Video Of Tropical Storm Washi Philippines

Tropical storm Washi has devastated coastal areas of Cagayan de Oro and Iligan, Philippines.The view from a storm Washi very sad. Homes were destroyed, the tree collapsed and cars were overturned. Residents who lost their homes were forced to take shelter in refugee camps.

Based on the record of the Philippine Red Cross, until Monday, December 19, 2011, the death toll from the storm Washi reached 652 people. The possibility of the death toll to rise. Section, 900 people are reported missing has not been known to live or die.

Washi storm has passed the southern Philippines on Monday morning local time. More than 135 thousand inhabitants the second largest island in the Philippines affected by the storm is expected, and 47 thousand of whom were in evacuation centers, as published by CNN.

The government says the survivors are now really need clean water, medicines, and more shelters. United States and China has offered assistance to provide food assistance, clothing, shelter, and energy to assist in the rescue. Filipinos can breathe a little sigh of relief because the Board of Atmospheric, Geophysical, and Astronomical Philippines did not issue a storm warning of aftershocks. However, they still have to clean up the devastated areas after the storm.

Areas most severely affected by floods is Iligan and Cagayan de Oro, where many houses are swept away by floods that rush when you're fast asleep. The Philippine government said was criticized for being less intense storm warning. See the video area of ​​Iligan and Cagayan de Oro that the storm-ravaged

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An Earthquake Bombarded Three Asian Country

An Earthquake Bombarded Asia , Manila , Japan , China this three asian country was bombarded by an earthquake today. An earthquake measuring 7.0 on the Richter scale rocked the East China Sea, at 10:59 pm Beijing time on Tuesday (8 / 11). Similarly, reported China Earthquake Network Center (Cenc).

The epicenter is known to have a depth of 220 kilometers was recorded at 27.7 degrees north latitude and 125.9 degrees east latitude. The earthquake was located about 270 kilometers of the Diaoyu Islands, 480 kilometers from Taipei, and 520 kilometers from the city of Wenzhou in eastern Zhejiang Province.

TOKYO, An earthquake measuring 6.8 on the Richter scale (SR) shook the waters of Okinawa Island, Japan, Tuesday (08/11/2011). However, there is no concern about the tsunami, the agency said the U.S. and Japan. The quake occurred in the East China Sea, 218 kilometers west of Naha, Okinawa Prefecture, the U.S. Geological Survey said. Earthquake sources exist at a depth of 222 kilometers.

There are no immediate reports of injuries or damage caused by the earthquake which occurred at 11:59 local time. Japan, located at the junction of four tectonic plates, has 20 percent of the strongest earthquakes recorded in the earth every year. The tsunami disaster on March 11 resulted in about 22,000 people dead or missing, and triggered a crisis in the nuclear power plant in Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power, in the northeast of the country.

MANILA - The earthquake that struck the southern Philippine city wounded at least 10 people and destroyed 25 homes and shops, said the rescue team, today. An earthquake measuring 5.0 on the Richter scale struck the small town of Valencia on Mindanao island on Monday and menghancurksn 23 homes, a hardware store and a grocery store in this town of 150,000 people, the local civil defense office said.

The victims were due to hit objects and debris that fell when the earthquake occurred at 17:43 local time (16:43 GMT), but none were seriously injured, said a civil defense official. The U.S. Geological Survey said the quake was magnitude 5.0 on the Richter scale while the Filipino seismologists said the quake was magnitude 5.2 on the Richter scale.

Winchell Sevilla, a seismologist at the Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology in Manila, said the quake was caused by a local movement of about one kilometer below the earth's surface. "The movement is very shallow and even 5.2 on the Richter scale of energy released can cause damage stout," he told AFP.

Sevilla said the quake was felt in other areas on the island of Mindanao, although there were no immediate reports-lapora more about the damage. Philippines is located in the "Network Earthquake" Pacific - a network around the Pacific Ocean yag characterized by active volcanoes and long trenches on the ocean floor tectonics, in which frequent eruptions and earthquakes.

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Turkish Earthquake killing 138 people and injured 350 others

An earthquake measuring 7.2 on the Richter scale on Sunday, killing 138 people and injured 350 others in eastern Turkey, the Turkish prime minister said.

Ninety-three people were killed in Van province and 45 in the district of peas, said Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan told reporters when reviewing the damage caused by the strong earthquake. Information previously mentioned that 70 people were killed, including 50 in the Erics, 100,000 people in a district in the same area, Van.

The situation in Erics more serious, said Erdogan, adding that many apartment buildings collapsed, raising fears that the death toll will rise. USGS (United State Geological Survey) was initially measured the quake was magnitude 7.3, but was later downgraded to 7.2 on the Richter scale. Many buildings collapsed in the Erics and Van, officials said.

Turkey is earthquake-prone country on several fault lines. In 1999 two strong earthquakes shook the industry and highly populated areas in the northwest of Turkey, about 20,000 people were killed. And strong in the City gampa Caldiran in Van province killed 3840 people in 1976, as quoted by AFP.


Turkey's Deputy Prime Minister Besir Atalay said, about 10 buildings collapsed in the city of Van and about 25 to 30 buildings collapsed in the city of pea. "We estimate about 1,000 buildings were damaged and hundreds of lives lost. The death toll could increase to reach 500 or 1,000 lives, "said General Manager Mustafa Erdik Kandilli Observatory in a press conference yesterday.

Turkish Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan took to the city of Van to see firsthand the condition of the victim. "Many buildings collapsed, many people were killed. We're waiting for emergency assistance, it is very urgent, "said Zulfikar Arapoglu, Mayor pea like NTV television reported.

After a major earthquake, Turkey still rocked by aftershocks of up to 20 times. Residents are anxious to run outside and stand in the streets. NTV television images showed the room was shaking and furniture fell to the ground and people running out of buildings.

Dozens of emergency workers and residents to crawl on top of buildings in Van to find people trapped under buildings. In other locations, the vehicle seemed crushed by debris on the road. Xinhua news agency reported, 30 people were killed in the peas, and about 80 buildings had collapsed in the city. In the city of Van, about 50 people were injured were taken to hospital.

"We urgently need tents and rescue teams. We do not have ambulances. And we only have one hospital. We had many killed and wounded, "said Arapoglu. According to the Turkish Red Crescent, which consists of 25 buildings and one apartment building collapsed student dorm in pea. Turkish Red Crescent has sent tents, blankets and food to the region.

In Hakkari, about 100 km (60 miles) south of the city of Van, a Reuters correspondent said the building where he was rocked for about 10 seconds when the earthquake occurred.

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A Slight Danger Of World War III.

After the recent row between Pakistan and USA,Palestian not accepting the peace map given bu USA,Iran's strong action against USA and israel and above all China's ultimatam to USA saying ''Don't mess with Pakistan,if US mess with Paksitan then USA would be messing with China.US should accepth the role of Pakistan in the war against terrorism.China will not compromise on it's integrity and would force USA to respect the integrity of Pakistan'' have started a debate that there is a slight danger of World War III.

Talk on this topic is particularly in US and middle east.

India is also blaming Pakistan and China that China have formed it's base in Pakistan to attack on India while on the other hand China is rejecting this.

US war on iraq and Afghanistan also gives rise to many questions to answer that whether they were started to draw the world into third world war but that doesn't make much sense.

Israel poor behaviour with Palestian is very critical in this aspect because the muslims of the whole world target israel for their acts and blames US for giving their full support to israel.

However there is not a hudge worry of World War III as evey nation know this would be deadly and no one would be able to get benefit.

With the spread nuclear power this war is not likely to happen ever however some journalists say that if there could be any it would be carried out as folows

China,Russia,Korea,Pakistan vs USA,UK,Israel,India.

But for me world would never witness World War III and that is good for mankind

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Hurricane Irene

High above the Earth from aboard the International Space Station, astronaut Ron Garan snapped this image of Hurricane Irene as it passed over the Caribbean on Aug. 22, 2011.

The National Hurricane Center noted on Aug. 22 that Irene is expected to produce total rainfall accumulations of 5 to 10 inches across Puerto Rico, The Virgin Islands, the Dominican Republic, Haiti, the Southeastern Bahamas and The Turks and Caicos Islands. Isolated maximum amounts of rainfall may reach up to 20 inches.



Irene Makes Landfall Over New York

This GOES-13 satellite image is of Hurricane Irene just 28 minutes before the storm made landfall in New York City. The image shows Irene's huge cloud cover blanketing New England, New York and over Toronto, Canada. Shadows in Irene's clouds indicate the bands of thunderstorms that surrounded the storm.

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How is the global earth system changing?

Earth is currently in a period of warming. Over the last century, Earth's average temperature rose about 1.1°F (0.6°C). In the last two decades, the rate of our world's warming accelerated and scientists predict that the globe will continue to warm over the course of the 21st century. Is this warming trend a reason for concern? After all, our world has witnessed extreme warm periods before, such as during the time of the dinosaurs. Earth has also seen numerous ice ages on roughly 11,000-year cycles for at least the last million years. So, change is perhaps the only constant in Earth's 4.5-billion-year history.

Scientists note that there are two new and different twists to today's changing climate: (1) The globe is warming at a faster rate than it ever has before; and (2) Humans are the main reason Earth is warming. Since the industrial revolution, which began in the mid-1800s, humans have attained the magnitude of a geological force in terms of our ability change Earth's environment and impact its climate system.

Since 1900, human population doubled and then double again. Today more than 6.5 billion people inhabit our world. By burning increasing amounts of coal and oil, we drove up carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere by 30 percent. Carbon dioxide is a "greenhouse gas" that traps warmth near the surface.

Humans are also affecting Earth's climate system in other ways. For example, we transformed roughly 40 percent of Earth's habitable land surface to make way for our crop fields, cities, roads, livestock pastures, etc. We also released particulate pollution (called "aerosols") into the atmosphere. Changing the surface and introducing aerosols into the atmosphere can both increase and reduce cloud cover. Thus, in addition to driving up average global temperature, humans are also influencing rainfall and drought patterns around the world. While scientists have solid evidence of such human influence, more data and research are needed to better understand and quantify our impact on our world's climate system.

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The Moon and the Magnetotail

Behold the full moon. Ancient craters and frozen lava seas lie motionless under an airless sky of profound quiet. It’s a serene, slow-motion world where even a human footprint may last millions of years. Nothing ever seems to happen there, right?

Wrong.

NASA-supported scientists have realized that something happens every month when the moon gets a lashing from Earth’s magnetic tail.

“Earth’s magnetotail extends well beyond the orbit of the moon and, once a month, the moon orbits through it,” says Tim Stubbs, a University of Maryland scientist working at the Goddard Space Flight Center. “This can have consequences ranging from lunar ‘dust storms’ to electrostatic discharges.”

Yes, Earth does have a magnetic tail. It is an extension of the same familiar magnetic field we experience when using a Boy Scout compass to find our way around Earth’s surface. Our entire planet is enveloped in a bubble of magnetism, which springs from a molten dynamo in Earth’s core. Out in space, the solar wind presses against this bubble and stretches it, creating a long “magnetotail” in the downwind direction.

Anyone can tell when the moon is inside the magnetotail. Just look: “If the moon is full, it is inside the magnetotail,” says Stubbs. “The moon enters the magnetotail three days before it is full and takes about six days to cross and exit on the other side.”

It is during those six days that strange things can happen.

 

Fine particles of dust on the moon's surface can actually float off the ground when they become charged by electrons in Earth's magnetotail. Credit: NASA
During the crossing, the moon comes in contact with a gigantic “plasma sheet” of hot charged particles trapped in the tail. The lightest and most mobile of these particles, electrons, pepper the moon’s surface and give the moon a negative charge.

On the moon’s dayside this effect is counteracted to a degree by sunlight: UV photons knock electrons back off the surface, keeping the build-up of charge at relatively low levels. But on the nightside, in the cold lunar dark, electrons accumulate and surface voltages can climb to hundreds or thousands of volts.

Imagine what it feels like to be a sock pulled crackling from a dryer. Astronauts on the moon during a magnetotail crossing might be able to tell you. Walking across the dusty charged-up lunar terrain, the astronauts themselves would gather a load of excess charge. Touching another astronaut, a doorknob, a piece of sensitive electronics -- any of these simple actions could produce an unwelcome discharge. “Proper grounding is strongly recommended,” says Stubbs.

 

Earth's magnetic field responds to the solar wind much like an airport wind sock: It stretches out with its tail pointing downwind. Credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center- Conceptual Image Lab
The ground, meanwhile, might leap into the sky. There’s growing evidence that fine particles of moondust might actually float, ejected from the lunar surface by electrostatic repulsion. This could create a temporary nighttime atmosphere of dust ready to blacken spacesuits, clog machinery, scratch faceplates (moondust is very abrasive) and generally make life difficult for astronauts.

Stranger still, moondust might gather itself into a sort of diaphanous wind. Drawn by differences in global charge accumulation, floating dust would naturally fly from the strongly-negative nightside to the weakly-negative dayside. This “dust storm” effect would be strongest at the moon’s terminator, the dividing line between day and night.

Much of this is pure speculation, Stubbs cautions. No one can say for sure what happens on the moon when the magnetotail hits, because no one has been there at the crucial time. “Apollo astronauts never landed on a full moon and they never experienced the magnetotail.”

The best direct evidence comes from NASA’s Lunar Prospector spacecraft, which orbited the moon in 1998-99 and monitored many magnetotail crossings. During some crossings, the spacecraft sensed big changes in the lunar nightside voltage, jumping “typically from -200 V to -1000 V,” says Jasper Halekas of UC Berkeley who has been studying the decade-old data.

 

The moon spends about six days each month inside Earth's magnetic tail, or "magnetotail." Credit: Tim Stubbs/University of Maryland/GSFC
“It is important to note,” says Halekas, “that the plasma sheet (where all the electrons come from) is a very dynamic structure. The plasma sheet is in a constant state of motion, flapping up and down all the time. So as the moon orbits through the magnetotail, the plasma sheet can sweep across it many times. Depending on how dynamic things are, we can encounter the plasma sheet many times during a single pass through the magnetotail with encounters lasting anywhere from minutes to hours or even days.”

“As a result, you can imagine how dynamic the charging environment on the moon is. The moon can be just sitting there in a quiet region of the magnetotail and then suddenly all this hot plasma goes sweeping by causing the nightside potential to spike to a kilovolt. Then it drops back again just as quickly.”

The roller coaster of charge would be at its most dizzying during solar and geomagnetic storms. “That is a very dynamic time for the plasma sheet and we need to study what happens then,” he says.

What happens then? Next-generation astronauts are going to find out. NASA is returning to the moon in the decades ahead and plans to establish an outpost for long-term lunar exploration. It turns out they’ll be exploring the magnetotail, too.

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Earth’s magnetotail isn’t the only source of plasma to charge the moon. Solar wind can provide charged particles, too; indeed, most of the time, the solar wind is the primary source. But when the moon enters the magnetotail, the solar wind is pushed back and the plasma sheet takes over. The plasma sheet is about 10 times hotter than the solar wind and that gives it more "punch" when it comes to altering the charge balance of the moon's surface. Two million degree electrons in the plasma sheet race around like crazy and many of them hit the moon's surface. Solar wind electrons are relatively cool at only 140 thousand degrees, and fewer of them zip all the way down to the shadowed surface of the moon's nightside.

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The beauty of Our Planet

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Role of Melt in Loss of Old Arctic Sea Ice

Since the start of the satellite record in 1979, scientists have observed the continued disappearance of older "multiyear" sea ice that survives more than one summer melt season. Some scientists suspected that this loss was due entirely to wind pushing the ice out of the Arctic Basin -- a process that scientists refer to as "export." In this study, Ron Kwok and Glenn Cunningham at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif., used a suite of satellite data to clarify the relative role of export versus melt within the Arctic Ocean.

Kwok and Cunningham show that between 1993 and 2009, a significant amount of multiyear ice -- 1,400 cubic kilometers (336 cubic miles -- was lost due to melt, not export.

"The paper shows that there is indeed melt of old ice within the Arctic basin and the melt area has been increasing over the past several years," Kwok said. "The story is always more complicated -- there is melt as well as export -- but this is a another step in calculating the mass and area balance of the Arctic ice cover."

The results have implications for understanding how Arctic sea ice gets redistributed, where melt occurs in the Arctic Ocean and how the ocean, ice and atmosphere interact as a system to affect Earth's climate. The study was published October 2010 in Geophysical Research Letters.

Scientists track the annual cycle of Arctic sea ice coverage as it melts through the summer to reach a minimum extent each September, before refreezing through fall and winter. Much of that ice is seasonal, meaning that it forms and melts within the year.

But multiyear ice that survives more than one season has also been declining, as noted in previous work by Joey Comiso of NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md., who shows a loss of about 10 percent per decade since the beginning of the satellite record in 1979. Scientists want to know where this loss is occurring.

"The decline of the multiyear ice cover of the last several decades has not been quantitatively explained," Kwok said.

To investigate the loss of multiyear ice, Kwok and Cunningham looked at a 17-year span of data from 1993 to 2009 from a range of polar-observing satellites and instruments including NASA's Quick Scatterometer (QuikScat); the Ice, Cloud and land Elevation Satellite (ICESat); the Advanced Microwave Scanning Radiometer (AMSR); and the European Space Agency's ERS-1 and ERS-2. Some instruments track ice coverage, while others track motion and concentration.

The team collected satellite images and tracked pixels of multiyear ice from April 1, prior to the onset of seasonal melt, and into the summer. Pixels that deviate away from images of the ice edge were considered lost to melt.

The team compared summertime melt of multiyear ice in the Beaufort Sea with estimates of ice lost from the Arctic basin through Fram Strait -- a major passage through which ice can exit the Arctic Ocean. The comparison revealed how much multiyear ice was lost to export and how much was lost to melt.

They found that over the 17-year period, an area of 947,000 square kilometers (365,639 square miles), or about 32 percent of the decline in multiyear sea ice area, was lost in the Beaufort Sea due to melt.

A similar calculation using thickness estimates from NASA's ICESat from 2004 to 2009 show a volume loss of 1,400 cubic kilometers (336 cubic miles), or about 20 percent of the total loss by volume.

How and where multiyear ice is lost has impacts on the Arctic system. For example, more loss by melt means more freshwater remains in local Arctic waters rather than being transported southward.

"These results also show that thick multiyear sea ice is not immune to melt in the Pacific sector of the Arctic Ocean in today’s climate," Kwok said.

The additional freshwater from melt in the Pacific sector, which encompasses the area of study, could contribute to the freshening of the Beaufort Gyre and potentially influence circulation, but the degree of that influence remains uncertain.

Not all of the multiyear ice loss is accounted for, however. Ice loss through Fram Strait and from melt from 2005 to 2008 accounts for just 52 percent of total ice loss. The team suggests that melt in other Arctic regions and outflow through other passages besides Fram Strait could account for the difference.

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SERVIR Launches Himalayan Node in Nepal

SERVIR-Himalaya made its successful debut in Kathmandu, Nepal, on Oct. 5, taking the stage as the third global node in the SERVIR Regional Visualization and Monitoring System. SERVIR-Himalaya expands the collaboration between NASA, the U.S. Agency for International Development, or USAID, and international partners to meet development challenges by "linking space to village."

The partners inaugurated the state-of-the-art regional monitoring system at a ribbon-cutting ceremony attended by NASA Administrator Charles Bolden and Michael Yates, senior deputy assistant administrator of USAID's Bureau for Economic Growth, Agriculture and Trade. The team at SERVIR-Himalaya's host institution, the International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development, or ICIMOD, was represented by Director General Andreas Schild and Basanta Shrestha, division head of ICIMOD's Mountain Environment and Natural Resources Information System.

Mr. Shrestha highlighted the local perspective on the Himalayan node launch: "Through the partnership with USAID and NASA on SERVIR-Himalaya, ICIMOD will be able to augment its capacity and its network of cooperative partners in the region to use Earth observation for societal benefits of the mountain communities." SERVIR features web-based access to satellite imagery, decision-support tools and interactive visualization capabilities. It puts previously inaccessible information into the hands of scientists, environmental managers and decision-makers.

Indeed, the name SERVIR comes from the Spanish verb "to serve," and SERVIR-Himalaya will serve the Hindu Kush-Himalaya region, including the partner nations of Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, China, India, Nepal and Pakistan.

Approximately 1.3 billion people depend on the ecosystem services provided by the Himalayan mountains, yet the region is known as Earth's "third pole" because of its inaccessibility and the vast amount of water stored there in the form of ice and snow. SERVIR will integrate Earth science data from NASA satellites with geospatial information products from other government agencies to support and expand ICIMOD's focus on critical regional issues such as disaster management, biodiversity conservation, trans-boundary air pollution, snow and glacier monitoring, mountain ecosystem management and climate change adaptation.

It's no wonder that Prof. José Achache, director of the Group on Earth Observations, touted SERVIR-Himalaya as furthering the Global Earth Observing System of Systems or GEOSS. SERVIR was developed in coordination with the group, which includes more than 80 nations working together to build GEOSS to serve the needs of people the world over.

SERVIR grew out of collaboration between USAID and researchers at NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Ala.

"NASA's science mission begins here on Earth, with greater awareness and understanding of our changing planet, and solutions for protecting our environment, resources and human lives," Administrator Bolden said.

"The SERVIR technology and our partnership with various organizations and people around the globe reflect NASA's commitment to improving life on our home planet for all people," he added.

According to Mr. Yates, USAID’s perspective reflects a similar goal. "We are pleased to work with our partners in Nepal, and in other regions of the world, to build capacity to use satellite data and mapping technologies for making practical decisions that improve people’s lives," he said.

Since 2005, SERVIR has served the Mesoamerican region and the Dominican Republic from the Water Center for the Humid Tropics of Latin America and the Caribbean, which is based in Panama. SERVIR also has served East Africa since 2008, operating from the Regional Center for Mapping of Resources for Development in Nairobi, Kenya.

The SERVIR program is operated by the Earth Science Division's Applied Sciences Program in NASA's Science Mission Directorate in Washington. Four other NASA field centers work with the Marshall Center on the program: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md., NASA's Ames Research Center in Moffet Field, Calif., NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif., and NASA's Langley Research Center in Hampton, Va.

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