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Title: Nepal Suffers Another Earthquake On Saturday, Four Days After A Major Aftershock (3rd one)
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URL Source: http://www.ibtimes.com/nepal-suffer ... major-aftershock-quake-1925640
Published: May 16, 2015
Author: By Angelo Young
Post Date: 2015-05-16 22:24:09 by out damned spot
Keywords: Nepal, earthquake
Views: 3416
Comments: 15
Four days after Nepal was shaken by its second deadly significant earthquake in less than three weeks, nerves were rattled there by another quake Saturday afternoon. The U.S. Geological Survey indicated the magnitude-5.7 tremor was strong enough to inflict significant damage on poorly constructed buildings. It was felt in northern India. Neither injuries nor deaths have been reported, possibly because so many structures were already toppled by the April 25 magnitude-7.8 earthquake that killed more than 8,000 people and injured more than 19,000. The region was hit Tuesday by a quake that killed over 125 people and injured over 2,500. “An aftershock of 5.7-intensity after three days of high-intensity earthquakes on May 12 measuring 7.3 on the Richter scale is rare in weather science,” A.K. Sen, a state meteorologist in Bihar, India, south of Nepal, told the Financial Express. Sen said it’s rare for aftershocks of major quakes to top 4.0 in magnitude. The quake was felt in the northern Indian states of Bihar and Uttar Pradesh at about 5 p.m. local time. Meanwhile, the bodies of eight people aboard a U.S. military helicopter that crashed during a relief mission were recovered. The wreckage of the aircraft was found Friday after it went down in a dense patch of forest 35 miles east of Kathmandu Wednesday. Six U.S. Marines and two Nepali solders were on board delivering aid to locals in the wake of the earthquake Tuesday. The Pentagon has not yet determined the cause of the crash, but it said radio chatter indicated there was a fuel problem, according to CNN. About 300 U.S. soldiers are working in relief efforts in the region.
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#1. To: out damned spot (#0)
Except all those building already collapsed in quakes #1 and #2.
Very sad, TC. They are truly getting hit and hit hard. That has to be major land slippage. I wonder where all of that pressure will be offset.
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Except all those building already collapsed in quakes #1 and #2. Exactly. By now all a earthquake can do there it to rearrange the rubble.
Why is democracy held in such high esteem when it’s the enemy of the minority and makes all rights relative to the dictates of the majority? (Ron Paul,2012)
Geologists have to know,which makes me wonder why none of them are talking. Or are the talking,and the press is just ignoring them?
Why is democracy held in such high esteem when it’s the enemy of the minority and makes all rights relative to the dictates of the majority? (Ron Paul,2012)
History is full of people being sad for ignoring geology, the Nepalese. Or ignoring the potential for tsunamis like the Japanese or many PacIslanders a few years back. Mother Nature keeps trying to teach us but we won't listen. Sorry to sound cold-blooded but it is the case that these are not mysteries or some unpredictable disaster. The truth is that many of these disasters and their huge losses of life were inevitable and we knew it. People don't like to face up to that. We have no right to act so surprised and innocent. Nor did the Nepalese authorities or the Japanese authorities. Or the Russians after Chernobyl.
It also is not a surprise to have very significant earthquake aftershocks that rival the original quake. Who can really say "we didn't know" after the 2011 Japanese earthquakes? 03/09/11 foreshock, 7.2 Mw Even now, only 4 years later, few people recall just how many earthquakes Japan had in a short period of time, all very tough quakes that would devastate many countries. It was the utter savagery of the unthinkable 9.0 quake and tsunami that people recall, not the rest of them. But our governments are responsible for knowing and understanding earthquake problems. When you have a big one, you'd damned well better be ready for another quake or two in short order.
That doesn't mean that our or any other government is looking forward to announcing upcomime quakes,and then having to admit there is nothing they can do about it.
Why is democracy held in such high esteem when it’s the enemy of the minority and makes all rights relative to the dictates of the majority? (Ron Paul,2012)
There is a great deal that governments can do to mitigate the harm from quakes. So often, the pols in office are too busy rewarding cronies and trying to line their pockets. It is more often a failure of pols to plan for serious known hazards than a lack of resources or ability to prepare.
You risk pissing off the government haters. I'm sure Deckard could muster up a few million Colorado potheads that could mitigate the harm and even clean up after a quake.
Every society gets the kind of criminal it deserves. What is equally true is that every community gets the kind of law enforcement it insists on. Robert Kennedy
A lot of it comes down to proper planning and basic construction permit practices. You don't get in a lot of trouble with single-story houses generally. But two-story or more, you need to plan for earthquakes, not just build any old thing. A lot of basic equipment for digging can be pre-allocated, a lot of basic first-aid supplies can be kept stocked locally. Provision can be made for short-term emergency food and water and medicine supply (insulin, anyone?). Nepal is poor but it isn't that poor. They could have done a lot better and saved more lives and recovered more quickly. The problem is that so often, the pols all think they'll be out of office when the time comes to pay the piper (again). You saw this with the 2011 Japanese tsunami. Out of all those towns that were devastated, there was just one whose old mayor, dead for more than a decade, had insisted on something like a 50-foot wall to protect his town and hounded them until they built it. They built a nice monument to him after all the other villages were devastated with their residents mostly dead. They were the only ones left untouched in the area so they knew they owed him their lives. There's a good lesson in that. This is, after all, how public safety moves forward and how you save millions of lives in upcoming disasters. Because, sooner than later, the disasters will come.
The ball-less wonder strikes again. Cowardly bozo sniper shitstain.
If you have him on bozo, how did you know he mentioned you? He can't be bozo sniping if you don't have him on bozo or if you use a second browser to check his comments (or delete your cookies long enough to have a look at his comments).
I don't. I happened to read the thread and gee, guess what? The cowardly little skank didn't even bother to ping me in a post I was mentioned in. The only reason I saw your post was that I wasn't signed in.
Why should he bother to waste any keystrokes, given the way you address him?
Exactly!!!!!!!!!!!!! TY, TC
Every society gets the kind of criminal it deserves. What is equally true is that every community gets the kind of law enforcement it insists on. Robert Kennedy
The U.S. Geological Survey indicated the magnitude-5.7 tremor was strong enough to inflict significant damage on poorly constructed buildings.
#2. To: TooConservative (#1)
#3. To: TooConservative (#1)
The U.S. Geological Survey indicated the magnitude-5.7 tremor was strong enough to inflict significant damage on poorly constructed buildings.
#4. To: out damned spot (#2)
I wonder where all of that pressure will be offset.
#5. To: out damned spot (#2)
Very sad, TC.
#6. To: sneakypete, out damned spot (#3)
Exactly. By now all a earthquake can do there it to rearrange the rubble.
03/11/11 05:46:23UTC, 9.0 Mw
03/11/11 06:25:50UTC, 7.1 Mw
04/07/11 23:30:00JST, 7.1 Mw
04/11/11 17:16:13JST, 7.1 Mw
07/10/11 10:57:12JST, 7.0 Mw
That is a lot of earthquakes, even for a Pacific Rim island nation.
#7. To: TooConservative (#6)
But our governments are responsible for knowing and understanding earthquake problems.
#8. To: sneakypete (#7)
That doesn't mean that our or any other government is looking forward to announcing upcomime quakes,and then having to admit there is nothing they can do about it.
#9. To: TooConservative (#8)
There is a great deal that governments can do to mitigate the harm from quakes.
#10. To: GrandIsland (#9)
ou risk pissing off the government haters.
#11. To: GrandIsland (#9)
(Edited)
“Truth is treason in the empire of lies.” - Ron Paul
Americans who have no experience with, or knowledge of, tyranny believe that only terrorists will experience the unchecked power of the state. They will believe this until it happens to them, or their children, or their friends.
Paul Craig Roberts
#12. To: Deckard, GrandIsland (#11)
Cowardly bozo sniper shitstain.
#13. To: TooConservative (#12)
If you have him on bozo, how did you know he mentioned you?
“Truth is treason in the empire of lies.” - Ron Paul
Americans who have no experience with, or knowledge of, tyranny believe that only terrorists will experience the unchecked power of the state. They will believe this until it happens to them, or their children, or their friends.
Paul Craig Roberts
#14. To: Deckard (#13)
The cowardly little skank didn't even bother to ping me in a post I was mentioned in.
#15. To: TooConservative (#14)
Why should he bother to waste any keystrokes, given the way you address him?
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