Disasters

Volcano Report for the week of (27July2010)

Current active volcanoes

Name of Volcano Location Volcano Number Volcano Type Details Status
Arenal Costa Rica 1405-033 Stratovolcano Read Eruption Orange
Bagana Papua New-Guinea 0505-02= Lava cone Read Eruption Orange
Barren Is. India 0600-01= Stratovolcano Read Eruption Orange
Batu Tara Indonesia 0604-26= Stratovolcano Read Eruption Alert Level 2
Chaiten Chile 1508-041 Caldera Read Eruption Red
Concepcion Nicaragua 1404-12= Stratovolcano Read Eruption Orange
Dukono Indonesia 0608-01= Complex volcano Read Eruption Alert Level 2
Eyjafjallajökull Iceland 1702-02= Stratovolcano Read Eruption Orange
Fuego Guatemala 1402-09= Stratovolcano Read Eruption Orange
Gaua Vanatu 0507-02= Stratovolcano Read Eruption Alert Level 2
Ibu Indonesia 0608-03= Stratovolcano Read Eruption Level 2
Karymsky Russia 1000-13= Stratovolcano Read Eruption Orange
Kilauea USA 1302-01- Shield volcano Read Eruption Orange
Kirishima Japan 0802-09= Shield volcano Read Eruption Alert Level 2
Kliuchevskoi Russia 1000-26= Stratovolcano Read Eruption Orange
Mt. Erebus Antarctica 1900-02= Stratovolcano Read Eruption Orange
Mt. Etna Italy 0101-06= Stratovolcanoes Read Eruption Orange
Nyamuragira Democratic Republic of Congo 0203-02= Shield volcano Read Eruption Orange
Ol Doinyo Lengai Tanzania 0202-12= Stratovolcano Read Eruption Orange
Pacaya Guatemala 1402-11= Complex volcano Read Eruption Orange
Planchon Peteroa Chile 1507-04= Stratovolcanoes Read Eruption Orange
Poas Costa Rica 1405-04= Stratovolcano Read Eruption Orange
Popocatepetl Mexico 1401-09= Stratovolcanoes Read Eruption Orange
Rabaul Papua New-Guinea 0502-14= Pyroclastic shield Read Eruption Alert Level 2
Reventador Ecuador 1502-01= Stratovolcano Read Eruption Orange
Sakura-Jima Japan 0802-08= Stratovolcano Read Eruption Alert Level 2
Sangay Ecuador 1502-09= Stratovolcano Read Eruption Orange
Santa Maria Guatemala 1402-03= Stratovolcano Read Eruption Orange
Semeru Indonesia 0603-30= Stratovolcano Read Eruption Alert Level 2
Sheveluch Russia 1000-27= Stratovolcano Read Eruption Orange
Stromboli Italy 0101-04= Stratovolcano Read Eruption Orange
Suwanose-Jima Japan 0802-03= Stratovolcano Read Eruption Orange
Tungurahua Ecuador 1502-08= Stratovolcano Read Eruption Orange
Ulawun Papua New-Guinea 0502-12= Stratovolcano Read Eruption Alert Level 2

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KATLA QUAKE WATCH: //en.vedur.is/earthquakes-and-volcanism/earthquakes/myrdalsjokull/

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How can I get a job with FEMA or any other job dealing with Natural Disasters?

I want a job that deals with natural disasters, and helping people. Whats the best path to this. Currently I am in my second year of college, have a 3.2 gpa and still undecided as a major. My interests include nature, natural disasters, traveling. Thanks for the help!

Did you just recently become interested in helping people? I ask because people who really want a career in helping others would research the various jobs & organizations that deal with this. The first step is to check out a few websites… I’m sure being in college & all you can figure out a few agencies and do the research on how to get a job or volunteer with them. Since this is not obvious to you, I did my own search and found out how to get FEMA employment info: http://training.fema.gov/contactus/ . I’m sure if you’re so dedicated you can find out additional info for the other agencies.

History Channel Mega Disasters – Yellowstone Eruption Part 2

www.yellowstonecaldera.net Latest documentary on the Yellowstone Supervolcano released in 2007. Really good film including 3-D images of the magma chamber presented by Bob Smith.

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MAGNITUDE 5.1 EARTHQUAKE STRIKES LIBERTADOR GENERAL BERNARDO O’ HIGGINS, CHILE

M 5.1, Libertador General Bernardo O’Higgins, Chile: Saturday, July 3, 2010 00:05:08 UTCFriday, July 2, 2010 08:05:08 PM

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Simple Solutions to Recover From Cosmetic Makeup Disasters!

Have you ever bought makeup that looks great at the store only to get it home and find it makes us look more ghoulish than gorgeous? Of course you have, but is the only alternative to toss it? No! And here is how you can easily recover…

To soften a blinding shade of blusher, start by applying a more neutral-colored blush such as tawny brown, which creates a natural-looking flush on most skin tones. Then add a pop of the bright color on top. To make it brighter, first sweep the blah blush over the apples of your cheeks; then tap the tops of your cheekbones with your most vibrant shade of pink blush.

Foundation can easily be made darker, just apply the foundation as you usually would and then dust a little powder bronzer onto your cheeks, forehead and chin using a large blush brush — the coppery tones will help add warmth and depth. Another option: Create a richer color by mixing a small amount of foundation with a drop of gel bronzer in your palm. To make it lighter, dilute the color by mixing it in your hand with a squirt of untinted facial moisturizer.

After filling in lips with a too-loud shade of lipstick, just top it with a neutral beige lipstick. Continue layering on the beige until you reach your desired tone. Create a more intense, matte version of a lackluster lipstick by first lining and filling in your kisser with a lip liner that’s at least two shades deeper than the lipstick. Then apply the lipstick and a deeper shade of gloss for sheen and much fuller and poutier lips.

To soften the color of eyeshadow, start by sweeping lids with a taupe-tone shadow or a pale yellow powder. Then apply a light coat of the blaring color. If it’s still too intense, add another layer of the lighter shade. Or if the shadow is bright green, blue or violet, you can use it as an eyeliner to softly define just your upper lids. Then to darken the color, dampen your eye shadow brush beforehand, which will intensify the hue.

Following these simple tips will mean no more makeup buying disasters and a much happier and more beautiful you!

Steven James
http://www.articlesbase.com/health-articles/simple-solutions-to-recover-from-cosmetic-makeup-disasters-107203.html

C-Class Solar Flare 13 july 2010 (NoLinkNews)

NOLINKNEWS | July 13, 2010

Sunspots = Solar Flares = Magnetic Field Shift = Shifting Ocean and Jet Stream Currents = Extreme Global Changing Weather= Earthquakes= Volcanic Eruptions and Human Disruption aka Solor Max in 2012

MAGNIFICENT ACTIVE REGION: Sunspot 1087 has a magnetic canopy that can only be described as magnificent. It’s on full display in today’s extreme ultraviolet image from the Solar Dynamics Observatory:

The active region could swallow our planet ten times over and still have room to spare. Fortunately, we’re 93 million miles away. We could still feel the effects of an eruption, however. The thicket of magnetic loops and filaments harbors energy for M-class solar flares. M-flares can heat and puff up Earth’s upper atmosphere, causing satellites to experience extra drag as they orbit our planet; they can also cause waves of ionization to ripple around the planet, disrupting radio communications. There haven’t been any big eruptions yet, but the magnificent magnetic field of sunspot 1087 has been restless, as shown in this time-lapse movie spanning four days.

NOAA forecasters estimate a 10% chance of M-flares during the next 24 hours. Viewers encouraged to monitor developments.

UPDATE: Solar Eclipse Complete – Earthquakes Will Follow

by Mitch Battros – Earth Changes Media

Although last night’s 6.2 earthquake which hit Chile could be considered large and significant; it is not the one I am predicting for this current 14-day window. The one expected will be a magnitude 7.0 or larger.

I predict increased earthquake and volcanic activity to occur over the next 14 days. The events I am speaking of will be large to mega events causing high fatalities and significant damage. I would suggest the areas of most interest would be Bay of Bengel, Baja California, Mexico, Puerto Rico Region, Japan Region, and Mediterranean Region.

History shows at almost all full solar eclipse events, large earth changing events occur within 14 days prior to, and 14 days after the eclipse.

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Unbelievable Data Loss Disasters

You need to make backup copies! You must do it regullary! These are the sentences which we heard almost every day, but it is just a words and often, we don’t even pay attention to these things! It is so until one moment… One fatal moment and there is no information to our computers and also there is no backup copies from which restore information!This article include unbelievable, but true stories of data disasters summarize by Ontrack Data Recovery™ – data recovery company. Of course, they get all data for customers back, but also they get big money from miserable peoples! Do you want to pay them?

• Helicopter Hi-jinks – Employees of a global telecommunications company dropped a laptop computer while working from a helicopter.
• Wash the Data Away – On a flight a passenger packed his laptop and toiletries in the same bag. Unfortunately, his shampoo leaked and flooded everything in the bag, including the laptop, causing the hard drive to fail.
• Rescuing the Research – A leading UK research university suffered a catastrophic data loss after a fire broke out in the computer science department on a weekend morning, damaging computer equipment with smoke and water from the fire department’s efforts.
• Beware of Bananas – An employee left an old banana on the top of his external hard drive which proceeded to seep its contents into the drive, ruining the circuitry.
• Hard Drive Speed Bump – It happens every year, but people continue to leave computers and hard drives in the path of moving vehicles. There was situations when company need to recover data from a laptop that was run over by a “people mover” at the airport, and several external hard drives stuffed in a backpack that was backed over by a truck.
• Tenth Time’s the Charm – A man reformatted his hard drive not once, not twice, but ten times before he realized there was some valuable information he needed recovered.
• Squeaky Drive Gets the Grease – A university professor heard a squeaking noise from the drive of his new desktop computer. To solve the annoying problem, he opened the case and sprayed the inside of the drive with WD-40. Although successful in stopping the drive from squeaking, his actions also prevented the drive from booting up.
• Sock it to Me – Although the circumstances of the original data loss were unremarkable, the problem was intensified when the customer shipped his drive to company in a pair of dirty socks. The old socks didn’t provide the necessary protection during shipping and the resulting damage made the recovery more challenging than normal.(ontrack.com)

Here you can see how stupid, unpredictable and funny situations people lose there data. These situations shows tendency of this century-desire become mobile and more universal. And you dont need wash your laptop or backed over by track, you can lose data even in more ordinary situations.It is funny, but there are many ways how to lose your data, but there is only one way how to get data back and also save money from data recovery… And this one way is-regullary backup copies! Choice is up to you!To learn more about backup copies and information security you can make your own information security awareness training!

Article source infosecuritylab

InfoSecurityLab
http://www.articlesbase.com/security-articles/unbelievable-data-loss-disasters-95833.html

The Evil of Nature

Modern world is full of the evil. There are different types of evils. Many of them are caused by humans, because of their ignorance and unwillingness to think about the consequences. Swinburne in his work mentions some kinds of evils do not depend on humans, such as natural disasters. The theodicist states that God connects the goodness of man with the decency of the whole world, something like the chain. The collapse of one component of this chain causes the collapse of the rest. Such awful disasters as earthquakes and volcanoes are the means to penalize people for misbehaving. It can not give the explanation to the earthquakes and such huge amount of deaths because of them. For example, the west coast can not be guilty because of the constant earthquakes. A lot of innocent people died because of the earthquakes, which shattered San Francisco and Los Angeles some years ago. God would not permit all those people to die. In such situations people can blame anyone and everything, bur it does not mean that someone is to be punished for this, as there is no guilty. The only thing that should be done is consulting with some geological or meteorological experts to know the reason of a certain natural catastrophe. If people consider God omnibenevolent, then it would be illogical to suppose that He could make people undergo all those natural disasters. Earthquakes and volcanoes appeared on the planet long before people began to exist. The world suffered from all these disasters hundreds of years before human appeared and the Christianity was established. The theodicists can not still explain how God could permit so much of pain and loses of humans. As a result, there is some misunderstanding in the compatibility of God with the evil in the world.

Andrew
http://www.articlesbase.com/religion-articles/the-evil-of-nature-226344.html

Car Insurance During the Hurricane Season

Hurricane season is time between early June and late November when many hurricanes are likely to take place. This period can introduce some modifications to the way insurance companies deal with auto insurance. The peak hurricane activity is usually reported in September. The hurricanes that occur in that period are the most devastating and causing enormous damage. Can one prepare for these damages? When preparing for the hurricane season you probably don’t think about your car insurance policy much. But you really should spend some time reading your policy to know more about the damages and amounts you are covered with by your insurance company. Knowing what exactly your policy provides can save you both time and money when disaster strikes. Make sure you understand perfectly what is and what is not covered by your policy before there’s any risk to your vehicle. If you are not sure about something, contact your insurer to learn all the details. If you want to prepare your car physically to the hurricane, you can start with parking it in a garage rather than leaving it outside. Or make sure it isn’t located near any trees and poles. The type of insurance coverage that is usually applied during hurricanes is comprehensive coverage. Comprehensive coverage pays for damages resulting from floods, fires, rain and other natural disasters or off-road accidents. You can also consider gap coverage and rental reimbursement when looking for protection during the hurricane season. In case your car is destroyed during a hurricane, gap coverage uses the difference between the debt on your loan and the actual value of your car for covering the damage. In case your car is only damaged and can be repaired, rental reimbursement coverage covers the costs of car while your own vehicle is being fixed. Looking for car insurance or trying to add additional types of coverage right before the disaster is expected to take place is not such a good idea. Apart from significantly increased rates, most insurance companies simply won’t sell you insurance at all if they know there’ll be a natural disaster anytime soon. That is because insurance doesn’t work only when there’s potential risk, the policy is active all the time. Also take note that in most cases some types of coverage don’t take effect immediately. For example, there’s a 30 day period imposed by federal government from the moment of buying flood insurance and its actual active period start. If you don’t have additional types of insurance coverage while living or visiting an area with frequent natural disasters, your insurance company is likely to not sell you any insurance or modify your existing policy until the hurricane is over. So don’t wait until the last moment to make the necessary changes. And keep in mind that this also applies to other types of insurance such as homeowners insurance. The earlier you get prepared to natural disasters, the lower your premiums will be. And don’t expect to get cheap auto insurance during the hurricane season, you’re likely to be left without any insurance at all.

David Mayer
http://www.articlesbase.com/insurance-articles/car-insurance-during-the-hurricane-season-725265.html

5.3 magnitude earthquake rattles New Zealand North Island

New Zealand, Indonesia, and Chile shaken by earthquakes. Early on Monday, July 12, the Hawke’s Bay region on the east coast of North Island, New Zealand was rattled by a 5.3-magnitude temblor with tremors that were widely felt around Gisborne and Hawke’s Bay. Later that day, Indonesia’s Lampung province in South Sumatra was struck by a magnitude-5.3 quake, which was soon followed by another of the same magnitude in North Maluku province. In addition, West Nusa Tenggara province was hit by a 5.1-magnitude temblor, 63 kilometers southeast of Raba. On Wednesday morning in the Latin American country of Chile, a strong magnitude-6.5 earthquake occurred 55 kilometers southeast of Lebu in the Bío-Bío region. Fortunately, none of these events caused significant damage or casualties.

As we thank the Providence for the quake-stricken people’s safety, we pray that such disturbing events may soon be a thing of the past with our gentler ways that help stabilize the ecosphere.

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