About four hours later, the USGS reported that a 7.1-magnitude quake had rocked the region. Sandwiched in-between were half a dozen temblors measuring 5.0 and above.

According to Indonesia's Social Welfare Minister Aburizal Bakrie, a total of at least 60 earthquakes have rattled the country within a 24-hour period.

Source (http://www.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/asiapcf/09/13/indonesia.quake/index.html)

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tinmenace

13-09-2007, 12:09 PM

Humberto quickly grows into hurricane, hits Texas

MIAMI, Florida (CNN) -- Humberto made landfall on the Texas coast early Thursday shortly after strengthening into a Category 1 hurricane, the National Hurricane Center said.

Source (http://www.cnn.com/2007/US/weather/09/13/humberto/index.html)

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i_am

13-09-2007, 12:21 PM

Looks like Australia is the place to be :D

chattanova

15-09-2007, 01:12 AM

Sumatra 8.4 Quake Killed At Least 14 People

Second 7.9 quake struck northwest of first site, followed by powerful aftershocks. Mercifully, a big tsunami went to sea instead of land.

"The tsunami could quite easily have been the other way.
It's a quirk of nature that this (reverse to sea) is how it happened."
- Mike Turnbull, Seismologist, Australia Central Queensland Univeristy

Elshina radio in Jakarta, Indonesia reports today that: "The death toll from the earthquakes in Sumatra had reached 14 as of Friday morning. The initial 8.4 quake that hit the region on the eve of Ramadhan (Wednesday) damaged thousands of homes, forcing people to seek refuge in tents." The series of powerful earthquakes also injured 56 people, particularly in the hardest hit province of Bengkulu.

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Collapsed car showroom in Padang, southern Sumatra, Indonesia

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Road split in province of Bengkulu

chattanova

19-09-2007, 03:16 PM

Typhoon Wipha Slams Into China - 2M Evacuated

Typhoon Wipha slammed into the coast south of Shanghai early Wednesday as authorities moved 2 million people following forecasts it would be the most powerful storm to hit eastern China in a decade.

Shanghai closed schools, delayed or postponed dozens of flights and ferry crossings and other transport links amid warnings of torrential rains and strong winds.

The storm, packing sustained winds of 161 km/h (100 mph), made landfall near Cangnan in southern Zhejiang province, some 386 kilometers (240 miles) south of Shanghai, state media reported.

State television showed streets flooded knee-deep in several regional cities.

Authorities in Shanghai, Zhejiang and Fujian province ordered 2 million people evacuated from ships and coastal regions and from housing judged to be unsafe.

The storm, with winds gusting to 233 km/h (145 mph), was losing force as it moved north along the coast and was expected to pass over Shanghai later Wednesday, local weather reports said.

There were no immediate reports of injuries or damage caused by the storm on mainland China.

On Tuesday, one worker was reported killed and another seriously injured as the fringe of the typhoon lashed Taiwan, knocking down scaffolding at a highway construction site in Taipei, Taiwan's Disaster Relief Center reported.

Organizers of the women's World Cup rescheduled Wednesday's Shanghai match between Norway and Ghana to Thursday and moved it to the neighboring city of Hangzhou.

A Wednesday game in Hangzhou between Brazil and Denmark was moved to Thursday.

Shanghai and the coastal provinces of Zhejiang and Fujian to the south issued typhoon warnings requiring all vessels to return to shore or change course to avoid the storm. Numerous flights out of Shanghai and other regional airports were canceled.

Wipha, a woman's name in Thai, was upgraded from a tropical storm Monday. With wind gusts of up to 265 km/h, local meteorological officials said it would be the most destructive storm to hit the Shanghai area in years if it followed a course northward that would take it just west of the city.
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The deadliest storm to hit the China coast in recent years was Typhoon Winnie in 1997, which killed 236 people.

The deadliest storm to hit the China coast in recent years was Typhoon Winnie in 1997, which killed 236 people. Typhoon Rananim, with winds of more than 161 km/h, was the strongest typhoon to hit the Chinese mainland since 1956, killing nearly 200 people.

http://www.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/weather/09/18/typhoon.wipha.ap/index.html

tinmenace

19-09-2007, 10:30 PM

Ah! Chattanova, you and I are on the same wavelength, my friend. I was just fixing to post this, and you've done it for us already! Good job, bud!

chattanova

20-09-2007, 02:14 PM

Ah! Chattanova, you and I are on the same wavelength, my friend. I was just fixing to post this, and you've done it for us already! Good job, bud!

lol:D Sure we are:) Next time I will give you a chance tinnygirl:p;)

tinmenace

20-09-2007, 10:25 PM

lol:D Sure we are:) Next time I will give you a chance tinnygirl:p;)

Don't wait on me, my friend. I can be quite the flake sometimes :eek::D

chattanova

05-10-2007, 04:23 PM

Typhoon Lekima Hits Vietnam - Destroys 70,000 Homes

Three dead as Typhoon Lekima hits Vietnam

Three people have been killed after Typhoon Lekima lashed into central Vietnam en route to neighbouring Laos.

It whipped up winds of 80 miles an hour and destroyed more than 70,000 homes. Three people drowned, including a 13-year-old boy who was trying to anchor his family's boat during the storm.

The storm made landfall late last night in Ha Tinh and Quang Binh provinces of Vietnam. It destroyed or damaged more than 29,000 homes in Quang Binh province, where 33 people were injured by falling trees or flying debris, according to disaster official Nguyen Ngoc Dien.

In the neighbouring province of Ha Tinh, to the north, 25 people were injured and more than 42,000 homes were wrecked, officials said.

The typhoon was downgraded to a tropical storm after reaching Laos this morning.

Earlier, Lekima appeared to be heading for southern China, where officials evacuated 100,000 people and called 20,000 fishing boats back to harbour.

It shifted course yesterday morning and began heading to Vietnam, which is prone to floods and storms that kill hundreds of people each year.

Vietman's deputy prime minister, Hoang Trung Hai, said the damage could have been much worse. "Thanks to good preparatory work, the damage from the storm is not large," he told Reuters.

Last weekend, Lekima killed at least five people in the Philippines.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/naturaldisasters/story/0%2C%2C2183299%2C00.html

tinmenace

07-10-2007, 11:41 PM

Can't keep up with it all, but will you take a look at the size of this freaking wave!

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Typhoon Krosa

chattanova

08-10-2007, 02:24 PM

Can't keep up with it all, but will you take a look at the size of this freaking wave!

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Typhoon Krosa

:eek: Woooow :eek: When & where was this?? Totally crazy!

tinmenace

08-10-2007, 02:39 PM

:eek: Woooow :eek: When & where was this?? Totally crazy!

In the last few days - BBC (http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/asia-pacific/7033495.stm)

chattanova

08-10-2007, 02:45 PM

In the last few days - BBC (http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/asia-pacific/7033495.stm)

Yes, I heard it's the worst weather they've had in Vietnam for 30-40 years.
A lot of other countries also getting they're 'records' upgraded this year.
Horrible, I think mother-nature is getting a bit help from the 'hidden-hand':eek:

tinmenace

08-10-2007, 03:01 PM

Yes, I heard it's the worst weather they've had in Vietnam for 30-40 years.
A lot of other countries also getting they're 'records' upgraded this year.
Horrible, I think mother-nature is getting a bit help from the 'hidden-hand':eek:

Agreed!

klinker

08-10-2007, 03:03 PM

Weather wars anybody? :(

chattanova

23-10-2007, 02:36 PM

250,000 Evacuated San Diego County - 100,000 Acres Burned

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Volunteer firefighters from Running Springs try to halt the spead of flames in Green Valley Lake, a community about 12 miles east of Lake Arrowhead.

The number of blazes and their wind-whipped ferocity strain the area's firefighting resources to the limit.

Wind-whipped firestorms destroyed more than 700 homes and businesses in Southern California on Monday, the second day of its onslaught, and more than half a million people in San Diego County were told to evacuate their homes.

The gale-force winds turned hillside canyons into giant blowtorches from Santa Barbara to the Mexican border. Although the worst damage was around San Diego and Lake Arrowhead, dangerous fires also threatened Malibu, parts of Orange and Ventura counties, and the Agua Dulce area near Santa Clarita.

Late Monday night, new blazes were menacing homes near Stevenson Ranch and in Soledad Canyon in northern Los Angeles County. The Soledad Canyon fire burned multiple mobile homes and evacuations were underway, fire officials said.

Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, calling it "a tragic time for California," declared a state of emergency in seven counties and redeployed California National Guard members from the border to support firefighters. Schwarzenegger stressed how much California officials have learned since the devastating wildfires of October 2003, which raged over much of the same terrain.

But as the day wore on, it became clear that any hard-earned knowledge was no match for natural forces overrunning the ability of firefighters to control them.

"The issue this time is not preparedness," said San Diego City Council President Scott Peters. "It's that the event is so overwhelming."

Pat Helsing, 59, evacuated her home in the Scripps Ranch area, much as she had done four years ago.

"It seems scarier this time," she said. "The fire is everywhere in San Diego now. You don't know where you can go to escape it."

By late Monday, Southern California fires had burned 269,000 acres -- about 420 square miles -- and destroyed at least 892 buildings. Remarkably, only one person was known to have died, although it was possible that more fatalities would be discovered. At least 37 people had been injured, including 17 firefighters.

Near Malibu, where fire Sunday had burned into the center of town, the focus Monday was in the hills, where firefighters on the ground and in the air were trying to prevent flames from marching across Las Flores Canyon and into Topanga Canyon.

"It's trying to move toward Topanga Canyon, parallel to the coastline," said Manhattan Beach Battalion Chief Frank Chiella, near the Rambla Pacifico area. Firefighters were attempting to stay ahead of the fire and funnel it toward the ocean.

"If you let it get wide, that's a lot more homes it could take out," Chiella said. "We're doing what we can to keep it from getting bigger; we've only lost one home today."

Two fires on opposite sides of Lake Arrowhead had burned about 2,000 acres by Monday evening, destroying 138 buildings and prompting the evacuation of hundreds of residents from mountain resort communities.

In northern Los Angeles County, the Buckweed fire had swept through 35,000 acres by Monday evening, destroying 20 homes and two bridges, and causing the evacuation of about 15,000 people. It was burning toward Magic Mountain, but was partially contained.

In Orange County, where a suspected arson fire stretched the resources of local crews, residents along Calle Cabrillo in Foothill Ranch were packing cars and preparing to evacuate.

"We've been through this before," Karen Royer said. "I believe in God, and I know everything will be good."

Minutes later, a plume of dark smoke lifted over a ridgeline.

"Can I revise that?" she said. "Now I'm scared."

The Orange County blaze, called the Santiago fire, was leaping relentlessly in a southeasterly direction, burning ominously close to the Foothill Ranch and Portola Hill communities. About 500 firefighters and two water-carrying helicopters stood between the fire and hundreds of homes, Battalion Chief Kris Concepcion said.

Several firefighters escaped major injuries when they deployed fire-retardant survival tents as they were overtaken by flames along Santiago Canyon Road.

http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-fire23oct23,1,4111438.story?coll=la-headlines-california&ctrack=2&cset=true

tinmenace

23-10-2007, 10:39 PM

Lapis said it so well in a recent email. She said that the fall of the old has begun.

lapis

24-10-2007, 01:33 AM

chattanova

24-10-2007, 02:42 PM

Here's a link to some info and current pictures of what's been happening literally all around where I live. San Diego is below me, Orange County is above me and LA above that. Click on "PICS" also.

I swear yesterday on the TV news the Terminator said, and I quote -

"We need the winds to stop. We need it to rain."

They're a pathetic joke without a script infront of them. No, their still a pathetic joke even with a script.

http://http://abcnews.go.com/ (http://abcnews.go.com/)

This is even worser than I thought, and I heard today on the radio they are almost about to give up! (the firefighters) :eek: This have to be enourmous!
Are you in a area that you might be evacuated?
Hope you are ok down there lapis.

chattanova

04-11-2007, 08:24 AM

Noel Deadliest of 2007 Atlantic Hurricanes

33,000 without power at 7:30 PM EDT. as Cape Cod, Massachusetts,
suffers downed tree limbs, power wires in the road and street flooding, even after Noel weakened from Cat. 1 back to Tropical Storm with hurricane force wind gusts.

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Noel's rainy path in green and yellow today and tonight in New England.
Weather radar by The Providence, R. I. Journal.

With 71 mph gusts and heavy rain, Noel is expected to pound New England tonight. Noel is the 14th named Atlantic hurricane, has killed more than 120 people and left thousands homeless in the Dominican Republic, Haiti and the island of Hispaniola.

chattanova

06-11-2007, 03:19 PM

Unprecedented Hail Storm in Bogota, Columbia;
Over 800,000 Flooded from Homes In Tabasco State of Mexico.

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Colombia has had one of the worst rainy seasons on record,
with 13 dead and thousands left homeless, landslides in 61 municipalities
and flooding in northern cities. Bogota had a freak hailstorm November 4, 2007,
and crews were wading in waist-deep ice to help clear roads.

With lands saturated by water from heavy rains this summer into fall, the past several days in the Mexico state of Tabasco, more than 800,000 people have been forced to evacuate after massive flooding. Authorities are calling it, “The worst natural disaster for decades.” So far, only five people have been killed directly by the floods (1 in Tabasco, 4 in Chiapas), but the next serious danger is disease spreading from the contaminated flood waters.

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chattanova

07-11-2007, 04:46 PM

Indonesia Volcano On Verge Of Huge Eruption?

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Thousands flee volcano with a deadly history

MOUNT KELUD A villager rides his motorcycle through flood waters near Mount Kelud, a volcano in Indonesia that scientists say is on the verge of a devastating eruption.

A series of volcanoes in the country spewed hot ash, molten rock and clouds of dark smoke yesterday, but it was Kelud, on the densely populated island of Java, that was most threatening.

A dome of magma was forming under a crater lake and soaring temperatures overheated monitoring equipment.

A few hundred kilometres away Anak Krakatao, or “Child of Krakatoa”, fired pumice and lava on to its slopes. At least one of approximately 100 other active volcanoes in Indonesia sent bursts of ash showering down on villages.

Experts said that there was no connection between the heightened activity at the volcanoes along the archipelago.

Kelud was the most worrying because of its deadly history, including an explosion in 1919 that killed more than 5,000 people.

Several thousand have fled to government shelters, authorities said, but about 25,000 have ignored evacuation orders and remain in the danger zone around the volcano. (AP)

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/asia/article2813820.ece

chattanova

09-11-2007, 04:26 PM

Yellowstone Is Rising on Swollen "Supervolcano"

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Grand Prismatic Spring is one of Yellowstone National Park's many hot springs and geysers fueled by underground thermal energy. A new study has found that Yellowstone is rising faster than has ever been measured before, due to an influx of magma several miles beneath the surface.

Yellowstone National Park is rising. Its central region, called the Yellowstone caldera, has been moving upward since mid-2004 at a rate of up to three inches (seven centimeters) a year—more than three times faster than has ever been measured.

The surface is inflating like a bellows due to an infusion of magma about 6 miles (10 kilometers) underground, according to a new study published in tomorrow's issue of the journal Science.

But that doesn't mean Yellowstone is about to go the way of Mount St. Helens.

"There's no evidence of an imminent eruption or hydrothermal explosion," said Robert Smith, a geophysics professor at the University of Utah who co-authored the study.

"Supervolcano" Under Yellowstone

Yellowstone is situated on a giant, geologically active feature known as a supervolcano.

"It's hundreds of times bigger than Mount St. Helens," Smith said, referring to the active volcano in Washington State.

(Read related story: "Supervolcano Raises Yellowstone, Fuels Geysers, Study Says" [March 1, 2006].)

Much of the park sits in a caldera, or crater, some 40 miles (70 kilometers) across, which formed when the cone of the massive volcano collapsed in a titanic eruption 640,000 years ago.

The supervolcano has produced three similarly large blasts in the past two million years, with 30 smaller eruptions since the caldera formed.

The volcano's most recent flare-up was 70,000 years ago, and volcanic heat continues to fuel the park's famous geysers and hot springs.

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2007/11/071108-yellowstone.html

infinitely free

09-11-2007, 09:19 PM

Very interesting map.
See where it's happening different crisis around the globe.

Right now theres extremely many 'volcano threats' !:eek:

http://visz.rsoe.hu/alertmap/index.php?smp=&lang=eng

Very interesting chattanova!
I havent got flash, so i cant actually see map :o

chattanova

18-11-2007, 10:58 AM

Cyclone leaves thousands dead, millions homeless in Bangladesh

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A couple clears the debris of their collapsed house in Bagherhat, Bangladesh. Thousands of people are believed to have died and millions are homeless and destitute after the worst cyclone in years tore through impoverished Bangladesh.

BARGUNA, Bangladesh (AFP) - Thousands of people are believed dead and millions are homeless and destitute after the worst cyclone in years tore through impoverished Bangladesh, officials said Saturday.

More than 1,723 people were confirmed to have died and the number was rising by the hour as soldiers and relief workers battled to reach the worst-hit coastal districts that were smashed late Thursday as cyclone Sidr roared in from the Bay of Bengal.

"We are expecting that thousands of dead bodies may be found within a few days," the deputy head of the government's disaster management office, Shekhar Chandra Das, told AFP in the capital Dhaka.

"We have not been able to collect information about casualties in many remote and impassable places due to the disruption to communications," he said.

In most areas telephone lines are down and roads blocked. Countless villages have also been blown from the face of the earth.

"The number of deaths so far is 1,723 and it is increasing," said major Emdadul Islam of the armed forces control room.

In one village, residents told AFP more than 100 people had died when the area was engulfed by a tidal surge pulled in by the colossal storm.

"A 20-foot (six-metre) wall of water wrecked the village of Charkhali and 30 more people are still missing," said local government official K.M. Abdul Wadud.

"The wind and the tidal surge were so strong that it churned up four kilometres (2.5 miles) of a tarmac road," added resident Anowar Hossen Khan.

The dead were being buried in a mass grave, villagers said.

Millions more were also said to be homeless.

"Village after village has been shattered," said administrator Hariprasad Pal. "Millions of people are living out in the open and relief is reaching less than one percent of the people."

Residents in southern districts near the coast bore the full brunt of the storm and told AFP of their terror as they were hit by wind speeds of up to 240 kilometres (155 miles) an hour, huge waves and suffocating rain.

Fulmala Begum, 40, said she was not warned to evacuate and had to take refuge under a bed with her husband and two children as the storm roared around her.

"Five hours later we found ourselves under a heap of tin roofs and two huge trees. Not a single house in my village was spared the catastrophe," said the woman, lucky to be alive but totally destitute.

"I have never seen such a terrible scene. It was like hell. I saw dozens of tin roofs flying into the air. Whole houses too," added local businessman Manik Roy, 50.

A district official said disaster-prone Bangladesh has suffered another "great human tragedy," adding that in Jhalokati district, 140 kilometres south of the capital Dhaka, every one of its 554 villages had been hit.

Jhalokati and the coastal district of Barguna, further to the south and on the edge of the vast Sunderbans mangrove forest -- the natural habitat of the endangered Royal Bengal tiger -- were among the worst affected areas.

"All the tin-built houses were blown away. Every household in the district has been affected," said deputy commissioner K.M. Rahatul Islam.

Experts described Sidr as similar in strength to the 1991 storm that triggered a tidal wave, killing an estimated 138,000 people. Another cyclone in 1970 killed up to half a million people.

But officials remained optimistic that this time the death toll -- while still high -- would be nowhere near that of previous disasters because of a network of cyclone shelters and an early-warning and evacuation system.

"If we had not taken people to the cyclone shelters, tens of thousands of people would have been killed," added Islam.

According to the government, 1.5 million people took refuge in shelters and other buildings as Sidr raced north towards the capital Dhaka before petering out in the northeast of the country.

Most of the deaths were caused by flying debris. Many people were also killed by trees falling onto homes made from bamboo and tin -- all that most people can afford in one of the world's poorest countries.

The navy has sent ships to affected areas with supplies of food, medicine and relief materials, officials said. Army helicopters were also carrying out air drops.

The European Commission, Britain, Germany and the United States expressed sympathy for the victims and pledged immediate support for the relief effort.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20071117/wl_sthasia_afp/bangladeshcyclone

chattanova

18-11-2007, 10:59 AM

Cyclone Sidr's deadly trail

LiveLeak.com - Cyclone Sidr's deadly trail

chattanova

18-11-2007, 11:04 AM

Strong earthquake shakes northern Chile, kills at least two

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View of a car crushed by the cornice of a hotel in Tocopilla, Antofagasta, after an earthquake shook Chile, 1,600 kilometers (1,000 miles) north of Santiago. A strong earthquake measuring 7.7 rocked arid northern Chile Wednesday, killing at least two people, injuring others, sparking panic and causing power outages.(AFP/Jose Munoz)

SANTIAGO (AFP) - A strong earthquake measuring 7.7 rocked arid northern Chile Wednesday, killing at least two people, injuring others, sparking panic and causing power outages.

Authorities said two women, one aged 88 and the other 54 died when they were crushed under collapsing walls in the city of Tocopilla, 1,600 kilometers (1,000 miles) north of Santiago, doctors said.

Local authorities said at least 45 people were injured, but media reports put the figure at about 100.

"It is a major quake," Fernandez said of the temblor that struck at 12:43 pm (1543 GMT.)

The epicenter was located 1,260 kilometers (783 miles) north of the Chilean capital Santiago. It was felt as far away as Bolivia's capital, La Paz, high in the Andes to the northeast.

Images from Chile's TVN television showed cars crushed by debris, and frightened people running onto the streets as the quake struck.

Damage was also reported in the northern cities of Calama and Arica which lost electrical power.

The government said a plane loaded with humanitarian aid was scheduled to fly to the affected area later in the day.

The US Geological Survey said the quake measured 7.7 on the moment magnitude scale,

which measures the amount of movement on the underground fault and the area of the fault that ruptured. Many seismologists now use that system rather than the Richter scale that measures an earthquake size based upon the amount of ground shaking.

A measurement of seven indicates a major quake and eight a great quake.

Authorities initially warned the quake could cause a tsunami but later lifted the warning, saying the epicenter was too far from the Pacific coast.

Meanwhile separate earthquakes also hit Argentina and Central America on Wednesday.

An earthquake, which US geologists measured at magnitude 5.3, rocked Guatemala and neighboring El Salvador, with no reports of casualties.

That quake was not related to the one in Chile, the United States Geological Survey said.

"There's no link between the ones in Guatemala and Chile other than they're occurring in the Pacific rim region," John Bellini, a geophysicist at the USGS, told AFP. "They're not related. Nothing triggered the other or anything like that."

http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20071114/ts_afp/chilequake

chattanova

18-11-2007, 11:05 AM

Raw home video of Chile earthquake Nov 14/07

LiveLeak.com -

chattanova

25-11-2007, 02:29 PM

Weather disasters 'getting worse'

The number of weather-related disasters has quadrupled over the past 20 years and the world should do more to prepare for them, the aid agency Oxfam says.

Population increases mean more people are affected when catastrophic weather events take place, it says in a report.

Global warming is to blame for the growing number of weather disasters, Oxfam adds.

An average of 500 such disasters are now taking place each year, compared to 120 in the 1980s, the report says.

The number of floods has increased six-fold over the same period.

Small disasters ignored

The agency expresses particular concern about the increase in small and medium-sized weather events, which it says affect great numbers of people, but do not attract as much international aid as large, well-publicised natural disasters.

The report argues that climate change is responsible for the growing number of weather-related disasters - more intense rain, combined with frequent droughts, make damaging floods much more likely.

The increasing number of weather events has been accompanied by large global population increases, and Oxfam says this means more people are being forced to live in areas which are vulnerable to the effects of the weather changes.

"They're going to forests, to jungles, to mountains... but these are just the very places that have been more affected by intense rain... and that in turn actually increases the displacement... so you get this spiral downwards of vulnerability and destitution," says Oxfam's John McGrath.

Unless the global aid community begins preparing for the future growth in weather-events, Oxfam warns, its ability to respond to natural disasters will be overwhelmed.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/7111623.stm

chattanova

25-11-2007, 02:35 PM

Malibu Wildfire Destroys Dozens High-Priced Homes

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MALIBU, Calif. (AP) - A wildfire driven by the dry, seasonal Santa Ana wind destroyed dozens of expensive homes as it raced through the canyons and hills above Malibu on Saturday, forcing hundreds of residents to flee.

No injuries were reported.

The blaze, feeding on brush and trees, began shortly before 3:30 a.m. PST near Malibu Lake on state park land and had charred roughly 2,200 acres by late morning, said Los Angeles County fire Capt. Mike Brown.

Fire officials estimated about 35 homes were destroyed but the exact number wasn't known. TV images showed flames consuming large homes in the area of expensive real estate. One home believed to be lost was valued at more than $2 million.

The cause of the fire had not been determined. About 500 firefighters were at work on the blaze, aided by 10 water-dropping helicopters, but had not contained any part of it by midmorning. "We're at the mercy of the winds right now," Brown said.

An enormous wall of smoke rose up over the hills and canyons. The blaze was blowing downhill toward the Pacific Ocean. It jumped the Pacific Coast Highway, the main thoroughfare along the coast, spreading small spot fires.

Roughly 500 homes in three separate communities were evacuated and residents were told to gather at a local high school.

Meredith Lobel-Angel, 51, and her husband Frank Angel, 54, said they had 15 minutes to leave their split-level home and managed to take little other than some clothes and their laptops.

"I ran out on the deck and I just saw a little fire and smoke up the canyon on the ridge (about a mile away)," Frank Angel said. "By the time we evacuated it was already over the ridge. It spread faster than I've ever seen it."

Carol Stoddard, 48, was told by firefighters that her home was probably gone. The 3,500 square-foot, seven-level home was worth $2 million. Stoddard, a freelance videographer and photographer, captured some of the fire's destruction as trees beside her home and her collection of 12 uninsured cars burned.

"I stayed there until I couldn't breathe and the embers were flying everywhere," she said. "It was dark and I was standing around my house. I couldn't see. I couldn't grab enough stuff that was of importance like my passport."

Officials at Pepperdine University told their students to move to a campus shelter as a precaution. However, the university was largely empty because of the holiday weekend.

"Prior to the Thanksgiving holiday I was told the weather conditions was Santa Ana winds and we all know what that means," said university spokesman Jerry Derloshon.

Hundreds of firefighters had been placed on watch for the weekend as the Santa Ana wind returned to Southern California. Gusts up to 60 mph were reported in some mountain passes during the night.

Saturday's blaze was less than a mile from the area of last month's 4,565-acre Canyon Fire, which destroyed six homes, two businesses and a church. That fire, blamed on downed power lines, also began during the early morning and forced dozens of people to flee.

http://apnews.myway.com/article/20071124/D8T48EI00.html

chattanova

26-11-2007, 03:10 PM

Malibu Fire 40% Contained, Has Burned 51 Homes and Damaged 27 Others

Home of Red Hot Chili Peppers base player, Flea, "burned to a crisp."

http://img31.picoodle.com/img/img31/5/11/26/f_MalibuHousem_d7eab0d.jpg

tootrue

27-11-2007, 02:09 PM

The Earth's New Continent of Trash - http://thetyee.ca/News/2007/11/21/PacificGarbagePatch/

chattanova

27-11-2007, 03:34 PM

The Earth's New Continent of Trash - http://thetyee.ca/News/2007/11/21/PacificGarbagePatch/

Holy Crap!

tootrue

28-11-2007, 07:59 PM

Holy Crap!

not many disasters, around there, ah? :rolleyes:

chattanova

08-12-2007, 09:40 AM

Uganda Ebola Outbreak Map - Cases Widespread

http://maps.google.com/maps/ms?ie=UTF8&hl=en&msa=0&msid=106484775090296685271.000440a9f060622a05059&ll=1.208406,31.992188&spn=9.10699,17.29248&t=h&z=6&om=0

chattanova

15-12-2007, 11:10 AM

Are You Earthquake Ready?

This is pretty cool, check it out. how prepared are you?

here http://www.nwcn.com/sharedcontent/features/flash/quake/during.html

chattanova

16-01-2008, 05:17 PM

Surfers Hit By 50ft Wave

Caught on camera: Incredible moment surfers are hit by 50ft wave off Cornwall

Beneath a towering wall of water two surfers lay waiting like tiny dots in the dark swell.

It's the kind of contest between man and the elements normally associated with the enormous waves of Hawaii or Australia.

But with the lights of shore just flickering through grey skies this is Penzance, in Cornwall, where stormy weather has created 50ft waves.

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Heavy rain and gale force winds have taken a heavy toll on parts of Britain, but for surfers Lee William and Charlie Thompson, both 21, it was a perfect excuse to head for the sea.

Photography student Jacob Cockle, 22, was there to watch as his friends did battle with the waves.

"Penzance never gets waves like this," he said. "No-one here has ever seen anything like it.

"I was out there for ages watching the surfers. It is so unusual. Other parts of Cornwall are used to big waves - but nothing like this has ever been seen before.

"This is as much about extreme weather as extreme surfing."

As for his friends, a little battered after being wiped out by the might wall of water.

He said: "They loved it. They're crazy. They were really up for it - it was pure fun and games."

Elsewhere ferocious seas have had a more a serious impact.

A brave lifeboat crew in Devon battled five-metre swells to rescue a group of sailors from a stricken cargo ship that was listing perilously in wind-battered waters on Sunday night.

The 300-ft Greek-registered Ice Prince was carrying 5,258 tonnes of timber across the English Channel when it began to list in force eight gales.

Amid fears it would capsize, twelve crewmen were airlifted off the 6,395 tonne vessel by helicopter and the remaining eight was picked up by lifeboats from Torbay.

Coastguards said the rescue mission was their "most difficult rescue ever."

They faced the daunting task of pulling their 55ft vessel alongside the 300ft-long cargo ship as it was violently tossed around by the waves.

Coxswain Mark Criddle said: "The two coming together was a huge problem, we were only going to come off second best.

"Boats don't come with handbrakes and one minute we would be right alongside calling for the crew to jump, the next minute we are five metres below them.

"Some of them really didn't want to leave the mothership for this tiny lifeboat pitching and rolling in the sea."

The Ice Prince was heading for Alexandria in Egypt when it got into trouble on Sunday evening, just 35 miles from Branscombe Beach in Devon, where the MSC Napoli ran aground last January.

Yesterday experts were assessing whether they could tow the craft to safety. If it sinks, carrying oil, it could lead to an environmental disaster.

Unfortunately the battering from the elements is showing no sign of abating.

Parts of the country have already seen flooding. Worcester Cricket Club is awash, with only a sign reading 'keep off the grass' peeking above the water line.

Up to an inch-and-a-half of rain could fall in the worst hit parts of the western of the country today, where fears of a repeat of last summer's crisis are growing.

The Environment Agency has put flood warnings in place at the River Severn between Worcester and Tewkesbury and from Tewkesbury to upstream of Gloucester.

Meanwhile, emergency services and councils are on stand-by and getting prepared for the worst.

A Met Office spokesman said the wet weather was the result of bands of low pressure sweeping in from the Atlantic.

While the whole of the western side of the country will bear the brunt today, it is forecast to be wet everywhere with a string of severe weather warnings in force.

While the rainfall will not be at the highs of the summer, ground is already water-logged, increasing the flood risk.

Compounding the miserable day will be severe gale force winds of up to 60mph battering the east.

Strong winds are forecast overnight into Wednesday. Rain in the north and east should clear by the afternoon.

Thursday and Friday are forecast to bring further bands of rain. Perhaps the only bright spot is that temperatures are expected to remain a few degrees above the seasonal norm of around 6-7C (43-45f).

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/news.html?in_article_id=508186&in_page_id=1770

tinmenace

16-01-2008, 10:38 PM

:eek::eek::eek:

lizzy

17-01-2008, 12:40 AM

Are You Earthquake Ready?

This is pretty cool, check it out. how prepared are you?

here http://www.nwcn.com/sharedcontent/features/flash/quake/during.html

that was fun, thanks,
got 7 / 10.........

chattanova

17-01-2008, 03:10 PM

that was fun, thanks,
got 7 / 10.........

Yes:) I don't remember what I got. But the most important as far as I know is get under a table or in the 'door-space' as fast as possible:cool:

chattanova

04-02-2008, 08:05 PM

Deadly Quakes Hit Rwanda, Congo

Higher death toll in Rwanda, Congo quakes

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A man stands amid the wreckage where a central market once stood on Sunday in Bukavu, Congo

Two earthquakes struck hours apart in Rwanda and neighboring Congo on Sunday, killing at least 39 people and injuring hundreds of others, officials said. Some of the victims died when the church they were attending collapsed.

The first, 6.0-magnitude quake struck Congo early Sunday, according to the U.S. Geological Survey. The second quake, which registered 5.0, hit a few hours later near the countries' border, in Rwanda's rural Rusizi district.

Thirty-four people were killed and 231 wounded in Rwanda, according to a Ministry of Health hot line. Frank Mugambage, an official in the president's office, said some of the victims died when a church collapsed. Rescuers were searching for more victims, he said.

Across the border in the lakeside city of Bukavu, Mayor Raisi Kunda said five people were killed and 149 wounded there. Kunda said many homes, as well as schools and churches, were damaged in the city but the extent was not immediately clear.

Initial reports had put the death toll at around 21.

The area where the quakes hit is part of Africa's Great Rift Valley, which includes a seismically active fault line. The Rwanda temblor rattled the capital, Kigali, some 125 miles away.

http://news.mobile.msn.com/en-us/articles.aspx?afid=1&aid=22975989

chattanova

12-02-2008, 02:46 PM

Snow Storms Destroy 10% Of China's Forests

Snow storms destroy one tenth of China's forests: report

BEIJING, Feb 10 (AFP) Feb 10, 2008
China has lost about one tenth of its forest resources to recent snow storms regarded as the most severe in half a century, state media reported Sunday.

A total of 17.3 million hectares (43 million acres) of forest have been damaged across China as the result of three weeks of savage winter weather, the China Daily website said, citing the State Forestry Administration.

More than half the country's provinces have been affected, and in the worst-hit regions, nearly 90 percent of forests have been destroyed, according to the paper.

As of the end of last month, disastrous winter weather had levied a toll of 16.2 billion yuan (2.2 billion dollars) on China's forestry sector, the report said, citing the most recent data available.

More misery could be in store, as the State Forest Administration has warned trees killed by winter frost could boost the amount of inflammable materials, raising the risk of forest fires.

In response to the dire situation, the government has urged areas unaffected by the snow storms to expand seedling supply to secure spring reforestation efforts, expected to begin in early April, according to the report.

The destruction of large swathes of forest comes as China is spending large sums on reforestation.

In January, state media said China planned to plant 2.5 billion trees this year.

Deforestation is linked to the extinction of plants and animals, social conflict, climate change and natural disasters such as flooding and landslides.

http://www.terradaily.com/2007/080210055140.4jldsnvq.html

chattanova

12-02-2008, 02:52 PM

Navy Research Paper: 'Disrupt Economies' with Man-Made 'Floods,' 'Droughts'

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A recently-unearthed U.S. Navy research project calls for creating mad-made floods and droughts to "disrupt [the] economy" of an enemy state.

"Weather modification was used successfully in Viet Nam to (among other things) hinder and impede the movement of personnel and material from North Viet Nam to South Viet Nam," notes a Naval Air Warfare Weapons Division - China Lake research proposal, released last month through the Freedom of Information Act. But "since that time military research on Weather Modification has dwindled in the United States."

The proposal suggests a study of the latest weather manipulation techniques, to "give the U.S. military a viable, state-of-the-art weather modification capability again." With that in hand, American forces would be able...

To impede or deny the movement of personnel and material because of rains-floods, snow-blizzards, etc.

(2) To disrupt economy due to the effect of floods, droughts, etc.

The proposal is undated. But it's pretty clearly from the Cold War. Not only is "the Soviet Union (Russia)" mentioned. The money is also relatively small, by today's standards -- less than a half-million dollars, over two years.

A military in-house newspaper calls "weather modification" an "area of China Lake preeminence. Between 1949 and 1978, China Lake developed concepts, techniques, and hardware that were successfully used in hurricane abatement, fog control, and drought relief. Military application of this technology was demonstrated in 1966 when Project Popeye was conducted to enhance rainfall to help interdict traffic on the Ho Chi Minh Trail." (Here's a picture of China Lake's "Cold Cloud Modification System."

In 1980, the United States ratified a treaty banning military weather manipulation. But every once in a while, someone in the armed forces floats the idea of doing it again. "Our vision is that by 2025 the military could influence the weather on a mesoscale [theater-wide] or microscale [immediate local area] to achieve operational capabilities," a 1996 Air Force-commissioned study reads.

Today, Chinese officials are trying to figure out ways to keep it from raining over Beiing, during this summer's Olympics.

http://blog.wired.com/defense/2008/02/navy-research-p.html

chattanova

21-03-2008, 11:22 AM

13 Dead, 3 Missing in Central US Storm

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PIEDMONT, Mo. (AP) - Residents of low-lying towns stacked sandbags or grabbed belongings and evacuated Wednesday after a foot of rain pushed rivers and creeks out of their banks in the nation's midsection. At least 13 deaths had been linked to the weather, and three people were missing.

Record or near-record flood crests were forecast at several towns in Missouri. Flooding was reported in large areas of Arkansas and parts of southern Illinois, southern Indiana and southwestern Ohio, and schools were closed in parts of western Kentucky because of flooded roads.

"We've got water rising everywhere," said Jeff Korb, president of the Vanderbugh County, Ind., commissioners.

The National Weather Service posted flood and flash flood warnings from Texas to Pennsylvania.

After two days, rain had finally stopped falling by Wednesday afternoon in much of Missouri and Arkansas as the weather system crawled toward the Northeast, drenching the Ohio Valley and spreading snow over parts of northern New England. A parallel band of locally heavy rain stretched from Alabama and Georgia to the mid-Atlantic states.

Atlanta police closed some downtown streets in case the stormy weather knocked down more broken glass and debris from buildings damaged by Friday's tornado.

In Ohio and other areas, the rain fell on ground already saturated from heavy snowfall less than two weeks ago.

A foot of rain had fallen in sections of southern Illinois and at Mountain Home, Ark., and Cape Girardeau, Mo., while 6.2 inches fell at Evansville, Ind., the weather service said.

Five deaths were linked to the flooding in Missouri, five people were killed in a highway wreck in heavy rain in Kentucky and a 65-year-old Ohio woman appeared to have drowned while checking on a sump pump in her home. In southern Illinois, two bodies were found hours after floodwaters swept a pickup truck off a rural road.

Searches were under way in Texas for a teenager washed down a drainage pipe, and two people were missing in Arkansas after their vehicles were swept away by rushing water.

Searchers in Missouri found the body of Mark G. Speir Jr., 19, on Wednesday about 2 miles downstream from where he was reported swept into a creek the previous evening.

"He was going down the creek screaming and hollering," Lawrence County emergency management chief Mike Rowe said.

An estimated 300 houses and businesses were flooded in Piedmont, a town of 2,000 residents on McKenzie Creek. Dozens of people were rescued by boat.

Outside St. Louis, the Meramec River was threatening towns including Eureka and Valley Park, where Chandra Webster's kids ran bags of toys and clothes to the car while she moved boxes of belongings to the second floor and her husband moved furniture out of harm's way.

"It's a lot of work, but it's worth it to save your stuff," Webster, 34, said Wednesday. "In '82 we lost everything when I was a little girl. I don't want to put my kids through that."

The Meramec hit a record 39.7 feet that year; flood stage is only 16 feet. A levee completed just three years ago is designed to hold a flood of 43 feet, three feet above the crest forecast for later this week.

Valley Park alderman Steve Drake helped fill sandbags.

"We've got everybody working together," Drake said. "It's going to be interesting."

Gov. Matt Blunt said he was seeking a federal disaster declaration for 70 of Missouri's 114 counties and the city of St. Louis.

Widespread flooding in Arkansas had washed out some highways and led to evacuations in some areas, said Tommy Jackson, a spokesman for the Arkansas Department of Emergency Management. The Highway and Transportation Department reported state roads blocked in 16 counties.

Some residents of southern Illinois had to evacuate. In Marion, firefighters in some cases used their own fishing boats to rescued 13 residents of the city's housing authority.

Key roads were closed in the Cincinnati area, where water 4 feet deep was reported in businesses in the suburb of Sharonville, police said.

Ohio rescue workers were busy helping people out of cars swamped by the flooding.

"The biggest problem has been people driving into floodwater," said Frank Young, emergency management director in Warren County. "There are a lot of stupid people. When that sign says 'Road closed, high water,' that's what it means."

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Associated Press writers Terry Kinney in Cincinnati; Paul Weber in Dallas; Chuck Bartels in Little Rock, Ark.; Marcus Kabel in Springfield; Jim Salter, Cheryl Wittenauer and Christopher Leonard in St. Louis; Chris Blank in Jefferson City; and Jim Suhr in southern Illinois contributed to this report.

http://apnews.myway.com/article/20080320/D8VH2IP80.html

tootrue

25-03-2008, 04:42 PM

Snow Storms Destroy 10% Of China's Forests

This sounds like bullshit :mad:

I think the government ecourages deforestation, in China (and the blames it on the weather :eek:)

Here is another man-made environmental disaster - http://www.rense.com/general81/10an.htm

chattanova

28-08-2008, 04:25 PM

Gustav Death Toll Rises to 22 and New Orleans Prepares for Evacuation

“There is nothing in Gustav's path that will hinder development.
There is a strong probability that it will be a Category 3 storm by the time
it enters the Gulf, and it has the potential to strengthen into a Category 4 or 5
storm over the Gulf.”
- AccuWeather Senior Meteorologist, John Kocet

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5-day-path projection on left shows Gustav could make landfall
near the Texas and Louisiana border west of New Orleans, crushed by
Hurricane Katrina on August 29, 2005. Oil producers are now worried
about their oil platforms, shown in map on right, and oil prices spiked
higher on fears of destruction.

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Gustav over Haiti

Associated Press reports: “Today, oil workers began leaving their rigs and New Orleans drew up evacuation plans.” AccuWeather reports: “Oil, natural gas and gasoline prices climbed today as traders worried that Tropical Storm Gustav will become a major hurricane (Cat 3 or higher) before reaching the oil production areas in the Gulf of Mexico. Computer models show Gustav heading for the U.S. Gulf Coast, arriving anywhere from western Florida -- already waterlogged from last week's Tropical Storm Fay -- to Louisiana, where cleanup and repair efforts are still ongoing three years after Hurricane Katrina. Katrina killed more than 1,800 people when it slammed into the Gulf Coast on August 29, 2005, flattening towns on the Mississippi coast and flooding portions of New Orleans.”

http://www.earthfiles.com/

http://www.abcnyheter.no/node/72987

tinmenace

28-08-2008, 05:57 PM

Yep, scary storm! :(

gripit

16-05-2009, 03:31 AM

Very interesting map.
See where it's happening different crisis around the globe.
http://visz.rsoe.hu/alertmap/index.php?smp=&lang=eng

Wow, how cool is this site?! Totally needs a bump, chatt strikes again ;)

up to the minute Nuclear events, plane crashes, volcanos, earthquakes, tsunami's...AWESOME!

Date / time [UTC] 15/05/2009 - 03:14:29

Biological Hazard - North-America (http://hisz.rsoe.hu/alertmap/woalert_read.php?cid=21663)

Event type Biological Hazard

Country Canada

County / State Province of Manitoba

Damage level Heavy

Vials swiped from Canada's National Microbiology Laboratory contained small amounts of genetic material from the Ebola virus. But Dr. Frank Plummer, head of the Winnipeg lab, says the Ebola gene posed no risk of infection and could only have been used to make a vaccine. Konan Michel Yao, 42, was caught trying to sneak 22 vials across the Manitoba-North Dakota border last week. Plummer says the missing vials went unnoticed because there are tens of thousands of them with non-infectious material in the laboratory's refrigerators and freezers. He says Yao did not have access to high-level pathogens, which are under strict security controls and rigorous inventory. He says Yao left work in January when his research fellowship ended and had signed a document swearing he had not taken any government property.)