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A Chinese landscape architect advocates "sponge cities" to help counter climate change and flooding.

Wed, 2022-11-23 13:54 — mike kraft
As climate warms, a China planner advocates "sponge cities" BEIJING (AP) — To cushion the impact of extreme weather due to climate change, a Chinese landscape architect has been making the case for China and other countries to create so-called “sponge cities.” AP NEWS
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Earthquake - Tsunami - Indonesia - News and Information Resources

Wed, 2018-10-03 22:10 — Kathy Gilbeaux

                    A massive earthquake triggered a tsunami in Indonesia on September 28, 2018.

                                              Here is an expanding list of news and information resources.

CLICK HERE - AHA Centre - Indonesia, Central Sulawesi, M 7.4 Earthquake and Tsunami - Updates

CLICK HERE - reliefweb - Indonesia: Earthquakes - Sep 2018

CLICK HERE - Humanitarian Response - Indonesia

CLICK HERE - Indonesian soldiers ordered to fire on looters - October 3, 2018

CLICK HERE - AFP - Time running out for survivors as Indonesia toll tops 1,400 - October 3, 2018

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Mexico's strongest quake in century strikes off southern coast

Fri, 2017-09-08 09:07 — Maeryn Obley

bbc.com - September 8th 2017

An earthquake described by Mexico's president as the country's strongest in a century has struck off the southern coast, killing at least 27 people.

The quake, which President Enrique Peña Nieto said measured 8.2, struck in the Pacific, about 87km (54 miles) south-west of Pijijiapan.

A tsunami warning was issued for Mexico, with three-metre-high waves possible, and other nearby countries.

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The terrifying tsunami that devastated Britain

Fri, 2016-04-01 11:35 — Maeryn Obley

bbc.com - March 29th 2016 - Amanda Ruggeri

It was an autumn day in the Shetland Islands of Scotland. Perhaps fishing boats were hauling in catch; maybe children were playing on the beach. Then it came in: a wall of water reaching a height of 25m above normal sea level at some points, high enough to top a seven-storey building.

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Earthquake - Chile - Tsunami Impacts

Wed, 2015-09-16 20:40 — Kathy Gilbeaux

This earthquake can have a medium humanitarian impact based on the Magnitude and the affected population and their vulnerability.

    Earthquake Magnitude 8.3M, Depth:25km
    on 16 Sep 2015 22:54 UTC
    140385 people within 100km
    inserted at 17 Sep 2015 00:48:18 UTC

CLICK HERE - GDACS - Earthquake Summary

CLICK HERE - GDACS - Tsunami Impacts

CLICK HERE - NOAA - National Tsunami Warning Center - Event Observations and Forecasts

CLICK HERE - NOAA - United States - Tsunami Advisory

CLICK HERE - USGS - Earthquake Summary

CLICK HERE - Pacific Tsunami Warning Center (PTWC)

CLICK HERE - PTWC - Tsunami Threat Message

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The Really Big One

Mon, 2015-07-13 23:32 — Maeryn Obley

The next full-margin rupture of the Cascadia subduction zone will spell the worst natural disaster in the history of the continent. Credit Illustration by Christoph Niemann; Map by Ziggymaj / GettyImage: The next full-margin rupture of the Cascadia subduction zone will spell the worst natural disaster in the history of the continent. Credit Illustration by Christoph Niemann; Map by Ziggymaj / Getty

newyorker.com - July 20th, 2015 - Kathryn Schulz

When the 2011 earthquake and tsunami struck Tohoku, Japan, Chris Goldfinger was two hundred miles away, in the city of Kashiwa, at an international meeting on seismology. As the shaking started, everyone in the room began to laugh. Earthquakes are common in Japan—that one was the third of the week—and the participants were, after all, at a seismology conference.

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Response to Typhoon in Philippines Shows Lessons Learned From a Year Ago

Mon, 2014-12-08 10:20 — mike kraft

NEW YORK TIMES  by Austin Ramzy                                                                 Dec. 7, 2014

LEGAZPI, the Philippines — As Typhoon Hagupit churned across the Philippines on Sunday, residents of the eastern part of the island nation expressed relief that they had joined the hundreds of thousands who had evacuated to safer ground.

Residents waded through floodwaters on Sunday in Borongan City, the Philippines. Typhoon Hagupit is expected to churn over the country until Wednesday. Credit Francis R. Malasig/European Pressphoto Agency

By late Sunday, what had been classified as a super typhoon was far weaker than Haiyan was when it hit, and was continuing to weaken. The storm, which is expected to push its way across the country until Wednesday, was generating strong winds and rain, but the overall effect was not as devastating as worst-case scenarios had anticipated.

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CNN Reports: Super Typhoon Haiyan, perhaps strongest ever, plows across Philippines

Fri, 2013-11-08 10:57 — Elhadj Drame

Super Typhoon Haiyan -- perhaps the strongest storm ever -- plowed Friday across the central Philippines, leaving widespread devastation in its wake.

It roared onto Samar at 4:30 a.m., flooding streets and knocking out power and communications networks in many areas of the hilly island in the region of Eastern Visayas, and then continued its march, barreling into four other Philippine islands as it moved across the archipelago.

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Solomons Quake Triggers Tsunami, Destroys Villages

Tue, 2013-02-05 22:57 — Kathy Gilbeaux

      

ABC News - Live Coverage Blog - February 5, 2013

A magnitude 8.0 earthquake off Solomon Islands has generated a tsunami and destroyed three villages.

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Pacific Tsunami Warning Center
http://ptwc.weather.gov/

From GDACS . . . Estimated wave height and arrival times of Tsunami
http://tinyurl.com/a72nss9 . . .

USGS - 8.0 Earthquake
http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eventpage/usc000f1s0#summary

West Coast and Alaska Tsunami Warning Center
http://wcatwc.arh.noaa.gov/

National Data Buoy Center - Facebook Announcement
https://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=401774316576562&id=128538033843673

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Fukushima Disaster “a Profoundly Man-Made Disaster”: Investigative Commission

Tue, 2012-07-10 01:11 — Kathy Gilbeaux

submitted by Luis Kun

Homeland Security News Wire - July 5, 2012

Executive Summary - Slideshare

Executive Summary - (88 page .PDF file)

NAIIC Report

The commission investigating the Fukushima disaster of March 2011 concluded that although the combination of the tsunami and earthquake was unprecedented in its ferocity, the disaster was largely man-made because it was amplified by what came before it and what followed it. The disaster itself, the Fukushima Nuclear Accident Independent Investigation Commission, said was sandwiched by practices and conduct which were the result of government-industry collusion and the worst conformist conventions of Japanese culture.

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