Economic Downturn, Natural Disasters, and Terrorism – March 2010 Forecast
Highlights: accelerating economic losses, social discontent, extreme interest in terrorism & global violence, and widespread natural “event(s).” A global mood “weather forecast” for March 2010.
Duration : 0:4:44
Categories: Disasters Tags: A New Story Foundation, Asia, attack, Cari Bourette, chaos, China, collapse, crash, crisis, disaster, Earth, economy, forecast, geopolitical, global, hazards, March 2010, MoodCompass, nature, news, prediction, risk, sentiment, social mood, socioeconomic, socionomic, stock market, sustainability, terror, terrorism, unrest, violence, war, Weather
Hurricane Ike – Florida Keys – September 8-9, 2008
During the first week of September, 2008 Hurricane Ike tore through the islands of Turks & Caicos and Great Inagua as a category four, with sustained winds of 135mph, before making landfall on the north coast of Cuba as a strong category three, with 120mph winds.
Ike crossed the eastern and central provinces of the Cuban mainland and moved offshore, paralleling the south coast of the island, making another landfall over the western portion of Cuba and emerging into the Gulf of Mexico.
The hurricane continued across the Gulf and made a final landfall near Galveston, Texas as a borderline category two/three, with 110mph winds, during the early morning hours of September 13th.
The hurricane caused extensive wind and storm surge damage in the affected areas, virtually obliterating several coastal communities on the Bolivar peninsula of the upper Texas coast.
With monetary losses over $31 billion (USD), Ike is now ranked as the third costliest hurricane in United States history.
From the afternoon of September 7th through the evening of September 9th, storm chasers Michael Laca, Jim Leonard, Jose Garcia and Max Hagen intercepted numerous outer rainbands, from Hurricane Ike, in the middle and lower Florida Keys, as the storm passed well to the south.
At the time of Ike’s closest point of approach to the Keys, the hurricane was a category one with sustained winds of 80mph and a central pressure of 965mb (28.50in).
Although the center of Ike remained a significant distance (150 miles) to the south, the hurricane had a very large windfield and produced sustained tropical storm conditions (39-73mph), with gusts of near hurricane-force, across most of the Florida Keys, which resulted in some minor wind damage.
These strong winds produced a 2-3ft storm surge in exposed locations on the Atlantic side of the lower Keys. During high-tide, many low-lying areas experienced significant flooding.
Numerous tornadic thunderstorms were also embedded within the outer rain bands of Hurricane Ike and several confirmed reports of tornadoes and tornadic waterspouts have been received from locations throughout the Keys.
Duration : 0:8:30
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Deepwater Seismic Minerals Exploration and Drilling Can Cause Earthquakes
Offshore seismic exploration is the primary method of exploring for hydrocarbon deposits under the sea. It begins on the ocean surface with a fleet of seismic vessels. Air guns are used to shoot sound energy waves from the survey ship into the water and sea bottom. Different layers of sedimentary rock reflect unique parts of the sound waves back to shipboard receptors. Chile October 25, 2009 … GeoPark Holdings Announces New Oil Discovery in Chile. Geopark expects to begin shooting seismic on the Tranquilo Block in December 2009 and on the Otway Block in March 2010. During 2009, GeoPark is carrying out a nine well drilling program on the Fell Block — and drilling is now underway on the Pampa Larga 15 well. GeoPark has also initiated start-up of activities on its two new blocks in Chile – Tranquilo and Otway – which in total cover an area of approximately 12,000 square kilometres. The Company expects to begin shooting seismic on the Tranquilo Block in December 2009 and on the Otway Block in March 2010. GeoPark drilled and completed the Yagan Norte 1 well to a total depth of 3,161 metres. A production test in the Tobifera formation, at approximately 3,077 metres in a 10 metre perforated interval, flowed at a rate of approximately 610 barrels per day (bpd) of oil with no water through a choke of 12 millimetres (mm) and with a well head pressure of 340 pounds per square inch (psi). These are preliminary results and further production history will be required to determine stabilised flow rates and the extent of the reservoir.
Duration : 0:2:5
Categories: Disasters Tags: air, Bankruptcy, Beaches, Benzine, BP, british, Burn, Cancer, Cap, Clean-Up, Cleanup, Coast, Coastal, congress, containment, Corexit, deepwater, DHS, disaster, dispersant, dome, Drill, Drilling, Energy, EPA, FEMA, Financial, Fracture, Ground, Hat, Health, Healthy, Horizon, Hydrogen, Jindal, kill, Leak, lies, Louisiana, Markets, MMS, mud, Napolitano, noaa, nwo, Obama, Offshore, Oil, Queen, rig, Seep, Seepage, Sinking, spill, Street, Sulfide, Sunk, Top, toxic, uk, USCG, Wall, Well
Hurricane Charley – Port Charlotte, FL – August 13, 2004
Hurricane Charley strengthened rapidly just before striking the southwestern coast of Florida, over Charlotte Harbor, as a Category Four hurricane. Although extremely small in size, Charley produced sustained winds of 150mph and gusts to near 175mph, causing catastrophic wind damage in the communities of Port Charlotte and Punta Gorda, FL. The Charlotte County Medical Center recorded an unofficial gust of 150kts (173mph) and the Charlotte County Airport recorded 139kts (160mph). Charley’s minimum central pressure at landfall was 942mb (27.82in) and I recorded 950mb (28.05in) at my location near Fawcett Memorial Hospital. Veteran storm chaser Andy Dressler accompanied me on this chase.
Duration : 0:4:31
Categories: Hurricanes Tags: 2004, Charley, Cyclone, disaster, extreme, Florida, Hurricane, Hurricanes, Severe, Storms, Tropical, Typhoon, Weather, Wind
Ramstein Air Show disaster – Ramstein Flugtagunglück
The Ramstein airshow disaster was one of the world’s worst airshow disasters. It took place in front of an audience of about 300,000 people on 28 August 1988, in Ramstein, state of Rheinland-Pfalz, West Germany, near the city of Kaiserslautern at the U.S. Ramstein Air Base airshow Flugtag ’88. Sixty-seven spectators and three pilots died, and 346 spectators sustained serious injuries in the resulting explosion and fire. — Das Flugtagunglück von Ramstein am 28. August 1988 gehört mit 70 Todesopfern zu den folgenschwersten Flugzeugkatastrophen, die sich je im Rahmen einer Flugschau ereigneten.
Duration : 0:1:20
Categories: Disasters Tags: accident, air, airplane, Airshow, base, disaster, Flugzeug, Italian, Italy, Kaiserslautern, Ramstein, US
Collateral 24-Courting Disaster
There’s a growing trend in the U.S.A. toward privatizing disaster relief. In light of the government’s failures during and after Katrina, one may be inclined to welcome this. But look closer, and you see that the long-term results can be devastating.
Duration : 0:5:4
Categories: Disaster Relief Tags: blackwater, California, collateral, deed, disaster, natural, news, Relief, sovereign, wildfires
Haiti Earthship Disaster Relief part I
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Earthship recon crew in Haiti: June 30 – July 5, 2010. Thanks to everyone who helped provide information, connections, advice and donations for the Earthship Biotecture recon visit to Haiti. As it turned out it was much more than a recon visit… we built a building with the help of forty Haitians from the tent camps – ages four to fifty.
Duration : 0:3:47
Categories: Disaster Relief Tags: biotecture, crew, disaster, Earthship, earthships, haiti, recon, Relief, Sustainable
Chile: Restoring Hope
News about the Church of God in Chile after the earthquakes.
Duration : 0:4:54
Walking Disaster – Sum 41
Walking Disaster – Sum 41
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Duration : 0:4:43
Gulf Residents Fear Hurricanes
As the oil still gushes into the Gulf of Mexico and hurricane season looming, for many, the worst is yet to come. Kelly Cobiella reports.
Duration : 0:2:34
Categories: Hurricanes Tags: BP, british, cbsepisode, cbsoilspill, disaster, evacuation, Fish, forecast, gulf, Hurricane, Leak, Meterologist, Mexico, Of, Oil, petroleum, spill, storm, Weather
