Stanislav's Posts - Earth Changes and the Pole Shift2024-03-19T08:24:36ZStanislavhttps://poleshift.ning.com/profile/Stanislavhttps://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/66108042?profile=RESIZE_48X48&width=48&height=48&crop=1%3A1https://poleshift.ning.com/profiles/blog/feed?user=2a4timdtvc2uv&xn_auth=no#2 Land sinking in Southeast Asia is back in the mediatag:poleshift.ning.com,2022-11-23:3863141:BlogPost:11548372022-11-23T21:22:58.000ZStanislavhttps://poleshift.ning.com/profile/Stanislav
<p><a href="https://i0.wp.com/www.circleofblue.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/landsubsidenceJakarta.jpg?resize=452%2C449&ssl=1" rel="noopener" target="_blank"><img class="align-center" src="https://i0.wp.com/www.circleofblue.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/landsubsidenceJakarta.jpg?resize=452%2C449&ssl=1&profile=RESIZE_710x"></img></a></p>
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<p><em><span class="jCAhz ChMk0b"><span class="ryNqvb"><a href="https://www.researchgate.net/figure/Land-subsidence-in-Jakarta-during-the-period-1974-2010-based-on-PSI-ERS-2-1996-1998_fig25_235779260">https://www.researchgate.net/figure/Land-subsidence-in-Jakarta-during-the-period-1974-2010-based-on-PSI-ERS-2-1996-1998_fig25_235779260</a></span></span></em></p>
<p><span class="jCAhz ChMk0b"><span class="ryNqvb">In recent years, the media has again begun to talk about the problem of rising sea levels in Southeast Asia.</span></span> <span class="jCAhz ChMk0b"><span class="ryNqvb">However, now, they recognize that the underlying cause of this is primarily land subsidence. </span></span><span>Although the main cause of subsidence is still called groundwater pumping and urbanization. They still do not say that this is a tectonic sinking.</span></p>
<p><span><span class="jCAhz ChMk0b"><span class="ryNqvb">Meanwhile, you can see how some parts of Jakarta have already lost several meters in height!</span></span> <span class="jCAhz ChMk0b"><span class="ryNqvb">(Image above)</span></span></span></p>
<p><a href="https://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/10890425092?profile=original" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><img src="https://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/10890425092?profile=RESIZE_710x" class="align-full"/></a></p>
<p><span>The media is already forced to admit that sea levels are rising fastest in Southeast Asia. While in other parts of the world the situation remains quite stable. This can be clearly seen in the image below.</span></p>
<p><a href="https://images.theconversation.com/files/389831/original/file-20210316-19-na980a.png?ixlib=rb-1.1.0&q=45&auto=format&w=754&h=414&fit=crop&dpr=1" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><img src="https://images.theconversation.com/files/389831/original/file-20210316-19-na980a.png?ixlib=rb-1.1.0&q=45&auto=format&w=754&h=414&fit=crop&dpr=1&profile=RESIZE_710x" class="align-full"/></a></p>
<p><em>When weighted by population, relative sea level rise is worst in south east Asia, followed by south and east Asia, and the southern Mediterranean. Nicholls et al, CC BY-SA</em></p>
<p><em><a href="https://theconversation.com/sea-levels-are-rising-fastest-in-big-cities-heres-why-157077">https://theconversation.com/sea-levels-are-rising-fastest-in-big-cities-heres-why-157077</a></em></p>
<p><span>A huge number of cities in Indonesia experience land subsidence of several centimeters per year.</span></p>
<p><a href="https://www.intechopen.com/media/chapter/63411/media/F4.png" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><img src="https://www.intechopen.com/media/chapter/63411/media/F4.png?profile=RESIZE_710x" class="align-full"/></a></p>
<p><em><a href="https://www.intechopen.com/chapters/63411">https://www.intechopen.com/chapters/63411</a></em></p>
<p><span>Satellite imagery analysis also confirms the sinking of a vast number of land plots in Indonesia (yellow).</span></p>
<p><span><a href="https://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/10890434296?profile=original" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><img src="https://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/10890434296?profile=RESIZE_710x" class="align-full"/></a></span></p>
<p><em><a href="https://www.researchgate.net/figure/Spatial-planning-after-dike-constructed_fig5_326237878">https://www.researchgate.net/figure/Spatial-planning-after-dike-constructed_fig5_326237878</a></em></p>
<p><span>Satellite imagery shows that some as yet very small parts of Indonesia are already under water.</span></p>
<p><a href="https://www.intechopen.com/media/chapter/63411/media/F13.png" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><img src="https://www.intechopen.com/media/chapter/63411/media/F13.png?profile=RESIZE_710x" class="align-full"/></a></p>
<p><a href="https://www.intechopen.com/chapters/63411">https://www.intechopen.com/chapters/63411</a></p>
<p><span>More and more fishermen are complaining about constant coastal flooding as a result of the tides.</span></p>
<p><em>16 August, 2022. <strong>In Sumatra, rising seas and sinking land spell hard times for fishers</strong></em></p>
<p><em><a href="https://imgs.mongabay.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/20/2022/08/15140456/5-tidal-flood.jpg" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><img src="https://imgs.mongabay.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/20/2022/08/15140456/5-tidal-flood.jpg?profile=RESIZE_710x" class="align-full"/></a></em></p>
<p><em>Fishers operating near the port of Belawan on the Indonesian island of Sumatra are reporting declining catches and a hit to their livelihoods from tidal flooding.</em><br/><em>The flooding has grown more frequent and severe, exacerbated by rising seas and the clearing of mangrove forests for oil palm plantations.</em></p>
<p><em><a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2022/08/in-sumatra-rising-seas-and-sinking-land-spell-hard-times-for-fishers">https://news.mongabay.com/2022/08/in-sumatra-rising-seas-and-sinking-land-spell-hard-times-for-fishers</a></em>/</p>
<p><span>Across Asia, locals are complaining about the increasing intrusion of salt water that is ruining rice crops.</span></p>
<p><em>3 September, 2022. <strong>Rising Salinity Threatens Rice Crops on Southeast Asia’s Sinking Coast</strong></em></p>
<p><a href="https://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/10890437486?profile=original" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><img src="https://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/10890437486?profile=RESIZE_710x" class="align-full"/></a></p>
<p><em>In Southeast Asia, saltwater threatens rice paddies in the Mekong River and Red River deltas in Vietnam, and the deltas of the Chao Phraya River in Thailand, and the Ayeyarwady River in Myanmar.</em></p>
<p><em>In South Asia, it degrades soils and taints drinking water in the densely populated Ganges–Brahmaputra Delta of Bangladesh and India and the Indus Delta of Pakistan. China’s Yangtze River Delta also faces rising salinity.</em></p>
<p><em><a href="https://www.voanews.com/a/rising-salinity-threatens-rice-crops-on-southeast-asia-s-sinking-coast-/6729518.html">https://www.voanews.com/a/rising-salinity-threatens-rice-crops-on-southeast-asia-s-sinking-coast-/6729518.html</a></em></p>
<p><span>And Indonesian authorities are increasingly recognizing the true cause of the floods.</span></p>
<p><em>31 May, 2022. <strong>Climate change, land subsidence trigger flooding in C Java: Ministry</strong></em></p>
<p><em><a href="https://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/10890438083?profile=original" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><img src="https://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/10890438083?profile=RESIZE_710x" class="align-full"/></a></em></p>
<p><em>A combination of climate change and land subsidence triggered flooding in the coastal area of the North Coast of Central Java on May 23, Geological Agency of the Energy and Mineral Resources Ministry stated.</em></p>
<p><em>Head of the Center for Groundwater and Environmental Geology, Rita Susilawati, stated on Tuesday that the subsidence of land was due to the characteristics of the soil and rocks caused by natural consolidation.</em></p>
<p><em><a href="https://en.antaranews.com/news/231969/climate-change-land-subsidence-trigger-flooding-in-c-java-ministry">https://en.antaranews.com/news/231969/climate-change-land-subsidence-trigger-flooding-in-c-java-ministry</a></em></p>
<p><em>15 March, 2021. <strong>This city in Java could disappear in 15 years, due to land subsidence and coastal flooding</strong></em></p>
<p><a href="https://onecms-res.cloudinary.com/image/upload/s--3PzqkNh9--/c_fill,g_auto,h_468,w_830/f_auto,q_auto/-ni--pekalongan-06.jpg?itok=f2N1wPQH" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><img src="https://onecms-res.cloudinary.com/image/upload/s--3PzqkNh9--/c_fill,g_auto,h_468,w_830/f_auto,q_auto/-ni--pekalongan-06.jpg?itok=f2N1wPQH&profile=RESIZE_710x" class="align-full"/></a></p>
<p><em>But since 2015, strong winds, high waves and land subsidence have been causing the coastline to advance further inland.</em></p>
<p><em>In December, a powerful storm surge swept across the village, causing severe erosion. Dozens of homes were claimed by the sea. Several families decided to move away, abandoning their permanently submerged houses.</em></p>
<p><em><a href="https://www.channelnewsasia.com/climatechange/indonesia-pekalongan-land-sinking-coastal-flooding-disappear-1883156">https://www.channelnewsasia.com/climatechange/indonesia-pekalongan-land-sinking-coastal-flooding-disappear-1883156</a></em></p>
<p><strong><em>3 June, 2022. Java Pantura's Land Subsidence up to 20cm per Year</em></strong></p>
<p><em>The satellite data strengthened the previous studies such as one conducted by the Bandung Institute of Technology (ITB) research team. Head of the ITB’s Geodetic Laboratory Heri Andreas said that the current rate of land subsidence in Semarang, Pekalongan, and Demak has reached 20 centimeters per year.</em></p>
<p><em><span style="text-decoration: underline;">“This is the fastest land subsidence rate recorded in the world,” Heri said on May 29, 2022.</span></em></p>
<p><em><a href="https://en.tempo.co/read/1597858/brin-java-panturas-land-subsidence-up-to-20cm-per-year">https://en.tempo.co/read/1597858/brin-java-panturas-land-subsidence-up-to-20cm-per-year</a></em></p>
<p><span>Meanwhile, the Indonesian authorities, in desperation, are moving the capital to another location.</span></p>
<p><em>30 October, 2022. <strong>Indonesia is still moving its capital to Nusantara despite rising public opposition</strong></em></p>
<p><em><a href="https://globalvoices.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/President_visiting_the_new_capital-800x501.jpg" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><img src="https://globalvoices.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/President_visiting_the_new_capital-800x501.jpg?profile=RESIZE_710x" class="align-full"/></a></em></p>
<p><em>After a temporary pause due to the Coronavirus pandemic, Indonesia is continuing its long-term plan of moving its capital from Jakarta to a new location in East Kalimantan on the island of Borneo, also known as the IKN project. In a nearly unprecedented move, the Indonesian government is creating the city entirely from scratch and has cleared thousands of hectares of forests, fields, and grasslands to make way for the new city, which will be dubbed Nusantara. The first phase of development is scheduled to be completed by 2024 <...></em></p>
<p><em>Jakarta is also facing immense climate pressures from rising sea levels, as 40 percent of the city is situated below sea level. To exacerbate the issue, the city is also sinking at a rate of 11 inches per year in some areas due to the overuse of underground aquifers below the city.</em></p>
<p><em><a href="https://globalvoices.org/2022/10/30/indonesia-is-still-moving-its-capital-to-nusantara-despite-rising-public-opposition/">https://globalvoices.org/2022/10/30/indonesia-is-still-moving-its-capital-to-nusantara-despite-rising-public-opposition/</a></em></p>#1 New Madrid slowly warms up as quakes start to pick up againtag:poleshift.ning.com,2022-10-31:3863141:BlogPost:11543692022-10-31T11:14:20.000ZStanislavhttps://poleshift.ning.com/profile/Stanislav
<p><a href="https://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/10858807083?profile=original" rel="noopener" target="_blank"><img class="align-full" src="https://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/10858807083?profile=RESIZE_710x"></img></a> <span class="HwtZe" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><span class="jCAhz ChMk0b"><span class="ryNqvb">I downloaded the monthly quake data for the central US and found a new rise in quakes around the beginning of 2020.</span></span> <span class="jCAhz ChMk0b"><span class="ryNqvb">The result can be seen in the chart above.…</span></span></span></p>
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<p><a href="https://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/10858807083?profile=original" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><img src="https://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/10858807083?profile=RESIZE_710x" class="align-full"/></a><span class="HwtZe" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><span class="jCAhz ChMk0b"><span class="ryNqvb">I downloaded the monthly quake data for the central US and found a new rise in quakes around the beginning of 2020.</span></span> <span class="jCAhz ChMk0b"><span class="ryNqvb">The result can be seen in the chart above.</span></span></span></p>
<p><a href="https://d9-wret.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/assets/palladium/production/s3fs-public/thumbnails/image/bar_and_map_0.png" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><img src="https://d9-wret.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/assets/palladium/production/s3fs-public/thumbnails/image/bar_and_map_0.png?profile=RESIZE_710x" class="align-full"/></a></p>
<p><span class="HwtZe" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><span class="jCAhz ChMk0b"><span class="ryNqvb">This new growth from 2020 is also visible in the <a href="https://www.usgs.gov/programs/earthquake-hazards/science/induced-earthquakes-overview" target="_blank" rel="noopener">USGS chart above</a>. Keep in mind that 2022 is not over yet.</span></span></span></p>
<hr/><p><em>"18 October, 2022. <strong>Mississippi River hits all-time low water record in Memphis</strong></em></p>
<p><em><a href="https://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/10858817254?profile=original" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><img src="https://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/10858817254?profile=RESIZE_710x" class="align-full"/></a><a href="https://edition.cnn.com/2022/10/22/weather/mississippi-river-low-level-drought-climate/index.html">https://edition.cnn.com/2022/10/22/weather/mississippi-river-low-level-drought-climate/index.html</a></em></p>
<p><em>At 8 P.M. on Tuesday, October 18, the Mississippi River water level gauge in Memphis officially hit a new all-time low record water level of -10.79 feet.</em></p>
<p><em>Tuesday’s mark broke the previous cd low of -10.70 feet which was set on July 10, 1988.</em></p>
<p><a href="https://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/10858814299?profile=original" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><img src="https://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/10858814299?profile=RESIZE_710x" class="align-full"/></a><em>That July was the first, and previously only, time in Mississippi River history to record a double-digit negative number on the Memphis gauge unit."</em></p>
<p><em><a href="https://news.yahoo.com/ms-river-water-levels-2nd-174358259.html">https://news.yahoo.com/ms-river-water-levels-2nd-174358259.html</a></em></p>
<p><em>"20 October, 2022. <strong>Mississippi River hits record low levels</strong></em></p>
<p><em><a href="https://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/10858814686?profile=original" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><img src="https://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/10858814686?profile=RESIZE_710x" class="align-full"/></a><a href="https://edition.cnn.com/2022/10/22/weather/mississippi-river-low-level-drought-climate/index.html">https://edition.cnn.com/2022/10/22/weather/mississippi-river-low-level-drought-climate/index.html</a></em></p>
<p><em>Though the low level of the Mississipi this year is unprecedented in modern history, it’s normal, however, to see lower levels in the mighty river at this time of year, around areas such as Memphis. To be sure, during late summer and early fall, the waters can run low after hot and dry summers.</em></p>
<p><em>Previously, the low-level record at Memphis was at -10.7 feet on July 10, 1988. Later, two other record lows happened on August 30, 2006, and September 19, 2012.</em></p>
<p><em>The 2022 level of the Mississippi’s water is, significantly, the lowest anyone has seen since records began being kept in 1954."</em></p>
<p><em><a href="https://earthsky.org/earth/mississippi-river-hits-record-low-levels-2022/">https://earthsky.org/earth/mississippi-river-hits-record-low-levels-2022/</a></em></p>
<hr/><p><span class="HwtZe" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><span class="jCAhz ChMk0b"><span class="ryNqvb">I also decided to check and download data for the Mississippi River in the Memphis area. The result can be seen below, the river level has reached its lowest level ever! Data can be downloaded here:<br/></span></span></span></p>
<p><span class="HwtZe" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><span class="jCAhz ChMk0b"><span class="ryNqvb"><a href="https://rivergages.mvr.usace.army.mil/WaterControl/stationinfo2.cfm?dt=S&sid=MS126&fid">https://rivergages.mvr.usace.army.mil/WaterControl/stationinfo2.cfm?dt=S&sid=MS126&fid</a></span></span></span></p>
<p class="paragraph inline-placeholder"><a href="https://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/10858834094?profile=original" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><img src="https://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/10858834094?profile=RESIZE_710x" class="align-full"/></a></p>South Ural region look like geophysically destabilized after record earthquake. Seismograph was seizedtag:poleshift.ning.com,2018-11-10:3863141:BlogPost:10960642018-11-10T15:04:03.000ZStanislavhttps://poleshift.ning.com/profile/Stanislav
<p style="line-height: 1; text-align: center;"><span lang="en" style="color: #808080; font-size: 10pt;" xml:lang="en"><a href="https://express-novosti.ru/images/images/5b8f90ca96cc0.jpg" rel="noopener" target="_blank"><img class="align-full" src="https://express-novosti.ru/images/images/5b8f90ca96cc0.jpg"></img></a></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 1; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #808080; font-size: 10pt;" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><a href="https://express-novosti.ru/images/images/5b8f90ca96cc0.jpg" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><img src="https://express-novosti.ru/images/images/5b8f90ca96cc0.jpg" class="align-full"/></a></span><span style="color: #808080; font-size: 10pt;" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #808080;"><span class="short_text" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><span class=""><span class="short_text" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span xml:lang="en" lang="en"><span id="result_box" class="" xml:lang="en" lang="en">Rescuers examined all the houses where earthquake reports came from.</span> Source of image: <a href="https://express-novosti.ru/incident/2147490674-na-urale-proizoshlo-moshchnoe-zemletryasenie.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">express-novosti.ru</a><br/></span></font></span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 1;"><span style="font-size: 18pt;"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><b>Ural earthquakes<br/></b></font></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 1;"><span style="color: #333399; font-size: 10pt;" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #000000;"><span class="short_text" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><span class=""><span class="short_text" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><strong>ZetaTalk: During 2002, written Oct 15, 2001 <a href="http://www.zetatalk.com/transfor/t106.htm" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Prediction</a></strong>: <span style="color: #333399;" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><span>Earthquake and volcano activity will steadily increase, on a somewhat linear scale.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 1;"><span style="color: #333399; font-size: 10pt;" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #000000;"><span class="short_text" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><span class=""><span class="short_text" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><span style="color: black;" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><span><strong>ZetaTalk: Pole Shift <a href="http://www.zetatalk.com/poleshft/p21.htm" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Note</a>: written prior to July 15, 1995 :</strong></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span> <span style="color: #333399; font-size: 10pt;" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #000000;"><span class="short_text" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><span class=""><span class="short_text" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><span style="color: #333399;" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><span>The heat of land masses above subducting plates where</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span> <span style="color: #333399; font-size: 10pt;" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #000000;"><span class="short_text" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><span class=""><span class="short_text" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><span style="color: #333399;" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><span>friction can cause the ground to melt, would be so affected.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 1;"><span style="color: #333399; font-size: 10pt;" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #000000;"><span class="short_text" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><span class=""><span class="short_text" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><span id="result_box" class="short_text" xml:lang="en" lang="en">September was abnormal for the Urals. The record earthquake shook the region. The strongest in at least 100 years.<br/></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 1;"><span style="color: #333399; font-size: 10pt;" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #333399;"><span class="short_text" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><span class=""><span class="short_text" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><span id="result_box" class="short_text" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><span id="result_box" class="" xml:lang="en" lang="en">"5 September, 2018. <strong><em>Google translate</em>. In the Urals - the worst earthquake in 100 years. When to wait for a</strong></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span> <span style="color: #333399; font-size: 10pt;" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #333399;"><span class="short_text" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><span class=""><span class="short_text" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><span id="result_box" class="short_text" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><span id="result_box" class="" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><strong>new one?</strong></span></span><br/></span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 1; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #333399; font-size: 10pt;" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #333399;"><span class="short_text" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><span class=""><span class="short_text" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><span class="short_text" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><span class="" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><strong><a href="http://www.tribuna.nad.ru/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/6091.jpg" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><img src="http://www.tribuna.nad.ru/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/6091.jpg?width=700" class="align-full" width="700"/></a></strong></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: #808080; font-size: 10pt;" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Damage from earthquake in Ural. Source of image: <a href="http://11.rodina.news/urale-proizoshlo-zemletryasenie-pyat-ballov-18090620294497.htm" target="_blank" rel="noopener">11.rodina.news</a></span></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 1;"><span style="color: #333399; font-size: 10pt;" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #333399;"><span class="short_text" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><span class=""><span class="short_text" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><span class="short_text" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><span class="" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><span id="result_box" class="" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><...> It is known that in the entire history of seismic observations this earthquake was the third in the Sverdlovsk region. Oleg Kusonsky, head of the Artie observatory at the Institute of Geophysics, Ural Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, said in a conversation with a correspondent for URA.RU that the most powerful shocks were recorded in 1914 near Bilimbay. <span>Their strength reached six points.</span> The second time they were observed in 2015 under Sredneuralsk, the amplitude is only four points." - [1] ura.news<br/></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 1;"><span style="color: #333399; font-size: 10pt;" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #000000;"><span class="short_text" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><span class=""><span class="short_text" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><span class="short_text" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><span class="" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><span class="" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><span id="result_box" class="short_text" xml:lang="en" lang="en">Scientists have called it unique for many reasons.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 1;"><span style="color: #333399; font-size: 10pt;" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #000000;"><span class="short_text" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><span class=""><span class="short_text" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><span class="short_text" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><span class="" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><span class="" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><span style="color: #333399;" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><span class="short_text" xml:lang="en" lang="en">"7 September, 2018. <strong><span style="color: #333399;"><span id="result_box" class="short_text" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><span id="result_box" class="" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><em>Google translate</em></span></span></span>. "A unique case": after the earthquake in the Chelyabinsk region, another 30 aftershocks occurred</strong></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 1;"><span style="color: #333399; font-size: 10pt;" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #000000;"><span class="short_text" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><span class=""><span class="short_text" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><span class="short_text" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><span class="" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><span class="" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><span class="short_text" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><a href="https://dostup1.ru/netcat_files/83/34/katav_zemletryasenie_0.jpg" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><img src="https://dostup1.ru/netcat_files/83/34/katav_zemletryasenie_0.jpg"/></a></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 1; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #808080; font-size: 10pt;" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #808080;"><span class="short_text" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><span class=""><span class="short_text" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><span class="short_text" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><span class="" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><span class="" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><span class="short_text" xml:lang="en" lang="en">Damage from earthquake in Ural. Source of image: <a href="https://dostup1.ru/society/Posle-zemletryaseniya-v-Katav-Ivanovske-sozdali-punkt-evakuatsii_109319.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">dostup1.ru</a><br/></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 1;"><span style="color: #333399; font-size: 10pt;" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #000000;"><span class="short_text" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><span class=""><span class="short_text" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><span class="short_text" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><span class="" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><span class="" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><span class="short_text" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><span style="color: #333399;" xml:lang="en" lang="en">Perm scientists for two days already recorded 30 aftershocks of varying intensity after the earthquake that occurred in Katav-Ivanovsk on the morning of September 5. They will continue for at least another couple of days and gradually disappear. ">About this 74.ru told the employee of the laboratory of natural and man-made seismicity of the Mining Institute of the Ural Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences Philip Verkholantsev.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 1;"><span style="color: #333399; font-size: 10pt;" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #000000;"><span class="short_text" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><span class=""><span class="short_text" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><span class="short_text" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><span class="" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><span class="" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><span style="color: #333399;" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><span class="short_text" xml:lang="en" lang="en">These are repeated seismic events of small amplitude.<br/></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 1;"><span style="color: #333399; font-size: 10pt;" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #000000;"><span class="short_text" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><span class=""><span class="short_text" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><span class="short_text" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><span class="" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><span class="" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><span class="short_text" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><span style="color: #333399;" xml:lang="en" lang="en">- In the Urals, this experience has not yet been. This is the first such aftershock earthquake. It is generally unique. All the more instrumentally fixed, - commented Philip Verkholantsev. - <span style="text-decoration: underline;">Before that, the largest instrumentally recorded earthquake was “Bilimbaevskoe” in 1914. There, the magnitude was about 5.2</span>. But the aftershocks did not have it, or they were not recorded. There were no aftershocks in all subsequent earthquakes. Therefore, it is difficult to say how long this process will continue. But they will weaken. And I think that in the coming days, local residents will no longer feel them, and we will register them only with the help of equipment."</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span> <span style="color: #333399; font-size: 10pt;" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #000000;"><span class="short_text" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><span class=""><span class="short_text" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><span class="short_text" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><span class="" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><span class="" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><span class="short_text" xml:lang="en" lang="en">- [2] 74.ru</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 1;"><span style="color: #333399; font-size: 10pt;" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #000000;"><span class="short_text" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><span class=""><span class="short_text" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><span class="short_text" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><span class="" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><span class="" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><span class="short_text" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><span id="result_box" class="" xml:lang="en" lang="en">An earthquake of magnitude 5.6 was amazing (largest instrumentally recorded), with an aftershock of 4 mag which is simply unprecedented for the Ural Mountains. <span>What a surprise when in a few weeks the Urals suffered from an earthquake again (29 September)! Although scientists have said they do not expect further shocks.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 1;"><span style="color: #333399; font-size: 10pt;" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #333399;"><span class="short_text" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><span class=""><span class="short_text" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><span class="short_text" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><span class="" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><span class="" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><span class="short_text" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><span id="result_box" class="" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><span>"30 September, 2018. <strong><span id="result_box" class="short_text" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><em>Google translate</em></span>. The second earthquake in the month in the Urals surprised even seismologists</strong></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 1; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #333399; font-size: 10pt;" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><a href="https://static.ngs.ru/news/99/preview/9d02717f951cb47047d2c42a4fc2fb190f679f1b_1200.jpg" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><img src="https://static.ngs.ru/news/99/preview/9d02717f951cb47047d2c42a4fc2fb190f679f1b_1200.jpg" class="align-full"/></a></span><span style="color: #333399; font-size: 10pt;" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #808080;"><span class="short_text" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><span class=""><span class="short_text" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><span class="short_text" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><span class="" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><span class="" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><span class="short_text" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><span id="result_box" class="" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><span>The consequences of the September 5 earthquake showed Chelyabinsk Governor Boris Dubrovsky. Source of image: <a href="https://ura.news/articles/1036276338" target="_blank" rel="noopener">ura.news</a><br/></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 1;"><span style="color: #333399; font-size: 10pt;" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #333399;"><span class="short_text" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><span class=""><span class="short_text" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><span class="short_text" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><span class="" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><span class="" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><span class="short_text" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><span id="result_box" class="" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><span>The second earthquake in the Chelyabinsk region for a month surprised even seismologists far beyond the Urals Federal District. On September 5, the Urals suffered the worst earthquake in 100 years - the magnitude of shocks reached 5.5 on the Richter scale. And on September 29 thrusts resumed - by a force of 4.5 points. There are no victims and injured. In the monitoring sector of the Ural region at the Institute of Geophysics, RAS, they have already made a mistake with the forecast, saying that they do not expect new incidents. However, shocks again occurred in the area of Katav-Ivanovsk at a depth of 10 km. Why the earthquake repeated in the Urals and whether to wait for a new emergency, told Alexey Zavyalov, head of the laboratory of continental seismicity and prediction of seismic hazard at the Institute of Earth Physics, in an interview with URA.RU.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 1;"><span style="color: #333399; font-size: 10pt;" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #333399;"><span class="short_text" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><span class=""><span class="short_text" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><span class="short_text" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><span class="" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><span class="" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><span class="short_text" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><span id="result_box" class="" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><span>- Alexey Dmitrievich, how can the tremors, which thousands of Ural residents feel, be explained in simple language?</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 1;"><span style="color: #333399; font-size: 10pt;" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #333399;"><span class="short_text" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><span class=""><span class="short_text" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><span class="short_text" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><span class="" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><span class="" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><span class="short_text" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><span id="result_box" class="" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><span>- The situation is really unusual: the second earthquake in just a month. But nature is multifaceted, with age I understand this more and more. What is an earthquake - is a consequence of the gap that has arisen in the depths of the earth's interior. There was suddenly a crack. This occurs when the rocks do not have enough strength to contain the stresses that have accumulated over decades. And in the case of the Urals, perhaps for centuries. The crack begins to emit elastic waves that are felt on the earth's surface as an earthquake."</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span> <span style="color: #333399; font-size: 10pt;" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #000000;"><span class="short_text" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><span class=""><span class="short_text" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><span class="short_text" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><span class="" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><span class="" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><span class="short_text" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><span class="" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><span>- [3] ura.news</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 1;"><span style="color: #333399; font-size: 10pt;" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #000000;"><span class="short_text" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><span class=""><span class="short_text" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><span class="short_text" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><span class="" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><span class="" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><span class="short_text" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><span id="result_box" class="short_text" xml:lang="en" lang="en">So how rare are earthquakes in the Urals?</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 1;"><span style="color: #333399; font-size: 10pt;" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #000000;"><span class="short_text" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><span class=""><span class="short_text" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><span class="short_text" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><span class="" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><span class="" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><span class="short_text" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><span class="short_text" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><a href="https://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/133937684?profile=original" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><img src="https://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/133937684?profile=original" class="align-center"/></a></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: #333399; font-size: 10pt;" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #000000;"><span class="short_text" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><span class=""><span class="short_text" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><span class="" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><span><span id="result_box" class="" xml:lang="en" lang="en">Earthquake data: USGS [5]</span></span></span></span></font></span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 1;"><span style="color: #333399; font-size: 10pt;" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #000000;"><span class="short_text" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><span class=""><span class="short_text" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><span class="" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><span><span id="result_box" class="" xml:lang="en" lang="en">We see that earthquakes in the Urals seem to be increasing</span>. <span id="result_box" class="short_text" xml:lang="en" lang="en">But the story is not over.</span><br/></span></span></span></font></span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<hr noshade="noshade"/><p style="line-height: 1;"><span style="color: #333399; font-size: 10pt;" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #000000;"><span class="short_text" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><span class=""><span class="short_text" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><span class="" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><span><span style="font-size: 18pt;"><b>Cover-up in action?<br/></b></span></span></span></span></font></span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 1;"><span style="color: #333399; font-size: 10pt;" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #000000;"><span class="short_text" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><span class=""><span class="short_text" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><span class="" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><span>A strange thing happened the day after the earthquake. Cover-up seems to act openly.</span></span></span></font></span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 1;"><span style="color: #333399; font-size: 10pt;" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #333399;"><span class="short_text" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><span class=""><span class="short_text" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><span class="" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><span><span id="result_box" class="" xml:lang="en" lang="en">7 September, 2018. <strong><em><span id="result_box" class="short_text" xml:lang="en" lang="en">Google translate</span>.</em> The observatory in the Urals will no longer be able to record earthquakes</strong></span></span></span></span></font></span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 1; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #333399; font-size: 10pt;" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #000000;"><span class="short_text" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><span class=""><span class="short_text" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><span class="" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><span><span class="" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><a href="https://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/133940369?profile=original" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><img src="https://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/133940369?profile=original" class="align-full"/></a></span></span></span></span></font></span></span></span></span></span></span><span id="result_box" class="" xml:lang="en" lang="en"></span><span style="color: #333399; font-size: 10pt;" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #808080;"><span class="short_text" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><span class=""><span class="short_text" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><span class="" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><span><span id="result_box" class="" xml:lang="en" lang="en">Track tremors in the observatory will no longer be able to. Photo: Vadim Akhmetov. Source of image: <a href="https://ura.news/news/1052349887" target="_blank" rel="noopener">ura.news</a><br/></span></span></span></span></font></span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 1;"><span style="color: #333399; font-size: 10pt;" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #333399;"><span class="short_text" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><span class=""><span class="short_text" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><span class="" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><span><span id="result_box" class="" xml:lang="en" lang="en">One of the largest geophysical observatories in Russia, in the village of Arti, Sverdlovsk Region, was on the verge of closure. This happened just the day after a major earthquake in the Urals.</span></span></span></span></font></span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 1;"><span style="color: #333399; font-size: 10pt;" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #333399;"><span class="short_text" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><span class=""><span class="short_text" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><span class="" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><span><span class="" xml:lang="en" lang="en">“<span style="text-decoration: underline;">On September 5, there was an earthquake, and yesterday, on the sixth, came from the Obninsk Federal Research Center and dismantled the equipment. Colleagues from Obninsk installed this seismometer here in 1988. He worked for exactly 30 years, and now they have taken him away</span>. Buy a new device, we have no money. We have our own base of the complex, and the new seismometer costs about 600 thousand rubles. To conduct observations at different frequencies, you need at least three seismometers, that is, almost two million rubles, ”said URA.RU at the Institute of Geophysics, UB RAS.</span></span></span></span></font></span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 1;"><span style="color: #333399; font-size: 10pt;" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #333399;"><span class="short_text" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><span class=""><span class="short_text" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><span class="" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><span><span class="" xml:lang="en" lang="en">According to scientists, they have long been threatened to pick up the equipment, since the Obninsk center intends to arrange its own seismic station in the Sverdlovsk region. What is the purpose, the Ural scientists do not understand: why build a new expensive object, if there is a ready-made observatory that has been operating since 1969 and has scientific authority both in Russia and abroad in the academic world?"</span></span></span></span></font></span></span></span></span></span></span> <span style="color: #333399; font-size: 10pt;" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #000000;"><span class="short_text" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><span class=""><span class="short_text" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><span class="" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><span><span class="" xml:lang="en" lang="en">- [4] ura.news</span></span></span></span></font></span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 1;"><span style="color: #333399; font-size: 10pt;" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #000000;"><span class="short_text" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><span class=""><span class="short_text" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><span class="" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><span><span class="" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><span id="result_box" class="short_text" xml:lang="en" lang="en">All this is very strange. <span id="result_box" class="" xml:lang="en" lang="en">They just came in and took the equipment without explanation. But that is not all. 14 October, the scientist dies in Irkutsk.</span></span></span></span></span></span></font></span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 1;"><span style="color: #333399; font-size: 10pt;" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #000000;"><span class="short_text" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><span class=""><span class="short_text" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><span class="" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><span><span class="" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><span id="result_box" class="short_text" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><span id="result_box" class="" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><em>Levi, Kirill Georgievich - russian seismologist, Deputy Director of the Institute of the Earth's Crust, Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences for Science, Professor at Irkutsk State University and Irkutsk National Research Technical University</em> <br/></span></span></span></span></span></span></font></span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 1;"><span style="color: #333399; font-size: 10pt;" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #000000;"><span class="short_text" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><span class=""><span class="short_text" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><span class="" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><span><span class="" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><span id="result_box" class="short_text" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><span id="result_box" class="" xml:lang="en" lang="en">The circumstances of death are unknown...</span></span></span></span></span></span></font></span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 1;"><span style="color: #333399; font-size: 10pt;" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #333399;"><span class="short_text" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><span class=""><span class="short_text" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><span class="" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><span><span class="" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><span class="short_text" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><span class="" xml:lang="en" lang="en">"14 October, 2018. <strong><em><span id="result_box" class="short_text" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><span id="result_box" class="" xml:lang="en" lang="en">Google translate</span></span>.</em> Kirill Levi dies: famous geologist, scientist of the Irkutsk Institute of the Earth's Crust</strong><br/></span></span></span></span></span></span></font></span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 1; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #333399; font-size: 10pt;" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #000000;"><span class="short_text" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><span class=""><span class="short_text" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><span class="" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><span><span class="" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><span class="short_text" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><span class="" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><a href="https://s16.stc.all.kpcdn.net/share/i/12/10646408/inx960x640.jpg" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><img src="https://s16.stc.all.kpcdn.net/share/i/12/10646408/inx960x640.jpg" class="align-full"/></a></span></span></span></span></span></span></font></span></span></span></span></span></span><span id="result_box" class="" xml:lang="en" lang="en"></span><span style="color: #333399; font-size: 10pt;" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #000000;"><span class="short_text" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><span class=""><span class="short_text" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><span class="" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><span><span class="" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><span class="short_text" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><span style="color: #808080;" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><span class="" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><span id="result_box" class="" xml:lang="en" lang="en">Cyril Levy died: a famous geologist, a scientist from the Irkutsk Institute of the Earth's Crust. Photo: Vladimir KOROTKORUCHKO. Source of image: <a href="https://www.irk.kp.ru/online/news/3264901/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">irk.kp.ru</a><br/></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></font></span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 1;"><span style="color: #333399; font-size: 10pt;" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #333399;"><span class="short_text" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><span class=""><span class="short_text" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><span class="" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><span><span class="" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><span class="short_text" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><span class="" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><span id="result_box" class="" xml:lang="en" lang="en">Kirill Levi died in Irkutsk.</span> A great scientist, doctor of geological and mineralogical sciences, known for always saying that science is the desire of the soul to search for the new.</span> He devoted 40 years of his life to work at the Institute of the Earth's Crust, SB RAS.</span> In February 2017, Kirill Levy celebrated his anniversary - he turned 70 years old."</span></span></span></span></font></span></span></span></span></span></span> <span style="color: #333399; font-size: 10pt;" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #000000;"><span class="short_text" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><span class=""><span class="short_text" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><span class="" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><span><span class="" xml:lang="en" lang="en">- [5] irk.kp.ru</span></span></span></span></font></span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<hr noshade="noshade"/><p style="line-height: 1;"><span style="color: #333399; font-size: 10pt;" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #000000;"><span class="short_text" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><span class=""><span class="short_text" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><span class="" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><span><span class="" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><span style="font-size: 18pt;"><b>Unique landslide or mud volcano....<br/></b></span></span></span></span></span></font></span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 1;"><span style="color: #333399; font-size: 10pt;" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #000000;"><span class="short_text" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><span class=""><span class="short_text" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><span class="" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><span><span class="" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><span id="result_box" class="" xml:lang="en" lang="en">After the earthquake in Katav Ivanovsk, a landslide or mud volcano formed, no one can understand what it is. <span id="result_box" class="short_text" xml:lang="en" lang="en">Locals report that a strange hum is heard.</span> <span id="result_box" class="short_text" xml:lang="en" lang="en">Cracks in the ground formed</span>.</span><br/></span></span></span></span></font></span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
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<p style="line-height: 1;"><span style="color: #333399; font-size: 10pt;" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #333399;"><span class="short_text" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><span class=""><span class="short_text" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><span class="" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><span><span class="" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><span class="" xml:lang="en" lang="en">27 September, 2018. <strong><em><span id="result_box" class="short_text" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><span id="result_box" class="" xml:lang="en" lang="en">Google translate</span></span>.</em> After the earthquake, a giant mud slide lands in the South Urals.</strong></span></span></span></span></span></font></span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 1; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #333399; font-size: 10pt;" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #000000;"><span class="short_text" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><span class=""><span class="short_text" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><span class="" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><span><span class="" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><span class="" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><a href="https://s.ura.news/760/images/news/upload/news/352/634/1052352634/86fb7130e5295166d934e6c677261556_250x0_1536.865.0.0.jpg" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><img src="https://s.ura.news/760/images/news/upload/news/352/634/1052352634/86fb7130e5295166d934e6c677261556_250x0_1536.865.0.0.jpg" class="align-full"/></a></span></span></span></span></span></font></span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: #333399; font-size: 10pt;" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #808080;"><span class="short_text" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><span class=""><span class="short_text" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><span class="" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><span><span class="" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><span class="" xml:lang="en" lang="en">Mudflow comes down from the mountains. Photo: Evgeny Familyanin, VKontakte. Source of image: <a href="https://ura.news/news/1052352634" target="_blank" rel="noopener">ura.news</a><br/></span></span></span></span></span></font></span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 1;"><span style="color: #333399; font-size: 10pt;" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #333399;"><span class="short_text" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><span class=""><span class="short_text" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><span class="" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><span><span class="" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><span class="" xml:lang="en" lang="en">The inhabitants of Katav-Ivanovsk are frightened by a mud landslide, which descends from Peschanaya Mountain, between the town and the village of Karaulovka. In social networks, Chelyabinsk people share photos and videos telling that an earthquake broke in the epicenter, in several places around trees are felled, there are cracks on the ground and a strange hum is heard.</span></span></span></span></span></font></span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 1;"><span style="color: #333399; font-size: 10pt;" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #333399;"><span class="short_text" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><span class=""><span class="short_text" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><span class="" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><span><span class="" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><span class="" xml:lang="en" lang="en">Residents say the effects of the earthquake are horrifying. “There is tin. There the land was sold and the process continues. There is a rumble, and the trees break like matches. If someone thinks that the earthquake is over, take a look and see that everything is going on, ”Katya Yergunova wrote."</span></span></span></span></span></font></span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: #333399; font-size: 10pt;" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #000000;"><span class="short_text" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><span class=""><span class="short_text" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><span class="" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><span><span class="" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><span class="" xml:lang="en" lang="en">- [6] ura.news</span></span></span></span></span></font></span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 1;"><span style="color: #333399; font-size: 10pt;" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #000000;"><span class="short_text" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><span class=""><span class="short_text" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><span class="" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><span><span class="" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><span class="" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><span id="result_box" class="" xml:lang="en" lang="en">Later, scientists recognized this phenomenon as unique and recommended that they be included in the program “State monitoring of the state of the subsoil in the Urals Federal District” [7]</span></span></span></span></span></span></font></span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<hr noshade="noshade"/><p style="line-height: 1;"><span style="color: #333399; font-size: 10pt;" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #000000;"><span class="short_text" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><span class=""><span class="short_text" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><span class="" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><span><span class="" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><span class="" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><span class="" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><span class="short_text" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><span style="font-size: 18pt;"><b>Water warmed up in wells<br/></b></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></font></span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 1;"><span style="color: #333399; font-size: 10pt;" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #000000;"><span class="short_text" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><span class=""><span class="short_text" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><span class="" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><span><span class="" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><span class="" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><span class="" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><span class="short_text" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><span id="result_box" class="" xml:lang="en" lang="en">Another oddity, the water is heated in the wells Yuzhnouralsk and Kostanay. Map location:</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></font></span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 1;"><span style="color: #333399; font-size: 10pt;" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #000000;"><span class="short_text" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><span class=""><span class="short_text" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><span class="" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><span><span class="" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><span class="" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><span class="" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><span class="short_text" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><span class="" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><a href="https://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/133949101?profile=original" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><img src="https://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/133949101?profile=original" class="align-full"/></a></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></font></span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 1;"><span style="color: #333399; font-size: 10pt;" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #000000;"><span class="short_text" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><span class=""><span class="short_text" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><span class="" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><span><span class="" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><span class="" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><span class="" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><span class="short_text" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><span class="" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><span id="result_box" class="" xml:lang="en" lang="en">Let's start with Yuzhnouralsk. The water there has already heated up from May and it is still warm.</span> <strong><span id="result_box" class="" xml:lang="en" lang="en">The temperature also increased in the basement of the houses!</span></strong><br/></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></font></span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 1;"><span style="color: #333399; font-size: 10pt;" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #333399;"><span class="short_text" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><span class=""><span class="short_text" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><span class="" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><span><span class="" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><span class="" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><span class="" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><span class="short_text" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><span class="" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><span id="result_box" class="" xml:lang="en" lang="en">"27 August, 2018. <strong><span id="result_box" class="short_text" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><em>Google translate</em></span>. Abnormally high temperature recorded in the wells and cellars of the inhabitants of Yuzhnouralsk</strong></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></font></span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 1; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #333399; font-size: 10pt;" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #000000;"><span class="short_text" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><span class=""><span class="short_text" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><span class="" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><span><span class="" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><span class="" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><span class="" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><span class="short_text" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><span class="" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><a href="https://www.1obl.ru/upload/resize_cache/iblock/fee/827_465_2/fee801cec6615ed8d990b090de898059.jpg" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><img src="https://www.1obl.ru/upload/resize_cache/iblock/fee/827_465_2/fee801cec6615ed8d990b090de898059.jpg" class="align-full"/></a></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></font></span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: #333399; font-size: 10pt;" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #808080;"><span class="short_text" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><span class=""><span class="short_text" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><span class="" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><span><span class="" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><span class="" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><span class="" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><span class="short_text" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><span class="" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><span id="result_box" class="" xml:lang="en" lang="en">A strange phenomenon triggered the growth of bacteria dangerous to humans. Source of image: <a href="https://www.1obl.ru/news/o-lyudyakh/anomalno-vysokaya-temperatura-zaregistrirovana-v-kolodtsakh-i-pogrebakh-zhiteley-yuzhnouralska/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">1obl.ru</a><br/></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></font></span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 1;"><span style="color: #333399; font-size: 10pt;" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #333399;"><span class="short_text" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><span class=""><span class="short_text" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><span class="" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><span><span class="" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><span class="" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><span class="" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><span class="short_text" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><span class="" xml:lang="en" lang="en">Residents of private houses along the streets of Belinsky and Sovetskaya city of Yuzhnouralsk noticed that water was heated in their wells. Its temperature reaches 40 degrees.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></font></span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 1;"><span style="color: #333399; font-size: 10pt;" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #333399;"><span class="short_text" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><span class=""><span class="short_text" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><span class="" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><span><span class="" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><span class="" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><span class="" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><span class="short_text" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><span class="" xml:lang="en" lang="en">When the watering season began, we found that for some reason hot water was coming from the well and sounded the alarm, we began to appeal to all instances. - told Igor Sazonov, a resident of Yuzhnouralsk, to the site “First Regional”.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></font></span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 1;"><span style="color: #333399; font-size: 10pt;" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #333399;"><span class="short_text" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><span class=""><span class="short_text" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><span class="" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><span><span class="" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><span class="" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><span class="" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><span class="short_text" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><span class="" xml:lang="en" lang="en">Due to the heating of water in the wells, bacteria began to multiply. Specialists of Rospotrebnadzor found microbes in the water, which make it unsuitable not only for drinking, but even for washing. As it turned out, the lack of drinking water is not the only problem for residents. Because of this anomaly, the temperature in the cellars also increased to 20-25 degrees. People spoil the winter harvesting. The city administration will deal with this problem, now negotiations are underway with hydrogeologists.<br/> <...></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></font></span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 1;"><span style="color: #333399; font-size: 10pt;" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #333399;"><span class="short_text" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><span class=""><span class="short_text" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><span class="" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><span><span class="" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><span class="" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><span class="" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><span class="short_text" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><span class="" xml:lang="en" lang="en">The alleged culprits of the water anomaly in Yuzhnouralsk may be heating networks located near the power plant, as well as a communal accident. But while the exact cause of water heating in the wells could not be established."</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></font></span></span></span></span></span></span> <span style="color: #333399; font-size: 10pt;" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #333399;"><span class="short_text" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><span class=""><span class="short_text" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><span class="" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><span><span class="" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><span class="" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><span class="" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><span class="short_text" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><span class="" xml:lang="en" lang="en">[9] - <span style="color: #000000;">1obl.ru</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></font></span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 1;"><span style="color: #333399; font-size: 10pt;" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #000000;"><span class="short_text" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><span class=""><span class="short_text" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><span class="" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><span><span class="" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><span class="" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><span class="" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><span class="short_text" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><span class="" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><span id="result_box" class="" xml:lang="en" lang="en">This of course in itself is not strange. In the end, it may just be a communal accident. But the same thing happened in another city and also not far from the epicenter of a future earthquake. <br/></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></font></span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 1;"><span style="color: #333399; font-size: 10pt;" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #333399;"><span class="short_text" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><span class=""><span class="short_text" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><span class="" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><span><span class="" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><span class="" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><span class="" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><span class="short_text" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><span id="result_box" class="" xml:lang="en" lang="en">"29 August, 2018. <strong><span id="result_box" class="short_text" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><em>Google translate</em></span>.</strong> <strong>Miracle or anomaly: the water in the well became hot in Kostanay, Kazakhstan</strong></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></font></span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 1;"><span style="color: #333399; font-size: 10pt;" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #333399;"><span class="short_text" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><span class=""><span class="short_text" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><span class="" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><span><span class="" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><span class="" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><span class="" xml:lang="en" lang="en">Water in one of the old wells at the summer cottage in Kostan inexplicably heated, writes the local portal "Alau".<br/></span> The owner of the garden in the garden community "Michurinets" Natalya Stoyanova said that in the well, which is almost forty years old, the water, usually always cold, since August 22, 2018 has become warm, steam comes from it. At the same time, according to Natalia, the water also gurgles.<br/></span> Public utilities checked the well and stated that the appearance of hot water in the well is not associated with an accident on the heating network, as the pipes are empty in summer. There was no such case in this region.</span> To find out the reason for water heating, residents are advised to contact the hydrogeological commission.It is worth noting that among the reasons for the emergence of hot water in wells, besides the accident on the water supply system, heating network or pump, there may be penetration of geothermal waters, tectonic shifts, as well as a chemical reaction as a result of decomposition of plants."</span></span></span></font></span></span></span></span> <span style="color: #000000;"><span class="short_text" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><span class=""><span class="short_text" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><span class="" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><span><span class="" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><span class="" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><span class="" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><span class="short_text" xml:lang="en" lang="en">[8] - ru.sputniknews.kz<br/></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></font></span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 1;"><span style="color: #333399; font-size: 10pt;" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #000000;"><span class="short_text" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><span class=""><span class="short_text" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><span class="" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><span><span class="" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><span class="" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><span class="" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><span class="short_text" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><span id="result_box" class="short_text" xml:lang="en" lang="en">Was it a precursor of an earthquake?</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></font></span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 1;"><span style="color: #333399; font-size: 10pt;" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #000000;"><span class="short_text" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><span class=""><span class="short_text" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><span class="short_text" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><span class="" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><strong>References</strong>:</span></span></span></font></span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 1;"><span style="color: #333399; font-size: 10pt;" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #000000;"><span class="short_text" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><span class=""><span class="short_text" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><span class="short_text" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><span class="" xml:lang="en" lang="en">[1] Dianov, S. (2018, September 5). На Урале - самое страшное землетрясение за 100 лет. Когда ждать новое? Retrieved November 9, 2018, from <a href="https://ura.news/articles/1036276086%C2%A0">https://ura.news/articles/1036276086 </a>;</span></span></span></font></span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 1;"><span style="color: #333399; font-size: 10pt;" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #000000;"><span class="short_text" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><span class=""><span class="short_text" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><span class="short_text" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><span class="" xml:lang="en" lang="en">[2] Невзорова, Д. (2018, September 7). «Уникальный случай»: после землетрясения в Челябинской области произошло ещё 30 подземных толчков. Retrieved November 10, 2018, from <a href="https://74.ru/text/gorod/65361671/">https://74.ru/text/gorod/65361671/</a></span></span></span></font></span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 1;"><span style="color: #333399; font-size: 10pt;" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #000000;"><span class="short_text" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><span class=""><span class="short_text" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><span class="short_text" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><span class="" xml:lang="en" lang="en">[3] Вахрушев, Т. (2018, September 30). Второе за месяц землетрясение на Урале удивило даже сейсмологов. Retrieved November 10, 2018, from <a href="https://ura.news/articles/1036276338%C2%A0">https://ura.news/articles/1036276338 </a>;<br/></span></span></span></font></span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 1;"><span style="color: #333399; font-size: 10pt;" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #000000;"><span class="short_text" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><span class=""><span class="short_text" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><span class="short_text" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><span class="" xml:lang="en" lang="en">[4] Лукманов, А. (2018, September 7). Обсерватория на Урале больше не сможет фиксировать землетрясения. Retrieved November 10, 2018, from <a href="https://ura.news/news/1052349887">https://ura.news/news/1052349887</a></span></span></span></font></span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
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<p style="line-height: 1;"><span style="color: #333399; font-size: 10pt;" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #000000;"><span class="short_text" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><span class=""><span class="short_text" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><span class="short_text" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><span class="" xml:lang="en" lang="en">[6] Калинина, Н. (2018, September 27). На Южном Урале после землетрясения сходит гигантский грязевой оползень. Retrieved November 10, 2018, from <a href="https://ura.news/news/1052352634%C2%A0">https://ura.news/news/1052352634 </a>;</span></span></span></font></span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 1;"><span style="color: #333399; font-size: 10pt;" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #000000;"><span class="short_text" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><span class=""><span class="short_text" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><span class="short_text" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><span class="" xml:lang="en" lang="en">[7] Леонова, Д. (2018, October 10). Оползень в Катав-Ивановске будут изучать в рамках госпрограммы мониторинга недр. Retrieved November 10, 2018, from <a href="https://www.1obl.ru/news/o-lyudyakh/opolzen-monitoring/%C2%A0">https://www.1obl.ru/news/o-lyudyakh/opolzen-monitoring/ </a>;</span></span></span></font></span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 1;"><span style="color: #333399; font-size: 10pt;" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #000000;"><span class="short_text" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><span class=""><span class="short_text" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><span class="short_text" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><span class="" xml:lang="en" lang="en">[8] Чудо или аномалия: вода в колодце стала горячей в Костанае. (2018, August 31). Retrieved November 10, 2018, from <a href="https://ru.sputniknews.kz/regions/20180829/7023447/kostanay-kolodec-goryachaya-voda.html">https://ru.sputniknews.kz/regions/20180829/7023447/kostanay-kolodec-goryachaya-voda.html</a></span></span></span></font></span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 1;"><span style="color: #333399; font-size: 10pt;" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #000000;"><span class="short_text" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><span class=""><span class="short_text" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><span class="short_text" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><span class="" xml:lang="en" lang="en">[9] Аномально высокая температура зарегистрирована в колодцах и погребах жителей Южноуральска. (2018, September 27). Retrieved November 10, 2018, from <a href="https://www.1obl.ru/news/o-lyudyakh/anomalno-vysokaya-temperatura-zaregistrirovana-v-kolodtsakh-i-pogrebakh-zhiteley-yuzhnouralska/%C2%A0">https://www.1obl.ru/news/o-lyudyakh/anomalno-vysokaya-temperatura-zaregistrirovana-v-kolodtsakh-i-pogrebakh-zhiteley-yuzhnouralska/ </a>;</span></span></span></font></span></span></span></span></span></span></p>'Storm Clash' in Eastern Pacific basintag:poleshift.ning.com,2018-11-03:3863141:BlogPost:10958462018-11-03T15:35:10.000ZStanislavhttps://poleshift.ning.com/profile/Stanislav
<p style="line-height: 1;"><a href="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/1226944941?profile=original" target="_self"><img class="align-full" src="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/1226944941?profile=original" width="700"></img></a> <span lang="en" style="color: #808080; font-size: 10pt;" xml:lang="en"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #808080;"><span class="short_text" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><span class=""><span class="short_text" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span lang="en" xml:lang="en">References:…</span></font></span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 1;"><a href="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/1226944941?profile=original" target="_self"><img src="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/1226944941?profile=original" class="align-full" width="700"/></a><span style="color: #808080; font-size: 10pt;" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #808080;"><span class="short_text" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><span class=""><span class="short_text" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span xml:lang="en" lang="en">References: Hurricane data [2], [4]<br/></span></font></span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 1;"><span style="font-size: 18pt;"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><b>Epic Eastern Pacific hurricane season<br/></b></font></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 1;"><span style="color: #333399; font-size: 10pt;" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #000000;"><span class="short_text" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><span class=""><span class="short_text" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><strong>ZetaTalk <a href="http://www.zetatalk.com/index/zeta204.htm" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Prediction</a> 2/18/2005</strong>: <span style="color: #333399;" xml:lang="en" lang="en">Swirling in the oceans and the air will only increase, not only becoming more violent and following each other in short order, but also will begin slamming into each other, creating weather conditions utterly unpredictable and horrific in their consequences. Forecasters will be dismayed.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 1;"><span style="color: #333399; font-size: 10pt;" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #000000;"><span class="short_text" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><span class=""><span class="short_text" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><strong>ZetaTalk Chat Q&A: <a href="http://www.zetatalk.com/ning/30sp2017.htm" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Commentary</a> 09/30/2017</strong>: <span style="color: #333399;" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><span>With a stronger Polar Push the bounce back would likewise be more extreme, and the bounce back occurs when the Sun is over the Atlantic. As the wobble continued to get worse, the Figure 8 corrective lean to the right and left also got more extreme. This sets the stage for the current 2017 hurricane season.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 1;"><span style="color: #333399; font-size: 10pt;" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #000000;"><span class="short_text" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><span class=""><span class="short_text" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><span style="color: black;" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><span><strong>ZetaTalk: <a href="http://www.zetatalk.com/poleshft/p24.htm" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Heralding</a>:</strong></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span> <span style="color: #333399; font-size: 10pt;" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #000000;"><span class="short_text" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><span class=""><span class="short_text" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><span style="color: #333399;" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><span>The best way to counter arguments is not to point to the past but to start recording the present.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span> <span style="color: #333399; font-size: 10pt;" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #000000;"><span class="short_text" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><span class=""><span class="short_text" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><span style="color: #333399;" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><span>All the trends and signs will only acerbate, with the oceans warmer still, the weather more erratic and unpredictable still, and the Earth gradually slowing in her rotation more and more measurably. If one gathers these statistics now, and gathers them yearly, the trends will become a clear pattern. Thus, the arguments will be with people now living, and with statistics gathered by the same methods</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 1;"><span style="color: #333399; font-size: 10pt;" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #000000;"><span class="short_text" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><span class=""><span class="short_text" xml:lang="en" lang="en">And again hurricanes on headlines. This time - Eastern Pacific basin. 2015 Eastern Pacific hurricane season <span id="result_box" class="short_text" xml:lang="en" lang="en">broke all records with incredible hurricane Patricia. Although present hurricane season not so 'shattering/epic', he was broke some records and is quite comparable with 2015 and 1992.</span><br/></span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 1; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #333399; font-size: 10pt;" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #000000;"><span class="short_text" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><span class=""><span class="short_text" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><span class="short_text" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><a href="https://eoimages.gsfc.nasa.gov/images/imagerecords/92000/92930/willa_vir_2018295.jpg" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><img src="https://eoimages.gsfc.nasa.gov/images/imagerecords/92000/92930/willa_vir_2018295.jpg" class="align-center"/></a></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: #333399; font-size: 10pt;" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #808080;"><span class="short_text" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><span class=""><span class="short_text" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><span class="short_text" xml:lang="en" lang="en">A potent storm is poised to hit Mexico. In this nighttime image acquired at 3:50 a.m. local time (08:50 Universal Time) on October 22, 2018, Hurricane Willa appears off of the country’s Pacific Coast. The image was acquired by the Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite (VIIRS) on the Suomi NPP satellite. Source of image: <a href="https://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/images/92930/hurricane-willa" target="_blank" rel="noopener">NASA Earth Observatory</a></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 1;"><span style="color: #333399; font-size: 10pt;" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #000000;"><span class="short_text" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><span class=""><span class="short_text" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><span class="short_text" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><span id="result_box" class="short_text" xml:lang="en" lang="en">The most remarkable fact for this season is</span> Accumulated Cyclone Energy (ACE):</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 1;"><span style="color: #333399; font-size: 10pt;" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #333399;"><span class="short_text" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><span class=""><span class="short_text" xml:lang="en" lang="en">"29 October, 2018. <strong>Eastern Pacific records its most energetic hurricane season</strong></span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 1;"><span style="color: #333399; font-size: 10pt;" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #333399;"><span class="short_text" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><span class=""><span class="short_text" xml:lang="en" lang="en">Scientists suspect this may be a symptom of climate change — and more scary storms to come</span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 1;"><span style="color: #333399; font-size: 10pt;" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #333399;"><span class="short_text" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><span class=""><span class="short_text" xml:lang="en" lang="en">The Atlantic hurricane season certainly hit the United States hard this year. First came Florence. That storm dropped 91.3 centimeters (35.9 inches) of rain. Then Michael roared ashore as the third most-intense U.S. tropical cyclone to ever hit landfall. But the eastern Pacific had it even worse. As of October 22nd, this region recorded its most energetic cyclone season on record.<br/> <...></span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 1;"><span style="color: #333399; font-size: 10pt;" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #333399;"><span class="short_text" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><span class=""><span class="short_text" xml:lang="en" lang="en">Keep in mind, there is still another month left in the eastern Pacific hurricane season. Despite this, 2018 has already claimed the top spot since recordkeeping began. It’s above the season-long 295 ACE units counted in 1992, and the 297 tally for 2015. In the coming weeks, this year’s ACE total could top 350 or 400! Simply stated, we’re in uncharted territory.</span></span></span></span></span></span> <span style="color: #333399; font-size: 10pt;" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #333399;"><span class="short_text" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><span class=""><span class="short_text" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><...>"</span></span></span></span></span></span> <span style="color: #333399; font-size: 10pt;" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #000000;"><span class="short_text" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><span class=""><span class="short_text" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">-</span></font></span></span></span></span></span></span> <span style="color: #333399; font-size: 10pt;" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #000000;"><span class="short_text" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><span class=""><span class="short_text" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">sciencenewsforstudents.org [1]<br/></span></font></span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 1;"><span style="color: #333399; font-size: 10pt;" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #000000;"><span class="short_text" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><span class=""><span class="short_text" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><span id="result_box" class="" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><span>But what caused it?</span> <span>According to scientists, unusually warm water and anomaly in the atmosphere:</span></span></span></font></span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 1;"><span style="color: #333399; font-size: 10pt;" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #000000;"><span class="short_text" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><span class=""><span class="short_text" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><span class="" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><span><a href="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/1226945570?profile=original" target="_self"><img src="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/1226945570?profile=original" class="align-center" width="624"/></a></span></span></span></font></span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: #333399; font-size: 10pt;" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #000000;"><span class="short_text" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><span class=""><span class="short_text" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><span class="" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><span>Data: Colorado State University | Department of Atmospheric Science | Tropical Meteorology Project [2]</span></span></span></font></span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 1;"><span style="color: #333399; font-size: 10pt;" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #333399;"><span class="short_text" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><span class=""><span class="short_text" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">"So what made 2018 so wild? Klotzbach points to two things. One is low amounts of wind shear in the upper atmosphere. The other is far higher-than-normal sea-surface temperatures.</span></font></span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 1; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #333399; font-size: 10pt;" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #000000;"><span class="short_text" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><span class=""><span class="short_text" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><a href="https://www.sciencenewsforstudents.org/sites/default/files/scald-image/730_sea_surface_temp_eastern_trop_Pacific.png" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><img src="https://www.sciencenewsforstudents.org/sites/default/files/scald-image/730_sea_surface_temp_eastern_trop_Pacific.png" class="align-full"/></a></span></font></span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: #333399; font-size: 10pt;" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #808080;"><span class="short_text" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><span class=""><span class="short_text" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Sea-surface temperature changes from normal over the Pacific Ocean (red is hotter than normal; blue is cooler than normal). The white area at right shows U.S./Mexican West Coasts. The especially warm ocean water in 2018 boosted the intensity of an already booming hurricane season. The colors represent the change — in degrees Celsius — of sea-surface temperatures from the 1980-to-2010 average for the same time of year. That 30-year period is called a “climatology.” It’s the benchmark against which scientists compare modern-day events. NOAA/NWS/Philip Klotzbach. Source of images: <a href="https://www.sciencenewsforstudents.org/article/eastern-pacific-records-its-most-energetic-hurricane-season" target="_blank" rel="noopener">sciencenewsforstudents.org</a><br/></span></font></span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 1;"><span style="color: #333399; font-size: 10pt;" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #333399;"><span class="short_text" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><span class=""><span class="short_text" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">“The northeast Pacific was quite toasty this year,” he says. “Sea-surface-temperature anomalies were 1 to 1.5 degrees Celsius [1.8 to 2.7 degrees Fahrenheit] warmer on average across the basin.” That’s a primary factor, he explains, behind the growth of cyclones.</span></font></span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 1;"><span style="color: #333399; font-size: 10pt;" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #333399;"><span class="short_text" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><span class=""><span class="short_text" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">But there was something else.</span></font></span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 1;"><span style="color: #333399; font-size: 10pt;" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #333399;"><span class="short_text" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><span class=""><span class="short_text" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><a href="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/1226945497?profile=original" target="_self"><img src="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/1226945497?profile=original" class="align-center" width="477"/></a></span></font></span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: #333399; font-size: 10pt;" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #333399;"><span class="short_text" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><span class=""><span class="short_text" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Weaker-than-normal winds in the upper atmosphere led to a drop in wind shear. That’s a turning of the winds with height. If the winds veer too much, they can tear apart an infant storm before it can grow into a towering monster. But Klotzbach points out that wasn’t an issue this season. “We had reduced shear throughout the [eastern Pacific] basin for most of this year.”</span></font></span></span></span></span></span></span> <span style="color: #333399; font-size: 10pt;" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #333399;"><span class="short_text" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><span class=""><span class="short_text" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><...>"<br/></span></font></span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 1;"><span style="color: #333399; font-size: 10pt;" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: black;"><span class="short_text" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><span class=""><span class="short_text" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><span id="result_box" class="" xml:lang="en" lang="en">Another anomaly is the hurricane 'formation rate' and 'lifetime':</span></span></font></span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 1;"><span style="color: #333399; font-size: 10pt;" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #333399;"><span class="short_text" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><span class=""><span class="short_text" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">"And that’s not the only fingerprint of climate change showing up in big storms. More and more hurricanes erupt into monsters within a day or less. That fast change is called rapid intensification. The pattern marks cyclones whose winds pick up by at least 55.5 kilometers (34.5 miles) per hour within 24 hours. Hurricane Florence did this in 2018. So did Michael; it revved up from a weak tropical storm to a Category 4 cyclone in less than two days. And it continued to gain strength right up to its landfall in the Big Bend of Florida on October 10. By then, it had winds as strong as a tornado’s."</span></font></span></span></span></span> <span style="color: #000000;"><span class="short_text" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><span class=""><span class="short_text" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">- sciencenewsforstudents.org [1]<br/></span></font></span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 1;"><span style="color: #333399; font-size: 10pt;" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #000000;"><span class="short_text" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><span class=""><span class="short_text" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><span id="result_box" class="" xml:lang="en" lang="en">The Major hurricanes (hurricanes higher than 3 category) set a record unusually 'long life':</span></span></font></span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 1;"><span style="color: #333399; font-size: 10pt;" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #000000;"><span class="short_text" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><span class=""><span class="short_text" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><span class="" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><a href="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/1226945656?profile=original" target="_self"><img src="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/1226945656?profile=original" class="align-center" width="618"/></a></span></span></font></span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: #333399; font-size: 10pt;" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #000000;"><span class="short_text" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><span class=""><span class="short_text" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><span class="" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><span>Data: Colorado State University | Department of Atmospheric Science | Tropical Meteorology Project [2]</span></span></span></font></span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 1;"><span style="color: #333399; font-size: 10pt;" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #000000;"><span class="short_text" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><span class=""><span class="short_text" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><a href="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/1226945613?profile=original" target="_self"><img src="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/1226945613?profile=original" class="align-center" width="618"/></a></span></font></span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: #333399; font-size: 10pt;" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #000000;"><span class="short_text" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><span class=""><span class="short_text" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><span class="" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><span>Data: Colorado State University | Department of Atmospheric Science | Tropical Meteorology Project [2]</span></span></span></font></span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 1;"><span style="color: #333399; font-size: 10pt;" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #000000;"><span class="short_text" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><span class=""><span class="short_text" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><span id="result_box" class="short_text" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><span id="result_box" class="" xml:lang="en" lang="en">We can see that the seasons 1992 2015 and 2018 have about the same amount. This suggests that the number of strong (major) hurricanes increases.</span><span id="result_box" class="" xml:lang="en" lang="en"></span></span></span></font></span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 1;"><span style="color: #333399; font-size: 10pt;" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #333399;"><span class="short_text" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><span class=""><span class="short_text" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">"3 October, 2018. <strong>Two of the Three Busiest Eastern Pacific Hurricane Seasons Have Now Occurred in the Past Four Years</strong></span></font></span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 1;"><span style="color: #333399; font-size: 10pt;" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #333399;"><span class="short_text" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><span class=""><span class="short_text" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Why So Active?</span></font></span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 1;"><span style="color: #333399; font-size: 10pt;" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #333399;"><span class="short_text" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><span class=""><span class="short_text" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><...>All other factors equal, warmer water will support more intense tropical cyclones for longer periods of time.</span></font></span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 1;"><span style="color: #333399; font-size: 10pt;" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #333399;"><span class="short_text" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><span class=""><span class="short_text" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">While equatorial Pacific water temperatures have yet to reach El Niño criteria, in some sense, the atmosphere is already behaving as if one is in place, Dr. Mike Ventrice, an atmospheric scientist at The Weather Company, an IBM Business, pointed out in mid-September."</span></font></span></span></span></span><span style="color: #000000;"><span class="short_text" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><span class=""><span class="short_text" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">- [3] weather.com<br/></span></font></span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 1;"><span style="color: #333399; font-size: 10pt;" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #000000;"><span class="short_text" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><span class=""><span class="short_text" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">As well noted in this article, already two record hurricane seasons have occured in recent times.<br/></span></font></span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 1;"><span style="color: #333399; font-size: 10pt;" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #000000;"><span class="short_text" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><span class=""><span class="short_text" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><span id="result_box" class="" xml:lang="en" lang="en">Another incredible record was noted by the scientist Philip Klotzbach:</span></span></font></span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 1;"><span style="color: #333399; font-size: 10pt;" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #000000;"><span class="short_text" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><span class=""><span class="short_text" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><a href="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/1226946411?profile=original" target="_self"><span id="result_box" class="" xml:lang="en" lang="en"></span><img src="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/1226946411?profile=original" class="align-center" width="473"/></a><span id="result_box" class="" xml:lang="en" lang="en">For the first time in history, the Accumulated Cyclone energy will have above average in all the basins of the Northern Hemisphere! <span id="result_box" class="short_text" xml:lang="en" lang="en">This is pretty unusual! <span>But the oddities don't end there.</span> Although the current Atlantic hurricane season was not strong, there are some special features:</span></span></span></font></span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 1;"><span style="color: #333399; font-size: 10pt;" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #333399;"><span class="short_text" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><span class=""><span class="short_text" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><span class="" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><span class="short_text" xml:lang="en" lang="en">31 October, 2018. <strong>5 Reasons the 2018 Atlantic Hurricane Season Has Been Unusual</strong></span></span></span></font></span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
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<li style="line-height: 1;"><span style="color: #333399; font-size: 10pt;" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #333399;"><span class="short_text" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><span class=""><span class="short_text" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><span class="" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><span class="short_text" xml:lang="en" lang="en">One storm formed before hurricane season began and ended up in Michigan.<br/></span></span></span></font></span></span></span></span></span></span></li>
<li style="line-height: 1;"><span style="color: #333399; font-size: 10pt;" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #333399;"><span class="short_text" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><span class=""><span class="short_text" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><span class="" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><span class="short_text" xml:lang="en" lang="en">A record number of storms have been subtropical.<br/></span></span></span></font></span></span></span></span></span></span></li>
<li style="line-height: 1;"><span style="color: #333399; font-size: 10pt;" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #333399;"><span class="short_text" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><span class=""><span class="short_text" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><span class="" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><span class="short_text" xml:lang="en" lang="en">Some named storms have ended up in unusual locations.</span></span></span></font></span></span></span></span></span></span></li>
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<p style="line-height: 1;"><span style="color: #333399; font-size: 10pt;" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #333399;"><span class="short_text" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><span class=""><span class="short_text" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><span class="" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><span class="short_text" xml:lang="en" lang="en">1) Preseason Storm Ends Up in Great Lakes <...></span></span></span></font></span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 1; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #333399; font-size: 10pt;" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #808080;"><span class="short_text" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><span class=""><span class="short_text" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><span class="" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><span class="short_text" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><a href="https://eoimages.gsfc.nasa.gov/images/imagerecords/92000/92221/alberto_amo_2018151.png" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><img src="https://eoimages.gsfc.nasa.gov/images/imagerecords/92000/92221/alberto_amo_2018151.png" class="align-full"/></a></span></span></span></font></span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: #333399; font-size: 10pt;" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #808080;"><span class="short_text" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><span class=""><span class="short_text" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><span class="" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><span class="short_text" xml:lang="en" lang="en">After Subtropical Storm Alberto made landfall in the Florida Panhandle in late May 2018, the storm was downgraded to a subtropical depression. Alberto delivered wind and rain to large swaths of the southeastern United States before spinning up toward the Midwest and Great Lakes.The Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on NASA’s Aqua satellite captured these images of the storm. The false-color views use MODIS band 31, which measures infrared signals known as brightness temperature. This band is useful for distinguishing cooler cloud structures from the warmer surface below. Image source: <a href="https://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/images/92221/subtropical-cyclone-alberto" target="_blank" rel="noopener">NASA Earth Observatory</a></span></span></span></font></span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: #333399; font-size: 10pt;" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #808080;"><span class="short_text" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><span class=""><span class="short_text" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><span class="" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><span class="short_text" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><br/></span></span></span></font></span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 1; text-align: left;"><span style="color: #333399; font-size: 10pt;" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #333399;"><span class="short_text" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><span class=""><span class="short_text" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><span class="" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><span class="short_text" xml:lang="en" lang="en">Another unusual aspect of Alberto is that it held on as a tropical depression all the way into Michigan, finally becoming a remnant low near Saginaw early May 31.</span></span></span></font></span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 1;"><span style="color: #333399; font-size: 10pt;" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #333399;"><span class="short_text" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><span class=""><span class="short_text" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><span class="" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><span class="short_text" xml:lang="en" lang="en">2) Record Subtropical Storms <...></span></span></span></font></span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 1;"><span style="color: #333399; font-size: 10pt;" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #333399;"><span class="short_text" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><span class=""><span class="short_text" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><span class="" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><span class="short_text" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><a href="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/1226946991?profile=original" target="_self"><img src="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/1226946991?profile=original" class="align-center" width="524"/></a>The season total of seven subtropical storms is the most for any hurricane season on record, according to Dr. Phil Klotzbach, a tropical scientist at Colorado State University. This year easily beat the previous record of five storms that were designated subtropical at some point during their existence in the 1969 hurricane season.</span></span></span></font></span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 1;"><span style="color: #333399; font-size: 10pt;" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #333399;"><span class="short_text" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><span class=""><span class="short_text" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><span class="" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><span class="short_text" xml:lang="en" lang="en">3)</span></span></span></font></span></span></span></span></span></span> <span style="color: #333399; font-size: 10pt;" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #333399;"><span class="short_text" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><span class=""><span class="short_text" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><span class="" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><span class="short_text" xml:lang="en" lang="en">In September's first week, Florence was in a spot in the Atlantic that's typically far enough north for a hurricane to curve out to sea and not impact the United States.</span></span></span></font></span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 1;"><span style="color: #333399; font-size: 10pt;" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #333399;"><span class="short_text" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><span class=""><span class="short_text" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><span class="" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><span class="short_text" xml:lang="en" lang="en">No tropical storm or hurricane in recorded history has passed within 100 miles of Florence's location on Sept. 7 and still made a United States landfall. But Florence defied what weather history statistics tell us after weakening temporarily when it encountered hostile upper-level winds. That weakening phase allowed Florence to follow a steering flow that would bend it west for several days.<br/> <br/></span></span></span></font></span></span></span></span></span></span> <span style="color: #333399; font-size: 10pt;" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #333399;"><span class="short_text" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><span class=""><span class="short_text" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><span class="" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><span class="short_text" xml:lang="en" lang="en">Then, abnormally strong high pressure aloft for mid-September blocked Florence from turning out to sea and instead steered it into the Carolinas in an agonizingly slow crawl, triggering disastrous flooding."</span></span></span></font></span></span></span></span></span></span> <span style="color: #333399; font-size: 10pt;" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #000000;"><span class="short_text" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><span class=""><span class="short_text" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">- [5] weather.com</span></font></span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 1;"><span style="color: #333399; font-size: 10pt;" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #000000;"><span class="short_text" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><span class=""><span class="short_text" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Also on the ning blog <a href="https://poleshift.ning.com/profiles/blogs/wild-weather" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Wild Weather</a> a couple of comments were made:</span></font></span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
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<li style="line-height: 1;"><span style="color: #333399; font-size: 10pt;" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #000000;"><span class="short_text" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><span class=""><span class="short_text" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Comment by <a href="https://poleshift.ning.com/profile/songstar101" class="fn url">SongStar101</a></span></font></span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: #333399; font-size: 10pt;" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #000000;"><span class="short_text" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><span class=""><span class="short_text" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">: 25 October, 2018. <strong>NOAA: Super Typhoon Yutu strongest storm to ever hit US soil</strong> [6]<br/></span></font></span></span></span></span></span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Comment by <a href="https://poleshift.ning.com/profile/KarenMartel" class="fn url">KM</a></font></span><span style="color: #333399; font-size: 10pt;" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #000000;"><span class="short_text" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><span class=""><span class="short_text" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">: 12 October, 2018. <strong>Portugal Is Facing the Region’s Strongest Atlantic Storm Since 1842</strong></span></font></span></span></span></span></span></span> <span style="color: #333399; font-size: 10pt;" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #000000;"><span class="short_text" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><span class=""><span class="short_text" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">[7]</span></font></span></span></span></span></span></span></li>
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<p><span style="color: #333399; font-size: 10pt;" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #000000;"><span class="short_text" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><span class=""><span class="short_text" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><span id="result_box" class="short_text" xml:lang="en" lang="en">Earth wobble is getting stronger!</span></span></font></span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 1;"><span style="color: #333399; font-size: 10pt;" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #000000;"><span class="short_text" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><span class=""><span class="short_text" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><strong>References</strong>:</span></font></span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 1;"><span style="color: #333399; font-size: 10pt;" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #000000;"><span class="short_text" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><span class=""><span class="short_text" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">[1] Cappucci, M. (2018, October 29). Eastern Pacific records its most energetic hurricane season. Retrieved November 3, 2018, from <a href="https://www.sciencenewsforstudents.org/article/eastern-pacific-records-its-most-energetic-hurricane-season%C2%A0">https://www.sciencenewsforstudents.org/article/eastern-pacific-records-its-most-energetic-hurricane-season </a>;</span></font></span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 1;"><span style="color: #333399; font-size: 10pt;" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #000000;"><span class="short_text" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><span class=""><span class="short_text" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">[2] <a href="http://tropical.atmos.colostate.edu/Realtime/">http://tropical.atmos.colostate.edu/Realtime/</a></span></font></span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 1;"><span style="color: #333399; font-size: 10pt;" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #000000;"><span class="short_text" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><span class=""><span class="short_text" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">[3] Erdman, J. (2018, October 3). Two of the Three Busiest Eastern Pacific Hurricane Seasons Have Now Occurred in the Past Four Years. Retrieved November 3, 2018, from <a href="https://weather.com/storms/hurricane/news/2018-10-03-2018-eastern-pacific-hurricane-season-one-of-busiest/%C2%A0">https://weather.com/storms/hurricane/news/2018-10-03-2018-eastern-pacific-hurricane-season-one-of-busiest/ </a>;</span></font></span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 1;"><span style="color: #333399; font-size: 10pt;" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #000000;"><span class="short_text" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><span class=""><span class="short_text" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">[4] <a href="https://www.nhc.noaa.gov/data">https://www.nhc.noaa.gov/data</a></span></font></span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 1;"><span style="color: #333399; font-size: 10pt;" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #000000;"><span class="short_text" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><span class=""><span class="short_text" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">[5] Dolce, C. (2018, October 31). 5 Reasons the 2018 Atlantic Hurricane Season Has Been Unusual. Retrieved November 3, 2018, from <a href="https://weather.com/storms/hurricane/news/2018-10-29-2018-atlantic-hurricane-season-unusual/%C2%A0">https://weather.com/storms/hurricane/news/2018-10-29-2018-atlantic-hurricane-season-unusual/ </a>;</span></font></span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 1;"><span style="color: #333399; font-size: 10pt;" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #000000;"><span class="short_text" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><span class=""><span class="short_text" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">[6] Eugenio, H. V., & Rice, D. (2018, October 25). Deadly Super Typhoon Yutu strongest storm to ever hit US territory, second strongest to hit US overall. Retrieved November 3, 2018, from <a href="https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/2018/10/24/noaa-super-typhoon-yutu-strongest-storm-ever-hit-u-s-soil/1759327002/%C2%A0">https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/2018/10/24/noaa-super-typhoon-yutu-strongest-storm-ever-hit-u-s-soil/1759327002/ </a>;</span></font></span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 1;"><span style="color: #333399; font-size: 10pt;" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #000000;"><span class="short_text" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><span class=""><span class="short_text" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">[7] Sullivan, B. K. (2018, October 12). Portugal Is Facing the Region’s Strongest Atlantic Storm Since 1842. Retrieved November 3, 2018, from <a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-10-12/portugal-spain-face-strongest-atlantic-storm-in-176-years%C2%A0">https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-10-12/portugal-spain-face-strongest-atlantic-storm-in-176-years </a>;</span></font></span></span></span></span></span></span></p>What's wrong with Earth? Alaska, Fiji and Venezuela...tag:poleshift.ning.com,2018-08-23:3863141:BlogPost:10934752018-08-23T10:38:06.000ZStanislavhttps://poleshift.ning.com/profile/Stanislav
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<p style="line-height: 1;"><span style="color: #808080; font-size: 10pt;" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #808080;"><span class="short_text" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><span class=""><span class="short_text" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span lang="en" xml:lang="en">References: Earthquakes data [1]</span></font></span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 1; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #333399; font-size: 24pt;" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #000000;"><span class="short_text" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><span class=""><span class="short_text" lang="en" xml:lang="en">Fiji earthquake</span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 1;"><span style="color: #333399; font-size: 10pt;" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #000000;"><span class="short_text" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><span class=""><span class="short_text" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><strong>ZetaTalk <a href="http://www.zetatalk.com/awaken/a97.htm" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Prediction</a> 4/15/1999</strong>: <span style="color: #333399;" lang="en" xml:lang="en">You're going to have increasing earthquake tremblers. This will be defused by the media which will fail to report them.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 1;"><span style="color: #333399; font-size: 10pt;" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #000000;"><span class="short_text" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><span class=""><span class="short_text" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><strong>ZetaTalk: <a href="http://www.zetatalk.com/index/zeta420.htm" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Christmas Hammer</a> 12/21/2007</strong>: <span style="color: #333399;" lang="en" xml:lang="en">Great quakes that affect the globe in its entirety must first occur at one of the brake points in the global mesh of plates. For the Earth, this is primarily the point where the Indo-Australian plate dives under the Himalayas.<br/></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 1;"><span style="color: #333399; font-size: 10pt;" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #000000;"><span class="short_text" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><span class=""><span class="short_text" lang="en" xml:lang="en">For the last week, seismic activity has severely increased. Earthquake in Alaska was record in their area. </span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: #333399; font-size: 10pt;" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #000000;"><span class="short_text" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><span class=""><span class="short_text" lang="en" xml:lang="en">Earthquake in Fiji also was record in magnitude. (later Venezuela) But most notably, it's earthquake in Fiji. Addition to record magnitude, it also have a record depth. <strong>563 km!</strong> Only four earthquakes (Magnitude >8) have reached >500 km mark for the <strong>whole history of seismic observations</strong>:</span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<ul>
<li style="line-height: 1;"><span style="color: #333399; font-size: 10pt;" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #000000;"><span class="short_text" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><span class=""><span class="short_text" lang="en" xml:lang="en">2018 Fiji, 8.2 (563 km)</span></span></span></span></span></span></li>
<li style="line-height: 1;"><span style="color: #333399; font-size: 10pt;" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #000000;"><span class="short_text" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><span class=""><span class="short_text" lang="en" xml:lang="en">2013 Sea of Okhotsk, 8.3 (593 km)</span></span></span></span></span></span></li>
<li style="line-height: 1;"><span style="color: #333399; font-size: 10pt;" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #000000;"><span class="short_text" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><span class=""><span class="short_text" lang="en" xml:lang="en">1994 Bolivia, 8.2 (631 km)</span></span></span></span></span></span></li>
<li style="line-height: 1;"><span style="color: #333399; font-size: 10pt;" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #000000;"><span class="short_text" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><span class=""><span class="short_text" lang="en" xml:lang="en">1970 Colombia, 8.0 (644 km) Earthquakes data [1]</span></span></span></span></span></span></li>
</ul>
<p style="line-height: 1;"><span style="color: #333399; font-size: 10pt;" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #000000;"><span class="short_text" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><span class=""><span class="short_text" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><span lang="en" xml:lang="en"><span><strong>ZetaTalk: <a href="http://www.zetatalk.com/poleshft/p82.htm" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Deep Quakes</a> 12/21/2007: </strong></span></span><span style="color: #333399;" lang="en" xml:lang="en">One of the surest signs that the current eccentricity in weather patterns and the increased magnetic diffusion exhibited by the Earth’s core and the warming of the oceans from the bottom up are not simply variations on the norm is the dramatic increase in deep earthquakes, as noted since the mid 1980’s. This of course gets little media attention, just as the increasing magnetic diffusion is not in the media, as they are difficult symptoms to explain. The increase in deep earthquakes, those indicating plate adjustments at the most fundamental level, are in particular a telling clue that a pole shift is in the Earth’s near future.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 1;"><span style="color: #333399; font-size: 10pt;" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #000000;"><span class="short_text" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><span class=""><span class="short_text" lang="en" xml:lang="en">As an 2013 Sea of Okhotsk earthquake, Fiji earthquake was felt on INCREDIBLE distance. Seismic waves has reached other side of planet:</span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 1;"><span style="color: #333399; font-size: 10pt;" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #000000;"><span class="short_text" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><span class=""><span class="short_text" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><a href="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/110793252?profile=original" target="_self"><img src="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/110793252?profile=original" width="478" class="align-center"/></a></span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 1;"><span style="color: #333399; font-size: 10pt;" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #000000;"><span class="short_text" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><span class=""><span class="short_text" lang="en" xml:lang="en">How rare is an earthquake? Not only that, it is the strongest earthquake for Fiji but it is also one of the strongest in Oceania, as you can see below on map:</span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p><a href="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/110794011?profile=original" target="_self"><img src="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/110794011?profile=original" width="679" class="align-full"/></a></p>
<p style="line-height: 1;"><span style="color: #333399; font-size: 10pt;" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #808080;"><span class="short_text" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><span class=""><span class="short_text" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><span lang="en" xml:lang="en"><span>Earthquakes data [1]</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<hr noshade="noshade"/><p style="line-height: 1; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #333399; font-size: 24pt;" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #000000;"><span class="short_text" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><span class=""><span class="short_text" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><span lang="en" xml:lang="en">Alaska earthquake</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 1;"><span style="color: #333399; font-size: 10pt;" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: black;"><span class="short_text" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><span class=""><span class="short_text" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><span lang="en" xml:lang="en"><span>Earthquakes began to occur in unexpected places. Comments here are superfluous</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 1;"><span style="color: #333399; font-size: 10pt;" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #333399;"><span class="short_text" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><span class=""><span class="short_text" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><span lang="en" xml:lang="en"><span>"12 August, 2018. <strong>Strongest-ever earthquake strikes Alaska's North Slope region</strong></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p><a href="https://i.cbc.ca/1.4783950.1534194074!/fileImage/httpImage/image.png_gen/derivatives/16x9_780/north-slope-earthquake.png" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><img src="https://i.cbc.ca/1.4783950.1534194074!/fileImage/httpImage/image.png_gen/derivatives/16x9_780/north-slope-earthquake.png" class="align-full"/></a></p>
<p style="line-height: 1; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #333399; font-size: 10pt;" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #808080;"><span class="short_text" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><span class=""><span class="short_text" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><span lang="en" xml:lang="en"><span>The 6.4 magnitude earthquake plotted along with the first eight hours of aftershocks. (The University of Alaska Fairbanks Earthquake Center). Image source: <a href="https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/north/alaska-north-slope-record-earthquake-1.4783907" target="_blank" rel="noopener">cbc.ca</a></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 1;"><span style="color: #333399; font-size: 10pt;" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #333399;"><span class="short_text" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><span class=""><span class="short_text" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><span lang="en" xml:lang="en"><span>Alaska's North Slope was hit Sunday by the most powerful earthquake ever recorded in the region, the state's seismologist said. At 6:58 a.m. Sunday, the magnitude 6.4 earthquake struck an area 42 miles east of Kavik River Camp and 343 miles northeast of Fairbanks, the state's second-biggest city. The agency says the earthquake had a depth of about 6 miles.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 1;"><span style="color: #333399; font-size: 10pt;" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #3333990;"><span class="short_text" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><span class=""><span class="short_text" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><span lang="en" xml:lang="en"><span>State seismologist Mike West told the Anchorage Daily News that the quake was the biggest recorded in the North Slope by a substantial amount. "This is a very significant event that will take us some time to understand," he told the Daily News" </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 13.3333px;">[2]</span></font></p>
<hr noshade="noshade"/><p style="line-height: 1; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #333399; font-size: 24pt;" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #000000;"><span class="short_text" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><span class=""><span class="short_text" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><span lang="en" xml:lang="en">Venezuela</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 1;"><span style="color: #333399; font-size: 10pt;" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #000000;"><span class="short_text" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><span class=""><span class="short_text" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><span lang="en" xml:lang="en"><span><a href="https://cdn.images.express.co.uk/img/dynamic/78/590x/secondary/venezuela-earthquake-today-2018-news-caracas-damage-pictures-photos-1472282.jpg?r=1534928650114" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><img src="https://cdn.images.express.co.uk/img/dynamic/78/590x/secondary/venezuela-earthquake-today-2018-news-caracas-damage-pictures-photos-1472282.jpg?r=1534928650114" class="align-center"/></a></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 1; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #333399; font-size: 10pt;" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #808080;"><span class="short_text" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><span class=""><span class="short_text" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><span lang="en" xml:lang="en"><span>A damaged car and debris are seen on a street in Trinidad after an earthquake struck Venezuela (Image: REUTERS). Image source: <a href="https://www.express.co.uk/news/world/1006716/venezuela-earthquake-today-2018-news-caracas-damage-pictures-photos" target="_blank" rel="noopener">express.co.uk</a></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 1;"><span style="color: #333399; font-size: 10pt;" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #000000;"><span class="short_text" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><span class=""><span class="short_text" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><span lang="en" xml:lang="en"><span>Another remarkable earthquake this week. Earthquake in Venezuela also was record. And more specifically strongest in 100 years. </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 1;"><span style="color: #333399; font-size: 10pt;" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #000000;"><span class="short_text" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><span class=""><span class="short_text" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><span lang="en" xml:lang="en"><span><a href="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/110793260?profile=original" target="_self"><img src="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/110793260?profile=original" width="596" class="align-center"/></a></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 1;"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 13.3333px;"><span lang="en" xml:lang="en"><span style="color: #808080;" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><span><span class="short_text" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><span class="">Earthquakes data [1]</span></span></span></span></span></span></font></p>
<p style="line-height: 1;"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 13.3333px;"><span lang="en" xml:lang="en"><span><span class="short_text" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><span class="">Only the earthquake in 1900 with 7.7 magnitude surpassed the current earthquake.</span></span></span></span></span></font></p>
<p><a href="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/110794125?profile=original" target="_self"><img src="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/110794125?profile=original" width="553" class="align-center"/></a></p>
<p style="line-height: 1;"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 13.3333px;"><span lang="en" xml:lang="en"><span style="color: #808080;" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><span><span class="short_text" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><span class="">Earthquakes data [1]</span></span></span></span></span></span></font></p>
<p style="line-height: 1;"><span style="color: #333399; font-size: 10pt;" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #000000;"><span class="short_text" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><span class=""><span class="short_text" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><span lang="en" xml:lang="en"><span>If this pace of earthquakes continues, then this is a very serious reason to worry</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 1;"><span style="color: #333399; font-size: 10pt;" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #333399;"><span class="short_text" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><span class=""><span class="short_text" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><span lang="en" xml:lang="en"><span>"22 August, 2018. <strong>Venezuela rocked by strongest earthquake to hit country in 100 years</strong></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 1;"><span style="color: #333399; font-size: 10pt;" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #000000;"><span class="short_text" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><span class=""><span class="short_text" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><span lang="en" xml:lang="en"><span><a href="https://fastly-io.guim.co.uk/img/media/fd122c0a01d4664295c19bc699c7edb1517278f3/74_488_4512_2708/master/4512.jpg?w=620&q=55&auto=format&usm=12&fit=max&s=56af17846b6b1939854f7b489a19532f" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><img src="https://fastly-io.guim.co.uk/img/media/fd122c0a01d4664295c19bc699c7edb1517278f3/74_488_4512_2708/master/4512.jpg?w=620&q=55&auto=format&usm=12&fit=max&s=56af17846b6b1939854f7b489a19532f" class="align-center"/></a></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 1; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #333399; font-size: 10pt;" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #808080;"><span class="short_text" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><span class=""><span class="short_text" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><span lang="en" xml:lang="en"><span>Part of the abandoned skyscraper Torre de David leans precariously in Caracas after the quake. Photograph: Federico Parra/AFP/Getty Images. Image source: <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/aug/22/venezuela-earthquake-caracas-hit-caribbean" target="_blank" rel="noopener">theguardian.com</a></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 1;"><span style="color: #333399; font-size: 10pt;" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #333399;"><span class="short_text" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><span class=""><span class="short_text" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><span lang="en" xml:lang="en"><span>Venezuela has been hit by its strongest earthquake in more than 100 years, knocking out power and toppling supermarket shelves.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 1;"><span style="color: #333399; font-size: 10pt;" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #333399;"><span class="short_text" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><span class=""><span class="short_text" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><span lang="en" xml:lang="en"><span>Damage from the 7.3-magnitude quake, which shook the nation’s northeastern coast and parts of the Caribbean, was limited by the depth of tremors beneath the Earth’s surface.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 1;"><span style="color: #333399; font-size: 10pt;" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #333399;"><span class="short_text" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><span class=""><span class="short_text" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><span lang="en" xml:lang="en"><span>The US Geological Survey measured the earthquake at a depth of 76 miles (123km), with an epicentre a few miles off the Cariaco peninsula." </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: #333399; font-size: 10pt;" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #000000;"><span class="short_text" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><span class=""><span class="short_text" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><span lang="en" xml:lang="en"><span>[3]</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<hr noshade="noshade"/><p style="line-height: 1; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 24pt;"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">South Korea <span style="text-decoration: line-through;">induced</span> earthquakes</font></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 1;"><span style="color: #333399; font-size: 10pt;" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #000000;"><span class="short_text" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><span class=""><span class="short_text" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><a href="https://fastly-io.guim.co.uk/img/media/f69256c815222bb1c3f00da105a114e136bdaff8/0_173_1828_1097/master/1828.jpg?w=620&q=55&auto=format&usm=12&fit=max&s=dae7ee293c771e865b8b36d520725450" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><img src="https://fastly-io.guim.co.uk/img/media/f69256c815222bb1c3f00da105a114e136bdaff8/0_173_1828_1097/master/1828.jpg?w=620&q=55&auto=format&usm=12&fit=max&s=dae7ee293c771e865b8b36d520725450" class="align-center"/></a></span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 1; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #333399; font-size: 10pt;" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #808080;"><span class="short_text" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><span class=""><span class="short_text" lang="en" xml:lang="en">The aftermath of an earthquake in Pohang, South Korea, in November 2017. Photograph: Kyodo News/Kyodo News via Getty Images. Source of images: <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2018/apr/27/fracking-south-korean-earthquake" target="_blank" rel="noopener">theguardian.com</a></span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 1;"><span style="color: #333399; font-size: 10pt;" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #000000;"><span class="short_text" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><span class=""><span class="short_text" lang="en" xml:lang="en">The unexplained earthquake in Korea that was discussed in this <a href="http://poleshift.ning.com/profiles/blogs/2017-seismic-activity-wastewater-injection-theory-failed" target="_blank" rel="noopener">blog</a> and <a href="http://poleshift.ning.com/profiles/blogs/south-korea-no-longer-safe-from-earthquakes-kma-second-strongest" target="_blank" rel="noopener">this</a>, again in the news:</span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 1;"><span style="color: #333399; font-size: 10pt;" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #333399;"><span class="short_text" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><span class=""><span class="short_text" lang="en" xml:lang="en">"27 April, 2018. <strong>Fracking may have caused South Korean earthquake – study</strong></span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 1;"><span style="color: #333399; font-size: 10pt;" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #333399;"><span class="short_text" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><span class=""><span class="short_text" lang="en" xml:lang="en">One of South Korea’s largest earthquakes on record may have been caused by hydraulic fracturing – or fracking – according to a study published on Friday in the journal Science.</span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 1;"><span style="color: #333399; font-size: 10pt;" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #333399;"><span class="short_text" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><span class=""><span class="short_text" lang="en" xml:lang="en">A magnitude-5.5 earthquake hit the south-eastern city of Pohang on 15 November, injuring at least 70 people, temporarily displacing hundreds, and causing millions of dollars of damage. In the aftermath, residents and researchers have questioned whether the quake could be connected to a geothermal plant – the country’s first – less than 2km (about 1 mile) away.<br/> <...></span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 1;"><span style="color: #333399; font-size: 10pt;" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #333399;"><span class="short_text" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><span class=""><span class="short_text" lang="en" xml:lang="en">For decades, the Korean peninsula has seen almost no seismic activity. On 12 September 2016, another magnitude-5 quake struck just south of Pohang in Gyeongju. Since then the country has seen hundreds of smaller earthquakes.</span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 1;"><span style="color: #333399; font-size: 10pt;" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #000000;"><span class="short_text" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><span class=""><span class="short_text" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><a href="http://static.temblor.net/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/pohang-geothermal-plant.jpg" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><img src="http://static.temblor.net/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/pohang-geothermal-plant.jpg" class="align-full"/></a></span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 1; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #333399; font-size: 10pt;" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #808080;"><span class="short_text" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><span class=""><span class="short_text" lang="en" xml:lang="en">In the 37 years prior to drilling at the Pohang geothermal plant, there were no M=2+ earthquakes. Shortly after drilling and fluid injection commenced, the region was struck by a M=5.4 earthquake that caused $52 million in damage. Image source: <a href="http://temblor.net/earthquake-insights/was-south-koreas-most-damaging-earthquake-geothermally-induced-6942/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">temblor.net</a></span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 1;"><span style="color: #333399; font-size: 10pt;" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #333399;"><span class="short_text" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><span class=""><span class="short_text" lang="en" xml:lang="en">The study’s conclusions could also change how fracking is studied in relation to earthquakes. Previous theories have focused more on the volume of water used, rather than the pressure at which it enters the ground. In the case of the Pohang quake, a relatively small amount of water – about 10,000 cubic metres – was injected.</span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 1;"><span style="color: #333399; font-size: 10pt;" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #333399;"><span class="short_text" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><span class=""><span class="short_text" lang="en" xml:lang="en">“No one ever thought that injecting such a small amount of water could lead to such a large earthquake,” Westaway said." </span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: #333399; font-size: 10pt;" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #000000;"><span class="short_text" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><span class=""><span class="short_text" lang="en" xml:lang="en">[4]</span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<hr noshade="noshade"/><p style="line-height: 1;"><span style="color: #333399; font-size: 10pt;" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #333399;"><span class="short_text" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><span class=""><span class="short_text" lang="en" xml:lang="en">"27 April, 2018. <strong>Was South Korea’s most damaging earthquake geothermally-induced?</strong></span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 1;"><span style="color: #333399; font-size: 10pt;" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #333399;"><span class="short_text" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><span class=""><span class="short_text" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><a href="http://static.temblor.net/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/pohang-earthquake-damage.jpg" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><img src="http://static.temblor.net/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/pohang-earthquake-damage.jpg" class="align-full"/></a></span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 1; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #333399; font-size: 10pt;" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #808080;"><span class="short_text" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><span class=""><span class="short_text" lang="en" xml:lang="en">This photo shows some damage sustained in the November 2017 M=5.4 earthquake just west of the city of Pohang. In total, 90 people were injured and $52 million in damage was caused. (Kim Jun-beom/Yonhap). Source of image: <a href="http://temblor.net/earthquake-insights/was-south-koreas-most-damaging-earthquake-geothermally-induced-6942/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">temblor.net</a></span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 1;"><span style="color: #333399; font-size: 10pt;" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #333399;"><span class="short_text" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><span class=""><span class="short_text" lang="en" xml:lang="en">Last November, South Korea’s most damaging earthquake ever struck the southern port city of Pohang. The M=5.4 event left 90 people injured, and caused $52 million in damage. Now, in two articles published yesterday in Science, the possibility that the quake was induced was explored. The culprit? The nearby Pohang Geothermal Plant.</span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 1;"><span style="color: #333399; font-size: 10pt;" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #333399;"><span class="short_text" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><span class=""><span class="short_text" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><a href="http://static.temblor.net/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/Screen-Shot-2018-04-27-at-11.12.11-AM.png" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><img src="http://static.temblor.net/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/Screen-Shot-2018-04-27-at-11.12.11-AM.png" class="align-full"/></a></span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 1; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #333399; font-size: 10pt;" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #808080;"><span class="short_text" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><span class=""><span class="short_text" lang="en" xml:lang="en">This figure from Grigoli et al., 2018 shows the location three moderate earthquakes around Pohang. The first, the Gyeonju earthquake, struck 30 km south of Pohang along the Yangsan Fault. The other two, occurred just beneath the Pohang geothermal field at shallow depths, leading scientists to believe they may have been geothermally-induced. Image source: <a href="http://temblor.net/earthquake-insights/was-south-koreas-most-damaging-earthquake-geothermally-induced-6942/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">temblor.net</a></span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 1;"><span style="color: #333399; font-size: 10pt;" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #333399;"><span class="short_text" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><span class=""><span class="short_text" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><...> There are many reasons why the earthquake in South Korea is being attributed to industrial activities. Earthquakes were only observed following the drilling of wells, seismicity spikes were seen in the days following fluid injection, and activity decreased when injection did. Furthermore, the depth of the quake, 4.5 km (2.8 mi), is shallow and coincides with the bottom of one of the injection wells. While the paper uses this to emphasize the likely source, USGS scientist Art McGarr believes it is more likely due to the fact that at greater depths, the rock will be too hot, and not brittle enough to rupture. Nonetheless, he did say that such a shallow depth is typical of geothermally-induced earthquakes, including those seen at Geysers. Lastly, when such depths are compared to earthquakes on known faults, including a M=5.4 at 13 km depth on the Yangsan Fault 30 km south of Pohang in September 2016 (14 months prior to Pohang), suspicions are raised." </span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: #333399; font-size: 10pt;" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #000000;"><span class="short_text" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><span class=""><span class="short_text" lang="en" xml:lang="en">[5]</span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 1;"><span style="color: #333399; font-size: 10pt;" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #000000;"><span class="short_text" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><span class=""><span class="short_text" lang="en" xml:lang="en">1) Earthquakes of 5 magnitude are not so rare in South Korea (see <a href="http://poleshift.ning.com/profiles/blogs/south-korea-no-longer-safe-from-earthquakes-kma-second-strongest" target="_blank" rel="noopener">this</a>):</span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 1;"><span style="color: #333399; font-size: 10pt;" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #000000;"><span class="short_text" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><span class=""><span class="short_text" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><a href="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/74200944?profile=original" target="_self"><img src="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/74200944?profile=original" class="align-center"/></a></span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 1; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #333399; font-size: 10pt;" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #000000;"><span class="short_text" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><span class=""><span class="short_text" lang="en" xml:lang="en">Link: <a href="http://poleshift.ning.com/profiles/blogs/south-korea-no-longer-safe-from-earthquakes-kma-second-strongest" target="_blank" rel="noopener">poleshift.ning.com</a></span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 1; text-align: left;"><span style="color: #333399; font-size: 10pt;" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #000000;"><span class="short_text" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><span class=""><span class="short_text" lang="en" xml:lang="en">Earthquakes with 5 magnitude occurred before and it was never prescribed to a person. <span lang="en" xml:lang="en"><span>They just increased in number and strength. </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 1; text-align: left;"><span style="color: #333399; font-size: 10pt;" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #000000;"><span class="short_text" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><span class=""><span class="short_text" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><span lang="en" xml:lang="en"><span>2) Some scientists are skeptical about this. Nature wrote:</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 1; text-align: left;"><span style="color: #333399; font-size: 10pt;" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #333399;"><span class="short_text" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><span class=""><span class="short_text" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><span lang="en" xml:lang="en"><span>"Some researchers are sceptical that the fluid injection triggered the quake. “I do have some doubts,” says geophysicist Ernie Majer of Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory in California. “Maybe this area was very close to failure and it did not take much to set it off.”</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 1; text-align: left;"><span style="color: #333399; font-size: 10pt;" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #333399;"><span class="short_text" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><span class=""><span class="short_text" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><span lang="en" xml:lang="en"><span>Tae-Kyung Hong, a seismologist at Yonsei University in Seoul, is not convinced that the plant played a part in the quake. He says that the quake’s origin could have been slightly deeper than the latest studies suggest. His unpublished analysis of regional seismic data indicates the quake originated at a depth of 6.2 km, with aftershocks as deep as 10 km, which he argues is not an uncommon depth for earthquakes in South Korea.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 1; text-align: left;"><span style="color: #333399; font-size: 10pt;" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #333399;"><span class="short_text" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><span class=""><span class="short_text" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><span lang="en" xml:lang="en"><span>The plant’s operator, NexGeo, denied any connection to the earthquake the day after the event, saying fluid injection had ceased nearly two months before the main shock. Both research teams say that it can take up to months for injected fluids to settle and built up enough pressure to trigger a quake. “Induced earthquakes are still occurring in Basel, even though they shut down the geothermal power plant more than ten years ago,” says Ree. </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 1; text-align: left;"><span style="color: #333399; font-size: 10pt;" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #333399;"><span class="short_text" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><span class=""><span class="short_text" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><span lang="en" xml:lang="en"><span>Ten days after the Pohang quake, the government ordered the plant to suspend operations and opened an investigation into a possible link to the geothermal plant, which is still ongoing.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 1; text-align: left;"><span style="color: #333399; font-size: 10pt;" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #333399;"><span class="short_text" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><span class=""><span class="short_text" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><span lang="en" xml:lang="en"><span>Some scientists say the latest studies raise questions about whether the Pohang EGS plant operators knew about the fault, or should have known. In 2005, researchers at the Korea Institute of Geoscience and Mineral Resources (KIGAM) in Daejeon — one of NexGeo’s partners on the Pohang plant — published a survey of the region using magnetotelluric soundings, which map the conductivity of rock underground using magnetic readings. It reported a major fault in the area.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 1; text-align: left;"><span style="color: #333399; font-size: 10pt;" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #333399;"><span class="short_text" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><span class=""><span class="short_text" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><span lang="en" xml:lang="en"><span>But Yoonho Song, a geophysicist at KIGAM and one of the survey’s authors, says data from that kind of surface exploration could not infer whether the fault was active or not. “From any of our research activities, we have never suspected that there is any active fault in that area.” He declined to comment further, citing the pending government probe." [6]</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 1; text-align: left;"><span style="color: #333399; font-size: 10pt;" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: black;"><span class="short_text" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><span class=""><span class="short_text" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><span lang="en" xml:lang="en"><span>3) OK. 2017 Pohang earthquake is induced. <strong>BUT</strong> what about 2016 Gyeongju (second-strongest) earthquake?</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 1; text-align: left;"><span style="color: #333399; font-size: 10pt;" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #333399;"><span class="short_text" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><span class=""><span class="short_text" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><span lang="en" xml:lang="en"><span>"“The earthquake is the second-strongest <strong>natural</strong> earthquake to take place in the Korean peninsula since last year’s quake in Gyeongju,” the meteorological administration said." </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: #333399; font-size: 10pt;" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: black;"><span class="short_text" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><span class=""><span class="short_text" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><span lang="en" xml:lang="en"><span>[6] - abcnews.go</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 1; text-align: left;"><span style="color: #333399; font-size: 10pt;" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: black;"><span class="short_text" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><span class=""><span class="short_text" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><span lang="en" xml:lang="en"><span><a href="http://static.temblor.net/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/Screen-Shot-2018-04-27-at-11.15.57-AM.png" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><img src="http://static.temblor.net/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/Screen-Shot-2018-04-27-at-11.15.57-AM.png" class="align-full"/></a></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 1; text-align: left;"><span style="color: #333399; font-size: 10pt;" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #333399;"><span class="short_text" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><span class=""><span class="short_text" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><span lang="en" xml:lang="en"><span>"This figure from Grigoli et la., 2018 shows the depth distribution of earthquakes in the Pohang and Gyeonju earthquake sequences. <strong>The Gyeonju quake was deeper and known to have occurred on the Yangsan Faul</strong>t. Shallow earthquake depths such as those seen in the Pohang earthquake sequence are typical of geothermally-induced quakes."</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span> <span style="color: #333399; font-size: 10pt;" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: black;"><span class="short_text" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><span class=""><span class="short_text" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><span lang="en" xml:lang="en"><span>[5]</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 1; text-align: left;"><span style="color: #333399; font-size: 10pt;" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: black;"><span class="short_text" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><span class=""><span class="short_text" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><span lang="en" xml:lang="en"><span>Even if we assume that the earthquake in Pohang is human-induced, earthquake in Gyeongju remains unexplained. </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="color: #333399; font-size: 10pt;" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #000000;"><span class="short_text" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><span class=""><span class="short_text" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><strong>References</strong>:</span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 1;"><span style="color: #333399; font-size: 10pt;" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #000000;"><span class="short_text" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><span class=""><span class="short_text" lang="en" xml:lang="en">[1] <span lang="en" xml:lang="en"><span><a href="https://earthquake.usgs.gov/">https://earthquake.usgs.gov/</a></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 1;"><span style="color: #333399; font-size: 10pt;" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #000000;"><span class="short_text" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><span class=""><span class="short_text" lang="en" xml:lang="en">[2] <span>C. (2018, August 12). Strongest-ever earthquake strikes Alaska's North Slope region. Retrieved August 23, 2018, from <a href="https://www.cbsnews.com/news/alaska-north-slope-strong-earthquake-today-2018-08-12/">https://www.cbsnews.com/news/alaska-north-slope-strong-earthquake-today-2018-08-12/</a></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 1;"><span style="color: #333399; font-size: 10pt;" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #000000;"><span class="short_text" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><span class=""><span class="short_text" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><span>[3] Khan, S. (2018, August 22). Venezuela rocked by strongest earthquake to hit country in 100 years. Retrieved August 23, 2018, from <a href="https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/venezuela-earthquake-latest-damage-magnitude-carribbean-caracas-a8502076.html">https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/venezuela-earthquake-latest-damage-magnitude-carribbean-caracas-a8502076.html</a></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 1;"><span style="color: #333399; font-size: 10pt;" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #000000;"><span class="short_text" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><span class=""><span class="short_text" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><span>[4] Kuo, L. (2018, April 26). Fracking may have caused South Korean earthquake – study. Retrieved August 23, 2018, from <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2018/apr/27/fracking-south-korean-earthquake">https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2018/apr/27/fracking-south-korean-earthquake</a></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 1;"><span style="color: #333399; font-size: 10pt;" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #000000;"><span class="short_text" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><span class=""><span class="short_text" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><span>[5] Jacobson, D. (2018, April 27). Was South Korea's most damaging earthquake geothermally-induced? Retrieved August 23, 2018, from <a href="http://temblor.net/earthquake-insights/was-south-koreas-most-damaging-earthquake-geothermally-induced-6942/">http://temblor.net/earthquake-insights/was-south-koreas-most-damaging-earthquake-geothermally-induced-6942/</a></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 1;"><span style="color: #333399; font-size: 10pt;" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #000000;"><span class="short_text" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><span class=""><span class="short_text" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><span>[6] Lee, H. K. (n.d.). Another South Korea earthquake more cause for alarm about seismic activity. Retrieved November 18, 2017, from <a href="https://abcnews.go.com/International/south-korea-earthquake-alarm-seismic-activity/story?id=51163387">https://abcnews.go.com/International/south-korea-earthquake-alarm-seismic-activity/story?id=51163387</a></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p>For the first time in history, subtropical storm formed/registered near Southeast Pacific, biggest wave ever recorded in the SHtag:poleshift.ning.com,2018-05-13:3863141:BlogPost:10896422018-05-13T20:49:20.000ZStanislavhttps://poleshift.ning.com/profile/Stanislav
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<p style="line-height: 1;"><span style="color: #808080; font-size: 10pt;" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #808080;"><span class="short_text" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><span class=""><span class="short_text" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span lang="en" xml:lang="en">References: Tropical Cyclones data [1]</span></font></span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 1;"><span style="font-size: 18pt;"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><b>Anomaly cyclone</b></font></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 1;"><span style="color: #333399; font-size: 10pt;" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #000000;"><span class="short_text" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><span class=""><span class="short_text" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><strong>ZetaTalk <a href="http://www.zetatalk.com/index/zeta204.htm" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Prediction</a> 2/18/2005</strong>: <span style="color: #333399;" lang="en" xml:lang="en">Swirling in the oceans and the air will only increase, not only becoming more violent and following each other in short order, but also will begin slamming into each other, creating weather conditions utterly unpredictable and horrific in their consequences. Forecasters will be dismayed.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 1;"><span style="color: #333399; font-size: 10pt;" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #000000;"><span class="short_text" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><span class=""><span class="short_text" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><strong>ZetaTalk Chat Q&A: <a href="http://www.zetatalk.com/ning/30sp2017.htm" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Commentary</a> 09/30/2017</strong>: <span style="color: #333399;" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><span>With a stronger Polar Push the bounce back would likewise be more extreme, and the bounce back occurs when the Sun is over the Atlantic. As the wobble continued to get worse, the Figure 8 corrective lean to the right and left also got more extreme. This sets the stage for the current 2017 hurricane season.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 1;"><span style="color: #333399; font-size: 10pt;" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #000000;"><span class="short_text" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><span class=""><span class="short_text" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><span style="color: #000000;" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><span>Zetas predicted that because of the Earth Wobble, hurricanes/tropical cyclones will become more frequent and occur in rare places.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br/> <span style="color: #333399; font-size: 10pt;" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #000000;"><span class="short_text" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><span class=""><span class="short_text" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><a href="https://eoimages.gsfc.nasa.gov/images/imagerecords/92000/92137/southamerica_tmo_2018129.jpg" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><img src="https://eoimages.gsfc.nasa.gov/images/imagerecords/92000/92137/southamerica_tmo_2018129.jpg" class="align-full"/></a></span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 1; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><em><span style="color: #333399;" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #808080;"><span class="short_text" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><span class=""><span class="short_text" lang="en" xml:lang="en">An extremely rare cyclone formed in early May 2018 about 160 kilometers (100 miles) off the coast of Chile—an area that almost never sees tropical cyclones. This image was acquired on May 9, 2018, by the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on NASA’s Terra satellite. Acquired May 9, 2018. Image source: <a href="https://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/NaturalHazards/view.php?id=92137" target="_blank" rel="noopener">earthobservatory.nasa.gov</a></span></span></span></span></span></span></em></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 1;"><span style="color: #333399; font-size: 10pt;" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #000000;"><span class="short_text" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><span class=""><span class="short_text" lang="en" xml:lang="en">An extremely rare cyclone formed in early May 2018 about 160 kilometers off the coast of Chile. Although, NOAA called it a storm. [2] He generally should not be formed there:</span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 1;"><span style="color: #333399; font-size: 10pt;" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #333399;"><span class="short_text" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><span class=""><span class="short_text" lang="en" xml:lang="en">"9 May, 2018. <strong>Rare Subtropical Storm off the Coast of Chile</strong></span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 1;"><span style="color: #333399; font-size: 10pt;" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #333399;"><span class="short_text" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><span class=""><span class="short_text" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><...> <span>The southeastern Pacific Ocean is normally not conducive to tropical cyclone development. Sea surface temperatures off the west coast of South America are normally far too cold and the region is located in a semi-permanent high pressure zone, characterized by dry, sinking air. NOAA satellite data show sea surface temperatures at the site of the storm just under 20 degrees Celsius (68 degrees Fahrenheit). While these temperatures are not usually warm enough for convective activity, the right atmospheric conditions in the vicinity of this storm allowed thunderstorms to form, with wind speeds attaining the strength of a weak tropical storm.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: #333399; font-size: 10pt;" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #000000;"><span class="short_text" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><span class=""><span class="short_text" lang="en" xml:lang="en">" </span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: #333399; font-size: 10pt;" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #000000;"><span class="short_text" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><span class=""><span class="short_text" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">[2] -</span></font></span></span></span></span></span></span> <span style="color: #333399; font-size: 10pt;" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #000000;"><span class="short_text" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><span class=""><span class="short_text" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">National Environmental Satellite, Data, and Information Service (NESDIS)</span></font></span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 1;"><span style="color: #333399; font-size: 10pt;" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #000000;"><span class="short_text" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><span class=""><span class="short_text" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">How rare is it? <strong>Unprecedented</strong></span></font></span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 1; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #333399; font-size: 10pt;" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #000000;"><span class="short_text" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><span class=""><span class="short_text" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><strong><a href="https://dsx.weather.com/util/image/w/subtrop_history.jpg?v=ap&w=980&h=551&api=7db9fe61-7414-47b5-9871-e17d87b8b6a0" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><img src="https://dsx.weather.com/util/image/w/subtrop_history.jpg?v=ap&w=980&h=551&api=7db9fe61-7414-47b5-9871-e17d87b8b6a0&width=700" width="700" class="align-center"/></a></strong></span></font></span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: #333399; font-size: 10pt;" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #000000;"><span class="short_text" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><span class=""><span class="short_text" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><span lang="en" xml:lang="en"><em><span style="color: #808080;" lang="en" xml:lang="en">Tropical/subtropical cyclone tracks in the Pacific Ocean, according to the IBTrACS database. (Levi Cowan/TropicalTidbits.com) Image source: <a href="https://weather.com/storms/hurricane/news/2018-05-08-subtropical-cyclone-chile" target="_blank" rel="noopener">weather.com</a></span></em><br/></span></span></font></span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 1;"><span style="color: #333399; font-size: 10pt;" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #000000;"><span class="short_text" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><span class=""><span class="short_text" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">There has never been a cyclone in this place (at least not officially registered). </span></font></span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 1;"><span style="color: #333399; font-size: 10pt;" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #333399;"><span class="short_text" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><span class=""><span class="short_text" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">"9 May. <strong>Extremely Rare Southeast Pacific Subtropical Cyclone Forms Off the Chilean Coast</strong></span></font></span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
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<li style="line-height: 1;"><span style="color: #333399; font-size: 10pt;" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #333399;"><span class="short_text" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><span class=""><span class="short_text" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">A rare subtropical cyclone appears to have developed off the coast of Chile.</span></font></span></span></span></span></span></span></li>
<li style="line-height: 1;"><span style="color: #333399; font-size: 10pt;" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #333399;"><span class="short_text" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><span class=""><span class="short_text" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">No subtropical or tropical cyclones have been recognized in that part of the world.</span></font></span></span></span></span></span></span></li>
<li style="line-height: 1;"><span style="color: #333399; font-size: 10pt;" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #333399;"><span class="short_text" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><span class=""><span class="short_text" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Cold water typically inhibits tropical development near South America.</span></font></span></span></span></span></span></span></li>
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<p style="line-height: 1;"><span style="color: #333399; font-size: 10pt;" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #333399;"><span class="short_text" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><span class=""><span class="short_text" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">An exceptionally rare subtropical storm appears to have formed off the central coast of Chile in the southeast Pacific Ocean, typically one of the world's most tropical cyclone devoid ocean basins. </span></font></span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: #333399; font-size: 10pt;" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #333399;"><span class="short_text" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><span class=""><span class="short_text" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">The subtropical cyclone formed late last weekend several hundred miles west of the South American coast.</span></font></span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 1;"><span style="color: #333399; font-size: 10pt;" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #333399;"><span class="short_text" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><span class=""><span class="short_text" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">The advanced scatterometer aboard the EUMETSAT satellite found the system had a well-defined surface low, with winds of 40-45 mph and shallow thunderstorm activity surrounding but not in its center Tuesday. </span></font></span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: #333399; font-size: 10pt;" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #333399;"><span class="short_text" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><span class=""><span class="short_text" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">These ingredients define the system as a subtropical storm, a system with characteristics of both a conventional tropical cyclone and a colder, non-tropical low-pressure system you may see over land or water in the middle latitudes. </span></font></span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: #333399; font-size: 10pt;" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #333399;"><span class="short_text" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><span class=""><span class="short_text" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><...> It may be one of a kind. No other recognized subtropical or tropical storm has been documented in that part of the world." [3]</span></font></span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 1;"><span style="color: #333399; font-size: 10pt;" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #000000;"><span class="short_text" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><span class=""><span class="short_text" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><a href="https://s.w-x.co/subtrop_chile.gif" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><img src="https://s.w-x.co/subtrop_chile.gif?width=700" width="700" class="align-full"/></a></span></font></span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 1; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><em><span style="color: #333399;" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #808080;"><span class="short_text" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><span class=""><span class="short_text" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Satellite showing a likely subtropical cyclone off the coast of Chile on Tuesday. (NASA). Image source: <a href="https://weather.com/storms/hurricane/news/2018-05-08-subtropical-cyclone-chile" target="_blank" rel="noopener">weather.com</a></font></span></span></span></span></span></span></em></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 1;"><span style="color: #333399; font-size: 10pt;" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #000000;"><span class="short_text" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><span class=""><span class="short_text" lang="en" xml:lang="en">Nevertheless, scientists do not have complete data:</span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 1;"><span style="color: #333399; font-size: 10pt;" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #333399;"><span class="short_text" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><span class=""><span class="short_text" lang="en" xml:lang="en">"The southeast Pacific isn't the only basin where some subtropical or even tropical cyclones go undeclared. </span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: #333399; font-size: 10pt;" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #333399;"><span class="short_text" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><span class=""><span class="short_text" lang="en" xml:lang="en">There are two reasons why we don't see more subtropical or tropical storms in some ocean basins: Lack of responsibility and lack of good conditions. </span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 1;"><span style="color: #333399; font-size: 10pt;" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #333399;"><span class="short_text" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><span class=""><span class="short_text" lang="en" xml:lang="en">Part of the reason that no tropical or subtropical cyclone has ever been named is because there is nobody to name such a storm. </span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: #333399; font-size: 10pt;" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #333399;"><span class="short_text" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><span class=""><span class="short_text" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><br/></span></span></span></span></span></span> <span style="color: #333399; font-size: 10pt;" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #333399;"><span class="short_text" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><span class=""><span class="short_text" lang="en" xml:lang="en">There is no Regional Specialized Meteorological Centre (RSMC) specifically in charge of the southeast Pacific Ocean. </span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: #333399; font-size: 10pt;" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #333399;"><span class="short_text" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><span class=""><span class="short_text" lang="en" xml:lang="en">On the opposite side of South America, in the south Atlantic Ocean, there have been several subtropical systems that have formed in recent years that have gone officially off the record." [2]</span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 1;"><span style="color: #333399; font-size: 10pt;" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #000000;"><span class="short_text" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><span class=""><span class="short_text" lang="en" xml:lang="en">Although the fact that it is very rarely recognized</span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<hr noshade="noshade"/><p style="line-height: 1;"><span style="font-size: 18pt;"><strong><span style="color: #333399;" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #000000;"><span class="short_text" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><span class=""><span class="short_text" lang="en" xml:lang="en">Record wave in Southern Hemisphere</span></span></span></span></span></span></strong></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 1;"><span style="color: #333399; font-size: 10pt;" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #000000;"><span class="short_text" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><span class=""><span class="short_text" lang="en" xml:lang="en">May 8, scientists recorded a record wave in the Southern Hemisphere. This wave broke the record of 2012 and became the largest in the history of the Southern Hemisphere</span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 1;"><span style="color: #333399; font-size: 10pt;" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #333399;"><span class="short_text" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><span class=""><span class="short_text" lang="en" xml:lang="en">"11 May, 2018. <strong>Monster ocean wave sets southern hemisphere record: scientists</strong></span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p><a href="https://3c1703fe8d.site.internapcdn.net/newman/gfx/news/2018/monsterwave.jpg" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><img src="https://3c1703fe8d.site.internapcdn.net/newman/gfx/news/2018/monsterwave.jpg" class="align-center"/></a></p>
<p style="line-height: 1; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><em><span style="color: #333399;" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #808080;"><span class="short_text" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><span class=""><span class="short_text" lang="en" xml:lang="en">Graphic on the monster wave recorded in the southern hemisphere. Image source: <a href="https://phys.org/news/2018-05-monster-ocean-southern-hemisphere-scientists.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">phys.org</a></span></span></span></span></span></span></em></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 1;"><span style="color: #333399; font-size: 10pt;" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #333399;"><span class="short_text" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><span class=""><span class="short_text" lang="en" xml:lang="en">Scientists have recorded what is believed to be the largest wave ever in the southern hemisphere, a 23.8 metre (78 foot) monster the height of an eight-floor building. </span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 1;"><span style="color: #333399; font-size: 10pt;" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #333399;"><span class="short_text" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><span class=""><span class="short_text" lang="en" xml:lang="en">A buoy recorded the wave on Tuesday during a ferocious storm in the notoriously wild Southern Ocean near Campbell Island, some 700 kilometres (430 miles) south of New Zealand, research body MetOcean Solutions said. Senior oceanographer Tom Durrant said it wiped out the previous southern-hemisphere record of 22.03 metres recorded in 2012.</span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 1;"><span style="color: #333399; font-size: 10pt;" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #333399;"><span class="short_text" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><span class=""><span class="short_text" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><a href="https://3c1703fe8d.site.internapcdn.net/newman/csz/news/800/2018/thelargestwa.jpg" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><img src="https://3c1703fe8d.site.internapcdn.net/newman/csz/news/800/2018/thelargestwa.jpg?width=700" width="700" class="align-full"/></a></span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 1; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><em><span style="color: #333399;" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #808080;"><span class="short_text" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><span class=""><span class="short_text" lang="en" xml:lang="en">The largest wave ever in the southern hemisphere has been recorded during a ferocious storm off the coast of New Zealand. Image source: <a href="https://phys.org/news/2018-05-monster-ocean-southern-hemisphere-scientists.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">phys.org</a></span></span></span></span></span></span></em></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 1;"><span style="color: #333399; font-size: 10pt;" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #333399;"><span class="short_text" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><span class=""><span class="short_text" lang="en" xml:lang="en">"To our knowledge it is largest wave ever recorded in the southern hemisphere," he said, adding that the Southern Ocean was an "engine room" for generating swell waves that move across the planet." </span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: #333399; font-size: 10pt;" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #000000;"><span class="short_text" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><span class=""><span class="short_text" lang="en" xml:lang="en">[4]</span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 1;"><span style="color: #333399; font-size: 10pt;" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #000000;"><span class="short_text" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><span class=""><span class="short_text" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><strong>Conclusion</strong>:</span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 1;"><span style="color: #333399; font-size: 10pt;" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #000000;"><span class="short_text" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><span class=""><span class="short_text" lang="en" xml:lang="en">The cyclone was formed around May 5, and the record wave was registered on May 8. Quite a strange coincidence. Another proof of the Earth Wobble. </span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 1;"><span style="color: #333399; font-size: 10pt;" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #000000;"><span class="short_text" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><span class=""><span class="short_text" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><strong>References</strong>:</span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 1;"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 13.3333px;">[1] Knapp, K. R., M. C. Kruk, D. H. Levinson, H. J. Diamond, and C. J. Neumann, 2010: <br/> The International Best Track Archive for Climate Stewardship (IBTrACS): Unifying tropical cyclone best track data. <br/> Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, 91, 363-376. <br/> non-gonvernment domain doi:10.1175/2009BAMS2755.1 <a href="https://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/ibtracs/index.php" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Link</a></span></font></p>
<p style="line-height: 1;"><span style="color: #333399; font-size: 10pt;" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #000000;"><span class="short_text" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><span class=""><span class="short_text" lang="en" xml:lang="en">[2] <span>Rare Subtropical Storm off the Coast of Chile. (2018, May 9). Retrieved May 13, 2018, from <a href="https://www.nesdis.noaa.gov/content/rare-subtropical-storm-coast-chile">https://www.nesdis.noaa.gov/content/rare-subtropical-storm-coast-chile</a></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 1;"><span style="color: #333399; font-size: 10pt;" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #000000;"><span class="short_text" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><span class=""><span class="short_text" lang="en" xml:lang="en">[3] <span>Belles, J. (2018, May 08). Extremely Rare Southeast Pacific Subtropical Cyclone Forms Off the Chilean Coast. Retrieved May 13, 2018, from <a href="https://weather.com/storms/hurricane/news/2018-05-08-subtropical-cyclone-chile">https://weather.com/storms/hurricane/news/2018-05-08-subtropical-cyclone-chile</a></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 1;"><span style="color: #333399; font-size: 10pt;" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #000000;"><span class="short_text" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><span class=""><span class="short_text" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><span>[4] Monster ocean wave sets southern hemisphere record: Scientists. (2018, May 11). Retrieved May 13, 2018, from <a href="https://phys.org/news/2018-05-monster-ocean-southern-hemisphere-scientists.html">https://phys.org/news/2018-05-monster-ocean-southern-hemisphere-scientists.html</a></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p>Hawaii in upheaval. Biggest deep sea volcanic eruption in 100 years went unnoticed in 2012!tag:poleshift.ning.com,2018-05-06:3863141:BlogPost:10892912018-05-06T20:00:00.000ZStanislavhttps://poleshift.ning.com/profile/Stanislav
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<p><span style="color: #808080; font-size: 10pt;" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #808080;"><span class="short_text" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><span class=""><span class="short_text" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span xml:lang="en" lang="en"><a href="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/74203987?profile=original" target="_self"><img src="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/74203987?profile=original" class="align-full" width="699"/></a></span></font></span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: #808080; font-size: 10pt;" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #808080;"><span class="short_text" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><span class=""><span class="short_text" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span xml:lang="en" lang="en">References: Earthquake data [1]</span></font></span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 1;"><span style="color: #333399; font-size: 10pt;" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #000000;"><span class="short_text" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><span class=""><span class="short_text" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><strong>ZetaTalk <a href="http://www.zetatalk.com/awaken/a97.htm" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Prediction</a> 4/15/1999</strong>: <span style="color: #333399;" xml:lang="en" lang="en">You're going to have increasing earthquake tremblers. This will be defused by the media which will fail to report them.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 1;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10pt;" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #000000;"><span class="short_text" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><span class=""><span class="short_text" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><strong>ZetaTalk: <a href="http://www.zetatalk.com/index/zeta420.htm" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Christmas Hammer</a> 12/21/2007</strong>: <span style="color: #333399;" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><span>Great quakes that affect the globe in its entirety must first occur at one of the brake points in the global mesh of plates. For the Earth, this is primarily the point where the Indo-Australian plate dives under the Himalayas.</span><span style="color: #333399;" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><br/></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 1;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10pt;" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #000000;"><span class="short_text" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><span class=""><span class="short_text" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><strong>ZetaTalk: <a href="http://www.zetatalk.com/info/tinfx039.htm" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Hawaii</a></strong>: <span style="color: #333399;" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><span>Hawaii is steadily rising now, after every major quake in the vicinity. As we explained, the Pacific is not one plate but at least four, and both the Hawaii Islands and the Society Islands are being raised on the western edge of a the Pacific Plate portion that is subducting under the West Coast of N America.</span><span style="color: #333399;" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><br/></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 1;"><span style="color: #333399; font-size: 10pt;" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #000000;"><span class="short_text" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><span class=""><span class="short_text" xml:lang="en" lang="en">Tectonic activity increased significantly in Hawaii. The eruption of the volcano is accompanied by the appearance of new cracks from which the lava flows. Thousands of small earthquakes hit Hawaii. Although in itself the volcanic eruptions in Hawaii is not a new event. The large earthquake that shocked Hawaii points to some uniqueness of this event.</span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 1; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #333399; font-size: 10pt;" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #000000;"><span class="short_text" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><span class=""><span class="short_text" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><a href="https://cbsnews1.cbsistatic.com/hub/i/r/2018/05/05/53ead116-7911-4010-ad15-c175d20400d6/resize/620x/3fe71c81f78ff9a0cd848b27005f2c4a/gettyimages-954775046.jpg" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><img src="https://cbsnews1.cbsistatic.com/hub/i/r/2018/05/05/53ead116-7911-4010-ad15-c175d20400d6/resize/620x/3fe71c81f78ff9a0cd848b27005f2c4a/gettyimages-954775046.jpg" class="align-center"/></a></span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="color: #808080;" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #808080;"><span class="short_text" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><span class=""><span class="short_text" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><span><em><span xml:lang="en" lang="en">Steam rises from a fissure on a road in Leilani Estates subdivision on Hawaii's Big Island on May 4, 2018. - Up to 10,000 people have been asked to leave their homes on Hawaii's Big Island following the eruption of the Kilauea volcano that came after a series of recent earthquakes. FREDERIC J. BROWN / AFP/GETTY IMAGES. Image source: <a href="https://www.cbsnews.com/news/hawaii-kilauea-volcano-eruption-lava-flows-toxic-gas-leilani-estates-evacuation-earthquakes-today-2018-05-05/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">cbsnews.com</a></span></em></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 1;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="color: #333399;" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #000000;"><span class="short_text" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><span class=""><span class="short_text" xml:lang="en" lang="en">The strength of this earthquake <strong>is what is remarkable</strong>. This is largest earthquake since 1975 and second-strongest ever in Hawaii. [2]</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://cdn.theatlantic.com/assets/media/img/photo/2018/05/kilauea-two/k01_9663791/main_1500.jpg?1525591447" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><img src="https://cdn.theatlantic.com/assets/media/img/photo/2018/05/kilauea-two/k01_9663791/main_1500.jpg?1525591447&width=700" class="align-full" width="700"/></a></p>
<p style="line-height: 1; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="color: #333399;" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #000000;"><span class="short_text" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><span class=""><span class="short_text" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><span style="color: #808080;"><span><span xml:lang="en" lang="en"><em>A 2,000-foot-long fissure erupts within the Leilani Estates subdivision, on the east rift zone of the Kilauea volcano threatening homes of hundreds in Hawaii, on May 5, 2018. Bruce Omori / Paradise Helicopters / EPA-EFE / REX / Shutterstock. Image source: <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/05/us/Hawaii-volcano-eruption.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">nytimes.com</a></em></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 1;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="color: #333399;" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #000000;"><span class="short_text" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><span class=""><span class="short_text" xml:lang="en" lang="en">Kilauea volcano active since 1983. And it constantly erupts and there is nothing unusual about it.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 1; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="color: #333399;" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #000000;"><span class="short_text" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><span class=""><span class="short_text" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><span><a href="https://static01.nyt.com/images/2018/05/06/us/06xp-volcano/merlin_137723859_84807a8c-b082-4359-bd27-fee6e06128e5-master768.jpg" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><img src="https://static01.nyt.com/images/2018/05/06/us/06xp-volcano/merlin_137723859_84807a8c-b082-4359-bd27-fee6e06128e5-master768.jpg?width=700" class="align-full" width="700"/></a></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="color: #333399;" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #808080;"><span class="short_text" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><span class=""><span class="short_text" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><span><span xml:lang="en" lang="en"><em>An ash plume at the Kilauea volcano on Friday on Hawaii. The governor declared a local state of emergency near the volcano after it erupted and prompted the evacuation of residents.CreditU.S. Geological Survey, via Getty Images. Image source: <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/05/us/Hawaii-volcano-eruption.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">nytimes.com</a></em></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 1;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><span class=""><span style="color: #333399;" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><span class="short_text" xml:lang="en" lang="en">"<strong>5 May, 2018.</strong> <span><span xml:lang="en" lang="en">Hawaii rocked by strongest quake in 40 years as Kilauea volcano sparks fountains of lava</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 1;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><span class=""><span style="color: #333399;" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><span class="short_text" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><span><span xml:lang="en" lang="en">A series of fresh earthquakes on Friday, including a powerful magnitude 6.9, hit Hawaii's Big Island, where the Kilauea volcano has been spewing fountains of lava into residential areas and forcing hundreds to evacuate.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span> <span style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><span class=""><span style="color: #333399;" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><span class="short_text" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><span><span xml:lang="en" lang="en">The US Geological Survey (USGS) said the strongest tremor at 12.32 pm measured 6.9, the island's largest earthquake in more than 40 years.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 1;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><span class=""><span style="color: #333399;" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><span class="short_text" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><span><span xml:lang="en" lang="en">The Pacific Tsunami Warning Centre said the quake, whose epicentre was on the south flank of the volcano, was not large enough to cause a tsunami although it generated sea level changes around the island of up 40 cm. </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">- [1] writes telegraph</span></span></p>
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<p style="line-height: 1;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><span class="" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><span class=""><span class="short_text" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><span><a href="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/74204114?profile=original" target="_self"><img src="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/74204114?profile=original" class="align-center" width="501"/></a></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 1;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><span class="" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><span class=""><span class="short_text" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><span><span id="result_box" class="" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><span style="color: #808080;" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><span xml:lang="en" lang="en"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">References: Earthquake data [2]</font></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 1;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><span class="" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><span class=""><span class="short_text" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><span><span id="result_box" class="" xml:lang="en" lang="en">These earthquakes were caused by volcanic activity:</span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 1;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><span style="color: #333399;" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><span class="" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><span class=""><span class="short_text" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><span>"<strong>5 May, 2018.</strong> Multiple new vents, from which lava is spurting out of the ground, formed in the same residential neighborhood where molten rock first emerged Thursday. At midday, a magnitude 6.9 earthquake struck—the biggest of hundreds of quakes this week and the largest to strike the state in 43 years. Residents were also warned to watch out for dangerous levels of sulfuric gas.</span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 1;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><span style="color: #333399;" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><span class="" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><span class=""><span class="short_text" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><span>Hawaiian Volcano Observatory spokeswoman Janet Babb said the earthquakes reflected the volcano adjusting to the shifting magma.</span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 1;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><span style="color: #333399;" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><span class="" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><span class=""><span class="short_text" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><span>"The magma moving down the rift zones, it causes stress on the south flank of the volcano," Babb said. "We're just getting a series of earthquakes."</span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><span class="" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><span class=""><span class="short_text" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><span>" [4]</span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p><a href="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/74204458?profile=original" target="_self"><img src="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/74204458?profile=original" class="align-center" width="645"/></a><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><span class="" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><span class=""><span class="short_text" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><span><span id="result_box" class="short_text" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><span xml:lang="en" lang="en"><span style="color: #808080;" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">References: Earthquake data [2]</font></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 1;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><span class="" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><span class=""><span class="short_text" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><span><span id="result_box" class="short_text" xml:lang="en" lang="en">Hundreds of earthquakes shook Hawaii this week</span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
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<p style="line-height: 1;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><span class="" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><span class=""><span class="short_text" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><span id="result_box" class="short_text" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><span xml:lang="en" lang="en"><span style="color: #808080;" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><span><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">References: Earthquake data [2], [3]</font></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 1;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><span class="" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><span class=""><span class="short_text" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><span id="result_box" class="short_text" xml:lang="en" lang="en">One of them was a record in 40 years.</span></span></span></span></span></p>
<hr noshade="noshade"/><p style="line-height: 1;"><span style="font-size: 18pt;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span id="result_box" class="short_text" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><span class="">2012 Kermadec Islands eruption</span></span></span></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 1;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span id="result_box" class="short_text" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><span class="">But this is all nothing compared to this news:</span></span></span></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 1;"><span style="color: #333399;" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="short_text" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><span class="">"<strong>15 January, 2018.</strong> We All Nearly Missed The Largest Underwater Volcano Eruption Ever Recorded</span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 1; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #333399;" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="short_text" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><span class=""><a href="https://www.thetimes.co.uk/imageserver/image/methode%2Ftimes%2Fprod%2Fweb%2Fbin%2F59ecc5be-f6eb-11e7-8e57-f11d372363fa.png?crop=550%2C500%2C15%2C10&resize=320" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><img src="https://www.thetimes.co.uk/imageserver/image/methode%2Ftimes%2Fprod%2Fweb%2Fbin%2F59ecc5be-f6eb-11e7-8e57-f11d372363fa.png?crop=550%2C500%2C15%2C10&resize=320" class="align-center"/></a></span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><em><span style="color: #808080;" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span class="short_text" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><span class="">Image source: <a href="https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/undersea-volcano-eruption-was-biggest-in-century-sklnjzqsq" target="_blank" rel="noopener">thetimes.co.uk</a><br/></span></span></span></span></em></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 1;"><span style="color: #333399;" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="short_text" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><span class=""><span>"<strong>We knew it was a large-scale eruption, approximately equivalent to the biggest eruption we've seen on land in the 20th Century,</strong>" says volcanologist Rebecca Carey from the University of Tasmania, who's co-led the first close-up investigation of the historic 2012 eruption.</span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 1;"><span style="color: #333399;" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="short_text" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><span class=""><span>The incident, produced by a submarine volcano called the Havre Seamount, initially went unnoticed by scientists, but the floating rock platform it generated was harder to miss.</span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 1;"><span style="color: #333399;" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="short_text" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><span class=""><span>Back in 2012, the raft – composed of pumice rock – covered some 400 square kilometres (154 square miles) of the south-west Pacific Ocean, but months later satellites recorded it dispersing over an area twice the size of New Zealand itself. </span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 1; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #333399;" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="short_text" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><span class=""><span><a href="https://www.thetimes.co.uk/imageserver/image/methode%2Ftimes%2Fprod%2Fweb%2Fbin%2Fa38f426e-f6eb-11e7-a789-003e705b951e.jpg?crop=1083%2C609%2C0%2C56&resize=685" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><img src="https://www.thetimes.co.uk/imageserver/image/methode%2Ftimes%2Fprod%2Fweb%2Fbin%2Fa38f426e-f6eb-11e7-a789-003e705b951e.jpg?crop=1083%2C609%2C0%2C56&resize=685" class="align-full"/></a></span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><em><span style="color: #808080;" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="short_text" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><span class="">Scientists used deep search vehicles to map the eruption and collect samples. WOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTION. Image source: <a href="https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/undersea-volcano-eruption-was-biggest-in-century-sklnjzqsq" target="_blank" rel="noopener">thetimes.co.uk</a></span></span></span></span></em></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 1;"><span style="color: #333399;" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="short_text" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><span class=""><span>Under the surface, the sheer scale of the rocky aftermath took scientists aback when they inspected the site in 2015, at depths as low as 1,220 metres (4,000 feet). </span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 1;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; color: #333399;">It may have been (thankfully) buried under an ocean of water, but for a sense of scale, think roughly</span> <strong style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; color: #333399;">1.5 times larger than the</strong> <strong style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; color: #333399;">1980 eruption of Mount St. Helens – or 10 times the size of the 2010 Eyjafjallajokull eruption in Iceland</strong><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; color: #333399;">. With samples collected by the submersibles yielding what the scientists say could amount to a decade's worth of research, it's a huge, rare opportunity to study what takes place when a volcano erupts under the sea – a phenomenon that actually accounts for more than 70 percent of all volcanism on Earth, even if it's a bit harder to spot.</span></p>
<p style="line-height: 1;"><span style="color: #333399;" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="short_text" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><span class=""><span>"Underwater eruptions are fundamentally different than those on land," says one of the team, geophysicist Michael Manga from UC Berkeley. "There is no on-land equivalent."" [5]</span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 1;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="short_text" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><span class=""><span id="result_box" class="" xml:lang="en" lang="en">The eruption occurred in July 2012 near New Zealand, while in April in the Indian Ocean there was an unusual earthquake with magnitude 8.6 (largest strike-slip earthquake ever recorded). <span id="result_box" class="short_text" xml:lang="en" lang="en">Coincidence?</span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 1;"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 13.3333px;"><strong>Conclusion</strong>:</span></font></p>
<p style="line-height: 1;"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 13.3333px;">Of course volcanic activity in Hawaii is not new. What is worth paying attention to is seismic activity. The earthquake that shook Hawaii is remarkable and record.</span></font></p>
<p style="line-height: 1; text-align: center;"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 13.3333px;"><a href="https://3c1703fe8d.site.internapcdn.net/newman/csz/news/800/2018/18-hawaiivolcan.jpg" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><img src="https://3c1703fe8d.site.internapcdn.net/newman/csz/news/800/2018/18-hawaiivolcan.jpg" class="align-center"/></a></span></font><a href="https://phys.org/news/2018-05-hawaii-volcano-lava-sulfur-gas.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener"></a><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 13.3333px;"><em><span style="color: #808080;" xml:lang="en" lang="en">This photo provided by Shane Turpin shows results of the eruption from Kilauea Volcano on Hawaii's Big Island Friday, May 4, 2018. The eruption sent molten lava through forests and bubbling up from paved streets and forced the evacuation of about 1,500 people who were still out of their homes Friday after Thursday's eruption. (Shane Turpin/seeLava.com via AP). Image source:</span></em> <a href="https://phys.org/news/2018-05-hawaii-volcano-lava-sulfur-gas.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><em>phys.org</em></a></span></font></p>
<p style="line-height: 1;"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 13.3333px;">It's difficult to conclude what this means globally. By itself, this earthquake of course does not mean anything. But the earthquakes in Mexico, Korea and Botswana also adds "<span id="result_box" class="short_text" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><span class="">weight".</span></span></span></font></p>
<p style="line-height: 1;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><span><strong>References</strong>:</span></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 1;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><span>[1] Staff, R. S. (2018, May 05). Hawaii rocked by strongest quake in 40 years as Kilauea volcano sparks fountains of lava. Retrieved May 6, 2018, from <a href="https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2018/05/05/hawaiis-kilauea-volcano-erupts-strongest-quake-40-years-rocks/">https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2018/05/05/hawaiis-kilauea-volcano-erupts-strongest-quake-40-years-rocks/</a></span></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 1;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><span>[2] <a href="https://earthquake.usgs.gov/">https://earthquake.usgs.gov/</a></span></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 1;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><span>[3] <a href="https://earthquake.usgs.gov/learn/topics/calculator.php">https://earthquake.usgs.gov/learn/topics/calculator.php</a></span></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 1;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><span>[4] Jones, C., & Garcia, M. (2018, May 5). Hawaii's Kilauea volcano jolts with lava, quakes and gas. Retrieved May 6, 2018, from <a href="https://phys.org/news/2018-05-hawaii-kilauea-volcano-jolts-lava.html">https://phys.org/news/2018-05-hawaii-kilauea-volcano-jolts-lava.html</a></span></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 1;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><span>[5] Dockrill, P. (2018, January 15). We All Nearly Missed The Largest Underwater Volcano Eruption Ever Recorded. Retrieved May 6, 2018, from <a href="https://www.sciencealert.com/almost-nobody-noticed-largest-underwater-volcano-eruption-ever-recorded-havre-seamount">https://www.sciencealert.com/almost-nobody-noticed-largest-underwater-volcano-eruption-ever-recorded-havre-seamount</a></span></span></p>2017 Seismic activity. 'Wastewater-injection theory' failed?tag:poleshift.ning.com,2018-03-10:3863141:BlogPost:10873222018-03-10T16:00:55.000ZStanislavhttps://poleshift.ning.com/profile/Stanislav
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<p style="line-height: 1;"><span style="color: #808080; font-size: 10pt;" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #808080;"><span class="short_text" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><span class=""><span class="short_text" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span lang="en" xml:lang="en">References: Earthquake data [1]</span></font></span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 1;"><span style="color: #333399; font-size: 10pt;" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #000000;"><span class="short_text" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><span class=""><span class="short_text" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><strong>ZetaTalk <a href="http://www.zetatalk.com/awaken/a97.htm" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Prediction</a> 4/15/1999</strong>: <span style="color: #333399;" lang="en" xml:lang="en">You're going to have increasing earthquake tremblers. This will be defused by the media which will fail to report them.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 1;"><span style="color: #333399; font-size: 10pt;" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #000000;"><span class="short_text" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><span class=""><span class="short_text" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><strong>ZetaTalk: <a href="http://www.zetatalk.com/index/zeta420.htm" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Christmas Hammer</a> 12/21/2007</strong>: <span style="color: #333399;" lang="en" xml:lang="en">Great quakes that affect the globe in its entirety must first occur at one of the brake points in the global mesh of plates. For the Earth, this is primarily the point where the Indo-Australian plate dives under the Himalayas.<br/></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 1;"><span style="color: #333399; font-size: 10pt;" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #000000;"><span class="short_text" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><span class=""><span class="short_text" lang="en" xml:lang="en">Zetas predicted that earthquakes will increase in strength and frequency. It really happened. Although this growth has no linear or exponential character. But has the form of clusters. This is confirmed by some scientific articles:</span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
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<li><p style="line-height: 1;"><span style="color: #333399; font-size: 10pt;" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #000000;"><span class="short_text" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><span class=""><span class="short_text" lang="en" xml:lang="en">Parsons, T., and E. L. Geist (2014), The 2010–2014.3 global earthquake rate increase, Geophys. Res. Lett., 41, 4479–4485, doi:10.1002/2014GL060513 <a href="https://profile.usgs.gov/myscience/upload_folder/ci2014Aug0112364842680grl51840.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Link</a></span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
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<li><p style="line-height: 1;"><span style="color: #333399; font-size: 10pt;" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #000000;"><span class="short_text" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><span class=""><span class="short_text" lang="en" xml:lang="en">Lay, T. (2015). The surge of great earthquakes from 2004 to 2014 [Abstract]. <i>Earth and Planetary Science Letters,</i> <i>409</i>, 133-146. doi:10.1016/j.epsl.2014.10.047 <a href="https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0012821X14006748" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Link</a></span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
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<li><p style="line-height: 1;"><span style="color: #333399; font-size: 10pt;" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #000000;"><span class="short_text" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><span class=""><span class="short_text" lang="en" xml:lang="en">Ammon, C. J., Lay, T., & Simpson, D. W. (2010). Great Earthquakes and Global Seismic Networks. <i>Seismological Research Letters,</i> <i>81</i>(6), 965-971. doi:10.1785/gssrl.81.6.965 <a href="https://pubs.geoscienceworld.org/ssa/srl/article-abstract/81/6/965/143758" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Link</a></span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
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<li><p style="line-height: 1;"><span style="color: #333399; font-size: 10pt;" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #000000;"><span class="short_text" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><span class=""><span class="short_text" lang="en" xml:lang="en">and etc.</span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
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<p style="line-height: 1;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="color: #333399;" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #000000;"><span class="short_text" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><span class=""><span class="short_text" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><a href="https://static01.nyt.com/images/2015/09/18/world/18CHILE/18CHILE-master1050.jpg" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><img src="https://static01.nyt.com/images/2015/09/18/world/18CHILE/18CHILE-master1050.jpg?width=700" width="700" class="align-full"/></a></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 1; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="color: #333399;" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #808080;"><span class="short_text" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><span class=""><span class="short_text" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><span><em><span lang="en" xml:lang="en">A grounded fishing boat on Thursday in the Chilean port of Coquimbo, north of Santiago. There were at least 11 deaths as a result of Wednesday's earthquake. Credit Martin Bernetti/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images Image source: <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2015/09/18/world/americas/chile-earthquake-damage.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">nytimes.com</a></span></em></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 1;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="color: #333399;" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #000000;"><span class="short_text" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><span class=""><span class="short_text" lang="en" xml:lang="en">We can quickly verify this assumption, (without any graphs and etc)</span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: #333399;" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #000000;"><span class="short_text" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><span class=""><span class="short_text" lang="en" xml:lang="en"> M>9 earthquakes: </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<ul>
<li><p style="line-height: 1;"><span style="color: #333399; font-size: 10pt;" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #000000;"><span class="short_text" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><span class=""><span class="short_text" lang="en" xml:lang="en">1952 Kamchatka earthquake</span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
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<li><p style="line-height: 1;"><span style="color: #333399; font-size: 10pt;" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #000000;"><span class="short_text" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><span class=""><span class="short_text" lang="en" xml:lang="en">1960 Chile earthquake</span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
</li>
<li><p style="line-height: 1;"><span style="color: #333399; font-size: 10pt;" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #000000;"><span class="short_text" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><span class=""><span class="short_text" lang="en" xml:lang="en">1964 Alaska earthquake</span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
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<p style="line-height: 1;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">And</font></span></p>
<ul>
<li><span style="color: #333399; font-size: 10pt;" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #000000;"><span class="short_text" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><span class=""><span class="short_text" lang="en" xml:lang="en">2004 Sumatra earthquake</span></span></span></span></span></span></li>
<li><span style="color: #333399; font-size: 10pt;" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #000000;"><span class="short_text" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><span class=""><span class="short_text" lang="en" xml:lang="en">2011 Japan earthquake</span></span></span></span></span></span></li>
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<p style="line-height: 1;"><span style="color: #333399; font-size: 10pt;" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #000000;"><span class="short_text" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><span class=""><span class="short_text" lang="en" xml:lang="en">Strange yea? 2004 is an incredible coincidence. </span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 1;"><span style="color: #333399; font-size: 10pt;" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #000000;"><span class="short_text" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><span class=""><span class="short_text" lang="en" xml:lang="en">Although some articles say that this is statically insignificant. That is too short a period of observation in order to draw any conclusions. [29] In the end, the cluster of the 1960s was stronger.</span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 1;"><span style="color: #333399; font-size: 10pt;" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #000000;"><span class="short_text" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><span class=""><span class="short_text" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><a href="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/80/US_Navy_050102-N-9593M-040_A_village_near_the_coast_of_Sumatra_lays_in_ruin_after_the_Tsunami_that_struck_South_East_Asia.jpg/1280px-US_Navy_050102-N-9593M-040_A_village_near_the_coast_of_Sumatra_lays_in_ruin_after_the_Tsunami_that_struck_South_East_Asia.jpg" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><img src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/80/US_Navy_050102-N-9593M-040_A_village_near_the_coast_of_Sumatra_lays_in_ruin_after_the_Tsunami_that_struck_South_East_Asia.jpg/1280px-US_Navy_050102-N-9593M-040_A_village_near_the_coast_of_Sumatra_lays_in_ruin_after_the_Tsunami_that_struck_South_East_Asia.jpg?width=700" width="700" class="align-center"/></a></span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 1; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><em><span style="color: #808080;" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="short_text" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><span class=""><span class="short_text" lang="en" xml:lang="en">Indian Ocean (Jan. 2, 2005) – A village near the coast of Sumatra lays in ruin after the Tsunami that struck South East Asia. Helicopters assigned to Carrier Air Wing Two (CVW-2) and Sailors from USS Abraham Lincoln (CVN 72) are conducting humanitarian operations in the wake of the Tsunami that struck South East Asia. Image source: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2004_Indian_Ocean_earthquake_and_tsunami#/media/File:US_Navy_050102-N-9593M-040_A_village_near_the_coast_of_Sumatra_lays_in_ruin_after_the_Tsunami_that_struck_South_East_Asia.jpg" target="_blank" rel="noopener">en.wikipedia.org</a></span></span></span></span></span></em></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 1;"><span style="color: #333399; font-size: 10pt;" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #000000;"><span class="short_text" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><span class=""><span class="short_text" lang="en" xml:lang="en">In essence, the situation looks like this:</span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 1;"><span lang="en" style="font-size: 10pt;" xml:lang="en"><span class="short_text" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><span class=""><span class="" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><a href="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/74203844?profile=original" target="_self"><img src="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/74203844?profile=original" width="661" class="align-center"/></a></span></span></span></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 1;"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="color: #808080;" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><span style="font-size: 13.3333px;">References: Earthquake data [1]</span></span></font></p>
<p style="line-height: 1;"><span style="color: #333399; font-size: 10pt;" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #000000;"><span class="short_text" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><span class=""><span class="short_text" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><span lang="en" xml:lang="en">It's noteworthy that many large earthquakes took place near Sumatra (2004, 2012 and etc):</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 1;"><span style="color: #333399; font-size: 10pt;" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #000000;"><span class="short_text" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><span class=""><span class="short_text" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><span lang="en" xml:lang="en"><a href="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/74203945?profile=original" target="_self"><img src="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/74203945?profile=original" width="675" class="align-center"/></a></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 1;"><span style="color: #333399; font-size: 10pt;" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #000000;"><span class="short_text" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><span class=""><span class="short_text" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><span lang="en" xml:lang="en">The 2004 cluster also set some records</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
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<li><span style="color: #333399; font-size: 10pt;" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #000000;"><span class="short_text" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><span class=""><span class="short_text" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><span lang="en" xml:lang="en">2013 Russia, Okhotsk sea largest/longest/most energy deep earthquake ever</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></li>
<li><span style="color: #333399; font-size: 10pt;" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #000000;"><span class="short_text" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><span class=""><span class="short_text" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><span lang="en" xml:lang="en">2012 Indian ocean earthquake ruptures 5 fault grid- and largest strike-slip quake ever</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></li>
<li><span style="color: #333399; font-size: 10pt;" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #000000;"><span class="short_text" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><span class=""><span class="short_text" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><span lang="en" xml:lang="en">2004 Sumatra earthquake include the longest fault rupture ever observed (720 to 780 miles or 1,200 to 1,300 kilometers) and the longest duration of faulting (at least 10 minutes). The aftershocks included the most energetic earthquake swarm ever observed</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></li>
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<p style="line-height: 1;"><span style="color: #333399; font-size: 10pt;" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #000000;"><span class="short_text" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><span class=""><span class="short_text" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><span lang="en" xml:lang="en">There are many other anomalies like the earthquakes in Oklahoma but these are the most important</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 1;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><a href="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/74204161?profile=original" target="_self"><img src="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/74204161?profile=original" width="629" class="align-center"/></a></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 1;"><span style="color: #333399; font-size: 10pt;" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #000000;"><span class="short_text" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><span class=""><span class="short_text" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><span lang="en" xml:lang="en"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="color: #808080;" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><span>References: Earthquake data [1]</span></span></font></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 1;"><span style="font-size: 18pt;"><strong><span style="color: #333399;" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #000000;"><span class="short_text" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><span class=""><span class="short_text" lang="en" xml:lang="en">Local seismic networks</span></span></span></span></span></span></strong></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 1;"><span style="color: #333399; font-size: 10pt;" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #000000;"><span class="short_text" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><span class=""><span class="short_text" lang="en" xml:lang="en">Record earthquakes have recently increased. And below is a small statistic that shows this.</span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: #333399; font-size: 10pt;" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #000000;"><span class="short_text" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><span class=""><span class="short_text" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><a href="https://secure.i.telegraph.co.uk/multimedia/archive/01112/earthquake-damage-_1112578c.jpg" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><img src="https://secure.i.telegraph.co.uk/multimedia/archive/01112/earthquake-damage-_1112578c.jpg" class="align-center"/></a></span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 1; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #333399; font-size: 10pt;" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #000000;"><span class="short_text" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><span style="color: #808080;" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><span class=""><span class="short_text" lang="en" xml:lang="en">Millions still homeless a year after Sichuan earthquake. Photo: EPA. Image source: <a href="https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/china/5243720/Millions-still-homeless-a-year-after-Sichuan-earthquake.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">telegraph.co.uk</a></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 1;"><span style="color: #333399; font-size: 10pt;" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #000000;"><span class="short_text" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><span class=""><span class="short_text" lang="en" xml:lang="en">Not all countries have their seismic networks. Some data are not available. </span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 1;"><span style="color: #333399; font-size: 10pt;" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #000000;"><span class="short_text" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><span class=""><span class="short_text" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><a href="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/74204502?profile=original" target="_self"><img src="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/74204502?profile=original" width="694" class="align-full"/></a><a href="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/74204496?profile=original" target="_self"><img src="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/74204496?profile=original" width="694" class="align-full"/></a></span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 1;"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="color: #808080;" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><span>References: Earthquake data [1]</span></span></font></p>
<p style="line-height: 1;"><span style="color: #333399; font-size: 10pt;" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #000000;"><span class="short_text" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><span class=""><span class="short_text" lang="en" xml:lang="en">We see that the strongest/record earthquakes have more significance than many small ones. </span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 1;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><a href="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/74204705?profile=original" target="_self"><img src="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/74204705?profile=original" width="698" class="align-full"/></a></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 1;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><a href="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/74204685?profile=original" target="_self"><img src="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/74204685?profile=original" width="698" class="align-full"/></a></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 1;"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="color: #808080;" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><span>References: Earthquake data [1]</span></span></font></p>
<p style="line-height: 1;"><span style="color: #333399; font-size: 10pt;" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #000000;"><span class="short_text" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><span class=""><span class="short_text" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><strong>Largest earthquakes ever (26 countries)</strong>:</span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 1;"><span style="color: #333399; font-size: 10pt;" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #000000;"><span class="short_text" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><span class=""><span class="short_text" lang="en" xml:lang="en">2011 Japan, 2004 Indonesia, 2016 South Korea [34], 2014 Thailand [2], 2009 Namibia [3], 2013 Iran, 2013 Pakistan [4], 2006 Mozambique, 2009 Honduras, 2012 Norway [5], 2002 Kosovo, 2016 Northern Mariana islands, 2004 Morroco, 2012 Ireland [6], 2009 Benin, 2008 Western Sahara, 2012 Mauritania (same magnitude as in 1993), 2000 Nigeria, 2008 Rwanda, 2002 UAE, 2017 Niger, 2001 Angola, 2010 Denmark, 2017 Mexico</span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 1;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="color: #333399;" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #000000;"><span class="short_text" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><span class=""><span class="short_text" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><strong>S</strong></span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: #333399;" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #000000;"><span class="short_text" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><span class=""><span class="short_text" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><strong>econd-strongest earthquake ever (13 countries)</strong>:</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 1;"><span style="color: #333399; font-size: 10pt;" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #000000;"><span class="short_text" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><span class=""><span class="short_text" lang="en" xml:lang="en">2016 Botswana [7], 2012 Canada [8], 2008 China (same magnitude as in 1932, 1931), 2016 New Zealand (same magnitudeas in 1929, 1931 and 2009), 2010 Chile, 2013 Canary islands, 2012 Costa Rica [9], 2009 Samoa, 2015 Nepal, 2009 Bhutan, 2003 Algeria, 2017 Zambia, 2009 Malawi, 2002 Tunisia</span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 1;"><span style="color: #333399; font-size: 10pt;" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #000000;"><span class="short_text" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><span class=""><span class="short_text" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><strong>Strongest since ... (16 countries):</strong> </span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 1;"><span style="color: #333399; font-size: 10pt;" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #000000;"><span class="short_text" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><span class=""><span class="short_text" lang="en" xml:lang="en">2010 Haiti (in 200 years) [10], 2014 Sweden (in 100 years) [11], 2011 Hungary (since 1985) [12], 2009 Portugal (since 1969) [13], 2015 Malaysia (strongest since 1976) [14], 2011 US East coast (strongest since 1944) [15], 2014 Czech Republic (strongest since 1985) [16], 2016 Italy (strongest since 1980) [17], 2016 Ecuador (strongest since 1979) [18], 2014 South Africa (strongest since 1969) [19], 2015 Afghanistan (strongest since 1909), 2000 Turkmenistan (strongest since 1948), 2007 Laos (strongest since 1983), 2012 Guniea (strongest since 1983), 2014 Puerto Rico (strongest since 1943), 2013 Russia (strongest since 1952)</span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 1;"><span style="color: #333399; font-size: 10pt;" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #000000;"><span class="short_text" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><span class=""><span class="short_text" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="color: #808080;" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><span>References: Earthquake data [1]</span></span></font></span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 1;"><span style="color: #333399; font-size: 10pt;" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #000000;"><span class="short_text" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><span class=""><span class="short_text" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="color: #808080;" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><span><a href="https://latimesphoto.files.wordpress.com/2011/03/earthquake-in-japan-16.jpg" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><img src="https://latimesphoto.files.wordpress.com/2011/03/earthquake-in-japan-16.jpg?width=700" width="700" class="align-full"/></a></span></span></font></span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 1;"><span style="color: #333399; font-size: 10pt;" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #000000;"><span class="short_text" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><span class=""><span class="short_text" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="color: #808080;" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><span>Government officials walk down a recently cleared roadway where the earthquake-spawned tsunami caused a massive fuel spill and fire. PHOTOGRAPH BY: BRIAN VAN DER BRUG / LOS ANGELES TIMES. Image source: <a href="http://framework.latimes.com/2011/04/04/behind-the-lens-covering-the-japan-earthquake-aftermath/#/0" target="_blank" rel="noopener">framework.latimes.com</a></span></span></font></span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 1;"><span style="color: #333399; font-size: 10pt;" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #000000;"><span class="short_text" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><span class=""><span class="short_text" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span>It's pretty incredible. We see that the large record earthquakes have increased</span></font></span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<hr noshade="noshade"/><p style="line-height: 1;"><span style="font-size: 18pt;"><strong><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><span class=""><span class="short_text" lang="en" xml:lang="en">2017 Seismic activity. Big three</span></span></span></span></strong></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 1;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><span class="" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><span class=""><span class="short_text" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><span lang="en" xml:lang="en">Last year had some records</span> <span lang="en" xml:lang="en">of seismic activity. </span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 1;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 18pt;"><span class="" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><span class=""><span class="short_text" lang="en" xml:lang="en">Mexico</span></span></span></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 1;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><a href="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/74204861?profile=original" target="_self"><img src="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/74204861?profile=original" width="700" class="align-full"/></a></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 1;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><span class="" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><span class=""><span class="short_text" lang="en" xml:lang="en">In 2017, Mexico was hit by an incredible earthquake. Many buildings in the capital were destroyed. This earthquake was one of the strongest in all of history of Mexico. The magnitude of the earthquake was 8.2 [20]. <strong>Only the earthquake of 1932 has the same magnitude!</strong></span></span></span></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 1;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><a href="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/74204879?profile=original" target="_self"><img src="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/74204879?profile=original" width="476" class="align-center"/></a></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 1;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><span class="" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><span class=""><span class="short_text" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><span lang="en" xml:lang="en"><span><span style="color: #808080;" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">References: Earthquake data [1]</font></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 1;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><span class="" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><span class=""><span class="short_text" lang="en" xml:lang="en">There is also an earthquake in 1787 (8.4-8.7) but it was not instrumentally recorded.</span></span></span></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 1;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><span class="" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><span class=""><span class="short_text" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><a href="https://akm-img-a-in.tosshub.com/indiatoday/images/story/201709/mexico-city647_092017044835.jpg" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><img src="https://akm-img-a-in.tosshub.com/indiatoday/images/story/201709/mexico-city647_092017044835.jpg" class="align-center"/></a></span></span></span></span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><span class="" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><span class=""><span class="short_text" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><span style="color: #7f7f7f;" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><span style="color: #808080;" lang="en" xml:lang="en">Dust rises over down town Mexico City during a 7.1 earthquake, Tuesday, Sept. 19, 2017. (Francisco Caballero Gout via AP). Image source: <a href="https://www.indiatoday.in/world/story/mexico-earthquake-live-updates-20-09-2017-1031632-2017-09-20" target="_blank" rel="noopener">indiatoday.in</a></span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 1;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><span class=""><span class="short_text" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><span lang="en" xml:lang="en"><span><span style="color: black;" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Until 2012, the situation in Mexico was stable. But in 2012 the situation changed, with the strongest earthquake in the last 30 years. The chart below shows this:</font></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><span class=""><span class="short_text" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><span lang="en" xml:lang="en"><span><span style="color: #808080;" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><a href="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/74204887?profile=original" target="_self"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><img src="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/74204887?profile=original" width="691" class="align-full"/></font></a></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><span class=""><span class="short_text" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><span lang="en" xml:lang="en"><span><span style="color: #808080;" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">References: Earthquake data [1]</font></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 1;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><span class=""><span class="short_text" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><span lang="en" xml:lang="en"><span><span style="color: black;" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Later the situation stabilized. And again the explosion in 2017 with a record earthquake. From this graph we can conclude: <strong>small earthquakes don't matter</strong>! It also shows the graph below:</font></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 1;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><a href="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/74204919?profile=original" target="_self"><img src="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/74204919?profile=original" width="672" class="align-center"/></a></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 1;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><span class="" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><span class=""><span class="short_text" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><span><span lang="en" xml:lang="en"><span style="color: #808080;" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">References: Earthquake data [1]</font></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 1;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><span class="" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><span class=""><span class="short_text" lang="en" xml:lang="en">Small earthquakes are only aftershocks from large/record quakes. We also need to take into account some factors, for example, the increase in seismic stations and etc:</span></span></span></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 1;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><a href="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/54908851?profile=original" target="_self"><img src="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/54908851?profile=original" width="626" class="align-center"/></a></span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><em><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><span class=""><span class="short_text" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><span style="color: #808080;" lang="en" xml:lang="en">Image source: <a href="http://www.ssn.unam.mx/sismicidad/reportes-especiales/2017/SSNMX_rep_esp_20170907_Chiapas_M84.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">ssn.unam.mx</a></span></span></span></span></span></em></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 1;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><span style="color: #333399;" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><span class="" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><span class=""><span class="short_text" lang="en" xml:lang="en">"<span lang="en" xml:lang="en">Figure 8 shows the earthquake catalog in Mexico from 1900 to date. The horizontal axis represents the years and vertical axis the magnitude of the earthquakes, is clearly appreciates that since the expansion of the Seismic Service Network National Seismological Survey in the 1970s, it was possible to detect and locate more earthquakes of magnitudes less than 6. Since the National Seismological Service began to exchange data with regional seismic networks it was possible to detect number of small earthquakes in the Mexican Republic. In Figure 8, the 5 earthquakes of magnitudes greater than 8 that have been recorded since there are seismic instruments, are presented in circles. These five earthquakes are those that are observed in Figure 7, the two red circles represent the 2 earthquakes of magnitude 8.2 that have occurred in Mexico during that period of time. The last of them is the September 7 earthquake of 2017 in Chiapas." [24]</span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><span class="" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><span class=""><span class="short_text" lang="en" xml:lang="en">Thus, it's the large/record earthquakes that are the indicator of seismic activity.</span></span></span></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 1;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><span class="" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><span class=""><span class="short_text" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><a href="https://www.nationalgeographic.com/content/dam/photography/PROOF/2017/September/mexico-earthquake/07-mexico-earthquake.ngsversion.1504900838241.adapt.1900.1.jpg" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><img src="https://www.nationalgeographic.com/content/dam/photography/PROOF/2017/September/mexico-earthquake/07-mexico-earthquake.ngsversion.1504900838241.adapt.1900.1.jpg?width=700" width="700" class="align-full"/></a></span></span></span></span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><span class="" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><span class=""><span class="short_text" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><span style="color: #7f7f7f;" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><span style="color: #808080;" lang="en" xml:lang="en">The hotel 'Ane Centro' was damaged after a 8.2 magnitude earthquake in Matias Romero, Oaxaca, Mexico. PHOTOGRAPH BY ANGEL HERNANDEZ, EPA. Image source: <a href="https://www.nationalgeographic.com/photography/proof/2017/09/mexico-earthquake-tsunami-disaster-spd/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">nationalgeographic.com</a></span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 1;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><span class="" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><span class=""><span class="short_text" lang="en" xml:lang="en">This earthquake also affected the United States:</span></span></span></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 1;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><em><a rel="nofollow noopener" href="http://s.newsweek.com/sites/www.newsweek.com/files/styles/full/public/2017/10/04/yellowstone-earthquakes.png" target="_blank"><img src="http://s.newsweek.com/sites/www.newsweek.com/files/styles/full/public/2017/10/04/yellowstone-earthquakes.png" class="align-center"/></a></em></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 1; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><span class="" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><span class=""><span class="short_text" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><em>Image source: <a rel="nofollow noopener" href="http://www.newsweek.com/yellowstone-supervolcano-earthquake-swarm-longest-ever-recorded-677387" target="_blank">newsweek.com</a></em></span></span></span></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 1;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><span class=""><span style="color: #333399;" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><span class="short_text" lang="en" xml:lang="en">"<strong>4 October, 2017.</strong> The ongoing earthquake swarm at the Yellowstone National Park supervolcano is now one of the longest ever recorded, having started on June 12. Over the past three and a half months, almost 2,500 earthquakes have been recorded in the western part of the national park. This puts it on a par with the biggest swarm ever recorded, where more than 3,000 earthquakes took place over three months. <...> This story has been corrected to reflect that the current swarm is one of the longest on record, rather than the longest. The swarm in 1985 was longer if the tail end of seismicity is taken into account. " </span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">- [23] writes Newsweek</span></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 1;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><span class="" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><span class=""><span class="short_text" lang="en" xml:lang="en">It also swept Texas:</span></span></span></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 1;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><span class="" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><span class=""><span style="color: #333399;" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><span class="short_text" lang="en" xml:lang="en">"<strong>27 September, 2017</strong>. Earthquakes Return to North Texas.</span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 1;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><span class=""><span style="color: #333399;" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><span class="short_text" lang="en" xml:lang="en">This summer two earthquakes shook North Texas within just weeks of each other. The U.S. Geological Society (USGS) recorded temblors in the Irving area of magnitudes 3.1 and 2.7, on August 27 and September 1, respectively. The USGS did not record earthquakes of that magnitude and frequency in the region since before 2016, according to a recently published seismological report." </span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">- [22] writes Texasmonthly</span></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 1;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><span class="" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><span class=""><span class="short_text" lang="en" xml:lang="en">Scientists have noticed the strange nature of this earthquake because of its unusual origin. Vladimir Kostoglodov, a seismologist at UNAM in Mexico City, called this earthquake "<strong>extremely strange"</strong>. [21]</span></span></span></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 1;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><span class="" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><span class=""><span class="short_text" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><a href="http://www.sciencemag.org/sites/default/files/styles/inline__699w__no_aspect/public/70915N_MexicoEQ.png?itok=OgfPF1jq" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><img src="http://www.sciencemag.org/sites/default/files/styles/inline__699w__no_aspect/public/70915N_MexicoEQ.png?itok=OgfPF1jq" class="align-full"/></a></span></span></span></span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><em><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><span class=""><span class="short_text" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><span style="color: #808080;" lang="en" xml:lang="en">Image source: <a href="http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2017/09/unusual-mexico-earthquake-may-have-relieved-stress-seismic-gap" target="_blank" rel="noopener">sciencemag.org</a> CREDITS: (GRAPHIC) G. GRULLON/SCIENCE; (DATA) V. KOSTOGLODOV; MEXICO NATIONAL SEISMOLOGICAL SERVICE</span></span></span></span></span></em></span></p>
<hr noshade="noshade"/><p style="line-height: 1;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 18pt;"><span class="" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><span class=""><span class="short_text" lang="en" xml:lang="en">Botswana</span></span></span></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 1;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><a href="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/74204846?profile=original" target="_self"><img src="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/74204846?profile=original" width="700" class="align-full"/></a></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 1;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><span class="" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><span class=""><span class="short_text" lang="en" xml:lang="en">Now move to Africa, Botswana. In early 2017, there was a very rare and unusual earthquake. <strong>This earthquake was a record or, to be more exact, the strongest in the history of Botswana</strong>! [7] Later the Geological Service lowered the magnitude and now it's the second-strongest earthquake after 1952 6.7 quake. [25] According to the US Geological Survey 1952 quake - 5.8. In general, the current earthquake is in any case a record.</span></span></span></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 1;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><span class="" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><span class=""><span class="short_text" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><a href="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/74204941?profile=original" target="_self"><img src="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/74204941?profile=original" width="538" class="align-center"/></a></span></span></span></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 1;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><span class="" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><span class=""><span class="short_text" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><span><span style="color: #808080;" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><span lang="en" xml:lang="en"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">References: Earthquake data [1]</font></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 1;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><span class="" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><span class=""><span class="short_text" lang="en" xml:lang="en">In addition to the record magnitude, this earthquake became unusual/abnormal:</span></span></span></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 1;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><span class="" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><span class=""><span class="short_text" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><span style="color: #333399;" lang="en" xml:lang="en">"<strong>4 April, 2017.</strong> Rupture along a billion-year-old plate boundary in Botswana? </span></span></span><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><span class=""><span class="short_text" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><...> </span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 1;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><span class="" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><span class=""><span class="short_text" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><a href="http://sphicks.weebly.com/uploads/2/9/5/1/29517323/c8gfo9kxyaaqel1-jpg-large_orig.jpg" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><img src="http://sphicks.weebly.com/uploads/2/9/5/1/29517323/c8gfo9kxyaaqel1-jpg-large_orig.jpg?width=700" width="700" class="align-full"/></a></span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><span class="" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><span class=""><span class="short_text" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><span style="color: #333399;" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><span style="color: #808080;" lang="en" xml:lang="en">Map showing earthquakes of magnitude 6.5 and greater that have occurred in Southern Africa since detailed records began (1900 onwards). Image source: [26]</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 1;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><span class="" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><span class=""><span class="short_text" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><span style="color: #333399;" lang="en" xml:lang="en">Earthquakes in Botswana are extremely rare. Given that this event has occurred over 1000 km from the nearest tectonic plate boundary, we call these types of events 'intraplate earthquakes'.<...> The central and western areas of Southern Africa are assumed to be tectonically very stable. The geology of the region is typically referred to as the 'Kaapvaal Craton'. Craton means a strong region of a continental tectonic plate that are typically stable for over a billion years. The Kaapvaal Craton contains rocks that are 3.6 to 2.5 billion years old. Large earthquakes in such stable tectonic environments occur very rarely. <...> </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 1;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><span class="" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><span class=""><span class="short_text" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><span style="color: #333399;" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><a href="http://sphicks.weebly.com/uploads/2/9/5/1/29517323/untitled_3_orig.jpg" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><img src="http://sphicks.weebly.com/uploads/2/9/5/1/29517323/untitled_3_orig.jpg?width=700" width="700" class="align-full"/></a></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><span class="" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><span class=""><span class="short_text" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><span style="color: #333399;" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><span style="color: #808080;" lang="en" xml:lang="en">Image source: [26]</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 1;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><span class="" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><span class=""><span class="short_text" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><span style="color: #333399;" lang="en" xml:lang="en">One research paper from the 1980s studied the nature of the geological contact between Kaapvaal and Limpopo further to the east in South Africa. Based on small changes in gravity across the two groups of rocks, the study interpreted that this geological contact demarcates an ancient (pre-Cambrian) plate boundary between two colliding plates. Is it therefore possible that the inherent weakness of this ancient, billion-year-old plate boundary ruptured during the 2017 Botswana earthquake?" [26]</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 1;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><span class="" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><span class=""><span class="short_text" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><strong>Thus, an earthquake occurred in an area that is considered seismically safe</strong>. Very strange earthquake.</span></span></span></span></p>
<hr noshade="noshade"/><p style="line-height: 1;"><span style="font-size: 18pt;"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">South Korea</font></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 1;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><a href="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/74205010?profile=original" target="_self"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><img src="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/74205010?profile=original" width="700" class="align-full"/></font></a></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 1;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><span class="" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><span class=""><span class="short_text" lang="en" xml:lang="en">In 2017, South Korea again suffered from an epic earthquake. This was the second strongest earthquake in South Korea. <strong>Only the earthquake in 2016 was more!</strong> </span></span></span></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 1;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><span class=""><span class="short_text" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><a href="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/74205017?profile=original" target="_self"><img src="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/74205017?profile=original" width="691" class="align-center"/></a></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 1;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><span class=""><span class="short_text" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><span><span lang="en" xml:lang="en"><span style="color: #808080;" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">References: Earthquake data [1]</font></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 1;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><span class=""><span class="short_text" lang="en" xml:lang="en">Korea historically considered safe from large earthquakes. But since 2016, this is not so!</span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 1;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><span class="" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><span class=""><span class="short_text" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><a href="https://static.independent.co.uk/s3fs-public/thumbnails/image/2017/11/16/09/south-korea-earthquake.jpg" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><img src="https://static.independent.co.uk/s3fs-public/thumbnails/image/2017/11/16/09/south-korea-earthquake.jpg?width=700" width="700" class="align-full"/></a></span></span></span></span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><em><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><span class=""><span class="short_text" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><span style="color: #808080;" lang="en" xml:lang="en">Debris from a collapsed wall is scattered in front of a shop after an earthquake in Pohang Min Kyung-suck/Newsis/AP. Image source: <a href="http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/asia/south-korea-earthquake-latest-pohang-quake-second-strongest-record-5-4-magnitude-a8057946.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">independent.co.uk</a></span></span></span></span></span></em></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 1;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><span class="" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><span class=""><span class="short_text" lang="en" xml:lang="en">It's at least strange that two years in a row the country experienced the strongest/record earthquakes</span></span></span></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 1;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><span class="" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><span class=""><span class="short_text" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><a href="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/74205074?profile=original" target="_self"><img src="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/74205074?profile=original" width="554" class="align-center"/></a></span></span></span></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 1;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><span class="" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><span class=""><span class="short_text" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><span style="color: #333399;" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><span><span lang="en" xml:lang="en"><span style="color: #808080;" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">References: Earthquake data [1]</font></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 1;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><span class="" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><span class=""><span class="short_text" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><span style="color: #333399;" lang="en" xml:lang="en">"<strong>15 November, 2017.</strong> Another South Korea earthquake more cause for alarm about seismic activity.</span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 1;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><span class=""><span class="short_text" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><span style="color: #333399;" lang="en" xml:lang="en">A magnitude-5.4 earthquake shook southeastern South Korea today, marking the largest in the nation since last year’s trembler in nearby Gyeongju.</span></span></span></span> <span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><span class=""><span class="short_text" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><span style="color: #333399;" lang="en" xml:lang="en">The Korea Meteorological Administration stressed that South Korea is no longer free from earthquake threats. Seismic activity has reached a new phase since last year’s Gyeongju earthquake. </span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><span class=""><span class="short_text" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><span style="color: #333399;" lang="en" xml:lang="en">A total of 139 quakes of magnitude-2 and above have been detected this year alone, which is more than twice the historical average. South Korea had been known to have little seismic activity compared to neighboring Japan."</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 1;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><span class="" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><span class=""><span class="short_text" lang="en" xml:lang="en">[27] - abcnews.go</span></span></span></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 1;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">And 2016 article:</font></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 1;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><span class="" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><span class=""><span class="short_text" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><span style="color: #333399;" lang="en" xml:lang="en">"<strong>6 July, 2016.</strong> Korea no longer safe from earthquakes: experts</span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 1;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><span class="" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><span class=""><span class="short_text" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><span style="color: #333399;" lang="en" xml:lang="en">Following a magnitude-5.0 earthquake detected near waters off the southeastern city of Ulsan on Tuesday evening, experts voiced concerns that the Korean Peninsula is no longer safe from strong shock waves, calling for prompt disaster preventive measures."</span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 1;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><span class="" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><span class=""><span class="short_text" lang="en" xml:lang="en">[28] - <font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">koreaherald.com</font></span></span></span></span></p>
<hr noshade="noshade"/><p style="line-height: 1;"><span style="font-size: 18pt;"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="text-decoration: line-through;">Induced</span> seismicity in US, Canada and Mexico</font></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 1;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><span class="" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><span class=""><span class="short_text" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><a href="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/79/Cumulative_induced_seismicity.png" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><img src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/79/Cumulative_induced_seismicity.png?width=700" width="700" class="align-full"/></font></a></span></span></span></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 1; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 13.3333px;"><em><span style="color: #808080;" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Image source: <a href="https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Cumulative_induced_seismicity.png" target="_blank" rel="noopener">USGS</a></font></span></em></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 1;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><span class="" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><span class=""><span class="short_text" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><span style="color: #333399;" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><span>“The practice of underground disposal has been used by the industry for 70 years, yet the uptick in seismic activity has only occurred in the past few years.”- </span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Oklahoma Sen. Jim Inhofe, chairman of the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee. [35]</span></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 1;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><span style="color: #333399;" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><span>"The majority, but not all, of the recent earthquakes appear to be the result of natural stresses, since they are consistent with the regional Oklahoma natural stress field" </span><span>- </span><span>OGS POSITION STATEMENT-OKLAHOMA EARTHQUAKE ACTIVITY February 17, 2014 [36]</span></span></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 1;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><span style="color: #333399;" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><span>"Fracking has been a process used extensively for decades, since 1903 within the US alone. If fracking caused earthquakes, has this just been noticed? This is clearly an excuse for the increase in earthquakes, one of many the establishment will latch onto as earthquake frequency increases and earthquakes occur in unusual places"</span></span></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 1;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><span><a rel="nofollow noopener" href="http://www.zetatalk.com/ning/17de2011.htm" target="_blank">ZetaTalk Chat Q&A for December 17, 2011</a></span></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 1;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><span><span lang="en" xml:lang="en">The official reason for the increase in the earthquakes in the Southeast US - <strong>wastewater disposal</strong>. [30] For those who don't know this increase, not only in the central US but also in <strong>Canada</strong> and in <strong>Mexico</strong>. And fracking is again accused [32], [33]</span></span></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 1;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><span>There is a lot of conflicting information. Example: </span></span></p>
<ul>
<li style="line-height: 1;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><span>Ferris, R. (2015, June 19). Quakes not caused by fracking but by water disposal: Study. Retrieved March 10, 2018, from <a href="https://www.cnbc.com/2015/06/19/quakes-not-caused-by-fracking-but-by-water-disposal-study.html">https://www.cnbc.com/2015/06/19/quakes-not-caused-by-fracking-but-by-water-disposal-study.html</a></span></span></li>
<li style="line-height: 1;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><span>Fracking -- not wastewater disposal -- linked to most induced earthquakes in Western Canada. (2016, March 29). Retrieved March 10, 2018, from <a href="https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2016/03/160329132238.htm">https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2016/03/160329132238.htm</a></span></span></li>
</ul>
<p style="line-height: 1;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><span>Recently, an article appeared that buries another theory - <strong>wasterwater injection</strong>:</span></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 1;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><span style="color: #333399;" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><span>"<strong>13 February, 2018.</strong> Study finds earthquakes continue for years after gas field wastewater injection stops</span></span></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 1;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><span><a href="https://3c1703fe8d.site.internapcdn.net/newman/gfx/news/2018/smustudyfind.jpg" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><img src="https://3c1703fe8d.site.internapcdn.net/newman/gfx/news/2018/smustudyfind.jpg?width=700" width="700" class="align-full"/></a></span></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 1; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><em><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #808080;" lang="en" xml:lang="en">Study area for the DFW Airport earthquake sequence. Yellow triangles are the 2008-2009 SMU operated stations. Blue asterisks are the earthquakes reported by the 2013-2016 SMU earthquake catalog, indicating continued seismicity at the DFW Airport -- its boundaries indicated by the dotted blue-green line. Solid black line is the DFW Airport fault. Credit: SMU. Image source: [31]</span></span></em></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 1;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><span style="color: #333399;" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><span>Efforts to stop human-caused earthquakes by shutting down wastewater injection wells that serve adjacent oil and gas fields may oversimplify the challenge, according to a new study from seismologists at Southern Methodist University, Dallas. <...></span></span></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 1;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><span style="color: #333399;" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><span>The sequence of quakes began in 2008, and wastewater injection was halted in 2009. But earthquakes continued for at least seven more years." </span></span></span><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><span>[31]</span></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 1;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><span>Although the theory- <strong>wastewater disposal - </strong></span></span><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><span>continues to live. OK. How to explain this:</span></span></p>
<ul>
<li style="line-height: 1;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><span>2012 Canada - second-strongest earthquake ever 7.8</span></span></li>
<li style="line-height: 1;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><span>2017 Mexico - strongest earthquake ever. Only the earthquake of 1932 has the same magnitude.</span></span></li>
</ul>
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<p style="line-height: 1;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">[26] Hicks, S. (2017, April 4). Rupture along a billion-year-old plate boundary in Botswana? Retrieved March 10, 2018, from <a href="http://sphicks.weebly.com/blog-tectonic-debates/april-04th-2017">http://sphicks.weebly.com/blog-tectonic-debates/april-04th-2017</a></font></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 1;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">[27] Lee, H. K. (2017, November 15). Another South Korea earthquake more cause for alarm about seismic activity. Retrieved March 10, 2018, from <a href="http://abcnews.go.com/International/south-korea-earthquake-alarm-seismic-activity/story?id=51163387">http://abcnews.go.com/International/south-korea-earthquake-alarm-seismic-activity/story?id=51163387</a></font></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 1;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">[28] H. (2016, July 06). Korea no longer safe from earthquakes: experts. Retrieved March 10, 2018, from <a href="http://www.koreaherald.com/view.php?ud=20160706000745">http://www.koreaherald.com/view.php?ud=20160706000745</a></font></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 1;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">[29] <a href="http://rogerpielkejr.blogspot.ru/2015/04/earthquakes-death-rates-and-frequency.html">http://rogerpielkejr.blogspot.ru/2015/04/earthquakes-death-rates-and-frequency.html</a></font></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 1;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">[30] <a href="https://earthquake.usgs.gov/research/induced/myths.php">https://earthquake.usgs.gov/research/induced/myths.php</a></font></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 1;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">[31] <span>Allen, M. (2018, February 13). Study finds earthquakes continue for years after gas field wastewater injection stops. Retrieved March 10, 2018, from <a href="https://phys.org/news/2018-02-earthquakes-years-gas-field-wastewater.html">https://phys.org/news/2018-02-earthquakes-years-gas-field-wastewater.html</a></span></font></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 1;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span>[32] Trumpener, B. (2016, March 29). Fracking triggers 90% of large quakes in B.C., Alberta oil and gas patch. Retrieved March 10, 2018, from <a href="http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/more-than-90-of-larger-earthquakes-in-western-canada-triggered-by-fracking-1.3510812">http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/more-than-90-of-larger-earthquakes-in-western-canada-triggered-by-fracking-1.3510812</a></span></font></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 1;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span>[33] Aumentan sismos en zonas donde se practica Fracking en México. (2016, November 23). Retrieved March 10, 2018, from <a href="https://www.arenapublica.com/articulo/2016/11/23/5272">https://www.arenapublica.com/articulo/2016/11/23/5272</a></span></font></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 1;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span><span class="" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><span class=""><span class="short_text" lang="en" xml:lang="en">[34] Strongest-ever earthquake hits Korea, tremors felt nationwide. (2016, September 12). Retrieved<br/> August 08, 2017, from <a href="http://www.koreatimes.co.kr/www/news/nation/2016/09/116_214014.html">http://www.koreatimes.co.kr/www/news/nation/2016/09/116_214014.html</a></span></span></span></span></font></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 1;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span><span class="" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><span class=""><span class="short_text" lang="en" xml:lang="en">[35] Neuhauser. (2015, May 6). After Earthquakes, Silence in the Sooner State. Retrieved March 10, 2018, from <a href="https://www.usnews.com/news/articles/2015/05/06/after-oklahoma-earthquakes-silence-in-the-sooner-state">https://www.usnews.com/news/articles/2015/05/06/after-oklahoma-earthquakes-silence-in-the-sooner-state</a></span></span></span></span></font></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 1;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span><span class="" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><span class=""><span class="short_text" lang="en" xml:lang="en">[36] <a href="http://www.ogs.ou.edu/pdf/OGS_POSITION_STATEMENT_2_18_14.pdf">http://www.ogs.ou.edu/pdf/OGS_POSITION_STATEMENT_2_18_14.pdf</a></span></span></span></span></font></span></p>Era of data manipulation. Fake data swept the world as economy going downtag:poleshift.ning.com,2018-02-11:3863141:BlogPost:10862812018-02-11T14:30:00.000ZStanislavhttps://poleshift.ning.com/profile/Stanislav
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<p><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">References: D3.js [50], <span><span class="" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><span class="">[24]; GDP data [23]; <span class="short_text" id="result_box" lang="en" xml:lang="en">Balance sheet [51]; Doing Business [52]…</span></span></span></span></font></p>
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<p><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">References: D3.js [50], <span><span class="" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><span class="">[24]; GDP data [23]; <span id="result_box" class="short_text" lang="en" xml:lang="en">Balance sheet [51]; Doing Business [52]</span></span></span></span></font></p>
<hr noshade="noshade"/><p><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">ZetaTalk: Statistical Analysis</span><br/> Note: written on Jan 15, 1996.</font></p>
<p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><span class=""><span class="" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><span class="short_text" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><span style="color: #333399;" lang="en" xml:lang="en">Humans have a saying, that one can lie with statistics, because numbers can be manipulated to support any argument. If one wants to demonstrate that the populace is not starving, one adjusts the threshold where starvation sets in. If the numbers run up on one group don't look so good, pick another group. If the average is too low or high, go for the median and arrange to discard the high or low end. Statistics, done honestly, can make a statement like no other, but done dishonestly are deeply deceptive because the readership <em>believes</em> the numbers have been run up honestly.</span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><span class=""><span class="" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><span class="short_text" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><span style="color: #333399;" lang="en" xml:lang="en">In an era of increasing distress, governments want the statistics on the homeless, the unemployed, and the uninsured to <em>appear</em> healthy. Likewise, corporations wishing to lie to consumers or to their stockholders discard the unpleasant from the computation and hope no one looks too closely. However, they are likewise being increasingly challenged. What was included? How did you arrive at these figures? The squeeze is on. An easy out in these circumstances is to make the formulas more complicated. Then the common man can't understand and the factors can be argued endlessly. One trick is to factor in a null, a zero, as a theoretical possibility, when no such possibility in fact exists. Another trick is to hop through the data in intervals, taking a summation of spot testing, rather than a summation of <em>all</em> the data. If hopping through the data with one interval doesn't give the desired results, try another interval. All in a day's work for the dishonest statistical analyst.</span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.zetatalk.com/science/s52.htm" target="_blank" rel="noopener">ZetaTalk: Statistical Analysis Note: written on Jan 15, 1996.</a></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span id="result_box" class="short_text" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><span class="">The Zetas have warned us about this since 1995. <span id="result_box" class="" lang="en" xml:lang="en">The economy has long been in the Second Great Depression, while the authorities refuse to admit this.</span><br/></span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="short_text" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><span class=""><span class="" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><span>People think that economic data is accurate, strict rules exclude inaccuracies, control from the side of law enforcement excludes manipulation and generally lies about such as things like GDP seems to be something unimaginable...</span></span></span></span></span></p>
<hr noshade="noshade"/><p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="short_text" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><span class=""><strong>“When it becomes serious, you have to lie”</strong> —</span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="short_text" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><span class="">Jean-Claude Junker, President of the European Commission.</span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="short_text" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><span class="">"<strong>There is something fascinating about science. One gets such wholesale returns of conjecture out of such a trifling investment of fact</strong>" —<br/></span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="short_text" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><span class="">Mark Twain<br/></span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="short_text" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><span class=""><strong>“Currently, some local statistics are falsified, and fraud and deception happen from time to time, in violation of statistics laws and regulations”</strong> —<br/></span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="short_text" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><span class="">Ning Jizhe, director of the Chinese National Bureau of Statistics</span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="short_text" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><span class="">“<strong>Some of the most important government data is unreliable, starting with inflation. <...> A good deal of the economic and jobs growth post-crisis is false growth, with little chance of being sustainable and self-reinforcing. It is based on fake money conjured by the Fed to buy assets at fake prices. <...> Nobody can predict how long governments can get away with fake growth, fake money, fake jobs, fake financial stability, fake inflation numbers and fake income growth. <...> When confidence is lost, that loss can be severe, sudden and simultaneous across a number of markets and sectors</strong>.” —<br/></span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="short_text" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><span class="">Paul Singer is an American hedge fund manager, activist investor, and philanthropis</span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="short_text" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><span class="">"<strong>We front-loaded at the Federal Reserve an enormous rally in order to accomplish a wealth effect.</strong>" <span>—</span></span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="short_text" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><span class=""><span>Richard Fisher, former president and chief executive officer of the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas</span></span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="short_text" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><span class=""><span>“<strong>These markets are all rigged, and I don’t say that critically. I just say that factually</strong>” —</span></span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="short_text" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><span class=""><span>Wall Street veteran Edward Yardeni</span></span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="short_text" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><span class=""><span><strong>“Even in the more transparent West, even a solid economy like Germany arranges definitions of unemployment to be able to publish good figures.” </strong>—</span></span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="short_text" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><span class=""><span>Tomasz Michalski has been professor of economics at HEC Paris since 2006</span></span></span></span></p>
<hr noshade="noshade"/><p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><span class=""><span class="" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><span class="short_text" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><span style="color: #333399;" lang="en" xml:lang="en">The real estate bubble will likewise burst when the current weather problems and lack of insurance coverage prove this to be hollow. The percent of the workforce to be affected is already increasing, and look to the Depression era, worldwide, for expected results. During the <strong>coming depression, which is in fact in place but denied by the media</strong> and powers that be, one should look to the past Great Depression as an example of things to come.</span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><span class=""><span class="" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><span class="short_text" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><span style="color: #333399;" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><a href="http://www.zetatalk.com/poleshft/p112.htm" target="_blank" rel="noopener">ZetaTalk: Market Crash on Jul 20, 2002 Live ZetaTalk IRC Session.</a></span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><span class=""><span id="result_box" class="" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><span id="result_box" class="short_text" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><span style="color: #333399;" lang="en" xml:lang="en">The M3 reporting, which shows the source of the funds being pumped into the central banks, due to go secret on March 23, 2006, shows the relationship of the current press on Iran to financial, rather than terrorism or nuclear proliferation reasons.<br/> <...><br/> Few in the US, watching the financial experts drone on about the DOW as though it were holding steady on its own, would suspect the financial manipulations that go on behind the scene. The Plunge Protection Team, authorized into law during the Reagan era, allows the government itself to line up buyers for sellers; insist that sell orders be held until such buyers are arranged; allow military industrial contractors who put their pension funds at risk to assist in this manner to be compensated via their DOD contracts; and, if all else fails, simply manipulate the price of stock. Who would investigate this, the SEC? The SEC is a co-conspirator! Then take the good news the media chirps at the public, the economy is strong, unemployment down, and inflation in check. None of this is even remotely true, the opposite true in fact, with the numbers given to the media cooked. Employment statistics are cooked up from birth/death statistics, of all things, and not even related to actual employment! Then there is the matter of the debt, which requires huge amounts of cash infusions from countries like China, buying US bonds, to stay afloat.<br/></span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><span class=""><a href="http://www.zetatalk.com/index/zeta268.htm" target="_blank" rel="noopener">ZetaTalk: Iran Boondoggle written Mar 17, 2006</a></span></span></span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 36pt;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><span class="">Data manipulation</span></span></span></span></p>
<p><a href="http://www.hec.edu/var/corporate/storage/images/knowledge/environnement-des-entreprises/environnement-institutionnel/falsification-de-comptes-les-statistiques-pour-deceler-les-pays-fraudeurs/395458-1-fre-FR/Countries-falsifying-economic-data-How-statistics-reveal-fraudulent-figures_knowledge_standard.jpg" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><img src="http://www.hec.edu/var/corporate/storage/images/knowledge/environnement-des-entreprises/environnement-institutionnel/falsification-de-comptes-les-statistiques-pour-deceler-les-pays-fraudeurs/395458-1-fre-FR/Countries-falsifying-economic-data-How-statistics-reveal-fraudulent-figures_knowledge_standard.jpg" class="align-full"/></a></p>
<p><font color="#333399" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Image source: <a href="http://www.hec.edu/Knowledge/Business-Environment/Macro-economics/Countries-falsifying-economic-data-How-statistics-reveal-fraudulent-figures" target="_blank" rel="noopener">hec.edu</a></font></p>
<p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><span class=""><span>Why did I use term "data manipulation" instead of using, it seemed, more correct - "fake data"? Because falsification of statistics is not done directly. You can just degrade the quality of the data. You can use a different counting method for different periods. Or change the method of data collection and etc. In short, you just make it legal. (although there are also illegal cases). So..</span></span></span></span></p>
<hr noshade="noshade"/><p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><span class=""><span id="result_box" class="short_text" lang="en" xml:lang="en">For a week, the US stock market has been suffering a disaster.</span> <span id="result_box" class="" lang="en" xml:lang="en">And recently it collapsed with a record value in the history:<br/></span></span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><span class=""><span id="result_box" class="" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><span id="result_box" class="short_text" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><span style="color: #333399;" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><strong>"5 February, 2018.</strong> Dow plunges more than 1,100, largest single-day point drop in history</span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/74201463?profile=original" target="_self"><img src="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/74201463?profile=original" class="align-center" width="678"/></a></span><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><span class=""><span id="result_box" class="" lang="en" xml:lang="en">References: D3.js code [1], Dow Jones data [2], S&P 500 [3]<br/></span></span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><span class=""><span style="color: #333399;" lang="en" xml:lang="en">The Dow Jones Industrial Average plunged 1,175 points on Monday, its largest one-day point drop in history, to close at 24,345 -- a decline of 4.6 percent.</span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><span class=""><span style="color: #333399;" lang="en" xml:lang="en">"</span></span></span></span> <span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><span class="">[4] - ABC</span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><span class=""><span id="result_box" class="short_text" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><span id="result_box" class="" lang="en" xml:lang="en">John Creedell of the New York Post noted that someone mystically saved the market and reduced the fall almost twice:</span></span><br/></span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><span class=""><span style="color: #333399;" lang="en" xml:lang="en">"<strong>5 February, 2018.</strong> DC ‘Plunge’ team may have halted unprecedented Dow Jones spiral</span></span></span></span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://thenypost.files.wordpress.com/2018/02/financial_markets_wall_street.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&w=618&h=410&crop=1" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><img src="https://thenypost.files.wordpress.com/2018/02/financial_markets_wall_street.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&w=618&h=410&crop=1" class="align-center"/></a><em><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><span class=""><span id="result_box" class="short_text" lang="en" xml:lang="en">Trader Peter Tuchman works on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange Monday. AP </span></span></span></span></em></p>
<p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><span class=""><span style="color: #333399;" lang="en" xml:lang="en">Did Washington save the stock market on Monday? It may be hard to make the case that anyone or anything helped Wall Street as stocks lost about 4 percent of their value and the Dow Jones industrial average tumbled 1,175 points — after a 666-point decline on Friday.</span></span></span></span></p>
<p><font color="#333399" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><...></font><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><span class=""><span style="color: #333399;" lang="en" xml:lang="en">But then something happened. Someone arbitrarily and aggressively started buying stocks and halved the loss. Monday will still go down as a Wall Street massacre but that superhero buyer made it half as bloody.</span></span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><span class=""><span style="color: #333399;" lang="en" xml:lang="en">Who was the market’s superhero? Toward the end of his time in office in 1989, Ronald Reagan created something called The President’s Working Group on Financial Markets. There had been a stock market crash in 1987 and a near-crash in 1989, so everyone was worried."</span></span></span></span> <span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><span class="">- [6] New York Post</span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><span class="">The Zetas explained that this is an attempt at blackmail. How did they manage it? Just tell the truth.</span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><span class=""><a href="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/74201516?profile=original" target="_self"><img src="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/74201516?profile=original" width="683" class="align-full"/></a></span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><span class=""><span><span id="result_box" class="short_text" lang="en" xml:lang="en">References: D3.js [50], <span id="result_box" class="" lang="en" xml:lang="en">Dow Jones data [2]</span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span id="result_box" class="" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><span class="">I would like to start with <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Singer_(businessman)" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Paul Singer</a>'s letter to investors:</span></span></span><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><br/></span></p>
<p><a href="http://static5.businessinsider.com/image/59271c29df1bf02e008b4d2d-480/paul-singer.jpg" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><img src="http://static5.businessinsider.com/image/59271c29df1bf02e008b4d2d-480/paul-singer.jpg" class="align-right"/></font></a></p>
<p><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Image source: <a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/paul-singers-elliott-hedge-fund-first-quarter-letter-2017-5" target="_blank" rel="noopener">businessinsider.com</a></font></p>
<p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><span class=""><span style="color: #333399;" lang="en" xml:lang="en">"<strong>Nobody knows when reality will overtake the rhetoric, lies, phony statistics, wishful thinking, fake prices and tiresome poseurs pretending to be world leader</strong>s. The situation is universal, a consequence of incompetent leaders and careless (or ignorant) citizenry. Global problems are continuing to mount, along with the risk that the consequences of years of bad policies and inept leadership compound (as sometimes happens) in a short window of time. <...><br/></span></span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><span class=""><span style="color: #333399;" lang="en" xml:lang="en">Either out of ideology or incompetence, all major developed governments have given up (<strong>did they ever really try?</strong>) attempting to use solid, fundamental policies to create sustainable, strong growth in output, incomes, innovation, entrepreneurship and good jobs. The policies that are needed (in the areas of tax, regulatory, labor, education and training, energy, rule of law, and trade) are not unknown, nor are they too complicated for even the most simple-minded politician to understand. But in most developed countries, there is and has been complete policy paralysis on the growth-generation side, as elected officials have delegated the entirety of the task to central bankers. <...><br/></span></span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><span class=""><span style="color: #333399;" lang="en" xml:lang="en">Among the worst consequences of the delegation of responsibility from political leaders to central bankers has been the increasing arrogance of the latter group and their inability to understand the rapidly evolving nature of the world’s major financial institutions. Prior to the crisis, central bankers were unable to understand the risks that were building up in the global financial system and the economy. They did not see the 2008 collapse coming, nor did they perceive how fragile the system had become, or that the major financial institutions had become the largest and most leveraged hedge funds on earth. </span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><span class=""><span style="color: #333399;" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><...></span></span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><span class=""><span style="color: #333399;" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><a href="https://static.businessinsider.com/image/56a8e95a58c32397008b5943/image.jpg" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><img src="https://static.businessinsider.com/image/56a8e95a58c32397008b5943/image.jpg?width=700" width="700" class="align-full"/></a></span></span></span></span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><span class=""><span style="color: #333399;" lang="en" xml:lang="en">Image source: <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com.au/finance-crisis-warnings-sign-flashing-again-libor-2016-8" target="_blank" rel="noopener">businessinsider.com.au</a></span></span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><span class=""><span style="color: #333399;" lang="en" xml:lang="en">ZIRP has allowed insolvent corporations to issue debt at almost no premium to government bond rates. Companies that should be shuttered or taken over and chopped up are instead able to pursue projects that should never have seen the light of day, and to create fake demand that essentially borrows growth (and jobs) from the future.</span></span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><span class=""><span style="color: #333399;" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><strong>A good deal of the economic and jobs growth post-crisis is false growth, with little chance of being sustainable and self-reinforcing. It is based on fake money conjured by the Fed to buy assets at fake prices</strong>. What happens when interest rates are normalized and QE stops (and reverses) globally is a question that nobody wants to contemplate. The financial system is fragile, still ultra-leveraged and reliant upon a continuation of superlow interest rates. Thus, the appearance of stability and low volatility is also illusory.</span></span></span></span></p>
<p><a href="http://freepressjournal.in/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/Dow-jones-stock-index.jpg" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><img src="http://freepressjournal.in/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/Dow-jones-stock-index.jpg" class="align-full"/></a></p>
<p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><span class=""><span style="color: #333399;" lang="en" xml:lang="en">Image source: <a href="http://freepressjournal.in/business/dow-jones-stock-index-falls-the-most-since-financial-crisis-in-2008-triggers-losses-in-asian-markets/1216078" target="_blank" rel="noopener">freepressjournal.in</a></span></span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><span class=""><span style="color: #333399;" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><strong>Some of the most important government data is unreliable, starting with inflation</strong>. Reported real GDP growth has been in the 2% annualized range for the last few years. The 4% annualized real growth rate reported for the second quarter of 2014 only reversed the terrible first quarter numbers, so year-over-year growth was still only in the 2% range for the twelve months ended June 30, 2014. Only if third and fourth quarter real GDP growth reaches 3% or higher, and only if that rate persists next year, will it be fair to say that the U.S. economy has finally recovered from the crisis (six tough years later).</span></span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><span class=""><span style="color: #333399;" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><...> In the meantime, sadly, policymakers do not recognize the reality of the peculiar and sectoral inflation, in some cases massive and growing, that has been caused by money printing and bad policy.</span></span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><span class=""><span style="color: #333399;" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><...> <strong>Unemployment figures are also a source of faulty or misleading data.</strong> The headline currently reported unemployment rate of 5.9% is deeply misleading"</span></span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><span class=""><span style="color: #333399;" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><...> The 16th Geneva Report on the World Economy (published in September of this year by the Centre for Economic Policy Research) says that the total burden of global non-financial debt, private and public, has risen from 60% of national income in 2001 to almost 200% after the crisis in 2009 and to 215% in 2013. Contrary to widely held beliefs, the world’s leading governments and financial institutions have not yet begun to de-lever, and the global debt-to-GDP ratio is still growing to record highs, even before taking into account entitlement programs.<br/></span></span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><span class=""><span style="color: #333399;" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><strong>Nobody can predict how long governments can get away with fake growth, fake money, fake financial stability, fake jobs, fake inflation numbers and fake income growth.</strong> Our feeling is that confidence, especially when it is unjustified, is quite a thin veneer. When confidence is lost, that loss can be severe, sudden and simultaneous across a number of markets and sectors."</span></span></span></span> <span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">[5]</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">So why is the US stock market growing? The answ<span>er is simple:</span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/74201579?profile=original" target="_self"><img src="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/74201579?profile=original" width="678" class="align-full"/></a></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span><span class="" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><span id="result_box" class="short_text" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><span class="">References: D3.js [50], Balance sheet [51]</span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Central banks are simply buying up stocks. <em>Richard Fisher</em>, former president and chief executive officer of the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas, admitted that the federal reserve rigged the stock market:</span></p>
<p><a href="https://dallasnews.imgix.net/NB_3FISHER1_34602946.jpg" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><img src="https://dallasnews.imgix.net/NB_3FISHER1_34602946.jpg?width=700" width="700" class="align-full"/></a></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span>Image source: <a href="https://www.dallasnews.com/business/business/2014/09/23/dallas-fed-hires-search-firm-to-help-find-replacement-for-president-fisher-who-plans-to-retire-in-2015" target="_blank" rel="noopener">dallasnews.com</a></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><span class=""><span style="color: #333399;" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><span>"What the Fed did — and I was part of that group — is we front-loaded a tremendous market rally, starting in 2009. <...> Basically, we had a tremendous rally, and I think there’s a great digestive period that is likely to take place now, and it may continue. We front-loaded at the Federal Reserve an enormous rally in order to accomplish a wealth effect. I wouldn’t blame [what is happening in the market’s now] on China. We’re always looking for excuses."</span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span>Asked if saw a big unwind from the Fed’s 6.5-year policy and what it would look like on the way down, Fisher responded:</span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><span class=""><span style="color: #333399;" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><span>"I was warning my colleagues, “Don’t go wobbly if we have a 10-20% correction at some point…. Everybody you talk to … has been warning that these markets are heavily priced. The Federal Reserve is a giant weapon that has no ammunition left. You have to be careful here and frank about what drove the markets…. It was, the Fed, the Fed, the Fed, the European Central Bank, the Japanese Central bank … all quantitatively driven by central bank activity. That’s not the way markets should be working…. They were juiced up by central banks, including the Federal Reserve…. So, I think you have to acknowledge reality."</span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span>[14], [15]</span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span>John Krudele in his article also tells some details. [43]</span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span>Meanwhile, total global debt levels reached an astronomical US$217 trillion in the first quarter of 2017 – that’s 327% of world GDP:</span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span><a href="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/74201653?profile=original" target="_self"><img src="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/74201653?profile=original" width="549" class="align-center"/></a></span></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span>References: data [13]</span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span>The Bank for International Settlements also found an uncountable debt of 13 trillion. [30]</span></span></p>
<hr noshade="noshade"/><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 18pt;">United States</span><br/></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><span class=""><span style="color: #333399;" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><a href="http://chieforganizer.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/Wall-Street-Lower-Manhattan-53049.jpg" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><img src="http://chieforganizer.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/Wall-Street-Lower-Manhattan-53049.jpg" class="align-full"/></a></span></span></span></span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><span class=""><span style="color: #333399;" lang="en" xml:lang="en">Image source: <a href="http://chieforganizer.org/2016/02/06/the-wall-street-journal-thinks-hillary-is-too-close-to-wall-street/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">chieforganizer.org</a></span></span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><span class=""><span style="color: #333399;" lang="en" xml:lang="en">This will be called a "recession", but if the true unemployment figures were known, it would have to be declared a depression.</span></span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.zetatalk.com/index/zeta479.htm" target="_blank" rel="noopener">ZetaTalk: GodlikeProduction Live written October 18, 2008 on the GodlikeProduction live chat.</a><br/></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><span class=""><span style="color: #333399;" lang="en" xml:lang="en">Of course the employment statistics are a lie. They are created from various mathematical models, <em>not</em> real measures. A birth/death calculation is one of these models, the logic being that if people are out there breathing, they must be working! A true measure of employment would be income tax deductions from paychecks, or tracking by social security number those who become unemployed until they are re-employed. But no such actual tracking is done. It is a complete swag, a guess, and not a valid statistic, and one subject to political pressure absolutely. </span></span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.zetatalk.com/index/zeta437.htm" target="_blank" rel="noopener">ZetaTalk: GodlikeProduction Live written February 16, 2008 on the GodlikeProduction live chat.</a></span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.shadowstats.com/imgs/sgs-emp.gif?hl=ad&t=1512743154" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><img src="http://www.shadowstats.com/imgs/sgs-emp.gif?hl=ad&t=1512743154" class="align-center"/></a><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Image source: <a href="http://www.shadowstats.com/alternate_data/unemployment-charts" target="_blank" rel="noopener">shadowstats.com</a><br/></span></p>
<ul>
<li><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><span class=""><strong>Student loans:</strong> In early 2017, the United States had falsified data on student loans. A spokeswoman for the Education Department said that the problem resulted from a "technical programming error." [16]</span></span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><span class=""><strong>Inflation and other data:</strong> The Census Bureau’s Philadelphia faked inflation and Consumer Price Index data. [11] Brooklyn Census Bureau also falsified data in 2010. [12]<br/></span></span></span></li>
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<p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><span class=""><a href="http://www.zerohedge.com/sites/default/files/images/user5/imageroot/2017/10/01/BLS%20AHE%20declines%20vs%20increase.jpg" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><img src="http://www.zerohedge.com/sites/default/files/images/user5/imageroot/2017/10/01/BLS%20AHE%20declines%20vs%20increase.jpg?width=700" class="align-full" width="700"/></a></span></span></span><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><span class=""><span style="color: #333399;" lang="en" xml:lang="en">"What it shows is that whereas there was a sequential decline in the Average Weekly Earnings for Goods Producing and Private Service-producing industries which are the only two sub-components of the Total Private Line (and are circled in red on the table below) of -0.8% and -0.1% respectively, the BLS also reported that somehow, the total of these two declines was a 0.2% increase!" [39]</span></span></span></span></p>
<ul>
<li><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><span class=""><strong>Unemployment. BLS.</strong> In 1994, the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) redefined the workforce... 4 million U.S. adults — disappeared into a statistical black hole. Clinton also reduced the sample-sized employed in the household survey that determines the unemployment rate. [37] <span id="result_box" class="" lang="en" xml:lang="en">The constant criticism of the Bureau of Labor Statistics is well known.</span> <span id="result_box" class="short_text" lang="en" xml:lang="en">For example, a model of birth / death.</span> [38] Recently, the Bureau of Labor Statistics was caught on fabricating wage data. [39]</span></span></span> <span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><span class="">Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin even reinforced the skepticism of the unemployment figures during his Senate confirmation hearing, stating outright that the “unemployment rate is not real." [34]</span></span></span> <span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><span class=""><span id="result_box" class="" lang="en" xml:lang="en">Bureau of Labor Statistics released a correction of data and even the federal bank doubted their adequacy:</span></span></span></span> <span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><span class=""><span id="result_box" class="" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><span style="color: #333399;" lang="en" xml:lang="en">"The recent benchmark data revisions from the Bureau of Labor Statistics produced greater changes to the Philadelphia Fed's estimating methodology than are typical. While estimates for most states do appear to be reasonable, those for some states are not."</span></span></span></span></span> <span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><span class="">[8] <span id="result_box" class="" lang="en" xml:lang="en">The New York Times calculated that Trump called unemployment data fake 19 times</span> [27] <span id="result_box" class="" lang="en" xml:lang="en">But when he joined the presidency, his opinion quickly changed... [28], [29] <strong>and etc</strong>.</span> <strong><span id="result_box" class="" lang="en" xml:lang="en">I can continue, but I think the reader has got the sense. There is so much criticism on this topic that I didn't need to cover this in detail, I gave only SOME examples.</span></strong></span></span></span></li>
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<p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 18pt;">Only in United States? NO</span></p>
<p><a href="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/74201628?profile=original" target="_self"><img src="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/74201628?profile=original" class="align-center" width="682"/></a></p>
<p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><span class="">References: D3.js [24], GDP data [23]</span></span></span></p>
<p><a href="https://dailytimes.com.pk/static/uploads/original/erdogan-seeks-control-after-coup-attempt-in-turkey-41dd7442ee2b7db5e8148870178f08dc.jpg" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><img src="https://dailytimes.com.pk/static/uploads/original/erdogan-seeks-control-after-coup-attempt-in-turkey-41dd7442ee2b7db5e8148870178f08dc.jpg" class="align-full"/></a></p>
<p><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span>A Turkish army faction backed by tanks and fighter jets staged an attempted coup against President Recep Tayyip Erdogan in 2016. </span>Image source: <a href="https://dailytimes.com.pk/69800/erdogan-seeks-control-after-coup-attempt-in-turkey/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">dailytimes.com.pk</a></font></p>
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<li><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span id="result_box" class="" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><span class="">This is already done in <strong>Turkey</strong>, they just changed the method of GDP counting in late 2016.</span></span> [17] Easy for Erdogan.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><span class="">In 2009, employees of the <strong>Argentine's</strong> National Institute of Statistics have admitted the manipulation with socio-economic statistics. <span id="result_box" class="short_text" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><span style="color: #333399;" lang="en" xml:lang="en">"They just erased the real numbers",</span></span> said Luciano Belforte, an 18-year veteran at the institute. <span id="result_box" class="short_text" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><span style="color: #333399;" lang="en" xml:lang="en">"Reality did not matter."</span></span></span></span></span> <span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><span class="">[41]</span></span></span></li>
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<p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><span class=""><a href="https://gsestudentblog.files.wordpress.com/2017/02/3101510011.jpg" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><img src="https://gsestudentblog.files.wordpress.com/2017/02/3101510011.jpg" class="align-full"/></a></span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><span class="">Image source: <a href="https://thevoice.barcelonagse.eu/2017/02/15/what-economists-do-talking-to-philip-wales-uk-office-for-national-statistics/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">thevoice.barcelonagse.eu</a></span></span></span></p>
<ul>
<li><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><span class=""><span id="result_box" class="" lang="en" xml:lang="en">Unemployment in the <strong>UK</strong> has reached a record low since the 1970s</span>. <span id="result_box" class="short_text" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><span style="color: #333399;" lang="en" xml:lang="en">"The problem with this record is that the statistical definition of "unemployment" relies on a fiction that economists tell themselves about the nature of work."</span></span></span></span></span> <span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">- Jim Edwards <em>Business Insider</em> [42] A former employee of Office for National Statistics (ONS) spoke about some manipulations with statistics. The general government branch of ONS was “told to go back and adjust expenditure for the quarter down by ?2bn”, he wrote. [10]<br/></span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span id="result_box" class="" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><span class=""><strong>Spain</strong> was fined for manipulating statistics</span></span>. The EU investigation found that Valenican authorities had</span> <span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><span class=""><span id="result_box" class="short_text" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><span style="color: #333399;" lang="en" xml:lang="en">"systematically sent incorrect information to the national statistical authorities over many years."</span></span></span></span></span> <span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">[9]</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Data on unemployment in <strong>Serbia</strong> have become the subject of criticism. Data credibility is disputed by the Fiscal Council’s members who claim that “no country in Central or Eastern Europe has ever had such a rise of the employment rate, while most of the countries in the region currently have higher GDP growth than Serbia.” [44]</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">In 2006, <strong>Hungary</strong>’s prime minister admitted to having lied about the state of the economy, in order to win national elections [48]</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong>Italy</strong> and <strong>Germany</strong> were also seen in some manipulations in the past [49]</span></li>
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<p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">IMF and World Bank fraud? -</span></p>
<ul>
<li><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span><span class="" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><span id="result_box" class="short_text" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><span class="">Capital Economics, one of the world’s leading economic research firms has said it has doubts about the accuracy of GDP figures released by the <strong>Kenya</strong>n Government. The World Bank has rated Kenya’s statistical capacity as the second worst among the large African economies [45] </span></span></span></span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span><span class="" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><span class="short_text" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><span class="">The International Monetary Fund (IMF) is running for cover after revealing that <strong>Ghana</strong>'s debt-to-Gross Domestic Product (GDP) ratio was higher than what the government had presented as part of the bailout talks with the Bretton Woods institution. [46] </span></span></span><span id="result_box" class="short_text" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><span class="" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><span style="color: #333399;" lang="en" xml:lang="en">“He said he had reliable information from inside sources that the GSS staff explained to the IMF that because they were not getting some key data from the Ghana Revenue Authority, they just made up their own estimates. 'The IMF, in its so-called exoneration of the Bank of Ghana, was careful in choosing its words and sticking to 2013, even though it has data for 2014,' he said." [47]</span></span></span></span></span></li>
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<p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 18pt;">BRICS new hope? NO<br/></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/74201743?profile=original" target="_self"><img src="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/74201743?profile=original" width="680" class="align-full"/></a></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span><span class="" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><span id="result_box" class="short_text" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><span class="">References: D3.js [50], GDP data [23]</span></span></span></span></span></p>
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<li><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">There were big doubts about the data in <strong>India</strong>'s GDP, as they seem completely in conflict with other economic indicators. <span id="result_box" class="short_text" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><span class="">And again a new method of counting was introduced. [18], [20], [21] and etc. <span class="" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><span style="color: #333399;" lang="en" xml:lang="en">"Government data is sacrosanct, or at least it was till before 2014. With the arrival of the Narendra Modi Government in the Centre, this changed." </span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">[19] - Indian National Congress.</span></li>
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<p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="http://english.gov.cn/r/Pub/GOV/p1/Content/News/Images/2016/04/20/ning-600-2.jpg" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><img src="http://english.gov.cn/r/Pub/GOV/p1/Content/News/Images/2016/04/20/ning-600-2.jpg" class="align-center"/></a></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Image source: <a href="http://english.gov.cn/news/top_news/2016/04/20/content_281475331481147.htm" target="_blank" rel="noopener">english.gov.cn</a></span></p>
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<li><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span id="result_box" class="" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><span class=""><strong>China</strong>’s top statistician has acknowledged the country’s problems with falsification of economic data. <span id="result_box" class="short_text" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><span class="" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><span style="color: #333399;" lang="en" xml:lang="en">“Currently, some local statistics are falsified, and fraud and deception happen from time to time, in violation of statistics laws and regulations,”</span></span></span> Ning Jizhe, director of the National Bureau of Statistics. [33]</span></span></span> <span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span id="result_box" class="" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><span class="">Later, <strong>Chinese</strong> province admitted that their economic data was falsified</span></span> [22]</span></li>
</ul>
<p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="http://b1.vestifinance.ru/c/281501.640xp.jpg" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><img src="http://b1.vestifinance.ru/c/281501.640xp.jpg" class="align-center"/></a></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Image source: <a href="http://www.vestifinance.ru/articles/89717" target="_blank" rel="noopener">vestifinance.ru</a></span></p>
<ul>
<li><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="short_text" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><span class="">Rosstat (<strong>Russia</strong>n Federal State Statistics Service)</span></span></span></span> <span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span id="result_box" class="short_text" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><span class="">revised data for 2015-16. <span id="result_box" class="" lang="en" xml:lang="en">As an example, the industry grew by 0.5%, previous data showed a 3% decline. The method of counting was changed. [7]</span><br/></span></span></span></li>
</ul>
<p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 18pt;"><span class="" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><span class=""><span id="result_box" class="short_text" lang="en" xml:lang="en">International organizations (IMF and etc)</span></span></span></span></p>
<p><strong><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Greece fraud (IMF)<br/></span></strong></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.mintpressnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/AP_100326167515.jpg" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><img src="https://www.mintpressnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/AP_100326167515.jpg?width=700" class="align-full" width="700"/></a><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Greek Prime Minister George Papandreou, right, shakes hand with the head of the International Monetary Fund, Dominique Strauss-Kahn, during a joint news conference in Athens, Dec. 7, 2010. (AP/Thanassis Stavrakis) Image source: <a href="https://www.mintpressnews.com/trials-andreas-georgiou-fraud-drove-greece-austerity/235102/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">mintpressnews.com</a><br/></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Unprecedented fraud was committed against <strong>Greece</strong>. <span id="result_box" class="short_text" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><span class="">Behind this fraud is the IMF. <span id="result_box" class="" lang="en" xml:lang="en">They just put their man in the Greek Statistical Authority (ELSTAT) and the matter is done.</span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><span> See: [36]</span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><span><span id="result_box" class="short_text" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><span class="">The result for Greece is bankruptcy. <span id="result_box" class="" lang="en" xml:lang="en">Meanwhile, the European Commission and the Western media are defending the former head of ELSTAT - Andreas Georgio.</span><br/></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p><strong><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="" lang="en" xml:lang="en">Oil fraud (IEA)<br/></span></span></strong></p>
<p><strong><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><a href="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/74201690?profile=original" target="_self"><img src="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/74201690?profile=original" class="align-full" width="693"/></a></span></span></strong><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span id="result_box" class="" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><span><span class="" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><span id="result_box" class="short_text" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><span class="">References: D3.js [50], </span></span></span>Oil prices [35]</span></span></span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://img.etimg.com/thumb/msid-62417534,width-672,resizemode-4,imgsize-94136/oil3-thinkstock.jpg" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><img src="https://img.etimg.com/thumb/msid-62417534,width-672,resizemode-4,imgsize-94136/oil3-thinkstock.jpg" class="align-center"/></a><a href="https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/markets/commodities/views/crude-oil-set-for-further-rally-but-us-shale-may-spoil-party/articleshow/62417555.cms" target="_blank" rel="noopener"></a><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span id="result_box" class="" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><span>Image source: <a href="https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/markets/commodities/views/crude-oil-set-for-further-rally-but-us-shale-may-spoil-party/articleshow/62417555.cms" target="_blank" rel="noopener">economictimes.indiatimes.com</a></span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span id="result_box" class="" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><span>In 2014, oil prices have collapsed. <span id="result_box" class="short_text" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><span class="">And it was not an accident.</span></span> <span id="result_box" class="short_text" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><span class="">It's just manipulation with statistics. In 2015, the oil market was 2 million barrels per day. Of them, 800,000 barrels per day are so-called "missing barrels" [31], [32]</span></span></span><span class=""><br/></span></span></span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="short_text" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><span class=""><span class="" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><span style="color: #333399;" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><a href="https://si.wsj.net/public/resources/images/OJ-AH394_MISSIN_9U_20160315141206.jpg" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><img src="https://si.wsj.net/public/resources/images/OJ-AH394_MISSIN_9U_20160315141206.jpg" class="align-full"/></a></span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span id="result_box" class="" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><span><span id="result_box" class="short_text" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><span class="">Image source: <a href="https://www.wsj.com/articles/crude-mystery-where-did-800-000-barrels-of-oil-go-1458207004" target="_blank" rel="noopener">wsj.com</a></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><span id="result_box" class="short_text" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><span class="">Meanwhile, Venezuela is on the verge of collapse</span></span>...</span></span></p>
<p><strong><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="" lang="en" xml:lang="en">World bank fraud.</span></span></strong></p>
<p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="" lang="en" xml:lang="en">13 January, 2018. "</span></span><strong><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><span id="result_box" class="short_text" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><span class=""><span style="color: #333399;" lang="en" xml:lang="en">A World Bank economist apologized for unfair country rankings and will redo four years of results</span></span></span></span></span></strong></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><strong><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><span class="short_text" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><span class=""><span style="color: #333399;" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><a href="https://qzprod.files.wordpress.com/2018/01/world-bank-doing-business-ranking-jim-kim-question-chile-politics-paul-romer.jpg?quality=80&strip=all&w=3200" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><img src="https://qzprod.files.wordpress.com/2018/01/world-bank-doing-business-ranking-jim-kim-question-chile-politics-paul-romer.jpg?quality=80&strip=all&w=3200&width=700" class="align-full" width="700"/></a></span></span></span></span></span></strong><em><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><span id="result_box" class="short_text" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><span class=""><span style="color: #333399;" lang="en" xml:lang="en">World Bank president Jim Kim will have some questions to answer. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana)</span></span></span></span></span></em></p>
<p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><span id="result_box" class="short_text" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><span class=""><span style="color: #333399;" lang="en" xml:lang="en">The World Bank’s annual ranking of countries by ease of doing business has been compromised by politicized methodology, the bank’s top economist told the Wall Street Journal (paywall). The primary victim? The country of Chile <...></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><span class="short_text" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><span class=""><span style="color: #333399;" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><a href="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/74201820?profile=original" target="_self"><img src="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/74201820?profile=original" class="align-full" width="687"/></a></span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><span id="result_box" class="short_text" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><span class="">References: D3.js [50], Doing Business [52]</span></span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><span class="short_text" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><span class=""><span style="color: #333399;" lang="en" xml:lang="en">Paul Romer, the World Bank’s Chief Economist since late 2016, found irregularities in how the survey’s methodology was updated from year to year, and intends to correct and republish the ranking for the past four years.</span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><span class="short_text" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><span class=""><span style="color: #333399;" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><...> </span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><span class="short_text" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><span class=""><span style="color: #333399;" lang="en" xml:lang="en">“I want to make a personal apology to Chile, and to any other country where we conveyed the wrong impression,” Romer told the Journal. “Based on the things we were measuring before, business conditions did not get worse in Chile under the Bachelet administration.”"</span></span></span></span></span> <span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="" lang="en" xml:lang="en">[40]</span></span></p>
<hr noshade="noshade"/><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 18pt;"><span class="" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><span id="result_box" class="short_text" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><span class="">ECB Warns About 'Fake Data'</span></span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><span id="result_box" class="short_text" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><span class="">Lies have already gone too far:<br/></span></span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><span class=""><span style="color: #333399;" lang="en" xml:lang="en">"25 November, 2017. <strong>Not Our Fault" - ECB Says "Fake Data" Is To Blame For The Coming "Manias And Panics"</strong></span></span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><span class=""><span style="color: #333399;" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><a href="https://www.fxtaa.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/ecb-2.jpg" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><img src="https://www.fxtaa.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/ecb-2.jpg?width=700" width="700" class="align-full"/></a></span></span></span></span></p>
<p><font color="#333399" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Image source: <a href="https://www.fxtaa.com/en/tag/ecb/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">fxtaa.com</a></font></p>
<p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><span class=""><span style="color: #333399;" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><...> As a result, as we reported at the time, at least 17 Shenzhen-listed companies announced delays to their earnings reports from Oct. 20 to Oct. 24, up from three during the same period last year.</span></span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><span class=""><span style="color: #333399;" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><span style="text-decoration: underline;">Moral of the story: if you are about to report bad news, especially news which can destabilize the stock market, it is "prudent" to delay... or simply not report at all, or alternatively just make it up.</span> And since we are talking about China, whose government has itself admitted it has repeatedly fabricated both trade and GDP data in the past, fabricating data has become a way of life.</span></span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><span class=""><span style="color: #333399;" lang="en" xml:lang="en">There is just one problem: as ECB board member Benoit Coeure explained yesterday, “fake data” is as much of a threat to economic and financial stability as “fake news” is to politics. Speaking in Paris, <strong>the central banker said there "was a growing prevalence of poor quality data which risks fuelling economic manias and panics.</strong>"<...></span></span></span></span></p>
<p><strong><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><span class=""><span style="color: #333399;" lang="en" xml:lang="en">In other words, the next crash will be blamed not on central banks blowing the biggest bubble in history but... drumroll... "fake data"!</span></span></span></span></strong></p>
<p><strong><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><span class=""><span style="color: #333399;" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><a href="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/74201794?profile=original" target="_self"><img src="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/74201794?profile=original" width="576" class="align-center"/></a></span></span></span></span></strong></p>
<p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><span class=""><span style="color: #333399;" lang="en" xml:lang="en">Image source: <a href="https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2016-09-05/how-central-banks-are-lboing-world-one-stunning-chart" target="_blank" rel="noopener">zerohedge.com</a></span></span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><span class=""><span style="color: #333399;" lang="en" xml:lang="en">Of course, the crash when it comes, will hardly be a surprise: recovering from the biggest recession in decades, the ECB has relied on a plethora of unconventional and still not fully understood tools to kick start growth, boost employment and raise inflation. Much of it has been based on a signalling and propaganda, including the constant refrain that things are getting much better. </span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><span class=""><span style="color: #333399;" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><...></span></span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><span class=""><span style="color: #333399;" lang="en" xml:lang="en">“We may one day be tempted to draft our monetary policy statements and speeches in the light of how they will be comprehended and interpreted by artificial intelligence algorithms,” Coeure said, adding that the consequences of such a mechanism has yet to be understood." [53]</span></span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><span id="result_box" class="short_text" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><span class="">This is the total failure of economic policy.</span></span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="color: #333399;" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #000000;"><strong>References</strong>:</span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="color: #333399;" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #000000;">[1] D3.js Linechart: <a href="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/74201953?profile=original" target="_self">axis.html</a>; <a href="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/74201877?profile=original" target="_self">SP5002.csv</a> (Based on this example: <a href="https://bl.ocks.org/mbostock/1166403">https://bl.ocks.org/mbostock/1166403</a>) (Released under the <a target="_blank" href="https://opensource.org/licenses/GPL-3.0" rel="noopener">GNU General Public License, version 3</a>.)<br/></span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="color: #333399;" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #000000;">[2] Samuel H. Williamson, "Daily Closing Value of the Dow Jones Average, 1885 to Present," MeasuringWorth, 2018<br/> URL: <a href="http://www.measuringworth.com/DJA/">http://www.measuringworth.com/DJA/</a><br/></span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="color: #333399;" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #000000;">[3] S&P 500 data: <a href="https://www.investing.com/indices/us-spx-500-historical-data">https://www.investing.com/indices/us-spx-500-historical-data</a></span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="color: #333399;" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #000000;">[4] Hutchinson, B. (2018, February 5). Dow plunges more than 1,100, largest single-day point drop in history. Retrieved February 06, 2018, from <a href="http://abcnews.go.com/Business/dow-plunges-1100-largest-single-day-point-drop/story?id=52854673%C2%A0">http://abcnews.go.com/Business/dow-plunges-1100-largest-single-day-point-drop/story?id=52854673 </a>;<br/></span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="color: #333399;" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #000000;">[5] Durden, T. (2014, April 11). Paul Singer Slams The Fake World: "Fake Growth, Fake Money, Fake Jobs, Fake Stability, Fake Inflation Numbers". Retrieved February 10, 2018, from <a href="https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2014-11-04/paul-singer-slams-fake-world-fake-growth-fake-money-fake-jobs-fake-stability-fake-in">https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2014-11-04/paul-singer-slams-fake-world-fake-growth-fake-money-fake-jobs-fake-stability-fake-in</a></span></span></span></p>
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<p><span style="color: #333399;" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #000000;">[7] Росстат объявил падение промышленности статистической ошибкой | 20.02.17. (2017, February 20). Retrieved February 07, 2018, from <a href="http://www.finanz.ru/novosti/aktsii/rosstat-obyavil-padenie-promyshlennosti-statisticheskoy-oshibkoy-1001763363">http://www.finanz.ru/novosti/aktsii/rosstat-obyavil-padenie-promyshlennosti-statisticheskoy-oshibkoy-1001763363</a></span></span></span></p>
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<p><span style="color: #333399;" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #000000;"><span>[51] <a href="https://fred.stlouisfed.org/">https://fred.stlouisfed.org/</a></span></span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="color: #333399;" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #000000;"><span>[52] <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ease_of_doing_business_index">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ease_of_doing_business_index</a></span></span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="color: #333399;" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #000000;"><span>[53] Durden, T. (2017, November 25). "Not Our Fault" - ECB Says "Fake Data" Is To Blame For The Coming "Manias And Panics". Retrieved February 11, 2018, from <a href="https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2017-11-25/dont-blame-us-ecb-says-fake-data-will-cause-coming-manias-and-panics">https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2017-11-25/dont-blame-us-ecb-says-fake-data-will-cause-coming-manias-and-panics</a></span></span></span></span></p>Global natural disasters cost $300 billion in 2017 - Swiss Re. Mega-disasters threaten world's economytag:poleshift.ning.com,2017-12-24:3863141:BlogPost:10843642017-12-24T15:30:00.000ZStanislavhttps://poleshift.ning.com/profile/Stanislav
<p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/74200785?profile=original" target="_self"><img class="align-full" src="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/74200785?profile=original" width="700"></img></a></span> <span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><span class="">Data: Swiss Re - sigma [3]; D3.js stacked barchart [5]; Article [1]; multiline chart D3.js [6]</span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">The world banks are…</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/74200785?profile=original" target="_self"><img src="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/74200785?profile=original" class="align-full" width="700"/></a></span><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><span class="">Data: Swiss Re - sigma [3]; D3.js stacked barchart [5]; Article [1]; multiline chart D3.js [6]</span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">The world banks are justified in their constant fretting about the health of their industry during the panic that will occur going into the cataclysms. The worth of paper money is a fragile thing, based more on confidence than anything, paper money can plunge in value overnight, and often does in unstable countries where printing more paper money is seen as the solution to underfunding of government ambitions. History has shown that banks and the value of the dollar fall during economic depressions, and the years preceding the coming cataclysms will see crop failures in the face of atypical weather and intractable droughts, insurance company failure due to weather and earthquake severity, and a general lack of confidence.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.zetatalk.com/transfor/t59.htm" target="_blank" rel="noopener">ZetaTalk: Economic Collapse</a> Note: written Dec 15, 1996.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">On November 20, the Swiss reinsurance company presented an annual 'report' on cost from disasters</span> <span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">(Swiss Re, is a reinsurance company based in Zurich, Switzerland). <span id="result_box" class="" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><span>The unprecedented damage from hurricanes in the Atlantic made a significant contribution:</span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><span class=""><span style="color: #333399;" xml:lang="en" lang="en">"20 December, 2017. <strong>Preliminary sigma estimates for 2017: global insured losses of USD 136 billion are third highest on sigma records</strong></span></span></span></span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><span class=""><span style="color: #333399;" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><a href="https://media.newyorker.com/photos/59b83f6bb642a3562655fcce/master/w_727,c_limit/Meade-St-Martin-after-Irma.jpg" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><img src="https://media.newyorker.com/photos/59b83f6bb642a3562655fcce/master/w_727,c_limit/Meade-St-Martin-after-Irma.jpg" class="align-full"/></a></span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><span class=""><span style="color: #333399;" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><em>A street on St. Martin on September 11th, after the island was hit by Hurricane Irma. Photograph by Jose Jimenez / Getty. Image source: <a href="https://www.newyorker.com/news/as-told-to/survival-frustration-and-resilience-in-st-martin" target="_blank" rel="noopener">newyorker.com</a></em><br/></span></span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><span class=""><span style="color: #333399;" xml:lang="en" lang="en">Preliminary sigma estimates for insured global losses resulting from natural and man-made disasters in 2017 are around USD 136 billion, well-above the annual average of the previous 10 years, and the third highest since sigma records began in 1970. Total economic losses soared in 2017 to USD 306 billion from USD 188 billion in 2016. The accumulation of economic and insured losses ramped up in the second half of the year, due primarily to the three hurricanes – Harvey, Irma and Maria – that hit the US and the Caribbean, and wildfires in California. Globally, more than 11 000 people have died or gone missing in disaster events in 2017, similar to 2016.</span></span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="http://media.swissre.com/images/nr20171220_sigma_estimates_figure1_03.png" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><img src="http://media.swissre.com/images/nr20171220_sigma_estimates_figure1_03.png" class="align-full"/></a></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><span class=""><span style="color: #333399;" xml:lang="en" lang="en">Total economic losses from natural catastrophes and man-made disasters are estimated to be USD 306 billion in 2017, up from USD 188 billion in 2016 and much more than the annual average of the previous 10 years (USD 190 billion). Global insured losses from disaster events in 2017 were around USD 136 billion, up from USD 65 billion in 2016, well above the previous 10-year annual average (USD 58 billion), and the third highest on sigma records.</span></span></span></span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><span class=""><span style="color: #333399;" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><a href="https://i.amz.mshcdn.com/1AkUFseQdi-JhZSVRHsD2ver3AI=/fit-in/1200x9600/https%3A%2F%2Fblueprint-api-production.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fuploads%2Fcard%2Fimage%2F602481%2F29a32e70-98aa-433a-ac93-4696b587421a.jpg" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><img src="https://i.amz.mshcdn.com/1AkUFseQdi-JhZSVRHsD2ver3AI=/fit-in/1200x9600/https%3A%2F%2Fblueprint-api-production.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fuploads%2Fcard%2Fimage%2F602481%2F29a32e70-98aa-433a-ac93-4696b587421a.jpg?width=700" class="align-full" width="700"/></a></span></span></span></span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><span class=""><span style="color: #333399;" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><em>Tree trunks litter a street on Sept. 22, 2017 in Roseau, capital of the Caribbean island of Dominica, four days after the passage of Hurricane Maria. Image: LIONEL CHAMOISEAU/AFP/Getty Images. Image source: <a href="http://mashable.com/2017/09/26/shocking-photos-show-hurricane-maria-damage-puerto-rico/#A9qgETuJ9aqM" target="_blank" rel="noopener">mashable.com</a></em><br/></span></span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><span class=""><span style="color: #333399;" xml:lang="en" lang="en">Natural catastrophes accounted for USD 131 billion of this year's insured losses1, and man-made disasters for the remaining USD 5 billion. More than 11 000 people have died or gone missing in catastrophe events, similar to 2016."</span></span></span></span> <span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><span class="">[1] - Swiss Re</span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><span class=""><span id="result_box" class="" xml:lang="en" lang="en">Data on damage from Atlantic hurricanes are not yet available</span> (only insured damage). Damage is still counted and different sources indicate different numbers.<br/></span></span></span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><span class=""><a href="https://img.huffingtonpost.com/asset/59a6e42824000036004ba76d.jpeg?ops=scalefit_970_noupscale" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><img src="https://img.huffingtonpost.com/asset/59a6e42824000036004ba76d.jpeg?ops=scalefit_970_noupscale" class="align-full"/></a></span></span></span><em><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><span class="">An aerial view of flooded downtown Houston on Aug. 29, 2017. Marcus Yam/Getty Images. Image source: <a href="https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/hurricane-harvey-houston-flood-aerial-photos_us_59a6e923e4b00795c2a3419f" target="_blank" rel="noopener">huffingtonpost.com</a><br/></span></span></span></em></p>
<p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><span class=""><strong>How accurate this data</strong>?</span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><span class="">Undoubtedly, there are factors such as GDP growth, inflation and etc. <span id="result_box" class="" xml:lang="en" lang="en">Even if we take into account the inflation and GDP indicators due to population growth, urbanization and infrastructure development, the figures are unlikely to be accurate.</span></span></span></span> <span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><span class=""><span id="result_box" class="" xml:lang="en" lang="en">Thus, this estimate is valid only for the 21st century or from the 90s maximum.</span></span></span></span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><span class=""><span class="" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><a href="http://i2.cdn.turner.com/money/dam/assets/171128144446-bali-volcano-agung-1024x576.jpg" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><img src="http://i2.cdn.turner.com/money/dam/assets/171128144446-bali-volcano-agung-1024x576.jpg?width=550" class="align-center" width="550"/></a></span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><span class=""><em>Bali volcano sees major eruption for first time since fatal eruption in 1963. Image source: <a href="http://edition.cnn.com/videos/world/2017/11/28/mount-agung-bali-volcano-eruption-indonesia-rio-helmi-stout-intvw.cnn" target="_blank" rel="noopener">edition.cnn.com</a></em><br/></span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><span class="">But if we look at what causes growth, we will find mega natural disasters such as - 2011 Great Japan earthquake with 360 billion USD damages, was the largest earthquake ever in Japan and fourth in global scale; 2005 Atlantic hurricane season with 158 bllion USD damages, was the most active Atlantic hurricane season in recorded history; 2010 Chile earthquake - strongest since 1960 Valivida, 2008 Sichuan earthquake - strongest since 1950 and etc.<br/></span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/74200908?profile=original" target="_self"><img src="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/74200908?profile=original" class="align-full" width="700"/></a></span><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><span class="">Stacked barchart. Data: Swiss Re - sigma [3] D3.js [5]</span></span></span></p>
<ul>
<li><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><span class="">In 2017, the total amount of damage from natural disasters has reached $300bn. <span id="result_box" class="short_text" xml:lang="en" lang="en">This is the second most expensive year since 1970</span>. The damage from weather-related disasters has reached a record value in the whole history $287.35bn.</span></span></span><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><span class=""><br/></span></span></span></li>
</ul>
<p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><span class=""><span class="" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><span id="result_box" class="" xml:lang="en" lang="en">Unfortunately, the <strong>raw data</strong> of the Swiss Re are not available, we can only look at the insured damage. <span id="result_box" class="short_text" xml:lang="en" lang="en">This makes the situation even more difficult. Below I will show why we should still be concerned about this statistics despite its inaccuracy.</span><br/></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p><strong><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><span class=""><span class="" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><span class="" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><span class="short_text" xml:lang="en" lang="en">Earthquakes and hurricanes</span></span></span></span></span></span></strong></p>
<p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><span class=""><span class="" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><span id="result_box" class="" xml:lang="en" lang="en">If we look at the sigma statistics, we will see that the '<strong>main damage'</strong> is caused by earthquakes and Atlantic hurricanes</span> <a href="http://www.sigma-explorer.com/">http://www.sigma-explorer.com/</a><br/></span></span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><span class=""><span id="result_box" class="" xml:lang="en" lang="en">Here are recent earthquakes</span> (billions-dollar disaster):<br/></span></span></span></p>
<ul>
<li><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><span class="">2010 Chile<br/></span></span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><span class="">2011 Japan<br/></span></span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><span class="">2004 Sumatra</span></span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><span class="">1995 Kobe</span></span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><span class="">2008 Sichuan</span></span></span></li>
</ul>
<p><span class="short_text" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><span class=""><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span id="result_box" class="short_text" xml:lang="en" lang="en">Are earthquakes increasing? Yes<span><br/></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/74200934?profile=original" target="_self"><img src="https://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/74200934?profile=original" class="align-center"/></a><em><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><span class="">Image: <a href="https://poleshift.ning.com/profiles/blogs/unusual-earthquake-hit-delaware-it-was-the-strongest-earthquake" target="_blank" rel="noopener">poleshift.ning.com</a></span></span></span></em></p>
<p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><span class=""><span id="result_box" class="" xml:lang="en" lang="en">Here are recent Atlantic hurricnaes (billions-dollar disaster):</span></span></span></span></p>
<ul>
<li><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><span class="">2005 Katrina, Wilma</span></span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><span class="">2012 Sandy</span></span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><span class="">2017 Irma, Maria and Harvey</span></span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><span class="">2004 Atlantic hurricane season</span></span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><span class="">2008 Atlantic hurricane season</span></span></span></li>
</ul>
<p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><span class=""><span class="short_text" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><span id="result_box" class="short_text" xml:lang="en" lang="en">Are hurricanes increasing in North Atlantic? <span>Yes</span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><span class=""><a href="https://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/74201009?profile=original" target="_self"><img src="https://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/74201009?profile=original" class="align-full"/></a></span></span></span><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><span class=""><span id="result_box" class="" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><em>Image: <a href="https://poleshift.ning.com/profiles/blogs/number-of-major-tropical-cyclones-has-reached-record-level-in-5" target="_blank" rel="noopener">poleshift.ning.com</a></em><br/></span></span></span></span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><span class=""><span class="" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><a href="https://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/74201102?profile=original" target="_self"><img src="https://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/74201102?profile=original"/></a></span></span></span></span><em><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><span class=""><span class="" xml:lang="en" lang="en">Image: <a href="https://poleshift.ning.com/profiles/blogs/number-of-major-tropical-cyclones-has-reached-record-level-in-5" target="_blank" rel="noopener">poleshift.ning.com</a></span></span></span></span></em></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/54909112?profile=original" target="_self"><img src="https://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/54909112?profile=original" class="align-center"/></a><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><span class=""><span class="" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><em>Image:</em> <a href="https://poleshift.ning.com/profiles/blogs/number-of-major-tropical-cyclones-has-reached-record-level-in-5" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><em>poleshift.ning.com</em></a></span></span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><span class=""><span class="" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><span id="result_box" class="short_text" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><span id="result_box" class="" xml:lang="en" lang="en">Incredible damage this year was also caused by the following anomalies</span>:</span> <br/></span></span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><span class=""><span class="" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><span style="color: #333399;" xml:lang="en" lang="en">"10 September, 2017. <strong>Hurricanes Irma and Harvey Mark the First Time Two Atlantic Category 4 U.S. Landfalls Have Occurred in the Same Year</strong></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><span class=""><span class="" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><span style="color: #333399;" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><strong><a href="https://o.aolcdn.com/images/dims3/GLOB/crop/1885x1238+314+0/resize/1028x675!/format/jpg/quality/85/http%3A%2F%2Fo.aolcdn.com%2Fhss%2Fstorage%2Fmidas%2Fc3561d5ad2d97c4fd7c67e592bb4a353%2F205634619%2FRTX3EWOH.jpeg" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><img src="https://o.aolcdn.com/images/dims3/GLOB/crop/1885x1238+314+0/resize/1028x675!/format/jpg/quality/85/http%3A%2F%2Fo.aolcdn.com%2Fhss%2Fstorage%2Fmidas%2Fc3561d5ad2d97c4fd7c67e592bb4a353%2F205634619%2FRTX3EWOH.jpeg?width=700" class="align-full" width="700"/></a></strong></span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><span class=""><span class="" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><span style="color: #333399;" xml:lang="en" lang="en">Hurricane Irma barreling toward the eastern Caribbean, captured by satellite on Tuesday. NOAA. Image source: <a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/what-do-hurricane-categories-mean-irma-harvey-sandy-damage-saffir-simpson-2017-9" target="_blank" rel="noopener">businessinsider.com</a><br/></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><span class=""><span class="" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><span style="color: #333399;" xml:lang="en" lang="en">For the first time in 166 years of weather records, two Atlantic Category 4 hurricanes have made landfall in the United States during the same year."</span></span></span></span></span> <span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><span class=""><span id="result_box" class="" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><span id="result_box" class="short_text" xml:lang="en" lang="en">[4]</span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><span class=""><span id="result_box" class="" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><span id="result_box" class="short_text" xml:lang="en" lang="en">We also have anomaly of Ophelia</span> <a href="http://poleshift.ning.com/profiles/blog/show?id=3863141%3ABlogPost%3A814050&commentId=3863141%3AComment%3A1080923&xg_source=activity" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Wild Weather, the Wobble Effect - poleshift.ning - posted by Howard</a>;</span></span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><span class=""><span class="" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><a href="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/74201211?profile=original" target="_self"><img src="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/74201211?profile=original" class="align-full" width="700"/></a></span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><span class="">Stacked barchart. Data: Swiss Re - sigma [3] D3.js [5]<br/></span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><span class="">So we should keep this statistics in mind. But don't give it much importance in the long-term statistics.<br/></span></span></span></p>
<p><strong><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><span class=""><span class="" xml:lang="en" lang="en">Puerto Rico</span></span></span></span></strong></p>
<p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><span class=""><span id="result_box" class="" xml:lang="en" lang="en">Puerto Rico is an example of how disasters can exacerbate the problem.</span> Last year, the island’s economy contracted by closer to 1%. <span id="result_box" class="" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><span>After Maria, the Economic Intelligence Department predicts that the</span></span> economy will shrink by about 8% in 2018:<br/></span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><span class=""><span style="color: #333399;" xml:lang="en" lang="en">"23 November, 2017. <strong>Puerto Rico is set to become the world’s worst economy next year</strong></span></span></span></span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://media.elcalce.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/5/2017/11/24123721/DPJHI7mXUAAsGht.jpg" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><img src="http://media.elcalce.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/5/2017/11/24123721/DPJHI7mXUAAsGht.jpg" class="align-center"/></a><em><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><span class="">Image source: <a href="https://twitter.com/RobertAlanWard/status/932886354396110848/photo/1?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw&ref_url=http%3A%2F%2Felcalce.com%2Fpr%2Fcontexto%2Fpuerto-rico-tendra-la-peor-economia-del-mundo-en-2018%2F" target="_blank" rel="noopener">twitter.com/RobertAlanWard</a></span></span></span></em></p>
<p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><span class=""><span style="color: #333399;" xml:lang="en" lang="en">The true extent of Hurricane Maria’s damage to Puerto Rico is still being tallied. But here’s a good indication of how bad it will be—the island’s economy will shrink by about 8% in 2018, according to a November forecast by the Economist Intelligence Unit. That puts Puerto Rico at the top of the list of the slowest-growing economies in the world</span></span></span></span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://cdn.static-economist.com/sites/default/files/imagecache/640-width/20171021_USC032.png" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><img src="https://cdn.static-economist.com/sites/default/files/imagecache/640-width/20171021_USC032.png" class="align-center"/></a><em><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><span class=""><span style="color: #333399;" xml:lang="en" lang="en">A month later, 82% of Puerto Ricans still lack power. Image source: <a href="https://www.economist.com/news/united-states/21730432-even-hurricane-maria-hit-it-was-mess-story-puerto-ricos-power-grid" target="_blank" rel="noopener">economist.com</a></span></span></span></span></em></p>
<p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><span class=""><span style="color: #333399;" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><strong>Puerto Rico might have made it on that list even if hadn’t been hit by the Category 4 storm on Sept. 20, but it likely wouldn’t have been at the top. Last year, the island’s economy contracted by closer to 1%</strong>, according to government estimates.</span></span></span></span> <span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><span class=""><span style="color: #333399;" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><...></span></span></span></span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><span class=""><span style="color: #333399;" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><a href="http://www.themalaymailonline.com/uploads/articles/2017/2017-09/reuters_saint_martin_island_hurricane_irma_20170907.JPG" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><img src="http://www.themalaymailonline.com/uploads/articles/2017/2017-09/reuters_saint_martin_island_hurricane_irma_20170907.JPG" class="align-center"/></a></span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><span class=""><span style="color: #333399;" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><em>View of the aftermath of Hurricane Irma on Sint Maarten Dutch part of Saint Martin island in the Caribbean September 6, 2017. — Picture by Netherlands Ministry of Defence via Reuters. Image source: <a href="http://www.themalaymailonline.com/world/article/hurricane-irma-damage-has-left-dutch-st-martin-unreachable-says-pm-rutte-vi#ltgpMxXJWtDpDawZ.97" target="_blank" rel="noopener">themalaymailonline.com</a></em><br/></span></span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><span class=""><span style="color: #333399;" xml:lang="en" lang="en">Maria has made those problems worse. Thousands of businesses have been unable to open due to ongoing blackouts more than two months after the storm. The island lost around 29,000 jobs in October, according to preliminary official statistics. That number could quickly rise. Some 175,000 employed people reported they weren’t able to work that month due to hurricane-related complications. Another 100,000 have simply left the island.</span></span></span></span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><span class=""><span style="color: #333399;" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><a href="https://i.amz.mshcdn.com/67yaPcag5c9dpRj4hAjXvTWitu0=/fit-in/1200x9600/https%3A%2F%2Fblueprint-api-production.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fuploads%2Fcard%2Fimage%2F602431%2F552bef64-797c-49b4-be27-bf19019033e0.jpg" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><img src="https://i.amz.mshcdn.com/67yaPcag5c9dpRj4hAjXvTWitu0=/fit-in/1200x9600/https%3A%2F%2Fblueprint-api-production.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fuploads%2Fcard%2Fimage%2F602431%2F552bef64-797c-49b4-be27-bf19019033e0.jpg?width=700" class="align-full" width="700"/></a></span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><span class=""><span style="color: #333399;" xml:lang="en" lang="en">An aerial view shows the flooded neighbourhood of Juana Matos in the aftermath of Hurricane Maria in Catano, Puerto Rico, on Sept. 22, 2017. Image: RICARDO ARDUENGO/AFP/Getty Images. Image source: <a href="http://mashable.com/2017/09/26/shocking-photos-show-hurricane-maria-damage-puerto-rico/#A9qgETuJ9aqM" target="_blank" rel="noopener">mashable.com</a><br/></span></span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><span class=""><span style="color: #333399;" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><...> Puerto Rico is getting help from the federal government, but it won’t be enough to stave off a sharp decline in the island’s economy, according to EIU’s analysis (paywall)."</span></span></span></span> <span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><span class="">[2] - Quartz</span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong>References</strong>:</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">[1] Preliminary sigma estimates for 2017: global insured losses of USD 136 billion are third highest on sigma records. (2017, December 20). Retrieved December 24, 2017, from <a href="http://www.swissre.com/media/news_releases/nr20171220_sigma_estimates.html%C2%A0">http://www.swissre.com/media/news_releases/nr20171220_sigma_estimates.html </a>;</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">[2] Campoy, A. (2017, November 23). Puerto Rico is set to become the world's worst economy next year. Retrieved December 24, 2017, from <a href="https://qz.com/1137351/hurricane-marias-impact-on-puerto-ricos-economy-and-jobs/%C2%A0">https://qz.com/1137351/hurricane-marias-impact-on-puerto-ricos-economy-and-jobs/ </a>;</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">[3] <a href="http://www.sigma-explorer.com/">http://www.sigma-explorer.com/</a></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">[4] Hurricanes Irma and Harvey Mark the First Time Two Atlantic Category 4 U.S. Landfalls Have Occurred in the Same Year. (2017, September 10). Retrieved December 24, 2017, from <a href="https://weather.com/storms/hurricane/news/hurricane-irma-harvey-landfall-category-4-united-states-history%C2%A0">https://weather.com/storms/hurricane/news/hurricane-irma-harvey-landfall-category-4-united-states-history </a>;</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">[5] D3.js html: <a href="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/74201186?profile=original" target="_self">stackedbarchart.html </a></span><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">csv:</span> <span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/74201281?profile=original" target="_self">DATAA.csv</a> </span> <span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">(Based on this example: <a href="https://bl.ocks.org/mbostock/3886208">https://bl.ocks.org/mbostock/3886208</a>) (Released under the <a target="_blank" href="https://opensource.org/licenses/GPL-3.0" rel="noopener">GNU General Public License, version 3</a>.)</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">[6] D3.js html: <a href="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/74201479?profile=original" target="_self">multilinechart.html</a></span> <span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">csv: <a href="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/74201583?profile=original" target="_self">DATAAAAAAAA.csv</a> (Based on this example: <a href="https://bl.ocks.org/d3noob/ae9786c26d6a821eefeabe60dec350a9">https://bl.ocks.org/d3noob/ae9786c26d6a821eefeabe60dec350a9</a>)</span></p>Unusual earthquake hit Delaware. It was the strongest earthquake in Delaware in at least 146 years.tag:poleshift.ning.com,2017-12-03:3863141:BlogPost:10835842017-12-03T16:32:43.000ZStanislavhttps://poleshift.ning.com/profile/Stanislav
<p><a href="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/74200741?profile=original" target="_self"><img class="align-full" src="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/74200741?profile=original" width="700"></img></a> <span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Earthquake data: United States Geological Survey [6], <span id="result_box" lang="en" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;" xml:lang="en">Delaware Geological Survey</span> [7], Article [8] GIS data [14] D3.js code [16]…</span></p>
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<p><a href="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/74200741?profile=original" target="_self"><img src="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/74200741?profile=original" class="align-full" width="700"/></a><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Earthquake data: United States Geological Survey [6], <span id="result_box" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;" lang="en" xml:lang="en">Delaware Geological Survey</span> [7], Article [8] GIS data [14] D3.js code [16]</span></p>
<p><span id="result_box" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><span><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span id="result_box" lang="en" xml:lang="en"></span></span></span></span><span id="result_box" class="short_text" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;" lang="en" xml:lang="en">And again an abnormal earthquake struck the USA. This earthquake is very rare and officially the strongest in the history of the State of Delaware (Only an earthquake in 1871 had a magnitude of 4.1 but it was not documented instrumentally) <span id="result_box" class="short_text" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><span>Scientists have called this earthquake unusual:</span></span></span></p>
<p><span lang="en" xml:lang="en"><span><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">"<span style="color: #333399;">30 November, 2017. <strong>'This is wild,' USGS says of Dover 4.1 earthquake</strong></span></span></span></span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span lang="en" xml:lang="en"><span><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #333399;"><a href="https://media.nbcphiladelphia.com/images/620*349/Del+Earthquake+Nov+2017.jpg" target="_blank"><img src="https://media.nbcphiladelphia.com/images/620*349/Del+Earthquake+Nov+2017.jpg"/></a></span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Seismograph in Bucks County picks up earthquake. Photo credit: Holland Middle School. Image source: <a href="https://www.nbcphiladelphia.com/news/local/Earthquake-Detected-Tremor-Dover-Delaware-461108453.html" target="_blank">nbcphiladelphia.com</a></span></p>
<p><span lang="en" xml:lang="en"><span><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #333399;">A 4.1 magnitude earthquake struck Kent County late Thursday afternoon.</span><br/> <span style="color: #333399;">The quake struck about 7 miles northeast of Dover Air Force Base at 4:47 p.m., according to the U.S. Geological Survey. It was originally labeled magnitude 4.4 before the USGS lowered the scale of the temblor.</span><br/> <span style="color: #333399;"><...></span><br/> <span style="color: #333399;">A geophysicist, Cheng Shengzao, with the USGS, said the East Coast quake was surprising. “This is wild. It’s not often that this happens,” Shengzao said.</span>" [8] - <span lang="en" xml:lang="en"><span><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><em>Delawareonline</em></span></span></span></span><br/></span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="color: #000000;" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">And <em>foxnews</em>:</span></span></p>
<p><span style="color: #333399;" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">"Paul Caruso, a geophysicist with the USGS's earthquake information center in Colorado, said he didn't expect any significant damage from the small quake, which he described as unusual.<br/> "I was talking with the other seismologists and we said, 'Wow, we don't ever remember a quake in Delaware," he said." <span style="color: #000000;">[9] - <span style="color: #000000;" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><em>foxnews</em></span></span><br/></span></span></span></p>
<p><a href="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/74200861?profile=original" target="_self"><img src="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/74200861?profile=original" class="align-center" width="622"/></a><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Earthquake data: United States Geological Survey [6], <span id="result_box" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;" lang="en" xml:lang="en">Delaware Geological Survey</span> [7], <span class="short_text" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;" lang="en" xml:lang="en">D3.js [16]</span><br/></span></p>
<p><span id="result_box" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;" lang="en" xml:lang="en">It's worth mentioning that the (The Delaware Geological Survey catalog) 'catalog' means collected from various sources of information. It's obvious that an earthquake in 1871 with a magnitude of 4.1 could be much less and vice versa. <span id="result_box" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><span>In fact, many of these earthquakes were not recorded instrumentally (with seismograph and etc)</span></span>. <span id="result_box" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><span>So, officially, the current earthquake is considered the strongest recorded in the history of Delaware</span></span></span></p>
<p><a href="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/74200830?profile=original" target="_self"><img src="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/74200830?profile=original" class="align-center" width="622"/></a><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Earthquake data: United States Geological Survey [6], <span class="short_text" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;" lang="en" xml:lang="en">D3.js [16]</span><br/></span></p>
<p><span lang="en" xml:lang="en"><span><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Scientists can't understand what caused this rare earthquake:</span></span></span></p>
<p><span lang="en" xml:lang="en"><span><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">"<span style="color: #333399;">As for what exactly caused the earthquake, seismologists did not immediately know. Caruso said that will take some extra work on the part of regional geologists, or possibly the USGS, given that earthquakes in this part of the country are so rare.</span><br/> <span style="color: #333399;">All earthquakes occur on faults, but Caruso said he did not know the characteristics of the fault that caused Thursday’s quake or if it even had a name.</span><br/> <span style="color: #333399;">The bedrock beneath this part of the country is relatively stable, settling over hundreds of millions of years — compared to the relatively young age, 28 million years, of the infamous San Andreas fault in Southern California</span>" [2]<br/></span></span></span></p>
<hr noshade="noshade"/><p style="text-align: center;"><span class="font-size-7" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Did You Feel it?</span></span></p>
<p><a href="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/74201024?profile=original" target="_self"><img src="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/74201024?profile=original" class="align-center" width="557"/></a><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Felt data: USGS [13] GIS data [14]</span></p>
<p><span lang="en" xml:lang="en"><span><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">This earthquake was felt over wide area like in 2011. The quake was felt across the coastal Mid-Atlantic, including Washington, D.C., Baltimore, Philadelphia, and New York City. The quake was initially recorded as having a magnitude of 5.1. However, it was soon after downgraded to 4.4, then once again to 4.1. <span id="result_box" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><span>This caused suspicion and the media immediately began to find excuses:</span></span><br/></span></span></span></p>
<p><strong><span lang="en" xml:lang="en"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">"1 December, 2017. <span style="color: #333399;">Here's why early magnitude estimates for the Delaware earthquake were shaky</span></span></span></strong></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span lang="en" xml:lang="en"><span><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #333399;"><a href="https://earthquake.usgs.gov/contactus/golden/images/neic-media.jpg" target="_blank"><img src="https://earthquake.usgs.gov/contactus/golden/images/neic-media.jpg"/></a></span></span></span></span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Image source: <a href="https://earthquake.usgs.gov/contactus/golden/neic.php" target="_blank">National Earthquake Information Center (NEIC)</a></span></p>
<p><span lang="en" xml:lang="en"><span><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #333399;">When a fault beneath Delaware slipped and triggered an earthquake felt for hundreds of miles Thursday afternoon, a computer decided it was magnitude 5.1.</span><br/> <span style="color: #333399;">But that wasn't correct — the U.S. Geological Survey later determined it was magnitude 4.1, a level that is actually one-tenth as strong as originally thought.</span><br/> <span style="color: #333399;">Here's how geologists figured that out.</span><br/> <span style="color: #333399;"><...></span><br/> <span style="color: #333399;">When the ground started shimmying from Virginia to New York, a computer produced the initial magnitude estimate using the traditional Richter scale, created by seismologist Charles Richter in the 1930s. That scale assumes earthquakes emanate from a single point underground, said Paul Caruso, a geophysicist at the National Earthquake Information Center in Golden, Colo.</span><br/> <span style="color: #333399;"><...></span><br/> <span style="color: #333399;">“It’s much more complicated and it takes a while for us to get that magnitude calculated,” Caruso said.</span><br/> <span style="color: #333399;">That’s why the magnitude of Thursday’s earthquake was, at times, erroneously reported as 5.1 or 4.6 or 4.4. Because the magnitude scale is logarithmic, a 5 magnitude earthquake is actually 10 times stronger than a quake of magnitude 4.</span>" [2] Dance, S. (2017, December 01). <em>baltimoresun.com</em></span></span></span></p>
<p><span lang="en" xml:lang="en"><span><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span id="result_box" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><span>It's oddly strange that they set up the computer to use the Richter scale (ML) when all seismologists consider this scale not accurate! On the other hand, the computer is not able to determine what type of magnitude should be used. Yeah, yeah there are several types:<br/></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p><span lang="en" xml:lang="en"><span><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span lang="en" xml:lang="en"><span><a href="https://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eventpage/terms.php">https://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eventpage/terms.php</a></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p><span lang="en" xml:lang="en"><span><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span lang="en" xml:lang="en"><span><span id="result_box" class="short_text" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><span>And of course the accuracy of the data:</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="color: #333399;"><strong><span lang="en" xml:lang="en"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span lang="en" xml:lang="en">"Why do USGS earthquake magnitudes differ from those published by other agencies?</span></span></span></strong></span></p>
<p><span style="color: #333399;" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span lang="en" xml:lang="en">Magnitude estimates for a given earthquake can vary between reporting agencies due to differences in methodology, data availability, and inherent uncertainties in seismic data. Individual agencies use magnitude estimation procedures designed to meet the agency's specific needs and monitoring capabilities. <span style="text-decoration: underline;">Even for well recorded events, differences in magnitude of 0.2 or 0.3 units are common and representative of the inherent uncertainty of the magnitude estimation process.</span>" <span style="color: #000000;">[3]</span></span></span></span></p>
<p><span lang="en" xml:lang="en"><span><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span lang="en" xml:lang="en"><span><a href="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/74201202?profile=original" target="_self"><img src="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/74201202?profile=original" class="align-full" width="680"/></a></span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Earthquake data: USGS [5] GIS data [14]<br/></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">We can roughly estimate the magnitude, based on how far the earthquake felt. But it's not that simple for East Coast:<br/></span></p>
<p><span lang="en" xml:lang="en"><span><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.zetatalk.com/newsletr/image151.gif" target="_blank"><img src="http://www.zetatalk.com/newsletr/image151.gif" class="align-center"/></a></span></span></span><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">"<span style="color: #333399;">Earthquakes in the central or eastern United States affect much larger areas than earthquakes of similar magnitude in the western United States. For example, the San Francisco, California, earthquake of 1906 (magnitude 7.8) was felt 350 miles away in the middle of Nevada, whereas the New Madrid earthquake of December 1811 (magnitude 8.0) rang church bells in Boston, Massachusetts, 1,000 miles away. Differences in geology east and west of the Rocky Mountains cause this strong contrast. [And more recently] earthquakes of similar magnitude-the 1895 Charleston, Missouri, earthquake in the New Madrid seismic zone and the 1994 Northridge, California, earthquake, [showed similar effects].</span>" [4]</span></p>
<p><span lang="en" xml:lang="en"><a href="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/74201150?profile=original" target="_self"><img src="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/74201150?profile=original" class="align-center" width="475"/></a></span><span lang="en" xml:lang="en"><span><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span id="result_box" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><span>Nevertheless, the earthquake in Oklahoma (with magnitude 4.2 (<em>mwr</em>) vs 4.1 (<em>mwr</em>)) was felt much less than the earthquake in Delaware.</span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p><span lang="en" xml:lang="en"><span><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="https://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eventpage/us2000a3y4#dyfi">https://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eventpage/us2000a3y4#dyfi</a></span></span></span></p>
<p><span lang="en" xml:lang="en"><span><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">We can't prove the fact of manipulating the magnitude of an earthquake. <span id="result_box" class="short_text" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><span>Seismic data is available in the public domain. <a href="http://ds.iris.edu/ds/nodes/dmc/data/types/waveform-data/">http://ds.iris.edu/ds/nodes/dmc/data/types/waveform-data/</a></span></span> <br/></span></span></span></p>
<p><span lang="en" xml:lang="en"><span><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span id="result_box" class="short_text" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><span>Most likely they just use "<em>bad equipment</em>"</span></span>. (like with USHCN temperature stations<span id="result_box" class="short_text" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><span>)</span></span><br/></span></span></span></p>
<hr noshade="noshade"/><p><span lang="en" xml:lang="en"><span><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span id="result_box" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><span>Recently, scientists have found a strange anomaly in New England</span></span>:</span></span></span></p>
<p><strong><span lang="en" xml:lang="en"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">"30 November, 2017. <span style="color: #333399;">Mass of warm rock rising beneath New England, study suggests</span></span></span></strong></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #333399;"><span lang="en" xml:lang="en"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="https://3c1703fe8d.site.internapcdn.net/newman/csz/news/800/2017/massofwarmro.jpg" target="_blank"><span style="color: #333399;"><img src="https://3c1703fe8d.site.internapcdn.net/newman/csz/news/800/2017/massofwarmro.jpg?width=500" class="align-center" width="500"/></span></a></span></span><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Credit: Vadim Levin/Rutgers University-New Brunswick</span></span></p>
<p><span lang="en" xml:lang="en"><span><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #333399;">Slowly but steadily, an enormous mass of warm rock is rising beneath part of New England, although a major volcanic eruption isn't likely for millions of years, a Rutgers University-led study suggests. The research is groundbreaking in its scope and challenges textbook concepts of geology.</span><br/> <span style="color: #333399;"><...></span><br/> <span style="color: #333399;">"Our study challenges the established notion of how the continents on which we live behave," Levin said. "It challenges the textbook concepts taught in introductory geology classes."</span><br/> <span style="color: #333399;"><...></span><br/> <span style="color: #333399;">"The Atlantic margin of North America did not experience intense geologic activity for nearly 200 million years," Levin said. "It is now a so-called 'passive margin' - a region where slow loss of heat within the Earth and erosion by wind and water on the surface are the primary change agents. So we did not expect to find abrupt changes in physical properties beneath this region, and the likely explanation points to a much more dynamic regime underneath this old, geologically quiet area."</span>" [1] - <span lang="en" xml:lang="en"><span><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Todd B. Bates (2017, November 30). <em>phys.org</em></span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<hr noshade="noshade"/><p style="text-align: center;"><span class="font-size-6" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Mexico, Korea now Delaware. What's next?</span></p>
<p><a href="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/74200934?profile=original" target="_self"><img src="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/74200934?profile=original" class="align-center" width="640"/></a><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Earthquake data: United States Geological Survey [6], <span class="short_text" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;" lang="en" xml:lang="en">D3.js [16]</span><br/></span></p>
<p><span id="result_box" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><span><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span id="result_box" class="short_text" lang="en" xml:lang="en">Another abnormal earthquake this autumn</span>. <span id="result_box" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><span>First earthquake in Mexico, then in Korea now in Delaware</span></span>.</span></span></span></p>
<p><span lang="en" xml:lang="en"><span><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/54908651?profile=original" target="_self"><img src="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/54908651?profile=original" class="align-center"/></a></span></span></span><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Earthquake data: [10]; D3.js code [11] Full blog: <a href="http://poleshift.ning.com/profiles/blogs/earthquakes-worldwide?id=3863141%3ABlogPost%3A607295&page=3#comments" target="_blank">poleshift.ning.com</a></span></p>
<p><span id="result_box" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><span><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span id="result_box" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><span>As we know, we are now in the so-called "Age of great earthquakes".</span></span></span></span></span><span id="result_box" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><span><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span id="result_box" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><span><span id="result_box" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><span>There is no doubt that since 2004 (in 2003 Planet X arrived into the solar system), seismic activity has increased</span></span> in world. <span id="result_box" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><span>Here are a few scientific articles that discuss this issue</span></span>: <br/></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<ul>
<li><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Ammon, C. J., Lay, T., & Simpson, D. W. (2010). Great Earthquakes and Global Seismic Networks [Abstract]. <i>Seismological Research Letters,</i> <i>81</i>(6), 965-971. doi:10.1785/gssrl.81.6.965</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Lay, T. (2015). The surge of great earthquakes from 2004 to 2014 [Abstract]. <i>Earth and Planetary Science Letters,</i> <i>409</i>, 133-146. doi:10.1016/j.epsl.2014.10.047</span></li>
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<p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">and etc</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span id="result_box" class="short_text" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><span><span id="result_box" class="short_text" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><span>All this raises questions</span></span>: should we expect great (M>8.5) earthquake this year?</span></span></span></p>
<hr noshade="noshade"/><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;" class="font-size-6">Oklahoma earthquakes linked to global seismicity?</span></p>
<p><a href="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/74201361?profile=original" target="_self"><img src="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/74201361?profile=original" class="align-center" width="673"/></a><span class="short_text" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;" lang="en" xml:lang="en">Earthquake data: OGS [12], GIS data [14], <span class="short_text" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;" lang="en" xml:lang="en">D3.js [17]</span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: #333399;">Fracking has been a process used extensively for decades, since 1903 within the US alone. If fracking caused earthquakes, has this just been noticed? This is clearly an excuse for the increase in earthquakes, one of many the establishment will latch onto as earthquake frequency increases and earthquakes occur in unusual places.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.zetatalk.com/ning/17de2011.htm" target="_blank">ZetaTalk Chat Q&A for December 17, 2011</a></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">"27 June, 2014. <span style="color: #333399;"><strong>Geologist: History shows Oklahoma earthquakes not new phenomenon</strong></span></span></p>
<p><span style="color: #333399; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><...></span><br/> <span style="color: #333399; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Brown, who is vice president of geology at Continental Resources Inc., said he discovered evidence that Oklahoma’s rising number of earthquakes isn’t as unprecedented as most people believe.</span><br/> <span style="color: #333399; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Brown found a similar earthquake outbreak in the 1950s, when Oklahoma did not have equipment to properly measure seismic activity.</span><br/> <span style="color: #333399; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">He also said those quakes may have been related to activity around the world, noting a similar spike in massive earthquakes worldwide since 2002.</span><br/> <span style="color: #333399; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><...></span><br/> <span style="color: #333399; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Brown said the increasing number of earthquakes rattling Oklahoma coincides with higher activity worldwide, as it has in the past. He also noted much of Oklahoma’s earthquake activity has been in different areas than where companies have drilled for oil and natural gas.</span><br/> <span style="color: #333399; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><...></span><br/> <span style="color: #333399; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Brown said Oklahoma didn’t get its first seismograph until 1961. Before then, the closest one was near St. Louis, so only the quakes that were large enough cause some damage were recorded.</span><br/> <span style="color: #333399; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">He found newspaper reports from 1952 comparing an earthquake near El Reno to a bomb blast.</span><br/> <span style="color: #333399; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">The range of people who felt that that 5.5 earthquake is roughly the same as the Nov. 7, 2011, quake centered on Prague, Brown said. That 5.7 temblor remains the largest in state history.</span><br/> <span style="color: #333399; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Brown said there have been similar earthquakes recently in Virginia and South Carolina, where there is no oil and gas exploration, while seismic activity seems to be increasing in Mexico, as well.</span><br/> <span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #333399;">He said the Naica region in central Mexico has experienced more earthquakes than Oklahoma, with no more explanation.</span>" - [15] newsok.com<br/></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/74201546?profile=original" target="_self"><img src="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/74201546?profile=original" class="align-full" width="700"/></a></span><span id="result_box" class="short_text" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;" lang="en" xml:lang="en"></span></p>
<p><span class="short_text" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;" lang="en" xml:lang="en">Earthquake data: OGS [12], USGS [6] D3.js [16], [17]</span></p>
<p><span id="result_box" class="short_text" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;" lang="en" xml:lang="en">What does it mean? <span id="result_box" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><span>If the (this) theory is correct then the earthquakes in Oklahoma (in the Southeastern&Central United States) are NOT CAUSED by humans but are related to global seismic activity.</span></span></span></p>
<p><span id="result_box" class="short_text" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><span id="result_box" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><span>In 2003, Planet X arrived in the inner solar system. <span id="result_box" class="short_text" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><span>And in 2004 we have an earthquake on Sumatra.</span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span lang="en" xml:lang="en"><span><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="font-size-5">References</span></span></span></span></p>
<p><span lang="en" xml:lang="en"><span><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">[1] Todd B. Bates (2017, November 30). Mass of warm rock rising beneath New England, study suggests. Retrieved December 02, 2017, from <a href="https://phys.org/news/2017-11-mass-beneath-england.html">https://phys.org/news/2017-11-mass-beneath-england.html</a></span></span></span></p>
<p><span lang="en" xml:lang="en"><span><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span lang="en" xml:lang="en"><span><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">[2] Dance, S. (2017, December 01). Here's why early magnitude estimates for the Delaware earthquake were shaky. Retrieved December 02, 2017, from <a href="http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/weather/weather-blog/bs-md-earthquake-folo-20171201-story.html">http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/weather/weather-blog/bs-md-earthquake-folo-20171201-story.html</a></span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p><span lang="en" xml:lang="en"><span><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span lang="en" xml:lang="en"><span><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">[3] <span lang="en" xml:lang="en"><span><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span lang="en" xml:lang="en"><span><a href="https://www.usgs.gov/faqs/why-do-usgs-earthquake-magnitudes-differ-those-published-other-agencies?qt-news_science_products=7#qt-news_science_products">https://www.usgs.gov/faqs/why-do-usgs-earthquake-magnitudes-differ-those-published-other-agencies?qt-news_science_products=7#qt-news_science_products</a></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p><span lang="en" xml:lang="en"><span><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span lang="en" xml:lang="en"><span><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span lang="en" xml:lang="en"><span><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span lang="en" xml:lang="en"><span>[4] <a href="http://web.ics.purdue.edu/~braile/edumod/eqhazard/eqhazard2.htm">http://web.ics.purdue.edu/~braile/edumod/eqhazard/eqhazard2.htm</a> or <a href="http://quake.wr.usgs.gov/prepare/factsheets/NewMadrid/"><font color="#0000A0">http://quake.wr.usgs.gov/prepare/factsheets/NewMadrid/</font></a></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">[5] <a href="https://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eventpage/usp000dvxx#dyfi" target="_blank">Montana</a>; <a href="https://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eventpage/nc30228270#dyfi" target="_blank">California</a>; <a href="https://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eventpage/us1000bjkn#executive" target="_blank">Delaware</a>; <a href="https://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eventpage/us2000a3y4#dyfi" target="_blank">Oklahoma</a></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">[6] <a href="https://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/search/">https://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/search/</a></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">[7] <a href="http://www.dgs.udel.edu/publications/ofr42-catalog-earthquakes-delaware">http://www.dgs.udel.edu/publications/ofr42-catalog-earthquakes-delaware</a></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">[8] Goss, S. (2017, December 01). 'This is wild,' USGS says of Dover 4.1 earthquake. Retrieved December 02, 2017, from <a href="http://www.delawareonline.com/story/news/local/2017/11/30/earthquake-strikes-kent-county-thursday/911208001/">http://www.delawareonline.com/story/news/local/2017/11/30/earthquake-strikes-kent-county-thursday/911208001/</a></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">[9] Rare quake shudders through Northeast; centered in Delaware. (n.d.). Retrieved December 02, 2017, from <a href="http://www.foxnews.com/us/2017/11/30/rare-quake-shudders-through-northeast-centered-in-delaware.html">http://www.foxnews.com/us/2017/11/30/rare-quake-shudders-through-northeast-centered-in-delaware.html</a></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">[10] <span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Servicio Sismologico Nacional | UNAM, Mexico. Sismo del dia 07 de Septiembre de 2017, Chiapas (M 8.2). Retrieved from <a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.ssn.unam.mx/sismicidad/reportes-especiales/2017/SSNMX_rep_esp_20170907_Chiapas_M84.pdf">http://www.ssn.unam.mx/sismicidad/reportes-especiales/2017/SSNMX_re...</a></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">[11] <span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Text files: <a href="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/54908875?profile=original" target="_self">Scatterplot.html</a>; <a href="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/54908798?profile=original" target="_self">data.csv</a> Based on example: <a rel="nofollow" href="https://bl.ocks.org/mbostock/3887118" target="_self">https://bl.ocks.org/mbostock/3887118</a>;(Released under the GNU General Public License, version 3.) <br/></span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">[12] <a href="http://www.ou.edu/content/ogs/research/earthquakes/catalogs.html">http://www.ou.edu/content/ogs/research/earthquakes/catalogs.html</a></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">[13] <a href="https://earthquake.usgs.gov/data/dyfi/">https://earthquake.usgs.gov/data/dyfi/</a></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">[14] <a href="http://www.naturalearthdata.com/">http://www.naturalearthdata.com/</a></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">[15] Writer, J. F. (2014, June 27). Geologist: History shows Oklahoma earthquakes not new phenomenon. Retrieved December 03, 2017, from <a href="http://newsok.com/article/4983503">http://newsok.com/article/4983503</a></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">[16] D3.js linechart: <a href="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/74201625?profile=original" target="_self">linechart.html</a>; <a href="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/74201737?profile=original" target="_self">data.csv</a> (Based on this example: <a href="http://bl.ocks.org/d3noob/4414436">http://bl.ocks.org/d3noob/4414436</a>)</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">[17] D3.js barchart: <a href="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/74201833?profile=original" target="_self">barchart.html</a>; <a href="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/74201858?profile=original" target="_self">Oklahomaquakes.csv</a> (Based on this example: <a href="http://bl.ocks.org/d3noob/8952219">http://bl.ocks.org/d3noob/8952219</a>)</span></p>South Korea no longer safe from earthquakes - KMA. Second-strongest earthquake devastate South Koreatag:poleshift.ning.com,2017-11-18:3863141:BlogPost:10828492017-11-18T13:58:29.000ZStanislavhttps://poleshift.ning.com/profile/Stanislav
<p><a href="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/74200730?profile=original" target="_self"><img class="align-full" src="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/74200730?profile=original" width="700"></img></a></p>
<p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Articles references: [3], [5], [6]; <span>D3.js [7]; <span>Earthquakes data [4];</span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Again, record-breaking earthquake hits South Korea. The recent earthquake in Iran doesn't mean anything compared to Korea quake, as it was…</span></p>
<p><a href="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/74200730?profile=original" target="_self"><img src="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/74200730?profile=original" width="700" class="align-full"/></a></p>
<p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Articles references: [3], [5], [6]; <span>D3.js [7]; <span>Earthquakes data [4];</span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Again, record-breaking earthquake hits South Korea. The recent earthquake in Iran doesn't mean anything compared to Korea quake, as it was second-strongest earthquake in history of South Korea, after</span> <strong style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">2016 Gyeongju earthquake</strong><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">. This anomaly is comparable only to earthquakes in Oklahoma or</span> <strong style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">2017 Botswana earthquake</strong><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">. <span>South Korea is traditionally a country with low seismic activity. <span>And again, the Korea Meteorological Administration said, Korea is no longer seismic safe</span></span></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">ZetaTalk Prediction:</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #333399;">Earthquakes will, as we have predicted from the start of ZetaTalk, get more violent and frequent and occur in places not expecting them. Outside of the warnings that man has learned to utilize, such as screech on the radio or pets running away from home or the physical signs that those who are earthquake sensitives get, there will be no warning. This also applies to those major plate movements which we have described, and which were included in the holographic presentation given to Nancy last November, 2009. All these regions will have increasingly violent and frequent quakes, and then one day <em>blam</em> the plate movement we have described will occur. There may be precursor movements, slight, warning that the plate is getting ready to move. But other than that, no warning</span>. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.zetatalk.com/ning/19ju2010.htm" target="_blank">ZetaTalk Chat Q&A for June 19, 2010</a></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;" class="font-size-6">South Korea earthquakes per year</span></p>
<p><a href="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/74200837?profile=original" target="_self"><img src="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/74200837?profile=original" width="657" class="align-center"/></a></p>
<p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">[4] Earthquakes data; <span>D3.js [7]</span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Linear trends since 1978 can be explained by increasing the number of seismic stations and improving the methods of recording earthquakes, while the "explosion" in 2016 and again in 2017 is difficult to explain.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;" class="font-size-6">South Korea M>5 earthquakes</span></p>
<p><a href="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/74200944?profile=original" target="_self"><img src="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/74200944?profile=original" width="629" class="align-center"/></a></p>
<p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">[4] Earthquakes data; <span>D3.js [8]</span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Earthquakes above 5 magnitude are relatively rare in South Korea, but recently they have become more frequent.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;" class="font-size-6">Biggest South Korea earthquakes</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/74201067?profile=original" target="_self"><img src="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/74201067?profile=original" width="415" class="align-center"/></a></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">[4] Earthquakes data</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">It was second-strongest earthquake in history of South Korea, after 2016 Gyeongju earthquake. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">"<span style="color: #333399;">15 November, 2017</span>. <strong><span style="color: #333399;">Another South Korea earthquake more cause for alarm about seismic activity</span></strong></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: #333399;"><a href="http://a.abcnews.com/images/International/south-korean-earthquake4-gty-mem-171115_4x3_992.jpg" target="_blank"><img src="http://a.abcnews.com/images/International/south-korean-earthquake4-gty-mem-171115_4x3_992.jpg?width=600" width="600" class="align-center"/></a></span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><em><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: #333399;">AFP/Getty Images. A car damaged by falling bricks after a 5.4-magnitude earthquake is seen in the southeastern port city of Pohang, Nov. 15, 2017.</span></em></p>
<p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: #333399;">A magnitude-5.4 earthquake shook southeastern South Korea today, marking the largest in the nation since last year’s trembler in nearby Gyeongju.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: #333399;">The Korea Meteorological Administration stressed that South Korea is no longer free from earthquake threats. Seismic activity has reached a new phase since last year’s Gyeongju earthquake.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #333399;">A total of 139 quakes of magnitude-2 and above have been detected this year alone, which is more than twice the historical average. South Korea had been known to have little seismic activity compared to neighboring Japan</span>." [3] - <span>abcnews.go</span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">The Korean Meteorological Administration actually confirmed that this is a natural earthquake:</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">"“<span style="color: #333399;">The earthquake is the second-strongest natural earthquake to take place in the Korean peninsula since last year’s quake in Gyeongju,” the meteorological administration said.</span>" [3] - <span>abcnews.go</span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Somewhere we already heard it .. Oh yeah, more recently in 2016. Here are the quotes from the articles <em>koreatimes.co.kr</em> and<em> koreaherald.com:</em></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">"<span style="color: #333399;">12 September, 2016. </span><strong><span style="color: #333399;">Strongest-ever earthquake hits Korea, tremors felt nationwide</span></strong></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #333399;"><a href="http://img.koreatimes.co.kr/upload/newsV2/images/Y2016091204634_650.jpg" target="_blank"><img src="http://img.koreatimes.co.kr/upload/newsV2/images/Y2016091204634_650.jpg" class="align-center"/></a></span></span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><em><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #333399;">A Korea Meteorological Administration official explains the epicenter of the record magnitude-5.8 earthquake at the agency's office, Monday night. / Yonhap</span></span></em></p>
<p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #333399;">A 5.8-magnitutde earthquake, the most powerful seismic activity here since 1978 when the nation started measuring tremors, struck the historic city of Gyeongju, North Gyeongsang Province, at 8:32 p.m. , the Korea Meteorological Administration (KMA) said Monday.</span>" [1] - <span>koreatimes.co.kr</span></span></p>
<hr noshade="noshade"/><p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: #333399;">"6 July, 2016.</span> <strong><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: #333399;">Korea no longer safe from earthquakes: experts</span></strong></p>
<p><strong><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: #333399;"><a href="http://res.heraldm.com/content/image/2016/07/06/20160706001051_0.jpg" target="_blank"><img src="http://res.heraldm.com/content/image/2016/07/06/20160706001051_0.jpg" class="align-center"/></a></span></strong></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><em><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: #333399;">An official from the Korea Meteorological Agency points to the screen while observing data on a magnitude 5.0 earthquake detected near waters off the southeastern Ulsan city on Tuesday evening. Yonhap</span></em></p>
<p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: #333399;">Following a magnitude-5.0 earthquake detected near waters off the southeastern city of Ulsan on Tuesday evening, experts voiced concerns that the Korean Peninsula is no longer safe from strong shock waves, calling for prompt disaster preventive measures.</span><br/> <span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: #333399;"><...></span><br/> <span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: #333399;">The Korean Peninsula has long been considered safe from earthquakes, located away from the Pacific seismic belt “Ring of Fire.”</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: #333399;">According to the Korea Meteorological Agency, however, small and mid-sized earthquakes have continued to occur over the past three decades. A total of 1,212 earthquakes have been detected since 1978, and six of them have been earthquakes with a magnitude exceeding 5.0.</span><br/> <span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: #333399;"><...></span><br/> <span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: #333399;">“We have been recently detecting frequent occurrences of small-scale earthquakes, although the peninsula is located at the fault zone, which normally leads to brittle shock waves,” said an official from KMA." <span style="color: #000000;">[2] - koreaherald.com</span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">References:</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">[1] Park Si-soo, Chung Hyun-chae, Kim Rahn <span> (2016, September 12). Strongest-ever earthquake hits Korea, tremors felt nationwide. Retrieved November 18, 2017, from <a href="http://www.koreatimes.co.kr/www/news/nation/2016/09/116_214014.html">http://www.koreatimes.co.kr/www/news/nation/2016/09/116_214014.html</a></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span>[2] <span>H. (2016, July 06). Korea no longer safe from earthquakes: experts. Retrieved November 18, 2017, from <a href="http://www.koreaherald.com/view.php?ud=20160706000745">http://www.koreaherald.com/view.php?ud=20160706000745</a></span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span><span>[3] <span>Lee, H. K. (n.d.). Another South Korea earthquake more cause for alarm about seismic activity. Retrieved November 18, 2017, from <a href="http://abcnews.go.com/International/south-korea-earthquake-alarm-seismic-activity/story?id=51163387">http://abcnews.go.com/International/south-korea-earthquake-alarm-seismic-activity/story?id=51163387</a></span></span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span><span><span>[4] <a href="http://www.kma.go.kr/weather/earthquake_volcano/domesticlist.jsp">http://www.kma.go.kr/weather/earthquake_volcano/domesticlist.jsp</a></span></span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span><span><span>[5] <span>South Korea earthquake leaves 1,500 homeless, dozens injured. (2017, November 16). Retrieved November 18, 2017, from <a href="https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/world/2017/11/16/south-korea-earthquake/869428001/">https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/world/2017/11/16/south-korea-earthquake/869428001/</a></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span><span><span>[6] <span>Persio, S. L. (2017, November 15). South Korea was hit by its second most powerful earthquake to date. Retrieved November 18, 2017, from <a href="http://www.newsweek.com/rare-powerful-earthquake-strikes-south-korean-region-home-nuclear-power-plants-711904">http://www.newsweek.com/rare-powerful-earthquake-strikes-south-korean-region-home-nuclear-power-plants-711904</a></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span><span><span>[7] D3.js barchart: <a href="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/74200998?profile=original" target="_self">barchart.html</a>; <a href="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/74201160?profile=original" target="_self">data.csv</a> (Based on this example: <a href="http://bl.ocks.org/d3noob/8952219">http://bl.ocks.org/d3noob/8952219</a>)</span></span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span><span><span>[8] D3.js scatterplot: <a href="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/74201232?profile=original" target="_self">linechart.html</a>; <a href="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/74201278?profile=original" target="_self">data5.csv</a> (Based on this example: <a href="http://bl.ocks.org/d3noob/a22c42db65eb00d4e369">http://bl.ocks.org/d3noob/a22c42db65eb00d4e369</a>)</span></span></span></span></p>Number of major tropical cyclones has reached record level in 2015. Tropical cyclones getting strongertag:poleshift.ning.com,2017-10-04:3863141:BlogPost:10811272017-10-04T07:27:14.000ZStanislavhttps://poleshift.ning.com/profile/Stanislav
<p><a href="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/74200787?profile=original" target="_self"><img class="align-full" src="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/74200787?profile=original" width="700"></img></a></p>
<p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span>Hurricane data [7]; D3.js code [21], [12]</span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">The best way to counter arguments is <em>not </em>to point to the past but to start recording the present. All the trends and signs will only acerbate, with the oceans warmer still, the…</span></p>
<p><a href="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/74200787?profile=original" target="_self"><img src="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/74200787?profile=original" width="700" class="align-full"/></a></p>
<p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span>Hurricane data [7]; D3.js code [21], [12]</span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">The best way to counter arguments is <em>not </em>to point to the past but to start recording the present. All the trends and signs will only acerbate, with the oceans warmer still, the weather more erratic and unpredictable still, and the Earth gradually slowing in her rotation more and more measurably. If one gathers these statistics now, and gathers them yearly, the trends will become a clear pattern. Thus, the arguments will be with people now living, and with statistics gathered by the same methods. As the trends and signs will increase more rapidly, exponentially, as the 12th Planet enters the Solar System, this comparison can be used as a signal to many who plan to move to safety that the time has arrived. Where weather and warmer oceans will be arguable up to the end, a <a href="http://www.zetatalk.com/theword/tword14d.htm">Slowing Rotation</a> is <em>not</em> arguable.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span><a href="http://www.zetatalk.com/poleshft/p24.htm" target="_blank">ZetaTalk: Heralding</a> </span></span><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Note: written prior to July 15, 1995</span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span class="font-size-6" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: #800080;">NHC+JTWC data (1-minute sustained winds)</span></p>
<p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/74201063?profile=original" target="_self"><img src="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/74201063?profile=original" width="700" class="align-full"/></a></span></p>
<p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span>Tropical cyclones data </span><span>[7]</span></span></p>
<p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Some data on observations of tropical cyclones have been available since 1842. While technologies and techniques for doing this have improved over time. The first satellite that has observed tropical cyclones was launched in 1960. But the Dvorak <span>technique</span> appeared only in the early 70's. </span></p>
<p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Chris Landsea (NHC):</span></p>
<p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: #333399;">"The Dvorak technique is a methodology to get estimates of tropical cyclone intensity from satellite pictures. Vern Dvorak developed the scheme using a pattern recognition decision tree in the early 1970s " </span><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">[14]</span></p>
<p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Here are some comments from Dr. Gray on the quality of data in the Southern Hemisphere between 1975-1989 in Dr. Jeff Masters blog:</span></p>
<p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">"<span style="color: #333399;">Dr. Gray criticizes the quality of the data in the Indian Ocean and Southern Hemisphere ocean basins during the period 1975-1989, remarking: "In the late 1970s I visited all the global tropical cyclone centers and observed their satellite capabilities and the training of their forecasters as part of a World Meteorological Organization (WMO) tropical cyclone trip that I was commissioned to make. The satellite tools and forecaster training in the tropical cyclone regions of the Indian Ocean and Southern Hemisphere during the 1975-1989 period was not adequate for the task of objectively distinguishing Category 4-5 hurricanes from Category 3 hurricanes or to always be able to confidently distinguish Category 4-5 hurricanes from Category 1-2 hurricanes."</span> " [15]</span></p>
<p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">So there is significant uncertainty in the data for many reasons (even in 70s and 80s)<br/></span></p>
<p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Colorado State University, Time period of highest quality data by basin:</span></p>
<ul>
<li><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">North Atlantic – 1966-present (Geostationary satellite data available)</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Northeast Pacific – 1988-present (National Hurricane Center took over observational responsibilities)</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Northwest Pacific – 1985-present (Joint Typhoon Warning Center deems these best tracks to be of highest quality)</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">North Indian – 1985-present (Joint Typhoon Warning Center deems these best tracks to be of highest quality)</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">South Indian – 1985-present (Joint Typhoon Warning Center deems these best tracks to be of highest quality)</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">South Pacific – 1985-present (Joint Typhoon Warning Center deems these best tracks to be of highest quality)</span></li>
</ul>
<p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">[16]</span></p>
<p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Thus, we have acceptable data only since 1988 (for Global TC activity)</span></p>
<p style="text-align: left;"><a href="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/74201041?profile=original" target="_self"><img src="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/74201041?profile=original" width="700" class="align-full"/></a></p>
<p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span><span>Tropical cyclones data </span><span>[7]; D3.js code [12]</span></span></span></p>
<p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span><span><a href="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/74201162?profile=original" target="_self"><img src="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/74201162?profile=original" width="700" class="align-full"/></a></span></span></span></p>
<p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span><span>Tropical cyclones data </span><span>[7]; D3.js code [12]</span></span></span></p>
<p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span>It should be noted, the number of major tropical cyclones per year has been stable until 2015.</span></span></p>
<p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/74201248?profile=original" target="_self"><img src="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/74201248?profile=original" width="683" class="align-full"/></a></span></p>
<p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span>Tropical cyclones data </span><span>[7]; </span>D3.js code [21]</span></p>
<p style="text-align: left;"><a href="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/74201322?profile=original" target="_self"><img src="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/74201322?profile=original" width="700" class="align-full"/></a></p>
<p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span>Tropical cyclones data </span><span>[7]; D3.js code [12]</span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span><span>Important note: </span><span>Note that the 2015 and 2016 best tracks from Central Pacific Hurricane Center (CPHC) are not yet available and are not currently included. [24] </span><span>So we need to add one hurricane 4 category in 2015.</span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span><span>In fact, hurricanes become stronger, while total numbers remained constant.</span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span><span>Climate Central article:</span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span><span>"<span style="color: #333399;">Emanuel's study casts doubt on what had been the consensus view of most climate scientists — that in most ocean basins, tropical cyclones are likely to become less frequent as the world warms, but that the storms that do occur are likely to contain stronger winds and heavier rains. That view was expressed most recently in a 2012 report from the U.N. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.</span>" [33]</span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span><span><a href="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/74201431?profile=original" target="_self"><img src="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/74201431?profile=original" width="589" class="align-center"/></a></span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span><span>Tropical cyclones data </span><span>[7]; D3.js code [8]</span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span>2015 was an incredibly abnormal season for the Northern Hemisphere. Some records for 2015 Northern Hemisphere TC season from (Klotzbach, P. J. and C. T. Fogarty, 2016):</span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span>"<span style="color: #333399;">The Northern Hemisphere shattered several records for intense TCs. A total of 31 major (Category 3-5) TCs occurred in 2015, breaking the old record of 23 major hurricanes set in 2004. The previous record of 18 Category 4-5 TCs, set in 1997 and tied in 2004, was also eclipsed in 2015, with 26 Category 4-5 TCs occurring. In addition, 62% of all hurricane-strength TCs that formed in 2015 reached Category 4-5 intensity, breaking the old record of 50% that happened four different times (1994, 1997, 2002, and 2011)</span>." [20]</span></span></p>
<p><a href="https://eoimages.gsfc.nasa.gov/images/imagerecords/86000/86512/threestormsnight_vir_2015242.jpg" target="_blank"><img src="https://eoimages.gsfc.nasa.gov/images/imagerecords/86000/86512/threestormsnight_vir_2015242.jpg" class="align-full"/></a></p>
<p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Source of image: </span><a href="https://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/IOTD/view.php?id=86512" target="_blank" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">earthobservatory.nasa.gov</a></p>
<p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">For the first time in recorded history, three Category 4 hurricanes have appeared in the Pacific Ocean at the same time:</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #333399;">"In the age of modern hurricane tracking, which is the last 30 to 40 years … , this is the first time we have seen three category fours alive and well and threatening in the Central and Eastern Pacific," <span style="color: #000000;">William Patzert, a climatologist at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory</span></span> [9]</span></p>
<p><a href="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/74201505?profile=original" target="_self"><img src="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/74201505?profile=original" width="649" class="align-center"/></a></p>
<p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Tropical cyclones data [13] <span>D3.js code [35]</span></span></p>
<p><a href="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/74201520?profile=original" target="_self"><img src="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/74201520?profile=original" width="675" class="align-full"/></a><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Accumulated cyclone energy (ACE) data [13] <span>D3.js code [35]</span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span><a href="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/74201602?profile=original" target="_self"><img src="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/74201602?profile=original" width="680" class="align-center"/></a><a href="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/74202351?profile=original" target="_self"></a></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span><span>Tropical cyclones data </span><span>[7]; D3.js code [32]</span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span>We see that the strength of hurricanes has increased. </span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span><a href="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/74201623?profile=original" target="_self"><img src="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/74201623?profile=original" width="573" class="align-center"/></a></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Tropical cyclones data [7]; D3.js code [22]</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span><a href="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/74201644?profile=original" target="_self"><img src="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/74201644?profile=original" width="569" class="align-center"/></a></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Tropical cyclones data [7]; D3.js code [22]</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">The total number of tropical cyclones has been stable since 1970.</span></p>
<p style="text-align: left;"><a href="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/74201766?profile=original" target="_self"><img src="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/74201766?profile=original" width="530" class="align-center"/></a></p>
<p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span>Tropical cyclones data </span><span>[7]; D3.js code [18]</span></span></p>
<p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">However, it is now recognized (Black 1992) that the maximum sustained winds estimated for typhoons during the 1940s to 1960s were too strong [17]. Thus...</span></p>
<p style="text-align: left;"><a href="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/74201780?profile=original" target="_self"><img src="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/74201780?profile=original" width="525" class="align-center"/></a></p>
<p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Tropical cyclones data [7]; D3.js code [18]</span></p>
<p style="text-align: left;"></p>
<p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">The strength of hurricanes continues to grow. Many hurricanes have become record high in the sustained winds. </span><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">We see that already three hurricanes, that occurred in recent years, are in the top. </span><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">2015 Patricia in Eastern Pacific, 2016 Fantala in South Indian ocean, 2007 Cyclone Gonu for North Indian ocean, 2016 Winston (with 2003 Zoe and 2006 Monica) in South Pacific, 2013 Hayian and 2016 Meranti in Western Pacific.</span></p>
<p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/74201867?profile=original" target="_self"><img src="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/74201867?profile=original" width="700" class="align-full"/></a></span></p>
<p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Tropical cyclones data [7]; <span>D3.js code [22]</span></span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: #800080;" class="font-size-6">IBTrACS-WMO data (10-minute sustained winds)</span></p>
<p><a href="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/74201905?profile=original" target="_self"><img src="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/74201905?profile=original" width="620" class="align-center"/></a></p>
<p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span>Tropical cyclones data</span> [7]; D3.js code [1]</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">There is no doubt that the numbers of 5 Category hurricanes have increased in world (in terms of 10-minte sustained winds). Atlantic shows the most significant growth. 2005 Atlantic hurricane season was the most active Atlantic hurricane season in recorded history. [2] While in the South Pacific in 2016, the first hurricane of the category 5 was observed (cyclone Winston). For the eastern Pacific Ocean the situation is more complicated. <span>North Indian Ocean data only goes back to 1990 at this time (for IBTrACS-WMO).</span></span></p>
<p><a href="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/74201963?profile=original" target="_self"><img src="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/74201963?profile=original" width="680" class="align-full"/></a></p>
<p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span><span>Tropical cyclones data</span> [7]; D3.js code [8]</span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span><a href="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/74201927?profile=original" target="_self"><img src="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/74201927?profile=original" width="700" class="align-full"/></a></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span><span>Tropical cyclones data </span>[7]; D3.js code [12]</span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span><a href="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/74201942?profile=original" target="_self"><img src="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/74201942?profile=original" width="700" class="align-full"/></a></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span>Tropical cyclones data </span><span>[7]; D3.js code [12]</span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">At first sight, it looks like that the increase in numbers of tropical cyclones (hurricanes, typhoons and cyclones) explained by global satellite coverage in the period from 1981 to the present. In other words, in the past we could miss or underestimate some kind of hurricane, etc. While it seems that since 1981 the number of hurricanes per year has remained stable. But...</span></p>
<p><a href="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/74201993?profile=original" target="_self"><img src="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/74201993?profile=original" width="700" class="align-full"/></a></p>
<p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span>Tropical cyclones data</span> [7]; D3.js code [12]</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">In 2015, the number of major hurricanes has reached a record value. </span></p>
<p><a href="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/74202021?profile=original" target="_self"><img src="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/74202021?profile=original" width="700" class="align-center"/></a></p>
<p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span><span>Tropical cyclones data</span> [7]; D3.js code [12]</span></span></p>
<p><a href="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/74202032?profile=original" target="_self"><img src="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/74202032?profile=original" width="534" class="align-center"/></a></p>
<p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Tropical cyclones data [7]</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">North Indian Ocean data only goes back to 1990 at this time (for IBTrACS-WMO), to be objective I also chose a different period. There are also many inaccuracies in the Southern Hemisphere until 1990 [11]<br/></span></p>
<p><a href="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/74202067?profile=original" target="_self"><img src="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/74202067?profile=original" width="700" class="align-full"/></a></p>
<p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span><span>Tropical cyclones data</span> [7]; D3.js code [12]</span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span><a href="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/74202107?profile=original" target="_self"><img src="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/74202107?profile=original" width="700" class="align-full"/></a></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span>Tropical cyclones data</span><span> [7]; D3.js code [12]</span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">We see an increase, in the form of "clusters". 2005 record for 5 Category tropical cyclones, 2006 record for 3 Category and 2015 record for 4 Category.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">An old study that indicates an increase in hurricanes category 4 and 5:</span></p>
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<p><span><a href="http://images.iop.org/objects/phw/news/10/3/13/0603131.jpg" target="_blank"><img src="http://images.iop.org/objects/phw/news/10/3/13/0603131.jpg" class="align-center"/></a></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">16 March, 2006. "<span style="color: #333399;">The number of Category 4 and 5 hurricanes worldwide has nearly doubled over the past 35 years (image courtesy: Georgia Tech)</span></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #333399;">A number of studies have shown that hurricanes have steadily become stronger over the last 25 years, particularly in recent years (figure 1). Indeed, 2005 was a record year in terms of the number of severe hurricanes, with hurricane Katrina alone claiming 1300 lives and causing over 100 billion dollar's worth of damage</span>." [28] </span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/74202075?profile=original" target="_self"><img src="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/74202075?profile=original" width="680" class="align-full"/></a></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span>Tropical cyclones data</span><span> [7]; D3.js code [32]</span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Increase in wind speed is visible. Hurricane Patricia certainly broke the record for wind speed </span><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">(10-minute sustained winds)</span></p>
<p><a href="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/74202079?profile=original" target="_self"><img src="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/74202079?profile=original" width="545" class="align-center"/></a></p>
<p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Tropical cyclones data [7]; D3.js code [18]</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/74202168?profile=original" target="_self"><img src="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/74202168?profile=original" width="580" class="align-center"/></a></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span>Tropical cyclones data [7]; D3.js code [22]</span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">And for pressure (but higher than Typhoon Tip)</span></p>
<p><a href="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/74202173?profile=original" target="_self"><img src="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/74202173?profile=original" width="515" class="align-center"/></a></p>
<p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Tropical cyclones data [7]; D3.js code [18]</span></p>
<p><a href="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/74202177?profile=original" target="_self"><img src="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/74202177?profile=original" width="582" class="align-center"/></a></p>
<p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Tropical cyclones data [7]; D3.js code [22]</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Over the past 3 years, as many as three hurricanes (typhoon Haiyan four, in Western Pacific basin, in terms of 1-mintute sustained winds) in the three basins have become the strongest in history of their basins. 2015 Hurricane Patricia in Eastern Pacific, 2016 Cyclone Winston in South Pacific, 2016 Cyclone Fantala (with 2006 Cyclone monica) in South Indian ocean.</span></p>
<p><a href="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/74202122?profile=original" target="_self"><img src="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/74202122?profile=original" width="700" class="align-full"/></a></p>
<p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span>Tropical cyclones data [7]; D3.js code [22]</span></span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;" class="font-size-5">Strongest Tropical Cyclones at Landfall</span></p>
<p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;" class="font-size-2"><a href="https://icons.wxug.com/hurricane/2016/strongest-tc-winds-2016.png" target="_blank"><img src="https://icons.wxug.com/hurricane/2016/strongest-tc-winds-2016.png" class="align-center"/></a></span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><em><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;" class="font-size-2">Source of image: <a href="https://www.wunderground.com/blog/JeffMasters/top-ten-tropical-cyclone-events-of-2016-potentially-influenced-by-clim.html" target="_blank">wunderground.com</a></span></em></p>
<p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;" class="font-size-2">Here are some comments from Dr. Jeff Masters:</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">"<span style="color: #333399;">Two of the Top Five Landfalling Tropical Cyclones Occurred in 2016</span></span><br/> <span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: #333399;">In addition, 2016 also saw two of the top five strongest landfalling tropical cyclones ever recorded—Super Typhoon Meranti with 190 mph winds on the Philippines’ Itbayat Island (tied for Earth’s strongest landfall on record), and Tropical Cyclone Winston with 180 mph winds at landfall in Fiji (the 5th strongest tropical cyclone at landfall in recorded history.) As we blogged about in August, landfalling typhoons have become more intense since late 1970s, with the peak winds of typhoons striking the region increasing by 12 - 15% since 1977." <span style="color: #000000;">[29]</span></span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: #33cccc;" class="font-size-7">Basins</span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span class="font-size-7" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">North Atlantic basin</span></p>
<p><a href="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/74202100?profile=original" target="_self"><img src="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/74202100?profile=original" width="700" class="align-full"/></a></p>
<p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span>Tropical cyclones data</span> [7]; D3.js code [12]</span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;" class="font-size-5">WMO (10-minute sustained winds)</span></p>
<p><a href="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/74201009?profile=original" target="_self"><img src="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/74201009?profile=original" width="695" class="align-full"/></a></p>
<p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span>Tropical cyclones data</span> [7]; D3.js code [12]</span></p>
<p><a href="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/74201102?profile=original" target="_self"><img src="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/74201102?profile=original" width="689" class="align-full"/></a></p>
<p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;" class="font-size-2">Tropical cyclones data [7]; D3.js code [12]<em><br/></em></span></p>
<p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">The North Atlantic has the best data on hurricanes. Acceptable data is available as far back as 1966. [16] There is no doubt, that the number of tropical cyclones are increasing in North Atlantic.</span></p>
<p><a href="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/ef/North_Atlantic_Hurricane_History.png" target="_blank"><img src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/ef/North_Atlantic_Hurricane_History.png" class="align-full"/></a></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">This figure shows the history of the tropical storms, hurricanes, and major hurricanes (Category 3+) in the North Atlantic derived from the analysis of the National Hurricane Center. Source of image: <a href="https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archivo:North_Atlantic_Hurricane_History.png" target="_blank">wikipedia</a><em> (This figure was prepared by Robert A. Rohde from published data and is made available under the Global Warming Art license.)</em></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="https://eoimages.gsfc.nasa.gov/images/imagerecords/5000/5958/Wilma_TMO_2005294.jpg" target="_blank"><img src="https://eoimages.gsfc.nasa.gov/images/imagerecords/5000/5958/Wilma_TMO_2005294.jpg" class="align-center"/></a></span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><em><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Hurricane Wilma remained a powerful Category 4 storm when the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on NASA’s Terra satellite took this image at 12:25 p.m. Eastern Daylight Time, on Friday, October 21, 2005. Source: <a href="https://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/NaturalHazards/view.php?id=5958" target="_blank">earthobservatory.nasa.gov</a></span></em></p>
<p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">2</span><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">005 was the most active season in history. </span><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Hurricane Wilma broke the record and became the most intense storm in the history of the North Atlantic basin (in terms of minimum pressure). </span><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">This season is also notable for its damage - costliest season ever. (</span><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">2017 North Atlantic hurricane season is likely will beat this record)</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">It seems that the strength of hurricanes is growing rather than their number:</span></p>
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<p><span><a href="http://www.motherjones.com/wp-content/uploads/hurricane-chart-mphbluefinal.gif?w=990" target="_blank"><img src="http://www.motherjones.com/wp-content/uploads/hurricane-chart-mphbluefinal.gif?w=990" class="align-center"/></a></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><em>16 December, 2013.</em> "<span style="color: #333399;"><...> Technologies and techniques for doing this (observations) have improved over time, meaning that there is always a problem with claiming that today’s storms are stronger than yesterday’s. After all, they might just be better observed.</span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: #333399;"><...> How? “We can’t take bad data and make it good, because that’s adding information that we don’t have,” explains Kossin. “But we can take the good information and make it worse.” <...> </span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #333399;">The result? The scientists found that globally, hurricane wind speeds are increasing at a rate of a little more than two miles per hour per decade, or just faster than six miles per hour over the entire period. <...></span>"</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">[26] Mooney, C. (2017, June 24). Are hurricanes getting stronger? Science may finally be approaching an answer</span></p>
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<p><span><a href="https://skepticalscience.com/pics/NATS_frequency.gif" target="_blank"><img src="https://skepticalscience.com/pics/NATS_frequency.gif" class="align-center"/></a></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">"<span style="color: #333399;">But this graph, also from the Pew Centre, shows a 40% increase in North Atlantic tropical storms over the historic maximum of the mid-1950, which at the time was considered extreme</span>." [27]</span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span class="font-size-7" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">South Atlantic</span></p>
<p><a href="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/74202187?profile=original" target="_self"><img src="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/74202187?profile=original" width="700" class="align-full"/></a></p>
<p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Until April 1991, it was thought that tropical cyclones did not develop within the South Atlantic. [23] According to IBTrACS-WMO in the South Atlantic, only 3 tropical cyclones were recorded (2004, 2010, 2011)</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Hurricane Catarina (2004) was an extremely rare tropical cyclone.</span></p>
<p><a href="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5e/Catarina_27_mar_2004_1630Z.jpg/800px-Catarina_27_mar_2004_1630Z.jpg" target="_blank"><img src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5e/Catarina_27_mar_2004_1630Z.jpg/800px-Catarina_27_mar_2004_1630Z.jpg?width=560" width="560" class="align-center"/></a></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Hurricane Catarina approaching Brazil on March 27. Source of image: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hurricane_Catarina" target="_blank">wikipedia</a></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;" class="font-size-7">Eastern Pacific</span></p>
<p><a href="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/74202138?profile=original" target="_self"><img src="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/74202138?profile=original" width="700" class="align-full"/></a></p>
<p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span>Tropical cyclones data</span> [7]; D3.js code [12]</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">The Eastern Pacific season in 2015 tied its record for number of hurricanes and set a record for major hurricanes. </span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span class="font-size-5" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">NHC data (1-minute sustained winds)</span></p>
<p><a href="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/74202142?profile=original" target="_self"><img src="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/74202142?profile=original" width="700" class="align-full"/></a></p>
<p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span>Tropical cyclones data [7]; D3.js code [12]</span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Important note: Note that the 2015 and 2016 best tracks from Central Pacific Hurricane Center (CPHC) are not yet available and are not currently included. [24] So we need to add one hurricane category 4 in 2015.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/74202147?profile=original" target="_self"><img src="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/74202147?profile=original" width="674" class="align-full"/></a></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span>Tropical cyclones data [13]; <span>D3.js code [35]</span></span></span></p>
<p><a href="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/74202254?profile=original" target="_self"><img src="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/74202254?profile=original" width="620" class="align-center"/></a></p>
<p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Hurricane Patricia became the strongest tropical cyclone in history (in terms of sustained winds)</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: #333399;">• "The highest reliably measured surface winds on record for a tropical cyclone, anywhere on the Earth</span><br/> <span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: #333399;">• Central pressure of 879mb - the lowest pressure ever measured in a hurricane in the Western Hemisphere</span><br/> <span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #333399;">• Patricia's central pressure dropped an astonishing 100mb in 24 hours, making it the fastest-intensifying hurricane ever observed in the Western Hemisphere."</span> [25]</span></p>
<p><a href="http://ww3.hdnux.com/photos/41/57/16/8844198/15/920x1240.jpg" target="_blank"><img src="http://ww3.hdnux.com/photos/41/57/16/8844198/15/920x1240.jpg" class="align-full"/></a></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><em><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Photo: Ho, AFP / Getty Images This October 23, 2015, 06:00 UTC Eumetsat satellite image shows category 5 Hurricane Patricia, off the Pacific coast of Mexico. Source: <a href="http://www.expressnews.com/news/local/article/An-interactive-guide-to-Hurricane-Patricia-6586651.php" target="_blank">expressnews.com</a></span></em></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;" class="font-size-5">WMO (10-minute sustained winds)</span></p>
<p><a href="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/74202257?profile=original" target="_self"><img src="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/74202257?profile=original" width="700" class="align-full"/></a></p>
<p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span>Tropical cyclones data</span> [7]; D3.js code [12]</span></p>
<p><a href="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/74202259?profile=original" target="_self"><img src="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/74202259?profile=original" width="700" class="align-full"/></a></p>
<p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span>Tropical cyclones data</span> [7]; D3.js code [12]</span></p>
<p><span class="font-size-7" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Western Pacific basin</span></p>
<p><a href="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/74202275?profile=original" target="_self"><img src="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/74202275?profile=original" width="700" class="align-full"/></a></p>
<p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Tropical cyclones data [7]; D3.js code [12]</span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;" class="font-size-5">JTWC data (1-minute sustained winds)</span></p>
<p><a href="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/74202277?profile=original" target="_self"><img src="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/74202277?profile=original" width="700" class="align-full"/></a></p>
<p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Tropical cyclones data [7]; D3.js code [12]</span></p>
<p><a href="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/74202316?profile=original" target="_self"><img src="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/74202316?profile=original" width="700" class="align-full"/></a></p>
<p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Tropical cyclones data [7]; D3.js code [12]</span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;" class="font-size-5">WMO (10-minute sustained winds)</span></p>
<p><a href="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/74202319?profile=original" target="_self"><img src="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/74202319?profile=original" width="700" class="align-full"/></a></p>
<p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span>Tropical cyclones data</span> [7]; D3.js code [12]</span></p>
<p><a href="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/74202233?profile=original" target="_self"><img src="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/74202233?profile=original" width="700" class="align-full"/></a></p>
<p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span>Tropical cyclones data</span> [7]; D3.js code [12]</span></p>
<p><a href="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/74202235?profile=original" target="_self"><img src="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/74202235?profile=original" width="696" class="align-full"/></a></p>
<p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span>Tropical cyclones data </span>[7]; D3.js code [12]</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/74202291?profile=original" target="_self"><img src="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/74202291?profile=original" width="698" class="align-full"/></a></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Typhoon Haiyan was the second-most intense tropical cyclone on record worldwide (1-minute sustained winds)</span></p>
<p><a href="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/74201780?profile=original" target="_self"><img src="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/74201780?profile=original" width="525" class="align-center"/></a></p>
<p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Tropical cyclones data [7]; D3.js code [18]</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">"<span style="color: #333399;">The super typhoon likely made landfall with winds near 195 mph (313 kph). This makes Haiyan the strongest tropical cyclone on record to make landfall,</span>" Jeff Masters, director of meteorology at US-based Weather Underground, told Reuters. [30] Haiyan, locally known as “Yolanda,” was the deadliest typhoon in the country’s modern record. The storm affected more than 16 million people and left 4 million homeless. In its most recent update from April 2014, the Philippine government confirmed 6,300 dead and more than 1,000 still missing. [31]</span></p>
<p><a href="http://static2.businessinsider.com/image/527c449ceab8ead545df1740/heres-a-jaw-dropping-satellite-image-of-typhoon-haiyan-as-it-approached-the-philippines.jpg" target="_blank"><img src="http://static2.businessinsider.com/image/527c449ceab8ead545df1740/heres-a-jaw-dropping-satellite-image-of-typhoon-haiyan-as-it-approached-the-philippines.jpg?width=700" width="700" class="align-full"/></a></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><em><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">This shot from European meteorological group EUMETSAT really captures just how massive this storm really is. Source of image: <a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/satellite-image-of-super-typhoon-haiyan-2013-11" target="_blank">businessinsider.com</a></span></em></p>
<p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 24pt;">South Pacific</span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;" class="font-size-5">JTWC data (1-minute sustained winds)</span></p>
<p style="text-align: left;"><a href="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/74202327?profile=original" target="_self"><img src="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/74202327?profile=original" width="700" class="align-full"/></a></p>
<p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Tropical cyclones data [7]; D3.js code [12]</span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 24pt;" class="font-size-5"><span>WMO (10-minute sustained winds)</span><br/></span></p>
<p><a href="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/74202331?profile=original" target="_self"><img src="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/74202331?profile=original" width="700" class="align-full"/></a></p>
<p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Tropical cyclones data [7]; D3.js code [12]</span></p>
<p><a href="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/74202245?profile=original" target="_self"><img src="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/74202245?profile=original" width="700" class="align-full"/></a></p>
<p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Tropical cyclones data [7]; D3.js code [12]</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;" class="font-size-5">Record-breaking cyclone Winston</span></p>
<p><a href="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/74202299?profile=original" target="_self"><img src="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/74202299?profile=original" width="636" class="align-center"/></a><a href="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/74202454?profile=original" target="_self"></a></p>
<p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Tropical cyclones data [7]</span></p>
<p><a href="http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/imageo/files/2016/02/Winston-geocolor.jpg" target="_blank"><img src="http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/imageo/files/2016/02/Winston-geocolor.jpg?width=600" width="600" class="align-center"/></a></p>
<p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Cyclone Winston was the most intense tropical cyclone in Western Hemisphere, second as the strongest cyclone to make landfall anywhere on Earth in recorded history. (Typhoon Haiyan first) [10]</span></p>
<p><a href="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/74202340?profile=original" target="_self"><img src="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/74202340?profile=original" width="520" class="align-center"/></a></p>
<p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span>Tropical cyclones data </span><span>[7]; D3.js code [18]</span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Minimum atmospheric pressure:</span></p>
<p><a href="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/74202403?profile=original" target="_self"><img src="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/74202403?profile=original" width="525" class="align-center"/></a></p>
<p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span>Tropical cyclones data </span><span>[7]; D3.js code [18]</span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Winston - the first registered category 5 cyclone (in terms of 10-minute sustained winds) in South Pacific.<br/></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/74202405?profile=original" target="_self"><img src="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/74202405?profile=original" width="671" class="align-center"/></a></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span>Tropical cyclones data </span><span>[7]; D3.js code [35]</span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Hurricane expert Philip Klotzbach say: "D<span style="color: #333399;">ata prior to 1990 is likely underestimated (in Southern hemisphere). Lack of directly overlooking satellites</span>" [11]</span></p>
<p><span class="font-size-6" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">South Indian ocean basin</span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;" class="font-size-5">JTWC data (1-minute sustained winds)</span></p>
<p><a href="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/74202362?profile=original" target="_self"><img src="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/74202362?profile=original" width="700" class="align-center"/></a></p>
<p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Tropical cyclones data [7]; D3.js code [12]</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;" class="font-size-6">Cyclone Fantala</span></p>
<p><a href="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/74202365?profile=original" target="_self"><img src="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/74202365?profile=original" width="600" class="align-center"/></a></p>
<p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">According to meteorologist Bob Henson at Weather Underground, it became the most intense tropical cyclone on record in the Indian Ocean. There is also uncertainty about the data before 1990 in the Indian Ocean. [12] </span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Some notes by Bob Neson about cyclone Fantala:</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">"<span style="color: #333399;">Fantala’s estimated peak sustained winds of 150 knots (173 mph), averaged over 1 minute by the Joint Typhoon Warning Center, are tied with those of Tropical Cyclone Agnielle (November 1995 peak 1-minute winds of 150 knots) as the strongest in the Southwest Indian Ocean. Fantala and Agnielle both top the record holder for the North Indian Ocean. <...> Reliable satellite-based records for the Indian Ocean only go back to 1990, but Fantala’s power is still remarkable, and quite evident in satellite imagery</span>." [13]</span></p>
<p><a href="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/74202370?profile=original" target="_self"><img src="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/74202370?profile=original" width="510" class="align-center"/></a></p>
<p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Tropical cyclones data [7]; D3.js code [18]</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Hurricane expert Philip Klotzbach say: "<span style="color: #333399;">Data prior to 1990 is likely underestimated (in Southern hemisphere). Lack of directly overlooking satellites</span>" [11]</span></p>
<p><span class="font-size-6" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">North Indian ocean basin</span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span class="font-size-5" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">JTWC data (1-minute sustained winds)</span></p>
<p><a href="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/74202374?profile=original" target="_self"><img src="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/74202374?profile=original" width="696" class="align-full"/></a></p>
<p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Tropical cyclones data [7]; D3.js code [12]</span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;" class="font-size-6">Conclusion</span></p>
<p style="text-align: left;"><strong><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Frequency and power:</span></strong></p>
<p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">The year 2015 was very active and abnormal.</span></p>
<p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">The total number of tropical cyclones remained constant since the 1970s. The total number of hurricanes decreases (slightly). T</span><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">he number of major hurricanes (+3 cat) per year has been stable since 1988 but... In 2015, the number of major hurricanes reached a record level for the entire history of records 40. Percentage of hurricanes category 4 and 5 has reached 66% from total number of hurricanes. There were a lot of anomalies like 3 hurricanes category four, hurricane Patricia (now most intense ever in Earth in terms of sustained winds).</span></p>
<p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">In recent years, in four basins, wind speed records were broken: <span>2015 Patricia in Eastern Pacific, 2016 Fantala in South Indian ocean, 2007 Cyclone Gonu for North Indian ocean, 2016 Winston (with 2003 Zoe and 2006 Monica) in South Pacific, 2013 Hayian and 2016 Meranti in Western Pacific and etc.</span><br/></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span>James Elsner, a climate scientist and geographer at Florida State University. - </span>“<span style="color: #333399;">If we just look at frequency, there’s really no theory that says we should see fewer or more storms. But if we look at intensity separately, there is theory that says they should get stronger—especially the strongest ones. And we do see some evidence for that in the data.</span>” </span><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">[3]</span></p>
<p style="text-align: left;"><strong><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Longer seasons:</span></strong></p>
<p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Dr Jeff Masters:</span></p>
<p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">"<span style="color: #333399;"><...> However, Juliana Karloski and Clark Evans of the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee found no trend in tropical cyclone formation dates when looking at the entire Atlantic, for the period 1979–2014. A 2015 study of season length in climate models led by MIT’s John Dwyer yielded mixed results, depending upon which model was used to simulate hurricane activity. Regardless, 2016 had four very notable out-of-season storms, probably influenced by unusually warm ocean temperatures: Hurricane Pali in the Central Pacific in January, Hurricane Alex in the Atlantic in January, Hurricane Otto in the Atlantic on Thanksgiving Day and Super Typhoon Nock-Ten in the Philippines on Christmas Day</span>." [29]</span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span class="font-size-6" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Referecnes</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">[1] D3 Barchart code: <a href="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/74202457?profile=original" target="_self">barchart</a>; CSV: <a href="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/74202381?profile=original" target="_self">EP1980.csv</a>; <a href="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/74202383?profile=original" target="_self">NA1980.csv</a>; <a href="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/74202386?profile=original" target="_self">NI1980.csv</a>; <a href="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/74202460?profile=original" target="_self">SP1980.csv</a>, <a href="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/74202427?profile=original" target="_self">Total1980.csv</a> (Based on examples: <a href="http://bl.ocks.org/d3noob/5987480">http://bl.ocks.org/d3noob/5987480</a> and <a href="http://bl.ocks.org/d3noob/8952219">http://bl.ocks.org/d3noob/8952219</a>)</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">[2] 2005 Atlantic hurricane season. (2017, September 07). Retrieved September 09, 2017, from <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2005_Atlantic_hurricane_season">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2005_Atlantic_hurricane_season</a></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">[3] Meyer, R. (2017, August 29). Does Harvey Represent a New Normal for Hurricanes? Retrieved September 22, 2017, from <a href="https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2017/08/hurricanes-harvey-climate-change/538362/">https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2017/08/hurricanes-harvey-climate-change/538362/</a></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">[4] <a href="http://www.naturalearthdata.com/">http://www.naturalearthdata.com/</a></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">[5] <a href="http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/gis/archive_besttrack.php?year=2017">http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/gis/archive_besttrack.php?year=2017</a></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">[6] <a href="https://twitter.com/NHC_Atlantic/status/905080927948349440?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fqz.com%2F1074185%2Fhurricane-irma-all-the-meteorological-records-the-storm-has-broken-so-far%2F">https://twitter.com/NHC_Atlantic/status/905080927948349440?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fqz.com%2F1074185%2Fhurricane-irma-all-the-meteorological-records-the-storm-has-broken-so-far%2F</a></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">[7] Kenneth R. Knapp, Scott Applequist, Howard J. Diamond, James P. Kossin, Michael Kruk, and Carl Schreck (2010). NCDC International Best Track Archive for Climate Stewardship (IBTrACS) Project, Version 3. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information. DOI:10.7289/V5NK3BZP [25 September, 2017]. <a href="https://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/ibtracs/index.php?name=ibtracs-data" target="_blank">Link</a></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">[8] <a href="https://webcms.colostate.edu/tropical/media/sites/111/2017/09/Hurricane-Irma-Records.pdf">https://webcms.colostate.edu/tropical/media/sites/111/2017/09/Hurricane-Irma-Records.pdf</a></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">[9] Verger, R. (2015, September 02). For the First Time on Record, Three Category-4 Hurricanes Occurred Simultaneously in the Pacific Ocean. Retrieved September 25, 2017, from <a href="https://news.vice.com/article/for-the-first-time-on-record-three-category-4-hurricanes-occurred-simultaneously-in-the-pacific-ocean">https://news.vice.com/article/for-the-first-time-on-record-three-category-4-hurricanes-occurred-simultaneously-in-the-pacific-ocean</a></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">[10] How Tropical Cyclone Winston became a record breaker. (2017, January 29). Retrieved September 25, 2017, from <a href="http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/imageo/2016/02/22/how-winston-became-strongest-southern-hemisphere-storm-on-record/#.Wclkw6B_rCY">http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/imageo/2016/02/22/how-winston-became-strongest-southern-hemisphere-storm-on-record/#.Wclkw6B_rCY</a></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">[11] <a href="https://twitter.com/philklotzbach/status/701057961171365888">https://twitter.com/philklotzbach/status/701057961171365888</a></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">[21] D3 Radial barchart code: <a href="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/74202429?profile=original" target="_self">radial</a>; <a href="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/74202398?profile=original" target="_self">d3-scale-radial.</a><span>js</span>; CSV: <a href="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/74202470?profile=original" target="_self">data2.txt</a> (Based on example: <a href="https://bl.ocks.org/mbostock/6fead6d1378d6df5ae77bb6a719afcb2">https://bl.ocks.org/mbostock/6fead6d1378d6df5ae77bb6a719afcb2</a>) (Released under the <a target="_blank" href="https://opensource.org/licenses/GPL-3.0">GNU General Public License, version 3</a>.)<br/></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">[22] D3 Linechart code: <a href="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/74202519?profile=original" target="_self">linechart</a>; CSV: <a href="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/74202540?profile=original" target="_self">34kt</a> (Based on example: <a href="http://bl.ocks.org/d3noob/b3ff6ae1c120eea654b5">http://bl.ocks.org/d3noob/b3ff6ae1c120eea654b5</a>)</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">[32] D3 heatmap code: <a href="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/74202564?profile=original" target="_self">heatmap</a>; CSV: <a href="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/74202500?profile=original" target="_self">JTWWC</a>; (Based on example: <a href="http://bl.ocks.org/mbostock/3202354%C2%A0">http://bl.ocks.org/mbostock/3202354 </a>;) (Released under the <a target="_blank" href="https://opensource.org/licenses/GPL-3.0">GNU General Public License, version 3</a>.)</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">[34] <a href="http://www.prh.noaa.gov/cphc/pages/FAQ/Climatology.php">http://www.prh.noaa.gov/cphc/pages/FAQ/Climatology.php</a></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">[35] D3 barchart <a href="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/54909092?profile=original" target="_self">barchart</a>; CSV: <a href="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/54909205?profile=original" target="_self">Major hurricanes</a>; (Based on examples: <a href="http://bl.ocks.org/d3noob/5987480">http://bl.ocks.org/d3noob/5987480</a>)</span></p>Analysis of regional sesmic networks. Rate of Great earthquakes has increased since 2004? 54 countries have suffered from strongest or one of largest earthquake in their historytag:poleshift.ning.com,2017-08-21:3863141:BlogPost:10786742017-08-21T09:15:54.000ZStanislavhttps://poleshift.ning.com/profile/Stanislav
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<p style="text-align: center;"><span class="font-size-7" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Great earthquakes on the rise?…</span></p>
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<p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;" class="font-size-7">Great earthquakes on the rise?</span></p>
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<p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;" class="font-size-5">Earthquakes M>8.6. Clustering? (Domino Effect)</span></p>
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<p style="text-align: center;"><span class="font-size-5" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Earthquakes M>7. Global sesmic moment</span></p>
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<p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;" class="font-size-6">Catalogs of earthquakes (M>8.6)</span></p>
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<p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;" class="font-size-6">Global sesmic moment</span></p>
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<p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 20pt;">Great earthquakes between 1900-2013. ISC-GEM Catalog</span></p>
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<p style="text-align: center;"><span class="font-size-7"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Largest earthquakes by countries. 51 countries have suffered from their strongest or one of strongest earthquake!</font></span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Largest earthquakes data: earthquaketrack.com; USGS and in some cases articles. Period 1900-2017.</span></p>
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<p style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #000000;" class="font-size-3"><strong><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Based on USGS, earthquaketrack.com data and some local networks, articles.</span></strong></span></p>
<p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong>Between 2000-2017:</strong></span></p>
<p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong>Some (most important) records in Great earthquakes:</strong> </span></p>
<ul>
<li><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">2013 Russia, Okhotsk sea largest/longest/most energy deep earthquake ever</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">2012 Indian ocean earthquake ruptures 5 fault grid- and largest strike-slip ever</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">2004 Sumatra earthquake include the longest fault rupture ever observed (720 to 780 miles or 1,200 to 1,300 kilometers) and the longest duration of faulting (at least 10 minutes). The aftershocks included the most energetic earthquake swarm ever observed</span></li>
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<p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong>Strongest earthquake ever (24 countries)</strong>:</span></p>
<p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">2011 Japan, 2004 Indonesia, 2016 South Korea [104], 2016 Botswana (later downgraded) [134], 2014 Thailand [26], 2017 Papua New Guinea (later downgraded), 2009 Namibia [135], <span style="color: #000000;">2013 Iran</span>, 2013 Pakistan [119], 2006 Mozambique, 2009 Honduras, 2012 Norway [8], 2002 Kosovo, 2016 Northern Mariana islands, 2004 Morroco, </span><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">2012 Ireland [133], 2009 Benin, 2008 Western Sahara, 2012 Mauritania (<span>same magnitude </span><span>as in 1993)</span>, 2000 Nigeria, 2008 Rwanda, 2002 UAE, 2017 Niger, 2001 Angola</span></p>
<p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong><strong>S</strong>econd-strongest earthquake ever (13 countries)</strong>:</span></p>
<p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">2012 Canada [98], 2008 China (same magnitude as in 1932, 1931), 2016 New Zealand (<span>same magnitude</span> as in 1929, 1931 and 2009), 2010 Chile, 2011 Canary islands, 2012 Costa Rica [59], 2009 Samoa, 2015 Nepal, 2009 Bhutan, 2003 Algeria, 2017 Zambia, 2009 Malawi, 2002 Tunisia</span></p>
<p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong>Strongest in years or since ... (17 countries):</strong> </span></p>
<p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">2010 Haiti (in 200 years) [118], 2014 Sweden (in 100 years) [107], 2011 Hungary (since 1985) [117], 2009 Portugal (since 1969) [18], 2015 Malaysia (strongest since 1976) [136], 2011 US East coast (strongest since 1944) [82], 2014 Czech Republic (strongest since 1985) [2], 2016 Italy (strongest since 1980) [60], 2012 Mexico (strongest earthquake since 1985) [95], 2016 Ecuador (strongest since 1979) [71], 2014 South Africa (strongest since 1969) [137], 2015 Afghanistan (strongest since 1909), 2000 Turkmenistan (strongest since 1948), 2007 Laos (strongest since 1983), 2012 Guniea (strongest since 1983), 2014 Puerto Rico (strongest since 1943), 2013 Russia (strongest since 1952)</span></p>
<p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Summary (54 countries) (17 countries show increase in local sesmics networks see below)</span></p>
<p style="text-align: left;"><strong><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Local sesmic networks:</span></strong></p>
<p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span>Sesmic activity increase in Italy, US (Without California), South Korea, Japan, Cuba, Canada, Mexico, Queensland (Australia), Russia, Czech Republic, New Zealand, Thailand, Portugal, China, Nepal, Canary islands, Puerto Rico, Iceland, Greece, Italy.</span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Under question: Spain [110], Belgium [153], Netherlands [134]</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">No increase or decrease or stable: Switzerland [155], Britian [144], Brazil [145], Australia [146], Nicaragua [147], Israel [148], France [149], Colombia [150], Germany [151], Alaska [152], California [130] (US)</span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span class="font-size-5" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Since 2008 (begin of 0 of 10 scaling by Zetas) we seen increase in earthquakes (but later in 2012, 7 of 10 pace slowed). Largest earthquakes by countries. Between 1998-2016</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;" class="font-size-6">Q&A. Why large earthquakes more important than small? </span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="https://www.psalm11918.org/images/blog/2014/earthquakes/earthquakes9b.jpg" target="_blank"><img src="https://www.psalm11918.org/images/blog/2014/earthquakes/earthquakes9b.jpg?width=600" width="600" class="align-center"/></a></span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><em><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Source of image: <a href="https://www.psalm11918.org/Resources/Blog/2014/09/is-the-tribulation-near.html" target="_blank">psalm11918.org</a></span></em></p>
<p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">As we seen earthquakes with small magnitudes (M<1) were simply not registered in past. (before 1974). The same applies to larger earthquakes M<6. That's why the number of small earthquakes does not matter (for statistics). On top of the graphs, we see that small earthquakes are only afteshocks from large and record quakes. Thus, the number of small earthquakes does not matter, here are the explanations of the USGS:</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Source: <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090122081002/http://earthquake.usgs.gov:80/learning/faq.php?categoryID=6&faqID=110" target="_blank">USGS FAQ - web.archive.org</a></span> </p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span class="font-size-7" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Regional earthquake catalogs show earthquakes increase in last decades</span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span class="font-size-5" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/74202228?profile=original" target="_self"><img src="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/74202228?profile=original" width="700" class="align-full"/></a></span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;" class="font-size-6">Italy earthquakes m>3</span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/74202230?profile=original" target="_self"><img src="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/74202230?profile=original" width="609"/></a></span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;" class="font-size-6">All earthquakes</span></p>
<p style="text-align: left;"><a href="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/74200889?profile=original" target="_self"><img src="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/74200889?profile=original" width="634" class="align-center"/></a></p>
<p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span>Earthquake data source: [63] 'ISIDe working group (2016) version 1.0, DOI: 10.13127/ISIDe'.</span></span></p>
<p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Since 2005, they have changed the type of magnitude. </span><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">This somewhat confuses the situation. Some earthquakes are recorded in the old magnitude. But t</span><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">here is no doubt that seismic activity is stronger than ever (of sesmic network observations) in Italy now. <span style="text-decoration: underline;">Earthquakes between 1-1.9 show increase in sesmic stations!</span></span></p>
<p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><a href="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/74202242?profile=original" target="_self"><img src="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/74202242?profile=original" width="695" class="align-full"/></a></span></span></p>
<p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/74200942?profile=original" target="_self"><img src="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/74200942?profile=original" width="700" class="align-full"/></a></span></p>
<p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/74201069?profile=original" target="_self"><img src="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/74201069?profile=original" width="700" class="align-full"/></a></span></p>
<p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Earthquake data source: [63] 'ISIDe working group (2016) version 1.0, DOI: 10.13127/ISIDe'.</span></p>
<p style="text-align: left;"><a href="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/74202342?profile=original" target="_self"><img src="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/74202342?profile=original" width="686" class="align-full"/></a></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><em><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;" class="font-size-2"> </span></em><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 24pt; text-align: center;">Greece</span></p>
<p style="text-align: left;"><a href="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/74202346?profile=original" target="_self"><img src="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/74202346?profile=original" width="698" class="align-full"/></a></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span class="font-size-6" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Greece M>6 Earthquakes</span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span class="font-size-6" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/74202348?profile=original" target="_self"><img src="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/74202348?profile=original" width="586"/></a></span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 20pt; text-align: center;">All Earthquakes</span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span class="font-size-7"><a href="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/74201085?profile=original" target="_self"><img src="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/74201085?profile=original" width="635"/></a></span></p>
<p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Earthquake data source: [64] National Observatory of Athens</span></p>
<p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">2008 year looks like a record in Greece, while 2009 - 2013 looks like due increase in sesmic stations</span></p>
<p style="text-align: left;"><a href="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/74201124?profile=original" target="_self"><img src="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/74201124?profile=original" width="700" class="align-full"/></a></p>
<p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/74201241?profile=original" target="_self"><img src="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/74201241?profile=original" width="700" class="align-full"/></a></span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 20pt; text-align: center;">Second Greece catalog M>2</span></p>
<p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/74201293?profile=original" target="_self"><img src="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/74201293?profile=original" width="605" class="align-center"/></a></span></p>
<p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Earthquake data source: [65] <span class="auto-style4">Permanent Regional Seismological Network operated by the Aristotle University </span><br class="auto-style3"/><span class="auto-style3">of Thessaloniki, doi:10.7914/SN/HT</span></span></p>
<p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/74201377?profile=original" target="_self"><img src="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/74201377?profile=original" width="700" class="align-full"/></a></span></p>
<p style="text-align: left;"><a href="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/74201458?profile=original" target="_self"><img src="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/74201458?profile=original" width="695" class="align-full"/></a></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 24pt;">Ireland</span></p>
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<p style="text-align: center;"><span class="font-size-7" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Iceland</span></p>
<p style="text-align: left;"><a href="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/74202418?profile=original" target="_self"><img src="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/74202418?profile=original" width="700" class="align-full"/></a></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span class="font-size-6" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Iceland earthquakes M>4</span></p>
<p style="text-align: left;"><a href="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/74202378?profile=original" target="_self"><img src="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/74202378?profile=original" width="597" class="align-center"/></a></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;" class="font-size-6">All Earthquakes in Iceland</span></p>
<p style="text-align: left;"><a href="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/74202421?profile=original" target="_self"><img src="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/74202421?profile=original" width="622" class="align-center"/></a></p>
<p style="text-align: left;"><a href="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/74202425?profile=original" target="_self"><img src="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/74202425?profile=original" width="686" class="align-full"/></a></p>
<p style="text-align: left;"><a href="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/74202462?profile=original" target="_self"><img src="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/74202462?profile=original" width="699" class="align-full"/></a></p>
<p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Earthquake data source: [9] Icelandic Meteorological Office</span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span class="font-size-7" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Norway biggest earthquakes</span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span class="font-size-7" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/74202467?profile=original" target="_self"><img src="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/74202467?profile=original" width="700" class="align-full"/></a></span></p>
<p style="text-align: left;"><span class="font-size-2" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/74202435?profile=original" target="_self"><img src="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/74202435?profile=original" width="684" class="align-full"/></a></span></p>
<p style="text-align: left;"><span class="font-size-2" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Earthquake data: NORSAR [4]</span></p>
<p style="text-align: left;"><span class="font-size-2" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/74202550?profile=original" target="_self"><img src="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/74202550?profile=original" width="680" class="align-full"/></a></span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span class="font-size-7" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Czech Republic</span></p>
<p><a href="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/74202649?profile=original" target="_self"><img src="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/74202649?profile=original" width="700" class="align-center"/></a></p>
<p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Infographic references:</span></p>
<p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">[1] <span>Geofyzikalni ustav Akademie ved CR, v.v.i. (n.d.). Retrieved August 14, 2017, from <a href="http://www.ig.cas.cz/webnet-informace#zemetresne-roje">http://www.ig.cas.cz/webnet-informace#zemetresne-roje</a>;</span></span></p>
<p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span>[2] <span>Plechat, J., Wirnitzer, J., & Vyroubalov, M. (2014, May 31). Chebsko zas. Retrieved August 14, 2017, from <a href="http://vary.idnes.cz/zemetreseni-na-chebsku-07k-/vary-zpravy.aspx?c=A140531_131840_vary-zpravy_skr">http://vary.idnes.cz/zemetreseni-na-chebsku-07k-/vary-zpravy.aspx?c=A140531_131840_vary-zpravy_skr</a>;</span></span></span></p>
<p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span><span>[3] <span>Zem. (2014, June 04). Retrieved August 14, 2017, from <a href="http://www.lidovky.cz/zemetreseni-na-chebsku-bylo-nejnicivejsi-v-historii-f95-/zpravy-domov.aspx?c=A140604_161714_ln_domov_ele">http://www.lidovky.cz/zemetreseni-na-chebsku-bylo-nejnicivejsi-v-historii-f95-/zpravy-domov.aspx?c=A140604_161714_ln_domov_ele</a></span></span></span></span></p>
<p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Earthquake data source: [3] CzechGeo / EPOS</span></p>
<p style="text-align: left;"><a href="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/74202695?profile=original" target="_self"><img src="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/74202695?profile=original" width="700" class="align-full"/></a></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;" class="font-size-6">All Earthquakes registered by Czech Republic sesmic network</span></p>
<p><a href="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/74202308?profile=original" target="_self"><img src="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/74202308?profile=original" width="636" class="align-center"/></a></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;" class="font-size-6">Only Czech Republic M>3</span></p>
<p style="text-align: left;"><a href="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/74202862?profile=original" target="_self"><img src="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/74202862?profile=original" width="609" class="align-center"/></a></p>
<p><span class="font-size-2"><a href="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/74202923?profile=original" target="_self"><img src="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/74202923?profile=original" width="696" class="align-full"/></a></span></p>
<p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Earthquake data source: [3] CzechGeo / EPOS</span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span class="font-size-6" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Portugal</span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span class="font-size-6" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">All earthquakes in Portugal</span></p>
<p><a href="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/74202273?profile=original" target="_self"><img src="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/74202273?profile=original" width="610" class="align-center"/></a></p>
<p><a href="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/74203039?profile=original" target="_self"><img src="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/74203039?profile=original" width="700" class="align-full"/></a></p>
<p><span><a href="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/74202224?profile=original" target="_self"><img src="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/74202224?profile=original" width="700" class="align-full"/></a></span></p>
<p><span><a href="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/74202312?profile=original" target="_self"><img src="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/74202312?profile=original" width="700" class="align-full"/></a></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Data source: [143] IPMA<a href="https://www.ipma.pt/pt/geofisica/sismologia/" target="_blank"><br/></a></span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span class="font-size-7" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Sweden</span></p>
<p><a href="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/74203226?profile=original" target="_self"><img src="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/74203226?profile=original" width="700" class="align-full"/></a></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span class="font-size-7" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Hungary</span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span class="font-size-7" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/74203410?profile=original" target="_self"><img src="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/74203410?profile=original" width="700" class="align-full"/></a></span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 20pt;">Spain and Canary islands</span></p>
<p><span class="font-size-6"><a href="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/74203470?profile=original" target="_self"><img src="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/74203470?profile=original" width="700"/></a></span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16pt;">All Earthquakes in Canary islands</span></p>
<p><a href="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/74203384?profile=original" target="_self"><img src="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/74203384?profile=original" width="638" class="align-center"/></a></p>
<p><span><a href="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/74203474?profile=original" target="_self"><img src="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/74203474?profile=original" width="700" class="align-full"/></a></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Earthquakes data: [110] Instituto Geografico Nacional</span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span class="font-size-7" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Earthquakes increase in North America continent?</span></p>
<p style="text-align: left;"><a href="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/74201549?profile=original" target="_self"><img src="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/74201549?profile=original" width="700" class="align-full"/></a></p>
<p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span>I made this map using QGIS. </span></span></p>
<p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">All earthquakes in North America between 2009 - 2016</span></p>
<p style="text-align: left;"><a href="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/74201698?profile=original" target="_self"><img src="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/74201698?profile=original" width="700" class="align-full"/></a></p>
<p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">All earthquakes in North America between 2000 - 2008</span></p>
<p style="text-align: left;"><a href="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/74203390?profile=original" target="_self"><img src="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/74203390?profile=original" width="700" class="align-full"/></a></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span class="font-size-6" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">United States earthquakes M > 3</span></p>
<p style="text-align: left;"><a href="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/74201983?profile=original" target="_self"><img src="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/74201983?profile=original" width="611" class="align-center"/></a></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 20pt;">United States without California M > 3</span></p>
<p style="text-align: left;"><a href="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/74202009?profile=original" target="_self"><img src="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/74202009?profile=original" width="611" class="align-center"/></a><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Earthquake data: USGS [130]</span></p>
<p><a href="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/74203504?profile=original" target="_self"><img src="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/74203504?profile=original" width="700" class="align-full"/></a></p>
<p><a href="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/74203397?profile=original" target="_self"><img src="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/74203397?profile=original" width="700" class="align-full"/></a></p>
<p><a href="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/74203519?profile=original" target="_self"><img src="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/74203519?profile=original" width="700" class="align-full"/></a></p>
<p><a href="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/74203491?profile=original" target="_self"><img src="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/74203491?profile=original" width="700" class="align-full"/></a></p>
<p><a href="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/74203541?profile=original" target="_self"><img src="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/74203541?profile=original" width="700" class="align-full"/></a></p>
<p><a href="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/74203501?profile=original" target="_self"><img src="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/74203501?profile=original" width="700" class="align-full"/></a></p>
<p><a href="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/74203661?profile=original" target="_self"><img src="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/74203661?profile=original" width="700" class="align-full"/></a></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;" class="font-size-6">All US Earthquakes M>3. California earthquakes decrease</span></p>
<p><a href="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/74203571?profile=original" target="_self"><img src="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/74203571?profile=original" width="611" class="align-center"/></a></p>
<p><a href="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/74203612?profile=original" target="_self"><img src="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/74203612?profile=original" width="686" class="align-full"/></a></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span class="font-size-6" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Mexico</span></p>
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<p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 20pt;">Mexico earthquakes M>6</span></p>
<p style="text-align: left;"><span class="font-size-2" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/74203684?profile=original" target="_self"><img src="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/74203684?profile=original" width="595" class="align-center"/></a></span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;" class="font-size-6">All Earthquakes</span></p>
<p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><a href="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/74201995?profile=original" target="_self"><img src="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/74201995?profile=original" width="634" class="align-center"/></a></span></p>
<p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">As we see earthquakes with a magnitude of 3, 4, 5, 6 and even 7 show increase. While earthquake between 0 - 2.9 show increase in sesmic stations. But even if we assume that earthquakes of magnitude 3 are fully absorbed due to the increase in seismic stations, earthquakes of a magnitude higher are difficult to explain.</span></p>
<p style="text-align: left;"><a href="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/74202056?profile=original" target="_self"><img src="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/74202056?profile=original" width="699" class="align-full"/></a></p>
<p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/74203592?profile=original" target="_self"><img src="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/74203592?profile=original" width="700" class="align-full"/></a></span></p>
<p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Earthquakes data: [96] Servicio Sismologico Nacional | UNAM, Mexico</span></p>
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<p style="text-align: left;"><a href="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/74203752?profile=original" target="_self"><img src="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/74203752?profile=original" width="687" class="align-full"/></a></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span class="font-size-6" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Canada</span></p>
<p style="text-align: left;"><a href="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/74203638?profile=original" target="_self"><img src="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/74203638?profile=original" width="700" class="align-full"/></a></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span class="font-size-6" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Canada earthquakes m>3</span></p>
<p style="text-align: left;"><a href="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/74203757?profile=original" target="_self"><img src="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/74203757?profile=original" width="621" class="align-center"/></a></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;" class="font-size-6">All Earthquakes Canada</span></p>
<p style="text-align: left;"><a href="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/74203722?profile=original" target="_self"><img src="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/74203722?profile=original" width="609" class="align-center"/></a></p>
<p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span>Earthquake data source: [103] Natural Resources Canada</span></span></p>
<p style="text-align: left;"><a href="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/74203726?profile=original" target="_self"><img src="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/74203726?profile=original" width="700" class="align-full"/></a></p>
<p style="text-align: left;"><a href="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/74203733?profile=original" target="_self"><img src="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/74203733?profile=original" width="700" class="align-full"/></a></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span class="font-size-6" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Korean Peninsula earthquakes</span></p>
<p style="text-align: left;"><a href="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/74202072?profile=original" target="_self"><img src="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/74202072?profile=original" width="700" class="align-full"/></a></p>
<p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Infographics references:</span></p>
<p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">[1] <span>Strongest-ever earthquake hits Korea, tremors felt nationwide. (2016, September 12). Retrieved August 14, 2017, from <a href="http://www.koreatimes.co.kr/www/news/nation/2016/09/116_214014.html">http://www.koreatimes.co.kr/www/news/nation/2016/09/116_214014.html</a></span></span></p>
<p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span>[2] <span>H. (2016, July 06). Korea no longer safe from earthquakes: experts. Retrieved August 14, 2017, from <a href="http://www.koreaherald.com/view.php?ud=20160706000745">http://www.koreaherald.com/view.php?ud=20160706000745</a></span></span></span></p>
<p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span>[3] KMA [106]</span></span></p>
<p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/74202155?profile=original" target="_self"><img src="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/74202155?profile=original" width="624" class="align-center"/></a></span></p>
<p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Earthquake data source: [106] KMA</span></p>
<p style="text-align: left;"><a href="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/74203738?profile=original" target="_self"><img src="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/74203738?profile=original" width="700" class="align-full"/></a></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 20pt;" class="font-size-6">China</span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/74203650?profile=original" target="_self"><img src="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/74203650?profile=original" width="700" class="align-full"/></a></p>
<p style="text-align: left;"><a href="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/74203802?profile=original" target="_self"><img src="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/74203802?profile=original" width="621" class="align-center"/></a></p>
<p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Earthquakes data source: [53] WDC for Seismology, Beijing</span></p>
<p style="text-align: left;"><a href="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/74203762?profile=original" target="_self"><img src="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/74203762?profile=original" width="700" class="align-full"/></a></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span class="font-size-6" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/74203808?profile=original" target="_self"><img src="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/74203808?profile=original" width="699" class="align-full"/></a></span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span class="font-size-6" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Number of opened sesmic stations in China per year</span></p>
<p style="text-align: left;"><a href="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/74202098?profile=original" target="_self"><img src="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/74202098?profile=original" width="544" class="align-center"/></a></p>
<p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Earthquakes data source: [53] WDC for Seismology, Beijing</span></p>
<p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">In 2004 and 2001 the stations were updated and since then nothing has changed. The explosion of activity in 2008 was caused by the Sichuan earthquake. But even without it, the data show growth.</span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span class="font-size-6" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Japan</span></p>
<p style="text-align: left;"><a href="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/74203766?profile=original" target="_self"><img src="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/74203766?profile=original" width="700" class="align-full"/></a></p>
<p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Infographic references: </span><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">[1, 2] </span><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">2011 Tohoku earthquake and tsunami. (2017, August 14). Retrieved August 14, 2017, from <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2011_T%C5%8Dhoku_earthquake_and_tsunami">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2011_T%C5%8Dhoku_earthquake_and_tsunami</a></span></p>
<p style="text-align: left;"><a href="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/74203748?profile=original" target="_self"><img src="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/74203748?profile=original" width="660" class="align-center"/></a></p>
<p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Source: [116] Japan Meteorological Agency</span></p>
<p style="text-align: left;"><a href="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/74203769?profile=original" target="_self"><img src="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/74203769?profile=original" width="700" class="align-full"/></a></p>
<p style="text-align: left;"><a href="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/74203814?profile=original" target="_self"><img src="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/74203814?profile=original" width="685" class="align-full"/></a></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span class="font-size-7" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Indonesia</span></p>
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<p style="text-align: left;"><a href="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/74204506?profile=original" target="_self"><img src="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/74204506?profile=original" width="686" class="align-full"/></a></p>
<p style="text-align: left;"><a href="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/74204551?profile=original" target="_self"><img src="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/74204551?profile=original" width="686" class="align-full"/></a></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 20pt; text-align: center;">Malaysia</span></p>
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<p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 20pt; text-align: center;">New Zealand</span></p>
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<p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 20pt;">All Earthquakes in New Zealand</span></p>
<p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/74202132?profile=original" target="_self"><img src="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/74202132?profile=original" width="613" class="align-center"/></a></span></p>
<p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Earthquake data source: [55] GeoNet earthquake catalogue</span></p>
<p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Since 2012 Geonet change magnitude type. </span></p>
<p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/74202189?profile=original" target="_self"><img width="300" src="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/74202189?profile=RESIZE_320x320" width="300" class="align-center"/></a></span></p>
<p style="text-align: left;"><a href="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/74204902?profile=original" target="_self"><img src="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/74204902?profile=original" width="684" class="align-full"/></a></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span class="font-size-6" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Nepal</span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span class="font-size-6" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/74204842?profile=original" target="_self"><img src="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/74204842?profile=original" width="700" class="align-full"/></a></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Infographic references:</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">[1] <span>Desk, E. W. (2015, April 27). Timeline: Nepal 2015 to 1934, the worst quake disasters in the last 80 years. Retrieved August 14, 2017, from <a href="http://indianexpress.com/article/world/neighbours/timeline-nepal-2015-to-nepal-1934-the-worst-earthquake-disasters-in-the-last-80-years/">http://indianexpress.com/article/world/neighbours/timeline-nepal-2015-to-nepal-1934-the-worst-earthquake-disasters-in-the-last-80-years/</a></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span>[2] <span>Khadka, N. S. (2015, May 08). Himalayan 'drop after Nepal quake'. Retrieved August 14, 2017, from <a href="http://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-32625431">http://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-32625431</a></span></span></span></p>
<p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/74202192?profile=original" target="_self"><img src="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/74202192?profile=original" width="611" class="align-center"/></a></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Earthquake data: [24] National Seismological Centre Nepal</span></p>
<p style="text-align: left;"><a href="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/74204950?profile=original" target="_self"><img src="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/74204950?profile=original" width="700" class="align-full"/></a></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span class="font-size-6" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Thailand and neabry areas</span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/74204973?profile=original" target="_self"><img src="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/74204973?profile=original" width="700" class="align-full"/></a></p>
<p><a href="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/74202206?profile=original" target="_self"><img src="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/74202206?profile=original" width="637" class="align-center"/></a></p>
<p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Data source: [29] Thai Meteorological Department</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/74205032?profile=original" target="_self"><img src="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/74205032?profile=original" width="684" class="align-full"/></a></span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span class="font-size-6" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Australia, Queensland</span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/74204989?profile=original" target="_self"><img src="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/74204989?profile=original" width="700" class="align-full"/></a></p>
<p><a href="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/74202208?profile=original" target="_self"><img src="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/74202208?profile=original" width="606" class="align-center"/></a></p>
<p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Earthquake data source: [35] CQSRG Monitoring network</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">This non-commercial network has only two seismic stations.</span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/74205096?profile=original" target="_self"><img src="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/74205096?profile=original" width="686" class="align-full"/></a></span><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 24pt; text-align: center;">Russia</span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/74205101?profile=original" target="_self"><img src="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/74205101?profile=original" width="700" class="align-full"/></a></p>
<p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Infographic references:</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">[1] <span>Ghose, T. (2013, September 19). Earth's Biggest Deep Earthquake Still a Mystery. Retrieved August 14, 2017, from <a href="https://www.livescience.com/39791-biggest-deep-earthquake-a-mystery.html">https://www.livescience.com/39791-biggest-deep-earthquake-a-mystery.html</a></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">[2] </span><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Oskin, B. (2013, May 24). Russian Earthquake Could Be Deepest Ever. Retrieved August 14, 2017, from <a href="https://www.livescience.com/34671-russian-earthquake-deepest-ever.html">https://www.livescience.com/34671-russian-earthquake-deepest-ever.html</a></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">[3] <span>Englund, W. (2013, May 24). Massive Russian earthquake felt 4,000 miles from epicenter. Retrieved August 14, 2017, from <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/worldviews/wp/2013/05/24/massive-russian-earthquake-felt-4000-miles-from-epicenter/">https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/worldviews/wp/2013/05/24/massive-russian-earthquake-felt-4000-miles-from-epicenter/</a></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/74204999?profile=original" target="_self"><img src="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/74204999?profile=original" width="686" class="align-full"/></a></span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;" class="font-size-6">All earthquakes in Russia</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/74202210?profile=original" target="_self"><img src="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/74202210?profile=original" width="615" class="align-center"/></a></span></p>
<p><a href="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/74202145?profile=original" target="_self"><img src="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/74202145?profile=original" width="700" class="align-full"/></a></p>
<p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/74202214?profile=original" target="_self"><img src="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/74202214?profile=original" width="700" class="align-full"/></a></span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span> </span></span><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 20pt; text-align: center;">Deep earthquakes increase in Russia? </span></p>
<p><a href="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/74202216?profile=original" target="_self"><img src="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/74202216?profile=original" width="700" class="align-full"/></a></p>
<p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Data source: [40] Geophysical Survey of the Russian Academy of Sciences</span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span class="font-size-6" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Opened sesmic stations per year in Russia between 1990 - 2016</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/74202306?profile=original" target="_self"><img src="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/74202306?profile=original" width="542" class="align-center"/></a></span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span class="font-size-6" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Closed sesmic stations per year in Russia between 1990 - 2016</span></p>
<p><a href="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/74202269?profile=original" target="_self"><img src="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/74202269?profile=original" width="542" class="align-center"/></a></p>
<p><a href="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/74205157?profile=original" target="_self"><img src="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/74205157?profile=original" width="700" class="align-full"/></a></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/74205104?profile=original" target="_self"><img src="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/74205104?profile=original" width="700" class="align-full"/></a></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 20pt; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 24pt;">Ukraine</span></p>
<p><a href="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/74205107?profile=original" target="_self"><img src="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/74205107?profile=original" width="687" class="align-full"/></a></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span class="font-size-7" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/74205202?profile=original" target="_self"><img src="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/74205202?profile=original" width="700" class="align-full"/></a></span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span class="font-size-7" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Kazakhstan </span></p>
<p><a href="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/74205205?profile=original" target="_self"><img src="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/74205205?profile=original" width="687" class="align-full"/></a></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span class="font-size-7" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Ecuador</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;" class="font-size-7"><a href="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/74205207?profile=original" target="_self"><img src="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/74205207?profile=original" width="685" class="align-full"/></a></span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span class="font-size-7" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Iran</span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span class="font-size-7" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/74205109?profile=original" target="_self"><img src="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/74205109?profile=original" width="700" class="align-full"/></a></span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span class="font-size-7" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Pakistan</span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span class="font-size-7" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/74205211?profile=original" target="_self"><img src="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/74205211?profile=original" width="700" class="align-full"/></a><a href="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/74205233?profile=original" target="_self"></a></span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 24pt;">Puerto Rico</span></p>
<p><a href="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/74205111?profile=original" target="_self"><img src="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/74205111?profile=original" width="700" class="align-full"/></a></p>
<p style="text-align: left;"><span class="font-size-2" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Infographic reference: [1] <span>Red Sismica de Puerto Rico [132]</span></span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span class="font-size-6" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Earthquakes m>6 </span></p>
<p><a href="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/74205113?profile=original" target="_self"><img src="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/74205113?profile=original" width="599" class="align-center"/></a></p>
<p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Earthquake data source: [132] Red Sismica de Puerto Rico</span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;" class="font-size-7">Costa Rica</span></p>
<p><a href="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/74205115?profile=original" target="_self"><img src="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/74205115?profile=original" width="700" class="align-full"/></a></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 20pt;">Haiti</span></p>
<p style="text-align: left;"><span class="font-size-7" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/74205118?profile=original" target="_self"><img src="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/74205118?profile=original" width="700" class="align-full"/></a></span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span class="font-size-6" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Cuba</span></p>
<p><a href="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/74202287?profile=original" target="_self"><img src="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/74202287?profile=original" width="615" class="align-center"/></a></p>
<p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">The increase in earthquakes in Cuba is caused by an unprecedented earthquake in Haiti in 2010.</span></p>
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<p><a href="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/74202325?profile=original" target="_self"><img src="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/74202325?profile=original" width="694" class="align-full"/></a></p>
<p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/74202240?profile=original" target="_self"><img src="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/74202240?profile=original" class="align-full"/></a></span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span class="font-size-5" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Second magnitude type</span></p>
<p><a href="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/74202295?profile=original" target="_self"><img src="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/74202295?profile=original" width="700" class="align-full"/></a></p>
<p><a href="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/74202297?profile=original" target="_self"><img src="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/74202297?profile=original" class="align-full"/></a></p>
<p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Earthquake data source: Centro Nacional de Investigaciones Sismologicas (CENAIS)</span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 24pt;">Zimbabwe</span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span class="font-size-7" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/74205163?profile=original" target="_self"><img src="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/74205163?profile=original" width="684" class="align-full"/></a></span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span class="font-size-7" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Namibia</span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span class="font-size-7" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/74205120?profile=original" target="_self"><img src="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/74205120?profile=original" width="699" class="align-full"/></a></span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span class="font-size-7" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Sri Lanka</span></p>
<p><span class="font-size-7" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/74205166?profile=original" target="_self"><img src="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/74205166?profile=original" width="684" class="align-full"/></a></span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span class="font-size-7" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Nigeria</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/74205123?profile=original" target="_self"><img src="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/74205123?profile=original" width="684" class="align-full"/></a></span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span class="font-size-7" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Botswana</span></p>
<p style="text-align: left;"><a href="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/74205168?profile=original" target="_self"><img src="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/74205168?profile=original" width="686" class="align-full"/></a></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span class="font-size-7" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/74205218?profile=original" target="_self"><img src="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/74205218?profile=original" width="699" class="align-full"/></a></span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span class="font-size-7" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Cover-up. Fracking, Wastewater-injection, Wastewater disposal in North American continent</span></p>
<p style="text-align: left;"><a href="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/74205220?profile=original" target="_self"><img src="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/74205220?profile=original" width="700" class="align-full"/></a></p>
<p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Source of images: [<a href="http://theamericanenergynews.com/energy-politics/sierra-club-law-suit-oil-oklahoma-earthquakes-19feb16" target="_blank">1</a>], [<a href="http://www.seismo.ethz.ch/static/100j/snapshot03/sl03_EN.html" target="_blank">2</a>], [<a href="http://inhabitat.com/oklahoma-earthquake-activity-up-4000-locals-sue-oil-and-gas-companies/" target="_blank">3</a>], [<a href="https://earthquake.usgs.gov/research/induced/" target="_blank">4]</a>, [5]</span></p>
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<p><a href="https://www.extremetech.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/saWEB_Kuch_frack_desktopREV.jpg" target="_blank"><img src="https://www.extremetech.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/saWEB_Kuch_frack_desktopREV.jpg" class="align-center"/></a></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><em><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Source of images: <a href="https://www.extremetech.com/extreme/225753-united-states-geological-survey-confirms-it-fracking-causes-earthquakes" target="_blank">extremetech.com</a></span></em></p>
<p style="text-align: left;"><a href="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/74205223?profile=original" target="_self"><img src="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/74205223?profile=original" width="699" class="align-full"/></a></p>
<p style="text-align: left;"><em><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Links: [<a href="https://www.usnews.com/news/articles/2015/05/06/after-oklahoma-earthquakes-silence-in-the-sooner-state" target="_blank">1</a>], [<a href="http://www.tulsaworld.com/newshomepage1/quake-debate-science-questioned-while-state-s-earthquake-studies-go/article_eedb5ada-46eb-5550-8f56-04c5cc9966b4.html" target="_blank">2</a>], [<a href="http://www.ogs.ou.edu/pdf/OGS_POSITION_STATEMENT_2_18_14.pdf" target="_blank">3</a>]</span></em></p>
<p style="text-align: left;"><a href="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/74205172?profile=original" target="_self"><img src="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/74205172?profile=original" width="700" class="align-full"/></a></p>
<p style="text-align: left;"><a href="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/74205225?profile=original" target="_self"><img src="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/74205225?profile=original" width="687" class="align-full"/></a></p>
<p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/74205227?profile=original" target="_self"><img src="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/74205227?profile=original" width="687" class="align-full"/></a></span></p>
<p style="text-align: left;"><em><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/74205126?profile=original" target="_self"><img src="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/74205126?profile=original" width="700" class="align-full"/></a></span></em></p>
<p style="text-align: left;"><em><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Links: [<a href="http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/edmonton/earthquakes-tremors-fracking-research-study-university-alberta-1.4178039" target="_blank">1</a>], [<a href="https://phys.org/news/2012-06-fracking-earthquakes.html" target="_blank">2</a>], [<a href="https://energyindepth.org/national/banning-wastewater-injection-wrong-response-earthquakes-oklahoma/" target="_blank">3</a>] - (<a href="http://news.stanford.edu/2015/06/18/okla-quake-drilling-061815/" target="_blank">1</a>, <a href="http://www.usgs.gov/faq/categories/9833/3418" target="_blank">2</a>, <a href="http://www.reuters.com/article/us-oil-quakes-oklahoma-exclusive-idUSKBN0P42PO20150624" target="_blank">3</a>)</span></em></p>
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<p style="text-align: center;"></p>Indonesia aerial photo and video flood for 2011 year! Detailed investigation sinking for Jakarta and Semarang, Jawa!tag:poleshift.ning.com,2015-01-05:3863141:BlogPost:8172202015-01-05T22:00:00.000ZStanislavhttps://poleshift.ning.com/profile/Stanislav
<p><strong>Jakarta:</strong></p>
<p><strong><a href="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/74166563?profile=original" target="_self"><img class="align-full" src="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/74166563?profile=original"></img></a></strong></p>
<p><span id="result_box" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><span class="hps"><span id="result_box" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><span class="hps">When I found</span> <span class="hps">these videos</span>, some <span class="hps">of them</span> <span class="hps">showed</span> <span class="hps">conventional</span> <span class="hps">rice…</span></span></span></span></p>
<p><strong>Jakarta:</strong></p>
<p><strong><a target="_self" href="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/74166563?profile=original"><img class="align-full" src="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/74166563?profile=original"/></a></strong></p>
<p><span id="result_box" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><span class="hps"><span id="result_box" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><span class="hps">When I found</span> <span class="hps">these videos</span>, some <span class="hps">of them</span> <span class="hps">showed</span> <span class="hps">conventional</span> <span class="hps">rice fields.</span> <span class="hps">Therefore, there was confusion. But upon research into 2008 videos it is obvious there is sinking in many places.</span></span></span></span></p>
<p><strong><span id="result_box" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><span class="hps">Nancy</span> <span class="hps">has helped to make</span> <span class="hps">research</span> <span class="hps">on this issue:</span></span></strong></p>
<p>"Found two, between 2008 and 2011. The first series shows where the planes turn to go directly toward the city, aiming for the landing strip, a perpendicular (at right angles) shot from the coastline. One can see more flooding in the area when 2008 is compared to 2011 shots.</p>
<p><a target="_self" href="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/74166633?profile=original"><img width="750" class="align-full" src="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/74166633?profile=RESIZE_1024x1024" width="750"/></a></p>
<p>The second group is of a water canal that is distinctive. Here one does NOT see more flooding between 2008 and 2011, but this spot is a higher elevation than the other, I think. Attached a couple maps. You can see that just above Kapuk (the canal location) there is land at a 7 foot elevation drop, where just under the plane as it heads for landing at Kamal (the site of a crooked canal which shows up on the photos) <strong>it is flooded at 7 foot elevation drop</strong>."</p>
<p><a target="_self" href="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/74166739?profile=original"><img width="750" class="align-full" src="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/74166739?profile=RESIZE_1024x1024" width="750"/></a><strong>Source photo:</strong></p>
<p><strong><span id="eow-date" class="watch-video-date">06.09.2011</span></strong> - <a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dFmauBMVwws&feature=related">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dFmauBMVwws&feature=related</a></p>
<p><strong><span id="eow-date" class="watch-video-date">10.03.2008</span></strong> - <a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b7soiZl_wJY&feature=related">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b7soiZl_wJY&feature=related</a></p>
<p><strong><span id="eow-date" class="watch-video-date">22.07.2011</span> -</strong> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=lMf3e0MSWI0">http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=lMf3e0MSWI0</a></p>
<p><strong><span id="eow-date" class="watch-video-date">25.01.2011</span></strong> - <a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=O8ssJTyLWtY">http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=O8ssJTyLWtY</a></p>
<p>^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^</p>
<p><strong>Semarang:</strong></p>
<p><strong><a target="_self" href="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/74166815?profile=original"><img class="align-full" src="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/74166815?profile=original"/></a></strong></p>
<p><span id="result_box" class="short_text" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><span class="hps">The same</span> <span class="hps">situation occurred</span> <span class="hps">in Semarang.</span></span></p>
<p>I could find in 2010 of Semarang. And in this video could be seen sinking on the other areas in Semarang.</p>
<p><strong><span id="eow-date" class="watch-video-date">18.12.2010 - Russian date<br/></span></strong></p>
<p><strong><span class="watch-video-date">12/18/2010<br/></span></strong></p>
<p><a target="_self" href="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/74166904?profile=original"><img width="750" class="align-full" src="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/74166904?profile=RESIZE_1024x1024" width="750"/></a><strong>Source:</strong></p>
<p><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=rbt1BRzTgIU#">http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=rbt1BRzTgIU#</a>!</p>
<p>But still need to compare all videos!</p>
<p><span class="short_text" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><span class="hps">Nancy again help me:<br/></span></span></p>
<p>"Aircraft looking east (takeoff or landing) and coastline to the west of Semarang – A to A comparison. 2008 does not have the flooding that 12/18/2010 or 2011 has. Proof of sinking."</p>
<p><a target="_self" href="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/74166891?profile=original"><img width="750" class="align-full" src="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/74166891?profile=RESIZE_1024x1024" width="750"/></a><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lcbuOagY_UM" target="blank">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lcbuOagY_UM</a><br/> Apr 11, 2011<br/> <br/> <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=okYjzLESwZs" target="blank">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=okYjzLESwZs</a><br/> Oct 26, 2011<br/> <br/> <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rbt1BRzTgIU" target="blank">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rbt1BRzTgIU</a><br/> 12/18/2010<br/> <br/> <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9r1GdMB9SUk" target="blank">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9r1GdMB9SUk</a><br/> 2/26/2008</p>
<p>^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^</p>
<p><strong>Surabaya</strong>:</p>
<p></p>
<p><strong><span id="eow-date" class="watch-video-date">10.05.2007</span> <span class="watch-video-date">- <a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=XQCStCBVyOo">http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=XQCStC...</a></span></strong></p>
<p><strong><span id="eow-date" class="watch-video-date">28.07.2011</span> - <a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=nio0C4yMs24">http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=nio0C4yMs24</a></strong></p>
<p><span style="text-decoration: underline; color: #ff0000;"><strong><span id="result_box" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><span class="hps">The difference (flood) is</span> <span class="hps">entirely</span> <span class="hps">missing!</span> <span class="hps">So</span> <span class="hps">these</span> <span class="hps">pictures</span> <span class="hps">with the usual</span> <span class="hps">rice fields</span>!</span></strong></span></p>
<p><a target="_self" href="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/74166952?profile=original"><img class="align-full" src="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/74166952?profile=original" width="640"/></a><strong>It's rice fields!!! It's not sinking!</strong></p>
<p>^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^</p>
<p><strong><span id="result_box" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><span class="hps">Unfortunately, other</span> <span class="hps">photo</span> <span class="hps">that I have found</span> <span class="hps">no</span> <span class="hps">similar</span></span> photos.</strong></p>
<p><strong><span id="result_box" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><span class="hps">But there is a</span> <span class="hps">photo</span> <span class="hps">that</span> <span class="hps">it is impossible</span> <span class="hps">to refute</span> <span class="hps">this</span></span></strong>:</p>
<p><strong>Java:</strong></p>
<p><a target="_self" href="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/74167057?profile=original"><img width="750" class="align-full" src="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/74167057?profile=RESIZE_1024x1024" width="750"/></a>Comparing Google with aerial photography is clear that the flood in 2011 more massive than at Google.</p>
<p>Also, comparing the conventional cards with the satellite, it is clear that we are losing altitude also in 2010.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=fGk_h62ui6A">http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=fGk_h62ui6A</a></p>
<p>^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^</p>
<p><strong>In this blog I posted a photo that can be proven.</strong><br/> <strong>Here there are also Java, South Borneo and some photos Jakarta:</strong></p>
<p><a href="http://poleshift.ning.com/profiles/blogs/landing-in-jakarta-photo-by-air-it-s-flood?id=3863141%3ABlogPost%3A816271&page=2#comments">http://poleshift.ning.com/profiles/blogs/landing-in-jakarta-photo-by-air-it-s-flood?id=3863141%3ABlogPost%3A816271&page=2#comments</a></p>
<p>^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^<strong><br/></strong></p>
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<p></p>Indonesia: North Jakarta nearly 70 percent , BELOW the sea!!/ Land Singkawang position BELOW sea level!!tag:poleshift.ning.com,2015-01-05:3863141:BlogPost:7974612015-01-05T17:30:00.000ZStanislavhttps://poleshift.ning.com/profile/Stanislav
<p><span id="result_box" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><strong><span class="hps">70</span> <span class="hps">Percent of</span> <span class="hps">Flood</span> <span class="hps">Prone</span> <span class="hps">Areas</span> <span class="hps">Koja</span></strong><br></br> <br></br> <br></br> <span class="hps">Koja</span> <span class="hps atn">(</span><span>Pos Kota</span><span>)</span> <span class="hps">-</span> <span class="hps">R<span style="color: #ff0000;"><strong>egion…</strong></span></span></span></p>
<p><span id="result_box" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><strong><span class="hps">70</span> <span class="hps">Percent of</span> <span class="hps">Flood</span> <span class="hps">Prone</span> <span class="hps">Areas</span> <span class="hps">Koja</span></strong><br/> <br/> <br/> <span class="hps">Koja</span> <span class="hps atn">(</span><span>Pos Kota</span><span>)</span> <span class="hps">-</span> <span class="hps">R<span style="color: #ff0000;"><strong>egion</strong></span></span> <span style="color: #ff0000;"><strong><span class="hps">Koja</span>, <span class="hps">North Jakarta</span> <span class="hps">nearly 70</span> <span class="hps">percent of</span> <span class="hps">its territory</span>, <span class="hps">under the</span> <span class="hps">sea</span>. <span class="hps">In the event of</span> <span class="hps">rain or</span> <span class="hps">high tide</span>, <span class="hps">the area</span> <span class="hps">is</span> <span class="hps">always</span> <span class="hps">flooded</span> <span class="hps">area</span> <span class="hps">with</span> <span class="hps">an average altitude of</span> <span class="hps">nearly</span> <span class="hps">30 to</span> <span class="hps">50 cm</span>.</strong></span><br/> <br/> <span class="hps">To</span> <span class="hps">anticipate,</span> <span class="hps">Head</span> <span class="hps">Koja</span><span>,</span> <span class="hps">Dedy</span> <span class="hps">Tarmizi</span> <span class="hps">had</span> <span class="hps">to clean</span> <span class="hps">the cabins</span> <span class="hps">wild</span> <span class="hps">and</span> <span class="hps">clean lines</span> <span class="hps">that</span> <span class="hps">dianggab</span> <span class="hps">cause of</span> <span class="hps">a puddle</span> <span class="hps">or</span> <span class="hps">clogged</span><span>.</span><br/> <br/> <span class="hps atn">"</span><span>This is</span> <span class="hps">the most</span> <span class="hps">effective</span> <span class="hps">way</span> <span class="hps">to</span> <span class="hps">prevent</span> <span class="hps">flooding</span><span>.</span> <span class="hps">For that</span> <span class="hps">I</span> <span class="hps">appealed to</span> <span class="hps">residents</span> <span class="hps">to</span> <span class="hps">remain a</span> <span class="hps">healthy environment</span> <span class="hps">of each,</span> <span class="hps">"said</span> <span class="hps">Dedy</span> <span class="hps">Tarmizi</span><span>.</span><br/> <br/> <span class="hps">As performed</span> <span class="hps">in RW</span> <span class="hps">7</span> <span class="hps">Lagoa</span><span>,</span> <span class="hps">RW 1</span> <span class="hps">Koja</span><span>,</span> <span class="hps">Pinang</span> <span class="hps">Kali</span><span>,</span> <span class="hps">Kali</span> <span class="hps">and Kali</span> <span class="hps">Sindang</span> <span class="hps">Malay</span> <span class="hps">Dam</span><span>.</span> <span class="hps">The area</span> <span class="hps">around the</span> <span class="hps">drains</span> <span class="hps">cleaned</span> <span class="hps">and</span> <span class="hps">dredged</span> <span class="hps">mud</span> <span class="hps">in the hope</span> <span class="hps">when it rains</span> <span class="hps">or</span> <span class="hps">tidal</span> <span class="hps">inundation</span> <span class="hps">does not</span> <span class="hps">occur</span><span>.</span><br/> <br/> <span class="hps">"The region</span> <span class="hps">is</span> <span class="hps">prone to</span> <span class="hps">inundation</span> <span class="hps">and</span> <span class="hps">flooding</span><span>.</span> <span class="hps">So we</span> <span class="hps">make</span> <span class="hps">the environment clean</span> <span class="hps">with</span> <span class="hps">the citizens</span> <span class="hps">so that</span> <span class="hps">later if</span> <span class="hps">there is rain</span> <span class="hps">or</span> <span class="hps">high water</span> <span class="hps">is not</span> <span class="hps">stagnant</span><span>,</span> <span class="hps">"explained</span> <span class="hps">Head</span> <span class="hps">residents</span> <span class="hps">who responded to</span> <span class="hps">requests</span> <span class="hps">about the</span> <span class="hps">dredging of</span> <span class="hps">waterways</span> <span class="hps">in the area of</span> <span class="hps">Lagoa</span><span>.</span><br/> <br/> <span class="hps">If</span> <span class="hps">this activity</span> <span class="hps">is maintained</span><span>, hopefully</span> <span class="hps">the water in</span> <span class="hps">fast</span> <span class="hps">flowing</span> <span class="hps">water channel</span> <span class="hps">citizens</span> <span class="hps">towards</span> <span class="hps">its mouth</span> <span class="hps">into the</span> <span class="hps">times</span><span>.</span> <span class="hps">Dedy</span> <span class="hps">Tarmizi</span> <span class="hps">also</span> <span class="hps">ask the</span> <span class="hps">board</span> <span class="hps">of RT /</span> <span class="hps">RW</span> <span class="hps">maintaining</span> <span class="hps">greenery</span> <span class="hps">on the banks of</span> <span class="hps">times</span><span>,</span> <span class="hps">so that</span> <span class="hps">banks</span> <span class="hps">remain</span> <span class="hps">pristine</span> <span class="hps">and protected from</span> <span class="hps">illegal buildings</span><span>.</span><br/> <br/> <span class="hps">Responding to</span> <span class="hps">the request,</span> <span class="hps">Chairman of</span> <span class="hps">RW</span> <span class="hps">13</span><span>,</span> <span class="hps">Lagoa</span><span>,</span> <span class="hps">Koja</span><span>,</span> <span class="hps">Asni</span> <span class="hps">welcomed</span><span>.</span> <span class="hps">In fact, she</span> <span class="hps">is also</span> <span class="hps">very</span> <span class="hps">excited</span> <span class="hps">because</span> <span class="hps">his boss</span> <span class="hps">wanted</span> <span class="hps">to see</span> <span class="hps">the figure of</span> <span class="hps">spaciousness</span> <span class="hps">and</span> <span class="hps">down</span> <span class="hps">with</span> <span class="hps">his staff to</span> <span class="hps">take action</span> <span class="hps">mutual help</span> <span class="hps">clean</span> <span class="hps">waterways.</span><br/> <br/> <span class="hps">In the</span> <span class="hps">action of</span> <span class="hps">these</span> <span class="hps">waterways</span> <span class="hps">clean</span><span>,</span> <span class="hps">the</span> <span class="hps">district</span> <span class="hps">also</span> <span class="hps">assisted</span> <span class="hps">a number of</span> <span class="hps">volunteer</span> <span class="hps">officers</span> <span class="hps">from the</span> <span class="hps">Agency</span> <span class="hps">of Water</span> <span class="hps">Works</span> <span class="hps">of North</span> <span class="hps">Jakarta</span> <span class="hps">to transport</span> <span class="hps">muds</span> <span class="hps">kerukan</span> <span class="hps">of</span> <span class="hps">waterways.</span> <span class="hps atn">(</span><span>Jim</span> <span class="hps">/</span> <span class="hps">b</span><span>)</span></span></p>
<p><a href="http://www.poskota.co.id/berita-terkini/2011/10/24/70-persen-wilayah-koja-rawan-banjir">http://www.poskota.co.id/berita-terkini/2011/10/24/70-persen-wilayah-koja-rawan-banjir</a></p>
<p>^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^</p>
<p><span id="result_box" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><strong><span class="hps">Flood</span> <span class="hps">Prone</span> <span class="hps">Singkawang</span></strong><br/> <br/> <br/> <span class="hps">TRIBUNPONTIANAK.CO.ID</span><span style="color: #ff0000;"><strong>, <span class="hps">Singkawang</span> <span class="hps">-</span> <span class="hps">Deputy Mayor</span> <span class="hps">Singkawang</span>, <span class="hps">Edy</span> <span class="hps">R</span> <span class="hps">Yacoub</span>, <span class="hps">stating</span> <span class="hps">that the</span> <span class="hps">land</span> <span class="hps">Singkawang</span> <span class="hps">position</span> <span class="hps">below</span> <span class="hps">sea level</span>.</strong></span><br/> <br/> <span class="hps">With</span> <span class="hps">such conditions</span><span>,</span> <span class="hps">said Edy</span><span>,</span> <span class="hps">Singkawang</span> <span class="hps">is</span> <span class="hps">flood-prone areas</span><span>.</span> <span class="hps atn">"</span><span>All we can</span> <span class="hps">do is</span> <span class="hps">make the water</span> <span class="hps">was</span> <span class="hps">not</span> <span class="hps">stagnant</span><span>,</span><span>" said</span> <span class="hps">Wawako</span> <span class="hps">met</span> <span class="hps atn">on Wednesday (</span><span>26/10/2011</span><span>)</span><span>.</span><br/> <br/> <span class="hps">Anticipating</span> <span class="hps">this possibility</span><span>,</span> <span class="hps">Wawako</span> <span class="hps">hopes to</span> <span class="hps">add</span> <span class="hps">the channel</span> <span class="hps">and</span> <span class="hps">keep it</span> <span class="hps">functioning</span><span>.</span> <span class="hps atn">"</span><span>I urge</span> <span class="hps">people not</span> <span class="hps">throw garbage</span> <span class="hps">in the</span> <span class="hps">drainage</span><span>,</span> <span class="hps">because it can</span> <span class="hps">clog</span> <span class="hps">water</span> <span class="hps">course</span><span>,</span><span>"</span> <span class="hps">he said</span></span></p>
<p><a href="http://pontianak.tribunnews.com/2011/10/26/singkawang-rawan-bencana-banjir">http://pontianak.tribunnews.com/2011/10/26/singkawang-rawan-bencana-banjir</a></p>
<p>^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^</p>7 of 10 SINKING Real Time Satellite Image - ADDITIONAL Imagestag:poleshift.ning.com,2015-01-05:3863141:BlogPost:8214192015-01-05T16:30:00.000ZStanislavhttps://poleshift.ning.com/profile/Stanislav
<p><strong><span lang="en" xml:lang="en"><span class="hps"><a href="http://lance-modis.eosdis.nasa.gov/imagery/subsets/?area=sea" target="_blank">Source: Real time satellite image Asia</a></span></span></strong></p>
<p><span style="color: #ff0000;"><strong><span class="short_text" id="result_box" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><span class="hps">Photos</span> <span class="hps">speak for themselves</span>!</span></strong></span></p>
<p><strong><span lang="en" xml:lang="en"><span class="hps">Indonesia…</span></span></strong></p>
<p><strong><span xml:lang="en" lang="en"><span class="hps"><a href="http://lance-modis.eosdis.nasa.gov/imagery/subsets/?area=sea" target="_blank">Source: Real time satellite image Asia</a></span></span></strong></p>
<p><span style="color: #ff0000;"><strong><span id="result_box" class="short_text" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><span class="hps">Photos</span> <span class="hps">speak for themselves</span>!</span></strong></span></p>
<p><strong><span xml:lang="en" lang="en"><span class="hps">Indonesia <span style="color: #ff0000;">SINKING</span>:<br/></span></span></strong></p>
<p><strong><span id="result_box" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><span class="hps">Each month,</span> <span class="hps">I took</span> <span class="hps">one photo</span> <span class="hps">to show the</span> <span class="hps">fluctuation</span> <span class="hps">of flooding.</span></span> <span id="result_box" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><span class="hps">I took</span> <span class="hps">a neat</span> <span class="hps">cloud-free</span> <span class="hps">image</span></span></strong></p>
<p><strong>12/30/2011</strong></p>
<p><a target="_self" href="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/74166494?profile=original"><img width="750" class="align-full" src="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/74166494?profile=RESIZE_1024x1024" width="750"/></a></p>
<p><strong><a target="_self" href="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/74166717?profile=original"><img width="750" class="align-full" src="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/74166717?profile=RESIZE_1024x1024" width="750"/></a></strong></p>
<p><span style="color: #ff0000;"><strong><span id="result_box" class="short_text" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><span class="hps">The sea</span> <span class="hps">is connected to the</span> <span class="hps">flood</span>!</span></strong></span></p>
<p><strong>Duration flood:<br/></strong></p>
<p><strong>11/27/2011</strong></p>
<p><a target="_self" href="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/74166744?profile=original"><img width="750" class="align-full" src="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/74166744?profile=RESIZE_1024x1024" width="750"/></a><strong>10/19/2011</strong><a target="_self" href="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/74167909?profile=original"><br/></a> <a target="_self" href="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/74167027?profile=original"><img width="750" class="align-full" src="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/74167027?profile=RESIZE_1024x1024" width="750"/></a><strong>09/29/2011</strong></p>
<p><strong><a target="_self" href="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/74167092?profile=original"><img width="750" class="align-full" src="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/74167092?profile=RESIZE_1024x1024" width="750"/></a></strong></p>
<p><strong>08/30/2011</strong></p>
<p><strong><a target="_self" href="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/74167135?profile=original"><img width="750" class="align-full" src="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/74167135?profile=RESIZE_1024x1024" width="750"/></a></strong></p>
<p><strong>07/31/2011</strong></p>
<p><strong><a target="_self" href="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/74167262?profile=original"><img width="750" class="align-full" src="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/74167262?profile=RESIZE_1024x1024" width="750"/></a></strong></p>
<p><strong>06/25/2011</strong></p>
<p><strong><a target="_self" href="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/74167250?profile=original"><img width="750" class="align-full" src="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/74167250?profile=RESIZE_1024x1024" width="750"/></a></strong></p>
<p><strong>05/29/2011</strong></p>
<p><strong><a target="_self" href="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/74167328?profile=original"><img width="750" class="align-full" src="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/74167328?profile=RESIZE_1024x1024" width="750"/></a></strong></p>
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<p><strong>Mynamr <span style="color: #ff0000;">SINKING</span>:</strong></p>
<p><strong>12/31/2011<br/></strong></p>
<p><a target="_self" href="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/74167342?profile=original"><img width="750" class="align-full" src="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/74167342?profile=RESIZE_1024x1024" width="750"/></a><strong><span id="result_box" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><span class="hps">And</span> <span class="hps">so</span> <span class="hps">you did not think</span> <span class="hps">that</span> <span class="hps">this has always been</span> <span class="hps">here</span>:</span></strong></p>
<p><strong><span xml:lang="en" lang="en"><a target="_self" href="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/74167505?profile=original"><img width="750" class="align-full" src="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/74167505?profile=RESIZE_1024x1024" width="750"/></a></span></strong></p>
<p><strong><span id="result_box" class="short_text" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><span class="hps">Duration of</span> <span class="hps">flooding</span>:</span></strong></p>
<p><strong><span class="short_text" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><a target="_self" href="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/74167465?profile=original"><img class="align-full" src="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/74167465?profile=original" width="706"/></a></span></strong></p>
<p><a target="_self" href="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/74167562?profile=original"><img class="align-full" src="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/74167562?profile=original" width="657"/></a></p>
<p>Other map here:</p>
<p><a href="http://lance-modis.eosdis.nasa.gov/imagery/subsets/?area=sea">http://lance-modis.eosdis.nasa.gov/imagery/subsets/?area=sea</a></p>
<p>^^^^^^^^^^^^^^</p>
<p><strong>Bangladesh <span style="color: #ff0000;">SINKING</span>:</strong></p>
<p><a target="_self" href="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/74167617?profile=original"><img width="750" class="align-full" src="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/74167617?profile=RESIZE_1024x1024" width="750"/></a></p>
<p><strong>Cambodia <span style="color: #ff0000;">SINKING</span>:</strong></p>
<p><strong>12/30/2011</strong></p>
<p><strong><a target="_self" href="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/74167799?profile=original"><img class="align-full" src="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/74167799?profile=original" width="591"/></a></strong></p>
<p><strong>7 of 10 sinking</strong></p>
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<p></p>7 of 10 SINKING; Ayutthaya was submerged due sea level rise; Central Vietnam immersed in sea watertag:poleshift.ning.com,2015-01-05:3863141:BlogPost:7950492015-01-05T08:30:00.000ZStanislavhttps://poleshift.ning.com/profile/Stanislav
<p><a href="http://www.channel4.com/media/images/Channel4/c4-news/2011/OCT/day18/18_floodmap.jpg" target="_blank"><img class="align-full" src="http://www.channel4.com/media/images/Channel4/c4-news/2011/OCT/day18/18_floodmap.jpg"></img></a></p>
<p><a href="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/74166885?profile=original" target="_self"><img class="align-full" src="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/74166885?profile=original"></img></a> <a href="http://msnbcmedia.msn.com/j/MSNBC/Components/Interactives/AP_interactives/World_News/South-Central-Asia/AsiaFloods-AP/asiaFloods.300w.jpg" target="_blank"><img class="align-full" src="http://msnbcmedia.msn.com/j/MSNBC/Components/Interactives/AP_interactives/World_News/South-Central-Asia/AsiaFloods-AP/asiaFloods.300w.jpg"></img></a></p>
<p><a target="_blank" href="http://www.channel4.com/media/images/Channel4/c4-news/2011/OCT/day18/18_floodmap.jpg"><img class="align-full" src="http://www.channel4.com/media/images/Channel4/c4-news/2011/OCT/day18/18_floodmap.jpg"/></a></p>
<p><a target="_self" href="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/74166885?profile=original"><img class="align-full" src="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/74166885?profile=original"/></a><a target="_blank" href="http://msnbcmedia.msn.com/j/MSNBC/Components/Interactives/AP_interactives/World_News/South-Central-Asia/AsiaFloods-AP/asiaFloods.300w.jpg"><img class="align-full" src="http://msnbcmedia.msn.com/j/MSNBC/Components/Interactives/AP_interactives/World_News/South-Central-Asia/AsiaFloods-AP/asiaFloods.300w.jpg"/></a><span style="font-family: arial black,avant garde;"> </span></p>
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<p><span style="font-family: arial black,avant garde;">Cambodia <span style="color: #ff0000;">SINKING:</span></span> <span style="color: #ff0000;"><strong>Flooding has affected 17 of Cambodia's 24 provinces, killing 247 people and forced the evacuation of more than 34,000 households, destroying some 200,000 hectares of rice fields in accordance to the National Committee for Disaster Management.</strong></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: arial black,avant garde;">Thailand <span style="color: #ff0000;">SINKING</span>:</span> <span style="color: #ff0000;"><strong><span id="result_box" lang="en"><span class="hps">Ayutthaya</span> <span class="hps">province</span> <span class="hps">and</span> <span class="hps">the</span> <span class="hps">Chao</span> <span class="hps">Phraya</span> <span class="hps">River Basin</span> <span class="hps">was</span> <span class="hps">submerged</span> <span class="hps">by</span> <span class="hps">flood</span> <span class="hps">waters</span> <span class="hps">in the</span> <span class="hps">sea</span>-level rise <span class="hps">and</span> <span class="hps">more and</span> <span class="hps">overflow their banks</span>./</span></strong></span> <span class="font-size-4" style="color: #ff0000;"><strong>Floods still prevail in 62 of 77 provinces, effecting about 2.8 million households and about 9 million people.</strong></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: arial black,avant garde;">Vietnam <span style="color: #ff0000;">SINKING</span>:</span> <span style="color: #ff0000;"><strong><span id="result_box" lang="en"><span title="Đến trưa 17/10, khu vực xóm Mới, thôn Phù Thị, xã Hưng Thủy bị ngập sâu trong biển nước; trong đó có nhà của mẹ con chị Nguyễn Thị Điệp và cháu nhỏ chưa đầy 1 tháng tuổi, bị lũ ngập đến sát">Phu Thi village, Hung Shui submerged in sea water /</span></span> <span class="font-size-4"><span id="result_box" lang="en"><span title="Miền Trung ngập chìm trong biển nước">Central immersed in sea water.</span></span> <span id="result_box" lang="en">More than 10 days floods in central provinces, there were 13 people dead, tens of thousands of homes in the deep sea./</span></span><span id="result_box" lang="en"><span title="Đến cuối giờ chiều nay 17/10 Tân Hóa vẫn chìm ngập trong biển nước.">Tan Hoa 10.17 pm today is immersed in sea water. <span class="font-size-4">/</span></span></span><span class="font-size-4" id="result_box" lang="en"><span title="Ðến chiều 18-10, nhiều vùng quê ở tỉnh Quảng Trị vẫn còn ngập trong biển nước, sâu nhất là các xã Hải Hòa, Hải Tân, Hải Thành (Hải Lăng), Triệu Thành, Triệu Long (Triệu Phong)...">Quang Tri province was still submerged in sea water</span></span></strong></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: arial black,avant garde;">Pakistan <span style="color: #ff0000;">SINKING</span>:</span> <span class="font-size-4" style="color: #ff0000;"><strong>In various flood hit districts of Sindh, life has not returned to normal due to stagnant water, despite passage of several weeks. /</strong></span><span class="font-size-3" style="color: #ff0000;"><strong>Efforts to drain out flood water from Mirpurkhas were underway but many areas including Police Lines, Complex, Railway Sub-way Bridge, offices of Food and Health departments were still submerged in water.</strong></span> <span class="font-size-3" style="color: #ff0000;"><strong>Two to five feet water was standing in Al-Mansoora Colony, Civil Hospital, Sessions Court, Nawabshah Road and other areas of Sanghar district.</strong></span> <span class="font-size-3" style="color: #ff0000;"><strong>In Khairpur, link roads were still under water and academic as well as official activities have not been restored in Faizganj, Nara and adjacent areas.</strong></span> <span class="font-size-3" style="color: #ff0000;"><strong>Many tehsils of Dadu and Nawabshah districts were also submerged under several feet of water creating halt in rehabilitation process. /</strong></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: arial black,avant garde;">India <span style="color: #ff0000;">SINKING</span>:</span> <span class="font-size-4" style="color: #ff0000;"><strong>Flash flood in Pampa might have been due land slides /</strong></span><span style="color: #ff0000;"><strong>The recent flood fury in Kendrapada, Jagatsinghpur and Jajpur districts has affected standing paddy crops, threatening shortfall in crop production. Nearly one lakh hectares of paddy was submerged in these areas.</strong></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: arial black,avant garde;">Burma SINKING:</span> <strong>Dozens killed, hundreds missing, in Pakkokku flood</strong> /<span style="text-decoration: underline;"><strong>Nearly 200 people are missing or dead and thousands more affected by heavy floods in central Burma’s Magwe division</strong></span></p>
<p><strong><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">India:</span></strong></p>
<p><strong>Farmers suffer huge losses in recent floods</strong><br/> <br/>
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KENDRAPADA: <span style="color: #ff0000;"><strong>The recent flood fury in Kendrapada, Jagatsinghpur and Jajpur districts has affected standing paddy crops, threatening shortfall in crop production. Nearly one lakh hectares of paddy was submerged in these areas.</strong></span><br/>
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The secondary crops of sugarcane and jute were also affected in the floods, including a variety of vegetables, causing a further rise in the price of food stuff. The price of rice has shot up to Rs 300 to 400 per quintal over the last week, caused mainly by unscrupulous traders indulging in hoarding. Rice stocks are not freely available even at the high prices as a section of millers and wholesale traders have joined hands to create an artificial scarcity in the wake of reports that paddy production is likely to fall due to floods. The price of rice in retail market has jumped from Rs 17 a kg to Rs 20-22 a kg for preferred varieties.</p>
<p><a href="http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/2011-10-17/bhubaneswar/30288959_1_crop-loans-flood-fury-paddy-crops">http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/2011-10-17/bhubaneswar/30288959_1_crop-loans-flood-fury-paddy-crops</a></p>
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<p><strong>Flash flood in Pampa, parking lots at Triveni inundated</strong><br/> <br/>
Water level in River Pampa, on the foothills of Sabarimala, witnessed a sudden spurt around 8.15 p.m. following heavy downpour in the forests, on Wednesday.<br/>
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The river breached its banks following flash floods and the vehicle parking lots at Pampa-Triveni, on the banks of Pampa and the Pampa Manalpuram were inundated with flood waters. Many vehicles parked at Triveni parking lots have been submerged in the flash flood, according to reports received here from Pampa at 8.30 p.m..<br/>
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<span style="color: #ff0000;"><strong>Forest department sources at Pampa told The Hindu that the flash flood in Pampa might have been due land slides that may have occurred somewhere in the interiors of the forests.</strong></span><br/>
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Sannidhanm-bound pilgrims had to wade through the flood waters along the Pampa Manalpuram in the evening, sources said.<br/>
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The holy hillock of Sabarimala witnessed heavy rush on Wednesday too as hundreds of pilgrims trekked the holy hills, braving the heavy downpour.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/Thiruvananthapuram/article2552380.ece">http://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/Thiruvananthapuram/article2552380.ece</a></p>
<p>^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^</p>
<p><strong><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Burma:</span></strong></p>
<p><strong>Dozens killed, hundreds missing, in Pakkokku flood</strong><br/> <br/>
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Chaing Mai (Mizzima) – As of noon Friday, 58 people are confirmed to have drowned, with hundreds others still missing, in the Shwechaung stream in the east of Pakkokku Township, Magwe Division, according to the Immigration <br/>
A key bridge on the road connecting Pakkokku with Mandalay in central Burma lies in ruins after heavy rains and flash floods swept through the region. The storms are being blamed for dozens of deaths. Photo: Mizzima.<br/>
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The deaths are blamed on flash flooding caused by torrential rains in the region. A further 320 people are still missing as a result of landslides and flood waters, a local official said.<br/>
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Residents in the area report at least 500 houses from an illegal slum quarter called Kyatthit, located beside the Shwechaung stream, were swept away by the flood waters.<br/>
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<span style="text-decoration: underline;"><strong>“There was a landslide along the bank of the stream, about 400 or 500 yards in length in some places. About 15 to 20 feet of soil eroded and the houses were swept away by the water. In total about 500 houses [were effected],” said one resident.</strong></span><br/>
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Four relief centres in local monasteries have opened to care for flood victims.<br/>
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Residents further state that transportation in the area has been severed, as a concrete bridge over the stream, an important link on the road connecting Pakkokku with Mandalay, suffered heavy damage. Pakkokku’s fire brigade is building an emergency bypass.<br/>
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On Thursday evening local authorities in Pakkokku warned that because of heavy rain there could be small effects around downtown areas of Pakkokku.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.mizzima.com/news/breaking-and-news-brief/6091-dozens-killed-hundreds-missing-in-pakkokku-flood.html">http://www.mizzima.com/news/breaking-and-news-brief/6091-dozens-killed-hundreds-missing-in-pakkokku-flood.html</a></p>
<p>^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^</p>
<p><strong>Burma floods leave trail of devastation</strong><br/> <br/>
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<strong>Nearly 200 people are missing or dead and thousands more affected by heavy floods in central Burma’s Magwe division</strong>, as the deluge of uncharacteristic monsoon rains continue to wage destruction across Southeast Asia.<br/>
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Reports claim a flash flood swept away around 50 homes in Pakkoku yesterday; local police have confirmed that 38 bodies have been recovered from the river, the majority women. Around 150 are still missing. Up to 300 huts in a slum on the edge of town were also destroyed. Images taken yesterday show that the Shwechaung bridge, close to Pakkoku, has collapsed.<br/>
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More than 30 villages in Seikphyu township, around 50 miles south of Pakkoku, have also been affected by floods, fuelled by heavy rains that caused the nearby Yaw Creek to burst its banks.<br/>
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Locals there had little warning about the impeding disaster: one Seikphyu resident told DVB that water levels in the creek rose around 2am on Wednesday morning, uprooting trees and forcing thousands to flee.<br/>
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“Even two-story buildings are inundated up to the roof,” said another man in the nearby Chaungmagyi village tract. “I moved all my food stocks and belongings to the upper floor in my house but they’ve all been swamped.”<br/>
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He said that although people are struggling to find shelter, no fatalities have yet been reported in Chaungmagyi. Water levels have now dropped from eight feet to two feet, he added.<br/>
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Elsewhere the picture is similarly bleak. In the region around Magwe division’s Sinbyugyun town, some 20 villages were flooded after the Lin Zin dam north of the town broke. Swathes of farmland have been submerged.<br/>
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Neighbouring Thailand is currently experiencing its worst floods in more than 50 years. Close to 350 have been confirmed dead and many more are missing, as the floodwaters close in on Bangkok.<br/>
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During at least three months this year, rainfall was nearly twice the 30 year average. <span style="text-decoration: underline;"><strong>Areas of eastern Burma have also experienced landslides as a result of torrential rains.</strong></span></p>
<p><a href="http://www.dvb.no/news/burma-floods-leave-trail-of-devastation/18321">http://www.dvb.no/news/burma-floods-leave-trail-of-devastation/18321</a></p>
<p>^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^</p>
<p><strong><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Pakistan:</span></strong></p>
<p><strong>Affectees continue to suffer, life not returned to normal in flood hit areas of Sindh</strong><br/> <br/>
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<span style="color: #ff0000;"><strong>In various flood hit districts of Sindh, life has not returned to normal due to stagnant water, despite passage of several weeks.</strong></span><br/>
People of flood hit districts have to face hardships in reconstruction of destroyed infrastructure and preparing agricultural lands for cultivation of Rabbi crops.<br/>
Millions of acres of land in Mirpur, Benazirabad, Dadu, Thatta, Tando Muhammad Khan and Tando Alayar was still under water.<br/>
Though academic activities have been restored in some parts of the province but millions of students of hundreds of schools in the affected districts were not getting education as their schools were either completely destroyed due to rains and floods or damaged to such an extent that they were not in position to be used any more.<br/>
The affected population was of the view that government should accelerate the relief activities so as to help people in settling back in their native areas.<br/>
They said that steps taken by provincial and federal governments were not sufficient to deal with large scale destruction and more heavy machinery should be sent in the affected areas to drain out the stagnant flood water.<br/>
The affectees also appealed for payment of compensation as soon as possible so that they can reconstruct homes for them and restart cultivation, business and other activities to earn livelihood for their families.</p>
<p><a href="http://nation.com.pk/pakistan-news-newspaper-daily-english-online/Regional/Karachi/18-Oct-2011/Affectees-continue-to-suffer-life-not-returned-to-normal-in-flood-hit-areas-of-Sindh">http://nation.com.pk/pakistan-news-newspaper-daily-english-online/Regional/Karachi/18-Oct-2011/Affectees-continue-to-suffer-life-not-returned-to-normal-in-flood-hit-areas-of-Sindh</a></p>
<p>^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^</p>
<p><strong>Epidemics claim 10 lives in flood-hit Sindh</strong><br/> Submitted 2 days 19 hrs ago<br/>
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Epidemics continue to play havoc with people's lives in flood affected areas of Sindh as 10 people died of various diseases in different localities of the province during the last four days.<br/>
Epidemics were on the rise due to stagnant water, unhygienic, substandardfood supply and polluted drinking water in many districts of Sindh.<br/>
Different waterborne disease including diarrhea, malaria, gastroenteritis and others have claimed lives of 10 people including women and children during the last four days.<br/>
Children are affected most as they have less resistive power against the epidemics.<br/>
On the other hand, affected people have to suffer due to lack of medical facilities.<br/>
<span style="color: #ff0000;"><strong>Efforts to drain out flood water from Mirpurkhas were underway but many areas including Police Lines, Complex, Railway Sub-way Bridge, offices of Food and Health departments were still submerged in water.</strong></span><br/>
<span style="color: #ff0000;"><strong>Two to five feet water was standing in Al-Mansoora Colony, Civil Hospital, Sessions Court, Nawabshah Road and other areas of Sanghar district.</strong></span><br/>
<span style="color: #ff0000;"><strong>In Khairpur, link roads were still under water and academic as well as official activities have not been restored in Faizganj, Nara and adjacent areas.</strong></span><br/>
<span style="color: #ff0000;"><strong>Many tehsils of Dadu and Nawabshah districts were also submerged under several feet of water creating halt in rehabilitation process.</strong></span><br/>
The people of flood affected districts of Sindh have demanded of the provincial and federal governments and Provincial Disaster Management Authority (PDMA) for taking steps to drain out water, provision of facilities and payment of compensation to end the miseries of the affectees.</p>
<p><a href="http://nation.com.pk/pakistan-news-newspaper-daily-english-online/Regional/Karachi/19-Oct-2011/Epidemics-claim-10-lives-in-floodhit-Sindh">http://nation.com.pk/pakistan-news-newspaper-daily-english-online/Regional/Karachi/19-Oct-2011/Epidemics-claim-10-lives-in-floodhit-Sindh</a></p>
<p>^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^</p>
<p><strong><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Vietnam:</span></strong></p>
<p><span id="result_box" lang="en"><span title="Miền Trung ngập chìm trong biển nước"><span style="color: #ff0000;"><strong>Central immersed in sea water</strong></span><br/></span> <span title="Thứ Năm, ngày 20/10/2011, 07:03"> </span><span title="Sự kiện: Lũ lớn ở miền Trung"><br/>
</span><span title="(Tin tuc) - Hơn 10 ngày mưa lũ ở các tỉnh miền Trung, đã có 13 người chết, hàng hàng vạn ngôi nhà ngập sâu trong biển nước.">(News) - More than 10 days of torrential rains in central provinces, there were 13 people dead, tens of thousands of homes in the deep sea.</span> <span title="Hàng vạn đứa trẻ phải nghỉ học, bữa cơm bị thay dần thành những bữa… mì ăn liền cứu trợ.">Tens of thousands of school children, meals were replaced gradually into the instant noodle meals ... relief.<br/>
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</span><span title="Tin Tức, Tin HOT trong ngày được cập nhật liên tục từng giờ tại Tin Tức Trong Ngày">News, news of the day was HOT constantly updated every hour at the news of the day<br/>
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</span><span title="Một phụ nữ ở xã Sơn Thủy, huyện Lệ Thủy, tỉnh Quảng Bình nói: "Năm mô cũng ngập, lạ chi đâu các chú".">A woman in Son Thuy Commune, Le Thuy district, Quang Binh Province said: "In size also flooded, as markers of the notes."</span> <span title="Khổ mãi thành quen, người dân miền Trung nhẫn nại vượt qua mất mát, vượt qua khổ cực chờ nước rút, và chờ… trận lũ sau.">Forever the familiar format, the Central People's patience over the loss, overcome hardships sprint wait, and wait ... after floods.<br/>
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</span><span title="Nhóm phóng viên ở miền Trung gửi đến bạn đọc những hình ảnh "năm nào cũng thế" về người dân miền Trung trong mưa lũ những ngày qua.">The reporting team in the Central sent to you to read the pictures "every year that" the central people in the rainy days.<br/>
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</span><span title="Miền Trung ngập chìm trong biển nước, Tin tức trong ngày, lu mien trung, lu lut, cuu tro, mi tom cuu tro, bao, tin tuc, tin hot, tin hay"><span style="color: #ff0000;"><strong>Central submerged in water, news of the day, mid lu mien, floods, relief, mi tom relief, including, news, hot news, information or</strong></span><br/>
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</span><span title="Thôn Vinh Quang, xã Sơn Thủy, huyện Lệ Thủy (Quảng Bình) mênh mông biển nước">Vinh Quang village, Son Thuy Commune, Le Thuy district (Quang Binh) vast sea<br/>
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</span><span title="Miền Trung ngập chìm trong biển nước, Tin tức trong ngày, lu mien trung, lu lut, cuu tro, mi tom cuu tro, bao, tin tuc, tin hot, tin hay"> </span></span></p>
<p><a href="http://www32.24h.com.vn/tin-tuc-trong-ngay/mien-trung-ngap-chim-trong-bien-nuoc-c46a411126.html">http://www32.24h.com.vn/tin-tuc-trong-ngay/mien-trung-ngap-chim-trong-bien-nuoc-c46a411126.html</a></p>
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<p><span lang="en"><span title="Chị Vương Thị Xoa ở xã Sơn Thủy, huyện Lệ Thủy (Quảng Bình) kết bè chuối bảo vệ bò"><br/></span></span></p>
<p><span id="result_box" lang="en"><span title="Ngời sáng những tấm gương giúp dân trong lũ lụt">Brilliant examples to help people in flood<br/></span> <span title="10 bài được đọc nhiều nhất"><br/>
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</span><span title="Trong thời điểm nước lũ đang lên nhanh, tính mạng của hàng trăm người dân bị đe dọa bởi lũ dữ, đã có nhiều tấm gương cán bộ, chiến sĩ Công an huyện Lệ Thủy (Quảng Bình) không quản ngại gian khổ, thậm chí">In time of flood waters are rising quickly, the lives of hundreds of people threatened by flooding data, there were many examples of officers and soldiers of Public Security Le Thuy district (Quang Binh) is not concerned hardship, even</span> <span title="hy sinh tính mạng để cứu dân và đã để lại trong lòng người dân địa phương hình ảnh cao đẹp về người chiến sĩ CAND "Vì nước quên thân, vì dân phục vụ"...">taking lives to save people and has left locals in the heart of the image of the noble warrior cand "So forget the body, because the people" ...<br/>
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</span><span title="Chúng tôi gặp lại Trung tá Bùi Văn Phong, Đội phó Đội CSGT Công an huyện Lệ Thủy, khi anh điều khiển ca nô chở đoàn công tác do Đại tá Bùi Xuân Thành - Phó Giám đốc Công an tỉnh Quảng Bình đứng đầu, đi kiểm">We met Lt. Col. Bui Van Phong, deputy team Team Le Thuy district Public Security Police, when he controlled boats carrying mission by Colonel Bui Xuan Thanh - Deputy Director of Police of Quang Binh leader, to go;</span> <span title="tra, cứu trợ nhân dân vùng lũ.">investigation, rescue people in flood areas.<br/>
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</span><span title="Chúng tôi nhớ lại trong trận lũ lịch sử xảy ra vào tháng 10/2010, cũng trên chiếc ca nô này, Trung tá Phong cầm lái chở đoàn công tác lãnh đạo Tổng cục Hậu cần - Bộ Công an đi kiểm tra, chỉ đạo và">We recall in the history of floods occurred in January 10/2010, also on this canoe, carrying Lieutenant Colonel Phong driving mission of the General Logistics Department - Ministry of Public Security to inspect, direct and</span> <span title="cứu đói bà con vùng lũ.">hunger relief floodplain farmers.</span> <span title="Ngày đó, trên đường đi gặp dòng nước xoáy khiến ca nô chòng chành như muốn lật, song trong giây phút sinh tử ấy, Trung tá Phong vẫn bình tĩnh giữ chắc tay lái...">That day, on the way to see which songs swirl like to turn it against the district, but at the moment of his birth and death, Lieutenant Colonel Phong still calmly hold the steering wheel ...<br/>
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</span><span title="Công an huyện Lệ Thủy sơ tán dân vùng ngập lũ nặng trên địa bàn.">Le Thuy district police evacuate seriously flooded areas in the province.<br/>
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</span><span title="Khuôn mặt hốc hác, đôi mắt trũng sâu vì thiếu ngủ, Trung tá Phong tâm sự: "Liên tục mấy ngày ròng rã cùng anh em bám trụ trên ca nô để tập trung cứu dân, di dời tài sản của các gia đình có nhà">Face was haggard, his eyes sunken deep lack of sleep, Lieutenant Colonel Phong said: "Continuous uninterrupted days with you cling to focus on canoes the people and property of displaced families home</span> <span title="thấp lụt đến nơi an toàn thì làm chi có thời gian mà nghỉ. Nhưng, trong lòng anh em đơn vị đều thanh thản vì kịp thời ứng cứu được các gia đình bị nạn...".">Low floods to safety is to spend that time off. But, in your hearts are at peace because the unit in time to rescue the victims family ...".<br/>
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</span><span title="Trung tá Lê Thành Liêu, Đội Cảnh sát QLHC về TTXH huyện Lệ Thủy đã cùng anh em đơn vị đưa hàng trăm người dân di chuyển từ vùng trũng sâu đến chỗ ở tạm nơi cao ráo, vận chuyển lương thực và nhu yếu phẩm cho bà">Lieutenant Colonel Le Thanh Lieu, police teams on Social Security QLHC Le Thuy district has the same unit you put hundreds of people move from low-lying deep to high places of temporary accommodation, transport food and supplies for her</span> <span title="con...">I ...</span> <span title="Trong khi, nhà Trung tá Liêu chỉ cách trụ sở Công an huyện chưa đầy 200m, bị nước lũ ngập đến mái; vậy mà lũ rút chưa thể chạy về phụ giúp cùng vợ con dọn dẹp vệ sinh, môi trường.">While, the only way Lieu Col police district headquarters less than 200m, with flood waters submerged to the roof; so that the flood can not run on his wife and children to assist with cleaning the environment.<br/>
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</span><span title="Theo lời kể của lãnh đạo Công an huyện Lệ Thủy, sáng 16/10, trời mưa to, gió lớn, nước lũ lên nhanh khiến cho nhiều nhà dân bị ngập sâu.">According to the police leader Le Thuy district, 16.10 am, heavy rain, high winds, flood waters rise quickly, causing many people were deeply submerged.</span> <span title="Không chậm trễ, các anh huy động lực lượng chia thành nhiều tổ cứu hộ, cứu nạn dùng ca nô đi cứu dân ở thôn Vinh Quang, xã Sơn Thủy; thôn Tân Lệ, Phú Thọ, xã An Thủy; thôn Bình Minh, xã">Do not delay, the mobilization of forces he divided into the salvage and rescue using boats to rescue people in Vinh Quang village, Thuy Son; rural Tan Le, Phu Tho, An Thuy Commune; village of Binh Minh Commune</span> <span title="Dương Thủy; thôn An Xá, xã Lộc Thủy...">Ocean Marine; An Xa village, Loc Thuy ...<br/>
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</span><span title="Vào thời điểm đó, Trung úy Nguyễn Văn Quý (Đội CSGT) và Trung tá Liêu được bố trí đi trên một ca nô cứu hộ gia đình chị Nguyễn Thị Loan, ở Lộc Hạ, xã An Thủy và 2 đứa còn nhỏ đang trong tình">At that time, Lt. Nguyen Van Quy (Team Police) and Lt. Col. Lieu are arranged for a family canoe rescue Nguyen Thi Loan, in Loc Ha, Social Security Cards, and two small children are in</span> <span title="trạng bị nước lũ chia cắt về nơi an toàn, tiếp tục nhận lệnh sơ tán nhân dân xã Liên Thủy, thì giữa đường ca nô gặp dòng nước xoáy bị mất thăng bằng, khiến đồng chí Quý bị ngã, đầu đập mạnh vào thành ca">state was divided on flood safety, continue to receive orders to evacuate people Lien Thuy, then canoeing meet halfway swirl lose your balance, making your comrades fall, head banging on the ca</span> <span title="nô gây chấn thương, phải chuyển vào cấp cứu tại Bệnh viện huyện Lệ Thủy.">traumatic slave, to move into the emergency in Le Thuy district hospital.</span> <span title="Do vết thương quá nặng nên ngay sau đó đồng chí Quý được chuyển đến Bệnh viện Việt Nam - Cuba, Đồng Hới để điều trị.">Do wounds should immediately be transferred to your comrades Hospital Vietnam - Cuba, Dong Hoi for treatment.<br/>
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</span><span title="Đến trưa 17/10, khu vực xóm Mới, thôn Phù Thị, xã Hưng Thủy bị ngập sâu trong biển nước; trong đó có nhà của mẹ con chị Nguyễn Thị Điệp và cháu nhỏ chưa đầy 1 tháng tuổi, bị lũ ngập đến sát">10.17 noon, regional New Hamlet, <span style="color: #ff0000;"><strong>Phu Thi village, Hung Shui submerged in sea water</strong></span> depth of which is the home of her mother Nguyen Thi Diep and young children less than one month, was close to the flood inundation</span> <span title="nóc.">the roof.</span> <span title="Mặc dù nhà chị Điệp cách trụ sở Công an huyện hơn 20km, Thượng tá Nguyễn Văn Thịnh (Phó trưởng Công an huyện Lệ Thủy) đã trực tiếp cùng 3 đồng đội gấp rút lên đường và hơn 30 phút sau đã đưa mẹ con chị Điệp">Despite the way she Scallops police district headquarters of over 20 km, Senior Lieutenant Colonel Nguyen Van Thinh (Deputy Minister of Public Security Le Thuy district) have directly with three teammates rushing onto the road and more than 30 minutes after her mother gave Scallops</span> <span title="thoát khỏi nguy hiểm bởi nước lũ...">escape from danger by flood water ...<br/>
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</span><span title="Cùng thời điểm đó, nước lũ ngập sâu trụ sở Công an huyện hơn 1m, nên vừa lo cứu dân, các anh lại phải phân công người đưa phạm nhân đang bị tạm giam cùng hồ sơ, tài liệu, phương tiện làm việc lên tầng">At the same time, deep flood water district police headquarters over 1m, with concern to the people and the people, he had assigned to prisoners under detention with records, documents, work on the floor means</span> <span title="cao...">High ...</span> <span title="Có thể nói rằng, những cán bộ, chiến sĩ Công an huyện Lệ Thủy vượt lũ cứu dân hoàn thành xuất sắc nhiệm vụ cấp trên giao phó, đã để lại hình ảnh đẹp đẽ, tô bồi thêm niềm tin yêu, mến phục của người">It can be said that the officers and soldiers of Le Thuy district police flood rescue people successfully completed the assigned task level, has left the beautiful image, pay extra paint the love, affection for the people</span> <span title="dân vào lực lượng CAND nói chung...">People in general forces cand ...</span></span></p>
<p><a href="http://ca.cand.com.vn/vi-VN/binhyencuocsong/ghichep/2011/10/184699.cand">http://ca.cand.com.vn/vi-VN/binhyencuocsong/ghichep/2011/10/184699.cand</a></p>
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<p><span style="color: #ff0000;"><strong><span id="result_box" lang="en"><span title="Đến cuối giờ chiều nay 17/10 Tân Hóa vẫn chìm ngập trong biển nước.">Tan Hoa 10.17 pm today is immersed in sea water.</span></span></strong></span></p>
<p><span style="color: #ff0000;"><strong><span lang="en"><span title="Đến cuối giờ chiều nay 17/10 Tân Hóa vẫn chìm ngập trong biển nước."><a target="_blank" href="http://dantri4.vcmedia.vn/VkYf35t8Fk0XJpn3xQeP/Image/2011/10/dt1710mualu21_68d28.JPG"><img class="align-full" src="http://dantri4.vcmedia.vn/VkYf35t8Fk0XJpn3xQeP/Image/2011/10/dt1710mualu21_68d28.JPG"/></a></span></span></strong></span></p>
<p><a href="http://dantri.com.vn/c20/s20-528461/ron-lu-tan-hoa-lai-choi-voi-giua-menh-mong-nuoc.htm">http://dantri.com.vn/c20/s20-528461/ron-lu-tan-hoa-lai-choi-voi-giua-menh-mong-nuoc.htm</a></p>
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<p><span id="result_box" lang="en"><span title="uảng Trị đồng lòng vượt qua lũ dữ"><strong>Tri the self and others to overcome the flood data</strong><br/></span> <span title="Cập nhật lúc 03:08, Thứ tư, 19/10/2011 (GMT+7)">Updated at 03:08, Wednesday, 19/10/2011 (GMT +7)<br/>
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</span><span title="Công an huyện Triệu Phong triển khai việc di dời dân ra khỏi vùng ngập lụt.">Trieu Phong district police deployed to relocate people from flooded areas.<br/>
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</span><span title="Ðến chiều 18-10, nhiều vùng quê ở tỉnh Quảng Trị vẫn còn ngập trong biển nước, sâu nhất là các xã Hải Hòa, Hải Tân, Hải Thành (Hải Lăng), Triệu Thành, Triệu Long (Triệu Phong)..."><span style="color: #ff0000;"><strong>18-10 By the way, many rural areas in Quang Tri province was still submerged in sea water</strong></span>, the deepest is the Hai Hoa, Hai Tan, Hai Thanh (Hai Lang), Trieu Thanh Long Trieu (Trieu Phong) ...</span> <span title="Ðảng bộ, chính quyền và nhân dân các địa phương đang cùng "chung lưng, đấu cật" vượt qua khó khăn từng bước ổn định cuộc sống.">Party, government and local people are the same "common back, play hard" to overcome difficulties and gradually stabilize their lives.<br/>
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</span><span title="Về vùng trũng huyện Hải Lăng, chúng tôi thấy hàng trăm ngôi nhà vẫn còn ngập sâu trong biển nước.">On low-lying districts of Hai Lang, we see hundreds of homes are still deep in water.</span> <span title="Ông Nguyễn Văn Ðĩu, ở xã Hải Chánh nói: "Vùng quê này, năm nào cũng phải chống chọi từ một đến ba cơn lũ, nên chúng tôi không bị bất ngờ khi lũ đến. Nhà nào cũng có thuyền nên người dân giúp nhau">Mr. Nguyen Van calm, in Hai Chanh said: "The countryside, in which also had to fight for one to three flood, so we do not get surprised when the floods come. The boat should always have people help each other</span> <span title="đưa người già yếu, trẻ em đến nơi tránh lũ an toàn. Ðến nay chưa có thiệt hại gì lớn xảy ra".">to the elderly and children to safe places to avoid flooding. So far no damage, nothing major happened. "</span> <span title="Chủ tịch UBND xã Hải Hòa Nguyễn Mãnh cho biết: Toàn xã có 1.073 hộ thì có đến 950 hộ bị ngập sâu từ 1,5 đến 2,5 m.">Chairman of Hai Hoa Nguyen Manh said the whole commune has 1,073 households and 950 households were flooded with 1.5 to 2.5 m. deep</span> <span title="Khi nước lũ về, chúng tôi đã huy động hàng chục ghe, thuyền để sơ tán dân, đặc biệt ưu tiên cứu giúp các hộ già cả, neo đơn nên đã bảo vệ an toàn tính mạng cho người dân.">When the flood water, we have mobilized tens of boats, boats for evacuation, rescue special priority households aged, solitary should have secure lives for people.<br/>
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</span><span title="Ðến nay toàn huyện Hải Lăng có 8.800 hộ dân bị ngập sâu từ 1 đến 2,5 m.">Until now, the Hai Lang District has 8,800 households were flooded to a depth of 2.5 m.</span> <span title="Ở các xã vùng trũng như Hải Thành, Hải Tân, Hải Hòa, Hải Dương, Hải Thiện, Hải Thọ...">In the low-lying areas such as Hai Thanh commune, Hai Tan, Hai Hoa, Hai Duong, Hai Thien, Hai Tho ...</span> <span title="do nước ở thượng nguồn đổ về quá lớn nên 100% số nhà dân bị ngập.">upstream of water poured on so large that 100% of houses were flooded.</span> <span title="Hồ chứa nước Miếu Bà, ở xã Hải Sơn vượt mức an toàn buộc phải xả lũ, tại khu vực xã Hải Trường nước chảy mạnh gây sạt lở nhiều đoạn, huyện phải huy động hàng trăm người dân ra sức chống chọi cứu lấy tuyến đê">Ms. Temple Reservoir, Hai Son commune must exceed safe flood discharge, in social customs area Where flowing water causes more erosion the district to mobilize hundreds of people tried to fight to save dikes</span> <span title="bao.">How.</span> <span title="Các lực lượng công an, quân đội và thanh niên xung kích đã nhanh chóng di dời 1.194 hộ, với hơn 4.000 người ở vùng ngập sâu đến nơi trú tránh lũ an toàn.">The police force, army and youth vanguard quickly relocated 1,194 households, with more than 4,000 people in the deep flood to safe shelter.</span> <span title="Ðồng thời huy động lực lượng chuyển hàng nghìn tấn lương thực của người dân lên nơi cao ráo.">At the same time mobilize forces moved thousands of tons of food to people on high places.</span> <span title="Tỉnh Quảng Trị cũng đưa 54 tấn gạo, 24.000 thùng mì ăn liền, 18.000 chai nước, 10.000 lít xăng, 19.000 lít dầu và nhiều cơ số thuốc chữa bệnh cung ứng cho các địa phương.">Quang Tri province also brought 54 tons of rice, 24,000 boxes of instant noodles, 18,000 bottles of water, 10,000 liters of gasoline, 19,000 liters of oil and the supply of medicines to the local.<br/>
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</span><span title="Trong những ngày lũ lụt, Chỉ huy trưởng Bộ đội Biên phòng tỉnh Quảng Trị Ngô Xuân Hoàn chỉ đạo cán bộ, chiến sĩ Bộ đội Biên phòng trên hai tuyến biên giới biển và núi về với bản, làng, bám dân, di dời khẩn">In the days of flooding, Commander of Border Guards Tri Ngo Quang Xuan Hoan directing officials, border guards and soldiers on both border on the sea and mountain villages, stick people, emergency relocation</span> <span title="cấp các hộ dân ở vùng thấp trũng, sạt lở đến nơi an toàn; đưa dân trở lại nhà khi lũ rút, tiếp tục giúp dân khắc phục hậu quả lũ lụt.">level of households in low-lying areas, erosion to safety; put people back home when flood waters receded, continue to help people overcome consequences of flooding.<br/>
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</span><span title="Trưa 16-10, nhận được tin báo ở xã Vĩnh Ô, huyện Vĩnh Linh có nhiều người bị mắc kẹt lũ trên một ngọn đồi trong rừng, các lực lượng đã kịp thời có mặt triển khai công việc cứu hộ.">16-10 noon, receiving information in Vinh O Commune, Vinh Linh and more people flood trapped on a hill in the forest, the forces were deployed there in time of the rescue.</span> <span title="Chỉ hơn một giờ đồng hồ sau, tám người quê ở huyện Kim Sơn, tỉnh Ninh Bình vào lao động tại Vĩnh Ô bị mắc lũ được đưa về trụ sở UBND xã an toàn.">Just over an hour later, eight people born in Kim Son district, Ninh Binh province to work in Vinh O suffered from the flood was brought about safety CPC offices.</span> <span title="Cũng trong ngày 16-10, ba người dân ở xã Vĩnh Chấp, huyện Vĩnh Linh trên đường đi làm về bị nước lũ cuốn trôi được các lực lượng cứu hộ, cứu nạn kịp thời đưa lên bờ, may mắn thoát chết...">Also on 16 to 10, three people in Vinh Chap commune, Vinh Linh district on the way to the water being washed away by the rescuers and rescue promptly landed, survived ...<br/>
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</span><span title="Ở các vùng xung yếu khác như dọc hai bên sông Lai Phước, TP Ðông Hà; các xã Ba Lòng, Triệu Nguyên (Ða Krông), các lực lượng công an, quân sự, Bộ đội Biên phòng tỉnh đã huy động hơn 300 cán">In key areas such as along the river Lai Phuoc, Dong Ha City; the social Ba Long, Trieu Nguyen (Da Krong), the police, military, provincial Border Guard has mobilized more than 300 employees</span> <span title="bộ, chiến sĩ và 20 ca-nô cùng với chính quyền các địa phương sơ tán hơn 1.000 hộ dân với 5.000 người vùng ngập lũ đến nơi an toàn.">and soldiers and 20 canoes with local authorities to evacuate more than 1,000 households with 5,000 people in flooded areas to safe places.</span> <span title="Trong đó, khu dân cư Phước Vĩnh, phường Ðông Lương, TP Ðông Hà bị ngập nặng, sâu tới 3 m, lại khó khăn trong di chuyển, trú tránh mưa lụt nên các lực lượng huy động sáu ca-nô vào từng nhà để">In particular, residential Phuoc Vinh, Dong Luong ward, Dong Ha city with heavy flooding, to 3 m deep, have difficulty moving, residents should avoid flooding rain forces mobilized six canoes in each house to</span> <span title="vận động người dân sơ tán ra khỏi vùng nguy hiểm...">mobilize people to evacuate the danger zone ...<br/>
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</span><span title="Ông Hoàng Minh Tâm, ở thôn Lai Phước, phường Ðông Lương xúc động nói: "Lúc đó vào khoảng 8 giờ tối, bất ngờ nước ập vào nhà và dâng nhanh chưa từng thấy, chúng tôi không kịp di chuyển tài sản lên cao nên">Mr. Hoang Minh Tam, Lai Phuoc Village, the East Salary emotion said: "Then at about 8 pm, suddenly hit the water and unprecedented offer, we do not keep moving up the property so</span> <span title="bị ướt hết. Nhưng thật may, lúc đó lực lượng cứu hộ đưa ca-nô đến, tôi hối thúc mọi người trong gia đình nhanh chóng leo lên ca-nô để bảo toàn tính mạng. Gia đình chúng tôi cảm ơn các chú công">wetted out. But it may, then rescuers brought canoes arrived, I urge everyone in the family quickly climbed canoes to preserve life. Our family thanks the public comment</span> <span title="an và bộ đội nhiều lắm!".">Police and soldiers so much. "<br/>
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</span><span title="Phó trưởng Ban Thường trực Ban Chỉ huy PCLB và TKCN tỉnh Nguyễn Văn Bài cho biết: Trong những ngày mưa lũ, các lực lượng công an, quân sự và biên phòng không quản ngại mưa to, gió lớn, lũ dữ đã có mặt tại">Deputy Director of the Standing Committee for the Flood and TKCN said Nguyen Van Location: In the days of torrential rains, the police, military and border management is not afraid to heavy rain, high winds, flood data has been present in</span> <span title="các bản, làng phối hợp với lực lượng dân quân địa phương chằng chéo nhà cửa, đưa người dân sinh sống ở vùng thấp trũng, ven sông, suối đến trú tránh ở những nơi cao ráo như trường học, trạm y tế, hỗ trợ">the villages to coordinate with local militias shrouds cross the border, to people living in low-lying areas, along rivers and streams to avoid residing in high places such as schools, clinics, support</span> <span title="lương thực, thực phẩm kịp thời.">Food, food promptly.</span> <span title="Giúp dân dựng lại nhà cửa, làm vệ sinh môi trường, sửa chữa đường sá, cầu cống khi lũ đi qua...">Helping people rebuild their homes, clean environment, repair roads and bridges while the flood go through ...</span> <span title="Lực lượng vũ trang tỉnh Quảng Trị thật sự là lực lượng nòng cốt, xung kích trong phòng, chống khắc phục hậu quả thiên tai, bão lũ trên địa bàn.">Armed Forces of Quang Tri province is really the core force, shock prevention and mitigation of natural disasters, floods in the area.</span></span></p>
<p><a href="http://www.nhandan.com.vn/cmlink/nhandandientu/thoisu/doi-song/i-s-ng-tin-chung/qu-ng-tr-ng-long-v-t-qua-l-d-1.317156#RB9pCE6BQf1z">http://www.nhandan.com.vn/cmlink/nhandandientu/thoisu/doi-song/i-s-ng-tin-chung/qu-ng-tr-ng-long-v-t-qua-l-d-1.317156#RB9pCE6BQf1z</a></p>
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<p><span style="font-family: arial black,avant garde;">Thailand <span style="color: #ff0000;">SINKING</span>:</span></p>
<p><span id="result_box" lang="en"><span title="Thái Lan: 4 khu công nghiệp lớn bị ngập"><strong>Thailand: four large industrial areas flooded</strong><br/> <br/>
</span><span title="TT - Cơn đại hồng thủy ở Thái Lan đã nuốt chửng bốn khu công nghiệp lớn ở tỉnh Ayutthaya, đẩy hàng trăm ngàn lao động vào tình trạng bất ổn và hàng trăm nhà máy, trong đó có cả những tập đoàn lớn như Toyota và các">TT - the great flood in Thailand had swallowed four major industrial zones in the province of Ayutthaya, pushing hundreds of thousands of workers in the unrest, and hundreds of plants, including large corporations such as Toyota and</span> <span title="doanh nghiệp Singapore, Malaysia bị thiệt hại nặng nề.">Enterprise Singapore, Malaysia was heavily damaged.<br/>
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</span><span title="Một cậu bé giữ những đồng tiền giấy khô ráo trong lúc bơi qua dòng nước lũ ở tỉnh Nonthaburi - Ảnh: AFP">A boy holding paper money dry while swimming through flood waters in Nonthaburi Province - Photo: AFP<br/>
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</span><span title="Ngày 15-10, Khu công nghiệp Bang Pa-in đã bị nhấn chìm hoàn toàn trong biển nước sau khi quân đội và công nhân không thể vá nổi một đoạn đê chắn lũ bị vỡ từ đêm 14-10.">On 15-10, Industrial Zone Bang Pa-in has been completely submerged in water after the military and workers can not be sure and say a flood dike broke the night 14-10.</span> <span title="Khoảng 90 nhà máy và 60.000 công nhân phải ngừng sản xuất.">Approximately 90 plants and 60,000 workers to stop production.</span> <span title="Giám đốc khu công nghiệp này Nathee Borsuwan ra lệnh cho công nhân sơ tán khẩn cấp đến nơi an toàn khi nước lũ chảy xiết đã dâng cao từ 0,8-1m.">This industrial park director Nathee Borsuwan ordered emergency workers evacuated to safety as fast flowing flood water was rising from 0.8-1m.<br/>
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</span><span title="Các khu công nghiệp Saha Rattana Nakorn, Rojana và khu công nghệ cao cũng bị lũ tấn công và công nhân được sơ tán khẩn cấp.">The Saha Rattana Nakorn Industrial Park, Rojana and high-tech zones and flood workers were attacked and emergency evacuation.</span> <span title="Quân đội Thái Lan tập trung ngăn lũ ở khu Navanakorn, nơi có đến 227 nhà máy và hơn 180.000 công nhân đang làm việc.">Thai troops concentrated in the Navanakorn flood, where about 227 factories and more than 180,000 workers are working.<br/>
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</span><span title="Tỉnh Ayutthaya và các vùng hạ lưu sông Chao Phraya đã bị nhấn chìm trong biển lũ do nước sông ngày càng dâng cao và tràn bờ."><span style="color: #ff0000;"><strong>Ayutthaya province and the Chao Phraya River Basin was submerged by flood waters in the sea-level rise and more and overflow their banks.</strong></span><br/>
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</span><span title="Bangkok Post cho biết mưa vẫn đang tiếp tục ở nhiều khu vực phía bắc, đông bắc và miền trung nước này.">Bangkok Post said the rain continues in many areas to the north, northeast and central countries.</span> <span title="Tại thủ đô Bangkok, quân đội được lệnh gia cố tuyến đê ngăn lũ dài 4km chạy dọc sông Chao Phraya do mực nước sông tiếp tục dâng cao.">In Bangkok, the military was ordered to reinforce dykes to prevent floods 4km along the Chao Phraya River water levels continue to rise.</span> <span title="Tính đến nay, lũ lụt ở Thái Lan đã làm ít nhất 297 người chết, hơn 8,6 triệu người bị ảnh hưởng.">So far, flooding in Thailand has at least 297 people dead, more than 8.6 million people affected.</span> <span title="Thiệt hại ước tính lên tới 3 tỉ USD.">Damage estimated at $ 3 billion.<br/>
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</span><span title="Theo ghi nhận của cộng tác viên Tuổi Trẻ từ Bangkok, chính quyền tỉnh Pathum Thani đang nỗ lực sửa chữa cống thoát nước bị vỡ từ ngày 14-10 để bảo vệ Bangkok, do đây là cống thoát nước nằm ở cửa ngõ vào thủ đô">As noted by Youth collaborators from Bangkok, Pathum Thani provincial government is trying to repair broken sewer from 14-10 to protect Bangkok, as it is located in the sewer gate to the capital</span> <span title=".">.</span> <span title="Những ngày này, trên mạng xã hội Facebook người dân Bangkok đều nói: “Chúng tôi sẵn sàng chịu cảnh nước tràn vào thủ đô, chỉ mong sao nước ở tỉnh Ayutthaya rút bớt”.">These days, on Facebook Bangkok people are saying: "We are ready to cope with influx of capital, just hope the withdrawal of water in the province of Ayutthaya."</span></span></p>
<p><a href="http://tuoitre.vn/The-gioi/460834/Thai-Lan-4-khu-cong-nghiep-lon-bi-ngap.html">http://tuoitre.vn/The-gioi/460834/Thai-Lan-4-khu-cong-nghiep-lon-bi-ngap.html</a></p>
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<p><span id="ctl00_cph1_Article1_FormView1_ArticleHeaderLabel" style="line-height: 25px; font-weight: bolder; font-size: 18px;">Thai flood death toll reaches 320</span> <br/> <span id="ctl00_cph1_Article1_FormView1_LabelChannelPublishDateTime" style="color: gray; font-weight: normal;"></span></p>
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<div>BANGKOK (Xinhua) -- A total of 320 people were confirmed dead and three people were missing in the floods that have inundated the upper part of the country for almost three months, the Disaster Prevention and Mitigation Department reported on Thursday.</div>
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<div>Three more people were confirmed dead on Wednesday, two from eastern province of Phichit and one from central province of Saraburi.</div>
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<div>Northern province of Phichit still has the highest death toll of 47 people, following by central province of Nakhon Sawan, of which 37 people killed by flood.</div>
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<div>Flash floods and mudslide were caused by the heavy monsoon since mid July. </div>
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<div><span style="color: #ff0000;"><strong>Floods still prevail in 62 of 77 provinces, effecting about 2.8 million households and about 9 million people.</strong></span></div>
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<div>Of 62 provinces hit by flood, the situation in 34 provinces, mostly in the northern and northeastern provinces, have slowly been recovering.</div>
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<div>About 74 main highways in 18 provinces are flooded and cannot be passed and 18 north-bound train routes were cancelled. </div>
<p><a href="http://www.philstar.com/Article.aspx?articleId=739450&publicationSubCategoryId=200">http://www.philstar.com/Article.aspx?articleId=739450&publicationSubCategoryId=200</a></p>
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<p><strong><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Cambodia:</span></strong></p>
<p><strong>Exotissimo Travel Support ‘Gecko Kids’ In Helping Cambodia’s Flood Victims</strong><br/> <br/>
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Siem Reap, Cambodia (October 19, 2011) Exotissimo Travel have been working with Hotel de la Paix, Heritage Suites Hotel and Golden Banana Boutique Hotel & Resorts to support Green Gecko, a local NGO aimed at helping street children, in raising funds for assistance to families affected by the flooding that hit Cambodia.<br/>
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<span style="color: #ff0000;"><strong>Flooding has affected 17 of Cambodia's 24 provinces, killing 247 people and forced the evacuation of more than 34,000 households, destroying some 200,000 hectares of rice fields in accordance to the National Committee for Disaster Management.</strong></span><br/>
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The inspiration for the flood relief appeal came about after the three above named hotels invited children from Green Gecko to share their concerns about the food crisis and make a proposal on how they would like to help. Responding to the call, the Green Gecko children said, “Our plan is to save money from our own food spending to buy rice, canned fish, soy sauce and clean water for families that need help.” This initiative also inspired Exotissimo Travel Cambodia, who are now taking part in the project.<br/>
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Mobilized by the children’s appeal, Exotissimo Travel, the hotels and Green Gecko sprang into action and a first delivery of rice, fish and soy sauce was made to each of the 20 most desperate families at a commune in the outskirts of Siem Reap. A second delivery will take place on Thursday October 20 for another 150 families. In addition to donating and raising funds, staff from the hotels and Exotissimo will work alongside the children and staff of Green Gecko to help with the delivery.<br/>
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“We understand this initiative does not serve as a long term solution; our goals are simply to offer some emergency relief, to buy some time until aid organizations have time to reach them”, said Tania Palmer, the co-founder and director of the Green Gecko Project. She also thanked the collaborators for helping the children to reach out to their community. “Thank you for supporting our kids in their initiative and involving them in such a great community project, you all made them feel very special and worthy”.<br/>
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Hamish Keith, Chief Operations Manager of Exotissimo Travel said “As a leading tour destination management company in Southeast Asia, we feel it is our duty to help the people of the region whenever they are in need. This is an excellent initiative and fine spirit shown by the children at Green Gecko to get this going. We are proud to work alongside them as well as our friends from the hotels.”<br/>
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Exotissimo and the hotels are launching an appeal through their guests and friends to raise funds for the Drive for Direction Action for Emergency Flood Relief Collaboration, and call on anyone who can, to help them assist families that are desperately in need. Funds donated will go directly towards purchasing rice, fish and water for those families. Anyone wishing to help should contact Exotissimo Travel Cambodia at go.cambodia.exotissimo.com or go to, <a href="http://www.razoo.com/story/Floodreliefcollaboration">http://www.razoo.com/story/Floodreliefcollaboration</a> to donate online.<br/>
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The Green Gecko Project is a home, school and family for 70 children who previously lived and begged on the streets of Siem Reap, Cambodia. Green Gecko provides security, education, love and oppo rtunities to these children</p>
<p><a href="http://www.etravelblackboardasia.com/article/78933/exotissimo-travel-support-gecko-kids-in-helping-cambodias-flood-victims">http://www.etravelblackboardasia.com/article/78933/exotissimo-travel-support-gecko-kids-in-helping-cambodias-flood-victims</a></p>
<p>^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^</p>Tailand Flooding - Sea Level Not Risingtag:poleshift.ning.com,2015-01-05:3863141:BlogPost:7915792015-01-05T08:30:00.000ZStanislavhttps://poleshift.ning.com/profile/Stanislav
<p><strong>7 of 10 SINKING as of 15 Oct.</strong><br></br> <strong> </strong></p>
<p><a href="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/74166449?profile=original" target="_self"><img class="align-full" src="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/74166449?profile=original" width="644"></img></a> <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qL0BviLCars">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qL0BviLCars…</a></p>
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<p><strong>7 of 10 SINKING as of 15 Oct.</strong><br/> <strong> </strong></p>
<p><a target="_self" href="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/74166449?profile=original"><img class="align-full" src="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/74166449?profile=original" width="644"/></a><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qL0BviLCars">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qL0BviLCars</a></p>
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<p><a href="http://www.un-spider.org/about-us/news/2011-10-11t162900/how-space-technology-aids-flood-response">http://www.un-spider.org/about-us/news/2011-10-11t162900/how-space-technology-aids-flood-response</a></p>
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<p><a href="http://reliefweb.int/node/452824">http://reliefweb.int/node/452824</a></p>
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<p><a href="http://teakdoor.com/thailand-and-asia-news/95827-yingluck-meet-governors-nine-flood-ravaged-11.html">http://teakdoor.com/thailand-and-asia-news/95827-yingluck-meet-governors-nine-flood-ravaged-11.html</a></p>
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<p><span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: arial black,avant garde;"><strong>Evidence SINKING:</strong></span> <span class="font-size-3" style="color: #ff0000;"><strong> </strong></span> <span class="font-size-4"><strong><span style="color: #ff0000;">Sea levels not rising: Swedish scientist</span></strong></span></p>
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<p><span class="font-size-3" style="color: #ff0000;"><strong>Contrary to prevailing scientific opinion, a Climate Change conference organised by the University of Mumbai and the Liberty Institute, New Delhi, and INSTUCEN India study centre on Friday claimed that the sea levels were not rising and carbon dioxide did not pose a special threat to the climate. Sea levels in the Indian Ocean were not rising and cities like Mumbai, islands like Maldives or Tuvalu would not be affected at all, speakers stated.</strong></span></p>
<p><span class="font-size-3" style="color: #ff0000;"><strong>He said the tide gauges of Mumbai and Vishakhapatnam recorded a significant sea level drop during 1955-1962 followed by stable sea level in the next nearly five decades. In Lakshadweep, the locals were quite aware of the fact that sea level was not at all in a rising mode today; rather new land had been added. In conclusion, he said there was no rise in sea level in the Indian Ocean. Referring to the myth of sea level rise as the “Greatest Lie Ever Told” in a booklet, Professor Morner said ignorance was terrible but exaggeration was dangerous. “Computer modelling by persons not having visited the sites in question is not good enough.” “In the year 2000 we started an international sea level project in the Maldives where several distinguished experts took part,” he said, and he had been on six of those expeditions. “There is no ongoing rise in the sea level at all and since 1970, it fell by about 20 cm and has remained quite stable for the last 30 to 40 years.” The team had investigated several different shore environments, including open coasts, rock cut platforms, sandy shores in erosion and such an overwhelming mass and quality of observational facts must outdo idle talk, he said, with reference to the IPCC reports.</strong></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-family: arial black,avant garde;">Cambodia <span style="color: #ff0000;">SINKING</span>:</span> <span style="color: #ff0000;"><strong><span id="result_box" lang="en"><span class="hps">17</span> <span class="hps">of</span> <span class="hps">Cambodia's</span> <span class="hps">23</span> <span class="hps">provinces</span> <span class="hps">are</span> <span class="hps">affected by the</span> <span class="hps">worst</span> <span class="hps">floods</span> <span class="hps">in</span> <span class="hps">over</span> <span class="hps">a</span> <span class="hps">decade.</span></span></strong></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: arial black,avant garde;">Bangladesh <span style="color: #ff0000;">SINKING</span>:</span> <span class="font-size-3" style="color: #ff0000;"><strong>persistent waterlogging problem in large areas of Khulna, Jessore and Satkhira districts / </strong></span></p>
<p><strong>Chittagong: </strong> 3 upazila, 32 union, 253 sqkm area, 18,566 families, 97750 people, 1195 households (fully), 7570 households (partially), 2 acr crops (fully) and 2750 crops (partially), 2 cattle, Poultry 2800, 25 km Road (fully) and 195 km (partially), Institution 28 partially, embankment 87 km are affected.<br/> <strong>Satkhira: <span style="text-decoration: line-through;"> </span></strong><span style="color: #ff0000;"><strong><span style="text-decoration: line-through;"><span style="color: #000000;">Water receding.</span></span> 66 unions of 6 Upazillas and 02 Pouroshova of Satkhira district are inundated</strong></span>. 1023 sqkm area, 1,97,739 families, 939514 people, 27218 households (fully), 43090 households (partially), 32855 acr crops (fully) and 18205 crops (partially), 30917 cattle, Poultry 62885, 613 km Road (fully) and 1258 km (partially), Institution 30(fully) and 577 (partially), embankment 9508 km are affected. Peoples from shelter are started to return home.<br/> <strong>Gaibandha</strong>: <span style="text-decoration: line-through;"><strong> </strong></span><span style="color: #ff0000;"><strong>Low lands of 10 unions of Govindoganj were inundated due to the increase of the water level in the rivers.</strong></span> 10 unions, 1 pourashava, 129 sqkm area, 119931 people, 29981 families, 2750 households (fully), 18750 households (partially), 98.8 acr crops (fully) and 331 acr crops (partially), 14 km road (fully) and 35 km (partially), 14 educational institutions, 5 km embankment (fully) and 8 km embankment (partially), 5 bridge/culvert have been affected.<br/> <strong>Naogaon:</strong> 960 families in Manda upazila have been affected since embankment has been breached in some places and water entered into this upazila. DC office distributed 14.400 MT GR rice among affected people in Manda upazila.<br/> <strong>Jessore<span style="text-decoration: line-through;">:</span></strong>. <span style="text-decoration: line-through;"><strong>Water receding.</strong></span> <span style="color: #ff0000;"><strong>36298 families of 43 unions from 6 upazilas have been affected due to inundation</strong></span>. 16922 acr crops (partially), 16325 households partially, 77 institution partially, 270 km road partially and 5 km embankment have been affected. Inundation situation is improved.<br/> <strong>Narail</strong>: Current flood situation is normal. Earlier, some damages occurred due to heavy rainfall, 3 upazila, 41 union /pourashava, 244.50 sqkm area, 51750 families, 246250 people, 3670 households (fully), 19100 households (partially), 7607 acr crops (fully) and 54521 acr (partially), 31 educational institution (partially), 88 km road, 9.5 km embankment have been affected.</p>
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<h1 class="detail-title"><span style="color: #ff0000;">Sea levels not rising: Swedish scientist</span></h1>
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<div class="photo-caption"><span class="photo-source">AP</span> In this October 13, 2011 photo, Funafuti, the main island of the nation state of Tuvalu, is seen from a Royal New Zealand airforce C130 aircraft. Contrary to prevailing scientific opinion, speakers at a Climate Change conference organised by the University of Mumbai on Friday claimed that the sea levels were not rising and islands like Tuvalu and Maldives would not be affected at all.</div>
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<p class="body"><span class="font-size-3" style="color: #ff0000;"><strong>Contrary to prevailing scientific opinion, a Climate Change conference organised by the University of Mumbai and the Liberty Institute, New Delhi, and INSTUCEN India study centre on Friday claimed that the sea levels were not rising and carbon dioxide did not pose a special threat to the climate. Sea levels in the Indian Ocean were not rising and cities like Mumbai, islands like Maldives or Tuvalu would not be affected at all, speakers stated.</strong></span></p>
<p class="body">The audience clapped at every statement made by Professor Nils-Axel Morner, retired professor from Stockholm University, who enlightened a large group of appreciative students and professors on the perils of the estimates of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). He attacked Maldives president Mohammed Nasheed's claims that his island nation was drowning and said this was totally unfounded in observational reality. The one-day conference, “Shifting science and changing policy,” was hosted by the Centre for Extra Mural Studies at Mumbai University.</p>
<h3><b>Stable for decades</b></h3>
<p class="body"><span style="color: #ff0000;">H</span><span class="font-size-3" style="color: #ff0000;"><strong>e said the tide gauges of Mumbai and Vishakhapatnam recorded a significant sea level drop during 1955-1962 followed by stable sea level in the next nearly five decades. In Lakshadweep, the locals were quite aware of the fact that sea level was not at all in a rising mode today; rather new land had been added. In conclusion, he said there was no rise in sea level in the Indian Ocean. Referring to the myth of sea level rise as the “Greatest Lie Ever Told” in a booklet, Professor Morner said ignorance was terrible but exaggeration was dangerous. “Computer modelling by persons not having visited the sites in question is not good enough.” “In the year 2000 we started an international sea level project in the Maldives where several distinguished experts took part,” he said, and he had been on six of those expeditions. “There is no ongoing rise in the sea level at all and since 1970, it fell by about 20 cm and has remained quite stable for the last 30 to 40 years.” The team had investigated several different shore environments, including open coasts, rock cut platforms, sandy shores in erosion and such an overwhelming mass and quality of observational facts must outdo idle talk, he said, with reference to the IPCC reports.</strong></span></p>
<p class="body">However, a research paper by A.S. Unnikrishnan from the National Institute of Oceanography, K. Rupa Kumar, Sharon E. Fernandes and G.S. Michael and S.K. Patwardhan, published by <i>Current Science</i> in February 2006, said the estimates for Mumbai, Kochi and Visakhapatnam showed a sea level rise of 0.78, 1.14 and 0.75 mm/year respectively, whereas the estimate for Chennai showed a decrease in sea level (– 0.65 mm/year). Mumbai has tide gauge data for over 100 years for sea levels. The estimates of sea level rise along the coast of India were made by analysing the past tide gauge data. The present estimates are consistent with the global mean sea level rise estimates1, though lower in magnitudes, the paper said.</p>
<p class="body">Professor Morner also dismissed sea level rise in the Sunderbans area in Bangladesh after a visit in 2009. He said there was clear evidence of strong coastal erosion but no rise in sea levels. Nils Finn Munch-Petersen of the Nordic Institute of Asian Studies too said Maldives was marketing its sea level rise and this had led to a significant income for the island nation in the form of foreign aid while huge international resorts were being built there. “The presumed sea rise does not deter foreign investors.” He said saline intrusion into the islands' fresh water sources were cited as sea level rise effects.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.thehindu.com/sci-tech/energy-and-environment/article2538017.ece?homepage=true">http://www.thehindu.com/sci-tech/energy-and-environment/article2538017.ece?homepage=true</a></p>
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<p><strong><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Bangladesh :</span></strong></p>
<p><strong>Chittagong:</strong> . 3 upazila, 32 union, 253 sqkm area, 18,566 families, 97750 people, 1195 households (fully), 7570 households (partially), 2 acr crops (fully) and 2750 crops (partially), 2 cattle, Poultry 2800, 25 km Road (fully) and 195 km (partially), Institution 28 partially, embankment 87 km are affected.<br/> <strong>Satkhira: <span style="text-decoration: line-through;"> </span></strong> <span style="color: #ff0000;"><strong><span style="text-decoration: line-through;"><span style="color: #000000;">Water Receding</span></span>.66 unions of 6 Upazillas and 02 Pouroshova of Satkhira district are inundated</strong></span>. 1023 sqkm area, 1,97,739 families, 939514 people, 27218 households (fully), 43090 households (partially), 32855 acr crops (fully) and 18205 crops (partially), 30917 cattle, Poultry 62885, 613 km Road (fully) and 1258 km (partially), Institution 30(fully) and 577 (partially), embankment 9508 km are affected. Peoples from shelter are started to return home.<br/> <strong>Gaibandha</strong>: <span style="text-decoration: line-through;"><strong> </strong></span><span style="color: #ff0000;"><strong>Low lands of 10 unions of Govindoganj were inundated due to the increase of the water level in the rivers.</strong></span> 10 unions, 1 pourashava, 129 sqkm area, 119931 people, 29981 families, 2750 households (fully), 18750 households (partially), 98.8 acr crops (fully) and 331 acr crops (partially), 14 km road (fully) and 35 km (partially), 14 educational institutions, 5 km embankment (fully) and 8 km embankment (partially), 5 bridge/culvert have been affected.<br/> <strong>Naogaon: <span style="text-decoration: line-through;">.</span></strong> 960 families in Manda upazila have been affected since embankment has been breached in some places and water entered into this upazila. DC office distributed 14.400 MT GR rice among affected people in Manda upazila.<br/> <strong>Jessore<span style="text-decoration: line-through;">:Water receding.</span></strong> <span style="color: #ff0000;"><strong>36298 families of 43 unions from 6 upazilas have been affected due to inundation</strong></span>. 16922 acr crops (partially), 16325 households partially, 77 institution partially, 270 km road partially and 5 km embankment have been affected. Inundation situation is improved.<br/> <strong>Narail</strong>: Current flood situation is normal. Earlier, some damages occurred due to heavy rainfall, 3 upazila, 41 union /pourashava, 244.50 sqkm area, 51750 families, 246250 people, 3670 households (fully), 19100 households (partially), 7607 acr crops (fully) and 54521 acr (partially), 31 educational institution (partially), 88 km road, 9.5 km embankment have been affected.</p>
<p><a href="http://reliefweb.int/node/451709">http://reliefweb.int/node/451709</a></p>
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<p><strong>Tk 262 cr project starts this month to rid 3 dists of waterlogging</strong><br/> Quazi Amanullah, Khulna<br/> <br/> Bangladesh Water Development Board (BWDB) is expected to begin work for implementation of a Tk 261.53 crore project on the Kobadak River by this month for resolving the <span style="color: #ff0000;"><strong>persistent waterlogging problem in large areas of Khulna, Jessore and Satkhira districts.</strong></span><br/> <br/> The five-year project includes re-excavation of the Kobadak River and its adjoining creeks and canals, excavation of link canals and demolition of all unauthorised structures, dams, dykes and shrimp enclosures along the river, said BWDB sources.<br/> <br/> "The project aims at controlling flash floods, improving irrigation system and develop fisheries and agriculture sectors by removing silt deposits from the banks and beds of the Kobadak River," Dipak Sarker, superintending engineer of Jessore Circle of BWDB told this correspondent on Sunday.<br/> <br/> "Water Development Board will take full responsibility to implement the five-year project after receiving the fund allocated by the government. We hope to start the work by this month," he said.<br/> <br/> The Executive Committee of National Economic Council approved the project at a meeting held in Dhaka last month.<br/> <br/> Flash floods and persistent waterlogging resulting from heavy siltation of Kobadak River rendered lakhs of people of Khulna, Satkhira and Jessore districts homeless during the last several years.<br/> <br/> The 240-kilometre-long river flowing mainly through Khulna, Jessore and Satkhira districts has now become synonymous with sorrow for lakhs of people due to man-made problems.<br/> <br/> Mindless construction of dykes, dams, shrimp enclosures and unauthorised structures on the banks of the Kobadak resulted in its heavy siltation, affecting beauty and normal course of the river and eventually causing serious waterlogging in the area, the superintending engineer said.<br/> <br/> The perennial waterlogging problem has created an adverse impact on agriculture, fishery and biodiversity in the three districts, said Md Giasuddin, chief engineer of Khulna divisional office of BWDB.<br/> <br/> Under the Tk 261.53 crore project, Tk 28.27 crore will be spent during the current (2011-2012) financial year, Tk 114.65 crore during 2012-2013, Tk 102.63 crore during 2013-2014 and Tk 15.88 crore during 2014-2015 financial year, he said.<br/> <br/> Following locals' demand for saving the Kobadak, Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina directed the authorities concerned to take necessary steps in this regard.<br/> <br/> Consequently, a research work was carried out on 75,000 hectares of land last year to explore possibility of a sustainable drainage and flood control system and the project has been taken as per findings of the work, said the chief engineer of Khulna WDB.<br/> <br/> The project was included in the Annual Development Programme during 2010-2011 financial year, he added.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.thedailystar.net/newDesign/news-details.php?nid=206409">http://www.thedailystar.net/newDesign/news-details.php?nid=206409</a></p>
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<p><strong><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Cambodia:</span></strong></p>
<p><span id="result_box" lang="en"><strong><span class="hps">Cambodia</span>: Floods <span class="hps">as</span> <span class="hps">247</span> <span class="hps">people died</span></strong><br/> <br/> <br/> <span class="hps">Worst</span> <span class="hps">floods</span> <span class="hps">last</span> <span class="hps">two</span> <span class="hps">months</span> <span class="hps">has affected</span> <span class="hps">2 / 3</span> <span class="hps">area</span> <span class="hps">and</span> <span class="hps">killed</span> <span class="hps">247</span> <span class="hps">people</span> <span class="hps">in Cambodia</span><span>.</span> <span class="hps">This is the</span> <span class="hps">latest report</span> <span class="hps">of the</span> <span class="hps">Cambodian Prime Minister</span> <span class="hps">Hun</span> <span class="hps">Sen</span> <span class="hps">today</span> <span class="hps">(14/10)</span><span>.</span><br/> <span class="hps">Cambodia</span><span>: Floods</span> <span class="hps">as</span> <span class="hps">247</span> <span class="hps">people died</span><br/> <br/> <span class="hps">National Agency</span> <span class="hps">for</span> <span class="hps">Disaster</span> <span class="hps">Management</span> <span class="hps">of Cambodia</span><span>, said</span> <span class="hps">more than</span> <span class="hps">1,100</span> <span class="hps">schools</span> <span class="hps">have been affected</span> <span class="hps">so</span> <span class="hps">students can not</span> <span class="hps">attend school.</span> <strong><span style="color: #ff0000;"><span class="hps">17</span> <span class="hps">of</span> <span class="hps">Cambodia's</span> <span class="hps">23</span> <span class="hps">provinces</span> <span class="hps">are</span> <span class="hps">affected by the</span> <span class="hps">worst</span> <span class="hps">floods</span> <span class="hps">in</span> <span class="hps">over</span> <span class="hps">a</span></span> <span class="hps"><span style="color: #ff0000;">decade</span>.</span></strong> <span class="hps">Four</span> <span class="hps">counties</span> <span class="hps">in</span> <span class="hps">8</span> <span class="hps">districts</span> <span class="hps">of the capital</span> <span class="hps">Phnom</span> <span class="hps">Penh</span> <span class="hps">is also</span> <span class="hps">flooded by</span> <span class="hps">constant</span> <span class="hps">rain</span> <span class="hps">lasts</span><span>.</span><br/> <br/> <span class="hps">Flooding</span> <span class="hps">has caused</span> <span class="hps">food prices</span><span>,</span> <span class="hps">rising</span> <span class="hps">food</span> <span class="hps">by</span> <span class="hps">more than</span> <span class="hps">300</span> <span class="hps">thousand</span> <span class="hps">hectares of</span> <span class="hps">rice land</span> <span class="hps">were</span> <span class="hps">flooded</span><span>, of which</span> <span class="hps">100</span> <span class="hps">thousand</span> <span class="hps">hectares were</span> <span class="hps">completely destroyed</span><span>.</span><br/> <br/> <br/> <span class="hps">Believed to be</span> <span class="hps">the last</span> <span class="hps">round of</span> <span class="hps">flooding</span> <span class="hps">in Cambodia</span> <span class="hps">has caused</span> <span class="hps">heavy losses</span> <span class="hps">of</span> <span class="hps">lives and property</span> <span class="hps">of</span> <span class="hps">the nation</span><span>, today</span> <span class="hps">(14/10)</span><span>,</span> <span class="hps">Prime Minister</span> <span class="hps">Nguyen</span> <span class="hps">Tan Dung</span> <span class="hps">sent a</span> <span class="hps">visit</span> <span class="hps">to</span> <span class="hps">the Prime</span> <span class="hps">Royal Government of Cambodia</span> <span class="hps">Samdech</span> <span class="hps">Techo</span> <span class="hps">Hun</span> <span class="hps">Sen</span> <span class="hps">and</span> <span class="hps">expressed confidence</span> <span class="hps">that the</span> <span class="hps">Cambodian</span> <span class="hps">People's</span> <span class="hps">brother,</span> <span class="hps">under the leadership</span> <span class="hps">of</span> <span class="hps">the Royal Government</span> <span class="hps">led by Prime Minister</span> <span class="hps">Samdech</span> <span class="hps">Techo</span> <span class="hps">Hun</span> <span class="hps">Sen</span> <span class="hps">head</span><span>,</span> <span class="hps">will</span> <span class="hps">soon overcome</span> <span class="hps">consequences of natural</span> <span class="hps">disasters</span> <span class="hps">and</span> <span class="hps">stable life</span><span>.</span><br/> <br/> <span class="hps">The same day,</span> <span class="hps">Foreign Minister</span> <span class="hps">Pham</span> <span class="hps">Binh</span> <span class="hps">Minh</span> <span class="hps">also</span> <span class="hps">have power</span> <span class="hps">to send</span> <span class="hps">visiting</span> <span class="hps">Deputy Prime Minister</span><span>, Minister of Foreign</span> <span class="hps">Affairs and</span> <span class="hps">International Cooperation</span> <span class="hps">Hor</span> <span class="hps">Namhong</span><span>.</span></span></p>
<p><a href="http://www.vtv.vn/Article/Get/Campuchia-Lu-lut-lam-247-nguoi-thiet-mang-580b89a4d6.html">http://www.vtv.vn/Article/Get/Campuchia-Lu-lut-lam-247-nguoi-thiet-mang-580b89a4d6.html</a></p>
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<p> </p>7 of 10 TILTING; India-Pakistan: Pakistan has been devastated by one of the worst floods in its history! 312 people dead, 2.3 million affected! Flooding in Punjab harder than the disaster of 2010!tag:poleshift.ning.com,2014-09-18:3863141:BlogPost:9844992014-09-18T17:34:37.000ZStanislavhttps://poleshift.ning.com/profile/Stanislav
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<p style="text-align: center;"><a target="_blank" href="http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2014/09/11/1410465505663_wps_62_epa04395249_An_aerial_vie.jpg"><img class="align-full" src="http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2014/09/11/1410465505663_wps_62_epa04395249_An_aerial_vie.jpg"/></a><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">The plains near the foothills of the Himalayas including Pakistan's Punjab province, pictured, are normally rich in soil but crops have washed away EPA Source: <a href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2752553/More-450-dead-300-000-stranded-Kashmir-struggles-cope-days-floods-landslides-heavy-monsoon.html" target="_blank">dailymail.co.uk</a></span></p>
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<br/> <span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="font-size-2">Severe flooding has hit large parts of the Punjab in India and Pakistan (Pic: UN Photo/Evan Schneider).</span> <span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="font-size-2"><em>Source:</em></span> <span class="font-size-2" style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.rtcc.org/2014/09/12/after-the-floods-india-investigates-climate-change-links/" target="_blank">rtcc.org</a></span></div>
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<br/> <span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="font-size-2"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="font-size-2"><span style="text-align: left;" dir="ltr" class="irc_su">Tens of thousands of homes have been destroyed by flash floods and landslides which have hit more than a million people on the border of India and Pakistan</span></span></span> <span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="font-size-2"><span style="text-align: left;" dir="ltr" class="irc_su">(EPA)</span></span> <span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="font-size-2"><em>Source:</em></span> <span class="font-size-2"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2752553/More-450-dead-300-000-stranded-Kashmir-struggles-cope-days-floods-landslides-heavy-monsoon.html" target="_blank">dailymail.co.uk</a></span></span></div>
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<br/> <span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="font-size-2"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="font-size-2"><span style="text-align: left;" dir="ltr" class="irc_su">Srinagar, the summer capital of Indian Kashmir, has been submerged by the floodwaters. Reports have emerged of angry victims attacking emergency workers</span></span></span> <span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="font-size-2"><span style="text-align: left;" dir="ltr" class="irc_su">(EPA)</span></span> <span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="font-size-2"><em>Source:</em></span> <span class="font-size-2"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2752553/More-450-dead-300-000-stranded-Kashmir-struggles-cope-days-floods-landslides-heavy-monsoon.html" target="_blank">dailymail.co.uk</a></span></span></div>
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<br/> <span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="font-size-2">An aerial view of the flooded area of Peer Kot in Jhang, in central Punjab province on September 11, 2014. Pakistani troops on September 11 rushed to protect two major cities from raging floodwaters, using explosives to divert swollen rivers in a crisis which has hit more than a million people and inundated swathes of farmland.</span> <span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="font-size-2"><em>Source:</em></span> <span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="font-size-2"><em>g</em></span><a href="http://gulfnews.com/news/world/pakistan/pakistan-rushes-to-protect-cities-from-floods-1.1384023" target="_blank">g<span class="font-size-2" style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">ulfnews.com</span></a></div>
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<br/> <span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="font-size-2">A</span><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="font-size-2">erial views of flood-hit areas in Multan</span> <span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="font-size-2"><em>Source:</em></span> <em><a href="http://gulfnews.com/news/world/pakistan/pakistan-rushes-to-protect-cities-from-floods-1.1384023" target="_blank"></a><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="font-size-2"><a href="https://twitter.com/Razarumi/status/510458632404623360" target="_blank">twitter.com</a></span></em></div>
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<br/> <span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="font-size-2">A</span><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="font-size-2">erial views of flood-hit areas in Multan</span> <span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="font-size-2"><em>Source:</em></span> <span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="font-size-2"><em><a href="http://gulfnews.com/news/world/pakistan/pakistan-rushes-to-protect-cities-from-floods-1.1384023" target="_blank"></a><a href="https://twitter.com/Razarumi/status/510458632404623360" target="_blank">twitter.com</a><br/></em></span></div>
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<br/> <span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="font-size-2">A</span><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="font-size-2">erial views of flood-hit areas in Multan</span> <span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="font-size-2"><em>Source:</em></span> <span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="font-size-2"><em><a href="http://gulfnews.com/news/world/pakistan/pakistan-rushes-to-protect-cities-from-floods-1.1384023" target="_blank"></a><a href="https://twitter.com/Razarumi/status/510458632404623360" target="_blank">twitter.com</a><br/></em></span></div>
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<br/> <span class="font-size-2" style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"> A</span><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="font-size-2">s the flood emergency deepens in Pakistan, now affecting nearly 2.3 million people, humanitarian teams have mobilized to work alongside local government authorities to assess needs in the worst-affected areas.</span><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="font-size-2"><em>Source:</em></span> <span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="font-size-2"><em><a href="http://gulfnews.com/news/world/pakistan/pakistan-rushes-to-protect-cities-from-floods-1.1384023" target="_blank"></a><a href="http://www.irinnews.org/report/100626/pakistan-floods-affect-2-3-million" target="_blank">irinnews.org</a><br/></em></span></div>
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<p style="text-align: left;"><a target="_self" href="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/74192144?profile=original"><img class="align-full" src="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/74192144?profile=original" width="676"/></a><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">17 September, 2014</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; color: #333399;">Though the Indo-Australian Plate is sometimes referred to as two separate plates, this plate operates as one and will continue to do so. Where Indonesia at the southern edge will lose approximately 80 feet in elevation, the curve of the Indo-Australian Plate nestling this southern edge of the tongue will not gain that much in elevation. Bangladesh will find some of its recently submerged islands suddenly reappearing, and the tides will not roll inland as far as formerly. Overall, perhaps a 15 foot gain in elevation, though this is short term as the continent of India will continue to submerge as time marches on toward the pole shift. What occurs in the pushing down of the tongue holding Indonesia is a drama occurring under the water, in the main.</span><br/> <br/> <span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; color: #333399;">One can see from elevation or relief maps that the submerged land to the south of Sumatra and Java are not under deep, but under relatively shallow water. We have described Sumatra and Java as land formed by the scraping of the tongue holding Indonesia, and pushed back along the tongue holding Indonesia by the edge of the Indo-Australian Plate. This will again occur, but as the tongue overall is pushed down, the scrapings will not produce new mountain ranges above the waves but only jumble under the waves. The western edge of India, where the Indus River region in Pakistan is sinking, will likewise not experience that much loss of elevation, commensurate with the eastern edge of India, perhaps a 10 foot drop. What is occurring in India is not where the 7 of 10 action will be focused, at least not in the public eye.</span><br/> <br/> <span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; color: #333399;">We have predicted that the western edge of India will only lose 10 feet of elevation during the 7 of 10, and given the degree of flooding that Pakistan is already experiencing, Karachi has already experienced some of this elevation loss. The flooding in Pakistan, however, is afflicting the Indus River valley to the east of Karachi at this time, on that portion of Pakistan lying on the plate holding India. When the tongue holding Indonesia drops, Karachi will experience great quakes and crumbling, but overall this city will not sink.</span></p>
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<p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; color: #ff0000;"><span style="color: #800000;">15 September, 2014.</span> Pakistan has been devastated by one of the worst floods in its history. At least 300 have been killed and the country's breadbasket - Punjab - has been crippled.</span><br/> <br/> <span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; color: #ff0000;">Yet the government has been slow to turn its attention to the flood victims, as it is being distracted by anti-government protests in the capital Islamabad.</span><br/> <br/> <span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; color: #ff0000;">Protesters in Islamabad have been calling for a new Pakistan and the ouster of Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif's regime. More than a month since the so-called Freedom and Revolutionary march began, the government has continued to resist those calls, deploying significant resources to clamp down on demonstrations instead.</span><br/> <br/> <span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; color: #ff0000;">The political crisis in the capital and the floods occurring at the same time have landed the government on a difficult course. <span style="color: #800000;">Source: </span><a href="http://www.channelnewsasia.com/news/asiapacific/pakistan-govt-posed/1363630.html" target="_blank">channelnewsasia.com</a></span></p>
<hr noshade="noshade" size="1"/><p><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; color: #ff0000;"><span style="color: #800000;">17, September 2014.</span> Pakistan floods affect 2.3 million</span><br/> <br/> <span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; color: #ff0000;"> As the flood emergency deepens in Pakistan, now affecting nearly 2.3 million people, humanitarian teams have mobilized to work alongside local government authorities to assess needs in the worst-affected areas.</span><br/> <br/> <span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; color: #ff0000;">Late monsoon rains earlier this month hit the mountainous areas of Gilgit-Balitstan and Pakistani-administered Kashmir, unleashing a torrent of water flowing into Punjab’s agricultural heartlands. Swollen rivers breached flood defences, sweeping away thousands of villages as the “super-flood” surged south, wreaking havoc throughout Punjab, the country’s most populous province.</span><br/> <br/> <span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; color: #ff0000;">The government’s National Disaster Management Authority (NDMA) says 312 people have died, with 2,275,000 affected and nearly 1.7 million acres (687,965 hectares) of crops lost. Punjab Province declared a state of emergency as the flood spread through central areas, with Jhang District hit hardest.</span> <br/> <br/> <span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; color: #ff0000;">At a distribution by the Pakistan Red Crescent Society (PRCS) in the government high school at Vanike Tarar, where 250 households received food rations, Sher Muhammad, 85, looked on with a sense of bewilderment: “I have not seen such a flood, not since around the time of partition [1947].”</span> <br/> <br/> <span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; color: #ff0000;">Saleem said the flooding has hit Punjab harder than the disaster of 2010, with huge volumes flowing directly into its agricultural heartlands from seven breaches in the river Chenab.</span> <br/> <br/> <span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; color: #ff0000;">Villager Bashir Ahmad, 42, said his wife and five children escaped the high flood by climbing trees. His house now gone, he said he was not aware that the flood would be so severe. The last time his village was affected was back in 1992. “This is worse,” he said, surveying the meagre possessions he has been able to salvage from the mud. “It came suddenly,” he adds. And his crop of sugar cane has been ruined by the more than five feet (1.5 metre) surge.</span> <br/> <br/> <span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; color: #ff0000;">A few miles away villagers have yet to receive assistance. The flood is only just receding and the surrounding farmland still lies under three feet of stagnant water. Here the community of tenant farmers constructed an array of flood walls, dykes and channels over the years. It was not enough to stop the flood, but limited the damage.</span> <br/> <br/> <span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; color: #ff0000;">Meanwhile, the flood surge is still pushing south, threatening millions more vulnerable people in upper Sindh Province.</span> <span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Source: <a href="http://www.irinnews.org/report/100626/pakistan-floods-affect-2-3-million" target="_blank">irinnews.org</a></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" id="result_box" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><span class="hps">No one can</span> <span class="hps">properly</span> <span class="hps">explain</span> <span class="hps">why the</span> <span class="hps">flood in</span> <span class="hps">Jammu&</span><span class="hps">Kashmir</span> and Pakistan <span class="hps">is</span> so <span class="hps">strong</span>.</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; color: #ff0000;"><span style="color: #800000;">18 September, 2014.</span> India’s water minister says atheists cause floods (crazier theories prevail in Pakistan)</span><br/> <br/> <span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; color: #ff0000;">Uma Bharti, India’s water resources minister, has said the “underlying reason” behind the catastrophic floods in North India last year was human excretion. The natural disaster in 2013 was called “the Himalayan Tsunami” by the media. It killed over 6,000 people, mostly in Uttarakhand.</span><br/> <br/> <span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; color: #ff0000;">Flash floods and landslides also devastated the ancient Hindu pilgrimage site Kedarnath. Thousands of pilgrims were killed and the entire town surrounding the Kedarnath temple was submerged.</span><br/> <br/> <span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; color: #ff0000;">While discussing the reconstruction of the temple, India’s water resources minister told scientists at the Himalayan Institute of Glaciology and Forest Research that years of defecation by atheists near the shrine caused the floods.</span><br/> <br/> <span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; color: #ff0000;">“As time passed, atheists came here, mainly for business purposes. This resulted in nature’s fury at Kedarnath in 2013,” said Bharti, according to Hindustan Times newspaper. She said that excretion was prohibited in the natural boundary of the ancient temple. <span style="color: #800000;">Source</span>: <a href="http://qz.com/267048/indias-water-minister-says-atheists-cause-floods-crazier-theories-prevail-in-pakistan/" target="_blank">qz.com</a><br/></span></p>
<hr noshade="noshade" size="1"/><p><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; color: #ff0000;"><span style="color: #800000;">17 September, 2014.</span> Kashmir floods a man-made disaster, need Wetland Conservation Act: BNHS</span><br/> <br/> <span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="color: #ff0000;">Demanding for the Wetland Conservation Act, Bombay Natural History Society (BNHS) on Tuesday said that the flood in Kashmir is nothing but a man-made disaster. Dal Lake has shrunk to half its size and Wular Lake is just 10%, as compared to what it once was – 20,200 hectares.</span> Source: <a href="http://www.dnaindia.com/mumbai/report-kashmir-floods-a-man-made-disaster-need-wetland-conservation-act-bnhs-2019166" target="_blank">dnaindia.com</a><br/></span></p>
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<p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="font-size-2">Latest aerial photos by Army just in of the flood situation in Srinagar. <em>Source:</em></span> <em><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="font-size-2"><a href="https://twitter.com/ShivAroor/media" target="_blank">twitter.com</a></span></em></p>
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<br/> <span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="font-size-2">An aerial view shows buildings submerged in floodwaters in Srinagar, in Indian Kashmir, Tuesday, Sept. 9, 2014. The death toll from floods in Pakistan and India reached 400 on Tuesday and have put more than half a million people in peril and rendered thousands homeless in the two neighboring states. (AP Photo/Dar Yasin)The Associated Press <em>Source:</em></span> <em><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="font-size-2"><a href="http://www.foxnews.com/world/2014/09/10/officials-floods-that-killed-457-in-pakistan-and-india-endanger-thousands-more/" target="_blank">foxnews.com</a></span></em></div>
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<br/> <span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="font-size-2">Chief Minister Omar Abdullah has said these are the worst floods in a century <em>Source:</em></span> <em><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="font-size-2"><a href="https://twitter.com/ShivAroor/media" target="_blank">twitter.com</a></span></em></div>
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<br/> <span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="font-size-2">Siringar right now. <em>Source:</em></span> <em><span class="font-size-2" style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><a href="https://twitter.com/search?q=%23kashmirfloods&src=hash&mode=photos" target="_blank">twitter.com</a></span></em></div>
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<br/> <span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="font-size-2">Aerial view of Dalgate & Pantha Chowk late afternoon.</span> y<span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="font-size-2"><em>Source:</em></span> <em><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="font-size-2"><a href="https://twitter.com/search?q=%23kashmirfloods&src=hash&mode=photos" target="_blank">twitter.com</a></span></em></div>
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<br/> <span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="font-size-2">An aerial view seen from an airplane shows the flooded Srinagar city, September 9, 2014. Credit: Reuters/Adnan Abidi</span> y<span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="font-size-2"><em>Source:</em></span> <em><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="font-size-2"><a href="http://in.reuters.com/article/2014/09/10/southasia-floods-idINKBN0H50ES20140910" target="_blank">in.reuters.com</a></span></em></div>
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<br/> <span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="font-size-2"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="font-size-2">The view of Srinagar from an Indian Air Force helicopter on Monday September 8.</span></span> y<span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="font-size-2"><em>Source:</em></span> <em><span class="font-size-2" style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/national/09-Sep-2014/chronology-of-worst-floods-in-pakistan" target="_blank">dailytimes.com.pk</a></span></em></div>
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<br/> <span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="font-size-2"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="font-size-2">Local volunteers ferry floods victims to safety in Srinagar, India, Tuesday, September 9, 2014. Raging monsoon floods sweeping across India and Pakistan have killed more than 440 people, authorities in both countries said Tuesday, warning hundreds of thousands more to be prepared to flee their homes. Pakistani and Indian troops have been using boats and helicopters to drop food supplies for stranded families and evacuate victims. However, the challenge of the situation grows as more than 1.5 million people are now affected as the rushing waters have destroyed the homes of thousands of families. Read more (Photograph credit: Altaf Qadri/AP photo)</span></span> y<span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="font-size-2"><em>Source:</em></span> <em><span class="font-size-2" style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><a href="http://tryfontopalidis.com/?route=%2F" target="_blank">tryfontopalidis.com</a></span></em></div>
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<span class="font-size-2"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Aerial floods in Kashmir.</span></span> <span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="font-size-2"><em>Source:</em></span> <em><span class="font-size-2" style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.theasians.co.uk/multimedia/slideshows/?id=4420" target="_blank">theasians.co.uk</a></span></em></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="font-size-2">Pakistani residents wade through floodwaters at a village in Jhang, in the central Punjab province on September 9, 2014 (AFP Photo / Arif Ali).</span> <span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="font-size-2"><em>Source:</em></span> <em><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="font-size-2">r</span></em><a href="http://rt.com/news/186484-india-pakistan-floods-victims/" target="_blank">r<em><span class="font-size-2">t.com</span></em></a></div>
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<br/> <span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="font-size-2">Floodwaters inch higher on a bridge on September 5 in Jammu, Indian-controlled Kashmir. <em>AP Source: <a href="http://edition.cnn.com/2014/09/06/world/asia/pakistan-floods/index.html" target="_blank">edition.cnn.com</a></em></span></div>
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<br/> <span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="font-size-2">Residents watch the overflowing Chenab River after heavy rains, at Akhnoor, about 30 kilometers (19 miles) northwest of Jammu, India, Friday, Sep. 5, 2014. The region has been hit by its worst monsoon flooding in more than two decades. Power and telephone links have been cut in many areas and supplies of clean drinking water have been hit, officials said<em>. (AP Photo/Channi Anand) Source:</em></span> <em><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="font-size-2"><a href="http://democratherald.com/news/world/asia/rain-falls-in-indian-kashmir-flooding-toll-at/image_038a106a-7dac-57e4-83dd-c1f8f5e24b9b.html" target="_blank">democratherald.com</a></span></em></div>
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<br/> <span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="font-size-2"><span style="width: 624px;">Indian troops have been deployed to help rescue operations</span>. AFP. <em>Source:</em></span> <em><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="font-size-2"><a href="http://democratherald.com/news/world/asia/rain-falls-in-indian-kashmir-flooding-toll-at/image_038a106a-7dac-57e4-83dd-c1f8f5e24b9b.html" target="_blank">democratherald.com</a></span></em></div>
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<br/> <span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="font-size-2">Declare J&K floods a national calamity: Congress <em>Source:</em></span> <span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="font-size-2"><a href="http://news.oneindia.in/india/declare-j-k-floods-national-calamity-cong-1516495.html" target="_blank">news.oneindia.in</a></span></div>
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<br/> <span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="font-size-2">Kashmir reeling under worst floods in six decades. <em>Source:</em></span> <em><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="font-size-2"><a href="http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/foreign/04-Sep-2014/heavy-rains-claims-65-lives-in-jammu-kashmir" target="_blank">dailytimes.com</a></span></em></div>
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<br/> <span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="font-size-2">The floods swept a bus carrying about 50 members of a wedding party down a gorge on Thursday AFP. <em>Source:</em></span> <em><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="font-size-2"><a href="http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-29093254" target="_blank">bbc.com</a></span></em></div>
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<br/> <span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="font-size-2">The floods swept a bus carrying about 50 members of a wedding party down a gorge on Thursday AFP. <em>Source:</em></span> <em><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="font-size-2"><a href="http://www.hindustantimes.com/india-news/jammu-bus-washed-away-in-stream-many-feared-dead/article1-1259877.aspx" target="_blank">hindustantimes.com</a></span></em></div>
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<br/> <span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="font-size-2">A Pakistani army helicopter hovers to rescue trapped people marooned by floods on the outskirts of Islamabad on Friday.(AP Photo/Anjum Naveed) <em>Source: </em></span><em><span class="font-size-2" style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.arabnews.com/featured/news/626111" target="_blank">arabnews.com</a></span></em></div>
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<p><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="color: #800000;">6 September, 2014.</span> <span style="color: #ff0000;">Jammu & Kashmir facing ‘worst flood in 60 years’, death toll touches 160</span><br/> <br/> <span style="color: #ff0000;">The death toll in the Jammu & Kashmir floods has risen to 160 as the floods, the worst the state has seen in 60 years, affected a staggering 2,500 villages, Union home minister Rajnath Singh on Saturday said as he assured help to deal with the grim situation.</span><br/> <br/> <span style="color: #ff0000;">Rajnath Singh told reporters at the Jammu airport that "160 people have lost their lives in these floods. Floods of this magnitude have hit Jammu & Kashmir after 60 years."</span> <span style="color: #ff0000;">He said 2,500 villages were affected, out of which 450 were completely submerged.</span><br/> <br/> <span style="color: #ff0000;">The home minister arrived in the state earlier in the day on a day's visit to take stock of the flood situation.</span> <span style="color: #ff0000;">Rajnath Singh said in Srinagar that he had met chief minister Omar Abdullah and senior officials who briefed him about the severity of the situation.</span><br/> <br/> <span style="color: #ff0000;">"If there is so much devastation in the city, I wonder what would be the situation like in rural areas," Singh said, who had to cancel an aerial tour because of inclement weather.</span><br/> <br/> <span style="color: #ff0000;">"I want to assure the people and the government of Jammu & Kashmir that the central government stands beside you in your hour of crisis and we extend all necessary help to you," he said. <span style="color: #800000;">Source:</span> <a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/Jammu-Kashmir-facing-worst-flood-in-60-years-death-toll-touches-160/articleshow/41874528.cms?imageid=41775236#slide3" target="_blank">timesofindia.indiatimes.com</a></span><br/></span></p>
<hr noshade="noshade" size="1"/><p><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; color: #ff0000;"><span style="color: #800000;">6 September, 2014.</span> The flood situation in Kashmir was as worse as the Uttarakhand floods last year and Army has mobilised 60 columns for relief and rescue work across the valley, an Army official said. <span style="color: #800000;">Source:</span> <a href="http://www.thehindu.com/news/national/other-states/boat-carrying-army-jawans-capsizes-in-jhelum-river-in-floodhit-jammu-and-kashmir/article6386129.ece" target="_blank">thehindu.com</a></span></p>
<hr noshade="noshade" size="1"/><p><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; color: #ff0000;"><span style="color: #800000;">5 September, 2014.</span> Catastrophic floods wreak havoc in Kashmir</span><br/> <br/> <span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; color: #ff0000;">The wedding season in Kashmir, which has defiantly continued through military curfews and unrest in the Indian-administered state in the past, has been marred by the worst flooding in decades, which on Thursday swept away a bus packed with wedding guests in its muddy, violent waters.</span><br/> <br/> <span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; color: #ff0000;">Seventy of the passengers remain missing and rescuers, fighting their way through the deluge, have still been unable to locate the bus, according to state officials. <span style="color: #800000;">Source:</span> <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2014/09/05/catastrophic-floods-wreak-havoc-in-kashmir/" target="_blank">washingtonpost.com</a></span></p>
<hr noshade="noshade" size="1"/><p><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; color: #ff0000;"><span style="color: #800000;">6 September, 2014.</span> India Pakistan flood toll passes 200<br/> <br/> More than 200 people have been killed in flooding caused by heavy rain across large swathes of India and Pakistan, reports say.<br/> <br/> At least 110 people were killed by downpours in Pakistani-administered Kashmir and Punjab, officials said.<br/> <br/> About 100 people also died in Indian-administered Kashmir, as the floodwaters washed away houses and triggered landslides, officials said. <span style="color: #800000;">Source:</span> <a href="http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-29093254" target="_blank">bbc.co</a></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="color: #ff0000;"><span style="color: #800000;">9 September, 2014.</span> Monster floods kill over 400 in India, Pakistan.</span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="color: #ff0000;">“The damage is shocking. People have been stranded on the rooftops of their homes for the last three days in some parts of Kashmir,” said a senior official from India’s National Disaster Response Force. He added that they would have sent in disaster response teams earlier, but “we were all caught off guard because there was not a single warning issued by the weather office. The flash floods took us by surprise.”</span><br/> <br/> <span style="color: #ff0000;">Although India’s meteorological department did forecast heavy rain in Kashmir for last week, the nation’s media reported the Central Water Commission, which issues flood warnings, did not warn the northern state of Kashmir, where the downpours were heaviest. <em><span style="color: #800000;">Source:</span> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://rt.com/news/186484-india-pakistan-floods-victims/" target="_blank">rt.com</a></em></span></span></p>
<hr noshade="noshade" size="1"/><p><span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="color: #800000;">9 September, 2014.</span> Kashmir’s epic floods link India and Pakistan in disaster</span><br/> <br/> <span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">In Indian-administered Kashmir, heavy monsoon rains led to surging floodwaters and the deaths of at least 175 people. Across the disputed border in Pakistani-administered Kashmir, the floods have claimed more than 60 lives, in addition to 131 in Punjab province. It is the mountainous region's worst flooding in six decades, submerging hundreds of villages and prompting a crisis that has led to a brief thaw in ties between two bickering foes.</span> <span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><em><span style="color: #800000;">Source</span>: <a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/worldviews/wp/2014/09/08/kashmirs-epic-floods-link-india-and-pakistan-in-disaster/" target="_blank">washingtonpost.com</a></em></span></p>
<hr noshade="noshade" size="1"/><p><span style="color: #800000; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">10 September, 2014. <span style="color: #ff0000;">As residents battle floods, govt. nowhere in sight</span><br/> <br/> <span style="color: #ff0000;"><span style="text-decoration: underline;">Even as Kashmir reels under the worst-ever floods in living memory</span>, the administration it seems is nowhere in sight. Thousands of people are still trapped in their homes in Srinagar with little or no food, water and medicines. The only State presence on the ground is that of the Armed forces and a handful of policemen.</span><br/> <br/> <span style="color: #ff0000;">There is a major breakdown in all forms of communication — not only between the people, but also between the district administration and the government. This has stalled a coordinated response to the floods.</span><br/> <br/> <span style="color: #ff0000;">“The magnitude of the disaster is beyond my imagination and we need support from every quarter,” Sub-Divisional Magistrate Srinagar Abid Rashid said. Abid was running around frantically near one of the rescue spots — at times carrying a screaming young girl in his arms and at others helplessly pleading with people not to impede rescue operations by blocking the way. Except for a few, most of police stations in Srinagar are submerged and some of its senior officers are missing. “The State has not set up a single control room. Where is the government?” a retired senior police officer asked.</span></span> <span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><em><span class="font-size-2">Source: <a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.thehindu.com/news/national/jammu-and-kashmir-floods-as-residents-battle-floods-government-nowhere-in-sight/article6395183.ece" target="_blank">thehindu.com</a></span></em></span></p>
<hr noshade="noshade" size="1"/><p><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; color: #ff0000;"><span style="color: #800000;">9 September, 2014.</span> Kashmir floods: <span style="text-decoration: underline;">Worst crisis state has faced in living memory</span>, says Omar</span><br/> <br/> <span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; color: #ff0000;">Srinagar: Describing the current floods in the state as the worst in 109 years, Jammu and Kashmir Chief</span><br/> <span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; color: #ff0000;">Minister Omar Abdullah today said the government will reach out to all people for rescuing them and then rehabilitate them.</span><br/> <br/> <span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; color: #ff0000;">Rejecting criticism that the administration was not prepared or had not reached all the affected people, Omar said nobody could plan for an unpredicable crisis and all efforts were being made to first rescue all.</span><br/> <br/> <span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; color: #ff0000;">"We are doing whatever we can do in tackling the worst crisis the state has faced in living memory...In this crisis situation, our first priority is to rescue people. Rehabilitation and other things come later," he told Doordarshan.</span><br/> <br/> <span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; color: #ff0000;">When told about the anger among the people over not getting enough help from the administration, the Chief Minister said, "I can understand their anger and pain. It is not wrong on their part. I don't blame them. It is a crisis of unpredictable proportion. Whatever is possible and whatever is in my capacity we will do.</span><br/> <br/> <span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; color: #ff0000;">"I know people have lost their belongings, farmers have lost their rice crops. My effort will be to make them stand on their own feet again.." <em><span style="color: #000000;">Source:</span></em> <em><a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.firstpost.com/india/kashmir-floods-worst-crisis-state-faced-living-memory-says-omar-1704783.html" target="_blank">firstpost.com</a></em></span></p>
<hr noshade="noshade" size="1"/><p><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; color: #ff0000;"><span style="color: #800000;">10 September, 2014.</span> Thousands of people fled their homes in Pakistan on Wednesday as monsoon flooding that has already inundated the disputed Himalayan region of Kashmir coursed down onto the plains, causing a major river to breach its banks.</span><br/> <br/> <span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; color: #ff0000;">The flooding began earlier this month in Kashmir, where it has caused landslides and submerged much of the main city of Srinagar, on the Indian-administered side. The death toll from the flooding in both countries has climbed to at least 457. <em><span style="color: #000000;">Source: <span style="color: #333399;"><a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.cbsnews.com/news/kashmir-flood-waters-hit-pakistan-plains-thousands-flee-homes/" target="_blank"><span style="color: #333399;">cbsnews.com</span></a></span></span></em></span></p>
<hr noshade="noshade" size="1"/><p><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; color: #ff0000;"><span style="color: #800000;">10 September, 2014.</span> Recent floods worst in history: Kh Asif</span><br/> <br/> <span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; color: #ff0000;">Describing unprecedented rains an outcome of climatic change, Minister for Water and Power Khawaja Muhammad Asif on Tuesday informed joint sitting of the Parliament that from Attack up to Sargodha districts 128 people died as flood affected 436,000 citizens in different areas.</span><br/> <br/> <span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; color: #ff0000;">Briefing the Parliament, the Minister said, till September 08 there were reported 270,000 injured with 1242 houses partially damaged and 191 completely washed away; 1053 villages had affected and crops on 325647 acres had damaged while 772 cattle head perished.</span><br/> <br/> <span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; color: #ff0000;">He said relief activities are continued in full swing as NDMA, PDMA, District Administration and Pak Army and 18227 affected citizens were rescued successfully as he clarified that death toll also include those died due to heavy rains and houses collapse.</span><br/> <br/> <span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; color: #ff0000;">It was the worst flood in our history,” he said and presented detailed situation including meetings and water recorded at different barrages and dams. “We were satisfied that season will pass peacefully. But, all of a sudden this phenomenon happened and our departments could not predict it. We had to depend on information by Met Office and Indian authorities.”</span> <em><span style="color: #800000; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Source: <span style="color: #333399;"><a rel="nofollow" href="http://pakobserver.net/detailnews.asp?id=252018" target="_blank"><span style="color: #333399;">pakobserver.net</span></a></span></span></em></p>
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<p><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" id="result_box" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><span class="hps">And again</span>, <span class="hps">the weather is</span> <span class="hps">to blame for everything</span> <span class="hps">...</span></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; color: #ff0000;"><span style="color: #800000;">10 September, 2014.</span> Why Jammu and Kashmir is Battling Its Worst Flood in 100 Years</span><br/> <span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; color: #ff0000;">As Jammu and Kashmir battles its worst flood in 100 years, leading environmental think-tank Centre for Science and Environment (CSE) has said heavy and unchecked development has magnified the tragedy in the state, especially in Srinagar. (Army Vehicles Pelted With Stones in Srinagar)</span><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; color: #ff0000;">.</span> <span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; color: #ff0000;">"Several wetlands, lake and water bodies have been encroached upon by developers over the years, especially low-lying areas, the full effects of which are being witnessed now," Sunita Narain, the director of CSE, said today. (Kashmir Floods: Six Lakh Still Stranded, Some Phone Lines Restored in Srinagar)</span><br/> <span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; color: #ff0000;"> </span><br/> <span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; color: #ff0000;">The fact that Jammu and Kashmir does not have a flood forecasting system meant that the gravity of the situation was missed till it was too late. Close to 200 have died and thousands are still waiting for help after heavy rain left large parts of the state submerged. (Acting on Facebook SOS, Army Saves Pregnant Woman Stranded in Srinagar)</span><br/> <span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; color: #ff0000;"> </span><br/> <span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; color: #ff0000;">The Kashmir Valley has seen heavy construction over the years; more than 50 per cent of land near lakes, ponds and wetlands of Srinagar has been constructed upon in 100 years. (Ignored Warnings Magnified a Disaster Waiting To Happen)</span><br/> <span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; color: #ff0000;"> </span><br/> <span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; color: #ff0000;">The floods are also a wake-up call on the impact of climate change, the CSE has said.</span> <span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; color: #ff0000;">"Extreme weather events", which include periods of intense droughts, floods or cyclones, have spiked dramatically from an average of just 2.5 events in 1900-09 to 350 in 2000-2010. (Set Up To Combat Disasters, This Agency is Almost Defunct Today)</span><br/> <span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; color: #ff0000;"> </span><br/> <span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; color: #ff0000;">CSE researchers have compiled a list of such disasters in India, and these include the Mumbai floods of 2005, the Leh cloudburst of 2010 and the Uttarakhand floods of 2013.</span><br/> <span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; color: #ff0000;"> </span><br/> <span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; color: #ff0000;">"The authorities seem to be in denial about climate change being a factor that is perhaps pushing these extreme events," said Chandra Bhushan, deputy director at CSE.</span><br/> <span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; color: #ff0000;"> </span><br/> <span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; color: #ff0000;">The IPCC or Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change of the United Nations said in an assessment predicted intense weather events, including heavy rainfall, as a result of the accelerated effects of climate change. <em><span style="color: #800000;">Source:</span> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.ndtv.com/article/india/why-jammu-and-kashmir-is-battling-its-worst-flood-in-100-years-589698" target="_blank">ndtv.com</a></em><br/></span></p>7 of 10 TILTING & SINKING ZetaTalk Accuracy! Fiji worst ever floods!tag:poleshift.ning.com,2014-08-28:3863141:BlogPost:9829822014-08-28T18:41:04.000ZStanislavhttps://poleshift.ning.com/profile/Stanislav
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<p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><a target="_self" href="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/74194678?profile=original"><img width="750" class="align-full" src="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/74194678?profile=RESIZE_1024x1024" width="750"/></a></span><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span lang="en" xml:lang="en"><span class="hps"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Map of maximum extent inundation. Not all areas were inundated at the same time or for the whole time. This map shows the sum of all flooded areas; <span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span lang="en" xml:lang="en"><span class="hps"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">in Sunda region (Myanmar, Thailand, Cambodia, Vietnam, China, Philippines, Malaysia, Southern Indonesia edge, Singapore, Brunei) since 2010 and in South Asia since 2007 (India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Nepal). Red it's extent of floodwater, <em>now dry</em></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p style="text-align: left;"><a target="_self" href="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/54878567?profile=original"><img width="750" class="align-full" src="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/54878567?profile=RESIZE_1024x1024" width="750"/></a><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Red 2007; Orange 2008; Purple 2009; Yellow 2012; Green 2013; The map shows the sum of all flooded areas.</span></p>
<p style="text-align: left;"><em><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; color: #800000;">ZetaTalk Prediction:</span></em></p>
<p><em><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; color: #800000;"><a target="_blank" href="http://zetatalk3.com/ning/16oc004.jpg"><img class="align-full" src="http://zetatalk3.com/ning/16oc004.jpg"/></a></span></em><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; color: #333399;">We have spoken previously of the areas to be affected by the bending of the tongue holding Indonesia, but can now give more specifics. Draw a line from the city of Hangzhou directly east, and consider this horizontal line the point of bend. This does not mean that points north can rest easy, as when the tongue bends down water from various sides will rush in to fill the void, and these waters will have a rebound in the form of tsunami which can race northward at a height of 20-30 feet. The southern coast of China was likewise warned that they could experience loss of elevation. How much will their coastline drop, that they needed this warning from the Hangzhou UFO? This coastline, in general, can anticipate losing 20 feet in elevation, which will likewise afflict Taiwan though Taiwan is high land and will not be as devastated.</span> <br/> <br/> <span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; color: #333399;">Thought the tipping of the Philippine Plate at first gives the islands of the Philippines some relief, as the subduction of the plate is pushing <em>under</em> them, as the bending of the tongue holding Indonesia progresses, they too find an astonishing loss of sea level. However, other than some small islands and the direct coastline, little of the Philippines will be affected by this rise in sea level, and safety can be gained if the coastal residents head for the hills at the first sign of sinking. Tsunami will affect the Philippines, to a potential height of 40 feet, so a prompt evacuation to be at least 20 miles inland is necessary. If the coast of southern China will lose 20 feet in elevation, the Philippines will ultimately lose twice that much, to a total loss of 40 feet in elevation. Due to the tilting of the Indo-Australia Plate, Bangladesh gains temporary relief from the steady sinking it has experienced the past few years. And the tsunami likely to race northward will not come their way because the waters from the Bay of Bengal will be rushing <em>into</em> the South China Sea, and there clashing to push north. If the loss of 40 feet in elevation is not devastating to the Philippines, it is to the coastline of southern Burma, Tailand, and Cambodia, which have vast areas that will suddenly and permanently be flooded.</span> <br/> <br/> <span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; color: #333399;">It is the southern tip of the tongue which is utterly devastated. Draw a line just north of the Malaysia border and over the top of Borneo. The land on the tongue from this point south will double its elevation loss, so that Java and the islands bordering the Banda Sea will find they have lost a full 80 feet in elevation, sinking many coastal cities and small islands out of sight. Singapore will be awash, its streets hopelessly inundated. Vast areas of the northern coastline of Sumatra and the southern coastline of Borneo will likewise be inundated. And if having the sea rush in were not horrific enough, the <em>sudden</em> drop in elevation will bring with it water from the Indian Ocean and the Philippine Sea which will create <em>turmoil</em>, unpredictable waves that clash and boil. There is no predictor indicating that the bend and drop are about to happen that we could point to. There are, as we mentioned there would be, indicators of the <em>direction</em> that the plates are being pushed, as Jakarta has been sinking, Pakistan sinking, and the Coral Sea floor rising. We are telling you your coastlines are not safe, and the rest is up to you!</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><a href="http://zetatalk3.com/info/tinfx341.htm" target="_blank">ZetaTalk: Indonesia loss elevation</a></span></p>
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<p style="text-align: left;"><em><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; color: #800000;">ZetaTalk Prediction:</span></em></p>
<p><em><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; color: #800000;"><a target="_blank" href="http://www.zetatalk2.com/newsletr/issue332.jpg"><img class="align-full" src="http://www.zetatalk2.com/newsletr/issue332.jpg"/></a></span></em><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; color: #333399;">The islands at the plate borders in this region do not do well during the plate adjustments to come. The primary devastation will come during the hour of the pole shift, but the devastation has started during the 7 of 10 adjustments. Samoa rides on the Pacific Plate, which is pushing under the eastern edge of the Indo-Australian Plate, and as this process continues and accelerates, approaching the pole shift, will virtually disappear. The Solomon Islands do not fare much better, for the same reasons. Tonga and New Caledonia ride high. The little Fiji Plate, as the recent sinking indicates, will be a loser, pushed down into the notch as the Pacific Plate presses ever westward.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.zetatalk2.com/info/tinfx372.htm" target="_blank">ZetaTalk: South Sea Islands</a></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; color: #ff0000;"><span style="color: #800000;">4 March, 2012.</span> Sinking feeling</span><br/> <br/> <span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; color: #ff0000;">THE effects of climate change and rising sea level have seen a <span style="text-decoration: underline;">daily overflow of seawater</span> into the village of Vunidogoloa in Cakaudrove.</span><br/> <br/> <span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; color: #ff0000;">In fact, the 40 households have become used to having seawater under their homes or in the compound during high tide.</span> <span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; color: #ff0000;">The seawater enters the village through drains within compounds.</span><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; color: #ff0000;">"It doesn't happen only during heavy rain or natural disaster when the waves come into the village. It happens everyday when there is high tide and we are getting worried," said villager Samuela Banicau.</span><br/> <br/> <span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; color: #ff0000;">"I was born in this village and this is the first time I have seen <span style="text-decoration: underline;">seawater entering</span> the village everyday during high tides."</span> <span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; color: #ff0000;">Mr Banicau said the village used to sit at least three metres above sea level when he was a child.</span><br/> <br/> <span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; color: #ff0000;">"Today the village is at the same level with the sea and when we sit in our houses, we just look straight out to sea which never used to happen.</span><br/> <br/> <span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; color: #ff0000;">"Before, we used to look down at the sea and I guess what's happening today is all part of climate change," Mr Banicau said.</span> <span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; color: #ff0000;">Government has already prepared the new village site about two kilometres inland from the current site.</span><br/> <br/> <span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; color: #ff0000;">When The Fiji Times visited the village last week, little ponds of seawater could be seen on the village green.</span><br/> <br/> <span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; color: #ff0000;">Mr Banicau said the villagers have become used to having a flooded compound every day. <span style="color: #000000;">Source:</span> <a href="http://www.fijitimes.com/story.aspx?id=194956" target="_blank">fijitimes.com</a><br/></span></p>
<hr noshade="noshade" size="1"/><p><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; color: #ff0000;"><span style="color: #800000;">27 February, 2014</span>. <span style="text-decoration: underline;">Flood, tide hit Lovu Village</span></span><br/> <br/> <span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; color: #ff0000;">THE sea-side village of Lovu on the Island of Gau is flooded this morning from the continuous downpour and also the increasing swells from the sea.</span><br/> <br/> <span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; color: #ff0000;">Lovu villager Tautusi Sovakatini said water was already in the village and waves from the sea were already lapping on the doorsteps of a house on the edge of the village.</span><br/> <br/> <span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; color: #ff0000;">"We are stuck between the rainwater flow from the land and the waves from the sea,'' he said.</span><br/> <br/> <span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="color: #ff0000;">"Rain started last night and has not stopped since and the waves are beginning to touch a house situated at the edge of the village."</span> Source: <a href="http://www.fijitimes.com/story.aspx?id=261265" target="_blank">fijitimes.com</a><br/></span></p>
<hr noshade="noshade" size="1"/><p><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; color: #ff0000;"><span style="color: #800000;">15 January, 2012.</span> Dakuinuku fights on</span><br/> <br/> <span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; color: #ff0000;">The villagers of Dakuinuku in Tailevu are waging a losing war.</span><br/> <br/> <span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; color: #ff0000;">It's a war against mother nature- one they have almost no chance of winning.</span><br/> <br/> <span style="text-decoration: underline;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; color: #ff0000; text-decoration: underline;">Since last year, Dakuinuku has experienced heavy flooding every day from the sea.</span></span> <span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; color: #ff0000;">At high tide, the waves sweep over the beach front of the village.</span><br/> <br/> <span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; color: #ff0000;">The sea intrudes to the doorsteps of the houses, covering up half of Dakuinuku. It lays claim to half of the village every high tide.</span> <span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; color: #ff0000;">A troubled Turaga Ni Mataqali ko Saniveikau, Epeli Duvaga fears his village may disappear some day.</span><br/> <br/> <span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; color: #ff0000;">He relates his experiences of the flooding with a smile that hides his true concern for the land he calls home.</span> <span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; color: #ff0000;">Speaking in Fijian, he tells stories of how the daily flooding has become a part of their lives.</span><br/> <br/> <span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; color: #ff0000;">"When the tides come in, the small children can ride bilibilis inside the village, that's how bad the flooding is," said Mr Duvaga.</span> <span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; color: #ff0000;">"If you were to look from far off, you would think the houses were boats sailing at sea," he says with a chuckle.</span><br/> <br/> <span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; color: #ff0000;">The signs of the sea entering the village are evident, it left swampy patches on the village rara and ate away at posts raising the houses.</span><br/> <br/> <span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; color: #ff0000;">"When the tides come in, there is nothing to stop the sea coming into the village."</span><br/> <br/> <span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; color: #ff0000;">The scope of the villagers concern does not end with the flooding from the sea.</span> <span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; color: #ff0000;">The villagers have tried to rebuild a sea wall built by government, using tires and coral but their efforts are a temporary solution to a permanent problem.</span><br/> <br/> <span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; color: #ff0000;">Some have even moved to a new site called Cakaudrove, in attempts to get away from the flooding.</span><br/> <br/> <span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; color: #ff0000;">But Cakaudrove is too small to accommodate the 32 families of Dakuinuku and they have built big houses which cannot be easily moved.</span> <span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="color: #800000;">Source</span>: <a href="http://www.fijitimes.com/story.aspx?id=190846" target="_blank">fijitimes.com</a></span></p>
<hr noshade="noshade" size="1"/><p><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="color: #800000;">4 April, 2013.</span> <span style="text-decoration: underline;"><span style="color: #ff0000; text-decoration: underline;">Villager shares effects of seawater on his home</span></span></span><br/> <br/> <span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; color: #ff0000;">TEN years ago, Jone Biuduadua remembers seeing the sea about 12 metres away from his home at Vunisavisavi Village in Cakaudrove.</span><br/> <br/> <span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; color: #ff0000;">Today, seawater flows into his compound and floods the bottom of his house during high tide.</span> <span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; color: #ff0000;">The situation has forced him to repair and replace the poles of his house twice.</span><br/> <br/> <span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; color: #ff0000;">"The sea level has risen so fast and it seems that every year, it rises to a metre up.</span><br/> <br/> <span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; color: #ff0000;">"10 years ago, I remember seeing the sea out and away from my front yard. The coconut trees I planted in front of my house are also being affected by the seawater," Mr Biuduadua said.</span><br/> <br/> <span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; color: #ff0000;">"I had to change the stilts of my house because the seawater corroded them and washed out the soil so I had to set the new poles on concrete and wooden slabs. It is not an easy experience for me," he said.</span><br/> <br/> <span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; color: #ff0000;">"Even my kitchen (which is) outside would at times have seawater seeping in so I had to pull it down before I moved to Labasa."</span> <span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; color: #ff0000;">Mr Biuduadua moved to Labasa to take care of his children's education needs.</span><br/> <br/> <span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; color: #ff0000;">"I now live in Labasa but every time I come back home, it aches my heart to see my compound flooded with seawater. This happens every day and it has become a norm to see my compound filled with seawater.</span><br/> <br/> <span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; color: #ff0000;">"It is getting worse every year and sometimes when it is high tide, seawater seeps into the floor of the house and we also had to change that." <span style="color: #000000;">Source:</span> <a href="http://www.fijitimes.com/story.aspx?id=230043" target="_blank">fijitimes.com</a></span></p>
<hr noshade="noshade" size="1"/><p><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; color: #ff0000;"><span style="color: #800000;">15 April, 2012.</span> Nadi underwater by 2030</span><br/> <br/> <span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; color: #ff0000;">TO MOVE or not to move. This is the question that is currently playing in the minds of the fathers of the Jetset town of Nadi right now. Even though it is too early to address it as clean up efforts are still taking place, some of Nadi's prominent citizens clearly know that one way or another, they will have to address this issue in the very near future.</span><br/> <br/> <span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; color: #ff0000;">The Nadi Chamber of Commerce president Doctor Ram Raju himself admitted that this is something that will be on the minds of Nadi residents.</span><br/> <br/> <span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; color: #ff0000;">"After this particular incident, many will want to re-consider moving the town to higher grounds. I am saying that is what many people would be feeling right now," Dr Raju says.</span><br/> <br/> <span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; color: #ff0000;">With the bad memories of the January floods still fresh on their minds, the citizens of Nadi were put under siege again last week by flood waters, again, losing more lives and more property in the process.</span> <br/> <br/> <span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; color: #ff0000;">Added to this, is the knowledge that the dredging of the Nadi River that have been undertaken to prevent further floods, has clearly been ineffective against floodwaters.</span><br/> <br/> <span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; color: #ff0000;">The debate of relocating the Nadi Town area to elevated lands is not new and was in fact started by Geography professor Doctor Patrick Nunn who revealed that Nadi, Labasa and Navua would be underwater by the year 2030.</span></p>
<p><br/> <span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; color: #ff0000;">Replying to emailed questions from Sunday Times, Dr Nunn reiterated his earlier stance, saying that rising sea levels along with the <span style="text-decoration: underline;">sinking</span> of the Nadi river delta, where the Nadi town sits on, will see the town underwater by the year 2030.</span><br/> <br/> <span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; color: #ff0000;">"The flooding problem is going to worsen in Nadi over the next ten years and after that. This is because the sea level is likely to continue rising and the land on which Nadi is built is likely to continue sinking, there is no evidence that either trend will halt or reverse. The issue on which you may care to focus is the sea-level rise, which is a result of climate change. Thus Nadi, like atolls in Tuvalu and Kiribati, is becoming one of the most visible victims of global climate change in the Pacific islands," Dr Nunn says.</span> <span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Source: <a href="http://www.fijitimes.com/story.aspx?id=198583" target="_blank">fijitimes.com</a></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">March Fiji floods 2012:</span></p>
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<div style="margin: auto; width: 599px; padding: 0px; border: 1px dotted #aaa; font-size: 2px; background-color: #f9f9f9;" class="quotebox"><div style="xg-p: relative; text-align: left;"><div style="text-align: center;"><div><img style="margin: auto; max-width: 100%; border: 0px dotted #545565;" src="http://images.smh.com.au/2012/04/02/3183655/af_fiji9_20120402184940780170-600x400.jpg"/><span class="font-size-2" style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Flooding in Nadi. Photo: AFP</span> <span class="font-size-2"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span class="font-size-2"><em>Source: <a href="http://www.smh.com.au/environment/cyclone-daphne-bringing-new-devastation-to-floodravaged-fiji-20120402-1w8s1.html" target="_blank">smh.com.au</a></em></span><br/></span></span></div>
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<p><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="color: #800000;">31 March, 2012.</span> <span style="color: #ff0000;">Worst floods 'in living memory' in Fiji</span></span><br/> <br/> <span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; color: #ff0000;">Three people have died and dozens are missing after Fiji has been hit by massive flooding for the second time in three months.</span><br/> <br/> <span style="color: #ff0000;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">There is widespread damage on the island of Viti Levu, particularly in the towns of Nadi, Ba and Lautoka and the flooding left dozens stranded on buildings and forced the cancellation of flights in and out of Fiji.</span> <span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">The water came in heavy and fast, inundating streets and buildings in just a matter of hours and the rains came just two months after a flood that left eleven people dead.</span></span><br/> <br/> <span style="color: #ff0000;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">But eyewitnesses say this storm appeared even worse - with twice as much water in half the time.</span> <span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">“This is the worst in living memory and the damage is unbelievable,” says resident Dorsami Naidu. “Every shop in Nadi would have been affected and a lot of shops would have lost all their items.”</span></span> <span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Source: <a href="http://www.3news.co.nz/world/worst-floods-in-living-memory-in-fiji-2012033117" target="_blank">3news.co.nz</a></span></p>
<hr noshade="noshade" size="1"/><p><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="color: #800000;">3 April, 2012.</span> <span style="color: #ff0000;">Fiji's Prime Minister Frank Bainimarama, who has been visiting affected areas, has called for a solution to the country's flooding problems, saying that this was ''three to four times worse'' than the last devastating flood in 2009. <span style="color: #000000;">Source:</span> <a href="http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-17593866" target="_blank">bbc.com</a></span></span></p>
<hr noshade="noshade" size="1"/><p><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">18 April, 2012. <span style="color: #ff0000;">Worst floods in 8 decades</span></span><br/> <br/> <span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; color: #ff0000;">SHE is still reeling from the fear created by the devastating floods which caused havoc in the Western Division.</span><br/> <br/> <span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; color: #ff0000;">The flooding experienced by Ram Rati in early 2009 was nothing compared to what she and other families faced on March 30.</span> <span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; color: #ff0000;">The 80-year old said she had never experienced such floods in her lifetime like the one earlier this month.</span><br/> <br/> <span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; color: #ff0000;">She said a man rescued her and other people at the neighbour's house and took them by boat to the Sigatoka Methodist School. "While we were going in the boat, I could see only the top half of my house visible as there was water everywhere.</span> <span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; color: #ff0000;">"There was water in the school compound too but it was not that bad as the floodwaters in my area.</span><br/> <br/> <span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; color: #ff0000;">"The last time we experienced flooding was in early 2009 when part of the old Sigatoka bridge was washed away because of the force of the water from the highlands.</span><br/> <br/> <span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; color: #ff0000;">"But this time, flooding happened twice early Friday morning and then later in the afternoon," she added.</span> <span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; color: #ff0000;">Ms Rati said the flood experienced on March 30 was worse than the floods of early 2009.</span><br/> <br/> <span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; color: #ff0000;">"I've lived almost all my life in Waibogi and only the road there gets blocked whenever there is continuous rain.</span> <span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; color: #ff0000;">"But this is the first time I experienced something like this I've never seen anything like this in my whole life. It was something else and I still think about that frightening morning and how we were saved by the man who came in a boat."</span><br/> <br/> <span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; color: #ff0000;">Ms Rati said the only thing people could do was take precautions because the floods were a wrath of nature.</span><br/> <br/> <span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; color: #ff0000;">"Take precautions and heed warnings when given. We can not fight the wrath of nature," she said. <span style="color: #800000;">Source:</span> <a href="http://www.fijitimes.com/story.aspx?id=198822" target="_blank">fijitimes.com</a><br/></span></p>
<hr noshade="noshade" size="1"/><p><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="color: #800000;">2 April, 2012.</span> <span style="color: #ff0000;">Senator Carr said the flash floods, which have killed at least three people and displaced 8000 from their homes, were even worse than the January disaster.</span></span><br/> <br/> <span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; color: #ff0000;">"They're the worst floods the country's ever had and to have this cyclone hobbling off the coast just confirms the risks to Fiji," he said. <span style="color: #800000;">Source:</span> <a href="http://news.smh.com.au/breaking-news-national/more-australians-leave-floodhit-fiji-20120403-1w9bu.html" target="_blank">news.smh.com.au</a></span></p>
<hr noshade="noshade" size="1"/><p class="intro"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; color: #ff0000;"><span style="color: #800000;">31 March, 2012.</span> ONE person is dead and five others reported missing as heavy rain and the sudden rise of floodwaters wreaked havoc across the Western Division,</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; color: #ff0000;">From Sigatoka to Rakiraki emergency services were stretched in what has been described as the worst floods ever. <span style="color: #800000;">Source:</span> <a href="http://www.fijitimes.com/story.aspx?id=197312" target="_blank">fijitimes.com</a></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">January Fiji floods 2012:</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; color: #ff0000;"><span style="color: #800000;">26 January, 2012.</span> 'Worse than 2009'<br/> <br/> BA remained closed to all people and vehicular traffic yesterday in what has been termed "one of the worst floods ever".<br/> <br/> With further rain forecast for the Western Division until the weekend, there are fears that floodwaters could rise to record heights in the next few days.<br/> <br/> Ba special administrator Arun Prasad said he had never seen anything like it.<br/> <br/> "This is worse than the flood in 2009 because of the duration and disruption to services and business. Elevated parts of Ba Town are under five to right feet of water while lower areas are under as much as 15 feet of water," he said. <span style="color: #800000;">Source:</span> <a href="http://www.fijitimes.com/story.aspx?id=191722" target="_blank">fijitimes.com</a><br/></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="color: #800000;">26 January, 2012.</span> <span style="color: #ff0000;">Farmers lose out</span></span><br/> <br/> <span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; color: #ff0000;">FARMERS are losing livestock and <span style="text-decoration: underline;">seawater is inundating</span> flat land as flooding continues to ravage the Western and Northern divisions.</span><br/> <br/> <span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; color: #ff0000;">This was confirmed by Ministry of Agriculture permanent secretary Colonel Mason Smith.</span><br/> <br/> <span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; color: #ff0000;">"The initial reports coming in are that farmers are losing their livestock because they are not able to move their livestock to higher ground in time," said Col. Smith.</span> <span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; color: #ff0000;">He said Monday night's high tide coupled with rain from the mountains had also caused a lot of farmers to lose their crops.</span><br/> <br/> <span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; color: #ff0000;">"If the water does not drain quickly, we stand to lose quite a bit, especially in the sugarcane areas, the dalo growing areas of the Ra province and likewise in the north," he said.</span> <span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; color: #ff0000;">Col. Smith said with livestock dying there was a risk of diseases like leptospirosis, however, these were issues the department would deal with on a case-by-case basis. He also advised farmers to harvest and preserve whatever crops they could and to relook at how they could handle flooding in the future.</span><br/> <br/> <span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; color: #ff0000;">With flooding continuously damaging Nadi plantations, Col. Smith said the department understood the need to relook at the drainage systems in the west.</span><br/> <br/> <span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; color: #ff0000;">"We will also look at our river dredging, we are currently working at the Ba River, the Rewa River and the Nadi River."</span><br/> <br/> <span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; color: #ff0000;">He said the department would also review its systems for preventing floods.</span><br/> <br/> <span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; color: #ff0000;">"Given the fact that flooding occurs all over the Western Division we will have to look at it holistically, whether we are cutting down too many trees up in the ridge, whether we are undertaking sustainable farming practices and whether the community understands not to plant along the river," said Col. Smith.</span><br/> <br/> <span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; color: #ff0000;">He said teams were trying to get indications of the initial damage to crops and livestock in the west. <span style="color: #000000;">Source: </span><a href="http://www.fijitimes.com/story.aspx?id=191739" target="_blank">fijitimes.com</a></span></p>
<hr noshade="noshade" size="1"/><p><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; color: #ff0000;"><span style="color: #800000;">11 January, 2012.</span> Flooding sparks concern</span><br/> <br/> <span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; color: #ff0000;">VILLAGERS of Dakuinuku in Tailevu are pleading for assistance as they fight a losing battle with the sea which floods their village at high tide every day.</span> <span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; color: #ff0000;">Epeli Duvaga, the turaga ni mataqali Saniveikau said the villagers suspect the flooding is being caused by excavations of gravel at a riverbed upstream.</span><br/> <br/> <span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; color: #ff0000;">"So when the tides come in, the water flows into the village causing flooding."</span> <span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; color: #ff0000;">Mr Duvaga said the flooding had forced some villagers to relocate.</span> <span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Source: <a href="http://www.fijitimes.com/story.aspx?id=190453" target="_blank">fijitimes.com</a></span></p>
<p></p>7 of 10 TILTING & SINKING; Nepal, India floods kill nearly 200; Cambodia: floods kill 45 since Junetag:poleshift.ning.com,2014-08-24:3863141:BlogPost:9826222014-08-24T14:30:00.000ZStanislavhttps://poleshift.ning.com/profile/Stanislav
<p style="text-align: center;"><img class="align-full" src="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/74192156?profile=original"></img> <span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">This Sunday, Aug. 17, 2014 aerial photo shows houses in a residential area partially submerged by monsoon floods at Nalanda district of Bihar, India. Rescue and relief operations continue in the state of Bihar after heavy rains caused landslides and floods in many parts of India. (AP Photo/Press Trust of India) Source: …</span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><img class="align-full" src="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/74192156?profile=original"/><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">This Sunday, Aug. 17, 2014 aerial photo shows houses in a residential area partially submerged by monsoon floods at Nalanda district of Bihar, India. Rescue and relief operations continue in the state of Bihar after heavy rains caused landslides and floods in many parts of India. (AP Photo/Press Trust of India) Source: <a href="http://www.charlestondailymail.com/article/20140818/ARTICLE/140819227" target="_blank">charlestondailymail.com</a></span></p>
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<p style="text-align: left;"><a target="_self" href="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/74193132?profile=original"><img width="750" class="align-full" src="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/74193132?profile=RESIZE_1024x1024" width="750"/></a><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><a href="https://earthdata.nasa.gov/data/near-real-time-data/rapid-response" target="_blank">MODIS Data near real-time</a><a target="_self" href="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/74193132?profile=original">;</a></span></p>
<p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><a href="https://earthdata.nasa.gov/labs/worldview/" target="_blank">MODIS Worldview Interactive map</a></span></p>
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<h1><span class="font-size-3" style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><font size="3"><em><strong>written Jun 23, 2007 on the live GodlikeProduction live chat.</strong></em></font></span></h1>
<blockquote><p><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><font color="#0000A0"><em>Heavy rain and floods have killed at least 45 people in the southern Indian state of Andhra Pradesh. Officials say up to 56,000 people have been displaced and moved to relief camps. Most people were killed when flash floods destroyed their homes. Any comment here? Another sign, perhaps, of the upcoming changes leading to the Shift?</em></font></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">India is sinking, the Indio/Australian plate tipping <em>up</em> at New Zealand and plunging under the Himalyas. This is disguised as a rising sea, an increasingly inundating tide, but the land is sinking. This will get far more serious before the pole shift, with sudden adjustments forcing massive evacuations.</span></p>
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<div style="margin: auto; width: 651px; padding: 0px; border: 1px dotted #aaa; font-size: 2px; background-color: #f9f9f9;" class="quotebox"><div style="xg-p: relative; text-align: left;"><div style="text-align: center;"><div><img style="margin: auto; max-width: 100%; border: 0px dotted #545565;" src="http://st2.india.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/odisha.jpg"/><p><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="font-size-2">Floods and landslides in Nepal and northern India have killed nearly 200 people and scores more are missing, local authorities said Monday. </span><span class="font-size-2"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span class="font-size-2"><em>Source: <a href="http://www.india.com/news/india/toll-in-odisha-floods-rises-to-34-112555/" target="_blank">india.com</a></em></span><br/></span></span></p>
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<div style="margin: auto; width: 400px; padding: 0px; border: 1px dotted #aaa; font-size: 2px; background-color: #f9f9f9;" class="quotebox"><div style="xg-p: relative; text-align: left;"><div style="text-align: center;"><div><img style="margin: auto; max-width: 100%; border: 0px dotted #545565;" src="http://odishachannel.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/odisha-floods.jpg"/><p><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="font-size-2">Floods and landslides in Nepal and northern India have killed nearly 200 people and scores more are missing, local authorities said Monday. (Photo AP)</span> <span class="font-size-2"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span class="font-size-2"><em>Source: <a href="http://odishachannel.com/index.php/1186/centre-assures-odisha-all-help-for-floods/" target="_blank">odishachannel.com</a></em></span><br/></span></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="font-size-2">Flood waters entered into 100 villages in Jajpur and Bhardak districts where river Baitarani is on spate. Photo: AFP</span> <span class="font-size-2"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span class="font-size-2"><em>Source: <a href="http://www.thehindu.com/news/national/other-states/fresh-rains-in-odisha-due-to-low-pressure-add-to-flood-woes/article6299072.ece" target="_blank">thehindu.com</a></em></span><br/></span></span></p>
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<div style="margin: auto; width: 730px; padding: 0px; border: 1px dotted #aaa; font-size: 2px; background-color: #f9f9f9;" class="quotebox"><div style="xg-p: relative; text-align: left;"><div style="text-align: center;"><div><img style="margin: auto; max-width: 100%; border: 0px dotted #545565;" src="http://www.blogcdn.com/slideshows/images/slides/285/287/6/S2852876/slug/l/nepal-flooding-1.jpg"/><p><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="font-size-2">Nepalese villagers carry a piece of cot they scavenged from amid the debris of Saturday's landslide in Mankha, about 120 kilometers (75 miles) east of Katmandu, Nepal, Monday, Aug.4, 2014. Nepalese authorities said there is no hope that more than 150 missing people are still alive after being buried by piles of rocks, mud and upturned trees. (AP Photo/Niranjan Shrestha). </span><span class="font-size-2"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span class="font-size-2"><em>Source: <a href="http://www.aol.com/article/2014/08/18/180-dead-as-floods-wash-away-homes-in-nepal-india/20948392/" target="_blank">aol.com</a></em></span><br/></span></span></p>
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<div style="margin: auto; width: 730px; padding: 0px; border: 1px dotted #aaa; font-size: 2px; background-color: #f9f9f9;" class="quotebox"><div style="xg-p: relative; text-align: left;"><div style="text-align: center;"><div><img style="margin: auto; max-width: 100%; border: 0px dotted #545565;" src="http://a57.foxnews.com/global.fncstatic.com/static/managed/img/fn2/feeds/Associated%20Press/2014/08/04/876/493/Nepal%20Flooding-3.jpg?ve=1&tl=1"/><p><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="font-size-2">The scene after a massive landslide in village Mankha, about 120 kilometers (75 miles) east of Katmandu, Nepal, Sunday, Aug.3, 2014. Nepalese officials say there is no chance of finding any of the more than 150 people, who are believed to have been buried by the early Saturday landslide in northern Nepal. (AP Photo/Arpan Shrestha) The Associated Press </span><span class="font-size-2"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span class="font-size-2"><em>Source: <a href="http://www.foxnews.com/world/2014/08/04/2-more-bodies-recovered-in-nepal-landslide-no-chance-survivors-among-over-150/" target="_blank">foxnews.com</a></em></span><br/></span></span></p>
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<p><span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><em><span style="color: #800000;">12 August, 2014.</span></em> Odisha floods leave more than 3m people homeless</span><br/> <br/> <span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Floods in the Indian state of Odisha have killed 45 people, leaving 3.5 million people homeless and struggling to find the basic necessities of life, state officials said on Tuesday. “Though there has been very little rainfall in the state in the past three days, over 294 villages are still inundated leaving more than three million people homeless in the state. The water has started to recede in many of the rivers, but it is going very slowly, adding to the misery of the people,” special relief commissioner P K Mohapatra told Gulf News over the phone.</span> <em><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Source: <a href="http://gulfnews.com/news/world/india/odisha-floods-leave-more-than-3m-people-homeless-1.1371113" target="_blank">gulfnews.com</a></span></em></p>
<hr noshade="noshade" size="1"/><p><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><em><span style="color: #800000;">18 August, 2014.</span></em> <span style="color: #ff0000;">Nepal, India floods kill nearly 200</span></span><br/> <span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; color: #ff0000;">Floods and landslides in Nepal and northern India have killed nearly 200 people and scores more are missing, local authorities said Monday.</span> <span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; color: #ff0000;">Nepal has been worst hit, with 105 people confirmed dead after torrential rain triggered landslides and flooding, devastating entire villages in what the country's prime minister termed a "national tragedy".</span><br/> <br/> <span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; color: #ff0000;">Another 136 people are missing, and authorities are battling to prevent an outbreak of cholera after some survivors showed symptoms of the potentially fatal disease.</span><br/> <br/> <span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; color: #ff0000;">Nepal's Prime Minister Sushil Koirala pledged to "expedite the rescue, relief and rehabilitation efforts" and expressed his sorrow over the deaths.</span> <span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; color: #ff0000;">In neighbouring India's Uttar Pradesh state, flooding has claimed at least 48 lives and forced around 500,000 people to leave their homes, relief commissioner KS Bhadoriya told AFP.</span><br/> <br/> <span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; color: #ff0000;">Twelve people lost their lives in the Himalayan state of Himachal Pradesh, while nine people were killed and 40,000 others evacuated in Bihar state, which borders Nepal's eastern plains, officials told AFP. <span style="color: #000000;"><em>Source: <a href="http://reliefweb.int/report/nepal/nepal-india-floods-kill-nearly-200" target="_blank">reliefweb.int</a></em></span></span></p>
<hr noshade="noshade" size="1"/><p><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; color: #ff0000;"><em><span style="color: #800000;">20 August, 2014.</span></em> UP grapples with ‘unprecedented flood situation’</span></p>
<p><br/> <span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; color: #ff0000;">Many districts in Uttar Pradesh continued to be in an 'unprecedented flood situation' on Tuesday with the river Rapti in Balrampur maintaining an alarming level.</span><br/> <br/> <span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; color: #ff0000;">Hundreds of villages in Balrampur, Bahraich, Lakhimpur and Shravasti were under water throughout the day. Situation in many districts of Bihar and Assam too remained grim. <span style="color: #000000;"><em>Source: <span style="color: #0000ff;"><a href="http://reliefweb.int/report/india/grapples-unprecedented-flood-situation" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0000ff;">reliefweb.int</span></a></span></em></span></span></p>
<hr noshade="noshade" size="1"/><p><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><em><span style="color: #800000;">22 August, 2014.</span></em> <span style="color: #ff0000;">Deadly Nepal floods leave thousands homeless. More than a hundred people are known to have died in Nepal in recent flooding and landslides caused by torrential rain in the area.</span></span><br/> <br/> <span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; color: #ff0000;">Many thousands have been left homeless and are staying in temporary shelters.</span><br/> <br/> <span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; color: #ff0000;">Some people there are saying the latest floods are the worst they have ever seen. <em><span style="color: #000000;">Source:</span> <a href="http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-28896137" target="_blank">bbc.com</a></em><br/></span></p>
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<p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; color: #ff0000;"><span style="color: #800000;">21 August, 2014.</span> Cambodia floods kill 45 in Aug<br/> <br/> Officials say floods in Cambodia have killed at least 45 people since last month. <br/> <br/> Cambodian fishermen catch fish in the Mekong River during the rainy season, near Phnom Penh, Cambodia Aug 17. More than 45 people have been killed by floods during the country's rainy season this year and more than 10,000 families across 12 provinces have been evacuated from their homes to escape rising floodwaters, according to the National Committee for Disaster Management. (AP photo)<br/> <br/> The National Committee for Disaster Management says 11,500 people were also forced from their homes by the flash floods along the Mekong River.<br/> <br/> The agency said Thursday that the deaths and displacements were caused by heavy rains.<br/> <br/> The floods have affected 12 provinces in the north and northeast since July 30. S<span style="color: #800000;">ource:</span> <a href="http://www.bangkokpost.com/most-recent/427970/cambodia-floods-kill-45-in-aug" target="_blank">bangkokpost.com</a></span></p>7 of 10 TILTING & SINKING ZetaTalk Accuracy! Philippine's ever worsening floods! Part Twotag:poleshift.ning.com,2014-08-20:3863141:BlogPost:9820172014-08-20T19:00:00.000ZStanislavhttps://poleshift.ning.com/profile/Stanislav
<p><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><a href="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/74190033?profile=RESIZE_1024x1024" target="_self"><img class="align-full" src="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/74190033?profile=RESIZE_1024x1024" width="750"></img></a></span> <span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Luzon sinking 40 feet drop. Extent of floodwater. Purple - 2012, Yellow - 2013, Red - 2014. (2011 No Data <a href="https://earthdata.nasa.gov/about-eosdis/news/status-lance-rapid-response-modis-images" target="_blank">Status of LANCE Rapid…</a></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><a width="750" target="_self" href="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/74190033?profile=RESIZE_1024x1024"><img width="750" class="align-full" src="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/74190033?profile=RESIZE_1024x1024"/></a></span><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Luzon sinking 40 feet drop. Extent of floodwater. Purple - 2012, Yellow - 2013, Red - 2014. (2011 No Data <a href="https://earthdata.nasa.gov/about-eosdis/news/status-lance-rapid-response-modis-images" target="_blank">Status of LANCE Rapid Response MODIS images</a>) <a href="https://earthdata.nasa.gov/data/near-real-time-data/rapid-response" target="_blank">Satellite data</a></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Philippines floods 2012 ('Habagat','Floods without name' or 'Flood without typhoon')</span>:</p>
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<br/> <span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="font-size-1"><span class="font-size-2">This handout photo taken on August 8, 2012 and released by the Department of National Defense (DND) shows an aerial shot of floodings around Marikina town, suburban Manila. More than a million people in and around the Philippine capital battled deadly floods August 8, as more monsoon rain fell, with neck-deep waters trapping both slum dwellers and the wealthy on rooftops. <em>AFP PHOTO/DND. Source: <a href="http://newsinfo.inquirer.net/246261/stubborn-marikina-residents-pose-problem-for-rescuers" target="_blank">newsinfo.inquirer.net</a></em><br/></span></span></div>
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<br/> <span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="font-size-1"><span class="font-size-2">Flooding following typhoon Haikui in Rodriguez town, an eastern suburb of metropolitan Manila. The overflowing Marikina River is visible in the background. Photo provided by the Department of National Defense and republished by Reuters and The Atlantic. <em>Source: <a href="http://hydro-logic.blogspot.ru/2012_08_01_archive.html" target="_blank">hydro-logic.blogspot.ru</a></em><br/></span></span></div>
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<br/> <span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="font-size-1"><span class="font-size-2">An aerial shot shows houses submerged in floodwaters in Rizal. AFP. Source: <a href="http://www.news.com.au/national/massive-clean-up-begins-after-manila-floods/story-fndo4eg9-1226447684631" target="_blank">news.com.au</a><br/></span></span></div>
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<br/> <span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="font-size-1"><span class="font-size-2">An aerial photo taken from a Philippine Air Force helicopter moments before Wednesday afternoon's heavy downpour shows one of many heavily flooded areas in Metro Manila. PAGASA has raised the red alert level and warned of more rains and floods. Danny Pata. <em>Source: <a href="http://www.gmanetwork.com/news/photo/23394/aerial-photo-shows-extent-of-metro-manila-flood" target="_blank">gmanetwork.com</a></em><br/></span></span></div>
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<br/> <span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="font-size-1"><span class="font-size-2">A handout photo dated and released 09 August 2012 by the Philippine Air Force shows a landslide area due to heavy rains in Rizal province, northeast of Manila, Philippines. Philippine emergency workers stepped up efforts to help nearly two million people affected by floods caused by days of monsoon rains in the capital and surrounding provinces. At least 24 people were killed in Manila and 16 provinces in the northern region of Luzon, where floodwaters had mostly been receding but rose again in some areas because of intermittent rain. <em>Credit: EPA Source: <a href="http://www.vosizneias.com/news/photos/view/192228757" target="_blank">vosizneias.com</a></em><br/></span></span></div>
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<br/> <span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="font-size-1"><span class="font-size-2">An aerial photo taken from a Philippine Air Force helicopter moments before Wednesday afternoon's heavy downpour shows Caloocan City, one of many heavily flooded areas in Metro Manila. PAGASA has raised the red alert level and warned of more rains and floods. Danny Pata. <em>Source: <a href="http://www.gmanetwork.com/news/photo/23387/aerial-photo-shows-extent-of-metro-manila-flood" target="_blank">gmanetwork.com</a></em><br/></span></span></div>
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<br/> <span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="font-size-1"><span class="font-size-2">A Handout aerial photo provided by the Philippines Department of National Defense shows flood-affected areas of Rodriguez town, Rizal province, east of Manila, Philippines, 08 August 2012. Philippine authorities on 08 August rushed relief goods to more than 850,000 people displaced by massive floods in the capital and surrounding provinces that have killed 24 people. Rescue teams struggled to reach hundreds still stranded by the floods in Manila and northern provinces. The deluge, the worst since 2009 when flash floods killed hundreds in Manila, forced 242,211 residents to flee to evacuation centers in the capital and 11 provinces, while 607,941 people had taken refuge with relatives and friends, the Office of Civil Defense said. Rains caused by the south-west monsoon have pounded the northern Philippines since late 05 August. The weather bureau said the monsoon was enhanced by Typhoon Haikui, which made landfall in southern China early 08 August.<br/> <em>Credit: EPA Source: <a href="http://www.vosizneias.com/news/photos/view/621778962" target="_blank">vosizneias.com</a></em><br/></span></span></div>
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<span class="font-size-2" style="color: #000000; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">It's a flood without a name. Unlike 2009's Ondoy, the deluge of August 7 was not accompanied by a storm, hence the absence of a common handle for a flood that easily recalled its infamous predecessor.</span><span class="font-size-2" style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; color: #000000;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"> <em>Photo: AP</em></span></span></span><span class="font-size-2"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"> <em>Source: <a href="http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2012/08/08/philippine-capital-battles-deadly-floods/" target="_blank">rawstory.com</a></em><br/></span></span></div>
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<p><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; color: #800000;"><em><strong>Written August 14, 2010</strong></em></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><em>Greetings from the Philippines! The z's described what happens to China (sinkholes) and Indonesia (islands sinking) during a possible 7 scenario, but what happens on the other side of the Indonesian tongue where the Philippines lie? Will islands in the Philippines also sink?</em></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; color: #333399;">We alluded to the time when the tongue that holds Indonesia and the Philippines would subduct under the curve of the Indo-Australian plate in our former Safe Locations advice for the Philippines. The Philippines will find themselves pulled down also. The southern coast of China has been warned, by UFO flyover and telepathic message, to anticipate a rising sea when the tongue is pushed down. The crack point, the point where breakage of the tongue is occurring, is in a line across the tongue well above the Philippines. Thus when Sumatra and Java and the Malay peninsula find their streets flooding, losing sea level, the Philippines will find their problems in this regard not far behind!</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.zetatalk.com/ning/14ag2010.htm" target="_blank">ZetaTalk Chat Q&A for August 14, 2010</a></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; color: #800000;"><em><strong>Written January 8, 2011</strong></em></span></p>
<blockquote><p><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><font color="#0000A0"><em><span style="color: #000000;">The Philippines is sinking! Certainly the buoys to the east of the Philippines indicate action, as the sea flood is dropping there, water on the rise! The buoys above New Guinea, in the Pacific, likewise indicate a rising sea level. What could this mean?</span><br/> <img src="http://www.zetatalk.com/7of10/7of10-97.jpg" align="bottom" height="664" width="401"/></em></font></span></p>
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<p><span style="color: #333399;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">There is indeed a relationship between the high waves and flooding in the Philippines in those towns along the eastern coastline and inland with access to the sea. The Philippines have begun to sink, though such sinking is never such that an entire land mass or large island sinks uniformly, so can be deceptive. There is an additional influence from the tilting of the Philippine Plate and continued compression out in the Pacific, so that water is heaped to the east of the Philippine Islands, and is washing over their eastern shores during equalization of the water level. However, this latter is a relatively small influence. The issue with flooding is absolutely due to a dropping in elevation for some parts of the Philippines.</span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.zetatalk.com/ning/08ja2011.htm" target="_blank">ZetaTalk for January 8, 2011</a></span></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span id="result_box" class="short_text" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><span class="hps">Scientists</span> <span class="hps">have recognized;</span></span> typhoons, southwest monsoon and sea level rise not blame.</span></p>
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<div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="font-size-2"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="font-size-2">This handout photo taken on August 8, 2012 and released by the Department of National Defense (DND) shows an aerial shot of floodings around Malabon town, suburban Manila. More than a million people in and around the Philippine capital battled deadly floods August 8, as more monsoon rain fell, with neck-deep</span> <span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">waters trapping both slum dwellers and the wealthy on rooftops. AFP PHOTO/DND</span></span><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="font-size-2"><br/></span></div>
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<p><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="color: #800000;">30 September, 2011.</span> <span style="color: #ff0000;">Aside from global warming causing stronger cyclones and rising oceans levels, sinking lands in Metro Manila and Central Luzon are causing floods to worsen, scientists have warned.</span></span> <span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; color: #ff0000;">Siringan, in a post-"Ondoy" assessment paper, said land subsidence is the least understood but very important cause of flooding.</span><br/> <br/> <span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; color: #ff0000;">Citing studies made by the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA), he said that at Manila's South Harbor, the mean sea level rose by just around 2 millimeters per year from 1902 to the early 1960s until it then started rising more than 10 times as fast, or around 2.6 centimeters per year.</span><br/> <br/> <span style="text-decoration: underline;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; color: #ff0000; text-decoration: underline;">Typhoons, southwest monsoon not to blame</span></span><br/> <br/> <span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; color: #ff0000;">The study said typhoons should not be immediately tagged as the cause of worsening floods in the areas.</span><br/> <br/> <span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; color: #ff0000;">"The southwest monsoon and typhoons annually deliver approximately 2,000 millimeters of rain to the region, but the amounts have been decreasing since 1900 (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, 1995; Jose et al., 1996) and cannot be blamed for the worsening floods," the paper said.</span><br/> <br/> <span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; color: #ff0000;">Dr. Greg Bankoff, an associate professor in the School of Asian Studies at the University of Auckland, New Zealand, also identified sinking lands as one of the primary causes of severe flooding in northern Metro Manila and parts of Pampanga and Bulacan.</span><br/> <br/> <span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; color: #ff0000;">"The extent of flooding has also been considerably aggravated in recent decades by land subsidence," he said in a study published by the International Institute for Asian Studies.</span><br/> <br/> <span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; color: #ff0000;">Sinking land, higher sea level</span><br/> <br/> <span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; color: #ff0000;">"As the land around Manila Bay sinks and the level of the sea rises, flooding has become more prevalent not only in the city but also in the surrounding provinces," Bankoff said.</span> <span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Source: <a href="http://www.abs-cbnnews.com/-depth/09/30/11/sinking-lands-behind-worsening-floods" target="_blank">abs-cbnnews.com</a></span></p>
<hr noshade="noshade" size="1"/><p><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; color: #ff0000;"><span style="color: #800000;">13 August, 2012.</span> Kelvin Rodolfo, an eminent Filipino geologist, gave a good perspective of what happened last week. Here is Dr. Rodolfo’s reaction to a New York Times account of last week’s floods:</span><br/> <br/> <span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; color: #ff0000;">“Just finished reading 35 comments...this abnormal rainfall event may be blamed on climate change induced by global warming, but sea level rise from global warming is not to blame. Far too few people know that a major cause of Metro Manila’s worsening floods is that the land there is sinking several inches a year -- more than ten times faster than sea level rise.</span><br/> <br/> <span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; color: #ff0000;">“Meanwhile, pious Catholic politicians are saying that God is punishing the Philippines with the floods because its congress is considering a Reproductive Health bill. How very sad...” <span style="color: #800000;">Source: </span><a href="http://www.philstar.com/business/2012-08-13/837656/where-do-we-go-here" target="_blank">philstar.com</a></span></p>
<hr noshade="noshade" size="1"/><p><span style="color: #800000; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">7 August, 2012.</span> <span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="text-decoration: underline;">It's a flood without a name. Unlike 2009's Ondoy, the deluge of August 7 was not accompanied by a storm, hence the absence of a common handle for a flood that easily recalled its infamous predecessor</span>.</span> <span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Source: <a href="http://www.gmanetwork.com/news/story/268670/news/nation/unprecedented-heavy-rain-to-continue-until-thursday" target="_blank">gmanetwork.com</a></span></p>
<hr noshade="noshade" size="1"/><p><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="color: #ff0000;"><span style="color: #800000;">6 September, 2012.</span> More than 900,000 families (4.4 million people) in northern and central Luzon including Metro Manila were affected by severe flooding brought by the Southwest Monsoon since June 2012. The rains and floods left 78 people dead, 11 missing, 36 injured, and caused extensive damage to agricultural products and infrastructure. Of the 4.4 million people affected, over 1 million were displaced; 1.2 million are living with relatives and friends while 135,308 people are still residing in 431 evacuation centers across the affected areas in Luzon as of 31 Aug. Local authorities are expecting prolonged displacement of people from areas where floodwaters are historically known to slowly subside. <em><span style="color: #800000;">Source:</span> <a href="http://reliefweb.int/report/philippines/philippines-humanitarian-bulletin-issue-08-7-august-%E2%80%93-6-september-2012" target="_blank">reliefweb.int</a></em></span></span></p>
<hr noshade="noshade" size="1"/><p><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; color: #ff0000;"><span style="color: #800000;">8 August, 2012.</span> Heavy rains brought by southwest monsoon have inundated about 90 percent of Metro Manila and 20 other provinces. <em><span style="color: #800000;">Source:</span> <a href="http://www.sunstar.com.ph/manila/local-news/2012/08/08/aquino-visits-flood-victims-muntinlupa-236407" target="_blank">sunstar.com.ph</a></em></span></p>
<hr noshade="noshade" size="1"/><p><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; color: #ff0000;"><span style="color: #800000;">10 August, 2012.</span> Worst floods since the 1970s</span><br/> <br/> <span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; color: #ff0000;">The flooding that submerged 80 percent of Manila early in the week has largely subsided, allowing people to return to their homes, but vital rice-growing areas to the north remained under water as more rain fell there.</span> <span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; color: #ff0000;">"We need something to eat. I haven't gone to work or been paid for a week," said Rogelio Soco, a construction worker and father-of-three in the small farming town of Apalit, about 60 kilometres (40 miles) from Manila.</span><br/> <br/> <span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; color: #ff0000;">Soco, 60, said the floods, which began on Monday, were the worst the area had seen since a huge typhoon struck in the early 1970s, and other locals also said they had not experienced anything like it for decades.</span> <span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="color: #800000;">Source:</span> <a href="http://www.abs-cbnnews.com/-depth/08/10/12/62-dead-24-million-affected-habagat-rains-floods" target="_blank">abs-cbnnews.com</a></span></p>
<hr noshade="noshade" size="1"/><p><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; color: #ff0000;"><span style="color: #800000;">7 August, 2012.</span> "It's like Waterworld," said Benito Ramos, head of the Philippines national disaster agency, referring to a Hollywood movie about a flooded world.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; color: #ff0000;">Disaster officials said over half of Manila was swamped by floods as high as three metres, worsened by a high tide and the release of water from dams in surrounding provinces. <span style="color: #800000;">Source:</span> <a href="http://www.abs-cbnnews.com/nation/metro-manila/08/07/12/manila-waterworld-says-ph-disaster-chief" target="_blank">abs-cbnnews.com</a></span></p>
<hr noshade="noshade" size="1"/><p><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="color: #800000;">9 August, 2012.</span> <span style="color: #ff0000;">"The victims will have to rebuild their lives from the tragedy and devastation. This flood is worse than storm 'Ondoy' (that hit Metro Manila and is environs less than three years ago). I hope serious government and private sector efforts to build back better the affected communities would start immediately. We must learn the lessons of Ondoy" which this recent widespread flooding brings to fore once again," she said.</span> <span style="color: #800000;">Source: <span style="color: #0000ff;"><a href="https://ph.news.yahoo.com/metro-needs-rehabilitation-plan-legarda-091633651.html" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0000ff;">ph.news.yahoo.com</span></a></span></span></span></p>
<hr noshade="noshade" size="1"/><p><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; color: #800000;">10 August, 2012. <span style="color: #ff0000;">A resident in the lakeshore area of Muntinlupa said her home was flooded up to the second floor for the first time – which didn’t happen during Ondoy. Their community was evacuated Monday night. Even without his pronouncement, people are already resigned to the idea that flooding in Metro Manila is going to get worse in the coming years. <span style="color: #800000;">Source:</span> <a href="https://ph.news.yahoo.com/metro-needs-rehabilitation-plan-legarda-091633651.html" target="_blank">ph.news.yahoo.com</a></span></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="color: #800000;">9 August, 2012. <span style="color: #ff0000;">A great flood without a typhoon? Strange!</span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="color: #ff0000;">What was totally strange was that, last Monday, <span style="text-decoration: underline;">PAGASA didn’t report any storm or typhoon nor did any low pressure area enter the Philippine area of responsibility</span>. I checked the satellite view on the Internet and the whole Philippine archipelago was full of dark clouds. But not a single one of us was prepared to hear the news reports that Metro Manila was 90% inundated by floods. T<span style="text-decoration: underline;">his was worse than typhoon “Ondoy” yet there was no typhoon?</span> Strange things are happening in our country today. <em><span style="color: #800000;">Source</span>: <a href="http://www.philstar.com/opinion/2012-08-09/836458/great-flood-without-typhoon-strange" target="_blank">philstar.com</a></em></span></span></p>
<hr noshade="noshade" size="1"/><p><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="color: #800000;">9 August, 2012.</span> <span style="color: #ff0000;"><span style="text-decoration: underline;">There were certainly so many questions begging to be answered. As with “Ondoy,” the flooding through Metro Manila and much of Southern Tagalog, Central and Northern Luzon was not caused by a typhoon (Ondoy was dubbed a tropical storm).</span> TV networks, at a loss for an easy handle with which to describe their extensive coverage, resorted to a descriptive term like “Hagupit ng Habagat” (roughly, “the westerly wind’s lash,” how poetic no?) or “Bagsik ng Habagat” (the west wind’s cruelty). The weather presenter at CNN explained the flooding with a mix of meteorology and geography. He tracked the path of Tropical Storm “Haikui,” which was said to have drawn the rains over Luzon much like a magnet would, and explained the particular vulnerabilities of low-lying Manila and surrounding areas by pointing out the surrounding bodies of water (Manila Bay, Laguna Lake, Pasig and other rivers and tributaries).</span></span><br/> <br/> <span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="text-decoration: underline;">But we have experienced typhoons and other sorts of weather disturbances before, without seeing flooding of such an extent and duration</span>.</span> <em><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="color: #800000;">Source</span>: <a href="http://opinion.inquirer.net/34399/answers-after-habagat" target="_blank">opinion.inquirer.net</a></span></em></p>
<hr noshade="noshade" size="1"/><p><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; color: #800000;">8 August, 2012. <span style="color: #ff0000;">Olongapo flooding worse than 'Ondoy'. Torrential rains brought by the southwest monsoon over the past days inundated Olongapo City in floods worse than those brought by storm “Ondoy” in late 2009.</span></span> <span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="color: #800000;">Source</span>: <a href="http://www.interaksyon.com/article/39779/olongapo-flooding-worse-than-ondoy" target="_blank">interaksyon.com</a></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="color: #800000;"><em>ZetaTalk Prediction</em></span> <span style="font-weight: bold;">26/02/2011</span>:</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="color: #333399;">The issue is not how fault lines within the Philippine islands will inch in this direction or that, but what will happen to the <em>entire</em> island structure during the massive plate adjustments pending. The Philippine Islands ride on the edge of the Eurasian Plate tongue holding Indonesia. As such they are subject to being crushed from the east and pushed down, simultaneously. As has been noted during the sinking of the tongue, the sinking has not been uniform. The plate tongue is folding like an accordion, so that portions sink, other portions rise, and all are buckling and crumbling. It is not possible, even for ourselves, to predict exactly which island in the Philippines will be affected, and in what way, by the <em>multiple</em> actions that will be taking place. The Philippine Plate is plunging under them, from the east. There is pressure from the east, so that the islands will buckle, weak points either rising up or dropping, suddenly, creating a jumble. And meanwhile, the islands are being drawn down as the tongue slips under the curve under Sumatra and Java.</span></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Media blames tides. It's not high tide or storm surge. <span id="result_box" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><span><span id="result_box" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><span class="hps">It</span> <span class="hps">looks like as the</span> <span class="hps">high tides</span><span>, in fact</span> <span class="hps">Luzon</span> <span class="hps">sinking</span><span>.</span></span> </span></span> The flooded land is open to the sea on photo. <span id="result_box" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><span class="hps">PAGASA</span> <span class="hps">explains the appearance of</span> <span class="hps">storm surges</span><span>,</span> <span class="hps">the influence of</span> <span class="hps">the monsoons</span><span>.</span></span><br/></span></p>
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<br/> <span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="font-size-2">Waves swept over seawalls and flooded shanty towns in the Philippine capital on Wednesday as the death toll from four days of storms that have battered large swathes of the country rose to 14. <span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="font-size-2"><em>Benito Ramos. AFP / PHOTO / Jay DIRECTO</em></span></span><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="font-size-2"><br/></span></div>
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<p><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span xml:lang="en" lang="en"><span><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="color: #800000;">2 August, 2012.</span> <span style="color: #ff0000;">A monsoon surge and not typhoon “Gener” caused the flooding on Roxas Boulevard in Manila yesterday that submerged long stretches of the 7.6-kilometer road, according to the Philippine Atmospheric, Geophysical and Astronomical Services Administration (PAGASA).</span></span><br/> <br/> <span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; color: #ff0000;">PAGASA weather division chief Robert Sawi said waves stretching about three to four kilometers hit Manila Bay yesterday morning.</span> <span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; color: #ff0000;">The Metropolitan Manila Development Authority (MMDA) Flood Control Information Center (FCIC) said yesterday’s high tide, aggravated by the monsoon surge, swamped Malabon City under waist-deep (about 38 inches) floods.</span><br/> <br/> <span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; color: #ff0000;">The monsoon surge also caused the Malabon-Navotas River to breach its banks at about 7:45 am.</span> <span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="color: #800000;">Source:</span> <a href="http://www.philstar.com:8080/headlines/2012/08/02/833968/monsoon-surge-swamps-manila" target="_blank">philstar.com</a></span></span></span></span></p>
<hr noshade="noshade" size="1"/><p><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; color: #ff0000;"><span style="color: #800000;">1 August, 2012</span>. Roxas Blvd flooding explained. The sudden flooding of Roxas Boulevard in Manila Wednesday was reminiscent of the 2011 storm surge that swamped the same road at the height of typhoon "Pedring" late last year.</span><br/> <br/> <span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; color: #ff0000;">But a weather forecaster explained that what happened Wednesday morning was caused by the effects of the southwest monsoon, or “habagat,” coupled with the high tide. <span style="color: #800000;">Source:</span> <a href="http://www.interaksyon.com/article/39103/roxas-blvd-flooding-explained" target="_blank">interaksyon.com</a></span></p>
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<br/> <span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="font-size-1"><span class="font-size-2"><span class="caption-text">Waves hit the concrete walls of houses, some of which were already destroyed during a past typhoon, north of Manila, Philippines. Photo: AP</span> Source: <a href="http://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/world/typhoon-toll-rises-as-300000-flee-in-asia/story-fnd134gw-1226442503027?nk=b05f4fcca4bbe511e175cba655f56814" target="_blank">heraldsun.com.au</a><br/></span></span></div>
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<p><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; color: #ff0000;"><span style="color: #800000;">3 August, 2012.</span> "They were probably enjoying the big waves, riding on them. They did not expect a storm surge," he told AFP. The death toll is likely to go even higher, he added, citing four more swimmers who went missing in the north. The Ramos-led National Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Council said that although Saola had passed, it was still enhancing the monsoon rains and warned of continued possible flash floods and landslides. In the coastal districts near Manila, knee-high floods persisted Friday, said Jeremy de Ocampo of the capital's flood control office.<br/> "They are right beside Manila Bay and when high tide comes, they are flooded," he told AFP.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; color: #ff0000;">Although Saola did not hit the Philippines directly, it caused heavy rains and rough waters in a wide swath of the country, flooding parts of Manila and surrounding areas. <span style="color: #800000;">Source:</span> <a href="http://www.bangkokpost.com/lite/news/305816/favicon.ico" target="_blank">bangkokpost.com</a><br/></span></p>
<hr noshade="noshade" size="1"/><p><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; color: #ff0000;"><span style="color: #800000;">7 August, 2012.</span> Endless rains, resulting in floods and mudflows, and turned two-thirds of the country into a virtual “water-world,” officials said.</span> <span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="color: #ff0000;">All rivers surrounding Metro Manila were swollen. There was high tide after lunch, helping floods to rise and damage more villages and major streets.</span> <span style="color: #800000;">Source:</span> <a href="http://gulfnews.com/news/world/philippines/22-dead-as-two-thirds-of-philippines-turns-into-water-world-1.1058984" target="_blank">gulfnews.com</a></span></p>
<hr noshade="noshade" size="1"/><p><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; color: #ff0000;"><span style="color: #800000;">1 August, 2012.</span> The sudden flooding of Roxas Boulevard in Manila Wednesday was reminiscent of the 2011 storm surge that swamped the same road at the height of typhoon "Pedring" late last year.</span><br/> <br/> <span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; color: #ff0000;">But a weather forecaster explained that what happened Wednesday morning was caused by the effects of the southwest monsoon, or “habagat,” <span style="text-decoration: underline;">coupled with the high tide</span>.</span> <span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="color: #800000;">Source:</span> <a href="http://www.interaksyon.com/article/39103/roxas-blvd-flooding-explained" target="_blank">interaksyon.com</a></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">The presence of salt water also speaks about sinking. Some scientists openly admit it.</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; color: #ff0000;"><span style="color: #800000;">17 August, 2012.</span> The entire Metro Manila is sinking by several centimetres per year, estimated as <span style="text-decoration: underline;">one metre in four years</span>, said Dr Fernando Siringan. Some streets that were elevated by one metre to avoid flood, <span style="text-decoration: underline;">were flooded again by sea water and not just by rain water in four years</span>, said Siringan, adding, “It only means that Metro Manila’s land level is going down.”<br/> <br/> Some places that were never flooded before, have been experiencing floods, said Siringan, adding this is more noticeable in almost all places in Metro Manila. <span style="color: #800000;">Source:</span> <a href="http://gulfnews.com/news/world/philippines/metro-manila-sinking-at-a-fast-pace-1.1062932" target="_blank">gulfnews.com</a></span></p>7 of 10 TILTING & SINKING ZetaTalk Accuracy! Philippine's ever worsening floods! Part Onetag:poleshift.ning.com,2014-08-17:3863141:BlogPost:9820732014-08-17T02:30:00.000ZStanislavhttps://poleshift.ning.com/profile/Stanislav
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<p><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span lang="en" xml:lang="en"><span class="hps"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Map of maximum extent inundation. Not all areas were inundated at the same time or for the whole time. This map…</span></span></span></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span xml:lang="en" lang="en"><span class="hps"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Map of maximum extent inundation. Not all areas were inundated at the same time or for the whole time. This map shows the sum of all flooded areas; <span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span xml:lang="en" lang="en"><span class="hps"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">in Sunda region (Myanmar, Thailand, Cambodia, Vietnam, China, Philippines, Malaysia, Southern Indonesia edge, Singapore, Brunei) since 2010 and in South Asia since 2007 (India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Nepal). Red it's extent of floodwater, <em>now dry</em>.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span> <span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" id="result_box" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><span class="hps">Thus</span> <span class="hps">the accuracy of</span> <span class="hps">ZetaTalk</span> <span class="hps">is visible</span> <span class="hps">to the naked eye</span>. <a href="http://www.zetatalk.com/7of10/7of10.htm" target="_blank">7 of 10 Overview</a></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span xml:lang="en" lang="en"><span class="hps">For India, Bangladesh and Pakistan it's shocked.</span></span></span></p>
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<p><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="short_text" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><span class="hps"><span id="result_box" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><span class="hps">It should also say</span> <span class="hps">that all of these</span> <span class="hps">countries (except</span> <span class="hps">Bangladesh and Taiwan)</span> <span class="hps">suffered</span> <span class="hps">from record</span> <span class="hps">floods, and</span> <span class="hps">more than once.</span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span id="result_box" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><span class="hps">I</span> <span class="hps">made this map</span> <span class="hps">to show</span> <span class="hps">the full picture</span><span class="hps">. <span id="result_box" xml:lang="en" lang="en"></span></span></span><span id="result_box" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><span class="hps"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">I use <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_geographic_information_systems_software" target="_blank">GIS Software</a> for make map.</span></span></span></span></p>
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<br/> <span class="font-size-2"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Example - Philippines floods in October 2010.</span></span> E<span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="font-size-1"><span class="font-size-2">I use method Maximum Likelihood Classification. <a href="http://lance-modis.eosdis.nasa.gov/imagery/subsets/?project=&subset=Philippines&date=10%2F25%2F2010" target="_blank">Image data</a><br/></span></span></div>
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<p><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span id="result_box" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><span class="hps">Unfortunately</span> <span class="hps">some of the images</span> <span class="hps">are not available</span> <span class="hps">for 2011</span> <span class="hps">due to</span> <span class="hps">an accident</span></span> <span xml:lang="en" lang="en"><span class="hps">- <a href="https://earthdata.nasa.gov/about-eosdis/news/status-lance-rapid-response-modis-images">status of LANCE Rapid Response MODIS images</a> after the hardware failure of the disk array that contains the images on December 10, 2013.</span></span></span> <span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" id="result_box" class="short_text" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><span class="hps">Some points</span> <span class="hps">will</span> <span class="hps">be added to</span> <span class="hps">the map. </span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="short_text" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><span class="hps">Multiple factors limit my ability to show "full' floods, o<span id="result_box" class="short_text" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><span class="hps">ne of them is</span> <span class="hps">the cloud cover</span><span>.</span></span> Sometimes cloud cover lingers until the high water has receded. Another factor that limits flood observations is land cover. </span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="short_text" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><span class="hps"><span id="result_box" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><span class="hps">It is also very</span> <span class="hps">hard to watch</span> <span class="hps">the flooding in</span> <span class="hps">the mountainous regions of</span> <span class="hps">Kalimantan</span> <span class="hps">and Sumatra</span></span>.</span></span></p>
<p><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="short_text" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><span class="hps">Perhaps the biggest factor is MODIS resolution. MODIS data is only at 250 m resolution. Some flooding can not be recorded as such in Sri Lanka, Fiji and some mountainous areas.</span></span></span></p>
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<br/> <span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="font-size-2">In some moments MODIS not as accurate as high-resolution satellite such as in the case of Thailand.</span> <span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="font-size-1"><span class="font-size-2"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">The MODIS data is at 250 m resolution, so flooded features smaller than this size will not be reliably detected.</span> Red it's MODIS medium resolution, Yellow it's <a href="http://flood.gistda.or.th/" target="_blank">GISTDA shapefile High-resolution satellite</a><br/></span></span></div>
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<p><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><span class="hps"><span id="result_box" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><span class="hps">But it is also</span> <span class="hps">worth mentioning that</span> <span class="hps">MODIS</span> <span class="hps">is accurate enough</span><span>.</span></span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><span class="short_text" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><span class="hps"><a target="_blank" href="http://zetatalk.com/ning/16oc004.jpg"><img class="align-center" src="http://zetatalk.com/ning/16oc004.jpg"/></a></span></span></span><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; color: #333399;">How accurate a guide are the current elevation maps provided by Google and GPS? If they reflect land that lies on solid rock, on a plate that will remain level and not tilt, accurate enough. But as we have explained, Java and Sumatra are land that is rubble, scrapped up as the plate tongue has been pushed down in the past. It is an illusion of solid land when rubble can jumble and toss. The placement of Jakarta in the past involved some logic, as tests were made to determine if the rock beneath could sustain buildings. But sinking is occurring there, not admitted in the press. At some point the airport will become unusable. In addition to the issue of solid rock vs jumble, there is the issue of the accordion folding of the plate tongue. Some parts will rise, others sink, and this will not be an even process nor even predictable. Thus Google will not be a certain guide to what lands will sink or stay above the waves.</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Last 4 years, the Philippines suffered from a series of historical floods. Typhoon and pressure can't be blamed (2012 Metro Manila floods and Metro Manila floods 2013) and even rains can't be the explanation (Early Philippines floods 2011 and Mindanao floods 2014) this is series of floods.</span><br/> <br/> <span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Recently, the press has become increasingly concerned ... They are looking for a thousand reasons including coruption, urbanization, population growth ... instead to name the main reason...</span><br/> <br/> <span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Scientists warn that Metro Manila sinking at a fast pace, but the elite ignores it.</span></p>
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<br/> <span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="font-size-1"><span class="font-size-2"><i>baha--a community in binan, laguna bore the brunt of habagat and typhoon maring.Source: <a href="https://twitter.com/erelcabatbat/status/369356503829843968/photo/1" target="_blank">twitter.com</a><br/></i></span></span></div>
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<br/> <span class="font-size-2"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">In this photo released by the Philippine Airforce Monday, Aug. 19, 2013 shows an aerial view of flooded houses in Laguna province, south of Manila, Philippines . Torrential rains brought the Philippine capital to a standstill Monday, submerging some areas in waist-deep floodwaters and making streets impassable to vehicles while thousands of people across coastal and mountainous northern regions fled to emergency shelters.</span> <em><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">AP</span></em></span> <span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="font-size-1"><span class="font-size-2"><i>Source: <a href="http://newsinfo.inquirer.net/469725/floods-paralyze-metro-manila-for-2nd-day" target="_blank">newsinfo.inquirer.net</a><br/></i></span></span></div>
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<div class="caption"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="font-size-2">A resident wades through floodwater in Marikina <em>Reuters</em></span> <span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="font-size-1"><span class="font-size-2"><i><span class="font-size-2">Source:</span> <a href="http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/philippine-floods-manila-pics-500289" target="_blank">ibtimes.co.uk</a><br/></i></span></span></div>
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<div class="caption"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="font-size-2">Offices, banks and schools remained close in metropolitan Manila, an area home to some 12 million people <em>Reuters</em></span> <span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="font-size-1"><span class="font-size-2"><i><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="font-size-2">Source:</span> <a href="http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/philippine-floods-manila-pics-500289" target="_blank">ibtimes.co.uk</a><br/></i></span></span></div>
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<div class="caption"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="font-size-2"><span class="caption-box" style="width: 540px;"><span class="img-caption">Residents brave neck-deep floods outside their house in Marikina city, on August 20, 2013.</span></span></span> <span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="font-size-1"><span class="font-size-2"><i><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="font-size-2">Source</span>: <a href="http://www.theatlantic.com/infocus/2013/08/heavy-rain-floods-batter-philippines/100578/" target="_blank">theatlantic.com</a><br/></i></span></span></div>
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<div class="caption"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="font-size-2">Vehicles line up as they wait for floods to subside in Pasay city, south of Manila, Philippines on Tuesday Aug. 20, 2013. <b>AP / Philippine Air Force.</b> <em>Source:<b> </b><a href="http://blogs.sacbee.com/photos/2013/08/floods-recede-in-manila-as-tho.html" target="_blank">blogs.sacbee.com</a></em></span><div style="width: 1px; height: 1px; color: #000000; font: 10pt sans-serif; text-align: left; text-transform: none; overflow: hidden;"><br/> <span class="font-size-2">Read more here: <a href="http://blogs.sacbee.com/photos/2013/08/floods-recede-in-manila-as-tho.html#storylink=cpy">http://blogs.sacbee.com/photos/2013/08/floods-recede-in-manila-as-tho.html#storylink=cpy</a></span><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="font-size-1"><span class="font-size-2"><i><span class="font-size-2"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Source</span>: <a href="http://www.theatlantic.com/infocus/2013/08/heavy-rain-floods-batter-philippines/100578/" target="_blank">theatlantic.com</a></span><br/></i></span></span></div>
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<p><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">In August 2013 Philippines again (like August 2012) struck by historic flood.</span> <span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" id="result_box" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><span class="hps">80% of Manila flooded, again...It's new norm? <br/></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><span class="hps">Tropical Depression can not be called as cause alone.</span></span> <span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" id="result_box" class="short_text" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><span class="hps">Monsoon (Habagat)</span> <span class="hps">is a new</span></span> <span class="hps"><span style="text-decoration: underline;">excus</span>e</span>.</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; color: #ff0000;" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><span class="hps"><span style="color: #800000;">20 August, 2013.</span> Floods cripple Metro Manila</span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; color: #ff0000;" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><span class="hps">Persistent rain has caused floods in many main thoroughfares as the southwest monsoon enhanced by Tropical Storm Maring (Trami) continues to ravage Luzon, trapping people in homes and vehicles and stranding them on the streets. <span style="color: #000000;">Source:</span> <a href="http://www.gmanetwork.com/news/story/322762/news/metromanila/floods-cripple-metro-manila-as-rains-continue-for-third-day" target="_blank">gmanetwork.com</a></span></span></p>
<hr noshade="noshade" size="1"/><p><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="color: #800000;">3 May, 2013.</span> <span style="color: #ff0000;">What's making the floods worse in Manila?</span></span><br/> <br/> <span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; color: #ff0000;">A variety of factors have exacerbated the flooding problem in the Philippines.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; color: #ff0000;">Lashed each year by typhoons and stuck with outdated drainage systems, the <span style="text-decoration: underline;">Philippine capital has been hit by ever-worsening floods</span>.</span> <span style="text-decoration: line-through;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; color: #ff0000; text-decoration: line-through;">Population growth, inadequate infrastructure, corruption, deforestation and even trash build-up combine to exacerbate the impact. It’s a trend experts expect to continue.</span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><span class="hps"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; color: #ff0000;"><em><span style="color: #000000;">Source:</span> <a href="http://newsinfo.inquirer.net/472215/whats-making-the-floods-worse-in-manila" target="_blank">newsinfo.inquirer.net</a></em></span></span></span></p>
<hr noshade="noshade" size="1"/><p><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; color: #ff0000;"><span style="color: #800000;">2 September, 2013.</span> <span style="text-decoration: underline;">Over 3.4 million people in 247 municipalities have been affected</span> after five days of heavy, incessant rains flooded entire villages. The capital, Metro Manila, was 70 per cent submerged at the height of the bad weather. Thirty-eight people have been killed, over 3,000 houses destroyed and harvest-ready crops including corn and vegetables swept away in rural Aurora, leaving many people without income or food.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; color: #ff0000;">The severe flooding in Metro Manila and adjoining provinces across Luzon was caused by monsoon rains that were intensified by Typhoons Utor and Trami. Utor crossed and damaged provinces in Northern Luzon while Trami, which hit a week later on 18 August, struck the northern-most Batanes Island and remained stationary there for several days, bringing the equivalent of a month’s rainfall. <span style="color: #000000;"><em>Source: <a href="http://www.christianaid.org.uk/pressoffice/pressreleases/september-2013/thousands-lose-livelihoods-as-philippines-floods-cause-more-than-seven-million-crop-damage.aspx" target="_blank">christianaid.org.uk</a></em></span></span></p>
<hr noshade="noshade" size="1"/><p><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="color: #800000;">22 August, 2013.</span></span> <span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; color: #ff0000;">According to MMDA Chairman Francis Tolentino, 65 sectors of Metro Manila were flooded on Tuesday, thus paralysing traffic. <span style="text-decoration: underline;">Eighty percent of Manila was flooded.</span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; color: #ff0000;">Many are wondering why the water took a longer time to recede compared to last year’s Habagat rains and floods. <em><span style="color: #000000;">Source: <a href="http://www.philstar.com/opinion/2013/08/22/1118551/80-flooded" target="_blank">philstar.com</a></span></em></span></p>
<hr noshade="noshade" size="1"/><p><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="color: #800000;">20 August, 2013.</span> <span style="color: #ff0000;">Torrential rains brought by Maring (international name: Trami) shut down Metro Manila on Monday. The government called off classes in schools and most private businesses suspended work due to flooding caused by incessant rains that started on Sunday morning.</span></span><br/> <br/> <span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; color: #ff0000;">Classes are suspended at all levels in Metro Manila on Tuesday except in Pasig, Mandaluyong, Marikina, Navotas and Valenzuela cities where there will be no classes only at the preschool, elementary and high school levels.</span><br/> <br/> <span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; color: #ff0000;">Rising floodwaters forced people in many parts of the metropolis and nearby provinces to flee their homes and stay in government-run shelters.</span><br/> <br/> <span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; color: #ff0000;">President Aquino blamed the extensive flooding on heavy rains brought by Maring, aggravated by high tide at around 1 a.m. Monday. <em><span style="color: #800000;"><span style="color: #000000;">Source:</span> <a href="http://newsinfo.inquirer.net/469427/habagat-paralyzes-metro-manila-floods-luzon" target="_blank">newsinfo.inquirer.net</a></span></em></span></p>
<hr noshade="noshade" size="1"/><p><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="color: #800000;">23 September, 2013. </span> <span style="color: #ff0000;">‘Lesson not learned,’ wrote Candy Dizon in her blog, at the height of typhoon Maring (international name: Trami) in August 2013. The businesswoman lamented how the combination of bad urban planning and uncollected trash caused the flooding in many parts of Metro Manila and halted progress from monsoon rains enhanced by the typhoon.</span></span> <br/> <span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; color: #ff0000;">Joop Stoutjesdijk, Lead Irrigation Engineer at the World Bank, observes that at present the city just cannot cope with flooding from events like Maring, and that urban flooding is an increasing challenge to development. Manila lies in the catch basin between Laguna Lake in the southeast and Manila Bay in the north. Indiscriminate commercial and residential developments have blocked the path of many rivers in Metro Manila, home to some 12 million individuals and still growing.</span> <em><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Source: <a href="http://www.worldbank.org/en/news/feature/2013/09/23/philippines-long-term-vision-to-reduce-flooding-in-metro-manila" target="_blank">worldbank.org</a></span></em></p>
<hr noshade="noshade" size="1"/><p><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; color: #ff0000;"><span style="color: #800000;">15 June, 2013.</span> 10 reasons why it floods in Manila</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; color: #ff0000;">4. Metro Manila is not only low but it is sinking. <span style="text-decoration: line-through;">Ground water extraction</span> due to deep wells is causing major areas of the metropolis to sink. The north section of CAMANAVA and the southern cities from Pasay onwards have sunk from a foot to over a meter and this has made those areas <span style="text-decoration: underline;">more vulnerable to floods and storm surges</span>. Scientists have pointed to the fact that this flattening has increased the reach of storm surges from the seaside to as much as 20 kilometers inland. So we get it from both ends in a perfect storm — from the mountains and from the sea. The ground is also sinking due to the weight of all that concrete, buildings and infrastructure mentioned in reason no. 2 above. <span style="color: #000000;"><em>Source:</em></span> <em><a href="http://www.philstar.com/modern-living/2013/06/15/953965/10-reasons-why-it-floods-manila" target="_blank">philstar.com</a></em></span></p>
<hr noshade="noshade" size="1"/><p><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="color: #800000;">16 August, 2012.</span> <span style="color: #ff0000;">MMDA chief: Metro Manila can never be flood-resistant</span></span> <br/> <br/> <span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; color: #ff0000;">The chairman of the Metro Manila Development Authority (MMDA) on Thursday said that Metro Manila can never be resistant to flooding.</span><br/> <span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; color: #ff0000;"> </span><br/> <span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; color: #ff0000;">"Ang sinasabi ko, Metro Manila can never be flood-resistant but it can be flood resilient," MMDA chairman Francis Tolentino said during the day's Senate climate change committee hearing on the state of disaster and climate risks in the country.</span><br/> <span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; color: #ff0000;"> </span><br/> <span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; color: #ff0000;">Tolentino explained that one of the reasons Metro Manila can never be flood-resistant is because areas like CAMANAVA (Caloocan, Malabon, Navotas, and Valenzuela) are naturally below sea level. <span style="color: #000000;"><em>Source:</em></span> <em><a href="http://www.gmanetwork.com/news/story/270021/news/metromanila/mmda-chief-metro-manila-can-never-be-flood-resistant" target="_blank">gmanetwork.com</a></em></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="color: #800000;">20 August, 2013</span>. <span style="color: #ff0000;">Shocked by unprecedented floods, Cavite oldtimers blame Cavitex, mushrooming subdivisions</span></span><br/> <br/> <span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; color: #ff0000;">It was a flooding they had never seen before, oldtime residents of Imus, Noveleta, and Kawit in Cavite, just past the end of the Cavitex, said of Monday’s rampaging waters, which sent many of them scrambling for the safety of their homes’ second floors or rooftops.</span><br/> <br/> <span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; color: #ff0000;">Ironically, the oldtimers see the relatively new tollway, which has undoubtedly made commuting between Cavite and Metro Manila easier, as one of the causes of the unprecedented floods. That and the subdivisions and housing projects that have sprouted like mushrooms in their and neighboring towns which, they say, have narrowed river channels and blocked natural waterways.</span><br/> <br/> <span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; color: #ff0000;">So powerful was the rush of floodwater in Noveleta that a two-level niche was literally torn off its moorings and swept away, to be dumped near the Bakaw Bridge.</span><br/> <br/> <span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; color: #ff0000;">Even the fishponds that used to line the highways are fast disappearing to make way for new “developments” and to what they fear could be their new reality, as they tell their harrowing tales.</span> <span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Source: <a href="http://www.interaksyon.com/article/68981/shocked-by-unprecedented-floods-cavite-oldtimers-blame-cavitex-mushrooming-subdivisions" target="_blank">interaksyon.com</a></span></p>
<hr noshade="noshade" size="1"/><p><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="color: #800000;">23 September, 2013.</span> <span style="color: #ff0000;">Olongapo reels from 'worst flooding ever'</span></span><br/> <br/> <span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; color: #ff0000;">City officials have unanimously declared a state of calamity in Olongapo after 12 hours of continuous rains caused the highest levels of floods "in the history" of the city. <span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; color: #ff0000;"><span style="color: #800000;">Source:</span> <a href="http://www.interaksyon.com/article/71289/olongapo-reels-from-worst-flooding-ever" target="_blank">interaksyon.com</a></span></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; color: #000000;">Philippines floods 2011 ('Pedring' and 'Quiel' typhoon):</span></p>
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<br/> <span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="font-size-1"><span class="font-size-2">In this photo released by the Philippine Coast Guard, floodwaters from Typhoon Pedring (Nesat) cover rice fields surrounding a village in Cabiao town, Nueva Ecija province, northern Philippines on Thursday, Sept. 29, 2011. The powerful typhoon left devastation in the Philippines, triggering some of the worst flooding in downtown Manila in decades. <em>(AP Photo/Philippine Coast Guard).</em> <em>Source: <a href="http://www.philstar.com/headlines/732172/massive-rescue-underway-flooded-bulacan" target="_blank">philstar.com</a></em><br/></span></span></div>
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<br/> <span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="font-size-1"><span class="font-size-2">An aerial view shows flooded rice fields in Bulacan province, north of Manila, in this photo handout from the Philippine Air Force September 30, 2011. <em>Credit: Reuters/Rey Bruna/Philippine Air Force/Handout Source: <a href="http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/10/14/us-weather-energy-bills-idUSTRE79D25T20111014" target="_blank">reuters.com</a></em><br/></span></span></div>
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<br/> <span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="font-size-1"><span class="font-size-2">The main street of Roxas boulevard is seen submerged under flood waters in metro Manila after Typhoon Nesat locally known as Pedring, hit the capital. <em>Source: <a href="http://www.hindustantimes.com/photos-news/photos-world/manilatyphoonmenace/Article4-750699.aspx" target="_blank">hindustantimes.com</a></em><br/></span></span></div>
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<br/> <span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="font-size-1"><span class="font-size-2">Residents living beside a swollen river walk through floods in Navotas, north of Manila, Philippines Tuesday Sept. 27, 2011 as Typhoon Nesat hits the country. (AP) <em>Source: <a href="http://www.emirates247.com/news/world/typhoon-lashes-philippines-2011-09-27-1.420727" target="_blank">emirates247.com</a></em><br/></span></span></div>
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<p><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">In 2011 Philippines slams by typhoon 'Quiel' and 'Pedring'. Many people think, that storm surge and heavy rains caused such terrible floods. Yea, but this is not main factor. Sinking of Sunda Plate - is main factor.</span></p>
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<p><span style="color: #ff0000;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="color: #800000;">1 October, 2011.</span> Typhoon Pedring floods worst ever: mayor.</span></span></p>
<p><span style="color: #ff0000;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="text-decoration: underline;">Typhoon ‘Pedring’ has the worst flooding that ever occurred in Pampanga and Bulacan, said Mayor Edgardo “EdPam” Pamintuan as he described the flooding wrought by typhoon’s heavy rains</span>.</span> <span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">The deep floodwaters are expected to be aggravated by Typhoon “Quiel” which is seen to further affect flooded areas in Pampanga, especially San Simon, Candaba, San Luis, Macabebe and Masantol.</span></span><br/> <br/> <span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; color: #ff0000;">Pamintuan said: “I saw it with my own two eyes. The whole stretch of the Candaba viaduct and more, as well as the Pampanga River is overflowing with water coming from Nueva Ecija.”</span><br/> <br/> <span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; color: #ff0000;">The mayor said that Calumpit in Bulacan, as he witnessed, was worst hit.</span><br/> <br/> <span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; color: #ff0000;">“San Simon, Apalit, Candaba, San Luis, Masantol, Macasbebe and Hagonoy are worst hit, too. Houses, up to the rooftop are submerged,” he added.</span><br/> <br/> <span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; color: #ff0000;">Pamintuan earlier noted that Angeles City was spared by Pedring and was minimally affected with no damages to roads and infrastructure.</span><br/> <br/> <span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; color: #ff0000;">Also on Saturday morning, the City Government, together with volunteers led by Auxiliary Bishop Pablo Virgilio David, conducted a massive clean-up of Sapang Balen Creek to avert possible flooding.</span> <span style="color: #800000; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Source: <a href="http://www.sunstar.com.ph/pampanga/local-news/2011/10/01/typhoon-pedring-floods-worst-ever-mayor-182579" target="_blank"><span style="color: #800000;">sunstar.com.ph</span></a></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; color: #ff0000;"><span style="color: #800000;">10 October, 2011.</span> Pedring, Quiel death toll reaches 102</span><br/> <br/> <span style="color: #ff0000;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">The death toll from typhoons Pedring and Quiel has risen to 102, the state disaster management agency said Monday.</span> <span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Pedring claimed 83 lives, while Quiel left 19 people dead.</span></span><br/> <br/> <span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; color: #ff0000;">Around 27 people remain missing, according to the National Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Council (NDRRMC).</span><br/> <span style="color: #ff0000;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Officials have pegged the damage from the 2 typhoons at over P15 billion, higher than the P10-billion damage from tropical storm Ondoy in 2009.</span></span><br/> <br/> <span style="text-decoration: underline;"><span style="color: #ff0000; text-decoration: underline;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Pedring also affected more than 3 million people in 35 provinces, the NDRRMC said.</span> <span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Quiel, on the other hand, affected more than 1 million people</span><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">.</span></span></span> <span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="color: #800000;">Source:</span> <a href="http://rp2.abs-cbnnews.com/nation/regions/10/10/11/pedring-quiel-death-toll-reaches-102" target="_blank">abs-cbnnews.com</a></span></p>
<hr noshade="noshade" size="1"/><p><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="color: #800000;">10 October, 2011.</span> <span style="color: #ff0000;">Pedring surpasses Ondoy in damage caused</span></span><br/> <span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; color: #ff0000;">Typhoon Pedring (Nesat) left Php 14.9 billion in damages to agriculture and infrastructure, surpassing the Php 12.3 billion in damages wrought by Typhoon Ondoy in 2009, the National Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Council said. <span style="color: #800000;">Source:</span> <a href="http://www.cdrc-phil.com/pedring-surpasses-ondoy-in-damage-caused/" target="_blank">cdrc-phil.com</a><br/></span></p>
<hr noshade="noshade" size="1"/><p><span style="color: #ff0000;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="color: #800000;">26 October, 2011.</span> Officials called this year’s floods the worst in almost 40 years in Central Luzon. <span style="color: #800000;">Source:</span></span> <span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><a href="http://newsinfo.inquirer.net/83609/central-luzon-flood-effect-no-sem-break-for-700000" target="_blank">newsinfo.inquirer.net</a></span></span></p>
<hr noshade="noshade" size="1"/><p><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="color: #800000;">9 October, 2011.</span> <span style="color: #ff0000;">Calumpit floods worst in 40 years</span></span><br/> <span style="text-decoration: underline;"><span style="color: #ff0000; text-decoration: underline;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Thousands of residents stayed on rooftops or abandoned their homes in Calumpit, Bulacan Friday due to massive floods not seen in the town in the past 40 years.</span></span></span><br/> <br/> <span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; color: #ff0000;">Calumpit Mayor James de Jesus said a total of 26,000 families in 22 submerged barangays have been affected by the floods.</span> <span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; color: #ff0000;">"We are experiencing a flood unprecedented in 40 years. The flood hit our dike...This has never happened before. Pati munisipyo binabaha," he told ABS-CBN News Channel.</span><br/> <br/> <span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; color: #ff0000;">Footage taken by ABS-CBN showed residents wading through knee-deep up to chest-deep floods or riding makeshift boats to flee the town. Others rode dump trucks, which transported them to shelters.</span> <span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="color: #800000;">Source</span>: <a href="http://www.abs-cbnnews.com/nation/regions/09/30/11/calumpit-floods-worst-40-years" target="_blank">abs-cbnnews.com</a></span></p>
<hr noshade="noshade" size="1"/><p><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; color: #ff0000;"><span style="color: #800000;">9 October, 2011</span>. Pedring worse than Ondoy, says Pampanga gov</span><br/> <br/> <span style="color: #ff0000;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Central Luzon governors say Pedring's impact the worst in years.</span> <span style="text-decoration: underline;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Thousands of residents stayed on rooftops or abandoned their homes in low-lying towns in Bulacan and Pampanga Friday due to massive floods that drew comparison to the deluge brought by tropical storm "Ondoy" in 2009.</span></span></span><br/> <br/> <span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; color: #ff0000;">Footage taken by ABS-CBN showed residents climbing rooftops or wading through chest-deep floods to escape waters that inundated their homes, which came 3 days after the onslaught of typhoon "Pedring."</span><br/> <br/> <span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; color: #ff0000;">Pampanga Gov. Lilia Pineda said floodwaters from Nueva Ecija caused the Pampanga River to overflow and affect towns such as Candaba, San Luis, Lubao, Macabebe, Apalit, San Simon and parts of Arayat.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; color: #ff0000;">Highest flood in 40 years</span><br/> <br/> <span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Calumpit Mayor James de Jesus earlier said a total of 26,000 families in 22 submerged barangays have been affected by the floods. The mayor earlier declared a state of calamity in the town.</span><br/> <br/> <span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">"<span style="text-decoration: underline;">We are experiencing a flood unprecedented in 40 years. The flood hit our dike...This has never happened before. Pati munisipyo binabaha,</span>" he told ABS-CBN News Channel.</span><br/> <br/> <span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">De Jesus said evacuation efforts were launched on Thursday but many residents chose to stay because they were used to floods. He said many residents panicked and stayed on rooftops after floods rose at an alarming rate Thursday night.</span> <span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; color: #800000;">Source</span><span style="color: #ff0000;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="color: #ff0000;">:</span> <a href="http://www.abs-cbnnews.com/nation/regions/09/30/11/pedring-worse-ondoy" target="_blank">abs-cbnnews.com</a></span><br/></span></p>
<hr noshade="noshade" size="1"/><p><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; color: #ff0000;"><span style="color: #800000;">9 October, 2011.</span> 'Pedring' worse than 'Ondoy': Candaba mayor</span><br/> <br/> <span style="text-decoration: underline; color: #ff0000;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">A Pampanga mayor said on Friday typhoon “Pedring” was worse than tropical storm “Ondoy.”</span></span><br/> <br/> <span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; color: #ff0000;">Speaking to dzMM, Candaba Mayor Gerry Pelayo said all of the town’s 33 barangays, some of which are now isolated, are covered in water as high as 14 feet.</span><br/> <br/> <span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; color: #ff0000;">“Yung tubig natin dito talagang eto na yung pinakamalaki sa historya ng Candaba. Walang sinabi ang Ondoy,” he said.</span><br/> <br/> <span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; color: #ff0000;">“Eto yung galing sa Aurora, Quezon, Nueva Ecija, babagsak sa Candaba. Yung galing sa Candaba tuloy-tuloy sa Calumpit (in Bulacan).”</span><br/> <br/> <span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; color: #ff0000;">According to Pelayo, residents in 8 barangays along the Pampanga river need permanent resettlement after flood waters inundated the area.</span> <span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="color: #800000;">Source:</span> <a href="http://www.abs-cbnnews.com/nation/regions/09/30/11/pedring-worse-ondoy-candaba-mayor" target="_blank">abs-cbnnews.com</a></span></p>
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<p><span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="color: #800000;">28 September, 2011.</span> The large waves that hammered the coastline of Manila Bay on Tuesday and caused flash floods in areas near it were caused by a storm surge, according to state weather bureau PAGASA.</span><br/> <br/> <span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">The surge of waves began early in the morning, with seawater spilling on streets by 8 a.m., flooding Raja Soliman Park and Roxas Boulevard.</span><br/> <br/> <span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">The huge waves caused by the storm surge battered the bay's seawall, causing portions of the wall to collapse.</span><br/> <br/> <span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><span style="color: #ff0000; text-decoration: underline;">Weather bureau PAGASA said this is the first time this has happened.</span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="color: #ff0000;">US embassy flooded</span></span>.<br/> <br/> <span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Floods also struck the US embassy. It will remain closed until Wednesday, according to embassy information officer Tina Malone.</span><br/> <br/> <span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">"The embassy was not evacuated. The decision was made at 8am to close embassy operations and re-schedule all consular appointments.</span> <br/> <br/> <span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Members of the public were given assistance to depart the flooded compound," she said.</span> <span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="color: #800000;">Source:</span> <a href="http://www.abs-cbnnews.com/nation/metro-manila/09/27/11/storm-surge-hits-manila-bay" target="_blank">abs-cbnnews.com</a></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">What caused storm surge? Main reason it's sinking!</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; color: #ff0000;"><span style="color: #800000;">30 September, 2011.</span> <span style="text-decoration: line-through;">The abuse of the sea and the environment,</span> as a whole, is the primary reason for huge, destructive storm surges.</span><br/> <br/> <span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; color: #ff0000;">This was the analysis of the fisherfolk group, Pambansang Lakas ng Kilusang Mamamalakaya ng Pilipinas (Pamalakaya) of the recent storm surge in the Manila Bay, connected with the 600-km radius Pedring (international code: Nesat). The 12 to 16 (or more) high sea waves had mocked down trees and other structures along the bay walk, causing massive flooding.</span><br/> <br/> <span style="text-decoration: underline; color: #ff0000;"><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Not created by mere typhoon winds</span></span></span><br/> <br/> <span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; color: #ff0000;">Pamalakaya vice chair Salvador France, in a statement said, <span style="text-decoration: underline;">they do not believe that the surge was caused by strong winds</span>, brought by Pedring, <span style="text-decoration: underline;">alone</span>; <span style="text-decoration: line-through;">it was the continuous reclamation of lands and parts of the Manila bay had made the waves in “monstrous proportions.”</span></span><br/> <br/> <span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; color: #ff0000;">““We will not buy the idea that the storm surge that happened in Manila Bay was chiefly caused by Pedring’s strong wind. <span style="text-decoration: underline;">That is just an external factor</span> which clinched that storm surge in the afternoon of September 27. The long-running crime of reclamation in Manila Bay is the principal reason why the storm surge happened not only in Roxas Boulevard but almost in the entire stretch of the bay from Cavite to Bataan province,” says France.</span><br/> <br/> <span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; color: #ff0000;">This analysis, he says, is brought by the fishermen’s “experiential science” or by the practical knowledge that they have garnered through years of fishing and dealing with the open seas.</span><br/> <br/> <span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; color: #ff0000;">“The fisherfolk science based on experience says the unstoppable reclamation activities in Manila Bay altered the flow and movement of waters in Manila Bay. There was no storm surge before in the lake until this across-the-bay reclamation activities swept the bay by storm. It practically changes the movement and flow of waters inside an enclosed body of water since the 70s,” he said.</span> <span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="color: #800000;">Source:</span> <a href="https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.298575633510768.75181.286889994679332&type=3" target="_blank">facebook.com</a></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Sinking it's fact confrimed by radar satellite!</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; color: #ff0000;">Sinking land behind worsening floods</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; color: #ff0000;">Aside from global warming causing stronger cyclones and rising oceans levels, sinking lands in Metro Manila and Central Luzon are causing floods to worsen, scientists have warned.</span> <span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; color: #ff0000;">Lands are sinking because of the natural compaction of soil and rapid withdrawal of groundwater, according to Dr. Fernando Siringan of the Marine Science Institute at the University of the Philippines Diliman.</span><br/> <br/> <span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; color: #ff0000;">Siringan, in a post-"Ondoy" assessment paper, said land subsidence is the least understood but very important cause of flooding.</span><br/> <br/> <span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; color: #ff0000;">Citing studies made by the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA), he said that at Manila's South Harbor, the mean sea level rose by just around 2 millimeters per year from 1902 to the early 1960s until it then started rising more than 10 times as fast, or around 2.6 centimeters per year.</span><br/> <br/> <span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; color: #ff0000;">Siringan said intensified groundwater withdrawal is causing land areas to sink, particularly in Metro Manila, where groundwater demand is still increasing.</span></p>
<p><span style="text-decoration: underline; color: #800000;"><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Typhoons, southwest monsoon not to blame</span></span></span><br/> <br/> <span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; color: #ff0000;">The study said typhoons should not be immediately tagged as the cause of worsening floods in the areas.</span> <span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; color: #ff0000;">"The southwest monsoon and typhoons annually deliver approximately 2,000 millimeters of rain to the region, but the amounts have been decreasing since 1900 (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, 1995; Jose et al., 1996) and cannot be blamed for the worsening floods," the paper said.</span><br/> <br/> <span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; color: #ff0000;">Dr. Greg Bankoff, an associate professor in the School of Asian Studies at the University of Auckland, New Zealand, also identified sinking lands as one of the primary causes of severe flooding in northern Metro Manila and parts of Pampanga and Bulacan.</span><br/> <br/> <span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; color: #ff0000;">"The extent of flooding has also been considerably aggravated in recent decades by land subsidence," he said in a study published by the International Institute for Asian Studies.</span><br/> <br/> <span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; color: #ff0000;">"Sediments that underlie river deltas have a high water content that is 'squeezed' by the weight of succeeding deposits, a process that is greatly accelerated when groundwater is extracted faster than it can be replenished by natural recharge from rain seeping back into the ground," he explained. "As the land around Manila Bay sinks and the level of the sea rises, flooding has become more prevalent not only in the city but also in the surrounding provinces," Bankoff said.</span> <span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="color: #800000;">Source:</span> <a href="http://www.abs-cbnnews.com/-depth/09/30/11/sinking-lands-behind-worsening-floods" target="_blank">abs-cbnnews.com</a></span></p>
<hr noshade="noshade" size="1"/><p><br/> <span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Floods are here to stay and there is nothing we can do to change it. Swamped practically on a yearly basis, metro residents are not oblivious to this fact. Rainfall will perennially submerge our streets and the best we can do is to prepare for and not aggravate the floods.</span><br/> <span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Subsidence</span><br/> <br/> <span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">To worsen the situation, many parts of Metro Manila are subsiding. Called ground subsidence, this is the phenomenon in which land sinks primarily because water that occupies the ground below is extracted by humans, faster than it is replenished by nature.</span><br/> <br/> <span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Leveling data from the National Mapping and Resource Information Authority (Namria) reveal areas in Metro Manila that sank 0.68 meter to 1.34 meters in 30 years (from 1979 to 2009).</span><br/> <br/> <span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">A big part of groundwater subsidence in Camanava (Caloocan, Malabon, Navotas and Valenzuela) is mainly due to excessive groundwater pumping by fishpond operators, according to a study by Rodolfo and Siringanin 2006.</span><br/> <br/> <span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">The probable consequences of continued sinking of the ground are dire, as dikes that serve to protect Camanava from sea water incursion may eventually be overtopped and bring forth sudden flooding.</span><br/> <br/> <span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Images from space</span></p>
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<p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="font-size-2">IMAGE of Metro Manila showing movement of the ground. Blue areas correspond to land sinking up to 5.5 centimeters a year. Red means the ground is moving upward or laterally toward the radar satellite. This image was processed by Narod Eco of the project team of the Department of Science and Technology. CONTRIBUTED IMAGE.</span> <span class="font-size-2"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><em>Source: <a href="http://opinion.inquirer.net/12757/large-areas-of-metro-manila-sinking" target="_blank">opinion.inquirer.net</a></em></span></span></p>
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<p><br/> <span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Processed radar images taken from space from 2003 to 2009 showed blue areas of greater Metro Manila that sank. The ground subsidence “hot spots” in the northern part of the metropolis are Navotas, Malabon, Caloocan and Manila, and neighboring areas of Guiguinto, Marilao and Meycauayan in Bulacan.</span><br/> <br/> <span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">In the south are the cities of Muntinlupa and Las Pinas in Metro Manila, Binan in Laguna, and Dasmarinas City and the municipality of Rosario in Cavite.</span><br/> <br/> <span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Ground subsidence rates are up to 5.5 to 6 centimeters per year and are highest in Marilao, Meycauayan and Caloocan.</span><br/> <br/> <span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="text-decoration: underline;">The satellite image of Metro Manila shows movement of the ground</span>. (See map.) Blue areas correspond to sinking ground with the highest rates of subsidence at 5.5 cm per year. The image was processed by Narod Eco of the DOST project team.</span><br/> <br/> <span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Circular pattern</span><br/> <br/> <span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">The circular-shaped pattern of sinking grounds in Metro Manila indicates overpumping of groundwater as the primary cause of subsidence. Unless excessive groundwater withdrawal is curbed in these areas, subsidence will continue.</span><br/> <br/> <span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">In 20 years, such rates mean that the ground surface will drop by more than a meter. This will aggravate flooding from heavy rainfall and constitute a coastal-dike breach hazard in areas near Manila Bay.</span><br/> <br/> <span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">West Valley Fault</span><br/> <br/> <span style="text-decoration: underline; color: #ff0000;"><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">The probable causes of ground movement in Muntinlupa, Taguig and Pateros are still uncertain. The motion along the West Valley Fault, clearly seen in these areas in the deformation image of Metro Manila, may play an important role.</span></span></span><br/> <br/> <span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="text-decoration: underline;">However, the contribution of tectonic activity in these areas to the ground-subsidence phenomenon is yet unknown and still being investigated</span>. <em><span style="color: #800000;">Source:</span> <a href="http://opinion.inquirer.net/12757/large-areas-of-metro-manila-sinking" target="_blank">opinion.inquirer.net</a></em><br/></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; color: #ff0000;"><em><span style="color: #800000;">1 July, 2011.</span></em> Flood-hit Mindanao battles water hyacinths</span><br/> <br/> <span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; color: #ff0000;">The innocuous-looking plants are the prime culprits of recent flooding in and around this city of 400,000, according to local officials.</span> <span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; color: #ff0000;"><span style="text-decoration: underline;">“This is the worst I have ever seen it,”</span> Cotabato Archbishop Orlando Quevedo, who chairs the Presidential Task Force on the Mindanao River Basin, told IRIN. “This happened two years ago, but never like this.”</span><br/> <br/> <span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; color: #ff0000;">As of 20 June, some 25,000 families in the city had been affected. Of these 8,000 were staying in temporary shelters, mostly schools, with some 17,000 remaining at home, local authorities said.</span><br/> <br/> <span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; color: #ff0000;">Heavy rain in eastern Mindanao in recent weeks caused the river to burst its banks, leav<span style="text-decoration: underline;">ing parts of 33 of Cotabato City’s 37 low-lying villages inundated</span>.</span> <span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; color: #ff0000;">Thousands of children were forced out of school, the UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF) reported, as water levels in some parts of the city rose to <span style="text-decoration: underline;">0.7 metres</span>.</span><br/> <br/> <span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; color: #ff0000;">According to the Philippine National Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Council (NDRRMC) on 19 June, flooding since the end of May has affected 120,038 families or more than 611,000 individuals in nine of Mindanao’s 26 provinces.</span> <span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; color: #ff0000;">At least five people have been reported dead. <span style="color: #800000;">Source</span>: <a href="http://www.irinnews.org/report/93020/philippines-flood-hit-mindanao-battles-water-hyacinths" target="_blank">irinnews.org</a><br/></span></p>
<hr noshade="noshade" size="1"/><p><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="color: #ff0000;">Upon reaching Cotabato City, they lost no time in proceeding to Delta Bridge on Rio Grande river. The bridge and that of the Tamontaka River was just recently cleared of about six hectares of water hyacinths which have earlier raised the water’s level and thus causing the worst flood in the history of the city and in Central Mindanao in the ARMM.</span> <span style="color: #800000;">Source:</span> <a href="http://www.gensantos.com/2011/07/the-aftermath-of-the-cotabato-floods/" target="_blank">gensantos.com</a></span></p>
<hr noshade="noshade" size="1"/><p><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="color: #ff0000;"><span style="color: #800000;"><em>22 June, 2011.</em></span> President Benigno Simeon Aquino III arrived in Cotabato City on Wednesday morning to check on the welfare of 962,591 flood victims, suffering from one of the worst calamities in the history of western Mindanao.</span> <span style="color: #800000;">Source:</span> <a href="http://www.gmanetwork.com/news/story/224094/news/nation/aquino-visits-nearly-1m-flood-victims-in-cotabato-city" target="_blank">gmanetwork.com</a></span></p>
<hr noshade="noshade" size="1"/><p><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; color: #ff0000;"><em><span style="color: #800000;">17 June, 2011.</span></em> Around 90 percent of Cotabato City is underwater due to two weeks of continuous rain, an official from the Cotabato Disaster Office said in an interview over 990AM Friday.</span><br/> <br/> <span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="color: #ff0000;">“Due to two weeks of continuous rain, 30 out of 37 barangay [villages] here in Cotabato or 90 percent is already flooded,” Sam Mundas, action officer of the Cotabato Disaster Office said over Tapatan with Jay Sonza and Den Macaranas</span>. <span style="color: #800000;">Source</span>: <a href="http://newsinfo.inquirer.net/15705/990am-%E2%80%9990-of-cotabato-city%E2%80%99-flooded-national-gov%E2%80%99t-help-sought" target="_blank">newsinfo.inquirer.net</a></span></p>
<hr noshade="noshade" size="1"/><p><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><em><span style="color: #800000;">16 June, 2011.</span></em></span> <span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; color: #ff0000;">Cotabato City and other provinces in southern Philippines are experiencing their worst flooding in years, but authorities are not just blaming it on the weather or poor flood control. They are pointing instead at plants that feed off polluted waters, colorful water hyacinths. <span style="color: #800000;">Source:</span> <a href="http://www.gmanetwork.com/news/story/223609/news/regions/river-clogging-plant-causes-devastating-cotabato-flood" target="_blank">gmanetwork.com</a></span></p>
<hr noshade="noshade" size="1"/><p><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="color: #800000;"><em>30 June, 2011.</em></span> <span style="color: #ff0000;">25 dead, 15 reported missing in Davao City floods</span></span><br/> <br/> <span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; color: #ff0000;">The worst ever in terms of loss of lives.</span><br/> <br/> <span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; color: #ff0000;">Twenty-five persons were killed, 15 of them children, while 15 others remain missing as of 5 p.m. Wednesday as flashfloods struck at least five barangays here from late Tuesday night to early Wednesday morning.</span><br/> <br/> <span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; color: #ff0000;">“In terms of damage to property, this is not the worst. But this is the worst flood in terms of loss of lives,” Vice Mayor Rodrigo Duterte told MindaNews. Duterte served as mayor from 1988 to 2010, interrupted only by a stint as congressman from 1998 to 2001.</span><br/> <br/> <span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; color: #ff0000;">The floods caused the overflow of the Matina Pangi river and displaced 12,410 families, 1,475 of them in evacuation centers, the City Social Services and Development Office (CSSDO) reported as of 5 p.m. Wednesday.</span> <span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Source: <a href="http://www.mindanews.com/top-stories/2011/06/30/25-dead-15-reported-missing-in-davao-city-floods/" target="_blank">mindanews.com</a></span></p>
<hr noshade="noshade" size="1"/><p><span style="color: #800000;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><em>22 June, 2011.</em></span> <span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; color: #ff0000;">Unprecedented floods have gripped Cotabato in recent weeks following incessant rains.</span></span><br/> <span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"> </span><br/> <span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Officials admit that the flooding is not like anything the province has ever seen.</span><br/> <span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"> </span><br/> <span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">"It is the worst I have seen in my 50 years staying on and off Cotabato City," said Bishop Orlando Quevedo, Head of the Presidential Task Force on Mindanao River Basin Rehabilitation and Development on ANC's "The Rundown" on Monday.</span><br/> <span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"> </span><br/> <span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Compared to the flooding in Cotabato in 2008, the flood level this year, he said, is nearly half a meter higher than the 2008 record.</span> <span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Source: <a href="http://www.abs-cbnnews.com/-depth/06/22/11/water-hyacinths-scourge-cotabato" target="_blank">abs-cbnnews.com</a></span><span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><br/></span></p>7 of 10 SINKING; Indonesia: Aerial view of Jakarta sinking! Jakarta will never be entirely free from floods! Debate after floods - Moving the capital?! Pakistan: Twenty-five dead in floods!tag:poleshift.ning.com,2013-02-06:3863141:BlogPost:9252532013-02-06T18:30:00.000ZStanislavhttps://poleshift.ning.com/profile/Stanislav
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<p><strong>Indonesia <span style="color: #ff0000;">SINKING</span></strong>:</p>
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<p><span style="color: #ff0000;"><strong>/ Elisa also debated the administration’s plan to construct a deep tunnel, saying it would not solve the problem because parts of <span style="color: #800000;">Jakarta’s land mass were around 4 meters below sea level.</span></strong> <strong>/</strong></span></p>
<p><span style="color: #ff0000;"><strong>/ Jakarta Governor Joko “Jokowi” Widodo called on the city’s residents to remain alert to anticipate major floods that could hit Jakarta on Sunday, although he also indicated that the worst flooding had now already occurred. “One thing we can do is ask the agency [for help] so that rainwater doesn’t flow into the rivers when we have a high seawater level,” he said. Around 24,000 hectares or 40 percent of Jakarta’s land mass is lower than sea level. /</strong></span></p>
<p><span style="color: #ff0000;"><strong>/ The five-year-cycle floods have been predicted to hit Jakarta early this year, but some people said that this time was worse than the floods in 2007 that had submerged Jakarta and suburban areas and claimed more than 80 lives.</strong> <strong>/</strong></span><br/> <span style="color: #ff0000;"><strong><span style="color: #ff0000;"><strong><a target="_blank" href="http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8233/8390748669_cea0680f12_n.jpg"><img class="align-left" src="http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8233/8390748669_cea0680f12_n.jpg"/></a></strong></span></strong></span></p>
<p><span style="color: #ff0000;"><strong>/ “Our map shows that about <span style="text-decoration: underline;"><span style="color: #800000; text-decoration: underline;">50 percent of Jakarta is under water</span></span>, ranging from 25 centimeters to 4 meters,” Johan Freddy, an official with National Disaster Management Agency, was quoted as saying.</strong></span></p>
<p><span style="color: #ff0000;"><strong>He added that <span style="color: #800000;">nearly 100,000 houses have been flooded</span> leading to the displacement of 10,000 people into temporary shelters /</strong></span></p>
<p><span style="color: #ff0000;"><strong>/ </strong><strong>Rini, who lives in West Jakarta's Jelambar neighborhood since childhood, said the floods in Jelambar last week were the worst she has experienced in her life. "I hope the rainy season would end soon so that the water in the streets would subside."</strong></span><br/> <br/> <span style="color: #ff0000;"><strong>But Rini's wish may not be realized after weathermen warned that rains would continue and may prolong the flooding in the metropolis that has already <span style="color: #800000;">killed 26 persons and displaced some 250,000.</span></strong></span><br/> <br/> <span style="color: #ff0000;"><strong>/</strong></span></p>
<p><strong>Worse than 2007 and 2002 in some facts -</strong></p>
<p><strong>Jakarta floods 2013 damages cost <span style="color: #ff0000;">32 trillion Rp</span></strong> <span style="color: #000000;"><strong><span style="color: #800000;">($3.3 billion)</span>; Jakarta floods 2007 damages cost 2.01 trillion Rp; Jakarta floods 2002 damages cost 1.51 trillion Rp;</strong></span></p>
<p><span style="color: #ff0000;"><strong>/ <span style="color: #800000;">The Association of General Insurance Companies (AAUI) estimated its members would have to pay claims higher than those paid in 2007 and 2002, the years when major floods also hit Jakarta</span>.</strong></span> <span style="color: #ff0000;"><strong>"<span style="text-decoration: underline;"><span style="color: #993300; text-decoration: underline;">The flood [in the past few days] has affected wider areas in Jakarta</span></span>. So we are preparing for higher claim amounts for both properties and vehicles. We cannot specifically mention the figures right now as we are still assessing all reports," AAUI executive director Julian Noor said during a telephone interview Monday. Based on AAUI data, insurance companies paid a total of 2.01 trillion rupiah (about Bt6.2 billion) in flood-related claims in 2007. The figure comprised Rp2 trillion in property claims and Rp15 billion in vehicle claims.</strong></span> <span style="color: #ff0000;"><strong>In 2002, the amount stood at Rp1.51 trillion, comprising property claims of Rp1.5 trillion and vehicle claims of Rp14 billion. /</strong></span></p>
<p><span style="color: #ff0000;"><strong>/ The recent floods in Jakarta and surrounding areas are estimated to have caused Rp 32 trillion ($3.3 billion) in losses. “The figure for the losses incurred by the floods is Rp 32 trillion. This includes potential losses in the Greater Jakarta areas [Jabodetabek] of about Rp 7 trillion to Rp 8 trillion, while the economic recovery [cost] for those areas is predicted to reach 3-4 times, or around Rp 21 trillion to Rp 32 trillion,” Yani Miryam, head of the women’s wing of the People’s Conscience Party (Hanura), said on Wednesday. /<br/></strong></span></p>
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<p><span style="color: #000000;"><strong><a target="_blank" href="http://assets.kompas.com/data/photo/2013/01/09/0930587-terowongan-multifungsi-620X310.jpg"><img class="align-full" src="http://assets.kompas.com/data/photo/2013/01/09/0930587-terowongan-multifungsi-620X310.jpg"/></a></strong></span><span style="color: #ff0000;"><strong>/ <span style="color: #800000;">Jakarta will likely never be rid of flooding entirely, as its causes have become more complex due to the emergence of new flood-prone areas, a disaster agency says. </span> “The scope and problems [causing] the floods in Jakarta continue to increase. Aside from the natural factors, it’s also contributed to by anthropogenic [man-made] factors,” said National Disaster Mitigation Agency (BNPB) spokesman Sutopo Purwo Nugroho in a press release on Sunday. “Nature used to be the dominant factor before the ’70s. After that, the causes of floods became more complex. The combination of natural and anthropogenic [factors] is what makes the floods to happen. <span style="text-decoration: underline;"><span style="color: #993300; text-decoration: underline;">“Jakarta will never be entirely free from floods.</span></span> Various efforts to address it always lack speed,” he added. /</strong></span></p>
<p><strong><span style="color: #000000;"><span style="text-decoration: underline;">Jakarta will never be entirely free from floods (because Sunda plate is sinking) and goverment know this fact</span>:</span></strong></p>
<p><span style="color: #000000;"><strong>Moving the capital -</strong></span></p>
<p><span style="color: #ff0000;"><strong><a target="_blank" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-qw7z1JAlXxo/UPfyRQQC3kI/AAAAAAAAI_k/JwIsIfmBi-Y/s400/foto%2Bbanjir%2Bjakarta.jpg"><img class="align-left" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-qw7z1JAlXxo/UPfyRQQC3kI/AAAAAAAAI_k/JwIsIfmBi-Y/s400/foto%2Bbanjir%2Bjakarta.jpg"/></a>/ <span style="text-decoration: underline;">According to the National Disaster Mitigation Agency, 27 of the 44 subdistricts in Jakarta were affected by the floods</span>. Along with the massive flooding, the idea of moving the nation’s capital to a new location has been gaining traction over the past few years since Jakarta can now no longer handle being the capital and economic center of Indonesia simultaneously. This year’s flooding disaster is the latest in a regular series of floods in Jakarta, but many feel it is different this time. It is likely that in the past floods in the capital were not so extensively televised and people across the archipelago heard the news only after the event. Many would only have known of the story from various newspapers published the following day instead of watching live streaming TV news.</strong></span><br/> <br/> <span style="color: #ff0000;"><strong>In addition to the traffic congestion, floods should be the other major reason for the government to seriously consider the idea of moving the nation’s capital to a new location. The unbearable agony of Jakarta’s floods makes the idea very realistic. Jakarta is so densely populated and dirty that it no longer can cope as the nation’s capital. With Jakarta being the crowded center of government, commerce and education, the central government and the House of Representatives must seek the best way to avoid flooding and traffic congestion in the city. /</strong></span></p>
<p><span style="color: #ff0000;">/ <span style="text-decoration: underline; color: #800000;"><strong>The state of emergency declared after flooding struck large swaths of Jakarta on Thursday has reignited long-standing discussions on whether to relocate the nation’s capital.</strong></span></span> <span style="color: #ff0000;"><strong>People’s Consultative Assembly (MPR) Speaker Taufiq Kiemas said on Friday that the emergency should be a wake-up call for the government.</strong></span> <span style="color: #ff0000;"><strong>“It’s time to seriously think about moving the capital,” Taufiq told reporters. “Jakarta has been paralyzed by the ongoing floods. Administrative and business activities can’t proceed properly. This has obviously worsened the many unresolved problems faced by the city, which I think cannot be solved by conventional measures.”</strong></span><br/> <br/> <span style="color: #ff0000;"><strong>Taufiq suggested Palangkaraya, Central Kalimantan, as a potential site for a relocated national capital, as the tiny metropolis of 170,000 people is less prone to floods.</strong></span> <span style="color: #ff0000;"><strong>Public services ground to a halt and the business of government was brought to a standstill on Thursday.</strong></span> <span style="color: #ff0000;"><strong>Among the disruptions was the two-hour postponement of a bilateral meeting between President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono and Argentine President Christina Fernandez de Kirchner after the Presidential Palace was inundated to a depth of 20 centimeters. /<br/></strong></span></p>
<p><span style="color: #ff0000;"><strong><a target="_blank" href="http://m.ruvr.ru/data/2013/01/19/1335414362/4h_50668382.jpg"><img class="align-left" src="http://m.ruvr.ru/data/2013/01/19/1335414362/4h_50668382.jpg"/></a>/ <span style="text-decoration: underline;">Amid the recent flooding that has crippled the city, many have also suggested that the city can no longer cope with big natural disasters because</span> <span style="text-decoration: line-through;">its infrastructure is obsolete</span>. Velix Wanggai, Yudhoyono’s special adviser on regional autonomy and development, said the president wanted the options to be comprehensively and openly discussed by the public so that best solutions can be obtained. The first option was to keep Jakarta the capital of the government and the country’s center of economic and trade activities, which it currently enjoys, he said.<br/> “But that means we must totally solve the problems of traffic congestion, transportation, flooding and land management to cope with the increasing complexity of the city,” said Velix. The second alternative was to maintain Jakarta as the capital, but move all the government offices to another place. This, Velix said, would ease the city’s burden.<br/> The third alternative, he said, was building a totally new capital in other city. Several people have suggested that the capital be moved to Palangkaraya in Central Kalimantan or near Jonggol in West Java. /<br/></strong></span></p>
<p><strong>Relocation of squatters -</strong></p>
<p><span style="color: #ff0000;"><strong><a target="_blank" href="http://www.google.com/hostednews/getty/media/ALeqM5j3pgrGX2Hhj67nS-gt0WQgqRvYZw?docId=159603511"><img class="align-left" src="http://www.google.com/hostednews/getty/media/ALeqM5j3pgrGX2Hhj67nS-gt0WQgqRvYZw?docId=159603511"/></a>/ Jakarta Governor Joko Widodo has told Jakarta mayors, subdistrict and district leaders to speed up the relocation of squatters living on riverbanks and embankments. Jokowi held a meeting on Wednesday with five mayors, 75 subdistrict leaders and 26 district leaders to discuss post-flood work plans. “We have to work fast. I call on all leaders and mayors to use a soft approach when relocating residents [from riverbanks and embankment areas]. We have to do it nicely, using dialogue to explain to them that living on riverbanks is in violation of the bylaw, and so on,” Jokowi said at City Hall on Wednesday. The governor added that he would lend a hand to the leaders if the suggested approach did not work.<br/> <br/> “If it becomes too burdensome, let me know. If I have to see to it myself, I’ll go,” he said. “ We need to start disseminating news of the relocation so we can start moving them in April or May. We have lots of things to prepare,” he said. The urge to work fast was supported by the leaders, who deemed that this was a good moment to carry out the plan. “This is the perfect moment to start informing the residents affected by the floods about the relocation. They are traumatized by the floods so it is likely that they will easily accept the idea of relocating,” East Jakarta Mayor HR Krisdianto said, adding that “we can start [disseminating the plan] as early as February. /<br/></strong></span></p>
<p><strong>Pakistan <span style="color: #ff0000;">SINKING</span></strong>:</p>
<p><span style="color: #ff0000;"><strong>/ Twenty-five dead in Pakistan floods. Heavy rain in northwestern Pakistan has killed at least 25 people and injured more than 50, emergency officials say. <a href="http://www.skynews.com.au/world/article.aspx?id=843107" target="_blank">skynews.com</a> /</strong></span></p>
<div id="divLead"><span style="color: #ff0000;"><strong>/ At least 34 people have been killed and tens of others have been injured as heavy rains and floods hit various regions across Pakistan. <a href="http://www.presstv.com/detail/2013/02/06/287606/heavy-rains-flood-kill-34-in-pakistan/" target="_blank">presstv.com</a> /</strong></span></div>
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<p><strong>Insurers count the cost in Jakarta</strong><br/> <br/> As the floodwater began to recede in some parts of Jakarta on Monday, insurance companies and retail shops started to calculate claims and losses resulting from massive flooding in the past few days.<br/> <br/> <span style="color: #ff0000;"><strong>The Association of General Insurance Companies (AAUI) estimated its members would have to pay claims higher than those paid in 2007 and 2002, the years when major floods also hit Jakarta.</strong></span><br/> <br/> <span style="color: #ff0000;"><strong>"The flood [in the past few days] has affected wider areas in Jakarta. So we are preparing for higher claim amounts for both properties and vehicles. We cannot specifically mention the figures right now as we are still assessing all reports," AAUI executive director Julian Noor said during a telephone interview Monday.</strong></span><br/> <br/> Meanwhile, the Indonesian Retailers Association (Aprindo) reported that the floods had decreased stocks by an average of 10-15 per cent for players in the retail industry and had caused billions in losses for retailers whose outlets became submerged in floodwater.<br/> <br/> The floods have not only submerged residential areas, but have also covered toll roads leading to ports, including the toll road to Tanjung Priok Port and the toll road to Merak Port.<br/> <br/> Aprindo deputy secretary-general Satria Hamid said the movement of stocks from suppliers had yet to return to its maximum level. "We estimate that the supply of stocks will return to normal within four days," he said.<br/> <br/> <span style="color: #ff0000;"><strong>Based on AAUI data, insurance companies paid a total of 2.01 trillion rupiah (about Bt6.2 billion) in flood-related claims in 2007. The figure comprised Rp2 trillion in property claims and Rp15 billion in vehicle claims.</strong></span><br/> <br/> <span style="color: #ff0000;"><strong>In 2002, the amount stood at Rp1.51 trillion, comprising property claims of Rp1.5 trillion and vehicle claims of Rp14 billion.</strong></span><br/> <br/> According to Julian, the majority of private car and house owners in Indonesia possess basic insurance products that protect cars from accident and theft as well as houses from fire.<br/> <br/> To receive protection from flood damage, they have to purchase additional insurance coverage. However, in the business or commercial sector, most properties must buy all-risk insurance — floods included — as required by banks, Julian added.<br/> <br/> Similar to AAUI, state-owned insurance firm PT Jasindo also estimates that claim amounts will exceed those of 2007 and 2002.<br/> <br/> Jasindo automotive division head Sahata Lumbantobing said that in 2007, the claims it received mostly came from North Jakarta, such as Kelapa Gading and Pantai Indah Kapuk, considered to be flood-prone areas.<br/> <br/> "Now we've also received claim reports from the Thamrin area," he said. As of Monday, Jasindo had received nine car claims, four for cars parked in the flooded UOB Plaza.<br/> <br/> PT Zurich Insurance Indonesia president director Sancoyo Setiabudi said the company had deployed several tow trucks for its customers.<br/> <br/> "We haven't been able to estimate the flood damage we must cover as the claim figures keep changing. Last week we received dozens of reports. This week we will probably receive more," he said.<br/> <br/> The Meteorology, Climatology and Geophysics Agency (BMKG) had previously predicted that heavy rainfall in Jakarta would peak on January 27.</p>
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<p><strong>Total Losses for Jakarta Flooding Hit Rp 32 Trillion</strong><br/> <br/> <span style="color: #ff0000;"><strong>The recent floods in Jakarta and surrounding areas are estimated to have caused Rp 32 trillion ($3.3 billion) in losses.</strong></span><br/> <br/> <span style="color: #ff0000;"><strong>“The figure for the losses incurred by the floods is Rp 32 trillion. This includes potential losses in the Greater Jakarta areas [Jabodetabek] of about Rp 7 trillion to Rp 8 trillion, while the economic recovery [cost] for those areas is predicted to reach 3-4 times, or around Rp 21 trillion to Rp 32 trillion,” Yani Miryam, head of the women’s wing of the People’s Conscience Party (Hanura), said on Wednesday.</strong></span><br/> <br/> Yani regretted the huge loss, saying that Rp 32 trillion could be used to build infrastructure. She urged the government to solve the persistent flooding problem.<br/> <br/> “Until now, several roads in Jakarta still could not be crossed because they were inundated,” she said.<br/> <br/> Yani recommended several anticipatory measures for the government to take in addressing the flood problem comprehensively such as the need to build infrastructure, funding and political will.<br/> <br/> Anticipatory measures are to accelerate the development of the Rp 1.43 trillion Jakarta Emergency Dredging Initiative project, which would help increase the capacity of the West Flood Canal, as well as the building of a Rp 700 billion, 2.1-kilometer canal project from the Ciliwung River to the East Flood Canal.<br/> <br/> “We’re also suggesting to accelerate [the] making [of] 10,000 infiltration wells, developing the multifunction deep tunnel [project] which is expected to require around Rp 16 trillion in investment, and to accelerate the development of the Ciawi dam.”<br/> <br/> She continued, “to improve the land condition in the upstream and downstream areas by increasing green areas so that they can absorb more water.”<br/> <br/> Yani added that financial support to accelerate the infrastructure development for the flood control programs could be obtained from the government, public and private sectors.<br/> <br/> She added that the development of the Rp 16 trillion multifunction deep tunnel project should be funded jointly between the Jakarta city administration, the central government and investors.<br/> <br/> Funding for the flood control program could also be raised from the private sector by asking companies to allocate their corporate social responsibility program budgets to support the flood control projects.<br/> <br/> “We encourage the corporate [sector] to allocate their CSR budget to support flood control programs so that the flood problem can be solved jointly by the public, government and corporate [sector],” Yani said.<br/> <br/> Her organization also encourages all political parties to give concrete support to the central government and city administration to solve t he flood problem.<br/> <br/> Yani added that the stability of a country is reflected in its ability to provide sufficient infrastructure, including how it handles the flood problem.<br/> <br/> Jakarta Governor Joko Widodo has vowed to audit documents relating to the design of buildings in the capital immediately after the city finishes with flood-relief efforts.<br/> <br/> The governor alleged that many buildings were built on lands that were supposed to be used as water catchment and green areas, disrupting the city’s drainage system and causing flooding.</p>
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<p><strong>Heavy flooding kills 15 in Indonesia</strong><br/> <br/> Heavy flooding in Indonesia, triggered by days of heavy rain, has killed at least 15 people across the country.<br/> <br/> Thousands of homes and the central business district (CBD) have been inundated and traffic has come to a standstill in Jakarta, DPA reported on Thursday.<br/> <br/> Of the eleven people killed in the floods two died in Jakarta and four family members in Semarang, the capital of the Central Java Province.<br/> <br/> <span style="color: #ff0000;"><strong>“Our map shows that about 50 percent of Jakarta is under water, ranging from 25 centimeters to 4 meters,” Johan Freddy, an official with National Disaster Management Agency, was quoted as saying.</strong></span><br/> <br/> <span style="color: #ff0000;"><strong>He added that nearly 100,000 houses have been flooded leading to the displacement of 10,000 people into temporary shelters.</strong></span><br/> <br/> A state of emergency was declared by Jakarta Governor Joko Widodo, who promised food and inflatable boats to flood victims.<br/> <br/> “We have been informed that rains could intensify in the coming days. We have declared an emergency so that authorities can move quickly to provide assistance,” the governor said.<br/> <br/> During the annual rainy season, which peaks between December and February, Jakarta is prone to flooding, exacerbated by clogged rivers and sewers.<br/> <br/> In 2007, 57 people were killed in heavy flooding which forced 420,000 to leave their homes in the capital.</p>
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<p><strong>Relocation of capital from Jakarta: No pain, no gain</strong><br/> <br/> All of Jakarta is in a state of emergency until Jan. 27 following the massive flooding that has paralyzed the city. Traffic ground to a standstill in many parts of Jakarta and thousands were displaced as floods triggered by days of heavy rain inundated much of the capital. Authorities were seeking to evacuate nearly 100,000 people whose homes had been submerged.<br/> <br/> <span style="color: #ff0000;"><strong>According to the National Disaster Mitigation Agency, 27 of the 44 subdistricts in Jakarta were affected by the floods.</strong></span><br/> <br/> <span style="color: #ff0000;"><strong>Along with the massive flooding, the idea of moving the nation’s capital to a new location has been gaining traction over the past few years since Jakarta can now no longer handle being the capital and economic center of Indonesia simultaneously. This year’s flooding disaster is the latest in a regular series of floods in Jakarta, but many feel it is different this time. It is likely that in the past floods in the capital were not so extensively televised and people across the archipelago heard the news only after the event. Many would only have known of the story from various newspapers published the following day instead of watching live streaming TV news.</strong></span><br/> <br/> <span style="color: #ff0000;"><strong>In addition to the traffic congestion, floods should be the other major reason for the government to seriously consider the idea of moving the nation’s capital to a new location. The unbearable agony of Jakarta’s floods makes the idea very realistic. Jakarta is so densely populated and dirty that it no longer can cope as the nation’s capital. With Jakarta being the crowded center of government, commerce and education, the central government and the House of Representatives must seek the best way to avoid flooding and traffic congestion in the city.</strong></span><br/> <br/> One might say that what is urgently needed right now is to build many more canals that are crucial to flood prevention. Whether or not the national capital is moved, floods threaten Jakarta annually. During quiet times, the canals could be used as tourist attractions. Rivers have been transformed into tourist attractions in many of the world’s great cities.<br/> <br/> This canal construction, however, should not stop the central government from putting the idea of moving the capital into practice. Unlimited housing and building construction in Jakarta have greatly contributed to the huge floods. As the center of government, Jakarta is supposed to have adequate green spaces. The capital’s diminishing capacity requires further strategic planning and scheduling to be done outside the city.<br/> <br/> The problems of Jakarta cannot be solved in a conventional manner. As the capital of the country, Jakarta is supposed to have minimal problems considering its position as the center of government and business. Unintegrated infrastructure and poor spatial planning have turned Jakarta into a very energy-wasteful city. Such a city can certainly not be the center of government.<br/> <br/> The idea of moving the capital would have several benefits, among which would be better distributed development. The vast circulation of 70 percent of the nation’s money in Jakarta would be more equally distributed across the country.<br/> <br/> Relocation of the capital might focus on government departments building their headquarters in different regions, for instance, the Tourism and Creative Economy Ministry in Bali; Forestry, Energy and Mineral Resources and Environment Ministries in Kalimantan; Maritime Affairs and Fisheries, Cooperatives and Small and Medium Enterprises, and Disadvantaged Regions Ministries in Sulawesi, and many others.<br/> <br/> Others believe that the new capital should go to a completely new location outside Java. One area in Indonesia suitable for a new government center is Kalimantan, especially Palangkaraya city. Palangkaraya is geographically located in the middle of Indonesia, so it has easy access to various parts of the country. Besides, Palangkaraya is a region with flat terrain, abundant water availability, and has no volcanoes, so it is not prone to disaster.<br/> <br/> The Governor of Central Kalimantan, Teras Narang, has stated that the local government is ready to provide land if the central government decides to move the seat of government to Palangkaraya. Moreover, the idea of moving the seat of government to the province was proposed by president Sukarno as early 1957.<br/> <br/> In the United States, Washington D.C. is just the center of government, while business districts are scattered across the states. The CNN Center is located in downtown Atlanta, the New York Times in New York City, Hollywood in Los Angeles, the car industry in Detroit, great universities in Cambridge and Boston, even the gambling center is in Las Vegas. Americans do not necessarily migrate to Washington to enjoy a better standard of living, get the best education, or become successful businesspeople.<br/> <br/> Some countries have been successful in their attempts to move their old capitals to new places, like Istanbul to Ankara in Turkey, Bonn to Berlin in Germany, Melbourne to Canberra in Australia, Rio de Janeiro to Brasilia in Brazil, or Karachi to Islamabad in Pakistan. Success in capital relocation can happen both in developed and developing countries.<br/> <br/> Any attempt to relocate the capital, therefore, not only marks a historic landmark but also provides a boost to the region. The relocation of the capital is for the long-term benefit calling for collective sacrifice and greatness of soul. No pain, no gain.</p>
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<p><strong>Is It Time to Talk About a New Capital for Indonesia Again?</strong><br/> <br/> President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono has floated three options in response to the proposal to move the nation’s capital out of Jakarta following the suggestion that the city can no longer accommodate a large number of people.<br/> <br/> <span style="color: #ff0000;"><strong>Amid the recent flooding that has crippled the city, many have also suggested that the city can no longer cope with big natural disasters because its infrastructure is obsolete.</strong></span><br/> <br/> <span style="color: #ff0000;"><strong>Velix Wanggai, Yudhoyono’s special adviser on regional autonomy and development, said the president wanted the options to be comprehensively and openly discussed by the public so that best solutions can be obtained.</strong></span><br/> <br/> <span style="color: #ff0000;"><strong>The first option was to keep Jakarta the capital of the government and the country’s center of economic and trade activities, which it currently enjoys, he said.</strong></span><br/> <br/> <span style="color: #ff0000;"><strong>“But that means we must totally solve the problems of traffic congestion, transportation, flooding and land management to cope with the increasing complexity of the city,” said Velix.</strong></span><br/> <br/> <span style="color: #ff0000;"><strong>The second alternative was to maintain Jakarta as the capital, but move all the government offices to another place.</strong></span><br/> <br/> <span style="color: #ff0000;"><strong>This, Velix said, would ease the city’s burden.</strong></span><br/> <br/> <span style="color: #ff0000;"><strong>The third alternative, he said, was building a totally new capital in other city.</strong></span><br/> <br/> <span style="color: #ff0000;"><strong>Several people have suggested that the capital be moved to Palangkaraya in Central Kalimantan or near Jonggol in West Java.</strong></span><br/> <br/> Sukarno, the country’s founding president, had proposed making Palangkaraya the nation’s capital because it lies at the geographic center of the country.<br/> <br/> His successor, Suharto, later proposed moving the capital to Jonggol.<br/> <br/> Meanwhile, Yogyakarta Governor Sri Sultan Hamengkubuwono X said last week that his province should serve as the country’s capital, just as it had during World War II.<br/> <br/> Velix said that all input from the public will be considered by the president.<br/> <br/> “The president has asked all people to discuss the three options. As moving the capital will profoundly determine the fate of the nation, full political support is needed,” he said.<br/> <br/> Previously, Coordinating Minister for the Economy Hatta Rajasa said that he favored reorganizing the capital rather than moving it elsewhere.<br/> <br/> “In my opinion, it is more imperative for Greater Jakarta to be reorganized in a better way,” Hatta said. “[It needs] a master plan, with a single authority for transportation services.”<br/> <br/> He added that relocating the capital was not a simple solution.<br/> <br/> “I read about such viewpoints, but we should not be thinking of [moving the capital] just because there is flooding,” he said.<br/> <br/> Jakarta’s worst floods in six years have paralyzed the city, leaving at least 20 people dead and forcing thousands of people from their homes.</p>
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<p><strong>After floods, Jakarta gears up to relocate squatters</strong><br/> <br/> <span style="color: #ff0000;"><strong>Jakarta Governor Joko Widodo has told Jakarta mayors, subdistrict and district leaders to speed up the relocation of squatters living on riverbanks and embankments.</strong></span><br/> <br/> <span style="color: #ff0000;"><strong>Jokowi held a meeting on Wednesday with five mayors, 75 subdistrict leaders and 26 district leaders to discuss post-flood work plans.</strong></span><br/> <br/> <span style="color: #ff0000;"><strong>“We have to work fast. I call on all leaders and mayors to use a soft approach when relocating residents [from riverbanks and embankment areas]. We have to do it nicely, using dialogue to explain to them that living on riverbanks is in violation of the bylaw, and so on,” Jokowi said at City Hall on Wednesday.</strong></span><br/> <br/> <span style="color: #ff0000;"><strong>The governor added that he would lend a hand to the leaders if the suggested approach did not work.</strong></span><br/> <br/> <span style="color: #ff0000;"><strong>“If it becomes too burdensome, let me know. If I have to see to it myself, I’ll go,” he said. “ We need to start disseminating news of the relocation so we can start moving them in April or May. We have lots of things to prepare,” he said.</strong></span><br/> <br/> <span style="color: #ff0000;"><strong>The urge to work fast was supported by the leaders, who deemed that this was a good moment to carry out the plan.</strong></span><br/> <br/> <span style="color: #ff0000;"><strong>“This is the perfect moment to start informing the residents affected by the floods about the relocation. They are traumatized by the floods so it is likely that they will easily accept the idea of relocating,” East Jakarta Mayor HR Krisdianto said, adding that “we can start [disseminating the plan] as early as February.”</strong></span><br/> <br/> Jokowi has announced the administration’s plan to normalize 13 rivers that cross the city, as well as dredge all dikes and lakes in the capital after most areas of the capital were inundated by floodwaters last week.<br/> <br/> Tens of thousands of squatters are currently living on the riverbanks and nearby embankments illegally, causing the narrowing of the rivers and sedimentation due to careless lifestyles.</p>
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<p><strong>Experts cite causes of Jakarta's perennial floods</strong><br/> <br/> JAKARTA, Jan. 25 (Xinhua) -- Rini Huang, a resident in this capital city, has succeeded in freeing herself after being trapped for three days in her house which was flooded by neck-high waters last week.<br/> <br/> "The water and electricity supply had been cut here, the roads were flooded by muddy waters," Rini told Xinhua, "I cannot cook, wash, or even contact my friends or relatives."<br/> <br/> <span style="color: #ff0000;"><strong>Rini, who lives in West Jakarta's Jelambar neighborhood since childhood, said the floods in Jelambar last week were the worst she has experienced in her life. "I hope the rainy season would end soon so that the water in the streets would subside."</strong></span><br/> <br/> <span style="color: #ff0000;"><strong>But Rini's wish may not be realized after weathermen warned that rains would continue and may prolong the flooding in the metropolis that has already killed 26 persons and displaced some 250,000.</strong></span><br/> <br/> <span style="color: #ff0000;"><strong>Last Thursday's waist-deep floods paralyzed the city and Jakarta's main thoroughfare was covered with mud. Even the presidential palace was not spared as waters flooded the complex for the first time in Jakarta's history.</strong></span><br/> <br/> President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono was pictured standing in floodwaters with his trousers rolled up to his knees.<br/> <br/> The floods brought Jakarta's already infamous traffic into a standstill, with drivers trying to squeeze out from the main streets to make a detour and motorcyclists struggled to wade through the floods.<br/> <br/> Jakarta, Southeast Asia's largest metropolis with a population of about 10 million, sits on a low-lying swampland with 13 rivers flowing through the city. About 40 percent of the city's land area is below sea level, making it prone to flooding.<br/> <br/> Survey from the University of Indonesia's Center for Political Studies during the height of the gubernatorial election campaign last July showed 22 percent of Jakarta residents it surveyed named floods as Jakarta's second biggest problem that need to be solved by the new governor.<br/> <br/> Jakarta's successive governments have done little to mitigate the threat. Flood control program centered on the construction of a large canal and a reservoir project that would reduce the flow of waters from rivers has not been implemented after decades of planning.<br/> <br/> During the 2007's mega floods that killed 50 and displaced more than 300,000, then Governor Sutiyoso wash his hands of any responsibility saying that the floods were "natural phenomenon" that occur every five years.<br/> <br/> Joko Widodo, the capital's new governor who assumed office last October, was unlucky as the five-year cycle of floods happened just a few months into his term. Unlike his predecessor, Governor Widodo said that Jakarta's flooding could not be solved by just blaming God.<br/> <br/> He promised that the government would soon adopt a flood control project that would move waters from the streets faster and thus mitigate its effects on the economic lifeblood of the city.<br/> <br/> But Rini pointed out that despite the promise of politicians to solve flooding during their campaign she has never seen any maintenance or improvement of the city's drainage system. "Jakarta citizens have the bad habit of dumping their garbage into rivers and gutters. Why can't the government do something about this?" Rini said.<br/> <br/> Marco Kusumawijaya, an urban planning expert at the Jakarta- based Rujak Center for Urban Studies, told Xinhua that the city's chronic flooding that occurs every year during the rainy season from October to April, is caused mainly by deforestation in upstream areas, the sinking of Jakarta, poor rain water absorption due to too much asphalt and concrete, as well as the clogged water ducts and poor drainage.<br/> <br/> "I don't know why the Jakarta administration doesn't prefer to coordinate and cooperate with the neighboring provinces to reduce the forest cutting in the river catchment area," Marco said, adding that the "city can also install more pipe to supply the tap water so residents will not be forced to extract groundwater.<br/> <br/> Waters in Jakarta's 13 rivers mostly come from the hills near the West Java's city of Bogor where deforestation is rampant following the construction of weekend villas and travel resorts.<br/> <br/> According to Marco, only 40 to 50 percent of Jakarta population may enjoy the tap water, forcing others to pump groundwater.<br/> <br/> The Bandung Institute of Technology's research shows that Jakarta is sinking at a rate of 10 centimeters a year due to groundwater exploration and pressure from high-rise buildings. Besides, green open spaces in Jakarta which used to absorb water is now used for the construction of malls, office buildings, apartments and other concrete structures, causing the surface rain water to flood the city's streets. "The city should issue a regulation to control the use of public land. It should tax or punish the developers who do not build infiltration wells or tanks for rain water," Marco said.<br/> <br/> But Marco doubts whether the government would actually heed his call since the construction boom will bring more economic interests.<br/> <br/> Andrinof Chaniago, a public policy analyst at University of Indonesia, told Xinhua that Jakarta is now pursuing short-term economic expansion and ignoring the quality of growth and the city residents' welfare. "City authorities should overhaul the city's antiquated drainage system to create a flood-free metropolis," Andrinof said.</p>
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<p><strong>Experts challenge city, govt’s plans to address floods</strong><br/> <br/> Urban planners are urging the central government and the Jakarta administration to leave behind their old-fashioned ways to counter the capital’s endemic flooding problem and to start looking for eco-friendly solutions.<br/> <br/> Elisa Sutanudjaja, an analyst with city planning watchdog the Rujak Center, said on Saturday that channeling floodwater to the sea through a waterway and deep tunnel was an ancient solution to overcoming floods.<br/> <br/> “The government and the administration should find a solution to manage and keep the rainwater to meet their citizens’ needs for water during the dry season,” Elisa said.<br/> <br/> “The drainage system, including waterways they insist on building, is no different from the solution proposed by the colonial government hundreds of years ago.”<br/> <br/> Elisa said the administration should focus on adding more green spaces to absorb rainwater, rather than channel the water all the way to the sea.<br/> <br/> “The government should change the concrete water canals into green spaces that can provide the soil the ability to absorb rainwater,” she said, citing the example of Singapore’s Kallang River, a once straight concrete drainage channel that has been restored into a natural river.<br/> <br/> “The city is always swamped by floods during the rainy season, but faces [clean] water shortages during the dry season. The administration should change their way of thinking.”<br/> <br/> Trisakti University urban planner Nirwono Joga echoed Elisa’s sentiments, saying that the city needed an eco-friendly approach to prevent flooding and should avoid polluting the sea with floodwater.<br/> <br/> “The government and the administration still see heavy rainfall and floods as a disaster and don’t think about the possibility of managing the water and turning it into drinking water,” he said.<br/> <br/> He said that 9.8 percent of the city was currently made up of green spaces, and that the government should increase that percentage to at least 30 percent.<br/> <br/> <span style="color: #ff0000;"><strong>Elisa also debated the administration’s plan to construct a deep tunnel, saying it would not solve the problem because parts of Jakarta’s land mass were around 4 meters below sea level.</strong></span><br/> <br/> “This means the administration is planning to pump the water from the deep tunnel all the way to the ground and then channel it to the sea,” she said, highlighting how inefficient and costly the project would be.<br/> <br/> The government and the city administration say they will jointly construct a waterway to connect the Ciliwung River to the East Flood Canal and undertake a massive river dredging project in an effort to allow river water to reach Jakarta’s north coast unimpeded.<br/> <br/> Governor Joko “Jokowi” Widodo has ordered the Jakarta Development Planning Board (Bappeda) and the administration’s legal bureau to incorporate plans for the Rp 16 trillion (US$1.65 billion) deep tunnel in drafts of the city’s detailed spatial plan and zoning regulation (RDTR) for 2012 to 2013 and the mid-term regional development plan (RPJMD) for 2013 to 2017.<br/> <br/> Despite the skeptics, Jakarta Public Works Agency head Ery Basworo stood by the administration’s plan on waterways and the deep tunnel.<br/> <br/> He said it was impossible to turn canal’s concrete embankments into green spaces to absorb river water because it would destabilize the embankments.<br/> <br/> However, he said, it was possible to dig percolation pit-like wells along the canals and percolation pits at commercial buildings to maintain the water supply.<br/> <br/> “Also, the [deep] tunnel will spare the city from flooding. Water that inundates the ground will be moved to the deep tunnel, and then channeled to the north coast of Jakarta,” Ery said, adding the tunnel would be equipped with a sufficient number of pumps to prevent inundation, with details to follow. (nad)</p>
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<p><strong>Stay alert on floods: Jokowi</strong><br/> <br/> <span style="color: #ff0000;"><strong>Jakarta Governor Joko “Jokowi” Widodo called on the city’s residents to remain alert to anticipate major floods that could hit Jakarta on Sunday, although he also indicated that the worst flooding had now already occurred.</strong></span><br/> <br/> Calming widespread rumors, Jokowi said he had spoken with Public Works Ministry officials in order to prepare for anything, including a worse case scenario, in order to minimize the risks, but declined to elaborate on those risks.<br/> <br/> “I’ve met [with the ministry officials] to anticipate all aspects related to floods,” the governor told journalists on Friday, but was quick to add that he hoped the flooding did not materialize.<br/> <br/> Jokowi called on the city to be more alert and cautious.<br/> <br/> The governor said he had also requested that the Agency for the Assessment and Application of Technology (BPPT) perform rain engineering to stop the downpours, especially on Sunday.<br/> <br/> <span style="color: #ff0000;"><strong>“One thing we can do is ask the agency [for help] so that rainwater doesn’t flow into the rivers when we have a high seawater level,” he said.</strong></span><br/> <br/> Following the devastating floods that hit Jakarta earlier this month, the governor declared the city to be in a state of emergency from Jan. 17 up to Jan. 27, to enable the local authorities to take extraordinary measures.<br/> <br/> His decision on the date was in line with subsequent expert advice that the peak of the disaster would take place on Sunday, where a full moon, triggering high tides, would coincide with heavy rain across Greater Jakarta.<br/> <br/> National and local media outlets recently quoted Firdaus Ali, a water expert from the University of Indonesia, as predicting that the rainfall would keep increasing until Jan. 27.<br/> <br/> Firdaus also predicted that on Jan. 26-27, when tides would rise due to gravitational forces exerted by the moon, the sun and the rotation of the earth, rainwater and water from upstream would flood all parts of Jakarta as excess river water would not be able drain off into the sea.<br/> <br/> The scholar said the upcoming floods would probably be even worse than those of 2007 that killed more than 80 people and displaced 200,000. Firdaus issued his prediction a day after Jokowi declared the state of emergency, and the combination of the two statements has understandably triggered concern.<br/> <br/> However, spokesman for the National Disaster Mitigation Agency (BNPB) Sutopo Purwo Nugroho calmed public fears and said that the possibility of Jakarta experiencing a massive flood on Saturday or Sunday was small.<br/> <br/> “Sea levels will rise 1-meter higher than normal levels on those days, but only a high and continuous intensity of rain would cause a flood as bad as February 2007. The rainfall on the dates will likely be a medium level,” he said.<br/> <br/> The Meteorology, Climatology and Geophysics Agency (BMKG) has also reported that rain intensity between Jan. 25-28 will range from light to medium.<br/> <br/> Eko Haryadi, a Jakarta administration spokesman, said that the administration acknowledged the probability of floods on Jan. 26-27, but added that no special preparation was being carried out by the administration.<br/> <br/> “The governor has declared a state of emergency in the capital until Jan. 27, so yes, we have prepared for floods ever since that declaration. However, we’ve made no special preparation for Jan. 26-27 as according to the BMKG, rains on those two days won’t be heavy ,” Eko said.<br/> <br/> “The public doesn’t need to panic, but it must stay alert as Jakarta is still in the state of emergency. Just remember that workers from related agencies, police officers and army personnel will be on duty at available posts.” (aml/fzm)<br/> <br/> Jakarta fact box<br/> <br/> • In November 2007, 220-centimeter high tides coupled with broken embankments in North Jakarta caused flooding in several parts of the city and heavy congestion on airport toll roads. Several flights were also delayed due to the floods.<br/> <br/> • In December 2007, flooding caused by high tides put the coastal Muara Baru in Penjaringan, North Jakarta, under water.<br/> <br/> • High tides coincide with a lunar event that occurs approximately every 19 years.<br/> <br/> • Severe floods previously hit Jakarta in 1621, 1654, 1918, 1942, 1976, 1996, 2002 and 2007.<br/> <br/> • <span style="color: #ff0000;"><strong>Around 24,000 hectares or 40 percent of Jakarta’s land mass is lower than sea level.</strong></span><br/> <br/> • As many as 13 rivers flow from Bekasi, Bogor, Depok and Tangerang to Jakarta; the Angke; Baru Barat; Baru Timur; Buaran; Cakung; Ciliwung; Cipinang; Grogol; Jatikramat; Krukut; Mookevart; Pesanggrahan, and Sunter rivers.</p>
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<p><strong>As floods cripple Jakarta, President calls for public safety first</strong><br/> <br/> Jakarta (ANTARA News) Most parts of Jakarta were covered with flood water on Thursday crippling transports to the capital city, following incessant heavy rains since Tuesday.<br/> <br/> Many office workers from suburban areas could not enter the city center as roads were cut off by the floods. Passenger trains from satellite cities such as Bekasi, Depok and Tangerang have to stop halfway to Jakarta forcing many passengers mostly civil servants and company employees to return home.<br/> <br/> The toll roads leading to Jakarta from the three satellite cities were also inundated causing heavy traffic jams.<br/> <br/> Jakarta`s Governor Joko Widodo on Thursday (Jan 17) declared the capital city in the state of emergency until January 27, 2013, following floods that killed five people so far.<br/> <br/> <span style="color: #ff0000;"><strong>The five-year-cycle floods have been predicted to hit Jakarta early this year, but some people said that this time was worse than the floods in 2007 that had submerged Jakarta and suburban areas and claimed more than 80 lives.</strong></span><br/> <br/> There had been rumors in 2007 that in order to protect the Presidential Palace from flooding, the Jakarta authorities had closed the Manggarai sluice gates in South Jakarta, diverting the flood waters to suburban areas such as Tangerang and Bekasi.<br/> <br/> But the then vice president M Jusuf Kalla dismissed the rumors and said in February 2007 that "Let the Palace be flooded with water. The most important thing is the people."<br/> <br/> In February 2007, Presidential spokesman Andi Mallarangeng at the President`s residence in Cikeas, Bogor, also told the media "For the sake of the people, Jakarta`s governor should not be reluctant about the Palace and can use his authority to order the opening of the sluice gates." "If the flooding must go to the palace, let it go," Andi Mallarangeng said.<br/> <br/> On Thursday (Jan 17, 2013), Jakarta`s main avenues including Sudirman, Thamrin and Medan Merdeka were flooded. The president`s palace, the palace of the vice president, and the office of Jakarta`s governor were inundated, too.<br/> <br/> When receiving Head of the National Disaster Mitigation Board (BNPB) Syamsul Maarif who reported about the Jakarta floods to the president on Thursday morning (Jan 17, 2013), President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono said he did not mind that the palace was inundated, because the most imporant thing for him was the safety of the people being affected by the floods.<br/> <br/> "President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono told BNPB Chief Syamsul Maarif that he would not have problem if the Presidential Palace was flooded, provided the public were protected," Head of the BNPB Data and Information Center Sutopo Purwo Nugroho said here on Thursday.<br/> <br/> The President asked the agency to use all the available means to mitigate the impact of flooding. He also instructed Indonesian Police Chief General Timur Pradopo and the Chief of the Indonesian Defence Forces (TNI), Admiral Agus Suhartono, to assist victims of floods.<br/> <br/> "The president has requested Jakarta`s governor to work closely with the military and the police. He is worried about the safety of the people affected by the floods," said Julian A Pasha, a spokesperson for the president, on Thursday.<br/> <br/> The police should help evacuate flood victims, ease congestion on roads and protect homes that have been vacated, he said.<br/> <br/> Indonesia`s police deployed 2,781 personnel to help handle the flood problems. "The personnel deployed to help handle the floods came from the National Police headquarters and the Jakarta police office," Rikwanto, a spokesman of the Jakarta police office, said here Thursday.<br/> <br/> The Jakarta police set up a special team to help handle the flood problems, he added and sent 40 inflated boats and six cars to help evacuation efforts.<br/> <br/> About 15,447 people in Jakarta are forced to evacuate themselves to higher ground following floods. A total of 94,624 people have been affected by the floods in the capital city.<br/> <br/> Personnel of the Indonesian Army`s Special Force Command (Kopassus) have been deployed to help evacuate flood victims.<br/> <br/> Kopassus Commander Major General Agus Sutomo said here on Thursday that he deployed among other things two detachments of personnel and two trucks.<br/> <br/> The personnel were sent to Jatinegara, East Jakarta, which is among the worst flood-affected areas in the capital city.<br/> <br/> The Indonesian Navy`s marine officers were also made standby to help the flood victims, Naval Chief of Staff Vice Admiral Marsetio said recently.<br/> <br/> President Yudhoyono on Thursday afternoon observed the implementation of flood handling measures in Kalibata, Rawa Jati, East Jakarta.<br/> <br/> Sailing aboard an inflated boat in the Ciliwung river, the head of state greeted the flood victims looking on from the banks.<br/> <br/> He was accompanied by a number of ministers, including Coordinating Minister for People`s Welfare Agung Laksono, and National Police Chief General Timur Pradopo.<br/> <br/> The presidential entourage stopped by at a refugee camp in Kalibata, where the President was joined by First Lady Ani Yudhoyono before the two started talking with the flood victims. The First Lady, however, did not accompany the President as he returned to the rubber boat.<br/> <br/> Minister Agung Laksono said he has prepared 84 temporary shelters for about 19,000 evacuees in Jakarta.<br/> <br/> "In case the flood is getting worst, we suggested people in the affected areas to stay in the temporary shelters until the situation is back to normal," he said.<br/> <br/> Indonesia has been experiencing rainy season since November 2012. The rainy season is expected to last until March or April 2013. Floods and landslides have hit several provinces throughout Indonesia due to incessant heavy rains.</p>
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<p><span style="color: #ff0000;"><strong>/ Death toll in Jakarta floods rises to 12. Jakarta flooding has claimed the lives of 12 people living in the Greater Jakarta as of Friday, according to the National Disaster Mitigation Agency. "Of the 12 people, nine were residents of West Jakarta, one of East Jakarta, one of South Jakarta, while [the residence of] another one was not known," agency spokesman Sutopo Purwo Nugroho reported on Friday.</strong></span><br/> <span style="color: #ff0000;"><strong>The floods have inundated 32 districts and 102 subdistricts across Jakarta, displacing more than 18,000 residents. <a href="http://www.thejakartapost.com/news/2013/01/18/death-toll-jakarta-floods-rises-12.html" target="_blank">thejakartapost.com</a> /</strong></span></p>
<p><span style="color: #ff0000;"><strong>/ Floods in Indonesia’s capital Jakarta have left at least 11 people dead, authorities said Friday as murky brown waters submerged parts of the city’s business district, causing chaos for a second day.</strong></span></p>
<p><span style="color: #ff0000;"><strong><span style="text-decoration: underline;">The capital’s worst floods in five years have also forced 18,000 people from their homes, the nation’s disaster agency said, with many ferried to temporary shelters on rafts.</span></strong></span></p>
<p><span style="color: #ff0000;"><strong>“Floods are occurring still and since Jan 15, 11 people have died, five of which from electrocution,” said National Disaster Mitigation Agency spokesman Sutopo Purwo Nugroho. Among the dead were two children aged two and 13, said Nugroho, adding that although waters were receding eight per cent of the capital was still inundated and a city-wide state of emergency would apply until Jan 27. The flooding caused chaos in Jakarta’s upmarket downtown district, causing hours-long traffic jams as motorists struggled to get to work along canal-like streets. /</strong></span></p>
<p><span style="color: #ff0000;"><strong>/ At least 6,101 people in Jakarta had to evacuate as of Tuesday evening due to flood waters inundating 50 subdistricts, according to the Jakarta Disaster Mitigation Agency. News reports said the water was more than 3 meters deep in Kampung Pulo, East Jakarta, and Kedoya Selatan in West Jakarta was 2 meters under water after a nearby embankment collapsed. <a href="http://www.thejakartapost.com/news/2013/01/18/comments-eight-die-night-long-rain.html" target="_blank">thejakartapost.com</a> /<br/></strong></span></p>
<p><strong><span style="color: #ff0000;">/ Jakarta declares emergency as water levels rise.</span></strong></p>
<p><strong><span style="color: #ff0000;">Indonesia has declared a state of emergency in waterlogged Jakarta after days of rain forced thousands to be evacuated, left five dead and affected nearly 100,000 others in the capital city's worst flooding since 2007. Weather officials yesterday warned that the worst was not over, with more heavy rain expected in the next few days. Army special forces and firemen have been deployed to rescue the stranded. /</span><br/></strong></p>
<p><strong><span style="color: #ff0000;"><a target="_blank" href="http://www.thejakartapost.com/files/images2/p01-b_3.img_assist_custom-560x459.jpg"><img class="align-full" src="http://www.thejakartapost.com/files/images2/p01-b_3.img_assist_custom-560x459.jpg"/></a></span></strong><span class="inline inline-none"><span class="caption" style="width: 556px;">Several volunteers helped flood victims, with a Sarinah shopping center security guard helping a child to cross a flooded road. <em><strong>(JP/P.J. Leo)</strong></em></span></span></p>
<p><strong><span style="color: #ff0000;">/ State of emergency in Jakarta<br/> The worst floods to hit Jakarta since 2007 are expected to get even worse when the city is buffeted by monsoon rains this weekend, according to officials. Coordinating Minister for People’s Welfare Agung Laksono announced on Thursday that President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono had raised the emergency level for Jakarta to “alert” (siaga), the highest level. “The warning level will remain elevated until conditions improve in Jakarta,” Agung told reporters after a meeting at Governor Joko “Jokowi” Widodo’s office with officials from relevant ministries and state agencies. “Current weather reports say the bad weather is going to stay for the next few days. We need to keep our eyes open,” Agung added.</span></strong></p>
<p><strong><span style="color: #ff0000;">Officials say that at least 15,423 people have taken refuge at 68 evacuation centers as of Thursday night and more than 114,000 people were affected by flooding in 73 subdistricts across the capital. <br/> Vast swaths of nearby Depok, West Java, were also inundated. The Jakarta Police said that at least 14 people have died in flood related drownings, landslides or electrocutions in Greater Jakarta since Tuesday. /<br/></span></strong></p>
<p><strong><span style="color: #ff0000;">/ “In 30 years of my life here it has never flooded, ever. This is the very first time,” said Ninuk, 30, a resident of central Jakarta. <a href="http://thepeninsulaqatar.com/asia/222375-floods-paralyse-jakarta.html" target="_blank">thepeninsulaqatar.com</a> /<br/></span></strong></p>
<p><strong><span style="color: #ff0000;">/ “Jakarta, once again after the big deluge in 2007, has suffered this disaster. All over the city people are suffering from this flood, including at the Palace, my office, which was also inundated this morning. The government is working hard. I have told relevant officials and agencies to take immediate action,” Yudhoyono told reporters following his boat tour. <a href="http://www.thejakartapost.com/news/2013/01/18/business-usual-palace-inundated.html" target="_blank">thejakartapost.com</a> /<br/></span></strong></p>
<p><span style="color: #000000;"><strong>Fact os sinking -</strong></span></p>
<p><span style="color: #000000;"><strong><a target="_blank" href="http://data.tribunnews.com/foto/bank/images/20130117_Stasiun_Tanah_Abang_Terendam_8009.jpg"><img class="align-full" src="http://data.tribunnews.com/foto/bank/images/20130117_Stasiun_Tanah_Abang_Terendam_8009.jpg"/></a></strong></span><strong><span style="color: #ff0000;">/ The soil in Jakarta continues to decline. In addition to geological factors, the cause is excessive groundwater abstraction. Land subsidence caused widespread flooding. Canal system built ineffective tackling flooding. Expert geo LIPI, January Sopaheluwakan, Thursday (17/01/2013), said land subsidence in Jakarta vary, 4-20 centimeters per year. Pluit area which is a reclaimed product fell 24 centimeters per year. He said most of the land in the form of hollow Jakarta lower than sea level. As a result, the rivers that flow through Jakarta and empties into the Bay of Jakarta tends to return to the lowlands of the city. Restu Gunawan, a historian who examined the history of flooding in Jakarta since the colonial period to the present, said the canal system built since the Dutch proved unsuccessful.</span></strong></p>
<p><strong><span style="color: #ff0000;"><span style="color: #800000;">Flooding tends to expand in January 2013, when rainfall is lower than the floods of 2007 and 2002.</span> /<br/></span></strong></p>
<p><strong><span style="color: #ff0000;">/ <span style="color: #800000;">Data from the city government has shown that the ground level in some parts of North Jakarta has fallen by 4.1 meters.</span> <a href="http://www.thejakartaglobe.com/jakarta/plenty-of-talk-and-money-but-still-jakartas-flooded/566129" target="_blank">thejakartaglobe.com</a> /<br/></span></strong></p>
<p><strong><span style="color: #ff0000;">/ BMKG: Jakarta Floods Also Because Sea Post. Liputan6.com, Jakarta: Meteorology, Climatology and Geophysics Agency (BMKG) explains, floods hit several areas in Jakarta and caused several roads cut off, Tuesday (15/01/2013) yesterday, due to the high intensity rainfall that occurred in area of Bogor, West Java. In addition to high-intensity rainfall, <span style="color: #800000;">floods in Jakarta are also influenced by the cycles of tidal sea water.</span> He continued, in addition to high-intensity rainfall, floods in Jakarta are also influenced by the cycles of tidal sea water. Prabowo said, in mid to late January it was high tide sea water. <span style="text-decoration: underline;">With a pair of sea water, causing river water can not flow into the sea. "We suspect the rain water from upstream through a river in Jakarta stuck into the sea because the water was high tide," he said.</span><br/> Prabowo explained, in addition to two main factors, there are still several other factors that led to the Jakarta area flooded. Factors that include urban spatial irregularities, blockage of river water, and poor drainage systems. /<br/></span></strong></p>
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<p><strong><span style="color: #ff0000;">/ <span style="text-decoration: underline;">S. Sulawesi flood death toll rises</span></span><br/> <span style="color: #ff0000;">The death toll in the flooding in South Sulawesi has risen from five to eight as floodwaters continue to inundate a number of areas in the province. Provincial Disaster Mitigation Agency head Mappagio said on Monday that the victims had drowned after being swept away. “Three people died in Gowa, two in Pangkep, two in Jeneponto and one in Barru,” Mappagio said. As of Monday the floodwaters in Makassar had receded, to a depth of around a meter. However, many residents chose to stay in their temporary shelters. /</span><br/></strong></p>
<p><span style="color: #000000;"><strong>Kalimatan -</strong></span></p>
<p><span style="color: #000000;"><strong><span style="color: #ff0000;">/ Nearly 9,000 homes have now been inundated as flooding that began a week ago in Central Kalimantan’s North Barito district continues unabated.</span><br/> <span style="color: #ff0000;">Sutopo Purwo Nugroho, a spokesman for the National Disaster Mitigation Agency (BNPB), said on Sunday that 8,872 homes in the district were reported to have been affected by the flooding. “The flooding there that began on December 3 is still continuing to spread,” he said. “Six of the nine subdistricts in North Barito are now inundated in around two meters of floodwater. In some places the water is as deep as four meters.”</span></strong></span></p>
<p><span style="color: #000000;"><strong><span style="color: #ff0000;">He previously warned that rain-related disasters across the country were expected to continue until January. The BNPB noted that mudslides and floods in the past two months have killed <span style="text-decoration: underline;">at least 33 people and forced 35,000 to flee their homes. /</span></span><br/></strong></span></p>
<p><strong>Sri Lanka</strong>:</p>
<p><a target="_blank" href="http://www.tamilnewsnetwork.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/2012121995322773734_20.jpg"><img class="align-full" src="http://www.tamilnewsnetwork.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/2012121995322773734_20.jpg"/></a><span style="color: #ff0000;"><strong>/ Sri Lanka floods hit over 500 thousand people. At least 52 dead and 8 missing. At least 503,406 people from 137,019 families have been affected by monsoon floods and landslides in Sri Lanka over the past month. According to data from the Meteorology Department and Disaster Management Centre (DMC), more than 5,370 houses were destroyed while 33,571 were dpartially amaged. So far, the death toll stands at 52 dead and eight missing. /</strong></span></p>
<p><span style="color: #ff0000;"><strong>/ "Although Sri Lanka is geographically situated to endure frequent flooding, this is the worst in eight years," said GFA president K P Yohannan. <a href="http://www.christiantoday.com/article/missionaries.assist.floodhit.sri.lankans/31390.htm" target="_blank">christiantoday.com</a> /</strong></span></p>
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<p><strong>Eleven dead as floods swamp central Jakarta</strong><br/> <br/> JAKARTA: <span style="color: #ff0000;"><strong>Floods in Indonesia’s capital Jakarta have left at least 11 people dead, authorities said Friday as murky brown waters submerged parts of the city’s business district, causing chaos for a second day.</strong></span><br/> <br/> <span style="color: #ff0000;"><strong>The capital’s worst floods in five years have also forced 18,000 people from their homes, the nation’s disaster agency said, with many ferried to temporary shelters on rafts.</strong></span><br/> <br/> <span style="color: #ff0000;"><strong>“Floods are occurring still and since Jan 15, 11 people have died, five of which from electrocution,” said National Disaster Mitigation Agency spokesman Sutopo Purwo Nugroho.</strong></span><br/> <br/> <span style="color: #ff0000;"><strong>Among the dead were two children aged two and 13, said Nugroho, adding that although waters were receding eight per cent of the capital was still inundated and a city-wide state of emergency would apply until Jan 27.</strong></span><br/> <br/> <span style="color: #ff0000;"><strong>The flooding caused chaos in Jakarta’s upmarket downtown district, causing hours-long traffic jams as motorists struggled to get to work along canal-like streets.</strong></span><br/> <br/> Drivers could be seen standing miserably in raincoats, waiting for their flooded cars to be towed away. Other vehicles lay abandoned by the side of the road.<br/> <br/> At the landmark Hotel Indonesia traffic circle, surrounded by office towers, five-star hotels and shopping centres, the brown floodwaters continued to swirl, forcing the nearby British, German and French embassies to remain shut.<br/> <br/> The central business district normally escapes damage in the Indonesia’s monsoonal rains but it was hit by waist-high water Thursday, forcing some commuters to wade their way to work holding bags aloft.<br/> <br/> Jakarta, home to 20 million people, is notorious for its traffic-clogged streets, but the floods brought a new dimension to the commute.<br/> <br/> “It took me two hours to get to work,” said Shinta Maharani, whose home is just seven kilometres from her office.<br/> <br/> “I had to abandon the motorbike taxi and walk for 40 minutes because the road ahead was submerged.”<br/> <br/> Many train and bus routes serving the city centre were also suspended.<br/> <br/> “The government is trying to keep doing emergency mitigation efforts,” the disaster agency spokesman said.<br/> <br/> The floods were the worst to hit the capital since 2007, when about 50 people were killed and more than 300,000 were displaced.<br/> <br/> Even the presidential palace was inundated by the waters, with President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono pictured in the grounds Thursday in rolled-up trousers as he ordered officials to ensure public safety.<br/> <br/> Authorities raised the flood alert to its highest level Thursday, warning that the torrential rains would not subside until the end of the week.<br/> <br/> Indonesia is regularly afflicted by deadly floods and landslides during its wet season, which lasts around half the year, and many in the capital live beside rivers which periodically overflow.</p>
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<p><strong>S. Sulawesi flood death toll rises</strong><br/> <br/> <span style="color: #ff0000;"><strong>The death toll in the flooding in South Sulawesi has risen from five to eight as floodwaters continue to inundate a number of areas in the province.</strong></span><br/> <br/> <span style="color: #ff0000;"><strong>Provincial Disaster Mitigation Agency head Mappagio said on Monday that the victims had drowned after being swept away.</strong></span><br/> <br/> <span style="color: #ff0000;"><strong>“Three people died in Gowa, two in Pangkep, two in Jeneponto and one in Barru,” Mappagio said.</strong></span><br/> <br/> <span style="color: #ff0000;"><strong>As of Monday the floodwaters in Makassar had receded, to a depth of around a meter. However, many residents chose to stay in their temporary shelters.</strong></span><br/> <br/> “We cannot go back to our homes because we are afraid that the water will rise as the rain hasn’t stopped yet,” a resident of the Antang housing complex in Makassar, Sunarti, said.<br/> <br/> Meanwhile, traffic along the trans-Sulawesi highway, which had been disrupted for two days due to flooding and landslides, has returned to normal.<br/> <br/> According to the agency, more than 15,000 families in the province have been affected by the flooding and the heavy rains are continuing.<br/> <br/> In Bantul regency, Yogyakarta, dozens of hectares of rice paddies have been inundated over the past few days, most of the rice was ready to be harvested.<br/> <br/> “At least 80 hectares of paddy have been flooded over the past two days—60 hectares of which were due to be harvested. This number might increase because we haven’t received all the data yet,” Bantul Agriculture, Husbandry and Forestry Agency head Edy Suharyanta said on Monday.<br/> <br/> The Yogyakarta Meteorology, Climatology and Geophysics Body predicted that heavy rains coupled with strong winds would continue to buffet parts of Yogyakarta. (swd)</p>
<p><a href="http://www.thejakartapost.com/news/2013/01/07/s-sulawesi-flood-death-toll-rises.html">http://www.thejakartapost.com/news/2013/01/07/s-sulawesi-flood-death-toll-rises.html</a></p>
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<p><strong>Jakarta declares emergency as water levels rise</strong><br/> <br/> JAKARTA - <span style="color: #ff0000;"><strong>Indonesia has declared a state of emergency in waterlogged Jakarta after days of rain forced thousands to be evacuated, left five dead and affected nearly 100,000 others in the capital city's worst flooding since 2007.</strong></span><br/> <br/> <span style="color: #ff0000;"><strong>Weather officials yesterday warned that the worst was not over, with more heavy rain expected in the next few days. Army special forces and firemen have been deployed to rescue the stranded.</strong></span><br/> <br/> Overnight torrential rains caused flash floods yesterday, forcing many people to abandon their homes and rescuers in lorries or dinghies to go to the aid of people stranded in offices or by the road.<br/> <br/> Jakarta's busy city centre was not spared. Aerial footage showed the iconic fountain at the Hotel Kempinski traffic circle in the heart of the city surrounded by a sea of muddy brown water.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.straitstimes.com/breaking-news/se-asia/story/jakarta-declares-emergency-water-levels-rise-20130118">http://www.straitstimes.com/breaking-news/se-asia/story/jakarta-declares-emergency-water-levels-rise-20130118</a></p>
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<p><strong>State of emergency in Jakarta</strong><br/> <br/> <span style="color: #ff0000;"><strong>The worst floods to hit Jakarta since 2007 are expected to get even worse when the city is buffeted by monsoon rains this weekend, according to officials.</strong></span><br/> <br/> <span style="color: #ff0000;"><strong>Coordinating Minister for People’s Welfare Agung Laksono announced on Thursday that President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono had raised the emergency level for Jakarta to “alert” (siaga), the highest level.</strong></span><br/> <br/> <span style="color: #ff0000;"><strong>“The warning level will remain elevated until conditions improve in Jakarta,” Agung told reporters after a meeting at Governor Joko “Jokowi” Widodo’s office with officials from relevant ministries and state agencies.</strong></span><br/> <br/> “Current weather reports say the bad weather is going to stay for the next few days. We need to keep our eyes open,” Agung added.<br/> <br/> The alert status authorizes the central government and city administration to take maximum measures to assist flood victims, including the deployment of the police and the Indonesian Military (TNI).<br/> <br/> Afterwards, Jokowi declared a state of emergency in the capital until Jan. 27, vowing to take action to prevent flooding after the current situation was under control.<br/> <br/> The governor said that the emergency decree gave the administration the authority to make quick decisions. “We can, for example, hold a procurement without having to go through the tender process.”<br/> <br/> Jakarta was paralyzed on Thursday after a prolonged downpour caused the Ciliwung River to overflow, leading to massive flooding that inundated the capital’s main thoroughfares and landmarks, halted traffic and brought public services to a halt.<br/> <br/> The intense rainfall, according to the Meteorology Climatology and Geophysics Agency (BMKG), was attributed to the arrival of the Asian monsoon, which is expected to affect many parts of the nation over the next three days.<br/> <br/> Hours of intense rainfall over the last several days in Jakarta and upstream in Bogor, West Java, brought the water level at the Manggarai sluice in South Jakarta, the city’s key flooding bellwether, to 1,030 centimeters on Thursday, exceeding the highest risk level of 950 centimeters.<br/> <br/> The sluice directs runoff from the Ciliwung River to the West Flood Canal. Authorities were forced to open the sluice on Thursday to avoid bursting the canal, leading the river to inundate the tony Menteng area of South Jakarta as well as the Presidential Palace in Central Jakarta.<br/> <br/> Despite that drastic action, a 50-meter section of the canal near Jl. Latuharhari in Menteng gave way later in the morning, flooding nearby railway tracks, Jl. Teluk Betung and the main arteries of the Sudirman Central Business District, Jl. Jend. Sudirman and Jl. MH Thamrin.<br/> <br/> <span style="color: #ff0000;"><strong>Officials say that at least 15,423 people have taken refuge at 68 evacuation centers as of Thursday night and more than 114,000 people were affected by flooding in 73 subdistricts across the capital.</strong></span><br/> <br/> Vast swaths of nearby Depok, West Java, were also inundated.<br/> Tanah Abang railway station looked like a swimming pool as floodwater submerged the railway tracks. (JP/P.J. Leo)Tanah Abang railway station looked like a swimming pool as floodwater submerged the railway tracks. (JP/P.J. Leo)<br/> <span style="color: #ff0000;"><strong>The Jakarta Police said that at least 14 people have died in flood related drownings, landslides or electrocutions in Greater Jakarta since Tuesday.</strong></span><br/> <br/> “We advise citizens to be aware of the situation in their environment and avoid activities where they might drown. If water starts to inundate your house, turn off the electricity immediately,” spokesperson Sr. Comr. Rikwanto said.<br/> <br/> Rikwanto said people should look to the police’s Traffic Management Center (TMC) and the media for accurate information and be wary of reports on Twitter and other social media websites.<br/> <br/> Knee-deep inundation led the Corruption Eradication Commission to evacuate several high-profile graft suspects and convicts from its detention center in the basement of its headquarters on Jl. HR Rasuna Said in South Jakarta.<br/> <br/> Among the evacuees were Miranda S. Goeltom, former Bank Indonesia deputy governor; Neneng Sri Wahyuni, the wife of graft convict Muhammad Nazaruddin; and politically wired business tycoon Hartati Murdaya.(nad/aml)</p>
<p><a href="http://www.thejakartapost.com/news/2013/01/18/state-emergency-jakarta.html">http://www.thejakartapost.com/news/2013/01/18/state-emergency-jakarta.html</a></p>
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<p><br/> <br/> JAKARTA, KOMPAS.com - <span style="color: #ff0000;"><strong>The soil in Jakarta continues to decline. In addition to geological factors, the cause is excessive groundwater abstraction. Land subsidence caused widespread flooding. Canal system built ineffective tackling flooding.</strong></span><br/> <br/> <span style="color: #ff0000;"><strong>Expert geo LIPI, January Sopaheluwakan, Thursday (17/01/2013), said land subsidence in Jakarta vary, 4-20 centimeters per year. Pluit area which is a reclaimed product fell 24 centimeters per year.</strong></span><br/> <br/> <span style="color: #ff0000;"><strong>He said most of the land in the form of hollow Jakarta lower than sea level. As a result, the rivers that flow through Jakarta and empties into the Bay of Jakarta tends to return to the lowlands of the city.</strong></span><br/> <br/> Restu Gunawan, a historian who examined the history of flooding in Jakarta since the colonial period to the present, said the canal system built since the Dutch proved unsuccessful.<br/> <br/> Restu noted, the frequency of flooding in Jakarta is getting higher as increasing the number of people who occupy flood catchment areas and flooding. In the period 1892-1950, floods in Jakarta occurred in the span of 5-10 years. Period 1950-1970, floods occurred in the span of 3-5 years. 1970-1985 year flood range to 1-2 years.<br/> <br/> According Restu, widespread flooding in the affected areas. Year 1892-1932, the worst-hit area was around Glodok until Monday. After the Water Gate and Flood Canal Kalimalang Matraman built in 1919, it expanded to flooding Tanah Abang, Pejambon, Kemayoran, Kampung Melayu, Manggarai, and Bukit Duri.<br/> <br/> Year 1970-1985, floods occur up to Pondok Pinang, Chester, Tulodong Down, Bintaro, Sunday Market, Kemanggisan, Slipi and Tomang West. F<span style="color: #ff0000;"><strong>looding tends to expand in January 2013, when rainfall is lower than the floods of 2007 and 2002.</strong></span> (AIK)</p>
<p><a href="http://sains.kompas.com/read/2013/01/18/10063853/Banjir.Meluas.karena.Tanah.Terus.Turun">http://sains.kompas.com/read/2013/01/18/10063853/Banjir.Meluas.karena.Tanah.Terus.Turun</a></p>
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<p><span id="result_box" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><strong><span class="hps">BMKG</span>: <span class="hps">Jakarta</span> <span class="hps">Floods</span> <span class="hps">Also</span> <span class="hps">Because</span> <span class="hps">Sea</span> <span class="hps">Post</span></strong><br/> <br/> <span style="color: #ff0000;"><strong><span class="hps">Liputan6.com</span>, <span class="hps">Jakarta</span>: <span class="hps">Meteorology, Climatology</span> <span class="hps">and</span> <span class="hps">Geophysics Agency</span> <span class="hps atn">(</span>BMKG) explains, <span class="hps">floods</span> <span class="hps">hit</span> <span class="hps">several</span> <span class="hps">areas</span> <span class="hps">in</span> <span class="hps">Jakarta</span> <span class="hps">and caused</span> <span class="hps">several roads</span> <span class="hps">cut off</span>, <span class="hps atn">Tuesday (</span>15/01/2013) yesterday, <span class="hps">due to the</span> <span class="hps">high intensity</span> <span class="hps">rainfall</span> <span class="hps">that occurred</span> <span class="hps">in</span> <span class="hps">area of</span> <span class="hps">Bogor</span>, West Java. <span class="hps">In addition to</span> <span class="hps">high-intensity</span> <span class="hps">rainfall</span>, <span class="hps">floods</span> <span class="hps">in</span> <span class="hps">Jakarta</span> <span class="hps">are also</span> <span class="hps">influenced</span> <span class="hps">by the</span> <span class="hps">cycles</span> <span class="hps">of tidal</span> <span class="hps">sea water</span>.</strong></span><br/> <br/> <span class="hps">The Center for</span> <span class="hps">Public Meteorology</span> <span class="hps">BMKG</span><span>,</span> <span class="hps">Mulyono</span> <span class="hps">Prabowo</span> <span class="hps">said the</span> <span class="hps">rainfall</span> <span class="hps">that occurred</span> <span class="hps">yesterday in</span> <span class="hps">Bogor</span> <span class="hps">region</span> <span class="hps">reached</span> <span class="hps">100 millimeters</span> <span class="hps">in one day</span><span>.</span> <span class="hps atn">"</span><span>The rain</span> <span class="hps">yesterday during</span> <span class="hps">the</span> <span class="hps">day</span> <span class="hps">reached 100</span> <span class="hps">millimeters</span><span>,</span><span>" said</span> <span class="hps">Prabowo</span> <span class="hps">in</span> <span class="hps">BMKG</span> <span class="hps">Building</span><span>,</span> <span class="hps">Jakarta</span><span>, Wednesday</span> <span class="hps atn">(</span><span>01/16/2013</span><span>)</span><span>.</span><br/> <br/> <span class="hps">According to him</span><span>,</span> <span class="hps">with 100</span> <span class="hps">millimeters</span> <span class="hps">of rainfall</span> <span class="hps">that</span> <span class="hps">will possibly</span> <span class="hps">rise</span> <span class="hps">so far this month</span><span>.</span> <span class="hps">"The rainfall</span> <span class="hps">is</span> <span class="hps">300-400</span> <span class="hps">millimeters</span> <span class="hps">may increase</span> <span class="hps">for a month</span><span>,</span><span>" says</span> <span class="hps">Prabowo</span><span>.</span><br/> <br/> <span style="color: #ff0000;"><strong><span class="hps">He continued</span>, <span class="hps">in addition to</span> <span class="hps">high-intensity</span> <span class="hps">rainfall</span>, <span class="hps">floods</span> <span class="hps">in</span> <span class="hps">Jakarta</span> <span class="hps">are also</span> <span class="hps">influenced</span> <span class="hps">by the</span> <span class="hps">cycles</span> <span class="hps">of tidal</span> <span class="hps">sea water</span>. <span class="hps">Prabowo</span> <span class="hps">said</span>, <span class="hps">in mid</span> <span class="hps">to late January</span> <span class="hps">it</span> <span class="hps">was high tide</span> <span class="hps">sea water</span>.</strong></span><br/> <br/> <span style="color: #ff0000;"><strong><span class="hps">With a</span> <span class="hps">pair of sea water</span>, <span class="hps">causing</span> <span class="hps">river water</span> <span class="hps">can not flow</span> <span class="hps">into the sea</span>. <span class="hps atn">"</span>We suspect <span class="hps">the rain water</span> <span class="hps">from upstream</span> <span class="hps">through</span> <span class="hps">a river</span> <span class="hps">in</span> <span class="hps">Jakarta</span> <span class="hps">stuck</span> <span class="hps">into the sea</span> <span class="hps">because</span> <span class="hps">the water</span> <span class="hps">was high tide</span>," he said.</strong></span><br/> <br/> <span class="hps">Prabowo</span> <span class="hps">explained</span><span>,</span> <span class="hps">in addition to two</span> <span class="hps">main factors</span><span>, there are still</span> <span class="hps">several other factors that</span> <span class="hps">led to</span> <span class="hps">the Jakarta area</span> <span class="hps">flooded.</span> <span class="hps">Factors</span> <span class="hps">that include</span> <span class="hps">urban spatial</span> <span class="hps">irregularities</span><span>, blockage of</span> <span class="hps">river water,</span> <span class="hps">and</span> <span class="hps">poor drainage</span> <span class="hps">systems</span><span>.</span><br/> <br/> <span class="hps">Further,</span> <span class="hps">he said the</span> <span class="hps">period of</span> <span class="hps">the rainy season</span> <span class="hps">which</span> <span class="hps">occurs in</span> <span class="hps">November 2012</span> <span class="hps">until</span> <span class="hps">March 2013</span><span>,</span> <span class="hps">will reach</span> <span class="hps">its peak in</span> <span class="hps">January and</span> <span class="hps">February 2013</span><span>.</span> <span class="hps atn">"</span><span>The odds of a</span> <span class="hps">high</span> <span class="hps">intensity</span> <span class="hps">rainfall</span> <span class="hps">may</span> <span class="hps">occur</span> <span class="hps">in the period</span> <span class="hps atn">between mid-</span><span>January to</span> <span class="hps">mid-February</span><span>,</span><span>" he said</span><span>.</span> <span class="hps atn">(</span><span>Mut</span><span>)</span></span></p>
<p><span xml:lang="en" lang="en"><span><a href="http://news.liputan6.com/read/489396/bmkg-banjir-jakarta-juga-karena-laut-pasang">http://news.liputan6.com/read/489396/bmkg-banjir-jakarta-juga-karena-laut-pasang</a></span></span></p>
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<p><span xml:lang="en" lang="en"><span><strong>9,000 Central Kalimantan Homes Inundated as Flood Waters Continue to Flow</strong><br/> <br/> <span style="color: #ff0000;"><strong>Nearly 9,000 homes have now been inundated as flooding that began a week ago in Central Kalimantan’s North Barito district continues unabated.</strong></span><br/> <br/> <span style="color: #ff0000;"><strong>Sutopo Purwo Nugroho, a spokesman for the National Disaster Mitigation Agency (BNPB), said on Sunday that 8,872 homes in the district were reported to have been affected by the flooding.</strong></span><br/> <br/> <span style="color: #ff0000;"><strong>“The flooding there that began on December 3 is still continuing to spread,” he said. “Six of the nine subdistricts in North Barito are now inundated in around two meters of floodwater. In some places the water is as deep as four meters.”</strong></span><br/> <br/> He added that the problem was so severe that in some areas of the district, the water level was reported to be rising by as much as 30 centimeters a day.<br/> <br/> In addition to the houses, the flood has also affected 11 schools, six community health centers, five mosques, a church and a Hindu temple.<br/> <br/> The flooding, caused by the rain-swollen Barito River bursting its banks, has also swamped 2,700 hectares of rice paddies and thousands more hectares of other crops, as well as washed out 25 bridges and flooded 10 kilometers of roads.<br/> <br/> District authorities declared a state of emergency there on Saturday, while disaster relief officials have set up temporary shelters and soup kitchens to cater to those forced to flee their homes.<br/> <br/> Sutopo said relief supplies were being distributed by the district and provincial administrations.<br/> <br/> <span style="color: #ff0000;"><strong>He previously warned that rain-related disasters across the country were expected to continue until January. The BNPB noted that mudslides and floods in the past two months have killed at least 33 people and forced 35,000 to flee their homes</strong></span>.</span></span></p>
<p><span xml:lang="en" lang="en"><span><a href="http://www.thejakartaglobe.com/nvironment/9000-central-kalimantan-homes-inundated-as-flood-waters-continue-to-flow/560688">http://www.thejakartaglobe.com/nvironment/9000-central-kalimantan-homes-inundated-as-flood-waters-continue-to-flow/560688</a></span></span></p>
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<p><span xml:lang="en" lang="en"><span><strong>Sri Lanka</strong>:</span></span></p>
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<p><span xml:lang="en" lang="en"><span><strong>Sri Lanka floods hit over 500 thousand people. At least 52 dead and 8 missing</strong><br/> <br/> Colombo (AsiaNews) - <span style="color: #ff0000;"><strong>At least 503,406 people from 137,019 families have been affected by monsoon floods and landslides in Sri Lanka over the past month. According to data from the Meteorology Department and Disaster Management Centre (DMC), more than 5,370 houses were destroyed while 33,571 were dpartially amaged. So far, the death toll stands at 52 dead and eight missing.</strong></span><br/> <br/> To date the government has set up 71 camps for 7,409 people (1,970 families in total). To help the displaced, the Church, local NGOs and aid associations are distributing dry rations and cooked meals.<br/> <br/> The worst affected area is that of the Eastern Province, with 404,930 persons (109,632 families in total) because it is most exposed to torrential rains. 10 refugee camps have been set up there. In the Northern Province, more than 83,080 persons belonging to 23,122 families have been affected by the monsoon. Many of them have found refuge in 12 evacuation centers set up by the government.<br/> <br/> According to the DMC, in the coming days flooding could also affect the Central and Southern Provinces.<br/></span></span></p>
<p><a href="http://www.asianews.it/news-en/Sri-Lanka-floods-hit-over-500-thousand-people.-At-least-52-dead-and-8-missing-26864.html">http://www.asianews.it/news-en/Sri-Lanka-floods-hit-over-500-thousand-people.-At-least-52-dead-and-8-missing-26864.html</a></p>
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<p></p>Nigeria: Unprecedented flooding renders 431 dead, 42 million homeless! President calls floods a 'national disaster'! This is worst flooding in decades!tag:poleshift.ning.com,2012-10-20:3863141:BlogPost:9084602012-10-20T18:34:56.000ZStanislavhttps://poleshift.ning.com/profile/Stanislav
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src="http://thenationonlineng.net/new/wp-content/themes/goodnews/framework/scripts/timthumb.php?src=http://thenationonlineng.net/new/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/RIVERS.jpg&h=&w=646&zc=1"/></a><a target="_blank" href="http://thenationonlineng.net/new/wp-content/themes/goodnews/framework/scripts/timthumb.php?src=http://thenationonlineng.net/new/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/RIVERS-2.jpg&h=&w=646&zc=1"><img class="align-full" src="http://thenationonlineng.net/new/wp-content/themes/goodnews/framework/scripts/timthumb.php?src=http://thenationonlineng.net/new/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/RIVERS-2.jpg&h=&w=646&zc=1"/></a><a target="_blank" href="http://thenationonlineng.net/new/wp-content/themes/goodnews/framework/scripts/timthumb.php?src=http://thenationonlineng.net/new/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/BAYELSA.jpg&h=&w=646&zc=1"><img class="align-full" src="http://thenationonlineng.net/new/wp-content/themes/goodnews/framework/scripts/timthumb.php?src=http://thenationonlineng.net/new/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/BAYELSA.jpg&h=&w=646&zc=1"/></a><a target="_blank" href="http://www.punchng.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/A%20flooded%20community%20in%20Ogbaru,%20Anambra%20State.jpg"><img class="align-full" src="http://www.punchng.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/A%20flooded%20community%20in%20Ogbaru,%20Anambra%20State.jpg"/></a><a href="http://reliefweb.int/sites/reliefweb.int/files/resources/map_3086.pdf" target="_blank">Map of floods situation in West & Cnetral Africa. 3 million affected by floods! Since 2007 the number of affected people by floods in West Africa is increasing.</a></p>
<p><a target="_self" href="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/74177263?profile=original"><img class="align-full" src="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/74177263?profile=original" width="720"/></a>13 October, 2012</p>
<p>NASA Earth observatory -</p>
<p><a target="_blank" href="http://eoimages.gsfc.nasa.gov/images/imagerecords/79000/79404/nigeria_tmo_2012287.jpg"><img class="align-full" src="http://eoimages.gsfc.nasa.gov/images/imagerecords/79000/79404/nigeria_tmo_2012287.jpg"/></a>13 October, 2012</p>
<p><a target="_blank" href="http://eoimages.gsfc.nasa.gov/images/imagerecords/79000/79404/nigeria_tmo_2008294.jpg"><img class="align-full" src="http://eoimages.gsfc.nasa.gov/images/imagerecords/79000/79404/nigeria_tmo_2008294.jpg"/></a>20 October, 2008</p>
<p><a target="_blank" href="http://eoimages.gsfc.nasa.gov/images/imagerecords/79000/79464/nigeria_tmo_2012293.jpg"><img class="align-full" src="http://eoimages.gsfc.nasa.gov/images/imagerecords/79000/79464/nigeria_tmo_2012293.jpg"/></a>19 October, 2012</p>
<p><a target="_blank" href="http://eoimages.gsfc.nasa.gov/images/imagerecords/79000/79464/nigeria_tmo_2011299.jpg"><img class="align-full" src="http://eoimages.gsfc.nasa.gov/images/imagerecords/79000/79464/nigeria_tmo_2011299.jpg"/></a>26 October, 2011</p>
<p><strong>Nigeria</strong>:</p>
<p><span style="color: #ff0000;"><strong>/ As the world marks International Day for the Eradication of Poverty today, flood which has been ravaging many states of the country since August has worsened the incidence of poverty in Nigeria, the world's largest black nation.</strong></span><br/><span style="color: #ff0000;"><strong>Currently, the flood, which has affected five of the six geo-political zones of the country, has in the estimation of <span style="text-decoration: underline;"><span style="color: #800000; text-decoration: underline;">President Goodluck Jonathan rendered 25 per cent of Nigerians homeless. With a population of 167 million, it means that about 42 million persons have been displaced from their homes with large tracks of farmlands and means of livelihood destroyed.</span></span></strong></span> <span style="color: #ff0000;"><strong>States affected by the flood include Anambra, Imo, Delta, Bayelsa, Rivers, Edo, Kogi, Benue, Taraba, Adamawa, Bauchi, Kano, Niger, Kaduna,</strong></span><br/><span style="color: #ff0000;"><strong>On Monday President Goodluck Jonathan's Otuoke, Ogbia, Bayelsa State home was submerged along side over 80 per cent of the state.</strong></span> <span style="color: #ff0000;"><strong>For close to two weeks, the president has been traversing the nook and crannies of the country ravaged by the flood of fury. Last Thursday he raised a National Committee on Flood Relief and Rehabilitation to raise fund to augment government's efforts at mitigating the pains of the flood and bring succour to victims. /</strong></span></p>
<p><span style="color: #ff0000;"><strong>/ Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan on Thursday visited some of the hundreds of thousands of people made homeless by the country's worst flooding in at least five decades, calling it a 'national disaster'.</strong></span> <strong><span style="color: #ff0000;">Vast stretches of Africa's most populous nation have been submerged by floods in the past few weeks, as major rivers like the Niger, the continent's third longest, burst their banks /<br/></span></strong></p>
<p><span style="color: #ff0000;"><strong>/ <span style="color: #800000;">Some 1.3 million Nigerians have been displaced and 431 have died in what the authorities say is the worst flooding in over 40 years, with 30 of the country’s 36 states affected since July</span>, according to the National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA).</strong></span> <span style="color: #ff0000;"><strong>Heavy rain has submerged much of Delta and Bayelsa states in the southwest, affecting some 350 communities and making 120,000 people homeless, according to the state authorities and the Nigerian Red Cross (NRC).</strong></span><br/><span style="color: #ff0000;"><strong>Flooding started in Plateau State in central Nigeria in July, spread through Borno, Cross River, Ebonyi, Nassarawa, Bauchi, Gombe, Katsina and Kebbi states in August, hit Taraba Benue, Niger, Kaduna and Kano in September, before affecting Delta and Bayelsa states in September and October. /</strong></span></p>
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<p><strong>Nigeria: World Poverty Day - Poverty Worsens As Flood Renders 42 Million</strong> <br/><br/>Lagos — <span style="color: #ff0000;"><strong>As the world marks International Day for the Eradication of Poverty today, flood which has been ravaging many states of the country since August has worsened the incidence of poverty in Nigeria, the world's largest black nation.</strong></span><br/><br/><span style="color: #ff0000;"><strong>Currently, the flood, which has affected five of the six geo-political zones of the country, has in the estimation of President Goodluck Jonathan rendered 25 per cent of Nigerians homeless. With a population of 167 million, it means that about 42 million persons have been displaced from their homes with large tracks of farmlands and means of livelihood destroyed.</strong></span><br/><br/><span style="color: #ff0000;"><strong>States affected by the flood include Anambra, Imo, Delta, Bayelsa, Rivers, Edo, Kogi, Benue, Taraba, Adamawa, Bauchi, Kano, Niger, Kaduna,</strong></span><br/><br/><span style="color: #ff0000;"><strong>On Monday President Goodluck Jonathan's Otuoke, Ogbia, Bayelsa State home was submerged along side over 80 per cent of the state.</strong></span><br/><br/>For close to two weeks, the president has been traversing the nook and crannies of the country ravaged by the flood of fury. Last Thursday he raised a National Committee on Flood Relief and Rehabilitation to raise fund to augment government's efforts at mitigating the pains of the flood and bring succour to victims.<br/><br/>Led by business magnate, Alhaji Aliko Dangote and former President of the Nigerian Bar Association, Mr. Olisa Agbakoba, SAN, with Chairman of Globacom, Dr. Mike Adenuga Jnr as Chief Fund Mobiliser, the committee is expected to raise N100 billion to augment the N17.6 billion the government has released.<br/><br/>Speaking at the Presidential Villa, Abuja while inaugurating the committee, President Jonathan regretted that no fewer than 25 per cent Nigerians had been displaced by the flood disaster.<br/><br/>He said since those saddled with the responsibility of compiling data on the victims were still working, there was possibility that the figure might be higher.<br/><br/>He lamented that some states of the federation, including his home home state Bayelsa, are currently about 80 per cent submerged.<br/><br/>The International Day for the Eradication of Poverty has been observed every year since 1993, when the General Assembly, by resolution 47/196, designated October 17 to promote awareness of the need to eradicate poverty and destitution in all countries, particularly in developing countries-a need that has become a development priority.<br/><br/>At the Millennium Summit, world leaders committed themselves to cutting by half by the year 2015 the number of people living in extreme poverty - people whose income is less than one dollar a day.<br/><br/>The theme for this year's International Day for the Eradication of Poverty - "Working together out of poverty" - highlights the need for a truly global anti-poverty alliance, one in which both developed and developing countries participate actively.</p>
<p><a href="http://allafrica.com/stories/201210170909.html">http://allafrica.com/stories/201210170909.html</a></p>
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<p><strong>Nigeria president calls floods a "national disaster"</strong><br/><br/>LOKOJA, Nigeria (Reuters) - <span style="color: #ff0000;"><strong>Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan on Thursday visited some of the hundreds of thousands of people made homeless by the country's worst flooding in at least five decades, calling it a 'national disaster'.</strong></span><br/><br/><strong><span style="color: #ff0000;">Vast stretches of Africa's most populous nation have been submerged by floods in the past few weeks, as major rivers like the Niger, the continent's third longest, burst their banks</span>.</strong><br/><br/>At least 140 people have been killed, hundreds of thousands uprooted and tens of thousands of hectares of farmland have been submerged since the start of July, raising concerns about food security, the National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) said.<br/><br/>In Kogi, a northern state that has been the worst affected and which Jonathan visited on Thursday, NEMA state coordinator Ishaya Chonoko said 623,900 people had been displaced and 152,575 hectares of farmland destroyed so far.<br/><br/>"We are very sad over these flood incidences in the country. It is a national disaster," Jonathan said with a sombre expression, after casting an eye over the makeshift displacement camp huddling 738 people together in Dankolo primary school.<br/><br/>"We are thinking of how to settle you all back to your places after the floods. Government is doing everything possible to cushion the effects on you ... it will soon be over."<br/><br/>Nigeria, which gets heavy tropical rains from May to September, usually suffers from seasonal flash floods but almost never on this scale. Floods have also devastated the Niger Delta, home to Africa's biggest energy industry, where the Niger river fans into creeks before emptying itself into the Atlantic.<br/><br/>There has been no reported impact on crude oil production, but a cocoa industry body said last month that cocoa output would fall far short of a 300,000 tonne target for last season.<br/><br/>"I have lost all hope in life, because I lost all that I had," said victim Dan Musa Mosiji, but he added that he was comforted by government reassurances that he could be resettled.<br/><br/>As images have trickled out of stranded villagers perched on rooftops and fuel trucks washed onto their sides, pressure has mounted for the government to act, and it has pledged millions of dollars for relief efforts.<br/><br/>"Our major problem here is that we don't have accommodation for all the victims. They are crammed into this small school," said Red Cross coordinator of the camp, Jubril Ebiloma, as families squeezed together in a classroom behind her.</p>
<p><a href="http://thestar.com.my/news/story.asp?file=/2012/10/12/worldupdates/2012-10-11T165541Z_1_BRE89A16U_RTROPTT_0_UK-NIGERIA-FLOODS&sec=Worldupdates">http://thestar.com.my/news/story.asp?file=/2012/10/12/worldupdates/2012-10-11T165541Z_1_BRE89A16U_RTROPTT_0_UK-NIGERIA-FLOODS&sec=Worldupdates</a></p>
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<p><strong>NIGERIA: Worst flooding in decades</strong><br/><br/>WARRI/LAGOS, 10 October 2012 (IRIN) - <span style="color: #ff0000;"><strong>Some 1.3 million Nigerians have been displaced and 431 have died in what the authorities say is the worst flooding in over 40 years, with 30 of the country’s 36 states affected since July, according to the National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA).</strong></span><br/><br/><span style="color: #ff0000;"><strong>Heavy rain has submerged much of Delta and Bayelsa states in the southwest, affecting some 350 communities and making 120,000 people homeless, according to the state authorities and the Nigerian Red Cross (NRC).</strong></span><br/><br/><span style="color: #ff0000;"><strong>Flooding started in Plateau State in central Nigeria in July, spread through Borno, Cross River, Ebonyi, Nassarawa, Bauchi, Gombe, Katsina and Kebbi states in August, hit Taraba Benue, Niger, Kaduna and Kano in September, before affecting Delta and Bayelsa states in September and October.</strong></span><br/><br/>Thousands of people who had sheltered in dozens of temporary displacement sites in Delta and Bayelsa states have had to flee once again as they have been flooded, forcing agencies to build new ones on higher ground.<br/><br/>In Bayelsa’s capital, Yenagoa, 3,000 people are sleeping in the Ovom State Sports Complex.<br/><br/>Thousands of houses, some 20 health clinics and five hospitals, as well as dozens of schools, churches and government buildings have been destroyed or damaged in Delta State. Six of Bayelsa’s eight districts were flooded, according to Emenike Umesi, NEMA’s zonal coordinator in Port Harcourt.<br/><br/>Most of the schools in the affected area are closed or currently occupied by internally displaced persons (IDPs).<br/><br/>It is not yet known how many hectares of crops have been destroyed but many farmers told IRIN they had lost everything - including this year’s yam, cassava and cocoa yam crop - while most of the fisheries were also flooded. “All my sources of livelihood are destroyed… I am pleading with the federal government to compensate us and find a lasting solution to the flood menace,” said Philip Ofodemu, a farmer from the Kwele community in Delta State.<br/><br/>“Overwhelmed”<br/><br/>Aid agencies have been “overwhelmed” by the extent of the damage and the response needs stronger coordination, said Abdul Mariga, an NRC disaster management coordinator.<br/><br/>The agency has prioritized evacuating stranded communities and providing as many tents, healthcare services and basics (such as cooking utensils) as it can from its warehouse in Lagos.<br/><br/>Most IDPs IRIN spoke to were in desperate need of food aid. “We have not been given food since we arrived,” said Evelyn Oyatu, who fled with her four children from Ebedebiri to Yenagoa, which itself faced severe flooding. “I’m weak. The state government should come to our aid,” she told IRIN.<br/><br/>Another flood survivor in Yenagoa, Gloria Ozuo, told IRIN, crying, that she and her children had been given a small loaf of bread the day before. “We die for hungry here,” she told IRIN.<br/><br/>NEMA’s Umesi promised food aid would arrive soon.<br/><br/>On 9 October President Goodluck Jonathan allocated 17.6 billion naira (US$111 million) to states and agencies to respond to flood damage and set up a committee to lead flood relief and rehabilitation efforts.<br/><br/>Several international NGOs, including Oxfam, have launched responses, while NRC, responding in 10 states, is appealing for US$850,000 to boost its efforts.<br/><br/>Unprepared<br/><br/>Many displaced residents are also angry the government has not done more to prevent flooding which occurs every year during the August to October rainy season in these low-lying, flat states intersected by swamps, creeks and rivers.<br/><br/>Bayelsa and Delta States have the country’s largest supplies of crude oil, yet residents have complained bitterly for decades that oil wealth has not gone into improved development in the area.<br/><br/>In August the Nigerian Meteorological Agency (NIMET) predicted heavy rains this year, warning local authorities and residents to keep drainage ditches clear, but as usual, warnings were either ignored or not taken seriously, said NIMET director Anthony Anuforo.<br/><br/>Seriake Dickson, governor of Yenagoa, pushed the authorities to unblock drainage channels there, significantly lowering the impact of flooding this year, he said. But few other towns did the same.<br/><br/>In Bayelsa, many residents are angry that the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC), set up in 2000 to boost development and ecological health in Delta State, has not worked on dredging and sand-filling flood-prone areas.<br/><br/>“Until we use funds accruing from the crude oil to address this kind of environmental challenge for the common good, the government will not be seen as responsive and citizens cannot remain loyal or patriotic,” Alagoa Morris, project officer with the Environmental Rights Action group, told IRIN.<br/><br/>NDDC’s director could not be reached as he had been displaced. Meanwhile with more rains predicted, more flooding is expected.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.irinnews.org/Report/96504/NIGERIA-Worst-flooding-in-decades">http://www.irinnews.org/Report/96504/NIGERIA-Worst-flooding-in-decades</a></p>
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<p></p>7 of 10 SINKING & Africa Roll; Thailand SINKING: 10 province flood disaster area including Bangkok and etc! West & Central Africa: 1.5 million affected, 340 dead due flooding!tag:poleshift.ning.com,2012-10-04:3863141:BlogPost:9042192012-10-04T17:23:23.000ZStanislavhttps://poleshift.ning.com/profile/Stanislav
<p><a href="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/74177253?profile=original" target="_self"><img class="align-full" src="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/74177253?profile=original" width="631"></img></a> <a href="http://sphotos-h.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-ash4/393663_432371093486974_1361387425_n.jpg" target="_blank"><img class="align-full" src="http://sphotos-h.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-ash4/393663_432371093486974_1361387425_n.jpg"></img></a> Aerial view Bangkok floods…</p>
<p><strong><a href="http://www.isnhotnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/%E0%B8%99%E0%B9%89%E0%B8%B3%E0%B8%97%E0%B9%88%E0%B8%A7%E0%B8%A14.jpg" target="_blank"><img class="align-full" src="http://www.isnhotnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/%E0%B8%99%E0%B9%89%E0%B8%B3%E0%B8%97%E0%B9%88%E0%B8%A7%E0%B8%A14.jpg"></img></a></strong></p>
<p><a target="_self" href="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/74177253?profile=original"><img class="align-full" src="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/74177253?profile=original" width="631"/></a><a target="_blank" href="http://sphotos-h.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-ash4/393663_432371093486974_1361387425_n.jpg"><img class="align-full" src="http://sphotos-h.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-ash4/393663_432371093486974_1361387425_n.jpg"/></a>Aerial view Bangkok floods</p>
<p><strong><a target="_blank" href="http://www.isnhotnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/%E0%B8%99%E0%B9%89%E0%B8%B3%E0%B8%97%E0%B9%88%E0%B8%A7%E0%B8%A14.jpg"><img class="align-full" src="http://www.isnhotnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/%E0%B8%99%E0%B9%89%E0%B8%B3%E0%B8%97%E0%B9%88%E0%B8%A7%E0%B8%A14.jpg"/></a></strong><strong><a target="_blank" href="http://www.rsunews.net/userfiles/images/thai%20flood%202012%20-%2067.jpg"><img class="align-full" src="http://www.rsunews.net/userfiles/images/thai%20flood%202012%20-%2067.jpg"/></a></strong><a target="_blank" href="http://www.nationmultimedia.com/new/2012/09/29/national/images/30191368-01_big.jpg"><img class="align-full" src="http://www.nationmultimedia.com/new/2012/09/29/national/images/30191368-01_big.jpg"/></a><a target="_blank" href="http://www.bangkokpost.com/media/content/20120928/430621.jpg"><img class="align-full" src="http://www.bangkokpost.com/media/content/20120928/430621.jpg"/></a><a target="_blank" href="http://thailandexhibition.com/images/fileupload_pr/PR_news6884.jpg"><img class="align-full" src="http://thailandexhibition.com/images/fileupload_pr/PR_news6884.jpg"/></a><strong>Thailand <span style="color: #ff0000;">SINKING</span></strong>:</p>
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<p><strong><span style="color: #ff0000;">/ National Office of Buddhism: 111 temples nationwide seriously affected by flooding. The National Office of Buddhism (NOB) has revealed more than a hundred temples across the country have been seriously affected by the flooding to the level that monks cannot go out to receive alms-offering. NOB Director General Nopparat Benjawatananun said that the continued flooding in the lower part of the North, in central Thailand and the country’s eastern region has affected 111 Buddhist temples, to date. /</span><br/></strong></p>
<p><strong>Thai press</strong> -</p>
<p><span style="color: #ff0000;"><strong><span id="result_box" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><span title="ปภ.รายงานน้ำยังท่วม 10 จังหวัดระดับน้ำมีแนวโน้มลดลง">/ Prev. Reported that water levels flooded 10 provinces decreased.</span> <span title="ราษฎรเดือดร้อน 75,523 ครัวเรือน 179,074 คน ส่วนภาคใต้ 3 จังหวัดอ่วม น้ำป่าไหลทะลักเข้า อ.วิภาวดี จ.สุราษฎร์ธานี">75,523 households with 179,074 people suffering the southern third of the province worse cataract flow Viphawadi Surat district.</span> <span title="พัดกระบะพร้อมคนขับ">Truck drivers and fans.</span> <span title="ขณะที่อ.เมืองพังงา สะพานขาด เจ้าหน้าที่เร่งติดตั้งสะพานเบลี่ย์...">A. Muang Nga Bridge accelerated the installation of the Bailey bridge ...</span> <span title="เมื่อวันที่ 29 ก.ย.2555 กรมป้องกันและบรรเทาสาธารณภัย">On 29 September 2555 the Department of Disaster Prevention and Mitigation.</span> <span title="กระทรวงมหาดไทย">Ministry of Interior</span> <span title="รายงานสถานการณ์อุทกภัยโดยยังมีพื้นที่ประสบภัยรวมทั้งสิ้น 10 จังหวัด ประกอบด้วย จ.ปราจีนบุรี สระแก้ว ฉะเชิงเทรา สุโขทัย พิษณุโลก พิจิตร อ่างทอง พระนครศรีอยุธยา สุพรรณบุรี และนครปฐม รวม 37 อำเภอ 273 ตำบล 1,615 หมู่บ้าน ราษฎรได้รับความเดือดร้อน 75,523 ครัวเรือน 179,074 คน">Report a flood disaster area by a total of 10 provinces, including Bangkok, Prachin Buri, Chachoengsao Any Phitsanulok, Ayutthaya, Ang Thong Suphan Buri and Nakhon Pathom Phichit District 273 district and 37 villages, 1,615 households, 75,523 people had suffered 179,074 people. /</span></span></strong></span></p>
<p><strong>Cambodia <span style="color: #ff0000;">SINKING</span></strong>:</p>
<p><span style="color: #ff0000;"><strong>/ At least 14 Cambodian people were killed by flash floods that have been hitting some provinces in the country since last month, according to the report of Cambodian Red Cross on Wednesday.</strong></span> <span style="color: #ff0000;"><strong>Among the dead, 9 were in Banteay Meanchey province bordering Thailand, 4 in central Kampong Thom and 1 in northwestern Siem Reap, said the report.</strong></span><br/><span style="color: #ff0000;"><strong>Keo Vy, chief of the Cabinet of National Committee for Disaster Management (NCDM), said that flash floods have hit about 8 provinces including Banteay Meanchey, Siem Reap, Preah Vihear, Kampong Thom, Takeo, Pailin, Kampong Chhnang and Preah Sihanouk. "Banteay Meanchey province is suffering the worst from the floods," he told Xinhua over telephone.</strong></span> <span style="color: #ff0000;"><strong>Some 14,100 families have been affected including 4,060 families were evacuated to higher grounds, he said. /<br/></strong></span></p>
<p><strong>Vietnam <span style="color: #ff0000;">SINKING</span>:<br/></strong></p>
<p><strong><a target="_blank" href="http://imgs.vietnamnet.vn/Images/english/2012/10/03/15/20121003153826_1.jpg"><img class="align-full" src="http://imgs.vietnamnet.vn/Images/english/2012/10/03/15/20121003153826_1.jpg"/></a></strong><a target="_blank" href="http://imgs.vietnamnet.vn/Images/english/2012/10/03/15/20121003153826_2.jpg"><img class="align-full" src="http://imgs.vietnamnet.vn/Images/english/2012/10/03/15/20121003153826_2.jpg"/></a><strong><span style="color: #ff0000;">/</span></strong> <strong><span style="color: #ff0000;"><span style="color: #ff0000;">Heavy rain combined with high tides turned many roads in Ho Chi Minh City into "rivers."</span></span></strong></p>
<p><strong><span style="color: #ff0000;">In those days, heavy rains appeared in the southern region and Ho Chi Minh City, causing flooding in some areas. Looking ahead, the weather will continue to deteriorate, due to the impact of the storm No. 7 or Gaemi in the East Sea. Explaining about the murky weather, heavy rains in recent days in South Vietnam and Ho Chi Minh City, Ms. Le Thi Xuan Lan, from the Southern Region meteorological and hydrological station, said that September and October is the peak time for rains in the South, due to the combination of various weather systems. Tides will also be quite complex. In recent days, many places in Ho Chi Minh City were flooded, up to over one meter submerged. According to Ms. Lan, from September onwards, tide began rising each day. By the operation cycle of the astronomical tide, tidal peak is usually in November, December, even lasts until January of the following year.<br/>In September, there were two waves of <span style="color: #800000;">high tide</span>s, plus heavy rains, causing floods in the Dong Nai River system, forcing hydropower as Tri An and Thac Mo to discharge water downstream. With on-the-spot rains, <span style="color: #800000;">high tides</span> and water discharged from reservoirs, many places, especially Ho Chi Minh City, was seriously flooded.<br/>According to the Southern Region meteorological and hydrological station, in HCM City, 50 percent of the <span style="color: #800000;">high tides</span> coincided with the rainy days. In the dry season, rains is not much but flooding is still high due to high tides. /</span><br/></strong></p>
<p><strong><a target="_blank" href="http://imgs.vietnamnet.vn/Images/2012/10/01/13/20121001130431_anh%201.jpg"><img class="align-full" src="http://imgs.vietnamnet.vn/Images/2012/10/01/13/20121001130431_anh%201.jpg"/></a></strong><a target="_blank" href="http://vnexpress.net/Files/Subject/3b/bd/cc/96/ngap4.jpg"><img class="align-full" src="http://vnexpress.net/Files/Subject/3b/bd/cc/96/ngap4.jpg"/></a><strong><span style="color: #ff0000;">/ Saigon severely flooded due to <span style="color: #800000;">high tides</span>. Heavy rains coinciding with high tides this morning has submerged many roads in Ho Chi Minh City, causing traffic chaos.</span><br/><span style="color: #ff0000;">Tan Binh District is flooded most seriously, making many people very hard to get to the office. Other roads such as Huynh Tan Phat, Le Van Luong (District 7), Highway 13, Binh Loi (Binh Thanh District), Tran Nao, Luong Dinh Cua (District 2) are also 30 - 40 cm deep under water. Traffic congestions occur in many places. /</span><br/></strong></p>
<p><strong>West & Central Africa floods:<br/></strong></p>
<p><strong>See also -<br/></strong></p>
<p><strong><a href="http://poleshift.ning.com/profiles/blogs/west-and-central-africa-flood-impact-profile-as-of-17-sep-2012" target="_self">West and Central Africa - Flood Impact Profile (as of 17 Sep 2012)</a></strong> blog by Kojima</p>
<p><a href="http://poleshift.ning.com/profiles/blogs/7-of-10-tilting-india-north-east-1-7-million-displace-33-dead-in" target="_self">Nigeria: This is worst floods since 1936! Two million displaced by floods in Kogi & Edo states!</a></p>
<p><a href="http://poleshift.ning.com/profiles/blogs/7-of-10-sinking-africa-roll-africa-niger-nigeria-cameroon-senegal" target="_self">Niger, Nigeria, Cameroon, Senegal experience the worst flooding!</a></p>
<p><strong><a target="_self" href="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/74177234?profile=original"><img class="align-full" src="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/74177234?profile=original" width="404"/></a></strong><a href="http://reliefweb.int/sites/reliefweb.int/files/resources/~3260163.pdf">http://reliefweb.int/sites/reliefweb.int/files/resources/~3260163.pdf</a></p>
<p><strong>Nigeria</strong>:</p>
<p><a target="_blank" href="http://news.bbcimg.co.uk/media/images/63269000/jpg/_63269592_8nf12twk.jpg"><img class="align-full" src="http://news.bbcimg.co.uk/media/images/63269000/jpg/_63269592_8nf12twk.jpg"/></a><a target="_blank" href="http://vml1.s3.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/Delta-flood.jpg?9d7bd4"><img class="align-full" src="http://vml1.s3.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/Delta-flood.jpg?9d7bd4"/></a><span style="color: #ff0000;"><strong>/ Dangerous animals, including crocodiles, snakes and hippos, have found their way into homes and communities in central Nigeria after devastating flooding, residents say.</strong></span> <span style="color: #ff0000;"><strong>The creatures were carried along flood-swollen rivers, say the authorities.</strong></span> <span style="color: #ff0000;"><strong>"There is now a hippopotamus in [my] house," Benue state resident Wuese Jirake told the BBC. "I hope that when it is tired, it may leave my home."</strong></span> <span style="color: #ff0000;"><strong>Hundreds of thousands of people have been displaced by the flooding.</strong></span> <span style="color: #800000;"><strong>Hundreds also died in the worst flooding in decades.</strong></span> /</p>
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<p><strong>Thailand</strong>:</p>
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<p><span id="result_box" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><span title="ปภ.เผยยอดน้ำท่วมพุ่ง 10 จว. เดือดร้อนแล้ว 1.8 แสนคน"><strong>Prev. Undisclosed sum floods hit 10 Hw. Trouble then 1.8 lakh people.</strong><br/> <br/></span> <span style="color: #ff0000;"><strong><span title="ปภ.รายงานน้ำยังท่วม 10 จังหวัดระดับน้ำมีแนวโน้มลดลง">Prev. Reported that water levels flooded 10 provinces decreased.</span> <span title="ราษฎรเดือดร้อน 75,523 ครัวเรือน 179,074 คน ส่วนภาคใต้ 3 จังหวัดอ่วม น้ำป่าไหลทะลักเข้า อ.วิภาวดี จ.สุราษฎร์ธานี">75,523 households with 179,074 people suffering the southern third of the province worse cataract flow Viphawadi Surat district.</span> <span title="พัดกระบะพร้อมคนขับ">Truck drivers and fans.</span> <span title="ขณะที่อ.เมืองพังงา สะพานขาด เจ้าหน้าที่เร่งติดตั้งสะพานเบลี่ย์...">A. Muang Nga Bridge accelerated the installation of the Bailey bridge ...<br/> <br/></span> <span title="เมื่อวันที่ 29 ก.ย.2555 กรมป้องกันและบรรเทาสาธารณภัย">On 29 September 2555 the Department of Disaster Prevention and Mitigation.</span> <span title="กระทรวงมหาดไทย">Ministry of Interior</span></strong></span> <span title="รายงานสถานการณ์อุทกภัยโดยยังมีพื้นที่ประสบภัยรวมทั้งสิ้น 10 จังหวัด ประกอบด้วย จ.ปราจีนบุรี สระแก้ว ฉะเชิงเทรา สุโขทัย พิษณุโลก พิจิตร อ่างทอง พระนครศรีอยุธยา สุพรรณบุรี และนครปฐม รวม 37 อำเภอ 273 ตำบล 1,615 หมู่บ้าน ราษฎรได้รับความเดือดร้อน 75,523 ครัวเรือน 179,074 คน"><span style="color: #ff0000;"><strong>Report a flood disaster area by a total of 10 provinces, including Bangkok, Prachin Buri, Chachoengsao Any Phitsanulok, Ayutthaya, Ang Thong Suphan Buri and Nakhon Pathom Phichit District 273 district and 37 villages, 1,615 households, 75,523 people had suffered 179,074 people.</strong></span><br/> <br/></span> <span title="ทั้งนี้ ได้ระบุว่า ที่ผ่านมาพื้นที่ภาคใต้ในจ.สตูล">This indicates that the area in the South. Stool.</span> <span title="ได้เกิดฝนตกหนักต่อเนื่อง">The heavy rain continued.</span> <span title="ทำให้เกิดน้ำท่วมในพื้นที่ 2 อำเภอ ได้แก่ อ.เมืองสตูล และ อ.ควนโดน ด้าน จ.สุราษฎร์ธานี">Caused flooding in two districts: Muang, Khuan Don district of Satun and Surat Thani.</span> <span title="ได้เกิดน้ำป่าไหลหลากในพื้นที่ อ.วิภาวดี ต.ตะกุกเหนือ หมู่ที่ 16 บ้านบางได ได้พัดพารถกระบะยี่ห้อโตโยต้า D4D หมายเลขทะเบียน บย 4839 สุราษฎร์ธานี พร้อมทั้งคนขับชื่อนายวิชาญ ใสพริก สูญหาย เบื้องต้นได้">Has caused flash flood in northern Takuk Tue Oct Viphawadi among some of the 16 homes have been swept D4D Toyota truck registration number and the driver of a 4839 New York Mr. Wichan clear initial school lost.</span> <span title="พบรถกระบะคันดังกล่าวแล้ว">I already have a truck.</span> <span title="ส่วนผู้สูญหายอยู่ระหว่างการค้นหา และจ.พังงา เกิดฝนตกหนักต่อเนื่อง">The search for a missing person in the process. NGA continuous heavy rain.</span> <span title="เกิดน้ำป่าไหลหลากลงมาจากเทือกเขาหราทำให้สะพานขาดในพื้นที่ อ.เมือง ต.นบปริง หมู่ที่ 8 ทางสำนักงานป้องกันและบรรเทาสาธารณภัยพังงาได้ประสานขอรับการสนับสนุนสะพานเหล็กชั่วคราว (เบลี่ย์) มาติดตั้ง คาด">A flash flood flows down from the mountains highly deficient bridges in the area in Muang district Pring, among the eight of Disaster Prevention and Mitigation Phuket Office has coordinated a temporary steel bridge support (Bailey) is installed.</span> <span title="ว่าจะดำเนินการเสร็จภายใน 2-3 วัน โดย อบจ.แก้ไขโดยเอาเสาไฟฟ้าทำเป็นทางเดินชั่วคราวแล้ว">be done within 2-3 days by DWP. edits made out of a temporary power pole.<br/> <br/></span> <span title="ส่วนพื้นที่อื่นใน จ.สระแก้ว ปัจจุบันสถานการณ์ยังคงมีน้ำท่วมขังพื้นที่ลุ่มต่ำใน อ.อรัญประเทศ อ.โคกสูง และอ.เมืองสระแก้ว">The other area in Sa Kaeo Province current situation is still flooded low lying areas in the district Aranyaprathet and Khok Sung district. Muang Kaew.</span> <span title="ระดับน้ำสูงประมาณ 0.10-0.20 ม. แนวโน้มลดลงซึ่งสถานการณ์คลี่คลายแล้วอยู่ระหว่างการฟื้นฟู เช่นเดียวกับ จ.ปราจีนบุรี แนวโนมน้ำลดลง ด้าน จ.สุโขทัย ยังคงมีน้ำท่วมขังในพื้นที่ลุ่มต่ำ อ.กงไกรลาศ ระดับ">Approximately 0.10 to 0.20 m water level decreases and the situation improved in the process of restoration as the Mon Kingdom Water Noam reduced Sukhothai is still flooding in low-lying areas of the district Kong Krailat.</span> <span title="น้ำทรงตัว จ.พิษณุโลก ระดับน้ำในอ.บางระกำ อ.พรหมพิราม และอ.เมือง ลดลง จ.พิจิตร ระดับน้ำใน อ.สามง่าม แนวโน้มเพิ่มขึ้นและ">stable water levels in Phitsanulok. Rakam Phrompiram and Tue. town Phichit lower water levels rise and Col. Sam.</span> <span title="อ.โพธิ์ประทับช้าง">Pho Prathap Chang district.</span> <span title="ระดับน้ำทรงตัว">Stable water levels.<br/> <br/></span> <span title="นอกจากนี้ จ.อ่างทอง ยังคงมีน้ำท่วมขังในพื้นที่ลุ่มต่ำ อ.ป่าโมก ต.โผงเผง บางเสด็จ และเทศบาลตำบลป่าโมก จ.สุพรรณบุรี น้ำท่วมในพื้นที่ 4 อำเภอได้แก่ อ.สองพี่น้อง อู่ทอง เมืองสุพรรณบุรี และบางปลาม้า ระดับน้ำแนวโน้มลดลง">In addition, Ang Thong is still flooding in low lying areas, T., A. Mok Mok Oผgeผg some royal and Suphan Buri municipal water districts in four cities Thong Suphan Buri and Bang Pla Ma district, two water level decreases.</span> <span title="และ จ.นครปฐม ในอ.บางเลน 
 อ.นครชัยศรี น้ำสูงประมาณ 0.20-0.30 เมตร โดยรวมระดับน้ำมีแนวโน้มเพิ่มขึ้นเล็กน้อย">Nakhon Pathom and ใna. Len Nakhon Chai Si district, about 0.20 to 0.30 meters high, and the water level has increased slightly.</span> <span title="เนื่องจากมีฝนตกหนักต่อเนื่องในหลายวันที่ผ่านมา">Due to heavy rains the past few days.</span> <span title="ประกอบกับมีปริมาณน้ำไหลมาจาก จ.กาญจนบุรี และสุพรรณบุรี">Moreover, the volume of water flowing from Kanchanaburi and Suphanburi.</span></span></p>
<p><a href="http://www.thairath.co.th/content/region/294658">http://www.thairath.co.th/content/region/294658</a></p>
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<p><strong>National Office of Buddhism: 111 temples nationwide seriously affected by flooding</strong><br/><br/>BANGKOK, 30 September 2012 – <span style="color: #ff0000;"><strong>The National Office of Buddhism (NOB) has revealed more than a hundred temples across the country have been seriously affected by the flooding to the level that monks cannot go out to receive alms-offering.</strong></span><br/><br/><span style="color: #ff0000;"><strong>NOB Director General Nopparat Benjawatananun said that the continued flooding in the lower part of the North, in central Thailand and the country’s eastern region has affected 111 Buddhist temples, to date.</strong></span><br/><br/>Mr. Nopparat said that the situation has been so serious that monks at these flood-hit temples have to move things to a higher ground while finding it impossible to go out to receive daily alms-offering.<br/><br/>He added that the NOB is still awaiting the damage report from the southern region as the number of temples and monks hit by floods remain unknown. As these temples have been literally cut off from the world, the NOB Director General is asking the public to provide necessities to the flood-affected monks.<br/><br/>In the meantime, the NOB is collaborating with various agencies to deliver medicines and some necessities to the temples in need while warning those in flood risk areas to prepare for any unexpected situation.<br/><br/>In addition, the NOB reported that the restoration work at the Phutthamonthon Buddhist Park in Nakhon Pathom Province, where 60 percent of the entire property was damaged by last year’s flood crisis, is still underway and is expected to be completed within 6 months.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.pattayamail.com/news/national-office-of-buddhism-111-temples-nationwide-seriously-affected-by-flooding-17186">http://www.pattayamail.com/news/national-office-of-buddhism-111-temples-nationwide-seriously-affected-by-flooding-17186</a></p>
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<p><strong>Cambodia</strong>:</p>
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<p><strong>Cambodia's flood death toll reaches 14</strong><br/><br/>PHNOM PENH, Oct. 3 (Xinhua) -- <span style="color: #ff0000;"><strong>At least 14 Cambodian people were killed by flash floods that have been hitting some provinces in the country since last month, according to the report of Cambodian Red Cross on Wednesday.</strong></span><br/><br/><span style="color: #ff0000;"><strong>Among the dead, 9 were in Banteay Meanchey province bordering Thailand, 4 in central Kampong Thom and 1 in northwestern Siem Reap, said the report.</strong></span><br/><br/><span style="color: #ff0000;"><strong>Keo Vy, chief of the Cabinet of National Committee for Disaster Management (NCDM), said that flash floods have hit about 8 provinces including Banteay Meanchey, Siem Reap, Preah Vihear, Kampong Thom, Takeo, Pailin, Kampong Chhnang and Preah Sihanouk. "Banteay Meanchey province is suffering the worst from the floods," he told Xinhua over telephone.</strong></span><br/><br/><span style="color: #ff0000;"><strong>Some 14,100 families have been affected including 4,060 families were evacuated to higher grounds, he said.</strong></span><br/><br/>Meanwhile, Sam Sereiroth, secretary-general of the education secretariat at the Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports, said on Wednesday that some 140 schools in these affected provinces have been submerged, affecting some 49,000 students.<br/><br/>"These schools will be closed until the floodwaters recede," he told Xinhua over telephone.<br/><br/>Cambodia will be suffering from the impact of a tropical storm Gaemi from Oct. 4-8 and 13 provinces out of the country's 24 cities and provinces will suffer strong winds and flooding, according to a statement issued by the Ministry of Water Resources and Meteorology on Tuesday.<br/><br/>The storm will be brewing from the South China Sea and it will hit the coast of Vietnam this weekend.<br/><br/>"The Ministry would like to appeal to local authorities and people living in the areas along rivers to be on high alert to avoid dangers and property damage due to the storm," said the statement signed by the minister, Lim Kean Hor. "The Ministry also wishes to appeal to maritime fishermen to suspend their fishing during the warning period."<br/><br/>Floods usually hit Cambodia between August and October. Last year, the floods killed at least 250 Cambodian people and affected some 1.4 million people in the country, according to the NCDM.</p>
<p><a href="http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/world/2012-10/03/c_131886756.htm">http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/world/2012-10/03/c_131886756.htm</a></p>
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<p><strong>Nigeria</strong>:</p>
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<p><strong>Nigeria floods bring crocodiles and hippos into homes</strong><br/><br/><span style="color: #ff0000;"><strong>Dangerous animals, including crocodiles, snakes and hippos, have found their way into homes and communities in central Nigeria after devastating flooding, residents say.</strong></span><br/><br/><span style="color: #ff0000;"><strong>The creatures were carried along flood-swollen rivers, say the authorities.</strong></span><br/><br/><span style="color: #ff0000;"><strong>"There is now a hippopotamus in [my] house," Benue state resident Wuese Jirake told the BBC. "I hope that when it is tired, it may leave my home."</strong></span><br/><br/><span style="color: #ff0000;"><strong>Hundreds of thousands of people have been displaced by the flooding.</strong></span><br/><br/><span style="color: #ff0000;"><strong>Hundreds also died in the worst flooding in decades.</strong></span><br/><br/>Vast tracts of farmland have been completely destroyed.<br/>'Hope it will leave'<br/><br/>Mr Jirake told the BBC he had returned to his home to find it occupied by the hippo.<br/><br/>"This morning I visited my house. It is still inundated with the flood waters above my waist. There is now a hippopotamus in the house," he said.<br/><br/>He said he had reported the situation to the authorities.<br/><br/>"I hope that when it is tired, it may leave my home. If there is any other way of dealing with the problem, the authorities need to pursue that because it is beyond my abilities."<br/><br/>Similar situations have been reported in the towns of Makurdi, Agatu, Logo and Adoka, says the BBC's Is'haq Khalid.<br/><br/>Nigeria's National Emergency Management Agency says it is working hand in hand with the Benue state government and other relevant agencies to ensure the flood victims return to their homes.<br/><br/>The co-ordinator of the agency in north-central Nigeria, Abdussalam Muhammad, told the BBC that it was not safe for people to go back to their houses because of the presence of the dangerous animals.<br/><br/>"Presently there are crocodiles and snakes as well as other dangerous animals brought in by the floodwaters that are living in those houses, so, if the people return, it will be harmful to them and they will put their lives at risk," he said.<br/><br/>He said people should wait for instructions after the floodwaters have subsided.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-19818180">http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-19818180</a></p>
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<p><strong>Vietnam</strong>:</p>
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<p><strong>Saigon severely flooded due to high tides</strong><br/><br/>V<span style="color: #ff0000;"><strong>ietNamNet Bridge - Heavy rains coinciding with high tides this morning has submerged many roads in Ho Chi Minh City, causing traffic chaos.</strong></span><br/><br/><span style="color: #ff0000;"><strong>Tan Binh District is flooded most seriously, making many people very hard to get to the office. Other roads such as Huynh Tan Phat, Le Van Luong (District 7), Highway 13, Binh Loi (Binh Thanh District), Tran Nao, Luong Dinh Cua (District 2) are also 30 - 40 cm deep under water. Traffic congestions occur in many places.</strong></span><br/><br/>The HCM City Steering Board for Flood Control and Search-Rescue released an urgent warning of the tropical cyclone in the East Sea and asked people and competent departments to prepare to cope with the bad weather.<br/><br/>According to the tide forecast on September 30 of the Southern Region Meteorological and Hydrological Station, the water level measured at Phu An station on the Saigon River was 1.47 m high and it will increase in the coming days, to 1.52 m on October 1; 1.54 on October 2; and 1.52 m on October 3.<br/><br/>At the same time, the upstream reservoirs like Tri An (Dong Nai River) and Dau Tieng (Saigon River) are discharging water.<br/><br/>Meanwhile, the tropical depression off the coast of the central region is likely to strengthen into a hurricane. At 1 am of October 1, the 7th-grade tropical depression was 450 km to the east off the coast of Danang, Phu Yen. It is forecasted to be 260km from the Paracel Islands.<br/><br/>From the central southern region to the south, due to the influence of the tropical depression, there will have rains in the evening and at night. Some places in the southern part of the Central Highlands, the North East and the Mekong Delta will have heavy rains. Particularly, in Ho Chi Minh City, tropical depression will cause heavy rains, which will coincide with high tide in early October to make severe floods this week</p>
<p><a href="http://english.vietnamnet.vn/fms/society/49241/saigon-severely-flooded-due-to-high-tides.html">http://english.vietnamnet.vn/fms/society/49241/saigon-severely-flooded-due-to-high-tides.html</a></p>
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<p><strong>Weather in South Vietnam and Ho Chi Minh City is very bad</strong><br/><br/> VietNamNet Bridge - <span style="color: #ff0000;"><strong>In those days, heavy rains appeared in the southern region and Ho Chi Minh City, causing flooding in some areas. Looking ahead, the weather will continue to deteriorate, due to the impact of the storm No. 7 or Gaemi in the East Sea.</strong></span><br/><br/><span style="color: #ff0000;"><strong>Explaining about the murky weather, heavy rains in recent days in South Vietnam and Ho Chi Minh City, Ms. Le Thi Xuan Lan, from the Southern Region meteorological and hydrological station, said that September and October is the peak time for rains in the South, due to the combination of various weather systems.</strong></span><br/><br/>“For example, the tropical convergence zone passes the southern part of the central region. This is a cloud-rain band which creates conditions for wind convergence, resulting in dense clouds, causing rains. This cloud-rain band is usually a few hundred kilometers long. As Ho Chi Minh City is at the very southern edge of the range of convergence, this area will be affected," Lan said.<br/><br/>Caption: <span style="color: #ff0000;"><strong>Heavy rain combined with high tides turned many roads in Ho Chi Minh City into "rivers."</strong></span><br/><br/>Also, a southwest wind operates very strongly this time and when a tropical depression or storm appears, it become more powerful. With such characteristics, the weather in the south, the south-central region, the Central Highland will get worse, causing widespread rains. In particular, the arrival of typhoon Gaemi on the East Sea will make the weather worse in the next few days, especially when the storm goes to the mainland.<br/><br/>The weather to develop complicatedly<br/><br/>In the next few days, the southeastern provinces of Dong Nai, Binh Phuoc or those in the Mekong Delta like Bac Lieu, Soc Trang and Ca Mau will continue to have heavy rains, strong wind due to the influence of the storm Gaemi in the East Sea.<br/><br/><span style="color: #ff0000;"><strong>Tides will also be quite complex. In recent days, many places in Ho Chi Minh City were flooded, up to over one meter submerged. According to Ms. Lan, from September onwards, tide began rising each day. By the operation cycle of the astronomical tide, tidal peak is usually in November, December, even lasts until January of the following year.</strong></span><br/><br/><span style="color: #ff0000;"><strong>In September, there were two waves of high tides, plus heavy rains, causing floods in the Dong Nai River system, forcing hydropower as Tri An and Thac Mo to discharge water downstream. With on-the-spot rains, high tides and water discharged from reservoirs, many places, especially Ho Chi Minh City, was seriously flooded.</strong></span><br/><br/><span style="color: #ff0000;"><strong>According to the Southern Region meteorological and hydrological station, in HCM City, 50 percent of the high tides coincided with the rainy days. In the dry season, rains is not much but flooding is still high due to high tide</strong></span>s.</p>
<p><a href="http://english.vietnamnet.vn/fms/society/49446/weather-in-south-vietnam-and-ho-chi-minh-city-is-very-bad.html">http://english.vietnamnet.vn/fms/society/49446/weather-in-south-vietnam-and-ho-chi-minh-city-is-very-bad.html</a></p>
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<p></p>Nigeria: This is worst floods since 1936! Two million affected by floods in Kogi & Edo states! India: Three million homeless in Assam floods! Pakistan: 422 dead, five million affected by floods!tag:poleshift.ning.com,2012-09-28:3863141:BlogPost:9035652012-09-28T18:11:15.000ZStanislavhttps://poleshift.ning.com/profile/Stanislav
<p><a href="http://cdn.bellanaija.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/flood5.jpg" target="_blank"><img class="align-full" src="http://cdn.bellanaija.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/flood5.jpg"></img></a> <a href="http://cdn.bellanaija.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/flood1.jpg" target="_blank"><img class="align-full" src="http://cdn.bellanaija.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/flood1.jpg"></img></a> <a href="http://cdn.bellanaija.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/flood7.jpg" target="_blank"><img class="align-full" src="http://cdn.bellanaija.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/flood7.jpg"></img></a> <a href="http://cdn.bellanaija.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/flood6.jpg" target="_blank"><img class="align-full" src="http://cdn.bellanaija.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/flood6.jpg"></img></a></p>
<p><a target="_blank" href="http://cdn.bellanaija.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/flood5.jpg"><img class="align-full" src="http://cdn.bellanaija.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/flood5.jpg"/></a><a target="_blank" href="http://cdn.bellanaija.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/flood1.jpg"><img class="align-full" src="http://cdn.bellanaija.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/flood1.jpg"/></a><a target="_blank" href="http://cdn.bellanaija.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/flood7.jpg"><img class="align-full" src="http://cdn.bellanaija.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/flood7.jpg"/></a><a target="_blank" href="http://cdn.bellanaija.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/flood6.jpg"><img class="align-full" src="http://cdn.bellanaija.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/flood6.jpg"/></a><a target="_blank" href="http://cdn.bellanaija.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/flood4.jpg"><img class="align-full" src="http://cdn.bellanaija.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/flood4.jpg"/></a>Aerial view Nigeria flooding</p>
<p><a target="_blank" href="http://img2.noticias24.com/1209/pakistan34554.jpg"><img class="align-full" src="http://img2.noticias24.com/1209/pakistan34554.jpg"/></a><a target="_self" href="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/74177307?profile=original"><img class="align-full" src="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/74177307?profile=original" width="566"/></a>Aerial view Pakistan floods</p>
<p>7 of 10 Africa Roll - <strong>Nigeria</strong>:</p>
<p><span style="color: #ff0000;"><strong>/ <span style="color: #800000;">The flooding in many states of the North has been described as unprecedented and it is the worst in the last 80 years.</span> <a href="http://www.ngrguardiannews.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=99931:a-nation-ravaged-by-deluge&catid=86:weekend&Itemid=601" target="_blank">ngrguardiannews.com</a></strong></span></p>
<p><span style="color: #ff0000;"><strong>/ Gov. Idris Wada of Kogi on Thursday said property valued at more than N40 billion had been lost in the recent floods in four local government areas of the state. A press statement issued in Lokoja by the Deputy Press Secretary to the governor, Mr Michael Abu, said preliminary report on the disaster showed that over 100 communities were affected.</strong></span><br/><span style="color: #ff0000;"><strong>The governor said this when officials of the state Emergency Management Agency (SEMA) briefed him on the disaster. Represented by his deputy, Mr Yomi Awoniyi, Wada said however that the government was still taking inventory of the damages. "We have about 100,000 registered displaced persons who are currently camped in nine centres across the state." <span style="color: #800000;">Wada, described the floods as the worst since 1936, and expressed fears that it would create food scarcity in the state</span>. / <a href="http://allafrica.com/stories/201209280413.html" target="_blank">allafrica.com</a></strong></span></p>
<p><span style="color: #ff0000;"><strong>/ The committee made no pretense about what the flood presented them with in Lokoja. They concluded that out of about 20 States that have been affected by flooding in Nigeria in recent time, Kogi is worst hit; being a recipient of the two major rivers in the nation. "<span style="color: #800000;">The level of water currently devastating the state has not been witnessed in the last 100 years.</span> We have additional two metres rise in water level", Onolemen said. The Coordinator, North Central, National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA), Mr. Ishaya Isah put the figure of persons <span style="color: #800000;">already displaced by the flood at two million</span>. He said this at St. Luke Primary school, Adankolo, Lokoja relief camp when Senator Smart Adeyemi representing Kogi West Senatorial District visited one of the three relief camps set up by the state government at the weekend.<br/>While the flood has taken over several houses and roads in Lokoja, the state capital, Isah hinted that, "in all the nine local government areas affected about <span style="color: #800000;">350 communities have been affected by the flood</span>". <br/>The Director of Planning, Research and Forecasting, NEMA, Dr. Charles Agbo who lead the team to Lokoja, the state capital last week, on his own part, described the flooding situation in the state as "the worst in the last 29 years" <a href="http://allafrica.com/stories/201209280664.html" target="_blank">allafrica.com</a> /<br/></strong></span></p>
<p><span style="color: #ff0000;"><strong>/ ABOUT 104 lives have been lost and more than 50,000 people displaced by the ravaging flood in the north central area of the country in the last two months, the Zonal Coordinator, National Emergency Management Agency, NEMA, for the zone, Mr. Mohammed Abdulsalam has said. He said the Federal Government through NEMA has so far spent more than N300 million on relief materials and medicaments, among others, to ease the pain of the victims who are mostly women and children, adding that the flooding problem which has affected 26 states in the country was worsened by the release of water from various dams and the blockage of drainage system in many places. <a href="http://allafrica.com/stories/201209280179.html" target="_blank">allafrica.com</a></strong></span></p>
<p><span style="color: #ff0000;"><strong>/ Flooding to last till November in Kogi</strong></span><br/><span style="color: #ff0000;"><strong>Gov Idris Wada of Kogi on Thursday asked the people of the state to prepare for more floods as the situation might not abate till the end of November. The governor said more water would be released from some dams and that as the water increased everyday and rapidly, increase in flood should be expected till the end of November.</strong></span><br/><span style="color: #ff0000;"><strong>Wada spoke at the 2012 World Tourism Day celebration in Lokoja and stressed that the flooding was a natural disaster that could not be curtailed. He urged the residents of Lokoja living close to the water front to leave their buildings before the water got to them unannounced. /</strong></span> <a href="http://www.businessdayonline.com/NG/index.php/news/284-breaking-news/45139-flooding-to-last-till-november-in-kogi" target="_blank">businessdayonline.com</a></p>
<p><span style="color: #ff0000;"><strong>/ <span style="color: #800000;">Nigeria's worst flooding in decades</span> has displaced more than 10,000 people in the centre of the country over the past week and stranded some villagers on rooftops, emergency services said on Thursday. At least 140 people have been killed around Nigeria and tens of thousands have been forced to abandon their homes since the beginning of July, officials say. The flooding has been the worst for more than 50 years, according to Yushua Shuaib, a spokesman for the National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA).</strong></span> <a href="http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/09/27/us-nigeria-flood-idUSBRE88Q12U20120927" target="_blank">reuters.com</a> /</p>
<p><span style="color: #ff0000;"><strong>/ <span style="color: #800000;">Over two million persons have been displaced by floods in Kogi and Edo States</span> following the release of water from dams and the overflowing of the banks of River Niger in the areas.</strong></span></p>
<p><span style="color: #ff0000;"><strong>Two million of the victims were sacked in Kogi State by the flood caused by the release of water from Kainji and Shiroro dams in Niger State. In Edo State, the flood sacked about 370,000 in over 20 communities across the state at the weekend, while in Imo State, the flood claimed the life of a 60-year-old woman, Mrs. Clementina Ikediogu, in Isiokpo, Ideato South Local government area.</strong></span></p>
<p><span style="color: #ff0000;"><strong>The Coordinator, North Central, National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA), Mr. Ishaya Isah, gave the figure of those sacked by flood in Kogi State during a visit to St. Luke's Primary School, Lokoja relief camp when Senator Smart Adeyemi visited the displaced persons. The flood, which has submerged many houses and roads in Lokoja, the state capital, has spread to nine local government areas and about 350 communities in the state. The worst hit local government areas, according to Isah, include Lokoja, Kogi, Ibaji, Igalamela, Ajaokuta, Ofu, Omala, Olamaboro and Idah. / <a href="http://allafrica.com/stories/201209240103.html" target="_blank">allafrica.com</a></strong></span></p>
<p><span style="color: #ff0000;"><strong><a target="_self" href="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/74177385?profile=original"><img class="align-full" src="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/74177385?profile=original" width="666"/></a></strong></span>24 September, 2012</p>
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<p><a target="_blank" href="http://www.timeslive.co.za/Feeds/Reuters_Images/2012/09/26/mdf88807-25-09-2012-10-09-35-653.jpg/ALTERNATES/crop_630x400/MDF88807-25-09-2012-10-09-35-653.jpg"><img class="align-full" src="http://www.timeslive.co.za/Feeds/Reuters_Images/2012/09/26/mdf88807-25-09-2012-10-09-35-653.jpg/ALTERNATES/crop_630x400/MDF88807-25-09-2012-10-09-35-653.jpg"/></a><strong>Kogi state population about 3 million (2006)</strong></p>
<p><span style="color: #ff0000;"><strong>/ <span style="color: #800000;">River Niger sacks 332 villages, renders 2 million homeless. Meanwhile, the flooding, which has eaten deep into Kogi State, has so far affected no fewer than 332 communities in nine of the 21 local government areas, rendering close to two million persons homeless. According to the National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA), about <span style="text-decoration: underline;">70 per cent of Kogi State population has been so far affected</span>. / <a href="http://sunnewsonline.com/new/cover/river-niger-sacks-332-villages-renders-2-million-homeless/" target="_blank">sunnewsonline.com</a></span></strong></span></p>
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<p><span style="color: #ff0000;"><strong>/ Floods kill eight; displace over 1 million in Kogi. Eight persons have been killed and about one million displaced from their home in Kogi State by the recent flooding that have ravage the state due to the release of Kainji and Shiroro dams of the River Niger, an official said on Monday. The Coordinator of the National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) operations in Abuja, Ishaya Isah, who in company of some members of the National Assembly from Kogi West visited one of the relieve camp in Lokoja, confirmed that about eight persons have lost their lives as a result of the flood while over 332 communities were washed away by the flood. /</strong></span> <a href="http://www.channelstv.com/home/2012/09/24/floods-kill-eight-displace-over-1-million-in-kogi/" target="_blank">channelstv.com</a></p>
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<p>India aerial view floods<strong><br/></strong></p>
<p><strong>India <span style="color: #ff0000;">TILTING & BACKWASHING</span></strong>:</p>
<p><span style="color: #ff0000;"><strong>/ <span style="color: #800000;">Assam floods render 30 lakh (3 million because <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lakh" target="_blank">one lakh - 100 000</a>)</span> homeless, water starts receding</strong></span><br/><span style="color: #ff0000;"><strong>The flood situation in Assam continued to be grim with atleast 19 people killed and more than 30 lakh affected. The situation has started improving as water from the third wave of flood which inundated 16 districts of the state is receding. According to reports, a total of 1,916 villages are reeling under 69 revenue circles in the districts of Baksa, Barpeta, Darrang, Dhemaji, Dibrugarh, Golaghat, Jorhat, Kamrup, Kamrup Metro, Lakhimpur, Morigaon, Nagaon, Nalbari, Sivsagar, Sonitpur and Tinsukia districts, according to the government report. However, official sources said that flood waters were seen receding from the 2594 villages and 2,26,902 hectare farmland. Lakhs of animals have also been swept away and farmlands inundated in the most devastating floods in more than a decade</strong></span> <a href="http://indiatoday.intoday.in/story/assam-floods-render-30-lakh-homeless-water-receding/1/222580.html" target="_blank">indiatoday.intoday</a></p>
<p><span style="color: #ff0000;"><strong>/ Declare Assam flood as national disaster: CPI(M). The Communist Party of India (Marxist) today called upon the Centre to declare the Assam floods as a "national disaster" and take up relief work on emergency footing.</strong></span><br/><span style="color: #ff0000;"><strong>"The way flood happens here every year and this year it has been pretty bad ... All the lakhs who have been displaced, who are without food, without clothes, without a home, at such a time the central government should declare it as national disaster," CPI(M) Politburo member Brinda Karat said here. </strong></span><a href="http://www.business-standard.com/generalnews/news/declare-assam-flood-as-national-disaster-cpim/62095/" target="_blank">business-standard.com</a></p>
<p><span style="color: #ff0000;"><strong>/ Kaziranga rhino, mutilated by poachers, dies.</strong></span></p>
<p><span style="color: #ff0000;"><strong>Vets in northeast India failed to save the rare rhino whose horn was hacked off by poachers who are stepping up attacks on animals fleeing rising floods in Assam state. The gravely injured rhino was found in the deluged Kaziranga National Park on Wednesday, bleeding from gunshot injuries and a huge wound on its snout after poachers cut off its horn, nose and part of its ear.</strong></span><br/><span style="color: #ff0000;"><strong>Animal rights groups and local residents near the state-protected park staged angry demonstrations on Thursday denouncing the government for failing to combat poaching after a third rhino was attacked in two days. The injured rhino, aged between 20-25, was being treated by vets amid fears that its wounds will prove fatal. "It's alive now and treatment is going on, but the possibility of its survival is less," top park wildlife official Ramen Das, the assistant conservator of forests, told AFP.</strong></span><br/><span style="color: #ff0000;"><strong>Veterinarians operated to remove bullets from its abdomen and were treating its other wounds, he added. Das blamed the attacks on the flooding of the 430-square-kilometre (166 square-mile) park in eastern Assam, which is home to the largest concentration of the world's remaining one-horned rhinos. "We have sufficient guards, weapons and ammunition but during floods animals stray to seek shelter on higher grounds and they become targets," the conservationist said by telephone from the park.</strong></span><br/><span style="color: #ff0000;"><strong>"We have killed poachers in the past and we have the powers to shoot them on sight but the movement of animals is just too much," he said, referring to the wide swathes of land outside the internationally-famous Kaziranga. Floods in July this year killed around 600 animals in Kaziranga, including 14 one-horned rhinos. A majority were mowed down on a nearby highway by speeding vehicles as they left the park for higher grounds. /</strong></span> <a href="http://www.ndtv.com/article/world/at-kaziranga-hopes-dim-for-rhino-mutilated-by-poachers-273262" target="_blank">ndtv.com</a></p>
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<p><a target="_self" href="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/74177727?profile=original"><img class="align-full" src="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/74177727?profile=original" width="651"/></a><span style="color: #ff0000;"><strong>/ With no let-up in rainfall in upper Assam and eastern Arunachal Pradesh, the flood situation in the state has turned grim. Nearly 13 lakh people have been affected in Assam and another 50,000 in Arunachal Pradesh due to floods. In Assam, the districts of Dhemaji and Tinsukia, bordering Arunachal Pradesh are the worst affected. In Dhemaji alone, 2,31,444 people are reeling under floodwaters and another 80,000 in Tinsukia.</strong></span></p>
<p><span style="color: #ff0000;"><strong><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><span style="color: #800000; text-decoration: underline;">The Sadiya sub-division of Tinsukia district is witnessing its worst ever flood this time.</span></span></strong></span></p>
<p><span style="color: #ff0000;"><strong>Many have blamed China of releasing excess water from its dams and creating havoc in Assam and parts of Arunachal Pradesh. The swelling waters of river Brahmaputra, Burhidehing, Dhansiri, Jia Bharali have submerged 1,972 villages in Assam. Flood affected people are presently taking shelters at 166 relief camps set up across the state. In total, 2,31,610 people are taking shelters at the relief camps.</strong></span></p>
<p><span style="color: #ff0000;"><strong><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><span style="color: #800000; text-decoration: underline;">Arunachal Pradesh too is witnessing one of its worst floods in its history!</span></span> /</strong></span></p>
<p><strong>/ <span style="color: #ff0000;">Two million displaced by floods in Assam: Disaster agency.</span></strong></p>
<p><span style="color: #ff0000;"><strong>Floods in Assam have forced two million to flee their homes and 18 people have been killed, the disaster management agency in Assam said on Wednesday.</strong></span> <span style="color: #ff0000;"><strong>"The total number of people displaced has gone up to two million and 18 people are dead so far in the third wave of flooding," the disaster management department said in its latest bulletin.</strong></span> <span style="color: #ff0000;"><strong>At least 19 of oil-rich Assam's 27 districts have been hit by floods over the past week and fresh rainfalls have been hampering a military-backed relief operation, according to officials. /<br/></strong></span></p>
<p><a target="_blank" href="http://eoimages.gsfc.nasa.gov/images/imagerecords/79000/79267/neindia_amo_2012269.jpg"><img class="align-full" src="http://eoimages.gsfc.nasa.gov/images/imagerecords/79000/79267/neindia_amo_2012269.jpg"/></a>25 September, 2012</p>
<p><a target="_blank" href="http://eoimages.gsfc.nasa.gov/images/imagerecords/79000/79267/neindia_tmo_2011272.jpg"><img class="align-full" src="http://eoimages.gsfc.nasa.gov/images/imagerecords/79000/79267/neindia_tmo_2011272.jpg"/></a>29 September, 2011</p>
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<p><a target="_self" href="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/74177932?profile=original"><img class="align-full" src="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/74177932?profile=original" width="612"/></a><span style="color: #ff0000;"><strong>/ Assam flood toll rises to 12. The overall flood situation in Assam remained unchanged and the death toll rose to 12 on Tuesday, official sources said. The third wave of floods has affected nearly 15 lakh people rendering 14 lakh of them homeless in 16 districts of the state. /<br/></strong></span></p>
<p><span style="color: #ff0000;"><strong>/ India floods displace nearly 1.5 milion people Floods have forced nearly 1.5 million people to flee their homes in northeastern India where authorities have declared a health alert, officials said on Monday.</strong></span><br/> <span style="color: #ff0000;"><strong>"Eighteen of 27 districts of Assam have been hit by floods with 1.4 million displaced and 11 people drowned in separated incidents in the past week," the Disaster Management agency said in a statement.</strong></span> <span style="color: #ff0000;"><strong>The floods, caused by relentless rains, marked the second round of massive flooding in two months to hit India's impoverished northeast and come towards the end of India's June-to-September monsoon season.</strong></span> <span style="color: #ff0000;"><strong>Nearly 130 people died and six million were displaced by floods in Assam state in July. /<br/></strong></span></p>
<p><span style="color: #ff0000;"><strong><span style="color: #ff0000;"><strong>/ Indian Air Force helicopters flying missions in between heavy rainstorms dropped supplies to flood victims in northeast India on Tuesday as the number of displaced rose to 1.7 million. /<br/></strong></span></strong></span></p>
<p><span style="color: #ff0000;"><strong>/ Situation worsens in Assam, half the state flood hit. The flood situation in Assam worsened today with the water level of the Brahmaputra and its tributaries continuing to rise, leaving 15 lakh people affected and 1,972 villages in 16 districts submerged. In the Majuli island in Jorhat district, flood water inundated the sub-divisional office and the Majuli jail from where 41 prisoners were shifted to the Jorhat Central Jail in a special ferry yesterday, officials said.<br/> Nine of the famed Satras (Vaishnavite monasteries) and 40 educational institutions in Majuli have also been submerged by the Brahmaputra. Over 70 per cent of Majuli's 890-square kilometre landmass remained under water.<br/> A total of 166 relief camps have been set up across the state for flood-affected people. Over 2.31 lakh people have taken shelter in the camps. The third wave of flood has inundated 63 revenue circles of Baksa, Barpeta, Darrang, Dhemaji, Dibrugarh, Golaghat, Jorhat, Kamrup Rural, Kamrup Metro, Lakhimpur, Morigaon, Nagaon, Nalbari, Sivsagar, Sonitpur and Tinsukia districts. /<br/></strong></span></p>
<p><span style="color: #ff0000;"><strong>/ Arunachal Pradesh flood toll reaches 9. With five more deaths reported from remote Anjaw district bordering China, the toll in the current floods in Arunachal Pradesh rose to nine on Tuesday, while four persons were missing in worst-affected Lohit district. All seven administrative centres – Hayuliang, Hawai, Manchal, Goliang, Walong, Kibitho and Chaglogam were completely cut off, Economic Adviser to CM Kalikho Pul said.<br/> The five deaths were reported from different parts of the hilly district. /<br/></strong></span></p>
<p><strong>Pakistan <span style="color: #ff0000;">SINKING</span></strong>:</p>
<p><strong><span style="color: #ff0000;">/ Pakistan authorities say more than 400 people have been killed by monsoon rains and flooding this year. The National Disaster Management Authority says 422 people have been killed and nearly 3,000 have been injured during the season of heavy rains. About five million people have been affected by the resulting floods, according to statistics that were posted on the authority’s website on Friday. / <a href="http://dawn.com/2012/09/28/monsoon-rains-flooding-kill-422-people/" target="_blank">dawn.com</a></span></strong></p>
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<p><strong>Comprasion Pakistan floods 2010 and 2012 September. Red and Orange 2012. Yellow 2010.</strong></p>
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<p><span style="color: #ff0000;"><strong>Pakistan’s National Disaster Management Authority has estimated that up to 4.5 million people have been affected by the flooding in Sindh, Balochistan and Punjab provinces, following heavy rains earlier this month. However, not all of these may require food assistance. An initial rapid assessment has been carried out in the affected areas, and the results are expected to give a clearer indication of the needs of those affected.</strong></span> <span style="color: #ff0000;"><strong>The disaster has already caused the deaths of up to 400 people, destroyed houses and hundreds of thousands of acres of crops. /<br/></strong></span></p>
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<p><a target="_blank" href="http://www.channelnewsasia.com/components/display_image.php?id=511059?123"><img class="align-full" src="http://www.channelnewsasia.com/components/display_image.php?id=511059?123"/></a><span style="color: #ff0000;"><strong><a target="_self" href="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/74178524?profile=original"><img class="align-full" src="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/74178524?profile=original" width="653"/></a></strong></span><span style="color: #ff0000;"><strong>/ Floods affect 748,000 people, kill 51 in Balochistan. More then 748,000 people of 15 districts were affected, 682 villages were completely destroyed while 5,000 livestock were swept away in the recent flood in Balochistan. /</strong></span></p>
<p><span style="color: #ff0000;"><strong><span style="color: #ff0000;"><strong>/ THE death toll from torrential rains and subsequent flooding across Pakistan has risen to 372, disaster authorities say.</strong></span> <span style="color: #ff0000;"><strong>Nearly 4.5 million people have also been affected by the monsoon deluges, which have destroyed or damaged over 275,000 houses. /<br/></strong></span></strong></span></p>
<p><strong>Nepal</strong>:</p>
<p><span style="color: #ff0000;"><strong>/ Floods claim 102 lives in five months. One hundred and two people were killed and 43 others have been missing in floods and landslides triggered by incessant rains over the last five months. This information was given out by Ekmani Nepal, assistant spokesman at the Ministry of Home Affairs, in the regular spokesman-journalists meet organized at the Ministry of Information and Communications here today. He said 33 people died due to diarrhoea while 89 died due to lightning. /</strong></span></p>
<p><strong>Philippines <span style="color: #ff0000;">SINKING</span></strong>:</p>
<p><a target="_blank" href="http://businessmirror.com.ph/images/stories/daily_images/2012/September/0926/nation01.jpg"><img class="align-full" src="http://businessmirror.com.ph/images/stories/daily_images/2012/September/0926/nation01.jpg"/></a><a target="_blank" href="http://1-ps.googleusercontent.com/h/newsinfo.inquirer.net/files/2012/09/298x224xzambo-298x224.jpg.pagespeed.ic.3zX6SwwCn5.jpg"><img class="align-full" src="http://1-ps.googleusercontent.com/h/newsinfo.inquirer.net/files/2012/09/298x224xzambo-298x224.jpg.pagespeed.ic.3zX6SwwCn5.jpg"/></a><span style="color: #ff0000;"><strong>/ A state of calamity has been declared in the city as floods left a trail of destruction that city officials are still assessing.</strong></span> <span style="color: #ff0000;"><strong>Mayor Celso Lobregat made the declaration with the backing of the city council on Tuesday.</strong></span> <span style="color: #ff0000;"><strong>Lobregat said the declaration would help speed up the release of the city’s calamity fund that would be spent on aid for at least 9,000 flood victims.</strong></span><br/> <span style="color: #ff0000;"><strong>Parts of the calamity fund would also be used to repair damaged infrastructure, he said.</strong></span> <span style="color: #ff0000;"><strong>As of noon on Tuesday, flooding has not eased in many areas of the city.</strong></span> <span style="color: #ff0000;"><strong>Classes in at least 10 elementary schools and four high schools in the villages of Vitali, Tictapul, Tugbungan, Divisoria, Labuan, San Jose Gusu, Baliwasan, Patalon and Mangusu have been suspended.</strong></span> /</p>
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<p><strong>Flood situation grim in Assam and Arunachal Pradesh</strong><br/> <br/> <span style="color: #ff0000;"><strong>With no let-up in rainfall in upper Assam and eastern Arunachal Pradesh, the flood situation in the state has turned grim. Nearly 13 lakh people have been affected in Assam and another 50,000 in Arunachal Pradesh due to floods.</strong></span><br/> <br/> <span style="color: #ff0000;"><strong>In Assam, the districts of Dhemaji and Tinsukia, bordering Arunachal Pradesh are the worst affected. In Dhemaji alone, 2,31,444 people are reeling under floodwaters and another 80,000 in Tinsukia. The Sadiya sub-division of Tinsukia district is witnessing its worst ever flood this time. Many have blamed China of releasing excess water from its dams and creating havoc in Assam and parts of Arunachal Pradesh.</strong></span><br/> <br/> <span style="color: #ff0000;"><strong>The swelling waters of river Brahmaputra, Burhidehing, Dhansiri, Jia Bharali have submerged 1,972 villages in Assam. Flood affected people are presently taking shelters at 166 relief camps set up across the state. In total, 2,31,610 people are taking shelters at the relief camps.</strong></span><br/> <br/> State Disaster Response Force (SDRF), National Disaster Response Force (NDRF)and Army have been pressed into service to rescue marooned people and distribute relief material among in the affected areas. Till now, at least seven people have lost their lives due to floods in Assam and another 9 people have been reported to be missing. The swelling water of river Brahmaputra is posing serious threat to the existence of upper Assam town of Dibrugarh and river island Majuli.<br/> <br/> Nearly, 80 per cent of land area of Majuli has been inundated by floodwaters. In view of the worsening situation, all educational institutions in Majuli have been closed indefinitely since Monday. In Guwahati, river Brahmaputra is flowing above the danger mark and floodwaters of river Brahmaputra had entered into many places in Pandu area, submerging many localities in the area.<br/> <br/> The districts of Tinisukia, Dibrugarh, Sibsagar, Jorhat, Golaghat, Dhemaji, Lakhimpur, Sonitpur, Darrang, Nalbari, Kamrup, Kamrup (Metro), Morigaon, Nagaon and Barpeta are have been affected by floods in Assam.<br/> <br/> <span style="color: #ff0000;"><strong>Arunachal Pradesh too is witnessing one of its worst floods in its history.</strong></span> At least nine people have lost their lives due the floods and many parts of the mountainous state are completely cut-off from the rest of the country. The district of Lohit is the worst affected with floods, breaches, landslides bringing in untold misery for the people.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.business-standard.com/india/news/flood-situation-grim-in-assamarunachal-pradesh/487612/">http://www.business-standard.com/india/news/flood-situation-grim-in-assamarunachal-pradesh/487612/</a></p>
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<p><strong>Two million displaced by floods in Assam: Disaster agency</strong><br/> <br/> GUWAHATI: <span style="color: #ff0000;"><strong>Floods in Assam have forced two million to flee their homes and 18 people have been killed, the disaster management agency in Assam said on Wednesday.</strong></span><br/> <br/> <span style="color: #ff0000;"><strong>"The total number of people displaced has gone up to two million and 18 people are dead so far in the third wave of flooding," the disaster management department said in its latest bulletin.</strong></span><br/> <br/> <span style="color: #ff0000;"><strong>At least 19 of oil-rich Assam's 27 districts have been hit by floods over the past week and fresh rainfalls have been hampering a military-backed relief operation, according to officials.</strong></span><br/> <br/> "Rains and strong river currents are hampering relief and rescue operations by soldiers and Indian Air Force helicopters," defence ministry spokesman S.S. Phogat said in Guwahati.<br/> <br/> He said despite bad weather heavy-lift helicopters were carrying out between eight and 10 sorties a day, dropping up to 1.5 tonnes of food, medicine and relief materials during each trip.<br/> <br/> Phogat said he was unable to put a figure on the number of people rescued so far from flooded homes.<br/> <br/> "Our priority right now is to rescue trapped people and reach food and medicines to those affected," he said.<br/> <br/> Some residents from flooded Majuli, a densely populated river island about 350 kilometres (220 miles) from Guwahati, complained of food shortages as well as a lack of government support.<br/> <br/> "We have not got any relief supplies from the government and are almost starving," said Rupamoni Payeng, a mother of three children.<br/> <br/> "Some food packets were dropped by helicopters, but there was a mad scramble and only a few managed to collect," she added.</p>
<p><a href="http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/politics/nation/two-million-displaced-by-floods-in-assam-disaster-agency/articleshow/16556462.cms">http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/politics/nation/two-million-displaced-by-floods-in-assam-disaster-agency/articleshow/16556462.cms</a></p>
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<p><strong>India floods displace nearly 1.5 milion people</strong><br/> <br/> GUWAHATI, India — <span style="color: #ff0000;"><strong>Floods have forced nearly 1.5 million people to flee their homes in northeastern India where authorities have declared a health alert, officials said on Monday.</strong></span><br/> <br/> <span style="color: #ff0000;"><strong>"Eighteen of 27 districts of Assam have been hit by floods with 1.4 million displaced and 11 people drowned in separated incidents in the past week," the Disaster Management agency said in a statement.</strong></span><br/> <br/> <span style="color: #ff0000;"><strong>The floods, caused by relentless rains, marked the second round of massive flooding in two months to hit India's impoverished northeast and come towards the end of India's June-to-September monsoon season.</strong></span><br/> <br/> <span style="color: #ff0000;"><strong>Nearly 130 people died and six million were displaced by floods in Assam state in July.</strong></span><br/> <br/> Rescue officials said in the latest floods, at least 2,200 villages had been swamped by overflowing waters from the rain-swollen Brahmaputra River.<br/> <br/> Himanta Biswa Sarmah, the health minister of Assam state, told AFP that a "maximum health alert" to avert outbreaks of diarrhea or diseases such as typhoid had been declared in the devastated zone.<br/> <br/> The annual monsoon provides vital irrigation for India's farmers but also claims many casualties from flooding and landslides.<br/> <br/> Officials said flooding victims had been evacuated to temporary shelters on higher ground.<br/> <br/> "We've dispatched doctors and paramedics to ensure there is no outbreak of disease," Sarmah said in Guwahati, Assam's largest city.<br/> <br/> Victims and an opposition party staged protests in flood-hit areas against what they said were shortages of emergency supplies in the Congress-ruled state.<br/> <br/> "The government has failed to provide adequate relief supplies including food and medicines," said Sarbananda Sonowal, a local leader of India's main opposition Bharatiya Janata Party. "In many parts of the state people are even living without food," he added.<br/> <br/> Rehab India Foundation, a voluntary group said heavy rains disrupted its plans to supply food and other essential items to flood-hit people.<br/> <br/> Almost the entire 420 square kilometres (162 square miles) of Kaziranga National Park was also flooded, the Press Trust of India reported.<br/> <br/> The wildlife park is home to the world's single largest population of one-horned rhinos. A 2012 census in Kaziranga counted 2,290 of the rhinos, out of a global population of 3,300.<br/> <br/> The species declined to near extinction in the early 1990s and is listed as "vulnerable" by the International Union for Conservation of Nature.<br/> <br/> Kaziranga has fought a sustained battle against rhino poachers, who kill the animals for their horns that fetch huge prices in some Asian countries where they are deemed to be an aphrodisiac.<br/> <br/> In neighbouring Pakistan, flash floods triggered by record rains have affected around 700,000 people and destroyed hundreds of thousands of acres of crops in the south-west of the country, officials said.<br/> <br/> At least 51 people have died across the impoverished province of Baluchistan and Prime Minister Raja Parvez Ashraf on Sunday declared three districts as calamity-hit areas.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5h_cC4Urnl1OsuI6vwZlJbWDqBOrA?docId=CNG.d02e7ab04d6be93aa6a92f22805f4a7f.7a1">http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5h_cC4Urnl1OsuI6vwZlJbWDqBOrA?docId=CNG.d02e7ab04d6be93aa6a92f22805f4a7f.7a1</a></p>
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<p><strong>Situation worsens in Assam, half the state flood hit</strong><br/> <br/> Guwahati: <span style="color: #ff0000;"><strong>The flood situation in Assam worsened today with the water level of the Brahmaputra and its tributaries continuing to rise, leaving 15 lakh people affected and 1,972 villages in 16 districts submerged.</strong></span><br/> <br/> <span style="color: #ff0000;"><strong>In the Majuli island in Jorhat district, flood water inundated the sub-divisional office and the Majuli jail from where 41 prisoners were shifted to the Jorhat Central Jail in a special ferry yesterday, officials said.</strong></span><br/> <br/> <span style="color: #ff0000;"><strong>Nine of the famed Satras (Vaishnavite monasteries) and 40 educational institutions in Majuli have also been submerged by the Brahmaputra. Over 70 per cent of Majuli's 890-square kilometre landmass remained under water.</strong></span><br/> <br/> <span style="color: #ff0000;"><strong>A total of 166 relief camps have been set up across the state for flood-affected people. Over 2.31 lakh people have taken shelter in the camps.</strong></span><br/> <br/> <span style="color: #ff0000;"><strong>The third wave of flood has inundated 63 revenue circles of Baksa, Barpeta, Darrang, Dhemaji, Dibrugarh, Golaghat, Jorhat, Kamrup Rural, Kamrup Metro, Lakhimpur, Morigaon, Nagaon, Nalbari, Sivsagar, Sonitpur and Tinsukia districts.</strong></span><br/> <br/> The Brahmaputra River is above the danger level at Dibrugarh, Nematighat, Tezpur, Dhubri, Guwahati and Goalpara.<br/> <br/> Similarly, the Burhidehing is flowing above danger level at Khowang in Dibrugarh district, the Subansiri at Badatighat in Lakhimpur, the Dhansiri at Numaligarh in Golaghat and the Jia Bharali at N T Road Xing at Sonitpur.<br/> <br/> Assam Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi yesterday directed the administration to use helicopters and mechanised boats to step up rescue and relief operations in the flood-hit state.<br/> <br/> Mr Gogoi, who is in Japan, spoke to revenue minister Prithibi Majhi, water resources minister Rajib Lochan Pegu and Chief Secretary Naba Kumar Das over the phone and directed them to step up rescue and relief operations.<br/> <br/> The chief minister has directed adequate food materials be supplied to the flood-affected areas and asked all ministers in his Cabinet to visit the affected districts immediately and oversee relief and rescue operation.<br/> <br/> The National Disaster Response Force, the State Disaster Response Force, the Army and the Indian Air Force are engaged in rescue and relief operations.<br/> <br/> Troops of the Tezpur-headquartered Gajraj Corps of the Indian Army provided relief to more than 6,000 flood-affected people in Sonitpur district in central Assam, besides distributing 2.5 tonnes of food packets.<br/> <br/> Among the worst-affected are Dhemaji district in upper Assam where 622 villages have come under the impact of the flood.<br/> <br/> Parts of National Highway 52, which connects Dhemaji and Arunachal Pradesh, has come under flood water and there are fears of scarcity of food and other material in the district.<br/> <br/> In Guwahati also, rising waters of the Brahmaputra have submerged areas of Pandu and Adabari localities in the western part of the city.<br/> <br/> Most of the Kaziranga National Park in Golaghat district lay under water and wildlife, including the world-famous one-horned rhinos, are moving towards higher grounds.<br/> <br/> A one-horned rhino was killed by poachers in Disbalu Chapori in Kaziranga. The poachers reportedly chopped off the rhino's horn.<br/> <br/> Over 70 per cent of the Pobitora Wildlife Sanctuary in central Assam's Morigaon district was also submerged with as many as 18 of the 22 guard camps in the sanctuary going under water.<br/> <br/> However, there is no report of any loss of wildlife in the Pobitora sanctuary.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.ndtv.com/article/india/around-15-lakh-people-affected-in-assam-flood-271708">http://www.ndtv.com/article/india/around-15-lakh-people-affected-in-assam-flood-271708</a></p>
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<p><strong>More rain pounds flood-hit northeast India</strong><br/> <br/> GUWAHATI: <span style="color: #ff0000;"><strong>Indian Air Force helicopters flying missions in between heavy rainstorms dropped supplies to flood victims in northeast India on Tuesday as the number of displaced rose to 1.7 million.</strong></span><br/> <br/> Nineteen of 27 districts in the state of Assam have been hit by floods and 13 people have been killed over the past week, according to the latest figures from the local disaster management authority.<br/> <br/> The remote and impoverished state, which was rocked by ethnic violence last month, has been flooded three times this year by the mighty Brahmaputra River, which often breaks its banks during the monsoon season.<br/> <br/> Thousands of people in Majuli, a large river island about 350 kilometres (220 miles) from Assam’s main city of Guwahati, have fled to higher ground or are crowded onto embankments.<br/> <br/> An air force helicopter was seen dropping packets of rice, water, biscuits and baby food on one embankment, sparking a scramble among young and old.<br/> <br/> “We just had enough time to pick up some clothes and drinking water bottles before we got onto a boat to reach a highland some distance away,” elderly local Bhabani Pegu told the News Live channel.<br/> <br/> “There was a breach in the dyke and soon water swept through the village before anybody could react.”Rain is continuing to pound Assam and adjoining Arunachal Pradesh state, where the Brahmaputra flows into India from its starting point in bordering Tibet. The number of displaced people stood at 1.5 million on Monday.<br/> <br/> According to the Central Water Commission, the river was flowing above the danger level in at least 10 places in Assam and still rising.<br/> <br/> A government relief effort is gathering pace to help the stranded and displaced, but is being hampered by the bad weather.<br/> <br/> “We have opened more than 3,000 makeshift camps so far across the state,”Assam Agriculture Minister Nilamoni Sen Deka told AFP.<br/> <br/> “The actual damage caused to standing crops is yet to be assessed, but going by the magnitude it appears the loss would be tremendous.”Floodwaters have also submerged the internationally famous 430-square-kilometre (166-square-mile) Kaziranga National Park in eastern Assam, home to the world’s largest concentration of endangered one-horned rhinos.<br/> <br/> “Almost the entire park is under water with animals fleeing the sanctuary to safer areas,” a park ranger said, requesting not to be named.<br/> <br/> The Brahmaputra has flooded twice already this year, in June and in August, an official in the local weather office told AFP.</p>
<p><a href="http://dawn.com/2012/09/25/more-rain-pounds-flood-hit-northeast-india/">http://dawn.com/2012/09/25/more-rain-pounds-flood-hit-northeast-india/</a></p>
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<p><strong>Assam flood toll rises to 12</strong><br/> <br/> <span style="color: #ff0000;"><strong>The overall flood situation in Assam remained unchanged and the death toll rose to 12 on Tuesday, official sources said.</strong></span><br/> <br/> <span style="color: #ff0000;"><strong>The third wave of floods has affected nearly 15 lakh people rendering 14 lakh of them homeless in 16 districts of the state.</strong></span><br/> <br/> <span style="color: #ff0000;"><strong>The sources said the toll increased as three deaths due to the disaster were reported from Lakhimpur and Hajo.</strong></span><br/> <br/> One person drowned and two others including a boy were washed away by swollen Brahmaputra in Lakhimpur and north Hajo.<br/> <br/> The situation was serious in the city with areas of Gorchuk, Sunsali, Pandu, Kharguli and Fancy Bazaar submerged as the water level of Brahmaputra suddenly rose due to heavy rains in the upper reaches.<br/> <br/> The district administration has taken all measures to ensure there is no casualty due to the rising water.<br/> <br/> The National Disaster Relief Force (NDRF), State Disaster Relief Force (SDRF), Army and para military forces are carrying out rescue and relief operations, the sources added.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.thehindu.com/news/states/other-states/assam-flood-toll-rises-to-12/article3935406.ece">http://www.thehindu.com/news/states/other-states/assam-flood-toll-rises-to-12/article3935406.ece</a></p>
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<p><span style="color: #ff0000;"><strong>With five more deaths reported from remote Anjaw district bordering China, the toll in the current floods in Arunachal Pradesh rose to nine on Tuesday, while four persons were missing in worst-affected Lohit district.</strong></span></p>
<p><span style="color: #ff0000;"><strong>All seven administrative centres – Hayuliang, Hawai, Manchal, Goliang, Walong, Kibitho and Chaglogam were completely cut off, Economic Adviser to CM Kalikho Pul said.</strong></span></p>
<p><span style="color: #ff0000;"><strong>The five deaths were reported from different parts of the hilly district.</strong></span></p>
<p>There were 30 to 35 major breaches on the Tezu-Hayuliang Road which has become unmotorable, leaving thousand stranded in the district which was devastated by landslides and floods triggered by torrential rain since September 16.</p>
<p>A population of 21,000 were without food, water, electricity, fuel and domestic LPG cylinders, with water supply lines washed away and telephone and electric posts uprooted, Pul said.</p>
<p>With road communications disrupted, and telephone and electricity snapped for the last nine days, assessing the magnitude of the devastation was next to impossible, Pul said.</p>
<p>Though there was acute shortage of rations and requisition sent to the state government, ration sorties were not possible because of constant bad weather, he said.</p>
<p>Four were missing while going to Tezu from Hayuliang, Lohit Deputy Commissioner RK Sharma said.</p>
<p>Three were rescued by the GREF and army personnel</p>
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<tbody><tr><td style="padding-top: 10px;"><p><a href="http://www.dnaindia.com/india/report_arunachal-pradesh-flood-toll-reaches-9_1745090">http://www.dnaindia.com/india/report_arunachal-pradesh-flood-toll-reaches-9_1745090</a></p>
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<p><strong>Floods affect 748,000 people, kill 51 in Balochista</strong>n<br/> <br/> QUETTA - <span style="color: #ff0000;"><strong>More then 748,000 people of 15 districts were affected, 682 villages were completely destroyed while 5,000 livestock were swept away in the recent flood in Balochistan.</strong></span><br/> Provincial Disaster Management Authority (PDMA) has released the initial report over the devastation caused by torrential rains in Balochistan.<br/> According to the PDMA report, at least 748,000 people of 15 districts including Zhob, Loralai, Qila, Saifullah, Harnai, Lasbella, Khuzdar, Jaffarabad and Dera Bugti were affected by flood.<br/> The report said that at least 682 villages were completely destroyed while more than 5,000 livestock were swept away in floodwater.<br/> Standing crops over 300,000 acres of land have been destroyed. According to an estimate, 51 people were killed due to torrential rains and flood.</p>
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<p><a href="http://www.pakistantoday.com.pk/2012/09/25/news/national/floods-affect-748000-people-kill-51-in-balochistan/">http://www.pakistantoday.com.pk/2012/09/25/news/national/floods-affect-748000-people-kill-51-in-balochistan/</a></p>
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<p><strong>Toll from Pakistan floods climbs to 372</strong><br/> <br/> <span style="color: #ff0000;"><strong>THE death toll from torrential rains and subsequent flooding across Pakistan has risen to 372, disaster authorities say.</strong></span><br/> <br/> <span style="color: #ff0000;"><strong>Nearly 4.5 million people have also been affected by the monsoon deluges, which have destroyed or damaged over 275,000 houses.</strong></span><br/> <br/> Officials blame collapsing structures for most of the human losses.<br/> <br/> Sindh is the hardest hit province where more than half the casualties took place, followed by the central province of Punjab, according to details issued by the National Disaster Management Authority on Tuesday.<br/> <br/> The rains, which began in late August, affected a total area of 700,000 hectares across the country, causing significant damages to farmland and cattle herds.<br/> <br/> Government rescue teams backed by the military are trying to reach out to the stricken people with tents, tarpaulins and other relief items, as efforts continue to drain flood waters from large swathes of land.<br/> <br/> International aid groups say the Pakistani government has so far not sought their help but joint damage assessment programs are ongoing.<br/> <br/> Pakistan was hit by worst floods in its history in 2010 which affected about 20 million people.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.perthnow.com.au/news/breaking-news/toll-from-pakistan-floods-climbs-to-372/story-e6frg13l-1226481377776">http://www.perthnow.com.au/news/breaking-news/toll-from-pakistan-floods-climbs-to-372/story-e6frg13l-1226481377776</a></p>
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<p><strong>UN begins food distribution to thousands affected in Pakistan floods</strong><br/> <br/> NEW DELHI: The United Nations on Tuesday announced it has begun food distributions to tens of thousands of people affected by monsoon floods in the Sindh province of Pakistan, adding that it plans to expand assistance to the Balochistan province later this week.<br/> <br/> Some 10,000 families in the Jacobadad district are receiving a one-month food ration consisting of dietary staples such as fortified wheat flour, pulses, vegetable oil and iodized salt, as well as high energy biscuits and specialized ready-to-use supplementary food for small children.<br/> <br/> With road access limited due to the flood waters and some areas currently under 2.5 meters of water, WFP has deployed 16 motorboats to reach some of the worst-affected communities.<br/> <br/> The agency said it plans to reach a further 10,000 families in the Balochistan province later this week. However, it warned that any assistance beyond this first phase will require additional funding from donors, adding that it is currently seeking urgent donations of $15 million.<br/> <br/> “We could scale up our response to reach up to 250,000 families – that’s 1.7 million people,” said WFP Pakistan Country Director Jean-Luc Siblot. “But that would mean using food stocks earmarked for relief to the displaced population in the north-west of the country and these would have to be replenished by December – that means funding is needed now.”<br/> <br/> <span style="color: #ff0000;"><strong>Pakistan’s National Disaster Management Authority has estimated that up to 4.5 million people have been affected by the flooding in Sindh, Balochistan and Punjab provinces, following heavy rains earlier this month. However, not all of these may require food assistance. An initial rapid assessment has been carried out in the affected areas, and the results are expected to give a clearer indication of the needs of those affected.</strong></span><br/> <br/> <span style="color: #ff0000;"><strong>The disaster has already caused the deaths of up to 400 people, destroyed houses and hundreds of thousands of acres of crops.</strong></span><br/> <br/> Many of the districts affected, particularly in Sindh and Balochistan, were already struggling to recover from the floods of 2010 and 2011, with communities particularly vulnerable to the effects of this latest shock.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.bikyamasr.com/78423/un-begins-food-distribution-to-thousands-affected-in-pakistan-floods/">http://www.bikyamasr.com/78423/un-begins-food-distribution-to-thousands-affected-in-pakistan-floods/</a></p>
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<p><strong>Floods claim 102 lives in five months</strong> <br/> <br/> KATHMANDU, Sept. 24: <span style="color: #ff0000;"><strong>One hundred and two people were killed and 43 others have been missing in floods and landslides triggered by incessant rains over the last five months.</strong></span><br/> <br/> <span style="color: #ff0000;"><strong>This information was given out by Ekmani Nepal, assistant spokesman at the Ministry of Home Affairs, in the regular spokesman-journalists meet organized at the Ministry of Information and Communications here today. He said 33 people died due to diarrhoea while 89 died due to lightning.</strong></span><br/> <br/> Assistant spokesman Nepal also said that the Council of Ministers on August 27 made a decision to create 1,041 various posts in the Nepal Police to implement the Action Plan for Maintaining Gender Balance in the Nepal Police, 2010.<br/> <br/> Spokesman at the Ministry of Defence Dwarika Prasad Acharya said that 173 people were treated for snakebites at the Nepal Army´s snake bite treatment centres in different places of the country in the last month.<br/> <br/> Assistant spokesman at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Dr Durga Bahadur Subedi, said the ministry collected revenue worth Rs 180.5 million in the last month from passports and travel documents it issued in that period.<br/> <br/> Under Secretary at the Ministry of Labour and Employment, Diwas Acahrya, said that the ministry issued Rs 16,950,000 as ex-gratia compensation to the next of kin of the 113 Nepali workers who died in course of employment abroad in the last two months period.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.myrepublica.com/portal/index.php?action=news_details&news_id=42357">http://www.myrepublica.com/portal/index.php?action=news_details&news_id=42357</a></p>
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<p><strong>Calamity state in Zamboanga City</strong><br/> <br/> ZAMBOANGA CITY—<span style="color: #ff0000;"><strong>A state of calamity has been declared in the city as floods left a trail of destruction that city officials are still assessing.</strong></span><br/> <br/> <span style="color: #ff0000;"><strong>Mayor Celso Lobregat made the declaration with the backing of the city council on Tuesday.</strong></span><br/> <br/> <span style="color: #ff0000;"><strong>Lobregat said the declaration would help speed up the release of the city’s calamity fund that would be spent on aid for at least 9,000 flood victims.</strong></span><br/> <br/> <span style="color: #ff0000;"><strong>Parts of the calamity fund would also be used to repair damaged infrastructure, he said.</strong></span><br/> <br/> <span style="color: #ff0000;"><strong>As of noon on Tuesday, flooding has not eased in many areas of the city.</strong></span><br/> <br/> <span style="color: #ff0000;"><strong>Classes in at least 10 elementary schools and four high schools in the villages of Vitali, Tictapul, Tugbungan, Divisoria, Labuan, San Jose Gusu, Baliwasan, Patalon and Mangusu have been suspended.</strong></span><br/> <br/> In Vitali alone, considered the hardest-hit village, water level was up to 3-meters deep at the height of the floods that hit the city on Monday, Lobregat said.<br/> <br/> What worsened the situation, Lobregat said, were at least four landslides that hit Barangay Lanzones and a water spout that hit Barangay Boalan.<br/> <br/> A 5-year-old boy died in Patalon village and several other persons were injured at the height of the floods. Lobregat said the extent of destruction was still being assessed. Julie Alipala, Inquirer Mindanao</p>
<p><a href="http://newsinfo.inquirer.net/277474/calamity-state-in-zamboanga-city">http://newsinfo.inquirer.net/277474/calamity-state-in-zamboanga-city</a></p>
<p>^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^</p>7 of 10 SINKING & Africa Roll; India: floods in North-east kill 23, displace 7 lakh! Central & West Africa: Niger, Nigeria, Cameroon, Senegal experience the worst flooding! 284 dead by floods!tag:poleshift.ning.com,2012-09-23:3863141:BlogPost:9030502012-09-23T12:18:13.000ZStanislavhttps://poleshift.ning.com/profile/Stanislav
<p><strong><a href="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/74177227?profile=original" target="_self"><img class="align-full" src="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/74177227?profile=original" width="609"></img></a></strong> <strong>India <span style="color: #ff0000;">TILTING & BACKWASHING</span>:<br></br></strong></p>
<p><a href="http://www.echoofarunachal.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/lead-2.jpg" target="_blank"><img class="align-full" src="http://www.echoofarunachal.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/lead-2.jpg"></img></a> <span style="color: #ff0000;"><strong>/ Flood situation grim in Assam, 7 dead</strong></span><br></br><span style="color: #ff0000;"><strong>The flood situation…</strong></span></p>
<p><strong><a target="_self" href="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/74177227?profile=original"><img class="align-full" src="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/74177227?profile=original" width="609"/></a></strong><strong>India <span style="color: #ff0000;">TILTING & BACKWASHING</span>:<br/></strong></p>
<p><a target="_blank" href="http://www.echoofarunachal.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/lead-2.jpg"><img class="align-full" src="http://www.echoofarunachal.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/lead-2.jpg"/></a><span style="color: #ff0000;"><strong>/ Flood situation grim in Assam, 7 dead</strong></span><br/><span style="color: #ff0000;"><strong>The flood situation in Assam is grim with over 800,000 people affected in at least 15 of the 27 districts in the state, officials said on Sunday. Officials said that seven people have died in floods in various places during the past one week. Over 700 villages have also been submerged in the affected areas, an official said. The government has sounded an alert, as water level in most of the rivers in the state continue to rise owing to incessant rains in some Upper Assam districts as well as in Arunachal Pradesh. The flood situation is more serious in Kamrup, Jorhat, Dibrugarh, Tinsukia, Dhemaji, Lakhimpur and Sonitpur districts, according to the official. /</strong></span></p>
<p><strong><span style="color: #ff0000;">/ Flash floods, landslides in North-east kill 23, displace 7 lakh</span><br/><span style="color: #ff0000;">Flash floods and landslides have killing 23 people and displacing a further 7 lakh people in the North-east. CNN-IBN reported that nearly 20 people were killed in Sikkim, three in Arunachal Pradesh and more than 7 lakh people affected in Assam after days of incessant rainfall triggered landslides and flash floods in the region on Sunday.</span><br/><span style="color: #ff0000;">In Sikkim, landslides swept away houses, buildings, roads, bridges and everything else in their way, in the northern part of the state, while a labour camp at the Teesta Hydel Project site was also washed away.</span><br/><span style="color: #ff0000;">The twenty deaths in the state are believed to include seven Border Roads Organisation (BRO) personnel, three civilians and one General Reserve Engineer Force (GREF) personnel. The Indo-Tibetan Border Police (ITBP) claimed that 11 of its personnel were missing. In Arunachal Pradesh, flash floods resulted in the deaths of three people. /</span><br/></strong></p>
<p><strong><span style="color: #ff0000;"><span style="color: #ff0000;"><strong>/ Even before lakhs of people in Assam, displaced due to floods, could return home, another four lakh people have been affected in a fresh wave of floods in the state. A third wave of floods has hit Assam this monsoon season, affecting 13 districts.</strong></span> <span style="color: #ff0000;"><strong>In the Bhoyra village in Lower Assam's Rangiya sub division, people are escaping to safer places. Their home and fields are completely engulfed by the Puthimari river which breached on Thursday evening. Around 150 homes have been inundated here, affecting 1300 people.</strong></span><br/><span style="color: #ff0000;"><strong>Bhadrasher Das, a school teacher, has lost eight bighas of standing crop in the flood that washed away hundreds of hectares of land.</strong></span><br/><span style="color: #ff0000;"><strong>"We have a huge problem... communication and roads have breached... we hope to get some relief from the government but that will not be adequate," Mr Das said. /<br/></strong></span></span></strong></p>
<p><strong>Thailand <span style="color: #ff0000;">SINKING</span></strong>:</p>
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<p><span style="color: #ff0000;">/</span> <span style="color: #ff0000;"><strong>In Thailand, 15 provinces have been declared disaster flood zones. Heavy rain has also slightly flooded some Bangkok streets prompting the government to criticize its governor for the mismanagement of the situation.</strong></span><br/><span style="color: #ff0000;"><strong>In spite of being the end of the monsoon season, It's been raining for weeks in several Thai provinces and Bangkok as well, in northern and eastern regions the situation is worsening. According to the latest updates from the Disaster Prevention and Mitigation Department, 15 provinces have been declared flood disaster zones, with more than 235,000 people across the country already affected. Bangkok governor's remark came after Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra publicly questioned Bangkok Metropolitan Administration's efficiency in water management, to add more tension, Deputy Government Spokesman blamed Bangkok administration for not keeping the city's roads dry over the past week, up to 30 Bangkok roads were flooded, creating huge traffic jam and affecting hundreds of thousands of Bankokians.</strong> /</span></p>
<p><span style="color: #ff0000;"><strong>/ <span style="color: #800000;">BMA: Slow drainage caused by subsidence</span></strong></span><br/><span style="color: #ff0000;"><strong>Twenty-nine areas in Bangkok were flooded following heavy rain on Wednesday night, causing severe traffic congestion across the city, and the water took many hours to drain away.</strong></span> <span style="color: #ff0000;"><strong>Deputy city clerk Jumpol Sampaopon said on Thursday that work crews took a long time to drain off the water because subsidence in the city means the canals now have only a gradual drop and the water flows out much more slowly.</strong></span><br/><span style="color: #ff0000;"><strong>Land in the city was subsiding at a rate of one to 10 centimetres a year, he said.</strong></span> <span style="color: #ff0000;"><strong>Mr Jumpol denied that the flooding was caused by undredged canals or clogged drains, as many people claimed. /<br/></strong></span></p>
<p><strong>7 of 10 Africa Roll</strong> - <strong>Africa floods 2012</strong></p>
<p><strong>40+137+81+13+13=284</strong></p>
<p><strong><strong>527,471 + <strong>445,725 = more than one million</strong><br/></strong></strong></p>
<p>See also - <a href="http://poleshift.ning.com/profiles/blogs/west-and-central-africa-flood-impact-profile-as-of-17-sep-2012" target="_self">West and Central Africa - Flood Impact Profile (as of 17 Sep 2012)</a> by <a href="http://poleshift.ning.com/profile/Kojima" target="_self">Kojima</a></p>
<p><span style="color: #800000;"><strong><span style="color: #800000;"><strong>Cameroon worst flooding in 60 years!</strong></span></strong></span></p>
<p><span style="color: #800000;"><strong><span style="color: #800000;"><strong><a target="_blank" href="http://eoimages.gsfc.nasa.gov/images/imagerecords/79000/79216/cameroon_tmo_2012261.jpg"><img class="align-full" src="http://eoimages.gsfc.nasa.gov/images/imagerecords/79000/79216/cameroon_tmo_2012261.jpg"/></a></strong></span></strong></span>17 September, 2012</p>
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<p><span style="color: #000000;"><strong><strong>Cameroon authorities have found six more bodies in flood waters, bringing the number killed to as high as 40 in the wake of tropical downpours and the breaching of a dam in the west African country. Cameroon's Communication Minister Issa Tchiroma Bakary has described the flooding as "a calamity" and called for urgent action to save lives and property. <span style="text-decoration: underline;">Local officials are calling it the worst flood disaster in over 60 years</span>.</strong></strong></span></p>
<p><span style="color: #000000;"><strong><strong><a href="http://edition.cnn.com/2012/09/21/world/africa/cameroon-flooding/index.html" target="_blank">edition.cnn.com</a>;</strong></strong></span></p>
<p><span style="color: #800000;"><strong>Nigeria worst flooding in 50 years!</strong></span></p>
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<p><a target="_self" href="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/74178168?profile=original"><img class="align-full" src="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/74178168?profile=original" width="591"/></a>14 September, 2012 - 23 September, 2009</p>
<p><a target="_self" href="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/74178224?profile=original"><img class="align-full" src="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/74178224?profile=original" width="567"/></a>15 September, 2012 - Niger river floods</p>
<p><strong>Flooding across Nigeria has <span style="text-decoration: underline;">killed at least 137 people</span> and displaced more than 35,000 since July. This is worst floods in 50 years! <a rel="nofollow" href="http://allafrica.com/stories/201208150187.html" target="_blank">allafrica.com</a>; <a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.capitalfm.co.ke/news/2012/09/nigeria-floods-kill-137-since-july/" target="_blank">capitalfm.co.ke;</a></strong></p>
<p><strong><a target="_blank" href="http://dailytimes.com.ng/sites/default/files/imagecache/400xY/Flood_0.jpg"><img class="align-full" src="http://dailytimes.com.ng/sites/default/files/imagecache/400xY/Flood_0.jpg"/></a>Flood Kills Nine Month-Old Baby, Displaced 12,000 People in Cross River. <strong>Floods kill over 47 in Niger State!</strong> <a href="http://allafrica.com/stories/201209200696.html" target="_blank">allafrica.com</a>; <strong><a href="http://www.channelstv.com/home/2012/09/21/floods-kill-over-47-in-niger-state/" target="_blank">channelstv.com</a></strong></strong></p>
<p><span style="color: #800000;"><strong>Niger worst flooding in 100 (or 80) years!</strong></span></p>
<p><span style="color: #800000;"><strong><a target="_self" href="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/74178363?profile=original"><img class="align-full" src="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/74178363?profile=original" width="616"/></a></strong></span>14 September, 2012 - 23 September, 2009</p>
<p><a target="_self" href="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/74178379?profile=original"><img class="align-full" src="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/74178379?profile=original" width="508"/></a><strong>Floods in Niger have <span style="text-decoration: underline;">killed 81 people</span> since July, the UN Office for Humanitarian Affairs announced Thursday, adding cholera outbreaks have killed a further 81 people. "The last update of the toll of the floods dating from September 11 indicates that 527,471 people have been affected by the bad weather and 81 people have lost their lives," OCHA said in a statement in Niamey. Niger has worst floods for 100 years. <a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5gphBNm32Yp-cx1QYKi7coQeXyRbA?docId=CNG.94f2aee15fe6c666bf80f346b88c4ec4.1c1" target="_blank">google.com</a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.trust.org/alertnet/news/niger-has-worst-floods-for-100-years/" target="_blank">trust.org</a></strong></p>
<p><span style="color: #800000;"><strong>Senegal some of worst flooding in it's history<br/></strong></span></p>
<p><span style="color: #800000;"><strong><a target="_blank" href="http://sphotos-a.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ash4/c156.0.403.403/p403x403/320204_479317612092255_863099436_n.jpg"><img class="align-full" src="http://sphotos-a.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ash4/c156.0.403.403/p403x403/320204_479317612092255_863099436_n.jpg"/></a></strong></span><a target="_self" href="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/74178411?profile=original"><img class="align-full" src="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/74178411?profile=original" width="601"/></a>Sources: <a href="http://reliefweb.int/sites/reliefweb.int/files/resources/UNOSAT_A4_ToubaReport_03092012_SEN.pdf" target="_blank">reliefweb.int</a>; <a href="http://reliefweb.int/sites/reliefweb.int/files/resources/UNOSAT_DakarReport_31082012_SEN.pdf" target="_blank">reliefweb.int</a>;</p>
<p><span style="color: #000000;"><strong>Senegal in the wake of some of the worst flooding in its history, displacing tens of thousands and killing 13. <a href="http://allafrica.com/stories/201209210625.html" target="_blank">allafrica.com</a>; </strong></span></p>
<p><span style="color: #800000;"><strong>Chad</strong></span></p>
<p><a target="_self" href="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/74178425?profile=original"><img class="align-full" src="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/74178425?profile=original"/></a><strong>Tens of thousands of people have been affected by flooding in parts of central, eastern and southern Chad following heavy rains in August. Thousands of hectares of crops and hundreds of houses have also been destroyed. The floods have caused at least 13 deaths, affected 445,725 people and inundated about 255,720 hectares of cropland, according to a 3 September update by the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs. Some 73,412 houses have been destroyed.</strong><br/> <strong>The flooding has come when Chad is still grappling with food insecurity. In late August, residents and officials in an affected area of the Mouraye department, in the south-eastern region of Salamat, told medical charity Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) that "this year's flooding in the area, although having lasted a shorter time than the flooding in 2010, is much more serious due to the extension of the floodwaters and the impact on crops," according to Stefano Argenziano, the head of Mission of MSF in Chad.</strong> <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/global-development/2012/sep/11/floods-hit-thousands-chad-rains" target="_blank">guardian.co.uk</a>;</p>
<p><span style="color: #800000;"><strong>East Africa</strong></span>:</p>
<p><strong>/ The UN humanitarian agency says more than 240,000 people in East Africa have been displaced by localized flooding which has also destroyed infrastructure across the region.</strong> <strong>The UN Office for Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) said in its bulletin published on Tuesday received in Nairobi that the flooding is as a result of the ongoing July-September rains.</strong><br/><strong>"The regional climate outlook for the September-December rainfall season indicates an increased likelihood of above to normal rainfall over much of the Greater Horn of Africa," OCHA said.</strong> <strong>According to humanitarian agency, some 131,000 people have been affected by flash floods in Afar and Amhara regions of Ethiopia while over 100,000 people have been affected in Sudan's Darfur, Gedaref, Kassala and Blue Nile States.</strong> <strong>"Heavy rains continue to hamper delivery of vital humanitarian aid to refugee camps in the border areas of South Sudan," the relief agency said.</strong> <strong>In Kenya, OCHA said, 5,000 people have been displaced by a landslide in Baringo county, where a section of the road was destroyed, cutting-off relief response to the area.</strong><br/><strong>More than 70 people were killed and over 100,000 others displaced in Kenya's flash floods that ravaged several parts of Kenya between April and June. /</strong></p>
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<p><strong>India</strong>:</p>
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<p><strong>Flood situation grim in Assam, 7 dead</strong><br/><br/><span style="color: #ff0000;"><strong>The flood situation in Assam is grim with over 800,000 people affected in at least 15 of the 27 districts in the state, officials said on Sunday.</strong></span><br/><br/><span style="color: #ff0000;"><strong>Officials said that seven people have died in floods in various places during the past one week. Over 700 villages have also been submerged in the affected areas, an official said.</strong></span><br/><br/><span style="color: #ff0000;"><strong>The government has sounded an alert, as water level in most of the rivers in the state continue to rise owing to incessant rains in some Upper Assam districts as well as in Arunachal Pradesh.</strong></span><br/><br/><span style="color: #ff0000;"><strong>The flood situation is more serious in Kamrup, Jorhat, Dibrugarh, Tinsukia, Dhemaji, Lakhimpur and Sonitpur districts, according to the official.</strong></span><br/><br/>A total of 16 teams of the National Disaster Response Force (NDRF), 60 army teams and 18 teams of the State Disaster Response Force (SDRF) have stepped up their relief and rescue efforts in some of the worst affected districts, the official said.<br/><br/>Four helicopters of the Indian Air Force and army have been pressed into service in the Sadia subdivision in Tinsukia district to air drop necessary food items and rescue marooned people.<br/><br/>Ferry services have also been stopped at Sadia and Assam's largest river island Majuli in Jorhat district as the Brahmaputra river is flowing above the danger level in many areas. Several villages have been submerged in Sadia and Majuli.<br/><br/>In Lower Assam, too, flood waters have breached the Rangia-Goreshwar PWD road at Rangia in Kamrup district Sunday morning, an official said.<br/><br/>Parts of the Kaziranga National Park, Pobitora Wildlife Sanctuary and Dibru-Saikhowa National Park have also been submerged.<br/><br/>Alert has been sounded in the Kaziranga National Park. At least 15 anti-poaching camps of Kaziranga have been submerged, forcing the security staff to shift to boats in order to keep an eye on poachers.<br/><br/>Officials from Dispur said that Brahmaputra is flowing above the danger level mark in Dibrugarh, Nimatighat, Dhemaji, Tezpur and Dhansirimukh in Kaziranga.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.dnaindia.com/india/report_flood-situation-grim-in-assam-7-dead_1744289">http://www.dnaindia.com/india/report_flood-situation-grim-in-assam-7-dead_1744289</a></p>
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<p><strong>Flash floods, landslides in North-east kill 23, displace 7 lakh</strong><br/><br/><span style="color: #ff0000;"><strong>Flash floods and landslides have killing 23 people and displacing a further 7 lakh people in the North-east.</strong></span><br/><br/><span style="color: #ff0000;"><strong>CNN-IBN reported that nearly 20 people were killed in Sikkim, three in Arunachal Pradesh and more than 7 lakh people affected in Assam after days of incessant rainfall triggered landslides and flash floods in the region on Sunday.</strong></span><br/><br/><span style="color: #ff0000;"><strong>In Sikkim, landslides swept away houses, buildings, roads, bridges and everything else in their way, in the northern part of the state, while a labour camp at the Teesta Hydel Project site was also washed away.</strong></span><br/><br/><span style="color: #ff0000;"><strong>The twenty deaths in the state are believed to include seven Border Roads Organisation (BRO) personnel, three civilians and one General Reserve Engineer Force (GREF) personnel. The Indo-Tibetan Border Police (ITBP) claimed that 11 of its personnel were missing.</strong></span><br/><br/><span style="color: #ff0000;"><strong>In Arunachal Pradesh, flash floods resulted in the deaths of three people.</strong></span><br/><br/>In Assam, thirteen districts are affected, the worst-hit being Tinsukhia. The Brahmaputra is flowing above the danger mark and the Kaziranga and Dibru-Saikhowa national parks are under water.<br/><br/>Nearly 60 relief camps have been set up across the state to cater to the flood victims. This is the fourth time that floods have hit the state this year.<br/><br/>The National Disaster Response Force (NDRF) and the Army have been called in for rescue operations.<br/><br/>CNN-IBN said that according to the latest reports, nearly 30 km of a highway was washed away and the region between Mangan and Chungthang was said to be affected.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.firstpost.com/india/flash-floods-landslides-in-north-east-kill-23-displace-7-lakh-465043.html">http://www.firstpost.com/india/flash-floods-landslides-in-north-east-kill-23-displace-7-lakh-465043.html</a></p>
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<p><strong>Flood situation in Assam worsens, over four lakh affected</strong><br/><br/>Rangiya, Assam: <span style="color: #ff0000;"><strong>Even before lakhs of people in Assam, displaced due to floods, could return home, another four lakh people have been affected in a fresh wave of floods in the state. A third wave of floods has hit Assam this monsoon season, affecting 13 districts.</strong></span><br/><br/><span style="color: #ff0000;"><strong>In the Bhoyra village in Lower Assam's Rangiya sub division, people are escaping to safer places. Their home and fields are completely engulfed by the Puthimari river which breached on Thursday evening. Around 150 homes have been inundated here, affecting 1300 people.</strong></span><br/><br/><span style="color: #ff0000;"><strong>Bhadrasher Das, a school teacher, has lost eight bighas of standing crop in the flood that washed away hundreds of hectares of land.</strong></span><br/><br/><span style="color: #ff0000;"><strong>"We have a huge problem... communication and roads have breached... we hope to get some relief from the government but that will not be adequate," Mr Das said.</strong></span><br/><br/>In Lachi Bishnupur village, located further into the flooded plains, almost 1500 people are marooned. There are no roads to this village and they have been living like this since the first flash of flood in the last week of June.<br/><br/>"From June 26 we are in water... we have lost our houses, paddy fields. However, we have not received sufficient relief from the government," said Hiren Kalita, a farmer.<br/><br/>The National Disaster Response Force is on standby as the district administration is distributing relief and evacuating people.<br/><br/>"The present scenario is that the water is still rising. Some parts of Rangia are under water because of Puthimari and due to rain in Bhutan... Administration is taking all possible measures... we have requested the NDRF in case rescue is suddenly needed... also next step is relief," said Barnali Deka, Sub-Divisional Officer, Rangia.<br/><br/>It has been a cruel summer for Assam. Lakhs of people have been displaced in waves of flood across the state and ethnic riots in Lower Assam. With more embankments threatening to breach the flood, misery may affect many more people. </p>
<p><a href="http://www.ndtv.com/article/india/flood-situation-in-assam-worsens-over-four-lakh-affected-270962">http://www.ndtv.com/article/india/flood-situation-in-assam-worsens-over-four-lakh-affected-270962</a></p>
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<p><strong>Thailand</strong>:</p>
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<p><strong>Thai Opposition & government blame each other for flood mismanagement </strong><br/><br/><span style="color: #ff0000;"><strong>In Thailand, 15 provinces have been declared disaster flood zones. Heavy rain has also slightly flooded some Bangkok streets prompting the government to criticize its governor for the mismanagement of the situation.</strong></span><br/><span style="color: #ff0000;"><strong>In spite of being the end of the monsoon season, It's been raining for weeks in several Thai provinces and Bangkok as well, in northern and eastern regions the situation is worsening. According to the latest updates from the Disaster Prevention and Mitigation Department, 15 provinces have been declared flood disaster zones, with more than 235,000 people across the country already affected.</strong></span><br/><br/><span style="color: #ff0000;"><strong>Bangkok governor's remark came after Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra publicly questioned Bangkok Metropolitan Administration's efficiency in water management, to add more tension, Deputy Government Spokesman blamed Bangkok administration for not keeping the city's roads dry over the past week, up to 30 Bangkok roads were flooded, creating huge traffic jam and affecting hundreds of thousands of Bankokians.</strong></span><br/><br/>Despite the construction of flood walls and dykes, Waters have reached over 2 meters high in eastern region close to the capital Bangkok, The Office of the National Water and Flood Management Policy announced that the situation was considered now "severe".<br/><br/>During last year's flood more than 5,300 cubic meters of floodwater per second flowed into the main "Chao Phraya River" that crosses the capital, whereas the river capacity is only 3,500 cubic meters per second. Thailand Water Resources Association advised the government to build other major flood diversion channels in order to divert water from the Chao Phraya River to the sea to prevent the capital to be flooded again.<br/><br/>The blame game between the government and opposition is not reassuring the population nor investors who have been assured by Prime minister Yingluck Shinawatra that there would be no floods similar to last year's. With several provinces already under water, doubts over the government's capacity to handle the situation is emerging in the country's political sphere.</p>
<p><a href="http://presstv.com/detail/2012/09/23/263116/thaioppositiongovernmentmismanagement/">http://presstv.com/detail/2012/09/23/263116/thaioppositiongovernmentmismanagement/</a></p>
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<p><span style="color: #000000;"><strong>BMA: Slow drainage caused by subsidence</strong></span><br/><br/><span style="color: #ff0000;"><strong>Twenty-nine areas in Bangkok were flooded following heavy rain on Wednesday night, causing severe traffic congestion across the city, and the water took many hours to drain away.</strong></span><br/><br/><span style="color: #ff0000;"><strong>Deputy city clerk Jumpol Sampaopon said on Thursday that work crews took a long time to drain off the water because subsidence in the city means the canals now have only a gradual drop and the water flows out much more slowly.</strong></span><br/><br/><span style="color: #ff0000;"><strong>Land in the city was subsiding at a rate of one to 10 centimetres a year, he said.</strong></span><br/><br/><span style="color: #ff0000;"><strong>Mr Jumpol denied that the flooding was caused by undredged canals or clogged drains, as many people claimed.</strong></span><br/><br/>Responding to former Bangkok governor Bhichit Rattakul's suggestion that all the drains in the capital city should be replaced with new ones, the deputy city clerk said the task would be difficult and would require a large budget.<br/><br/>However, he said, Bangkok authorities might lay new drains in some flood-risk areas.<br/><br/>Officials will ensure that the drains are not clogged with debris such as leaves, sticks and garbage so that water can flow unobstructed, he added.<br/><br/>Sujarit Koontanakulvong, a water engineer at Chulalongkorn University, said rainfall is an important variable for flooding in Bangkok.<br/><br/>"The drainage system has been in use for more than 20 years and it is designed to handle 60 millimetres of rain per hour," Assoc Prof Sujarit said. "If there is more than 130mm of rain in an hour, it will take more than two hours to drain off."<br/><br/>He also suggested that the Bangkok Metropolitan Administration install more drains and speed up the draining process on main routes in the city.<br/><br/>"The BMA should consider setting up an electrical drainage system. This system is a central public utility system which each agency can operate together," he said.<br/><br/>Meanwhile, Rak Thailand Party leader and MP Chuvit Kamolvisit posted a question in his Facebook page on Thursday asking whether the BMA's giant tunnel can really be used to drain water out to the sea.<br/><br/>His question was directed to Bangkok Governor MR Sukhumbhand Paribatra.<br/><br/>"I want to know whether the giant tunnel, in which a huge sum of money was invested for sustainable flood prevention, is really effective.<br/><br/>"An official working at the BMA office told me that the city's water pumps and water pumping system were full of defects, making the BMA's water pumping capacity ineffective," Mr Chuvit posted on his Facebook page.<br/><br/>The Rak Thailand leader suggested it was time that people started looking into various projects of the BMA to see how much it had actually done to prevent Bangkok from being flooded.<br/><br/>Mr Chuvit also posted a picture taken last year of a flooded spot in Bang Khae area.<br/><br/>The picture shows how sad and disappointing it was that when Bangkok was hit by the great flood, the giant tunnel could not be of any help, he said.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.bangkokpost.com/news/local/313262/bma-slow-drainage-caused-by-subsidence">http://www.bangkokpost.com/news/local/313262/bma-slow-drainage-caused-by-subsidence</a></p>
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