This blog is the place to document ongoing earth changes related to the 7 of 10 plate movements as described by the Zetas.
ZetaTalk: 7 of 10 Sequence written October 16, 2010
The 7 of 10 scenarios describe plate movements, and for this to occur something has to release the deadlock, the current stalemate where the plates are locked against each other. Once the deadlock is broken and the plates start moving, sliding past each other, new points where the plates are locked against each other develop, but these are weaker locks than the one at present. The current lock, as we have so often stated, is the Indo-Australian Plate which is being driven under the Himalayans. This is no small lock, as the height of the Himalayans attests. Nevertheless, the activity in this region shows this likely to be the first of the 7 of 10 scenarios to manifest. Bangladesh is sinking and the Coral Sea is rising, showing the overall tipping of the Indo-Australian Plate. Now Pakistan is sinking and not draining its floods as it should, while Jakarta on the tongue of Indonesia is also sinking rapidly, showing that the tilt that will allow Indonesia to sink has already started.
Meanwhile, S America is showing signs of a roll to the west. Explosions on islands just to the north of the S American Plate occurred recently, on Bonaire and Trinidad-Tobago, and the Andes are regularly being pummeled. There is a relationship. As the Indo-Australia Plate lifts and slides, this allows the Pacific plates to shift west, which allows S America to shift west also. This is greatly increased by the folding of the Mariana Trench and the Philippine Plate. But it is the Indo-Australian Plate that gives way to incite change in these other plates, and this is what is manifesting now to those closely following the changes. Once the folding of the Pacific has occurred, Japan has been destabilized. We are not allowed to give a time frame for any of these plate movements, but would point out that it is not until the North Island of Japan experiences its strong quakes that a tsunami causing sloshing near Victoria occurs. There are clues that the New Madrid will be next.
Where the N American continent is under great stress, it has not slipped because it is held in place on both sides. The Pacific side holds due to subduction friction along the San Andreas, and the Atlantic side holds due to the Atlantic Rift's reluctance to rip open. What changes this dynamic? When S America rolls, almost in step with the folding Pacific, it tears the Atlantic Rift on the southern side. This allows Africa freedom to move and it rolls too, dropping the Mediterranean floor above Algeria. What is holding the N American continent together has thus eased, so that when the Japan adjustments are made, there is less holding the N American continent in place than before, and the New Madrid gives way. We are also not allowed to provide the time frame between the Japan quakes and New Madrid. Other than the relationship in time between the New Madrid and the European tsunami, no time frame can be given. The sequence of events is, thus:
a tipping Indo-Australia Plate with Indonesia sinking,
a folding Pacific allowing S America to roll,
a tearing of the south Atlantic Rift allowing Africa to roll and the floor of the Mediterranean to drop,
great quakes in Japan followed by the New Madrid adjustment,
which is followed almost instantly by the tearing of the north Atlantic Rift with consequent European tsunami.
Due to the slowing of the 7 of 10 plate movements by the Council of Worlds the impact of some of the events described above will be lessened.
The Zetas explain:
ZetaTalk: Pace Slowed
Written May 19, 2012
The effect of the thousands of humming boxes placed along fault lines and plate borders can be seen in several incidents that have occurred since the start of the 7 of 10 plate movements. The lack of tsunami during the 7 of 10 sinking of the Sunda Plate is one such example. We predicted at the start of the 7 of 10 scenarios in late 2010 that the Sunda Plate sinking would occur within 2-3 weeks, yet it dragged on through 2011. At the time we had predicted tsunami on the Sunda Plate, in general equivalent in height to the loss of elevation for a coastline. None of this occurred due to the slower pace.
The pace of mountain building in S America, where slowed, has still resulted in rumpling up and down the Andes, and stretch zone accidents likewise in lands to the east of the Andes. The shape of S America has clearly changed. Will the islands in the Caribbean be spared? At some point, as with the magnitude 7.9 quake in Acapulco on March 2, 2012 a significant adjustment will need to occur, and this will include depressing the Caribbean Plate so it tilts, sinking the islands and lands on that portion of the plate to the degree predicted. But the S American roll will likely continue to avoid the magnitude 8 quakes we originally predicted in deference to slow rumpling mountain building. The African roll was anticipated to be a silent roll in any case, so the slowed pace would not affect the outcome.
Will the slowed pace prevent the 7 of 10 scenarios for the Northern Hemisphere? Bowing of the N American continent has reached the point of pain, with breaking rock booming from coast to coast, but still there have been no significant quakes in the New Madrid area. Yet this is past due, and cannot be held back indefinitely. What has and will continue to occur for the Northern Hemisphere scenarios are silent quakes for Japan, which has already experienced drastic subduction under the north island of Hokkaido where mountain building is occurring as a rumple rather than a jolt. However, the anticipated New Madrid adjustment cannot be achieved without trauma. But this could potentially occur in steps and stages such that any European tsunami would be significantly lessened.
What happens when the pace of plate movement is slowed? The likelihood of tsunami is definitely reduced, as can be seen in the sinking on the Sunda Plate. The sinking occurred, and is almost complete, yet the possibility of tsunami we predicted for various regions on the Sunda Plate were avoided. The height and force of a tsunami is directly related to the degree of displacement in the sea floor, and if this happens in steps rather than all at once the displacement will be less for any given step.
This bodes well for the European tsunami. If the Council of Worlds is still imposing a slower pace on the 7 of 10 plate movements, this tsunami will definitely be lessened. The tear in the North Atlantic will be slight, each time. The amount of water pouring into this void will be less, each time. And the rebound toward the UK will likewise be less, each time. But our prediction is the worst case situation, and it also reflects what the Earth changes, unabated, would produce.
But what does a slower pace do to land masses where jolting quakes are expected? Does this reduce the overall magnitude of the quakes anticipated? Large magnitude quakes result when a catch point along plate borders is highly resistant, but snapping of rock finally results. Usually there is one place, the epicenter, where this catch point resides and a long distance along the plate border where smaller quakes have prepared the border for easy movement. A point of resistance within the body of a plate, such as the New Madrid, can likewise resist and suddenly give.
There is no way to lessen the resistance at these catch points, though the tension that accompanies such points can be reduced so that the quake itself is delayed. What this means for a slower 7 of 10 pace is that large magnitude quakes will be spread apart in time, and their relationship to our predictions thus able to be camouflaged by the establishment. Where sinking (such as the Caribbean Island of Trinidad) or spreading apart (such as to the west of the Mississippi River) are to occur, these land changes will eventually arrive. But like the sinking of the Sunda Plate, a slower pace unfortunately allows the cover-up time to maneuver and develop excuses.
The bottom of the sea rising up in Hokkaido / Land showed up overnight
In Shiretoko peninsula of Hokkaido, the bottom of the sea has been rising since 4/24/2015.
It’s the coastal line of Rausu town.
According to a local resident, she noticed the coastal line is slightly higher than usual when she was picking seaweed in the morning of 4/24/2015.
It already became higher than her when she came back home.
It kept on rising and it became 300 〜 500m wide, 30m long and 10 〜 15m high by the morning of 4/25/2015.
It is seen still rising.
Land subsidence is seen in the surroundings but no sound or quake were observed. Because the rising land has marine organisms attached, it is assumed not to be a landslide.
Sapporo Regional Headquarters of Japan Meteorological Agency commented there has not been earthquakes observed in this week. No significant volcanic activities are not seen either. The cause of rising sea bottom is not known.
‘Everyday disasters’ driving flight from Sundarbans
April 7, 2015
Worsening floods and storm surges are driving exodus from the low-lying Sunderbans. (Reuters)
The end for Shibshankar Pal’s hopes of clinging to his home in India’s Sundarban islands came the night of July 14, 2014, when surging seas advanced on the house he had just reconstructed following floods a year earlier.
A tidal surge of as much as 21 feet – double a normal surge – ripped through the island village and soon swept away his home in Kusumtala village, Namkhana. He and his family fled to a flood shelter for more than three months, but then decided they could not rebuild again.
Instead, they decided to migrate to the slums of Baruipur, the nearest town, leaving the land and village where he and three previous generations had lived. Pal now does odd jobs and his wife travels to Kolkata to work as a maid. Worsening floods and storm surges linked to climate change are driving a growing exodus from the low-lying islands facing the Bay of Bengal.
The islands, along with mainland parts of the Sundarbans, are part of a 4,000-square-kilometre UNESCO World Heritage Site, the world’s largest mangrove ecosystem and a critical tiger habitat. But for some of the 4.4 million people who live in the Sundarbans, it is time to leave.
“The frequency of floods has increased a lot. Now a simple high tide or a tidal bore will breach the embankments and flood villages, destroy houses, paddy fields, ponds – in effect our livelihoods. It is no longer liveable,” Pal said.
Like thousands living in villages such as Boatkhali, Mousuni, Kusumtala and Pakhirala, he has seen global warming turn high tides and tidal bores – things communities have long lived with – into losses they can no longer survive.
A boy moves towards safer place from the flood hit Hamdania Colony in Srinagar on Monday. The flood hits Kashmir valley again following incessent rains. (Source: PTI Photo). Source: indianexpress.com
Kashmir flood situation: There has been no fresh rainfall over the past 24 hours which eased the flood concerns in the valley earlier in the day. (PTI). Source: financialexpress.com
The mudslides hit houses in a village near the main city of Srinagar. Reuters. Source: bbc.com
Many areas of the main city of Srinagar are under water. EPA. Source: bbc.com
1 April, 2015.As more flooding looms, Kashmir remains vulnerable to disaster
As Kashmir braces for what could be its second major flood in six months, residents are worried that inadequate flood-control infrastructure in the region could see them facing yet more death and devastation.On Monday, the government of Jammu and Kashmir declared the region flooded after two days of incessant rains caused the waters of the Jhelum River to surge over the danger mark.
Landslides in the central district of Budgam buried several homes, killing 15 people. Another two people reportedly died in flash flooding in the state.A break in the weather has since allowed the Jhelum River to recede back to safe levels, but meteorologists predict heavy rains will return over the coming week.
"Given the weather forecast for the next few days, the flood threat is staring us in the face,” said Majid Rashid, a resident of the capital Srinagar.
In a region still reeling from massive flooding in September that killed more than 300 people, residents blame the government for not doing enough, quickly enough, to safeguard its citizens."We haven’t witnessed any serious effort from the government to prevent floods, despite what happened last year," said Mehraj Nakash a shopkeeper in Srinagar’s business hub Lal Chowk.
COSTLY LESSON
The government insists it has learned from last year's flooding, which caused an estimated $16 billion worth of damage to the Kashmir region.
The state's flood-control department points to work it has already started on increasing the carrying capacity of the Jhelum and its flood spill channel (FSC).
The $3.4 billion project, 70 percent of which is to be funded by the central government, involves building a new 82-kilometre-long spill channel to help cope with future flooding.In total, the project would increase the capacity of the Jhelum and its flood channels from the current 43,000 cubic feet per second to 120,000 cubic feet per second.
“The project for increasing the carrying capacity of the Jhelum and the FSC is part of a comprehensive flood-control project for which we have got some interim funding and are expecting more in a few weeks from the central government,” said Javid Jaffer, Kashmir’s chief engineer for flood control.Designed to carry excess water from the Jhelum to Wullar Lake in north Kashmir, the supplementary Dogripora-Wullar spill channel would cut through over 2,200 acres of mainly agricultural land.
To some villagers, the security that project offers is worth sacrificing part of their farms.
“If some portion of my land comes under the flood channel I will consider giving it if I am properly compensated,” said Ramzan Lone, who lives in Kakapora.But others worry that the project could put them in greater danger, by bringing the river's excess water closer to their homes."How would we be sure that the flood channel's banks wouldn't break?" asked Kawoosa villager Mohammad Subhan.
WORSENING RISK
With scientists warning that climate change-related floods will occur more frequently in the future, experts in Kashmir agree that the region needs an alternate flood channel.
An article published in Scientific American in March says worsening river floods will hit Asia - and particular India – hardest over the coming years.Kashmir’s own Department of Environment, Ecology and Remote Sensing has predicted that over the next 25 years the number of rainy days in the Himalayan region may increase by more than 15 days per year in Jammu and Kashmir.
But some experts are not convinced that the government's current plan to increase the Jhelum River's capacity will work.Syed Madni, former chief engineer of Kashmir’s flood control department, says cost factors such as the need to relocate villagers and buy up land make the new flood channel unfeasible.
And Shakil Romshoo, head of the earth sciences department at Kashmir University, is concerned that the proposed new spill channel doesn't have enough of a downhill angle to carry floodwater away quickly enough.
According to flood control chief engineer Jaffer, the government is already looking at alternative solutions to the new spillway while waiting for the results of a feasibility study being carried out by the Flood Control Department, with experts from Kashmir University.He suggests possibly using reservoirs or dams to hold water coming from the Jhelum's tributaries during times of imminent flooding – which would ease pressure on the river itself - and then releasing it in a controlled manner once the threat of flooding subsides.
EARLY WARNING NEEDED?
As well as finding ways to deal with flooding, the government says it is determined to get better at predicting floods before they happen.Authorities at the Indian Meteorological Department (IMD) say they are improving Kashmir's weather forecasting system through broadening its network of observational equipment.
"Strengthening of the network is one of our top priorities,” said Sonum Lotus, the regional director of IMD in Srinagar.
According to Lotus, by June the department will have added 21 automatic weather stations to the six already being used across the region and will have installed three new weather radars to relay real-time information from inaccessible sites.“If we had such a network in place before last year’s floods, it could have helped people and the government make better decisions,” Lotus said.
But many Kashmir residents feel the government's priority should be protecting people against floods, regardless of whether or not they can see them coming.“Establishing a network of early warning systems is good … but we are more worried about flood control,” said Yasin Khan, president of the Kashmir Traders’ and Manufacturers’ Federation, which has asked the Kashmir government to compensate traders for the losses they suffered in last September’s floods.
“If there was fool-proof flood control in place, we would not have had to rebuild our lives," he said. "And there would have been no need for us to plead before the government now."(Reporting by Athar Parvaiz; editing by Laurie Goering) Source: in.reuters.com
2 April, 2015.Flood water level rises in Kashmir
The water level in the Dal lake started rising once again on Thursday after fresh rainfall hit the valley, leaving over 2,000 people stranded at the blocked Jammu -Srinagar National Highway.
With the Met department predicting two more days of rainfall, the administration, the Army and the National Disaster Response Force (NDRF) are on alert to deal with any emergency.Meanwhile, tour operators and hoteliers in the state have urged people not to cancel their trips to the valley and said the government and the media are blowing the news of Kashmir floods out of proportion.
Traders from the tourism industry say the recent flash floods in Kashmir have hit the tourism sector badly. Low influx of tourists during the spring has affected their business.The Jammu and Kashmir assembly yesterday erupted in uproar over the flood situation and the state government's response to the same.
Heavy rains and a landslide in the Valley have killed 17 people so far.
Fifteen people were killed when a hillside collapsed onto a house in Ledhan village, about 40 km (25 miles) from Srinagar, before dawn on Monday. Army and police used shovels and diggers to search for the missing.Police said two other people died in flash floods in another part of the state.Hundreds of people have fled their homes as Kashmir's main rivers began to swell and weather forecasters predicted further downpours in the region that was struck by devastating floods just seven months ago. Source:business-standard.com
01 April, 2015.Landslide: Sinking, sliding land in Budgam triggers migration
Landslide in central Kashmir Budgam's Ompora water plant.
Abdul Rehman, a resident of Suryasar in central Kashmir's Budgam, deserted his house like scores of others after land beneath shook and slid. Dozens like him now live in makeshift shelters like the Khansahib School building as the threat of landslides and caving-in threatens thousands of residents here.
Hundreds of kanals of land in Budgam district, 30 km away from Srinagar, is continuously shifting because of the prolonged wet spell in the Valley. "Our house was sinking inch by inch. I bundled my family in a vehicle and left the village," said Rehman. The district administration has fanned out men and machinery to stop the Laden like tragedy that left 16 dead in house collapse incidents. The villagers have been staying awake during nights since the fateful Monday and feeling of sinking land hasn't stopped.
"We have been complaining about drifting land since March this year. We are getting sleepless nights now," said Ramzan Rather, a local. Budgam superintendent of police (SP) Fayaz Ahmad Lone grappled the developing landslide situation the whole day on Wednesday. "We are on our toes. We are monitoring the situation and taking necessary steps," said SP Lone. Budgam's four tehsils of Chrar-e-Sharief, Beerwah, Chadoora and Khansahib is in the grip of high risk landslide situation.
Hundreds of families in these tehsils have shifted to safer locations following sinking and caving-in of karewas (terraced high lands with deep gorges and ravines). The district is spread over 1,370 square km with around 7.3 lakh population. The areas worst affected were Jawalpora, Brinjan, Hapatnaar, Freshnaar - all precariously perched on karewas facing deep slopes. Some houses were damaged in Lolipora and Rawalpora in the district. Three houses had sunk in Khansahib area.
Agriculture minister and local MLA Ghulam Nabi Lone, who paid whirlwind visit to affected families, said, "Instructions have been made that all major roads should stay open." Major landslides were also reported from south Kashmir's Shopian district where 45 families were evacuated. A chunk of road was swept by mountain debris on Srinagar-Muzaffarabad in north Kashmir's Uri area.
Experts warn of increasing threat of landslides due to ongoing rainfall. "Budgam karewas, which are repository of our 4 million years of history, is devoid of any vegetation. Highly wet land due to previous floods and recent snowfall is sinking and sliding under the influence of gravity. Houses should not have come up there in the first place," said Shakil Romshoo, head Earth Sciences, Kashmir University.
Romshoo said soil excavations and mushrooming of brick kilns have impacted the local ecology too. "These activities should be banned there. In fact, the government itself uses sand from there for development activities," he added, pointing towards the ongoing railway project. The district is set to receive more rainfall in the next 24 hours, accentuating fears among the administration, which is likely to issue instructions for those living in upper reaches.
Seven tehsils of Shopian district has already been warned by the administration of impending landslide situation. Kashmir had seen intermittent rain spell since Saturday, adding water to the ground water table that remains super saturated because of the September floods, which left more than 280 dead and thousands stranded and homeless. Source:hindustantimes.com
Chile
The government declared a state of emergency after the floods. (EPA) Source: bbc.com
A couple walk next to a damaged railway line after a flood at Diego de Almagro, Chile, March 28, 2015. @Reuters Source: voanews.com
Aerial pictures released by the Chilean Air Force reveal the extent of the flooding. AFP. Source: bbc.com
2 April, 2015.Death toll in Chile floods rises to 24, 69 missing
The death toll from floods devastating northern Chile has risen by one to at least 24, officials said Wednesday, as President Michelle Bachelet cancelled a trip to a regional summit to cope with the crisis.
Another 69 people, up by 12 from the last tally, remain missing, the National Emergency Office said.The flash floods broke out last week in the normally arid north, home to the world's driest desert.Entire towns have been submerged by water and thousands of people have been left homeless.
The number of dead found in thick mud left behind by the floodwaters has risen steadily as the clean-up continues."I'm convinced that more bodies will appear," the mayor of the town of Chanaral, Yerko Guerra, told local media earlier Wednesday..
"Today marks one week since we were hit by the painful tragedy that lashed northern Chile," Bachelet said. "We still have a lot to do."Source:news.yahoo.com
31 March, 2015.El Niño floods Peru, Chile and Ecuador
In Peru, the Department of Tumbes is being affected by overflowing rivers. As a result of heavy rains on Friday and Sunday, the Government has officially declared a state of emergency in the region, a move that will allow for urgent investments to rehabilitate the affected areas.
The Tumbes River has flooded more than 7,500 hectares of crops, homes and roads. The source of the river is in the mountains of the neighbouring country of Ecuador, where flooding in recent days has caused at least 25 deaths.
Heavy rains caused the river flow to exceed the all-time record of 1,300 cubic metres per second, and reached 1,887 cubic metres per second.
According to the Regional Director of Agriculture, Diego Alemán Ramírez, 2,800 hectares of organic and conventional bananas, as well as 200 of lemons and 200 of cocoa, among others, have been flooded.
Atacama, the region with the world's driest desert, is suffering its worst flooding in recent years due to heavy rains that have hit the north of the country.
In Chile, where the weather is putting the table grape campaign in jeopardy at national level (from Copiapo to O'Higgins), the Government reported that 12 people have lost their lives as a result of the rains and floods in the regions of Coquimbo, Atacama and Antofagasta.
"It is affecting between 35% and 40% of the vines with Red Globe and Crimson Seedless grapes not yet harvested; about 4 million boxes of Red Globe and 2.5 million boxes of Crimson Seedless are estimated to have been affected," said the press release from ASOEX. Source: freshplaza.com
Lakes in the high Andes drain into the Amazon basin, if they drain at all. The area in Bolivia experiencing the worst flooding normally is drained by two different rivers, but what happens when mountain building occurs in the Andes, and pressure from the crimp creates crumpling in the Andes. The top portion of S America is free to pull to the west, overriding the Caribbean Plate and the Cocos Plate just to the west. But the bottom portion of S America is blocked by the Nazca Plate, which resists. Crumpling in the crimp creates folds, which are points on the crust which drop and heave, alternately.
This is similar to the accordion fold that occurred on the Sunda Plate, wherein the rivers in northern Thailand heaved, blocking the river beds, and then at a later date relaxed, releasing the flood through Bangkok. . Flooding is likewise occurring along the coast of southern Brazil, due to a stretch there that drops the land when S America bows. The crimp in S America is opposite from the yaw point at Nigeria, where sudden flooding and imploding buildings are occurring because the top part of Africa is held in place at present while the bottom part is pulling toward the east, falling into the void of the Indian Ocean.
During 2012 - 2014, the number of casualties and people affected by natural disasters increased. The Java islands remained highly prone to disaster events related to hydro-meteorological incidents. The begining and end of the year were observed as the most critical times.
30 March, 2015.17 percent of Indonesians live in landslide-prone areas: Agency
The National Disaster Mitigation Agency (BNPB) has revealed that 40.9 million Indonesians, or around 17.2 percent of the population, live in landslide-prone areas.
BNPB data and information center head Sutopo Purwo Nugroho said on Monday that disaster mitigation efforts for landslides were still minimal but, during the rainy season, people living in susceptible areas faced a medium-to-high risk of landslides.
"In fact, in 2014, landslide was the most deadly [type of] disaster, causing 408 deaths, displacing 79,341 residents and damaging 5,814 houses," Sutopo said.
Some of the 40.9 million residents would not be able to escape or protect themselves from landslides as 4.28 million of them were toddlers, 323,000 were people with disabilities and 3.2 million were elderly, according to Sutopo.
West Java, Central Java and East Java are the three areas most prone to landslide disasters.West Java’s Bogor, Bandung, Garut, Sukabumi, Cilacap and Cianjur; Central Java’s Wonogiri, Wonosobo, Temanggung, Banyumas, Semarang, Kebumen and Purbalingga; and East Java’s Ponorogo are some of the districts mapped out by the agency as being prone to landslides.
A map of landslide-prone areas has been distributed to relevant local administrations.
"However, the map had yet to be fully utilized when the administrations drafted the regional spatial plans," Sutopo said, adding that it was too costly to install early-warning systems for landslides in every region."The key is proper spatial planning," he said as quoted by Antara news agency.Twelve people were killed and 11 houses buried after a landslide was triggered by heavy rain in Sukabumi on Saturday.A day earlier, a landslide triggered by rain also hit Jaraksari village in Wonosobo, killing one woman. Source: thejakartapost.com
16 February, 2015. Rainy season in Indonesia is generally between mid November to March. According to BNPB there are 75 districts/municipalities are affected by flooding in 2015. Aceh province was firstly affected on the early days of January. Landslide continues to be the deadliest disaster while whirlwind caused the most destructions. Central Java, West Java and East Java are the most frequently hit by disasters. Source: Reliefweb humanitarian snapshot in pdf
Lakes in the high Andes drain into the Amazon basin, if they drain at all. The area in Bolivia experiencing the worst flooding normally is drained by two different rivers, but what happens when mountain building occurs in the Andes, and pressure from the crimp creates crumpling in the Andes. The top portion of S America is free to pull to the west, overriding the Caribbean Plate and the Cocos Plate just to the west. But the bottom portion of S America is blocked by the Nazca Plate, which resists. Crumpling in the crimp creates folds, which are points on the crust which drop and heave, alternately.
This is similar to the accordion fold that occurred on the Sunda Plate, wherein the rivers in northern Thailand heaved, blocking the river beds, and then at a later date relaxed, releasing the flood through Bangkok. . Flooding is likewise occurring along the coast of southern Brazil, due to a stretch there that drops the land when S America bows. The crimp in S America is opposite from the yaw point at Nigeria, where sudden flooding and imploding buildings are occurring because the top part of Africa is held in place at present while the bottom part is pulling toward the east, falling into the void of the Indian Ocean.
Aerial pictures of the flooded town of Chanaral in the Atacama region of Chile(Fuerza Aerea de Chile/Reuters). Source: ibtimes.co.uk
Locals cross a flooded area in Copiapo, Chile(Ivan Alvarado/Reuters). Source: ibtimes.co.uk
Debris blocks the main street in Chanaral (Ivan Alvarado/Reuters). Source: ibtimes.co.uk
People cross a flooded street in Copiapo (Ivan Alvarado/Reuters). Source: ibtimes.co.uk
27 March, 2015.Why the desert in northern Chile was flooded?
The first drops began to fall on Tuesday.And before long, they were transformed into a storm that turned the arid regions of Antofagasta, Atacama and Coquimbo, in northern Chile, in an unrecognizable place.
The rains caused floods of water and mud that left seven dead so far, about 20 injuries and extensive property damage.
But how is it possible that this traditionally desert area has become a quagmire? Why these sudden and devastating rains are due?
According to experts, it is not uncommon in the desert alluvial flows occur."In principle we must understand that although northern Chile is one of the driest deserts in the world," he tells the BBC Francisco Ferrando, academic director of the School of Architecture and Urbanism at the University of Chile, "because the presence of the Andes and Altiplano plateau above 4000 meters in the Amazonian summer monsoon effects beyond the Andes are recorded ".
"This creates significant rainfall over this sector of the high mountains that result in alluvial flows down over the desert".
"This," he stresses, "occurs every summer.""What happened here was a type of storm that is not so frequent and called cutoff low," explains René BBC Garreaud, deputy director of the Centre for Climate Science and Resilience (CR2).
This is essentially a core of cold air aloft that emerges from the main flow of the westerlies and faces with warm air masses and loaded with high humidity coming from the Amazon basin.This combination led to an intensification of rains and mudslides triggered the north of the country.
As pointed Garreaud, low segregated take place once or twice a year and "always occurring have a significant effect, as a windstorm or an unexpected blizzard at the top of the range"."This time he said very heavy rainfall because a there was a supply of moisture from the tropical zone."
Moreover, the fact that rainfall would occur in a highly concentrated weather worsened the situation."If they had given over 24 to 48 hours its effect would have been more beneficial," says the expert.
How much absorbed dry land?
One might imagine that as the soil dry parched expanse of water, have the ability to absorb rainfall without floods occur.
According to Ferrando, the problem is intensity."The grounds have good infiltration capacity because they are very dry, but the intensity was such that far exceeded the absorption capacity and therefore a huge surplus of water that became surface runoff generated".In Chile, in general, "if it rains more than 60 mm in 24 hours a flood occurs. In the north, the threshold is much lower. With 4 or 5 millimeters falling in a day is likely that these movements occur mass ".
But it also says Garreaud, "although the soil absorbs a lot, not everything is filtered because it forms a film, a kind of crust that tends to waterproof the surface." Accurate forecastAs explained by experts, this is not the case primea time nor the last that it will rain this way in Atacama.
Ferrando recalled that other heavy rains occurred in 1991 and 1997.However, we do a novelty is that "climate change, there is no doubt affecting the country, these phenomena occur more frequently."
But if we know in advance that may occur, especially in summer, is it possible to avoid its consequences?Without going into the realm of how to handle the emergency, escaping the strictly scientific, there are things that can be improved.
According tells BBC Garreaud in meteorological terms, the forecast this time was very successful.
"We knew what was going to happen. On Saturday and Sunday and showed signs of precipitation were then marched to the 4 or 5 days.""The weather service warned of this phenomenon."
"But what is still missing," he says, "are systems that allow translating millimeters of rain that will precipitate -with the time when do-on the likelihood of floods". In some areas, the records indicated that the rainfall in recent days equals accumulated in two years or three years.
"Because the rain is not the problem but the floods"."That's the hardest thing: to understand -and it depends on a number of factors like how rivers and other variables when rain turns into a stream of mud," he explains.There are international knowledge, "but in Chile, we have not adopted. We're a little deficit in that sense. There, we have much to improve," says the researcher. Source:bbc.co.uk
29 March, 2015. At least 12 dead in Chile during the worst flooding in decades
The rainstorm plaguing northern Chile has left at least 12 dead and 20 missing as reported Saturday the Chilean government.The latest death toll, delivered by Interior Minister Rodrigo Peñailillo, includes two new fatalities and an increase in the number of missing by the disaster that affects the regions of Coquimbo, Atacama and Antofagasta.
The president, Michelle Bachelet, said that the situation in the disaster area is "bleak" and stated that it is "highly presumptive" to increase the number of victims.
It is suffering its worst flooding Chile for over 80 years.Peñailillo indicated that a total of 4,634 victims and 5,584 people are in shelters provided by the authorities.
200 people isolated
In addition, more than 200 people remain isolated from heavy rains and floods last Tuesday, mainly in the region of Atacama.
The Chilean Government and emergency agencies have deployed a wide operating safely to put people remain isolated and delivered tons of water and food to the victims of one of the worst natural disasters in recent years in the South American country.
Torrential rains earlier this week in the three northern regions of the country resulted in overflowing rivers and landslides that swept away villages and left some serious damage throughout the area.Source: rtve.es
27 March, 2015. Floods swamp Chile's Atacama region
The president of Chile has flown to the Atacama region in the country’s north where freak rains and flooding left at least seven people dead and others needing evacuation by air from swamped homes.
Communities in the desert region were struggling on Thursday to cope with a disaster that knocked out power and cut off roadways. Thunderstorms with torrential rains moved into the Atacama on Tuesday, causing the Copiapo river to overflow its banks.Fears of mudslides prompted authorities to evacuate thousands from their homes in “the worst rain disaster to fall on the north in 80 years”, said the deputy interior minister, Mahmud Aleuy.
TV images showed brown muddy waters flooding the streets and reaching a hospital in Copiapo city. Some people living along the river had to be rescued by helicopter because roads were blocked by water and mud. TV footage showed several families waiting on the roofs of their homes, including a man who had punched a hole through his roof to save his toddler.
As well as the seven dead, 19 people were listed as missing in three communities hit by flooding, officials said.
Desperate family members of the victims took to Twitter pleading for help in finding their loved ones.
The government declared a state of emergency, putting the region under military control, and President Michelle Bachelet flew to the area. “We’re living an extremely difficult situation,” she said. “The previous forecast was that there was a huge drought here, so the rains were not necessarily seen as a catastrophe. Foreseeing was really difficult because no one knew.”
The heavy rains came after several days of high temperatures and a drought that stoked raging wildfires in Chile’s south-central regions. The fires have burned nearly 93,000 hectares in the 2014-2015 season, far above the annual average of 59,300 hectares over the previous five years.
Earthquake-prone Chile is no stranger to the forces of nature. The national geological service Sernageomin said residents should be on alert due to increased activity at the Villarica volcano in the country’s south, which erupted on 3 March, forcing evacuations and disrupting air traffic.
The storms prompted Chile’s state-run copper giant Codelco to suspend work due to blocked roads. The company said on Thursday it was reopening sites in the north, including some of the world’s largest copper mines. Source: theguardian.com
Thailand dry season
The flood in Asok Montri road after the heavy downpour in Bangkok. (Photo by Nattapol Lovakij). Source: bangkokpost.com
Twitter user @nuto96 tweets via @js100radio an image of Asok intersection taken from a high-rise building at around 1.15pm. Source: bangkokpost.com
25 March, 2015.Why did it flood? Bangkok governor explains
Bangkok Governor says flooding outpaced pumps
Bangkok governor MR Sukhumbhand Paribatra blamed widespread flooding and the resulting traffic gridlock on Tuesday to unseasonably heavy rain.Speaking to reporters today in a press conference, MR Sukhumbhand said streets flooded because the downpour was unusually strong, falling at up 60-70 millimetres per hour.
The Bangkok Metropolitan Administration (BMA) was able to drain the runoff from major streets within two hours, except for Asok Montri Road, where it took three hours. Drainage was slow on Asok because the city was holding water in the adjacent Saen Saep canal to cope with the dry season, when there are normally shortages, the governor said.BMA permanent secretary Sanya Chenimit said Bangkok has more than 1,000 water pumps at 166 stations and can handle rain falling at a maximum 60 millimetres an hour. However, he noted, some pumps were out of service for repairs.
An obviously annoyed Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha said on Wednesday said he had ordered the National Council for Peace and Order (NCPO) and the BMA to explain why the city was so unprepared.MR Sukhumbhand said other hard-hit areas - such as a basement-level supermarket on Sukhumvit Road and Rama IX Soi 7 - are private property and not the BMA's responsibility, MR Sukhumbhand said. The Tops supermarket was inundated when a sewer pipe back-flushed into below-sea-level store. (View a full gallery of photos here)
The governor promised that the BMA will be more capable of coping with heavy rain when Bangkok's second large drainage tunnel under the Bang Sue canal is completed in September next year.
As for where he was during the flood, MR Sukhumbhand told reporters he couldn't reach the inundated area and, besides, his arrival would have only worsened traffic.As an executive, his job was to issue orders, not "dredge a canal" himself, he said. Source:bangkokpost.com
26 March, 2015. Bangkok dammed by garbage
With the rainy season only weeks away, we need to take action now to prevent flooding Officials have blamed waterborne garbage for the floods that swamped areas of Bangkok following a freak summer storm on Tuesday.
Bangkok Governor MR Sukhumbhand Paribatra admitted that the release of floodwater had been too slow, but he put the blame on a mass of garbage clogging drainage pipes at wastewater-pumping stations. Other Bangkok Metropolitan Administration (BMA) officials, as well as some experts in flooding, joined him in pointing the finger at a garbage build-up in the city's wastewater system and canals that is slowing the flow and making it difficult to pump the water off the streets.
It took several hours to drain floodwater from streets in many areas of the city following Tuesday's downpour. Everyday life was disrupted and local businesses now face large clean-up bills. The city authorities might have been caught off-guard, not expecting so much rain to fall so quickly at this time of year. Normally, drainage pipes and canals are dredged a few weeks before the rainy season, which starts around May or June. Kangwan Deesuwan, director of the BMA's Drainage and Sewerage Department, said that he has instructed his officials at all district offices in the capital to focus on collecting garbage from the streets to prevent it from blocking the flow of rainwater. He also pledged to install more water pumps in flood-prone areas of the city by the end of next month.
Bangkok relies heavily on natural waterways like canals to drain floodwater from the city. Large drainage tunnels cover only a small area of the vast capital. This drainage shortfall often comes back to haunt Bangkok in the rainy season, when deluges can swamp whole districts in a matter of hours.
Many people treat the capital's canals as garbage bins, using them to discard everything from household waste to large items like old mattresses. That garbage load is swelled by the natural debris of leaves and branches swept into the drainage system during heavy downpours. The result is obstacles and blockages that exacerbate the flooding. That drainage pipes in many areas of the city are narrow makes the problem even worse. Structures built illegally on canal banks, such as shanty housing, make the situation worse by constricting waterways. As a result, after heavy rain we get heavier and longer floods on Bangkok streets. These problems must be addressed if we want to prevent the kind of scenes witnessed on Tuesday. Bangkok residents could make a start by avoiding throwing garbage into waterways. Source: nationmultimedia.com
Vietnam dry season
A farmer in the central province of Quang Ngai visits his corn field which was damaged by recent heavy rains. Photo: Hien Cu. Source: thanhniennews.com
29 March, 2015. Unusual floods kill 3 in central Vietnam
Several floods triggered by unusual heavy rains over the last few days have claimed three lives in central Vietnam, authorities say. Two people in Quang Ngai and one in neighboring Quang Nam drowned as rainfall totals from March 24-28 in some areas hit more than 500 mm, the highest in March since 1965, Hoang Duc Cuong, director of the Central Meteorological Forecast Center, said Saturday.
Cuong called the heavy rains “unusual” as they occurred during the dry season. The flooding season in central Vietnam usually starts in July and lasts until December.
Floods over the last several days annihilated about 2,700 hectares of rice and other crops in Quang Ngai, local authorities said.
“We often fear droughts in March, which may reduce our crop yields. But this year major floods came, submerging our crops,” said Doan Nam Dat, a 61-year-old farmer in Quang Ngai’s Hanh Minh Commune.
Floods also damaged large areas of crops in Quang Nam and Thua Thien-Hue provinces. Source: thanhniennews.com
Beautiful images have emerged of a new island that has formed off the coast of Tonga - although scientists say it could soon disappear. The photographs were taken by three men who climbed to the peak of the land mass 40 miles (65 km) northwest of the capital, Nuku'alofa. The island started forming in January after a volcano exploded underwater and then expanded creating a mile long, cone-shaped formation. The island is made mainly of scoria, which is a dark coloured volcanic rock that can sometimes contain crystals. The holes in the material form when gases that were dissolved in the magma come out of solution as it erupts Scientists believe the dimensions of the new island are about 1.1 miles (1.8 km) by 0.9 miles (1.5km), and that it rises about 328ft (100 metres) above the sea.
The floodskilled more thana thousandevacueesin Cordoba. The Director ofCivilDefense,DiegoConchareported that inthe province ofCórdobathere1030people evacuatedas a result ofthe incessantstorms of recentdays.gacetacristiana.com.ar
6 March, 2015.Argentina says 'worried' about soy field flooding in three provinces
Flooding in some of the soy-growing areas of Cordoba, Entre Rios and Santa Fe provinces has become "worrying" to the government as farmers get ready to start harvesting the 2014/15 crop, the agriculture ministry said in its weekly report on Friday.
The northern part of the Pampas grains belt has been whipped by storms this month, adding to moisture left by heavy rains in February, washing out roads and flooding wide areas.
"In some cases the water level is worrying in medium- and low-lying areas," the ministry report said.Argentina is the world's No. 3 soybean exporter and top supplier of soyoil and soymeal livestock feed.
The government expects a 2014/15 soy crop of 58 million tonnes, just above the 57 million tonnes forecast by the Buenos Aires Grains Exchange.On Thursday the exchange said it will probably cut its forecast once damage from the flooding can be assessed.Source: news.yahoo.com
6 March, 2015. Heaviest Floods in Fifty Years Force 6,000 Argentinians to Flee Their Homes
Severe Flooding in Brazil Forces More Than 80,000 to Evacuate The heaviest rainfall in decades has caused flooding in much of central Argentina, forcing 6,000 people to leave their homes and killing at least one man.
In the northern province of Santiago del Estero, a 78-year-old man was crushed to death when the roof of his house fell in, and another man is reportedly missing in the central Argentinian province of Cordoba after being swept away by flooding. The other provinces to be affected are San Luis, Santa Fe and Catamarca.
In the province of Santa Fe, where rainfall in the past week has already reached half the yearly average, a state of emergency has been declared, while the government of Cordoba has declared the floods to constitute the worst weather disaster in fifty years. In mid-February, 1,000 people in Cordoba were evacuated and seven people lost their lives after more than 300 millimeters of rain fell on the province within 12 hours. The flooding was described by Provincial Governor José Manuel de la Sota as a "tsunami that fell from the sky."
Environmental campaigners attributed the flooding to high levels of deforestation in central Argentina, where forests were cleared to make way for agriculture. "The ‘catastrophe’ is not ‘natural': natural is when rain is filtered gradually to the surface (a sponge effect)," an environmental NGO in Cordoba told the Argentina Independent. "But the higher grounds are being cleared, burnt, and built upon, leaving the ground unprotected and impermeable." According to Greenpeace Argentina, the province retains less than four percent of its original native forests. Source:sputniknews.com
Comment by Stanislav on February 17, 2015 at 10:45am
Interferogram (ENVISAT ASAR) show sinking in urban in West Java
Interferogram shows the subsidence rate in a year (8 pair images from October 2007 to 2009 January). Zetas Right Again.
Irregular flooding can be seen, such that all spots on a certain elevation are not sinking at the same rate. For instance, in the video coming into Jakarta, dated January 11, 2011. The flooded land can clearly be identified by the shape of the coastline and the rivers, but this land is supposedly relatively high elevation, only the very coastline subject to flooding even with a great loss of elevation. Yet Jakarta is shown as very vulnerable to a drop in elevation in the Google maps. The companion video, "landing in Jakarta", shows the plane passing over a freeway on January 11, 2011 nand approaching the runway. The lands between the airport landing strips and the Java Sea are clearly lowland, and well flooded as seen from the video, but the airport landing strips are not flooded. This would be equivalent to a 10 foot drop in elevation for Jakarta. Lands further to the east of Jakarta suddenly experiencing sudden inundations from the sea at Subang and Indramayu on January 18, 2011. If the northern coastline of Java had a 10 foot elevation drop on January 11, 2011 these lands would have already been flooded. So why would the peninsula show so much flooding, yet not Jakarta?[and from another]Floods in Subang and Indramayu[Jan 19]http://berita-komunitas.blogspot.com/2011/01/11 600 houses were flooded on two districts in the Coast North of West Java . Yes, floods hit the coast north of West Java, seven districts in Indramayu district and two districts in Subang January 18, 2011. Around 5,000 houses submerged in Indramayu and about 1,000 residents were evacuated. In Subang, 6665 floods submerging houses and 1614 hectares of rice fields. Water levels rose rapidly.
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.
Sinking land in Jakarta proved by radar (SAR) satellite ENVISAT ASAR.
Imanaged to getan imageand processENVISAT ASAR.Thesesatellite imagesprovethat the landis sinkinginJakarta. Zetas Right Again!
Four images time-series from 2007 - 2009.
@ Data provided by European Space Agency
@ Data provided by European Space Agency
Comment by Stanislav on February 10, 2015 at 12:58pm
A view of a flooded roundabout is seen after heavy overnight rains brought flooding to parts of the city, paralyzing traffic, in Jakarta on Feb. 9. Zabur Karuru/Antara Foto/Reuters. Source: blogs.wsj.com
A policeman helps a motorist on flooded street outside the Presidential Palace after heavy seasonal rains flooded parts of Jakarta on Feb. 9. Darren Whiteside/Reuters. Source: blogs.wsj.com
10 February, 2015. Jakarta floods force nearly six thousand people to evacuate
Some 5,986 Jakarta residents have been forced to evacuate to safer places as the floods continue to inundate the capital city on Tuesday, according to the National Disaster Mitigation Agency (BNPB)."5,986 people are taking shelter in 14 locations. The number might increase because we are still waiting for more data from the field officers," BNPB spokesman Sutopo Purwo Nugroho stated here, Tuesday.
The Jakarta disaster mitigation office (BPBD) reported that floods have affected 307 neighborhoods located in 97 urban villages in 33 sub-districts."The floods have affected 4,830 families comprising 15,517 people as their houses are inundated. Some 5,986 people are taking refuge in temporary shelters," he stated.
Of the total flood-affected neighborhoods, some 108 neighborhoods in 23 urban villages in eight sub-districts are located in West Jakarta. Some 8,237 inhabitants of 2,738 families are affected by the floods.
"Around 1,668 people have been evacuated in two locations. In Central Jakarta, 11 neighborhoods in eight urban villages in six sub-districts are inundated, but there is no evacuee," he revealed.
In South Jakarta, floods hit 38 neighborhoods in 21 urban villages in seven sub-districts, with the number of flood victims reaching 7,280 people of 2,092 families.
In East Jakarta, 60 neighborhoods in 27 urban villages in seven sub-districts are flooded. Currently, 1.8 thousand refugees are being accommodated at six temporary shelters.
At least 89 neighborhoods in 18 urban villages in five sub-districts are flooded in North Jakarta, forcing 2,518 people to seek shelter in six locations.
Incessant heavy downpours have triggered floods in parts of Jakarta since Sunday.
Floods in Jakarta are not only due to the overflowing rivers but also as a consequence of the poor drainage system and bad land spatial planning, according to BPBD.
The work in several business and commercial centers in Jakarta such as at Mangga Dua and Kelapa Gading areas has been paralyzed due to the flooding. Source: antaranews.com
10 February, 2015. It’s only just begun, Jakarta’s residents warned
Greater Jakarta residents are expected to be cautious for the next few days, as heavy rainfall was forecasted to continue after downpours all through the night triggered floods across the capital on Monday.Floodwaters with depths of 50 centimeters inundated several areas, including thoroughfares such as Jl. MH Thamrin, Sarinah, Jl. Medan Merdeka Barat and Jl. Medan Merdeka Utara in Central Jakarta, causing major traffic congestion.
The Jakarta Disaster Mitigation Agency (BPBD) reported that at noon there had been 107 places inundated, mostly in West and Central Jakarta. Many families were forced to leave their flooded houses.
Meteorology, Climatology, and Geophysics Agency (BMKG) spokesperson Harry Tirto said heavy rainfall was expected to continue in Greater Jakarta for the next one or two days.“The rain on Monday was only the beginning of this month’s high rainfall. Residents in Greater Jakarta should expect similar conditions for the next one to two days. We are entering the peak of the rainy season,” Harry told The Jakarta Post on Monday.
The floods also affected Commuter Line and Transjakarta bus routes, some of which halted operations or were redirected. The Tanah Abang railway station in Central Jakarta was closed as the railway tracks were inundated.Jakarta Governor Basuki “Ahok” Tjahaja Purnama also pointed out that the rising sea level off the capital’s north coast was a factor that had triggered severe flooding. “Furthermore, many of our pumps need to be repaired in order to work faster and better.”
The capacity of the city’s 44 reservoirs, he said, could not cope with the increasing volume of water caused by rising sea levels and incessant rain.
Commenting on floodwaters inundating the State Palace on Jl. Medan Merdeka Utara, Ahok said it should not have happened as all nearby water pumps and reservoirs were working.“The Pluit [Reservoir] and Manggarai [water channel] are working just fine so it’s bizarre that the State Palace is flooded,” he said.
The country’s flagship museum, the National Museum, has also been flooded for the first time in its history, according to Intan Mardiana, the museum director.
“Floodwater entered parts of the building this morning but we quickly resolved the issue by turning on three water pumps, which managed to drain the floodwater from the museum relatively quickly,” Intan said.
Floodwater started to enter parts of the museum as heavy rain hit the capital city on Monday morning. “The floodwater was up to the ankles.” It appeared that the drainage system surrounding the museum could no longer accommodate the excess rain water,” said Intan.The floodwaters inundating the museum began to recede at 1 p.m. “Today’s flood was the first ever in the history of the National Museum. We have never experienced such an event before,” said Intan.While most areas were affected by the floodwaters, Jatinegara district in East Jakarta, which was known as a flood-prone area, was unusually free of floodwater.
Joice Layla Andres, a resident of Bidara Cina, Jatinegara, said her home and neighborhood were free of floods despite heavy rainfall in Jakarta. “We are only flooded when it rains in Bogor. So heavy rains in Jakarta are not likely to affect my area,” she said.
In nearby Tangerang regency, 12 out of 29 districts also suffered from flooding. Source:thejakartapost.com
Comment by Stanislav on February 9, 2015 at 6:39pm
Jakarta
Due to the floodwaters as high as 30-40 cm in the slow lane Jl. Lt. Suprapto, Central Jakarta, traffic flow temporarily transferred into the fast lane. Information from Twitter users forwarded Twitter citrahandayani TMC Metro Jaya Police. Source: megapolitan.kompas.com'
Puddles in Quarter Horse Statue Jalan Merdeka Barat seen from Building PT Indosat, Monday (02/09/2015). Source: tribunnews.com
A driver pushes his Baja vehicle through flood waters outside the Presidential Palace, after heavy seasonal rains flooded parts of Jakarta February 9, 2015. Photo: Reuters. Source: todayonline.com
9 February, 2015.Parts of Jakarta flooded as peak of rainy season approaches
Heavy rain has hit Indonesia's capital since Sunday night. Several areas of the city have been inundated with 20-40 centimetres (cm) high waters, slowing down traffic and worsening traffic jams.
In some areas in West Jakarta, floods have reached 60 cm deep.
Jakarta's Disaster Mitigation Agency recorded 49 flood prone spots in the city. Twenty-two of those are in Central Jakarta where the main business district, Istana Negara and City Hall are located.
People have been seen waddling in calf and knee high deep waters around the National Monument. So far, bus operations at four TransJakarta corridors have been disrupted.
Authorities warn rain will continue until late Monday night and the coming days.
The Meteorology, Climatology and Geophysics Agency reported Jakarta and its surrounding satellite cities are entering the peak of the rainy season this week. Heavy rains will last up to the third week of February. Source:channelnewsasia.com
9 February, 2015.Roads impassable as heavy rain floods parts of Jakarta
After a night of heavy rain in the Greater Jakarta area, dozens of areas throughout the Indonesian capital experienced moderate to heavy flooding today (Feb 9), with traffic grinding to a complete halt and the precipitation showing no signs of abating as of around 3pm (Singapore time).Public transportation was severely affected, with the TransJakarta busway ceasing operations on at least half of its corridors in the morning.
“We’re sorry for the interrupted TransJakarta services due to floods caused by heavy rain,” the bus operator said on its Twitter account, @PT_TransJakarta. “We hope you would understand and be patient. Thanks.”
The Jakarta Police’s traffic division counted 52 flooded roads as of noon, in all parts of the city.
“There’s 16 [flooded] areas in Central Jakarta, 11 in North Jakarta, 10 in West Jakarta, nine in South Jakarta, and six in East Jakarta,” said Adj Senior Commander Budiyanto of the Jakarta Police.
Train services were also disrupted as the Tanah Abang and Kota train stations were flooded. The KRL commuter trains from Jakarta’s satellite cities Bogor and Depok could go no further than Manggarai station in South Jakarta. Source:todayonline.com
Australia, Queensland
Queensland Flooding 'Could Last Weeks'[Dec 29]http://www.stuff.co.nz/world/australia/4499963/Queensland-flooding-could-last-weeksResidents evacuated from flooded Queensland towns have been warned they may not be able to return to their homes for weeks. The last of Theodore's residents were evacuated this morning, with all eyes now on Bundaberg, where residents are today bracing for the city's highest flood in 50 years. The evacuation of an entire town is unprecedented in Queensland. These floodwaters are likely to remain high for a long period of time. In some cases that might be measured in weeks, rather than days. Rail services have been suspended after water rose over the Burnett River bridge. Evacuations are also underway in the town of Emerald, nearly 600 kilometres north-west of Bundaberg, with authorities warning the Nogoa River is expected to rise 300 millimetres higher than it rose in the devastating flood of 2008. Meanwhile residents in the flood-ravaged town of Dalby on the northern Darling Downs have just two days' supply of drinking water left after the region's water treatment plant was inundated. The swollen Myall Creek inundated more than 100 homes in the town earlier this week, forcing about 60 residents into evacuation centres.
In warning about the effects of the pole shift tides, we have often mentioned that a slosh can run up river. This prevents the rivers from draining, and thus, rivers will rise beyond their flood level, to an astonishing degree. Where the current flooding along coastal Queensland is not due to the pole shift tides, it is related to the rising of the eastern edge of the Indo-Australian Plate. As the buoys in the area show, the entire region is rising. Water trapped between two land masses has difficulty redistributing quickly and smoothly, as every direction has water rushing about, trying to find the lowest level. The sudden rise in the floor of the seas around eastern Australia caused this water to flow west, primarily, and for the coast of Queensland, this included flowing up river. There has been, as we predicted, an attempt to disguise this slosh by pointing to the weather. Weather reports are pointing to rainfall along the coast, where this slosh is most noticeable. But why would rainfall on the coast cause such extensive flooding upriver? The cover-up over the effects of the plate movements in this region will not succeed, nor will it fool the public for long.
9 February, 2015. Worst flooding in 48 years hits north Qld
A north Queensland town is mopping up after the worst flooding in almost 50 years hit the area, inundating homes, businesses and roads. Mareeba, inland from Cairns, was the worst hit when a month's worth of rain fell across a large chunk of the state's far north at the weekend.
"The last time we had a monsoonal event as big as this would have been in 1967," Tablelands Regional Council Mayor Rosa Lee Long told AAP.
"It will be significant as far as roads and property damage." One Malanda family had to be rescued after they became stranded when a river broke its banks, surrounding their home with water. Some roads have been washed out, while others are strewn with debris and blocked by landslides.
Areas between Cape Tribulation, north of Cairns, and Cardwell were hit over the weekend. About 723mm of rain was recorded at Mount Sophia, south of Cairns, 505mm at Malanda and 414mm in Cairns between Friday and Sunday. The February averages for Cairns, Malanda and Mount Sophia are 449mm, 335mm and 666mm respectively.
A driver had to be rescued from a bank on the Barron River after his ute become stuck in rising waters on Sunday evening.
Queensland Fire and Emergency received more than 30 other requests since midday Saturday for general flooding assistance with sandbagging and leaking roofs. Several flood watch warnings remain in place across the region on Monday.
Although the rain had eased on Monday, the weather bureau is warning those along the tropical north coast to expect another deluge this weekend. Bureau of Meteorology forecaster Andrew Mostyn said a tropical low is heading towards the far north and there'll more heavy rain from Thursday. "And, of course, with the catchments quite wet at the moment major flooding could be an issue," he told AAP.
The heavy rain has been good news for some though.
The Cairns Regional Council has lifted water restrictions after 330mm of rain fell on the Lake Morris dam over the weekend, almost filling the catchment.
It has also brought some relief to farmers who have struggled through a long period of drought. Source:au.news.yahoo.com
Comment by Stanislav on January 28, 2015 at 1:33pm
Sinking land in Jakarta proved by radar (SAR) satellite ENVISAT ASAR.
Imanaged to getan imageand processENVISAT ASAR.Thesesatellite imagesprovethat the landis sinkinginJakarta. Zetas Right Again!
How is this possibleandwhat is radarsatellites?
Interferometric synthetic aperture radar,
abbreviated InSAR (or deprecated IfSAR), is a radar technique used in geodesy and remote sensing. This geodetic method uses two or more synthetic aperture radar (SAR) images to generate maps of surface deformation or digital elevation, using differences in the phase of the waves returning to the satellite or aircraft. The technique can potentially measure centimetre-scale changes in deformation over spans of days to years. It has applications for geophysical monitoring of natural hazards, for example earthquakes, volcanoes and landslides, and in structural engineering, in particular monitoring of subsidence and structural stability.
Envisat ("Environmental Satellite") is an inoperative Earth-observing satellite still in orbit. It was launched on 1 March 2002 aboard an Ariane 5 from the Guyana Space Centre in Kourou, French Guiana, into a Sun synchronous polar orbit at an altitude of 790 km (490 mi) (± 10 km (6.2 mi)). It orbits the Earth in about 101 minutes with a repeat cycle of 35 days. After losing contact with the satellite on 8 April 2012, ESA formally announced the end of Envisat's mission on 9 May 2012
ASAR (Advanced Synthetic Aperture Radar) operates in the C band in a wide variety of modes. It can detect changes in surface heights with sub-millimeter precision. It served as a data link for ERS 1 and ERS 2, providing numerous functions such as observations of different polarities of light or combining different polarities, angles of incidence and spatial resolutions.
To put it simple, principle is that the program compares a previous image with the later and thus calculates the "difference".
But7 of 10beganin 2010and thecurrentimagefrom 2007 to 2009?
In fact, 7 of 10 are deployed for a long time (meaning the activity of the plates start an observer at the beginning of the 21st century, or at the end of 20)
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