Nocere – Earth Disasters

At least 100 people have perished in the western part of Indonesia after an earthquake registering at a magitude of 7.6 hit the area on Wednesday.

The quake caused landslides, cut off roads and power lines were down.

There is a concern that possibly 1000′s of citizens could be beneath the debris of houses and other buildings that fell as a result of the quake. A hospital also went down in Padang the capital of the Western Sumatra state.

It is estimated that anywhere from one hundred to two hundred citizens have perished in Padang.

People are without electricity and places to stay. They will be trying to survive out of doors over night in the darkness of the area.

Much help is needed to start cleaning up the debris. The miliatay  and Health Ministry members are there helping, but sturdy equipment is needed to move the debris to  find people who could still be pinned in the debris.

Telephones are also down keeping people  from calling for help or being able to evaluate the amount of destruction that has occured.

Officials of Indonesia have stated that it is the largest earthquake  that Indonesia has felt in many years and may be more devasting then the one in 2006.

The area is mostly country with  thick tropical woods.

Heavy rainfall is making the rescue efforts more difficult.

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Flood hits the capital of Philippine, Manila and official reported at least 50 people death and thousands more evacuated. This is believe to be the worst flooding in Manila for over 20 years, with Tropical Storm Ketsana, also known as Ondoy, bringing the equivalent of a whole month’s rain fell in 6 hours.

Television pictures showed water flowing down the roads like rivers, with height at about adult’s chest and rising. Philippines President Gloria Arroyo is calling his citizen through broadcasting to stay calm, and tag on the order from the local officials and civil defense authorities.

Major road to the Manila is impassable with slowed down vehicles and some ferry services were stopped. Flight service were canceled and thousands passenger were lock in the airport. Ketsana, with winds of up to 100km/h, is still over Manila, and is expected to move over to the South China Sea on Sunday or Monday.

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The drought has caused more then just crops to die. Thousands of livestock and other animals have died from lack of water and food.

The last drought that was as bad as this one was 10 years ago.

Elderly people and infants are the most at risk. The elderly people are given food and water after everyone else has been cared for. They are being given so  little. The young children are getting sick from lack of proper nourishment and water. Diarrhea is a risk.

There are 7 countries suffering from the drought and it is estimated that 23 million people are suffering or going to suffer from it’s ill effects.

Changes in the climate and the numbers of people now dwelling in the countries is part of the problem. There have been 4 years of harvest that haven’t been so good. Trying to stock up to prepare for times like this has been impossible.

There is fear that if it does start to rain next month, that it could be yet another bad turn for the countries. El Nino could play a part in the climate changes and cause torrential rainfall and not the slow steady rains that is mostly needed.

The govenment is trying to help it’s people. They feel they have done all they can do. Even as bad as it seems, there are figured to be less people in need of help then there was in 2008.

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2 car suicide bombing had hit in north-western of Pakistan. It is reported at least a total number of 16 death in these 2 incidents.

The bombing happened in the city of Pashawar is destructive enough; citizen reported they can see the smoke rising from the scene and can hear the explosion across the city. Police said that this suicide car bomb happened in the car park of a bank in a commercial area resulting ten people reported to be death and over 70 people had been harmed, some critically. Official is expecting the death toll could increase.

Earlier, a suicide car bomb had been set up outside the police station in the town of Bann. Several building included the police station were collapsed after the blast. There is number of citizen caught trapped in the bubble. Official announced there is total of 6 people were killed in the incident.

The attacks believe to be launched by the Taliban after a period of relative quiet from the insurgents suffered a series of setbacks. The former leader of the Taliban, Baitullah Mehsud was killed in the event of US missile strike and follows by the arrest of Muslim Khan, one of the highest ranking Taliban officials in the country and 4 senior militants. The correspondent believe the Taliban had been reasserting and there will be more suicide bombing in the north-west region of Pakistan.

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Red sand storm had hit the major city of Australia’s east coast, Sydney and Brisbane. Visibility was so bad that airplane and ferry service needed to be diverted and disrupted. It said the sand storm is common happened in the red center of Australia, but somehow it is special this time with large wind blowing from the populated city outback.

Interview had been carried out with Sydney resident, Andrew Hawkins expressing that the dust storm feels like Armageddon is upon them. Some of others commented that they are like ‘living’ on Mars.

The air pollution level reached the sky high 15,500 micrograms of particles per cubic meter since records began in the 70. Warning had been given to the elderly, children, pregnant women and people with heart and lung diseases to stay in house to avoid the dust.

It had been a difficult 24 hours for the Australian which being hit by the said red sand storm, earthquake, hail storms and bushfires. Precaution had been taken that no open fires allowed in the hot and dry weather. There is 2 minor earthquakes reported in Victoria state as well.

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The people of Karachi in Pakistan are hungry as many are in other areas of Pakistan. It has been calculated that 24 percent of the people living in Pakistan are not getting enough to eat and that 38 percent of the young ones are too lean.

Chaudhry Iftikhar wanted to help. He set up a site in Karachi to give flour to the people. He neglected to file the proper papers and get permission to do this. He is being held for his violation.

During the flour distribution, which took place on September 14th, 2009, the people rushed and pushed so hard to get their portion of the flour, that 18 people have now perished as a result of it. There were an additional 12  injured in the act. Two  young children died in the accident.

Hundreds of people were awaiting the flour. Many of the people are currently homeless due to the battles going on in their tribes areas.

It is so sad that people are that hungry in our world where so much is wasted.

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In Keyna, more then 29 people died and many more hurt during a cattle bust. The continuing drought has cause tensions to grow as people are trying to survive.

The battle was between the ethnical Pokot cattle thieves and the Samburu herdsmen. The cattle thieves attacked an area where the herdsmen had their cattle grazing in the pastures.

Amongst the people who died were adult females and children. There were 21 Samburu inhabitants and 8 of the rustlers that died in the battle.

People have started fleeing the area and officials have brought in hundreds of police authorities to try and remedy the situation.

Just last week there were 15 people that died in asame attack and  approximately 100 families had no place to go.

There are many factors contributing to the tension. The drought, violence brought on by members of groups using illegal weapons, and the government not being able to control the use of these weapons.

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US forces are “likely” to have  slain  a  peak  al-Qaeda  suppose   throughout  a  infantry  raid in Somalia, US  agents  say.

They took air journey helicopters into Somalia and assaulted a vehicle they state was bearing Kenyan-born Saleh Ali Saleh Nabhan.

US agencies have been searching Nabhan for years over attacks on a inn and an Israeli airliner in Kenya in 2002.

It is accepted he escaped to Somalia after the attacks and was employed with the al-Shabab assembly, which the Americans glimpse as al-Qaeda’s proxy in Somalia.

The US last commenced a foremost hit in Somalia in May 2008, murdering al-Shabab’s infantry foremost and more than 200 Kenyans.

A US authorized was cited by Reuters report bureau as saying exceptional forces had flown by helicopter from a US Navy boat and discharged on a vehicle that they accepted was bearing Nabhan.

He supplemented that the body accepted to be Nabhan’s had been taken into custody.

There have furthermore been accounts that another body was taken away by the US attackers.

Nabhan is supposed of bombing an Israeli-owned inn in the Kenyan dock town of Mombasa, and endeavouring to fire down an Israeli airliner in 2002.

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