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Vietnam
donates rice to tackle hunger in flood-hit North Korea
Vietnam pledges 5,000
tonnes of rice after floods devastate crops and leave hundreds of thousands of
people homeless
Vietnam will donate 5,000 tonnes of rice to North Korea after
recentflooding, which has left crops devastated,
more than 160 people dead and 212,200 homeless, according to state media.
The donation may help assuage fears of a widespread famine like
the one that killed an estimated 1 million in the 1990s. But UN officials
warned on Thursday that the full crop damage and food scarcity facing North
Korea won't be known until an assessment is completed next month.
More
than 65,000 hectares of farmland have been washed away since floods began in
late June, following a severe drought. Around 5,000 houses, 300 public
buildings and 60 factories have been destroyed by the floods, renewing concerns
about Pyongyang's capacity to feed its people and to carry out damage control.
UN agencies said in June that two-thirds of the country's 24 million population
were facing chronic food shortages.
Manila
floods displace hundreds of thousands of residents
Flooding in Philippine
capital eases long enough for rescuers to reach residents marooned in submerged
villages
Widespread flooding eased
long enough for rescuers on rubber boats to reach many distressed residents
still marooned in submerged villages on Wednesday.
Forecasters said the monsoon rains that overflowed dams and
rivers crisscrossing Manila and surrounding provinces killing at least 23
people would break for sunny weather later this week. The deluge that began
late on Sunday was the worst since 2009, when hundreds died in rampaging flash
floods.
"We're still in rescue mode," said Benito Ramos, who
heads the government's main disaster response agency. "Floods are receding
in many areas but people are still trapped on their roofs."
Ramos had described the scene as "like a water world"
after floods submerged half the sprawling capital. Among the fatalities were
nine who died in a landslide in a hillside slum in suburban Quezon City and
several others who drowned in outlying provinces.
More than 1.2 million people have been affected, including
783,000 who evacuated their homes. Some returned as the water was receding, but
others stayed away despite the hard conditions in emergency shelters, as rain
clouds again darkened the sky on Wednesday afternoon.
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Significant Earthquakes (SOURCE USGS)
Significant EarthquakesPast 30 Days
The
government earthquake monitoring center said the quake registered magnitude 6.2
and hit Sunday evening. It said it was centered 175 miles southeast of the
oasis city of Hotan. The area is deep in the thinly populated Kunlun mountains.
Iran
earthquakes kill more than 180; toll could rise
The twin quakes,
one a magnitude 6.4, strike a relatively lightly populated region in
northwestern Iran. The epicenter is near the town of Ahar.
TEHRAN –- More than 180 people were
reported killed and 1,300 injured Saturday when twin earthquakes struck
mountainous northwestern Iran, sending entire villages crashing to the
ground.
Iran earthquakes leave scores dead in Tabriz region
Two strong
earthquakes have struck north-western Iran, leaving at least 180 people dead
and more than 1,300 injured, officials say.
The quakes struck near Tabriz
and Ahar, but most of the casualties are thought to be in outlying villages.
Six villages were destroyed,
and thousands are spending the night in emergency shelters or in the open.
Tectonic
Summary
Seismo tectonics of the Himalaya
and Vicinity
Seismicity in the Himalaya dominantly results from the
continental collision of the India and Eurasia plates, which are converging at
a relative rate of 40-50 mm/yr. Northward underthrusting of India beneath Eurasia
generates numerous earthquakes and consequently makes this area one of the most
seismically hazardous regions on Earth. The surface expression of the plate
boundary is marked by the foothills of the north-south trending Sulaiman Range
in the west, the Indo-Burmese Arc in the east and the east-west trending
Himalaya Front in the north of India.
The India-Eurasia plate boundary is a diffuse
boundary, which in the region near the north of India, lies within the limits
of the Indus-Tsangpo (also called the Yarlung-Zangbo) Suture to the north and
the Main Frontal Thrust to the south. The Indus-Tsangpo Suture Zone is located
roughly 200 km north of the Himalaya Front and is defined by an exposed
ophiolite chain along its southern margin. The narrow (<200km) Himalaya
Front includes numerous east-west trending, parallel structures. This region
has the highest rates of seismicity and largest earthquakes in the Himalaya
region, caused mainly by movement on thrust faults. Examples of significant
earthquakes, in this densely populated region, caused by reverse slip movement
include the 1934 M8.1 Bihar, the 1905 M7.5 Kangra and the 2005 M7.6 Kashmir
earthquakes. The latter two resulted in the highest death tolls for Himalaya
earthquakes seen to date, together killing over 100,000 people and leaving
millions homeless. The largest instrumentally recorded Himalaya earthquake
occurred on 15th August 1950 in Assam, eastern India. This M8.6 right-lateral,
strike-slip, earthquake was widely felt over a broad area of central Asia,
causing extensive damage to villages in the epicentral region.
The Tibetan Plateau is situated north of the Himalaya,
stretching approximately 1000km north-south and 2500km east-west, and is
geologically and tectonically complex with several sutures which are hundreds
of kilometer-long and generally trend east-west. The Tibetan Plateau is cut by
a number of large (>1000km) east-west trending, left-lateral, strike-slip
faults, including the long Kunlun, Haiyuan, and the Altyn Tagh. Right-lateral,
strike-slip faults (comparable in size to the left-lateral faults), in this
region include the Karakorum, Red River, and Sagaing. Secondary north-south
trending normal faults also cut the Tibetan Plateau. Thrust faults are found
towards the north and south of the Tibetan Plateau. Collectively, these faults
accommodate crustal shortening associated with the ongoing collision of the
India and Eurasia plates, with thrust faults accommodating north south
compression, and normal and strike-slip accommodating east-west extension.
Iran is one of the most seismically active countries in
the world, being crossed by several major fault lines[1] that cover at least 90% of the country.[2] As a result, earthquakes in Iran occur often and
are destructive.
21st century
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Date
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Time
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Epicenter
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Magnitude
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Fatalities
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Coordinates
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Official
title
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Aug 11, 2012
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12:23:18
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6.4 and 6.3
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250
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Jun 15, 2011
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01:05:30
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5.3
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2
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Dec 20, 2010
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22:12:01
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6.5
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11
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Aug 27, 2010
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23:56:34
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5.9
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19
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2010 Damghan earthquake
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Sep 10, 2008
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11:00:34
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6.1
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7
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March 31, 2006
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01:17:01
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6.1[4]
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70[4]
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November 27, 2005
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10:22:19
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6.0[5]
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13[5]
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February 22, 2005
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02:25:22
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6.4[6]
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At least 602[7]
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May 28, 2004
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12:38:46
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6.3[8]
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At least 35[8]
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December 26, 2003
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01:56:52
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6.6[9]
|
At least 30,000[9]
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June 22, 2002
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02:58:21
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6.5[10]
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262[2]
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Toll Rises To 26
LUCKNOW, India -- An official says army troops
and police are searching for more bodies in the debris of destroyed homes in
northern India, where at least 26 people have been killed by torrential rains.
Government spokesman Amit Chandola says at least
five people are still missing after heavy downpours starting Thursday triggered
landslides and flash floods in Uttarakhand state.
Chandola said Sunday that soldiers helped rescue
hundreds of people stranded in areas of Chamoli district.
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The Northeast Regional Climate Center at Cornell
University reported Tuesday that the average temperature in the 12-state region
was 49.9 degrees from January through July. That's the warmest seven-month
period since 1895, the year systematic record keeping began.
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