7 of 10 SINKING & S American Rolls; Panama: Two earthquakes hit Azuero! Brazil: 38 municipalities were declared state of emergency by flood!

[Stanislav]

Brazil flood

7 of 10 S American Rolls:

Brazil:

/ is by heavy rains and swollen rivers in northern Brazil, where at least 38 municipalities in the state of Amazonas, were declared state of emergency. Source /

Panama lose elevation:

/ Two earthquakes of 5.0 and 4.5 magnitude on the Richter scale occurred in the last hours in the Azuero region in the center of Panama, no damage reported, reported the Institute of Geosciences at the University of Panama. Source /

/ At least 25 homes in the areas of Radio City, Concepcion and the streets of Old 11, 12 and 16, Juan Diaz, located in the area east of the province of Panama, were affected by the rains that caused flooding tonight . Source  /

7 of 10 SINKING Sunda plate & Indo - Australian plate TILT

India TILTING:

Sea erosion -

/ Over 30 metres of the coast in Nettukuppam lost due to sea erosion.

All their lives, families of Nettukuppam in north Chennai have been dependent on the sea; now they are afraid of it. A week ago, the sea suddenly took away over 30 metres of their shoreline overnight . At the point where the jagged cemented floor ends, there is a sudden drop and if a careless step might send one tumbling down into the roaring waves is enough is not careful, he could tumble into the roaring waves beneath. /

Sri Lanka:

Bangladesh SINKING:

/ The river Teesta, which took an alarming turn in three villages of Lalmonirhat a couple of days ago, devouring a banana orchard at Gokunda village yesterday morning. Erosion by river Teesta have rendered at lest 55 families at three villages in Sadar upazila homeless in the last three days. /

Thailand SINKING:

Breached sea defenses at Laem Tukkae village

/ "Phuket suffers serious coastal erosion at Bang Tao Beach in Kamala, at Rawai, at Nai Yang Beach and at the Laem Tukkae sea gypsy village on Koh Sireh,” he said. At least eight houses suffered damage, altogether home to 53 people. /

Vietnam SINKING:

/ Riverbank erosion, three homes were washed away. Source /

/ Many of the agricultural land area of "economic island" Minh Chau, Ba Vi district of Red River water being pulled into a river large pieces, making the risk of losing land, losing their home of many households are at alarm. Erosion of residential land in some families in residential areas 7, Minh Chau. /

Indonesia SINKING:

Sumatera -

/ 560 homes flooded in Langkat. Langkat-houses about 560 Attack Sub Trunk, Trunk attack Langkat District, North Sumatra, as high as 50 centimeters flooded due to heavy rain which flushed the area for several days. /

/ Due to heavy rain, the interchange Office Medan Labuhan Marelan and flooding. Hundreds of homes, until this afternoon looks stagnant water due to clogged drenase channel. Source /

Hawaii:

70% of beaches eroding

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India:

Vanishing shoreline and advancing fears
Over 30 metres of the coast in Nettukuppam lost due to sea erosion

All their lives, families of Nettukuppam in north Chennai have been dependent on the sea; now they are afraid of it. A week ago, the sea suddenly took away over 30 metres of their shoreline overnight . At the point where the jagged cemented floor ends, there is a sudden drop and if a careless step might send one tumbling down into the roaring waves is enough is not careful, he could tumble into the roaring waves beneath.

“We have been watching the sea ever since the incident happened. Even at night, we keep our lights on and maintain vigil. We have sent our children to relatives' homes. It is scary even to think that our homes too could be swallowed by the sea,” said Sujatha, one of the women.

The six homes are on 6 Street of Nettukuppam and were reconstructed in situ by the Tamil Nadu Slum Clearance Board after the tsunami in 2004. “Will the State government reconstruct these houses if they are lost again? The Water Resources Department needs to speed up the work on the sea wall as otherwise, we will lose more homes. A house belonging to an old lady was lost last week,” said Joseph, a resident.

A large number of fisherfolk had gathered on the shore to watch the WRD dump boulders to extend the sea wall.

On Monday, residents staged a dharna demanding that the work be expedited. They also objected to the WRD creating wall in the form of a curve.

“We want the wall to be completed before the new moon that falls on May 20 as the sea would become rough then. The wall should also be in a straight line. Only then will we have more space. “Our children used to play cricket on a spot that has now gone missing. There used to vast expanses of sand in this area when we were young. Now, all that is gone and our beach is lost,” said Kalaivanan, another resident.

Sources in the WRD said lack of quarry was the reason for delay in extending the sea wall.

The construction of the wall had earlier been stopped in 2004 due to paucity of funds and was resumed only last week. “We are, however, sourcing boulders from other quarries and speeding up work. Today, there was a delay in the morning because truckers were waiting for ending of ‘rahu kalam' . We will also construct a straight wall as required by the fisherfolk,” the source said.

http://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/chennai/article3419347.ece

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Thailand:

Phuket joins Andaman fight against coastal erosion
Breached sea defenses at Laem Tukkae village. Photo: Atchaa Khamlo

PHUKET: Phuket has joined an Andaman-wide project spearheaded by the Prince of Songkla University (PSU) Haad Yai Campus to combat coastal erosion throughout the region.

At the recent sea gypsy Loy Reua ceremony at Laem Tukkae last weekend, newly-elected Rassada Mayor Phudit Raksaraj explained to the Phuket Gazette that Rassada Municipality was working with the PSU Haad Yai Campus and an informal organization dedicated to combating coastal erosion throughout Southern Thailand.

“I have already sent our plan for rebuilding the Laem Tukkae seawall to the PSU for them to study as it needs specialist input. This didn’t happen with the previous seawall and it didn’t last,” he said.

Large waves brought on by the wet-season monsoon last year damaged homes at the small sea gypsy community, forcing villagers to seek refuge with family members or even sleep outdoors.

At least eight houses suffered damage, altogether home to 53 people.

This year, Mayor Phudit expects that employing outside assistance will push the project cost to about 30 million baht, as opposed to 17mn baht for the old seawall, which fell apart within months.

“We need to study factors such as wave action and the specific environment as it needs a unique design. It’s not only about building the wall, after deciding on a plan we need to hold a public hearing to ensure villagers agree with it,” Mayor Phudit said.

Sawad Samukpong, one of the members of the informal group formed to combat coastal erosion, explained to the Gazette that a previous plan to stave off coastal erosion throughout the South was drawn up, but never implemented.

Now his team intends to put a pilot plan into practice in a few locations to see how it works to prevent further coastal erosion.

“Phuket suffers serious coastal erosion at Bang Tao Beach in Kamala, at Rawai, at Nai Yang Beach and at the Laem Tukkae sea gypsy village on Koh Sireh,” he said.

To facilitate input into the new plan, a large seminar was held at the Katina Hotel in Phuket Town on Thursday to discuss and decide on a general practical plan to combat coastal erosion along the Andaman coast, he added.

The seminar, organized by Department of Marine and Coastal Resources and PSU Phuket Campus, is the direct result of Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra raising coastal erosion as a topic of concern at the mobile Cabinet meeting in Phuket in March.

At that Cabinet meeting, the Engineering Faculty at the PSU Haad Yai Campus was assigned to co-ordinate the drawing up of the six-province plan.

Attending the seminar were provincial and local government representatives from the Andaman provinces and the relevant NGOs [non-governmental organizations], Mr Sawad said.

“After the seminar in Phuket, we will hold smaller, area-specific meetings in the Andaman provinces of Ranong, Phang Nga, Krabi, Trang, Satun and Phuket,” said Mr Sawad.

“We will also study all the damage points because those places have different sets of problems. Once that is done we can then put the pilot plan into action in specific locations, and after that request the budget to carry out the full plan,” he added.

http://www.phuketgazette.net/archives/articles/2012/article14960.html

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Bangladesh:

Erosion renders 55 families homeless

The river Teesta, which took an alarming turn in three villages of Lalmonirhat a couple of days ago, devouring a banana orchard at Gokunda village yesterday morning.Photo: STAROur Correspondent, Lalmonirhat

Erosion by river Teesta have rendered at lest 55 families at three villages in Sadar upazila homeless in the last three days.

The affected villages are Kalmati, Tajpur and Gokunda.

The erosion hit people have taken shelter on government land and their relative's houses.

The river also devoured at least two fruit gardens, three bamboo clusters and about 24 acres of cultivable land.

Many people have started cutting trees and bamboos in fear of erosion in the villages, said local union parishad sources.

Victim Nur Muhammad of Kalmati village told this correspondent that erosion by the river took a devastating turn there in the last three days.

Abdul Baki, another erosion victim of Tajpur village, said at least 23 families were rendered homeless during the period.

Mofizul Islam of Gokunda village houses of said around 20 families were devoured by the river since yesterday noon.

“Many people have been leaving their homesteads for fear of erosion”, he added.

Many farmlands with standing crops especially boro paddy, have gone into the river, said the erosion victim.

Contacted, Lalmonirhat Water Development Board (WDB) executive engineer Enayet Ullah said his office had not enough fund to check the river erosion immediately.

"We have sent a letter to the higher authorities seeking fund to cope with the situation," he said.

http://www.thedailystar.net/newDesign/news-details.php?nid=232906

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Vietnam:

Minh Chau Commune (Ba Vi): Landslide serious

(HNM) - Many of the agricultural land area of "economic island" Minh Chau, Ba Vi district of Red River water being pulled into a river large pieces, making the risk of losing land, losing their home of many households are at alarm.
Erosion of residential land in some families in residential areas 7, Minh Chau.

To appear on Minh Chau Commune 10-5, we know, landslides peak was on May 2-2012, the Hoa Binh Hydropower Plant for production water discharge. There are sores on farmland close to 100m. More seriously, margin erosion has extended into the residential land of many households in the neighborhood of 7 to many countries only a few dozen meters from the edge. In it, Mr. Nguyen Trung States households had been sores in the works, many cracks appeared on the wall; home of his Danh Do, Phuong Thi Mao edge of 15-16m ... According to The Office Games - Vice Chairman Minh Chau commune, from the beginning of the year, this place has many landslides, is on foot to 5-7m of arable land and also appeared to add some new slides are dangerous . The whole commune currently has around 10 households (55 inhabitants shall) need to urgent relocation if the situation sat lo continue to occur as in recent time and if functional agencies only stone embankment households legs (not embankments roof) in the current critical period, the sub-chronic flooding in June and July and the upcoming rainy season will inevitably cause further erosion in the residential area ...

The beach is the coastal erosion, Ky said: "Since last year to now, in this area has slides into 20m, every hour of every day every" attack "on the shore yard pieces of land that poured up into the river , forming the 4-5m high earth walls, very dangerous. Also according to officials of Ba Vi Economics Department, Pearl trim called "economic island" because this was originally a popular beach between Red River, not social have marketplaces, there is no bridge, there is no traffic roads connected to the mainland therefore the living and the travel of people face innumerable difficulties.

Facing landslide increasingly serious, the local administration has a plan to move homeless households Foot 10-15m from the edge of the safe area. 4-2012 middle of May, Hanoi People's Committee has approved the project missed emergency treatment Minh Chau Commune - "Project construction bulkheads protection against foot and leg" from the embankment to the wharf Minh Chau, 500m long . However, the stone embankment protection current legs and Minh Chau commune previously not fix the situation radically landslides are becoming more serious. To request the authorities of the city have effective measures, funding concerns to implement the plan has foot stone embankment protection, embankment just in time critical sections of the beach shore Minh Chau commune, facilitating for the people here assured production, stable long life.

http://hanoimoi.com.vn/newsdetail/Xa-hoi/547762/xa-minh-chau-ba-vi-...

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Indonesia:

560 homes flooded in Langkat

Langkat-houses about 560 Attack Sub Trunk, Trunk attack Langkat District, North Sumatra, as high as 50 centimeters flooded due to heavy rain which flushed the area for several days.

"There were 560 households whose homes were flooded," said Head Trunk attacks, which reached at Batang Syaifullah attack today.

Floods that inundated the neighborhoods it reaches 50 centimeters due to overflow of water from the river Calm Air. Nevertheless, said Syaifullah, no residents displaced by flooding. However, some residents seemed to have been packing for mngungsi when standing water is getting higher. Syaifullah sure standing water will recede when the rain had subsided.

It also still waiting for the Youth Disaster Preparedness Team (Tagana) Langkat to help evacuate residents to evacuate if conditions worsen.

One of the Sei Bamban, Paino claiming that the flooding had become regular customers every time the rainy season, but will quickly subside when the rain stopped, because it did not immediately evacuate residents.

Regarding the assistance of Langkat regency, according to Paino, there has been no visible including the kitchen there is also not established in the village and Village Trunk Bamban attack.

http://www.waspada.co.id/index.php?option=com_content&view=arti...

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[Nancy Lieder]

Thanks for your steadfast reporting, you and Khan have kept us informed where we would otherwise be in the dark on these matters!