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Start here => Free For ALL => Topic started by: sg1008 on April 25, 2015, 10:37:01 AM
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Summary
- More than 1,000 people have been reported dead after a huge 7.9 magnitude earthquake hit Nepal
The country’s deputy prime minister, Bamdev Gautam, has declared a state of emergency and appealed for humanitarian assistance across the region.
18 climbers were found dead on Mount Everest after the tremor triggered an avalanche. Many more are trapped.
The total death toll has risen quickly throughout the day, and is now thought to include at least 634 in the Kathmandu Valley and 300 more in the capital.
36 people have also been reported dead India, 12 in China, four in Bangladesh and six in Tibet.
The quake caused dozens of buildings in Kathmandu to collapse, including the historic Dharahara Tower.
The city’s main hospital is overwhelmed by casualties and residents are facing a night on the streets with nowhere to go.
Indian prime minister Narendra Modi has ordered an immediate dispatch of relief and medical teams to Nepal, and the evacuation of Indian tourists.
UK foreign secretary Philip Hammond said the government was in close contact with Nepal, and the British Embassy is offering assistance to the authorities and British Nationals in the country.
http://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2015/apr/25/nepal-earthquake-nation-worst-tremor-80-years-kathmandu-live-updates (http://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2015/apr/25/nepal-earthquake-nation-worst-tremor-80-years-kathmandu-live-updates)
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UPDATE:
- The death toll from the 7.9 magnitude earthquake that struck Nepal on Saturday has risen to more than 2,500. More than 5,000 people have been injured. Powerful aftershocks today between Kathmandu and Everest unleashed more avalanches in the Himalayas and caused panic in the capital, where hospital workers stretchered patients out into the street as it was too dangerous treat them indoors.
At least 17 people believed to have been killed on Everest, and 61 injured, by an avalanche which left mountaineers calling for helicopter assistance to evacuate the most badly wounded.
The UK government has announced that it will donate £5m to help the rescue effort in Nepal.
A state of emergency has been declared Many historic landmarks, including the Dharahara tower, have been reduced to rubble following the quake.
Governments are scrambling to locate thousands of their nationals and relatives took to social media to find their loved ones.
The international community has also pledged support and aid packages to Nepal. The US secretary of state, John Kerry, has said the US will pledge $1m to the aid effort and will also assist with a disaster response team. Australia has also pledged a Aus$5m aid package, while India, Sri Lanka, the UK, China and others are all sending disaster response teams to assist in search and rescue.
Pope Francis led prayers in St Peter’s Square for the dead, displaced and injured in Nepal and surrounding areas.
Weather reports suggested that survivors of the quake - who are sleeping outside because of fear of unsafe building - will face heavy downpours in the next week.
The quakes caused widespread damage to Nepal’s infrastructure which has further hampered search and rescue operations. Injured climbers at Mount Everest, where an avalanche struck following the quake, have been flown by helicopter to receive medical treatment.
http://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2015/apr/26/nepal-earthquake-death-toll-exceeds-1500-rolling-report (http://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2015/apr/26/nepal-earthquake-death-toll-exceeds-1500-rolling-report)
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UPDATE:
Nepal earthquake: Overall confirmed total across country is more than 4,000 dead and almost 7,000 injured, with officials saying about 100,000 people left homeless
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/apr/27/nepal-earthquake-fears-grow-for-uncontacted-villages-as-more-than-3200-confirmed-dead?CMP=ema_565 (http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/apr/27/nepal-earthquake-fears-grow-for-uncontacted-villages-as-more-than-3200-confirmed-dead?CMP=ema_565)
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UPDATE:
The death toll in the massive earthquake which struck Nepal on Saturday has passed 6,000, and many thousands are still unaccounted for.
A home ministry official said the 6,134 fatalities had been confirmed, with 13,906 injured.
Although the battered south Asian nation celebrated the rescue of two people pulled out alive from the wreckage of buildings in Kathmandu on Thursday, the sheer extent of the destruction is becoming clear.
Thousands of villages have been devastated, with up to 90% of clinics and schools in some districts rendered unusable.
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Hundreds of thousands of people made homeless by the quake, which registered 7.8 magnitude, are yet to receive aid because of logistic bottlenecks, poor infrastructure and a chaotic government response.
Three thousand people are still unaccounted for in the badly hit Sindhupalchowk district, while little is known about northern areas of the Gorkha district where about 10,000 live. Local officials fear widespread destruction.
A local religious leader who had flown over the zone said people there were living in appalling conditions.
“There are still injured there who have not been treated. Whole villages are flattened. They need tents very badly,” Kempo Chimed Tsering said.
Kathmandu is slowly returning to normal with power supplies and communication networks restored to most of the city.
“I think it’s over now. I feel safe now,” said Vivek Ksimdung, 20, a student in the city.
However, many remain terrified of another tremor. Police have arrested two men for spreading rumours that a second major earthquake had been predicted. They will be charged with “inciting panic among the public”.
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/may/01/nepal-earthquake-death-toll-passes-6000-with-thousands-still-missing (http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/may/01/nepal-earthquake-death-toll-passes-6000-with-thousands-still-missing)
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They're going to need some serious help. The nepali government doesn't have a pot to piss in.
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Poor bastards
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Don't know what to say. :(
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Found this on one of my geology sites on FB.
http://www.geologyin.com/2015/04/what-caused-nepal-earthquake.html (http://www.geologyin.com/2015/04/what-caused-nepal-earthquake.html)
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Found this on one of my geology sites on FB.
http://www.geologyin.com/2015/04/what-caused-nepal-earthquake.html (http://www.geologyin.com/2015/04/what-caused-nepal-earthquake.html)
Was it Obama?
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Found this on one of my geology sites on FB.
http://www.geologyin.com/2015/04/what-caused-nepal-earthquake.html (http://www.geologyin.com/2015/04/what-caused-nepal-earthquake.html)
Was it Obama?
Of course, everything is his fault......unless it was Ancient Aliens or even worse.........YETI. :o
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Found this on one of my geology sites on FB.
http://www.geologyin.com/2015/04/what-caused-nepal-earthquake.html (http://www.geologyin.com/2015/04/what-caused-nepal-earthquake.html)
Was it Obama?
Of course, everything is his fault......unless it was Ancient Aliens or even worse.........YETI. :o
Oh blame it on the YETI!
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There is a reason they have never been found! :headhurts:
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There is a reason they have never been found! :headhurts:
:grrr: YOU LIE!
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UPDATE:
- The death toll from the 7.9 magnitude earthquake that struck Nepal on Saturday has risen to more than 2,500. More than 5,000 people have been injured. Powerful aftershocks today between Kathmandu and Everest unleashed more avalanches in the Himalayas and caused panic in the capital, where hospital workers stretchered patients out into the street as it was too dangerous treat them indoors.
At least 17 people believed to have been killed on Everest, and 61 injured, by an avalanche which left mountaineers calling for helicopter assistance to evacuate the most badly wounded.
The UK government has announced that it will donate £5m to help the rescue effort in Nepal.
A state of emergency has been declared Many historic landmarks, including the Dharahara tower, have been reduced to rubble following the quake.
Governments are scrambling to locate thousands of their nationals and relatives took to social media to find their loved ones.
The international community has also pledged support and aid packages to Nepal. The US secretary of state, John Kerry, has said the US will pledge $1m to the aid effort and will also assist with a disaster response team. Australia has also pledged a Aus$5m aid package, while India, Sri Lanka, the UK, China and others are all sending disaster response teams to assist in search and rescue.
Pope Francis led prayers in St Peter’s Square for the dead, displaced and injured in Nepal and surrounding areas.
Weather reports suggested that survivors of the quake - who are sleeping outside because of fear of unsafe building - will face heavy downpours in the next week.
The quakes caused widespread damage to Nepal’s infrastructure which has further hampered search and rescue operations. Injured climbers at Mount Everest, where an avalanche struck following the quake, have been flown by helicopter to receive medical treatment.
http://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2015/apr/26/nepal-earthquake-death-toll-exceeds-1500-rolling-report (http://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2015/apr/26/nepal-earthquake-death-toll-exceeds-1500-rolling-report)
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There is a reason they have never been found! :headhurts:
:grrr: YOU LIE!
:-*
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But it was aliens.
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3400 now
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Christian Preacher Adds Insult to Injury with Nepal Tweet
April 26, 2015 by Hemant Mehta 378 Comments
Leave it to a Christian preacher to hear about a tragedy like the Nepal earthquake and respond with the most dickish prayer you’ll ever hear:
CNN @CNN Apr 25
Powerful images of the devastation in Nepal. http://cnn.it/1E3BQZf (http://cnn.it/1E3BQZf) pic.twitter.com/83AYxdRWHO
.@CNN Praying 4 the lost souls in Nepal. Praying not a single destroyed pagan temple will b rebuilt & the people will repent/receive Christ.
Sure, the death toll is approaching 2,000, but if everyone else turns to Jesus, I guess it’ll all be worth it…
That preacher, Tony Miano, used to host a show with Ray Comfort called “On the Box.” So I guess saying idiotic things in the name of Jesus runs in his circle of friends.
Link (http://www.patheos.com/blogs/friendlyatheist/2015/04/26/christian-preacher-adds-insult-to-injury-with-nepal-tweet/)
:zombiefuck:
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Christian Preacher Adds Insult to Injury with Nepal Tweet
April 26, 2015 by Hemant Mehta 378 Comments
Leave it to a Christian preacher to hear about a tragedy like the Nepal earthquake and respond with the most dickish prayer you’ll ever hear:
CNN @CNN Apr 25
Powerful images of the devastation in Nepal. http://cnn.it/1E3BQZf (http://cnn.it/1E3BQZf) pic.twitter.com/83AYxdRWHO
.@CNN Praying 4 the lost souls in Nepal. Praying not a single destroyed pagan temple will b rebuilt & the people will repent/receive Christ.
Sure, the death toll is approaching 2,000, but if everyone else turns to Jesus, I guess it’ll all be worth it…
That preacher, Tony Miano, used to host a show with Ray Comfort called “On the Box.” So I guess saying idiotic things in the name of Jesus runs in his circle of friends.
Link (http://www.patheos.com/blogs/friendlyatheist/2015/04/26/christian-preacher-adds-insult-to-injury-with-nepal-tweet/)
:zombiefuck:
:plus: to you for making this known. This disgusts me to no end. "Christian in name only", is what I would call this person. And people wonder why I am a "zen-heathen".
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What a jerk.
Over 4000 dead now, and counting.
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UPDATE:
Nepal earthquake: Overall confirmed total across country is more than 4,000 dead and almost 7,000 injured, with officials saying about 100,000 people left homeless
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/apr/27/nepal-earthquake-fears-grow-for-uncontacted-villages-as-more-than-3200-confirmed-dead?CMP=ema_565 (http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/apr/27/nepal-earthquake-fears-grow-for-uncontacted-villages-as-more-than-3200-confirmed-dead?CMP=ema_565)
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Just a little more info about how and why it happened.
https://www.facebook.com/VOLCANOgroup/photos/pcb.10153295344999083/10153295344809083/?type=1&theater (https://www.facebook.com/VOLCANOgroup/photos/pcb.10153295344999083/10153295344809083/?type=1&theater)
I am afraid it's going to get worse, so many remote vulnerable villages that are still out of reach. :'(
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Just a little more info about how and why it happened.
https://www.facebook.com/VOLCANOgroup/photos/pcb.10153295344999083/10153295344809083/?type=1&theater (https://www.facebook.com/VOLCANOgroup/photos/pcb.10153295344999083/10153295344809083/?type=1&theater)
I am afraid it's going to get worse, so many remote vulnerable villages that are still out of reach. :'(
:/
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As a self taught student of geology, seismology and volcanology.....allow me to offer this quote from a very wise man.
"Civilization exists by geologic consent......subject to change without notice." --Will Durant
This is the price we pay for living on a living planet.....this has been going on since the beginning of time and will be going on long after humankind has evolved or vanished from the face of the Earth. And this is not the worst earthquake with casualties that has happened in that region. 1976......Tangshan, China.....750,000+ dead...and that is the estimate. 2004....Indonesia.....125,000+ dead in the Indian Ocean region...estimate. 3-4000 years ago...the Minoan civilization..wiped out.....Volcanic eruption, tsunami. I grieve for the missing and dead in Nepal. I have a dear friend with family in Nepal, just sent him my best thoughts and wishes! :'(
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As a self taught student of geology, seismology and volcanology.....allow me to offer this quote from a very wise man.
"Civilization exists by geologic consent......subject to change without notice." --Will Durant
This is the price we pay for living on a living planet.....this has been going on since the beginning of time and will be going on long after humankind has evolved or vanished from the face of the Earth. And this is not the worst earthquake with casualties that has happened in that region. 1976......Tangshan, China.....750,000+ dead...and that is the estimate. 2004....Indonesia.....125,000+ dead in the Indian Ocean region...estimate. 3-4000 years ago...the Minoan civilization..wiped out.....Volcanic eruption, tsunami. I grieve for the missing and dead in Nepal. I have a dear friend with family in Nepal, just sent him my best thoughts and wishes! :'(
My fear for the future are the artificially drawn borders across the world & between "properties". Eventually, populations need to move, and they cannot be treated as refugees forever. We are supposed to be able to adjust and migrate overtime. The earth both allows and necessitates this.
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As a self taught student of geology, seismology and volcanology.....allow me to offer this quote from a very wise man.
"Civilization exists by geologic consent......subject to change without notice." --Will Durant
This is the price we pay for living on a living planet.....this has been going on since the beginning of time and will be going on long after humankind has evolved or vanished from the face of the Earth. And this is not the worst earthquake with casualties that has happened in that region. 1976......Tangshan, China.....750,000+ dead...and that is the estimate. 2004....Indonesia.....125,000+ dead in the Indian Ocean region...estimate. 3-4000 years ago...the Minoan civilization..wiped out.....Volcanic eruption, tsunami. I grieve for the missing and dead in Nepal. I have a dear friend with family in Nepal, just sent him my best thoughts and wishes! :'(
My fear for the future are the artificially drawn borders across the world & between "properties". Eventually, populations need to move, and they cannot be treated as refugees forever. We are supposed to be able to adjust and migrate overtime. The earth both allows and necessitates this.
Agreed.
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UPDATE:
The death toll in the massive earthquake which struck Nepal on Saturday has passed 6,000, and many thousands are still unaccounted for.
A home ministry official said the 6,134 fatalities had been confirmed, with 13,906 injured.
Although the battered south Asian nation celebrated the rescue of two people pulled out alive from the wreckage of buildings in Kathmandu on Thursday, the sheer extent of the destruction is becoming clear.
Thousands of villages have been devastated, with up to 90% of clinics and schools in some districts rendered unusable.
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Hundreds of thousands of people made homeless by the quake, which registered 7.8 magnitude, are yet to receive aid because of logistic bottlenecks, poor infrastructure and a chaotic government response.
Three thousand people are still unaccounted for in the badly hit Sindhupalchowk district, while little is known about northern areas of the Gorkha district where about 10,000 live. Local officials fear widespread destruction.
A local religious leader who had flown over the zone said people there were living in appalling conditions.
“There are still injured there who have not been treated. Whole villages are flattened. They need tents very badly,” Kempo Chimed Tsering said.
Kathmandu is slowly returning to normal with power supplies and communication networks restored to most of the city.
“I think it’s over now. I feel safe now,” said Vivek Ksimdung, 20, a student in the city.
However, many remain terrified of another tremor. Police have arrested two men for spreading rumours that a second major earthquake had been predicted. They will be charged with “inciting panic among the public”.
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/may/01/nepal-earthquake-death-toll-passes-6000-with-thousands-still-missing (http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/may/01/nepal-earthquake-death-toll-passes-6000-with-thousands-still-missing)
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Satellite data ... reveals a region 75 miles long by 30 miles wide lifted up by as much as three feet.
While the region around Kathmandu lifted up, Mount Everest and other tall peaks in the area dropped down by about one inch.
http://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/earthquake-nepal-raised-kathmandu-and-lowered-mt-everest-180955143/?no-ist (http://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/earthquake-nepal-raised-kathmandu-and-lowered-mt-everest-180955143/?no-ist)
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I am at a loss for words...my heart hurts at what other 'believers' say, on behalf of them sorry...we're not all that hurtful...if I could I'd go and help out with a one way ticket and not return...honestly the more I see the less connected to the net, media I want to be...
off topic but on sort of: twitter gone, been off face bleh for a while, good bye tumblr...I find perspective is more level if that makes sense without the instant response...sit back and think before the response is given...
this is an awful event...
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Shit. I don't have TV, didn't even know there was an earthquake. Personally, it doesn't effect my life and I am sure another one will happen. Bah
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A second Earthquake this year, 7.3 magnitude.
Just how much more bad news can one country take?
Shyam Balami cannot even contemplate the question when I find him sitting in a wheelchair outside Kathmandu’s teaching hospital.
His house, in a village in Nuwakot, in the foothills of the Himalayas outside Nepal’s capital, was destroyed in the last earthquake – or the “Great Quake” as Nepalese media has started calling it. He thought he had nothing left to lose. Only, it turns out, he was wrong. When a 7.3-magnitude earthquake struck on Tuesday, he was in the temporary shack he had painstakingly built out of salvaged materials to provide some sort of basic shelter for his wife and two children. It collapsed around him leaving his right leg shattered.
He’s not so much resigned as numb. “I don’t feel scared any more,” he says. “I have nothing left to lose.”
There are so many cruelties to the latest disaster: that the districts hit so badly last time have been hit again. That it’s the poorest, in remote rural areas, who can least afford it, who will suffer most. That circumstances that were already dire and desperate for so many people, have just got that little bit worse.
Or a lot worse, for some. Just off Durbar Square in Kathmandu, where another large chunk fell off the already half-collapsed Rana Palace, Sita Basnyet, 43, had been cooking when the quake struck. She ran out of the four-storey building, in which she lives, to see a house collapsing across the street and when I find her she’s sitting outside with her two children. “I have no idea where I will sleep tonight,” she says. “None.” She runs a street stall and rents a room but it was badly damaged in the last quake and it’s too dangerous to sleep in now.
Like many people who live in Kathmandu, her relatives live in the countryside in a village where she grew up. In her case Dolakha, the area that looks to have been worst affected and where both her parents and her parents-in-law still live. Both their houses are gone, she says. “My parents’ house was destroyed in the last quake. They were sleeping in the animal shed but now that’s gone too.”
(http://i.guim.co.uk/static/w-620/h--/q-95/sys-images/Guardian/Pix/pictures/2015/5/12/1431452378324/fb2cc693-15f1-4d7c-af1e-ea8d6813f422-620x372.jpeg)
There were about 300 houses in the village and 100 had been left standing – damaged, but standing – “and now they’ve gone too. Everything’s gone”.
Worse, her parents have told her there are “many, many people” injured in the next village.
The situation for so many people is beyond hopeless.
Nobody has any money to rebuild. Nobody has even the faintest sort of plan. How can you, without money, says Sita Basnyet.
What do you think you will do, in terms of the future, I ask her, and the crowd that has gathered around us erupts into laughter.
She throws her hands in the air and guffaws at the sheer stupidity of the question. “In terms of the future, I have no idea. I hope that God will take care of us. But to be honest, if there’s another earthquake we would rather be taken by God than left with this. Really, if it happens again, I pray God will take me.”
It’s taken so long for even the most rudimentary relief supplies to reach most areas that most people despair of there ever being any real aid. “Will this bring help for us?” she asks motioning at my notepad and I tell her that the British public – not the government - has sent more than £50m to help Nepal.
“It will never come to us. The politicians will get fat. They will repair their homes and send their children to private schools and none of it will come down to us. That is how it is. We all know that,” she says. I try to say that I don’t think it will be the case with this, but she interrupts me. “No. This is how it is,” she says.
READ MORE: http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/may/12/we-have-nothing-survivors-of-nepals-second-quake-left-beyond-hopeless