Archive | October 17, 2015
Plane crash kills one near Beeton, Canada
Emergency crews are at the scene of a fatal plane crash near Beeton.
Provincial police say a small plane crashed in the area of 8th Line and Tottenham Road after striking hydro lines. Investigators say the plane was on fire and one person has died.
A witness says the plane was having engine trouble prior to the crash.
“(The plane)was coming in way too low to clear the wires and the engine was still revving up and down, sputtering, yawing side to side and up and down, and that’s when he hit the wires and burst into flames,” says witness Greg Mooney.
New Tecumseth fire Chief Dan Heydon says the fire is under control.
OPP has closed 8th Line between Tottenham Road and Dayfoot Street.
The Transportation Safety Board of Canada is sending two investigators from Richmond Hill to probe the crash.
Courtesy of barrie.ctvnews.ca
Massive landslide causes devastation in Karachi, Pakistan
Perhaps, the 13 who perished under tons of loose earth in Karachi early Tuesday morning were absolutely unmindful of the fact that they were living under the looming spectre of death.
They were there for many years now and to their misfortune none of the city-planners or owners of the plots they lived on ever bothered to warn of the impending danger. Their thatched sheds stood right under a tall, perpendicular mud wall threatening to crumble any time.
Why the wall stood at 90 degree angle and was not sloped as should have been the case while landscaping a mud hillock for a residential habitat, nobody had asked. What brought it down? Was it a natural occurrence or a planned act?
There is no answer also and may never be given the fate of many an official inquiry in such tragedies. But it is evident in the plain sight that it was their extreme poverty that had penned them into that death trap. Also, that they had been fooled into moving to the mega city in search of better life leaving behind their homes and hearths in southern Punjab.
They are said to be paying just about a thousand bucks monthly rent to the owners of the plots, whose identity remains a mystery as is often the case with China-cutting allotments in Karachi. And they didn’t have to pay for electricity courtesy the widely-applied ‘kunda’ device.
But as they lay buried under massive boulders none from the China-cutting machine was in hurry to retrieve the bodies of the 13 poor souls. Media reports say the locals with primitive hoes and spades in hands, dozens of Edhi volunteers and a number of Chhipa ambulances were there at the site hours before the city rulers and their rescue teams showed up. It did not take long to send their bodies back to the villages they had come from.
What had happened in Karachi on Tuesday is not the first of its kind nor would it be the last; such unfortunate incidents are part of life. But what makes one different from the other and should be looked into rather incisively is to have knowledge if it could be averted. On the face of it, had necessary care been taken by the greedy plot owners, who had extensively excavated the mud hillock changing its incline into a straight wall just to enlarge their plots, and the relevant rules and regulations enforced by the city planners these 13 lives could have been saved.
Given its magnetism for its low-cost living and huge employment potential Karachi is getting enlarged faster than any other city in Pakistan. And surely it would remain the destination for many for many years to come. As the city would expand over the time it is expected to move into an even more inhospitable terrain. If all those who come here are driven by its magnetism, or they are obliged to take this road to escape intolerable conditions that tend to obtain in their ancestral homes – there is the debate of course.
One would say with some degree of certitude that many of them who arrived in the port city were not the economic migrants; they were driven out from their homes by the ever-growing incidence of injustice and lawlessness that they confront on day-to-day basis, and sometimes lured into taking the road to mega city by their misplaced dreams of better life. Possibly, these 13 who eked out sub-human existence in Karachi for about 12 years would have lived much better life back home in the agriculturally rich-cotton producing districts of Rahimyar Khan and Bahawalpur.
They might have left their villages because life in there was insecure and no more livable, as much at the hands of politically patronised criminals as under the misrule of local officials. Assure the rural population readily available justice and you would have cut down on the flow of migration to cities.
At the same time, there is the dire need to reinvent an extension plan for the mega city – no less crucially by weeding out the China-cutting designers and quashing the ‘sanctified’ encroachments – keeping in view the limitations particularly the ones dictated by the lay of the land and availability of potable water.
Courtesy of aaj.tv
QUAKE SWARM SAN FRANCISCO BAY AREA, CALIFORNIA, USA
***URGENT***
QUAKE SWARM
SAN FRANCISCO BAY AREA, CALIFORNIA, USA
***BE ALERT***
Super Typhoon Koppu (Lando) slams the Philippines
Super Typhoon Koppu’s eye smashed into northern Philippines’ Luzon island with ferocious winds and rain early Sunday, just the early stages of what forecasters fear could be a three-day period of floods and landslides.
Koppu, known as Lando in the Philippines, had sustained winds of 149 mph, a strength equivalent to a high-end Category 4 hurricane.
Koppu’s eye made landfall at about 1 a.m. local time over Casiguran, a coastal city of about 25,000 people on Luzon, the country’s largest and most populous island.
Even before the eye hit, the storm’s outer bands lashed the country’s east coast with heavy rain. Casiguran had 4.1 inches by late Saturday night, while Virac, on an island to the south, had 6.5 inches.
The country’s PAGASA weather service warned of likely significant damage to buildings and trees near the eye, and of dangerous storm surges that could rise as high as 9.8 feet along the coast.
But the danger for eastern and northern Luzon could last for three days, because Koppu is expected to go up the island at an excruciatingly slow pace.
Some areas could get more than 19.6 inches of rain by early Tuesday. By the end of Wednesday, as much of 39 inches of rain could have fallen in some places, CNN meteorologist Allison Chinchar said.
“That’s where the problem with the flash flooding comes in, because when you have all of this rain that keeps coming down over the same places over and over, that is likely to trigger mudslides and landslides in addition to flash flooding problems in … some of the low-lying areas,” Chinchar said.
The Philippines is frequently hit by typhoons. In December, for instance, Hagupit killed at least 18 people and injured hundreds more.
But that devastation paled in comparison to the havoc wrought by Super Typhoon Haiyan in November 2013, which killed more than 6,000 people and injured more than 27,000 others. That typhoon, considered to be among the strongest storms ever to make landfall, hit the eastern city of Tacloban, well south of Luzon, especially hard.
Courtesy of wptz.com
Turrialba Volcano Awakes Again In Costa Rica
Costa Rica’s Volcanological and Seismological Observatory (OVSICORI) has reported that there were two small eruption from the Turrialba Volcano that were responsible for a small amount of ash falling nearby on Friday.
No additional eruptions followed today. The volcano has been showing increased activity levels since the 10th of October, leading scientists to believe a new period of activity may be upon us.
The eruption was of a low frequency and was followed by a few minutes of subsequent tremors in the area and then another small eruption. The ash fall did not reach as far as the Central Valley as most of it fell on top of the volcano or moved just northwest with the wind.
Some neighbors were unaware of the activity and slept through it.
There was no need for an evacuation or any changes at the airport. A previous eruption resulted in needing to rent hydroelectric sweepers to clear the tracks at the airport.
Courtesy of costaricantimes.com
MEGA DIP SPIKES ON THE WEAK MAGNETOSPHERE @ APPROX 18:15, 18:30, 18:45, 19:00, 19:15 HRS UTC
**VERY URGENT**
MEGA DIP SPIKES ON THE WEAK MAGNETOSPHERE @ APPROX 18:15, 18:30, 18:45, 19:00, 19:15 HRS UTC. FURTHER EARTHQUAKES, VOLCANO ACTIVITY & ADVERSE WEATHER PATTERNS WILL BE GREATLY INFLUENCED BY THE COSMIC RAYS STRIKING THE EARTH’S CORE
***BE ALERT***
MAGNITUDE 4.2 NEPAL
http://www.emsc-csem.org/Earthquake/earthquake.php?id=465107
39 km SE of Kodāri, Nepal / pop: 1,600 / local time: 23:46:30.0 2015-10-17
Subject To Change
Depth: 10 km
Distances:
97 km E of Kathmandu, Nepal / pop: 1,442,271 / local time: 23:46:30.0 2015-10-1739 km SE of Kodāri, Nepal / pop: 1,600 / local time: 23:46:30.0 2015-10-17
MAGNITUDE 5.1 WEST CHILE RISE
http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eventpage/us10003pdi#general_summary
Subject To Change
Depth: 8 km
Distances: 690km (429mi) W of Chonchi, Chile
694km (431mi) W of Castro, Chile
697km (433mi) W of Ancud, Chile
706km (439mi) W of Puerto Quellon, Chile
1429km (888mi) SW of Santiago, Chile
PROTON PARTICLES HAVE DRAMATICALLY INCREASED
**URGENT PROTON ALERT**
PROTON PARTICLES HAVE DRAMATICALLY INCREASED. FURTHER EARTHQUAKES, VOLCANO ACTIVITY & ADVERSE WEATHER PATTERNS WILL BE GREATLY INFLUENCED BY THE COSMIC RAYS STRIKING THE EARTH’S CORE
***BE ALERT***
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