Posted by feww on April 20, 2012
DISASTER CALENDAR SYMBOLIC COUNTDOWN: 1,426 Days Left
[20 April 2012] Mass die-offs resulting from human impact and the planetary response to the anthropogenic assault could occur by early 2016. SYMBOLIC COUNTDOWN: 1,426 Days Left to the ‘Worst Day’ in Human History
Global Disasters: Links, Forecasts and Background
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Posted by feww on April 20, 2012
Droughts, deluges and poverty leave 4 million Nepalese facing food insecurity
Acute food shortages in 63 percent of households in the Mid-West and Far-West regions of Nepal has created a severe problem in the country, UN said.
- Acute malnutrition is at a critical level affecting about 400,000 Nepalese children.
- More than 91,000 children under the age of 5 are suffering from severe acute malnutrition.
- “Severe acute malnutrition is defined by a very low weight for height (below -3z scores of the median WHO growth standards), by visible severe wasting, or by the presence of nutritional oedema. Decreasing child mortality and improving maternal health depend heavily on reducing malnutrition, which is responsible, directly or indirectly, for 35% of deaths among children under five.” WHO said.
Global Drought
Other Global Disasters, Significant Events
- Mexico. Popocatépetl Volcano Update
The following is the latest bulletin issued by CENAPRED
Apr 19 20:00 ( Apr 20 at 01:00 GMT)
Since the last report at 13:00 h. (local time), the monitoring system registered 9 low intensity exhalations. Additionally a volcanotectonic event of low magnitude was recorded at 18:50 h. (local time). After, since 18:42 h. and until the moment of this report several segments of spasmodic tremor of medium amplitude were registered including exhalation signals inside. Possibly, the first exhalations of this tremor were accompanied by moderate amounts of ash.
The volcano cannot be observed this afternoon, due to the cloudy conditions at the area. The steam and gas plume could be partially seen traveling to northeast.
[The alert level remains in Phase 3 “Yellow.”]
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