Burma Death Toll 500,000! Worse than Tsunami
May 9, 2008
The death toll in cyclone-ravaged Burma could hit 500,000 more than twice the total killed by the Boxing Day Tsunami.
Last night’s warning came as it emerged that 17 Britons, including ex-pats and backpackers, were still missing.
Sources said 200,000 people were already dead or dying.
But the figure could rise to HALF A MILLION through disease and hunger if the nation’s hardline army rulers continue to block aid for the devastated lowlands of the Irrawaddy Delta.
That would dwarf the 230,000 deaths across South East Asia in the 2004 catastrophe.
Nyo Ohn Myint, of exiled opposition party The National League for Democracy, told The Sun at a border crisis centre: “Much of this will be a man-made disaster, caused by the military regime.
“The bodies need to be collected and burnt as soon as possible or disease will claim many more lives. But the government has organised nothing and its 400,000 soldiers are doing nothing while undistributed aid piles up.
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Myanmar Believes 13,000 Dead, Missing From Cyclone
May 6, 2008
Myanmar’s military junta believes at least 10,000 people died in a cyclone that ripped through the Irrawaddy
“The basic message was that they believe the provisional death toll was about 10,000 with 3,000 missing,” a Yangon-based diplomat told Reuters in Bangkok, summarizing a briefing from Foreign Minister Nyan Win. “It’s a very serious toll.”
The scale of the disaster from Saturday’s devastating cyclone drew a rare acceptance of outside help from the diplomatically isolated generals, who spurned such approaches in the aftermath of the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami.
The secretive military, which has ruled the former Burma for 46 years, has moved even further into the shadows in the last six months due to the widespread outrage at its bloody crackdown on protests led by Buddhist monks in September.
5.2-Magnitude Earthquake Strikes Northern California
April 30, 2008
A moderate earthquake hit a mountainous region of Northern California on Tuesday night. There are no immediate reports or injury or damage.
A magnitude 5.2 temblor struck at 8:03 p.m., centered about 11 miles southeast of the town of Willow Creek in the Shasta-Trinity National Forest, according to the U.S. Geological Survey.
The quake originated about 11 miles below the surface on an unmapped fault, said USGS seismologist David Oppenheimer.
Because of its depth, few aftershocks were felt, scientists said. About three were recorded, with the largest measuring a magnitude 2.4, the USGS reported.
Officials in Shasta, Trinity and Humboldt counties said there were no immediate reports of injury or damage, although many residents said they felt the shaking.
The quake was felt as far north as Crescent City near the Oregon state line and as far south as San Francisco, 320 miles away, according to citizen reports posted on the USGS Web site.
Mary Daher, owner of the Bigfoot Motel in Willow Creek, said the quake lasted 10 seconds or less.
“It was pretty quick and it was pretty strong,” she said. “It wasn’t like one of those rolling earthquakes. It was just a jolt.”
She said she and her guests headed outside quickly but she was not aware of any damage. One guest said the quake sent his soda sliding across a table.
The town of 1,800 sits on Highway 299, the main conduit between Redding and Arcata, home of Humboldt State University. It has long been a draw for college students escaping the coastal fog to sunbathe along the nearby Trinity River.
The quirky hamlet, surrounded by thick forests, also markets itself as California’s “Bigfoot capital” and displays numerous wood carvings of the mythical creature.
New Studies Show Earthquake Danger Could Be Greater Than Earlier Predictions
April 25, 2008
New earthquake predictions for Oregon show a possible disaster more powerful than scientists had thought.
The U.S. Geological Survey published new nationwide hazard maps earlier this week and one of the changes centered on the Cascadia Subduction Zone off the Oregon Coast.
Worries about quakes along the coast have been bandied about for years. But new research shows evidence the entire subduction zone could shake all at once resulting in a 9.0 magnitude earthquake.
Scientists from the U.S. Geological Survey say the new maps also show the potential for an earthquake beneath Portland. Experts believe it would be similar to the Nisqually earthquake that hit the Seattle area back in 2001. That was a 6.8 quake that caused more than two billion dollars in damage.
Scientists say the last massive earthquake to hit the Pacific Northwest happened about 300 years ago.
Midwest Quakes Continue - Another Earthquake Near Mt. Carmel Illinois
April 21, 2008
Another earthquake measuring 4.5 has struck near Mt. Carmel Illinois.
Earthquake List for Map Centered at 38°N, 88°W
5.2 Magnitude Earthquake Rocks Midwest
April 18, 2008
A 5.2-magnitude earthquake centered in southern Illinois rattled homes and skyscrapers across the Midwest early Friday, causing little damage but surprising residents unaccustomed to such a powerful temblor.
The quake — one of the strongest ever recorded in Illinois — occurred just before 4:37 a.m. and was centered six miles southeast of West Salem, Ill., and 45 miles west of Evansville, Ind.
Initially pegged as a 5.4 earthquake, the U.S. Geological Survey revised its estimate to give it a value of 5.2.
Two aftershocks during the next three hours measured 2.6 and a 2.5, the agency reported.
The strongest earthquake recorded in Illinois was in 1968, a 5.3-magnitude temblor centered near Dale in Hamilton County, about 75 miles southeast of St. Louis, according to the USGS. Minor damage was widespread, but there were no serious injuries or fatalities.
West Salem is in Edwards County, and dispatcher Lucas Griswold said the sheriff’s department received several calls about the earthquake but only reports of minor damage and no injuries.
Colombian Authorities Issue Volcano Warning as Nevado del Huila Erupts
April 15, 2008
Colombian authorities have issued a Volcano Warning as Nevado del Huila Erupts.
The Nevado del Huila, which is topped with a crown of ice, is Colombia’s third-highest peak at 18,484 feet. Located 170 miles southwest of Bogota, it became active again in March 2007 with a series of internal rumblings.
The Nevado del Huila volcano’s eruptions in 2007 were its first on record since Colombia was colonized by the Spanish 500 years ago.
There are about 10,000 people living in the area around the volcano.
Oregon Quake Swarm - 600 Earthquakes In 10 Days
April 13, 2008
Scientists listening to underwater microphones have detected an unusual swarm of earthquakes off central Oregon, something that often happens before a volcanic eruption - except there are no volcanoes in the area.
Scientists don’t know exactly what the earthquakes mean, but they could be the result of molten rock rumbling away from the recognized earthquake faults off Oregon, said Robert Dziak, a geophysicist for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and Oregon State University.
There have been more than 600 quakes over the past 10 days in a basin 150 miles southwest of Newport. The biggest was magnitude 5.4, and two others were more than magnitude 5.0, OSU reported.
On the hydrophones, the quakes sound like low thunder and are unlike anything scientists have heard in 17 years of listening, Dziak said. Some of the quakes have also been detected by earthquake instruments on land.
The hydrophones are left over from a network the Navy used to listen for submarines during the Cold War. They routinely detect passing ships, earthquakes on the ocean bottom and whales calling to one another.
Scientists hope to send out an OSU research ship to take water samples, looking for evidence that sediment has been stirred up and chemicals that would indicate magma is moving up through the Juan de Fuca Plate, Dziak said.
The quakes have not followed the typical pattern of a major shock followed by a series of diminishing aftershocks, and few have been strong enough to be felt on shore.
The Earth’s crust is made up of plates that rest on molten rock, which are rubbing together. When the molten rock, or magma, erupts through the crust, it creates volcanoes.
Earthquakes Along The Cascadia And San Andreas Faults May Be Linked
April 9, 2008
Seismic activity on the southern Cascadia Subduction fault may have triggered major earthquakes along the northern San Andreas Fault, according to new research published by the Bulletin of Seismological Society of America (BSSA). The research refines the recurrence rate for the southern portion of the Cascadia fault to approximately every 220 years for the last 3000 years.
Silent Famine Sweeps Globe
April 3, 2008
From India to Africa to North Korea to Pakistan and even in New York City, higher grain prices, fertilizer shortages and rising energy costs are combining to spell hunger for millions in what is being characterized as a global “silent famine.”
Global food prices, based on United Nations records, rose 35 percent in the last year, escalating a trend that began in 2002. Since then, prices have risen 65 percent.
Last year, according to the U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization’s world food index, dairy prices rose nearly 80 percent and grain 42 percent.
“This is the new face of hunger,” said Josetta Sheeran, director of the World Food Program, launching an appeal for an extra $500 million so it could continue supplying food aid to 73 million hungry people this year. “People are simply being priced out of food markets. … We have never before had a situation where aggressive rises in food prices keep pricing our operations out of our reach.”
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