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Asean/Japan Quake n nuclear crisis apocalyptic..?
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26-Apr-2015 22:00
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http://geology.about.com/od/seishazardmaps/ss/World-Seismic-Hazard-Maps_15.htm The Global Seismic Hazard Map (South Asia Seismic Hazard Map) The Tibetan Plateau... |
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26-Apr-2015 21:51
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26-Apr-2015 21:39
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Story highlights -- A magnitude-7.8 earthquake struck Nepal on Saturday Colin Stark: We knew this disaster would come. The views expressed are his own. Colin Stark is Lamont Associate Research Professor at the Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, Columbia University. (CNN)In a tragic echo of the catastrophic events in Haiti in 2010, a powerful earthquake struck one of the poorest nations on Earth today. The latest estimates from seismologists put the magnitude at 7.9, which would actually makes it about 40% larger than the 7.8 currently being reported. That' s less than half the size of the previous major event nearby in 1934, which killed around 10,000 people. Unfortunately, it is quite possible the number of dead in Kathmandu could rise to match it. Geophysicists have long monitored how fast Earth' s plates are moving, and we know the entire subcontinent of India is being driven slowly but surely underneath Nepal and Tibet at a speed of around 1.8 inches per year. It' s the reason Everest exists. Over millions of years, the squeezing has crushed the Himalayas like a concertina, raising mountains to heights of several miles and triggering earthquakes on a regular basis from Pakistan to Burma. Saturday' s quake was neither unusual nor unexpected, although it was larger than most. In the 81 years since the 1934 Bihar earthquake, the land mass of India has been pushed about 12 feet into Nepal. Think of all that movement getting stored in a giant spring lying under Nepal. The spring is stuck on a broad, rough surface which we call a fault plane (a fault line is what we see when it emerges from the ground). Sometimes, energy stored in the spring gets big enough to slip catastrophically, releasing all that pent-up strain and generating shaking strong enough to destroy buildings and kill people over a huge area. The bigger the area that slips, and the larger the pent-up energy, the greater the damage. Saturday' s slip took place over an area about 1,000 to 2,000 square miles over a zone spanning the cities of Kathmandu and Pokhara in one direction, and almost the entire Himalaya mountain width in the other. A part of India slid about one to 10 feet northwards and underneath Nepal in a matter of seconds. We have this kind of detailed data thanks to major advances in seismology over recent years. Using measurements of shaking recorded on seismometers scattered across the world and sent in near or real time to agencies like the U.S. Geological Survey and to universities such as Columbia, we can infer the location and magnitude of a big earthquake very quickly. Not just that: we can now estimate the pattern and speed of rapid sliding across its fault surface. What used to take months of careful academic study now takes minutes of computation. In Haiti in 2010, although the earthquake was more than 20 times weaker than Saturday' s, well over 100,000 people are thought to have been killed around Port-au-Prince by the shaking and its after-effects. Yet despite some differences, the Nepal and Haiti earthquakes also share similarities -- both geological events were known to be approaching, and both struck areas afflicted by widespread poverty, rapid increases in population in urban areas, uncoordinated changes in building infrastructure and lack of adherence to improved building codes. About 1.45 million people live in Kathmandu, the majority in poorly constructed homes not designed to withstand the kind of shaking seen on Saturday. Nepal has a per capita income of around $1,350, only a notch above that of Haiti, and among the lowest in the world. Meeting building codes in new construction, or taking on expensive retrofitting, is way beyond the means of most. To make matters worse, the valley itself appears to focus the destructive shaking of earthquake waves. Studies have long predicted that the Kathmandu area was due a magnitude-8 earthquake, or higher -- one study predicted between 21,000 and 42,000 fatalities if a magnitude-8.1 earthquake had struck the area. (Fortunately, Saturday' s shaking was half that intensity). |
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26-Apr-2015 21:27
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We hav at least two gorkhs battlalion plus several thousand of Nepali here...will it effect them?. |
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26-Apr-2015 21:20
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Nepalese dig for quake survivors as toll exceeds 2,200, big aftershock hits. http://whbl.com/news/articles/2015/apr/25/buildings-collapse-at-least-two-killed-as-79-quake-hits-nepal-india-witnesses/  Rescuers dug with their bare hands and bodies piled up in Nepal on Sunday after an earthquake devastated the heavily crowded Kathmandu Valley, killing more than 2,200 people, and triggered a deadly avalanche on Mount Everest.
A big aftershock between Kathmandu and Everest unleashed more avalanches in the Himalayas. In the capital, hospital workers stretchered patients out onto the street to treat them as it was too dangerous to keep them indoors. " Another one, aftershock right now. Oh shit!" said Indian climber Arjun Vajpai over the phone from Makalu base camp near Everest. " Avalanche!" he shouted. Screams and the roar of crashing snow could be heard over the line as he spoke. The tremor, measured at 6.7, was the most powerful since Saturday' s 7.9 quake - itself the strongest since Nepal' s worst earthquake disaster of 1934 that killed 8,500 people. The aftershock rocked buildings in Indian capital New Delhi and halted city metro. " There is no way one can forecast the intensity of aftershocks so people need to be alert for the next few days. In Everest' s worst disaster, the bodies of 17 climbers were recovered from the mountain on Sunday after being caught in avalanches. A plane carrying the first 15 injured climbers landed in Kathmandu at around noon local time. " There is a lot of confusion on the mountain. The toll will rise," said Gelu Sherpa, one of the walking wounded among the first 15 injured climbers flown to Kathmandu. " Tents have been blown away," said Sherpa, his head in bandages. GOVERNMENT OVERWHELMED -- With Nepal' s govt overwhelmed by scale of the disaster, India flew in medical supplies and relief crews, while China sent in a 60-strong emergency team. Relief agencies said hospitals in the Kathmandu Valley were overflowing and running out of medical supplies. Army officer Santosh and rescuers worked all night to open a passage into a collapsed building in Kathmandu. They had to use pick axes, as bulldozers could not get through ancient city' s narrow streets, " believing there' r still people trapped inside," as he pointed at concrete debris and twisted reinforcement rods where a 3-storey residential bldg once stood. Among the capital' s landmarks destroyed in the earthquake was the 60-metre (200-foot) Dharahara Tower, built in 1832 for the queen of Nepal, with a viewing balcony that had been open to visitors for the last 10 years. A jagged stump was all that was left of the lighthouse-like structure. A policeman said up to 200 people had been trapped inside. Bodies were still arriving on Sunday at one hospital in Kathmandu, where police officer Sudan Shreshtha said his team had brought 166 corpses overnight. " I am tired and exhausted, but I have to work and have the strength," Shreshtha told Reuters as an ambulance brought three more victims to the Tribhuvan University Teaching Hospital. Bodies were heaped in a dark room, some covered with cloth, some not. A boy aged about seven had his face half missing and his stomach bloated like a football. The stench of death was overpowering. Outside, a 30-year-old woman who had been widowed wailed: " Oh Lord, oh God, why did you take him alone? Take me along with him also." " Both private and govt hospitals have run out of space and are treating patients outside, in the open," said Nepal' s envoy to India, Deep Kumar Upadhyay. Prime Minister Sushil Koirala is back from abroad and will soon address the country. NEED A DECISION -- Save the Children' s Peter Olyle said hospitals in the Kathmandu Valley were running out of storage room for bodies and emergency supplies. " There is a need for a govt decision on bringing in kits from the military." Buildings in Kathmandu toppled like houses of cards, others leaned at precarious angles, and partial collapses. Rescuers, some wearing face masks to keep out the dust, scrambled over mounds of splintered timber and broken bricks in the hope of finding survivors. Some used their bare hands to fill small white buckets with dirt and rock. Thousands of people spent the night outside in chilly temperatures and patchy rain, too afraid to return to their damaged homes. On Sunday, survivors wandered the streets clutching bed rolls and blankets, while others sat in the street cradling their children, surrounded by a few plastic bags of belongings. The 7.9 magnitude quake struck at midday on Saturday at a busy time of year for the tourism-reliant country' s trekking and climbing season, with an estimated 300,000 foreign tourists in the country, home to many World Heritage sites. Nepal police put death toll at 2,152, with 5,463 hurt. At least 700 were killed in the capital, a city of about 1 million people. Some 49 people were reported killed in neighbouring India, which has sent military aircraft to Nepal with medical equipment and relief teams. It also said it had dispatched 285 members of its National Disaster Response Force. In Tibet, death toll climbed to 17, a tweet from China' s state news agency, Xinhua. Four people were killed in Bangladesh. Pakistan' s military is sending four C-130 aircraft with a 30-bed hospital, search and rescue teams and relief supplies. WORST EVEREST DISASTER -- There were nearly 1,000 climbers and sherpas on Everest when the first avalanche struck, claiming the highest toll of any disaster on the world' s highest mountain. Sites showed tents and other structures at Everest base camp photo of the avalanche showed a monster " cloud-like" mass of snow and rock descending down the mountain. Helicopters were able to fly in on Sunday morning as clouds lifted to evacuate the injured to a lower altitude, from where they were being flown to Kathmandu. " All badly injured heli evacuated," Romanian climber Alex Gavan tweeted. Another 100 climbers higher up Everest at camps 1 and 2, were safe but their way back down the mountain was blocked by damage to the treacherous Khumbu icefalls, scene of an avalanche that killed 16 climbers last year. The earthquake, centred 50 miles (80 km) east of 2-nd city, Pokhara, was all the more destructive for being shallow. |
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26-Apr-2015 09:50
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The world' s strongest earthquakes since 1900A devastating earthquake shook Nepal on Saturday, the worst quake in the Himalayan nation in over 80 years. List of strongest earthquakes since 1900
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26-Apr-2015 09:21
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珠 穆 朗 瑪 峰 傳 發 現 18具 登 山 者 遺 體 中 廣 新 聞 網 &ndash 2015年 4月 26日 上 午 5:54
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26-Apr-2015 09:13
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尼 泊 爾 大 地 震 逾 1500人 罹 難受 強 震 及 多 起 餘 震 影 響 ， 境 內 至 少 1457人 喪 生 ， 加 上 周 邊 災 情 頻 傳 。 CHina side 17罹 難 |
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25-Apr-2015 22:58
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RIP
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25-Apr-2015 22:46
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Four countries as the violently shaking earth collapsed houses, leveled centuries-old temples and triggered avalanches on Mt. Everest. Nepal - It was the worst tremor to hit the poor South Asian nation in over 80 years. At least 876 people were confirmed dead in Nepal, according to the police. Another 20 were killed in India, six in Tibet and two in Bangladesh. Two Chinese citizens died at the Nepal-China border. The death toll is almost certain to rise, said deputy Inspector General of Police Komal Singh Bam. It was a few minutes before noon when the quake, with a preliminary magnitude of 7.8, began to rumble across the densely populated Kathmandu Valley, rippling through the capital Kathmandu and spreading in all directions -- north toward the Himalayas and Tibet, south to the Indo-Gangetic plains, east toward the Brahmaputra delta of Bangladesh and west toward the historical city of Lahore in Pakistan. https://sg.news.yahoo.com/strong-earthquake-felt-nepals-capital-063242616.html |
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25-Apr-2015 22:41
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At least 970 people are known to have died in a powerful earthquake in Nepal, with many more feared trapped under rubble, officials say. |
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25-Apr-2015 20:55
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http://www.businessnews-bd.com/index.php?option=com_content& view=article& id=14927:death-toll-rises-to-700-as-79-earthquake-rattles-nepal& catid=64:flash-photo& Itemid=0 Nepal (BBN)-More than 700 people are known to have died in a powerful earthquake that struck Nepal, with many more feared trapped under rubble, officials say. The 7.8 magnitude quake struck an area between the capital, Kathmandu, and the city of Pokhara, reports BBC quoting the US Geological Survey. |
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25-Apr-2015 20:52
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Nepal quake toll reaches 688 - govt...n still countingNepal quake toll reaches 688 - govt &bull KATHMANDU (Reuters) - The death toll is really, real powerful...
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25-Apr-2015 19:43
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Nearly 700 killed after 7.9-magnitude earthquake strikes NepalPublished time: April 25, 2015 06:33
Edited time: April 25, 2015 11:38 
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25-Apr-2015 19:36
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Nepal - First initial earth quake start at a magnitude scale of 7.8 out scale 10. 6.7 is the after shock...sori for the typo error.
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25-Apr-2015 19:29
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Nepal - Richter magnitude scale - 6.7 Japan Earthquake, Tsunami and Nuclear Crisis, amgnitude scale of 9.0 http://www.globalissues.org/article/794/japan-earthquake-tsunami-nuclear
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25-Apr-2015 19:20
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http://www.emsc-csem.org/Earthquake/earthquake.php?id=438629 http://www.emsc-csem.org/Earthquake/ |
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25-Apr-2015 19:18
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At least 114 people are so far known to have died in a massive earthquake which hit large parts of Nepal on Saturday, govt said.
" In Kathmandu 71 have been reported dead so far," home ministry spokesman Laxmi Prasad Dhakal told AFP. Another 43 had been reported dead in the nearby Bhaktapur district, he added. |
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23-Apr-2015 23:05
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http://www.emsc-csem.org/Earthquake/ http://www.emsc-csem.org/Earthquake/earthquake.php?id=438245
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23-Apr-2015 23:02
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http://www.ndtv.com/topic/taiwan-earthquake
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