|
[國際觀點] 本週世界天災訊息｜Disasters Around the World This Week
|
[國際觀點] 本週世界天災訊息｜Disasters Around the World This Week
分類標籤: 八八災後深度反省
|
October 11, 2009 11:24PM 發表文章數: 2,388 |
薩摩亞、東加諸島國遭海嘯侵襲｜Deadly tsunami strikes in Pacific
印尼蘇門達臘 7.6 級強震後 學生返回校園｜After the Indonesia Sumatra 7.6 earthquake, students came back to school
南印度大洪水｜Flood in South India
肯亞水、旱災惡性循環加劇｜The vicious circle between flood and drought in Kenya
芭馬颱風重創北非律賓，並在北台灣（宜蘭）造成水患｜Typhoon Parma seriously hits north Philippines and causes flood in north Taiwan (Yilan)
----------------------------------------------------------------------------
薩摩亞、東加諸島國遭海嘯侵襲｜Deadly tsunami strikes in Pacific
#[Fox News] 119 Dead, Villages 'Wiped Out' in Samoa Tsunami 2009/09/30:
APIA, Samoa — Police in green reflective vests searched a ghastly landscape of mud-strewn streets, pulverized homes and bodies scattered in a swamp Wednesday as dazed survivors emerged from the muck and mire of an earthquake and tsunami that killed 119 in the South Pacific.
Military transports flew medical personnel, food, water and medicine to the islands of Samoa and American Samoa, which were devastated by the wall of water triggered by Tuesday morning's undersea earthquake. One cargo plane from New Zealand brought in a temporary morgue and a body identification team — with officials expecting the death toll to rise as more areas are searched.
Cars and boats — many battered and upside down — littered the coastline. Debris as small as a spoon and as large as piece of masonry weighing several tons were strewn in the mud.
Survivors told harrowing tales of encountering the deadly tsunami.
印尼蘇門達臘 7.6 級強震｜After the Indonesia Sumatra 7.6 earthquake, students came back to school
#[Reuters] Students walk out from a collapsed building after an earthquake hit Padang, on Indonesia's Sumatra island September 30, 2009. A 7.6 magnitude earthquake struck off the city of Padang on Indonesia's Sumatra island on Wednesday, killing at least 75 people and trapping thousands under rubble, officials said.
南印度大洪水｜Flood in South India
#thisismyindia.com's pictures of the tamil nadu flood
#[The Hindu] Village marooned in flood 2009/09/25:
Village marooned in flood/ Staff Reporter
PERNAMBUT: Normal life in Serangal village near Pernambut had been affected due to flood that hit the village on Wednesday night.
Police said that from Serangal village drinking water was supplied to Ambur through pipeline. The entire village had been marooned in the flood.
A surface bridge in the village had been washed away in the flood. Flooding occurred due to excess water in the catchments at Kollapalli in Andhra Pradesh. Serangal village is situated bordering Andhra Pradesh. Steps were being taken to carry out the rescue operation. However, there were no reports of casualty.
肯亞水、旱災惡性循環加劇｜The vicious circle between flood and drought in Kenya
#[Reuters] East Africa drought leaves millions hungry 2009/09/29:
NAIROBI (Reuters) - Drought for a fifth year running is driving more than 23 million east Africans in seven countries toward severe hunger and destitution, international aid agency Oxfam said on Tuesday.
Launching a 9.5 million pound appeal, it said the situation was being worsened by high food prices and conflict. The most badly hit nations are Kenya, Ethiopia, Somalia and Uganda.
Malnutrition is now above emergency levels in some areas and hundreds of thousands of valuable cattle are dying.
"This is the worst humanitarian crisis Oxfam has seen in east Africa for over ten years," Paul Smith Lomas, Oxfam's East Africa Director, said in a statement.
He said failed and unpredictable rains were ever more common in the region, and that broader climate change meant wet seasons were becoming shorter. Droughts have increased from once a decade to every two or three years.
"In Wajir, northern Kenya, almost 200 dead animals were recently found around one dried-up water source," Lomas said.
"People are surviving on two litres of water a day in some places -- less water than a toilet flush. The conditions have never been so harsh or so inhospitable, and people desperately need our help to survive."
Some 3.8 million Kenyans, a tenth of the population, need emergency aid, Oxfam said, partly because food prices have risen to 180 percent above average.
One in six children are acutely malnourished in Somalia, the charity said, while conflict meant people were less able to grow food and drought is ravaging areas where people have fled. Half the population -- more than 3.8 million people -- are affected.
In Ethiopia, 13.7 million people are at risk of severe hunger and need help, Oxfam said. Many are selling cattle to buy food. Farmers in northern Uganda have lost half their crops.
Other countries hard hit are Sudan, Djibouti and Tanzania.
Rains are due next month, but are likely to bring scant relief or even deluges that could dramatically worsen matters.
Oxfam said there were fears that east Africa could be hit by floods that would destroy crops and homes, as well as increasing the spread of water-borne diseases.
"The aid response to the crisis needs to rapidly expand, but it is desperately short of funds," the charity said, adding that the U.N.'s World Food Programme was facing a $977 million donor shortfall for its Horn of Africa work over the next six months.
"Even with normal rain, the harvest will not arrive until early 2010. People will still need aid to get them through a long hunger season," it said.
#[Reuters] East Africa drought in fifth year, millions hungry 2009/09/29:
芭馬颱風重創北非律賓，並在北台灣（宜蘭）造成水患｜Typhoon Parma seriously hits north Philippines and causes flood in north Taiwan (Yilan)
#[Reuters] Rain, floods in Philippines kill over 100 2009/10/09:
MANILA (Reuters) - Rescue workers dug out more than 120 bodies from under tonnes of mud and debris in northern Philippines on Friday as dozens of landslides buried villages after a week of relentless rains, officials said.
Scores of towns and villages in the lowlands were flooded as overflowing dams opened their sluice gates to release water. At least 122 were killed by landslides and 13 others have previously been killed by the rains, which started one week ago.
"As of this moment, we have already retrieved 122 bodies," Olive Luces, regional disaster head for the mountain regions, told television. Most of the deaths were in the vegetable-growing Benguet province, and in neighbouring Mountain Province.
"We really have no idea how many people were buried when the landslides happened because it was almost midnight and everybody was asleep," said Loreto Espineli, police chief of Benguet. "Our recovery efforts are slowed down by mud, heavy rains and lack of power."
The rains were brought by Typhoon Parma, which first hit the Philippines last Saturday and has since hovered around the northern part of the main island of Luzon, although it has weakened into a tropical depression.
Besides setting off landslides in the mountains, the rain has swollen rivers and reservoirs, forcing dams to release water and flooding areas downstream. Television pictures showed towns and farmland in the plains transformed into vast lakes, dotted with trees and buildings.
WATER ALL OVER
About 60 to 80 percent of the coastal province of Pangasinan has been flooded and 30,000 people evacuated, said Lieutenant Colonel Ernesto Torres at the NDCC.
"Many of the roads are impassable, under six to eight feet of water and hundreds are marooned on the roofs of their towns," said Butch Velasco, a disaster official in Pangasinan. "The water level has reached the second storey of their homes." Continued...
印尼蘇門達臘 7.6 級強震後 學生返回校園｜After the Indonesia Sumatra 7.6 earthquake, students came back to school
南印度大洪水｜Flood in South India
肯亞水、旱災惡性循環加劇｜The vicious circle between flood and drought in Kenya
芭馬颱風重創北非律賓，並在北台灣（宜蘭）造成水患｜Typhoon Parma seriously hits north Philippines and causes flood in north Taiwan (Yilan)
----------------------------------------------------------------------------
薩摩亞、東加諸島國遭海嘯侵襲｜Deadly tsunami strikes in Pacific
#[Fox News] 119 Dead, Villages 'Wiped Out' in Samoa Tsunami 2009/09/30:
APIA, Samoa — Police in green reflective vests searched a ghastly landscape of mud-strewn streets, pulverized homes and bodies scattered in a swamp Wednesday as dazed survivors emerged from the muck and mire of an earthquake and tsunami that killed 119 in the South Pacific.
Military transports flew medical personnel, food, water and medicine to the islands of Samoa and American Samoa, which were devastated by the wall of water triggered by Tuesday morning's undersea earthquake. One cargo plane from New Zealand brought in a temporary morgue and a body identification team — with officials expecting the death toll to rise as more areas are searched.
Cars and boats — many battered and upside down — littered the coastline. Debris as small as a spoon and as large as piece of masonry weighing several tons were strewn in the mud.
Survivors told harrowing tales of encountering the deadly tsunami.
印尼蘇門達臘 7.6 級強震｜After the Indonesia Sumatra 7.6 earthquake, students came back to school
#[Reuters] Students walk out from a collapsed building after an earthquake hit Padang, on Indonesia's Sumatra island September 30, 2009. A 7.6 magnitude earthquake struck off the city of Padang on Indonesia's Sumatra island on Wednesday, killing at least 75 people and trapping thousands under rubble, officials said.
南印度大洪水｜Flood in South India
#thisismyindia.com's pictures of the tamil nadu flood
#[The Hindu] Village marooned in flood 2009/09/25:
Village marooned in flood/ Staff Reporter
PERNAMBUT: Normal life in Serangal village near Pernambut had been affected due to flood that hit the village on Wednesday night.
Police said that from Serangal village drinking water was supplied to Ambur through pipeline. The entire village had been marooned in the flood.
A surface bridge in the village had been washed away in the flood. Flooding occurred due to excess water in the catchments at Kollapalli in Andhra Pradesh. Serangal village is situated bordering Andhra Pradesh. Steps were being taken to carry out the rescue operation. However, there were no reports of casualty.
肯亞水、旱災惡性循環加劇｜The vicious circle between flood and drought in Kenya
#[Reuters] East Africa drought leaves millions hungry 2009/09/29:
NAIROBI (Reuters) - Drought for a fifth year running is driving more than 23 million east Africans in seven countries toward severe hunger and destitution, international aid agency Oxfam said on Tuesday.
Launching a 9.5 million pound appeal, it said the situation was being worsened by high food prices and conflict. The most badly hit nations are Kenya, Ethiopia, Somalia and Uganda.
Malnutrition is now above emergency levels in some areas and hundreds of thousands of valuable cattle are dying.
"This is the worst humanitarian crisis Oxfam has seen in east Africa for over ten years," Paul Smith Lomas, Oxfam's East Africa Director, said in a statement.
He said failed and unpredictable rains were ever more common in the region, and that broader climate change meant wet seasons were becoming shorter. Droughts have increased from once a decade to every two or three years.
"In Wajir, northern Kenya, almost 200 dead animals were recently found around one dried-up water source," Lomas said.
"People are surviving on two litres of water a day in some places -- less water than a toilet flush. The conditions have never been so harsh or so inhospitable, and people desperately need our help to survive."
Some 3.8 million Kenyans, a tenth of the population, need emergency aid, Oxfam said, partly because food prices have risen to 180 percent above average.
One in six children are acutely malnourished in Somalia, the charity said, while conflict meant people were less able to grow food and drought is ravaging areas where people have fled. Half the population -- more than 3.8 million people -- are affected.
In Ethiopia, 13.7 million people are at risk of severe hunger and need help, Oxfam said. Many are selling cattle to buy food. Farmers in northern Uganda have lost half their crops.
Other countries hard hit are Sudan, Djibouti and Tanzania.
Rains are due next month, but are likely to bring scant relief or even deluges that could dramatically worsen matters.
Oxfam said there were fears that east Africa could be hit by floods that would destroy crops and homes, as well as increasing the spread of water-borne diseases.
"The aid response to the crisis needs to rapidly expand, but it is desperately short of funds," the charity said, adding that the U.N.'s World Food Programme was facing a $977 million donor shortfall for its Horn of Africa work over the next six months.
"Even with normal rain, the harvest will not arrive until early 2010. People will still need aid to get them through a long hunger season," it said.
#[Reuters] East Africa drought in fifth year, millions hungry 2009/09/29:
芭馬颱風重創北非律賓，並在北台灣（宜蘭）造成水患｜Typhoon Parma seriously hits north Philippines and causes flood in north Taiwan (Yilan)
#[Reuters] Rain, floods in Philippines kill over 100 2009/10/09:
MANILA (Reuters) - Rescue workers dug out more than 120 bodies from under tonnes of mud and debris in northern Philippines on Friday as dozens of landslides buried villages after a week of relentless rains, officials said.
Scores of towns and villages in the lowlands were flooded as overflowing dams opened their sluice gates to release water. At least 122 were killed by landslides and 13 others have previously been killed by the rains, which started one week ago.
"As of this moment, we have already retrieved 122 bodies," Olive Luces, regional disaster head for the mountain regions, told television. Most of the deaths were in the vegetable-growing Benguet province, and in neighbouring Mountain Province.
"We really have no idea how many people were buried when the landslides happened because it was almost midnight and everybody was asleep," said Loreto Espineli, police chief of Benguet. "Our recovery efforts are slowed down by mud, heavy rains and lack of power."
The rains were brought by Typhoon Parma, which first hit the Philippines last Saturday and has since hovered around the northern part of the main island of Luzon, although it has weakened into a tropical depression.
Besides setting off landslides in the mountains, the rain has swollen rivers and reservoirs, forcing dams to release water and flooding areas downstream. Television pictures showed towns and farmland in the plains transformed into vast lakes, dotted with trees and buildings.
WATER ALL OVER
About 60 to 80 percent of the coastal province of Pangasinan has been flooded and 30,000 people evacuated, said Lieutenant Colonel Ernesto Torres at the NDCC.
"Many of the roads are impassable, under six to eight feet of water and hundreds are marooned on the roofs of their towns," said Butch Velasco, a disaster official in Pangasinan. "The water level has reached the second storey of their homes." Continued...
Edited 5 time(s). Last edit at 10/12/2009 09:48AM by gustav.
(編輯記錄)
MEPO forum
is powered by Phorum.