"Ring of Fire" activity

A strong magnitude 6.3 hits near Indonesian cities.  Adaption Methods would include the forecasting and warning system for such an event as well as determining if a tsunami is to follow.  Neither Japan of Indonesia has issued a tsunami warning.

http://www.cnn.com/2013/11/30/world/asia/indonesia-earthquake/

 This shallow earthquake hit at about 351 kilometers east-northeast of the East Timor capital Dili according to the US geologic survey.  It was lucky enough that the quake hit in a remote area where there is little likelihood of too much damage, injuries or casualties. Shaking was felt in nearby cities but it was not damaging.  Being on the Ring of fire, Indonesia often gets seismic as we as volcanic activity caused by the colliding of plates. 


http://www.worldatlas.com/aatlas/infopage/ringfire.htm

Now check out that ring of fire^^^

Fukushima Nuclear Leak

Looks like Japan is having some mitigation issues with their whole nuclear power plant spill issue.  There is an estimated 300 tonnes of radioactive material released into our ocean each day because of the tsunami that hit Fukushima in March of 2011.  This is soon to be a world issue affecting the worlds shorelines and fish but Japan is STILL denying help.

http://articles.latimes.com/2011/mar/28/science/la-sci-japan-reactor-damage-20110328

Their plans on stopping the flow of radioactive material to the ocean aren't looking too spectacular either.  The giant ice wall that would be able to freeze anything that tried to pass it would be far too costly.  Another consideration is to dump tanks with the lowest percent of radioactive material into the ocean to fill them up with the most radioactive material.  Still a lot of brainstorming needs to be had. This is some seriously scary stuff.

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/09/05/japan-nuclear-agency-says-fukushima-water-leak-risk-exaggerated/

Snow storms in the US

Looks like we have some storms rolling in throughout the USA.

Snow storms are coming in from Utah up to South Dakota.  Rain storms are throughout South Carolina and Georgia as well as Michigan. 

The Midwest will be experiencing a lot of snow coming up as well as extremely cold temperatures.  There has already been 30 inches of snow recorded.  Dangerous road conditions is the hazard caused.

It's even forecasted that California could possibly be getting snow around San Francisco if the snow goes further than what is in the map below. 

Times like these you can really see good examples of adaption.  We have a great warning system that shows where the snow is likely to hit so we can all prepare.  For those in California and southern states, snow is a huge deal and they are likely to keep off the roads and cancel school for snow storms.  Up in the mid-west, we have cars built to handle these conditions and we'll have snow plows out right away.

Post Philippines Typhoon

Behavior Paradigm:
Catagory 5 Super Typhoon
The people of the Philippines were able to predict where the Typhoon was likely to hit and therefore could evacuate 800,000 people.

The Philippines has had 182 disasters since 2002 but this was the most devastating typhoon since 1990.  And it was the largest typhoon/cyclone that hit land to be recorded and hit record wind speed.


Why was this one so large?  Global climate change?!?!?!?!

The typhoon hit where there was a large density of people with poorly constructed houses causing a lot of destruction and deaths.  Even though they evacuated many people and are used to disasters, the relief efforts had a hard time getting to them because of damage to transportation.  Evacuation areas also were low on supplies and food leaving many people hungry for days.


Now the Philippines is recovering in a mess filled with corpses, flooded villages, broken houses, and crops that have been uprooted.  Many of the people are left without jobs as well.  There are efforts to help rebuild the damaged areas of the Philippines and start to put up defenses to help prevent some destruction for future events.