Chernobyl: Consequences of the Catastrophe for People and the Environment

The book is available online.  http://bit.ly/mo29TZ 

Related Links

• Chernobyl nuclear disaster: 25th anniversary
• Probability of a Nuclear Disaster – by Country
• Chernobyl: A Night to Remember!
• All is NOT Well at Chernobyl
• World’s Worst Polluted Places
• Chernobyl: The Day After

Other Related Links

• Remarks by Ralph Nader on the 25th anniversary of the nuclear meltdown at Chernobyl, Ukraine

BP-NM Before and After Flooding Satellite Images

Flooding at the Confluence of the Mississippi and Ohio Rivers 

Before image below shows the New Madrid Floodway south of Cairo, Illinois and the confluence of the two rivers inundated after Birds Point Levee was intentionally breached on May 2, 2011

Click image to enlarge. Download largest image (5 MB, JPEG) — acquired May 3, 2011

After image of the area was acquired on April 14, 2010 and is used as reference.

Click image to enlarge. Download largest image (5 MB, JPEG).   Images were taken by Landsat-5 satellite. Source: NASA-EO.

Related Links

• Ohio River at Cairo  Posted on May 4, 2011
• Heavy rain, flash floods for Ohio, Mississippi valleys
• Mississippi, Ohio Rivers Still Rising; Cairo Evacuated
• Epic Flooding Could Inundate Large Parts of the U-S  Posted on February 10, 2011
• The Day Before Washington’s Birthday   Posted on February 20, 2011

Significant Earthquakes Strike PRF

LARGE SCALE TECTONICS LOOM

Earthquakes Strike Ryukyu Islands, East Honshu, Alaska Peninsula,  Guerrero Mexico, Sumatra Indonesia and Fiji Islands

• Magnitude 5.6 – RYUKYU ISLANDS, JAPAN 2011 May 05 at 23:21:22 UTC [USGS]
• Magnitude 6.2 – ALASKA PENINSULA 2011 May 05 at 16:57:38 UTC [GFZ Potsdam]
• Magnitude 5.4 – SOUTH OF THE FIJI ISLANDS 2011 May 05 at 16:15:20 UTC

• Magnitude 5.6 – ANDREANOF ISLANDS, ALEUTIAN IS., ALASKA 2011 May 05 at 15:06:11 UTC[GFZ Potsdam]
• Magnitude 6.1 – OFF THE EAST COAST OF HONSHU, JAPAN 2011 May 05 at 14:58:21 UTC [USGS]
• Magnitude 5.8 – ALASKA PENINSULA 2011 May 05 14:13:01 at UTC [USGS]

• Magnitude 5.7 – GUERRERO, MEXICO  2011 May 05 13:24:06 at UTC [USGS]
• Magnitude 5.6 – SOUTHERN SUMATRA, INDONESIA 2011 May 04 at 17:38:37 UTC [USGS]
• Magnitude 5.6 – FIJI REGION 2011 May 04 at 16:13:28 UTC [USGS]

Related Links

• Global Tectonics Warning – April 27
• Global Tectonics Alert
• Alaska Earthquake Forecast: Update 3
• Global Tectonics Alert – April 9
• Japan Earthquakes, Disasters: Recent History and FIRE-EARTH Forecasts 
• WARNING: JPTRMT1

Global Disasters

• 2011 Much More Disastrous
• 2010 Disasters [Includes Links to 2010 Disaster Calendar]
• 2011 Disaster Calendar