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Quake in China: Very Serious 22 July 2013

Posted by Lightening Hearts Monday, July 22, 2013 0 comments
Today at  7.45 on Monday morning (2345 GMT Sunday) earthquake hit Minxian and Zhangxian counties, about 170 km (105 miles) southeast of the provincial capital of Lanzhou.

The Magnitude of the quake was 6.6 and is considered very serious. It put the number of people seriously injured at 296. Death toll rises to 75 so far.



Eight towns in the remote, mountainous area sustained serious damage in the quake and subsequent flooding and mudslides, state media said. There were also power outages, while cell phone and Internet coverage was disrupted, residents and state media reported. The Red Cross Society of China said it had sent relief supplies to the affected areas, including jackets and tents.

"Many have been injured by collapsed houses," said a Minxian county doctor surnamed Du. "Many villagers have gone to local hospitals along the roads."

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Earthquake shakes New Zealand: 21 July 2013

Posted by Lightening Hearts Sunday, July 21, 2013 0 comments
A very strong Earthquake of 6.5 magnitude on rictor scale shakes New Zealand today at 0509 GMT.

The earth quake has jolted the nation's capital but no tsunami alert was issued. Also no reports of damage were also issues. The US geological survey has announced that the impact was at  57 kilometres (36 miles) south-southwest of Wellington at a depth of 14 kilometres.

However they also informed that the seriousness of the issue cant be clearly explained and need some more time to sort out.

For more updates stay tuned

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Detroit under trouble

Posted by Lightening Hearts Friday, July 19, 2013 0 comments
Largest US state to file for Bankruptcy. Detroit to go for court fight

DETROIT: Detroit has created sensational shock to everyone in US. It has filed the largest municipal bankruptcy in US history on 18th July 2013, Thursday, setting the stage for a costly court battle with creditors and opening a new chapter in the long struggle to revive the city that was the cradle of the American auto industry.

The bankruptcy, if approved by a federal judge, would force Detroit's thousands of creditors into negotiations with the city's Emergency Manager Kevyn Orr to resolve an estimated $18.5 billion in debt that has crippled Michigan's largest city.

The basic reason for all this stuff is that "Detroit simply cannot raise enough revenue to meet its current obligations, and that is a situation that is only projected to get worse absent a bankruptcy filing," wrote Snyder, a Republican, in a letter accompanying the filing.

Detroit's creditors are expected to face huge losses, and the future of retiree pension and health benefits for thousands of city workers hangs in the balance.

Anticipating the filing on Thursday, investors drove prices of Detroit bonds and notes lower, sending their yields to record highs on Thursday.

In some respects, Detroit's legacy as a model for American innovation is at stake as well. Its crippled condition threatens to overwhelm its image as the home of Henry Ford's pioneering assembly line and Motown's 1960s soul-music hit machine. More recently, the city has become an incubator for efforts to repopulate and reinvigorate an urban relic of a bygone, industrial age.

New York, Cleveland and Philadelphia previously teetered on bankruptcy, but Detroit is the first major US city to go over the edge.

Detroit has lost 25 percent of its population in the last decade, with just 700,000 residents remaining. The ranks of retirees outnumber the city's active workers by more than a 2-1 ratio. With a quarter of its buildings abandoned in some neighborhoods, no other American city has borne the brunt of de-industrialization so heavily.

In his July 16 letter to the governor making the case for a bankruptcy filing, Orr laid bare the scope of the city's decline.

"After decades of fiscal mismanagement; plummeting population, employment and revenues; decaying City infrastructure... Detroit today is a shell of the thriving metropolis that it once was," Orr wrote.
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Sense of Emergency at Fukushima nuclear plant

Posted by Lightening Hearts Thursday, July 18, 2013 0 comments
Fukushima Nuclear power plant has been in lime light again today as traces of steam has been spotted near a pool storing machinery removed from a crippled reactor.

The traces were observed around the fifth floor of the Reactor 3 building. In March 2011, the roof of the building was blown off in a hydrogen explosion"

However the the spokesman was confident and said "The steam was drifting thinly in the air and it's not like a big column of steam is spurting up. Neither the temperature of the reactor nor readings at radiation monitoring posts have gone up."
"We do not believe an emergency situation is breaking out although we are still investigating what caused this."
 
The incident is the latest in a growing catalogue of mishaps at Fukushima that have cast doubt on TEPCO's ability to fix the world's worst atomic disaster in a generation.

A series of leaks of water contaminated with radiation have shaken confidence, as did a blackout caused by a rat that left cooling pools without power for more than a day.

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Amber Alert in New york early in the morning

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Amber Alert :: America's Missing Broadcast Emergency Response

The AMBER Alert™ Program is a voluntary partnership between law-enforcement agencies, broadcasters, transportation agencies, and the wireless industry, to activate an urgent bulletin in the most serious child-abduction cases. The goal of an AMBER Alert is to instantly galvanize the entire community to assist in the search for and the safe recovery of the child.


AMBER Alert - America's Missing: Broadcast Emergency Response


Thousands of New Yorkers were awoken early Wednesday morning when their cell phones began blaring because of an amber alert notifying them of a missing child. The buzz began when a mother has taken her 7 months old child from Harlem Social Services

7-month-old boy was taken from a Harlem social services

Accompanied by the screeching tones employed by the emergency broadcast system, a message appeared on cell phones across the five boroughs that read, “3:51 am AMBER Alert Manhattan, NY Amber Alert UPDATE: LIC/GEX1377 (NY) (1995) Tan Lexis ES300.”

Hijack Fear on Turkish Cargo ship with 24 Indians onboard

Posted by Lightening Hearts Tuesday, July 16, 2013 0 comments
It is informed that near Port Gentil off the coast of Gabon in central Africa a Turkish cargo ship with 24 Indians aboard is suspected to have been hijacked by pirates.

The ship, MT Cotton, is captained by Captain Sishir Wahi of Kolkata. The family of Captain has lost all the contact and got panicked on Tuesday (July 16 2013)

Officials suspect the hijackers may be locals, not Somalis. It was not immediately known if a ransom demand had been made.

"Around 12.30pm, we called up the company officials who said the ship was suspected to have been hijacked by pirates," Wahi's daughter Richa told. At least five others from West Bengal are among the Indian crew on MT Cotton. 

"We are trying our best to get the details of 24 Indian crew. The Turkish owners told us they are in touch with the authorities in Gabon and doing their best to free the crew," Captain Vaivab Dalvi, crew director of the hiring company, told us over phone from Mumbai.

Captain Wahi left home in Kolkata on July 5 to join the ship's crew.
"He took charge as captain on July 12. That night he emailed us and said there was some technical problem and he will not be able to email us. Since then we have had no contact with him," Richa, a freelance educationist, said.

Captain Wahi lives in Alipore with his daughter, wife Preeti and 82-year-old mother Shama. His son Siddharth works in London. 

Siddharth is trying to communicate with the Turkish owners of the ship to get more information. The family is also trying to get in touch with external affairs ministry.
"We just want everyone including my father to come home safely. My grandmother and mother are unwell ever since she heard the news. We are devastated and do not know what to do," Richa added. 

Pirates have repeatedly targeted cargo vessels near African coasts, especially Somalia, over the years. In March 2011, the Indian Navy captured 61 Somali pirates after intercepting them in the Arabian Sea.

Source: Hidustan Times

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Mystery : Alien creature in South Africa

Posted by Lightening Hearts Monday, July 15, 2013 0 comments

Alien look alike body is found in a park in South Africa.
Aliens Body

Llewellyn Dixon, a national park ranger, discovered the body of a creature which looked like an alien creature lying in the grass. Looking at this locals in South Africa were shocked and baffled.

The mystery was solved when a local veterinarian performed an autopsy, identifying the creature as a baby baboon.

For those who has not seen baboon, here it is..

Baby Baboon

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