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  • Beijing flooded as China sees highest rainfall in 140 years | In pics

    Beijing flooded as China sees highest rainfall in 140 years | In pics

  • Climate change induced substantial financial losses for India in 2022

    Express News Service

    NEW DELHI: India confronted vital financial loss as a consequence of flood, drought and heatwave-related disasters in 2022. A brand new report printed by World Meteorological Organisation mentioned India misplaced USD 4.2 billion as a consequence of disasters referring to floods adopted by drought and heatwaves. The different Asian international locations that confronted vital losses have been Pakistan and China. Much of the price was attributable to agricultural losses. 

    According to the report ‘The State of Climate in Asia 2022’, India’s decrease course of the Ganges and Brahmaputra basins had one of many area’s largest precipitation deficits, triggering drought-like situations. These basins help hundreds of thousands of individuals’s livelihoods via agrarian actions in India in addition to Bangladesh. 

    However, within the meantime, India’s few areas acquired the best each day precipitation totals in central India, the Western Ghats (India), and Khasi hills. The heavy rainfall lasting from May to September triggered a number of landslides and river overflows and floods, leading to casualties and injury. Cumulatively, this flooding prompted over 2000 deaths and affected 1.3 million individuals, and this catastrophe occasion prompted the best variety of casualties of any catastrophe occasion in India in 2022.

    After floods, lightning is one other main explanation for demise in India. In 2022, thunderstorms and lightning claimed round 1200 lives in several elements of the nation. On 19–20 May, greater than 34 individuals have been killed in lightning strikes in Bihar. The report states that the imply temperature over Asia for 2022 has registered a second-record enhance of 0.72 °C. It was above the 1991–2020 common. The 1991–2020 common was itself 1.68 °C, which was above the WMO 1961–1990 reference interval for local weather change. Furthermore, each Asian elements of the northwest Pacific Ocean and the Indian Ocean are warming at a imply price similar to the worldwide price, which is estimated at 0.64 W/m2.

    According to the Emergency Events Database (EM-DAT), in 2022, 81 pure hazard occasions have been reported in Asia; of those, over 83% have been flood and storm occasions. These occasions led to over 5000 fatalities, 90% of which have been related to flooding. Overall, pure hazard occasions straight impacted greater than 50 million individuals and resulted in over US$ 36 billion in damages.

    The report underlined that the most important pure disasters of 2022 impacted areas in Asia throughout the event spectrum, from floods in India and Pakistan to drought in China to heatwaves in India, Japan and Pakistan. 

    NEW DELHI: India confronted vital financial loss as a consequence of flood, drought and heatwave-related disasters in 2022. A brand new report printed by World Meteorological Organisation mentioned India misplaced USD 4.2 billion as a consequence of disasters referring to floods adopted by drought and heatwaves. The different Asian international locations that confronted vital losses have been Pakistan and China. Much of the price was attributable to agricultural losses. 

    According to the report ‘The State of Climate in Asia 2022’, India’s decrease course of the Ganges and Brahmaputra basins had one of many area’s largest precipitation deficits, triggering drought-like situations. These basins help hundreds of thousands of individuals’s livelihoods via agrarian actions in India in addition to Bangladesh. 

    However, within the meantime, India’s few areas acquired the best each day precipitation totals in central India, the Western Ghats (India), and Khasi hills. The heavy rainfall lasting from May to September triggered a number of landslides and river overflows and floods, leading to casualties and injury. Cumulatively, this flooding prompted over 2000 deaths and affected 1.3 million individuals, and this catastrophe occasion prompted the best variety of casualties of any catastrophe occasion in India in 2022.googletag.cmd.push(perform() googletag.show(‘div-gpt-ad-8052921-2’); );

    After floods, lightning is one other main explanation for demise in India. In 2022, thunderstorms and lightning claimed round 1200 lives in several elements of the nation. On 19–20 May, greater than 34 individuals have been killed in lightning strikes in Bihar. The report states that the imply temperature over Asia for 2022 has registered a second-record enhance of 0.72 °C. It was above the 1991–2020 common. The 1991–2020 common was itself 1.68 °C, which was above the WMO 1961–1990 reference interval for local weather change. Furthermore, each Asian elements of the northwest Pacific Ocean and the Indian Ocean are warming at a imply price similar to the worldwide price, which is estimated at 0.64 W/m2.

    According to the Emergency Events Database (EM-DAT), in 2022, 81 pure hazard occasions have been reported in Asia; of those, over 83% have been flood and storm occasions. These occasions led to over 5000 fatalities, 90% of which have been related to flooding. Overall, pure hazard occasions straight impacted greater than 50 million individuals and resulted in over US$ 36 billion in damages.

    The report underlined that the most important pure disasters of 2022 impacted areas in Asia throughout the event spectrum, from floods in India and Pakistan to drought in China to heatwaves in India, Japan and Pakistan. 

  • Land subsidence: Karnaprayag, Landour amongst Uttarakhand cities looking at catastrophe

    By PTI

    DEHRADUN: The disaster in Joshimath has introduced into focus the problem of land subsidence which has for years been threatening a number of locations of Uttarakhand, together with the pilgrim city of Karnaprayag and Landour.

    Around 80 km from Joshimath, a minimum of 50 homes at Bahuguna Nagar in Karnaprayag have been growing cracks since 2015.

    Locals maintain gradual land subsidence chargeable for the fissures and attribute it to the widening of the nationwide freeway, violation of norms in development works associated to mandi parishad, erosion brought on by the Pindar river and unsystematic flushing out of rainwater.

    Debris introduced down by a landslide from above Bahuguna Nagar first inflicted injury to homes in 2015, former chairman of Karnaprayag municipal council Subhash Gairola stated.

    The municipal council had intervened instantly and the injury was restricted.

    It, nonetheless, began aggravating with the widening of the nationwide freeway in recent times and the unsystematic flushing out of rainwater in absence of a drain alongside the Karnaprayag-Kankhool street.

    Gairola stated that Karnaprayag, being located on the confluence of the Alaknanda and the Pindar rivers, suffers common and heavy soil erosion throughout monsoon.

    ALSO READ| Joshimath: The uncared for warning from 46 years in the past

    Water additionally gushes into properties throughout monsoon, additional weakening their foundations, he stated.

    “The mandi parishad also excavated the area with the help of JCBs during the construction of its buildings which may have further worsened the situation,” Gairola added.

    Pictures of half-tilted homes at Bahuguna Nagar with large cracks on their partitions grabbed folks’s consideration solely after the land subsidence in Joshimath hit nationwide headlines.

    Asked concerning the homes in Karnaprayag growing crack, Chief Minister Pushkar Singh Dhami, who’s in Joshimath, stated, “It has been there for some time. But it will be discussed in the meetings over land subsidence to be held during the day”.

    ALSO READ| How inexperienced was my valley: The Himalayan loot that triggered the Joshimath catastrophe

    Parts of Chamoli district headquarters in Gopeshwar and Semi village close to Guptkashi on the Kedarnath nationwide freeway face an identical scenario, Gairola stated, and demanded rapid help for the affected folks in addition to growing long-term plans to make sure the security of locals.

    Chamoli District Magistrate Himanshu Khurana stated, “Families living in at-risk houses in Karnaprayag have been shifted to safety. We are taking the help of experts from IIT-Roorkee to solve the problem in Karnaprayag. They are studying the problem and preparing a detailed project report based on which remedial measures will be taken”.

    Land subsidence has additionally been reported from Landour in Mussoorie and Atali village close to Rishikesh.

    A 100-metre stretch of the street from Landour Chowk to Kohinoor constructing in Mussoorie has been sinking slowly for the previous 30 years, public representatives from the realm stated and attributed it to heavy development actions within the hill city and a poor drainage system which causes waterlogging.

    Mussoorie SDM Shailendra Singh Negi, who not too long ago visited Landour to examine the cracks, stated land subsidence within the space is presently minor in nature.

    ALSO READ| Study warning of Joshimath sinking was despatched to govt in 2001: Environmentalist

    But within the bigger public curiosity, the components which have led to the scenario are being studied in order that corrective steps may very well be taken, he stated. In Atali village close to Rishikesh, fissures have developed within the floor.

    Villagers declare {that a} railway tunnel being constructed within the space has brought about the crack with Neighbouring Singtali, Lodsi, Kaudiyala and Bavani villages additionally affected.

    SDM Devendra Negi stated a staff of consultants has been constituted which can do an on-the-spot inspection of the affected villages on January 15.

    DEHRADUN: The disaster in Joshimath has introduced into focus the problem of land subsidence which has for years been threatening a number of locations of Uttarakhand, together with the pilgrim city of Karnaprayag and Landour.

    Around 80 km from Joshimath, a minimum of 50 homes at Bahuguna Nagar in Karnaprayag have been growing cracks since 2015.

    Locals maintain gradual land subsidence chargeable for the fissures and attribute it to the widening of the nationwide freeway, violation of norms in development works associated to mandi parishad, erosion brought on by the Pindar river and unsystematic flushing out of rainwater.

    Debris introduced down by a landslide from above Bahuguna Nagar first inflicted injury to homes in 2015, former chairman of Karnaprayag municipal council Subhash Gairola stated.

    The municipal council had intervened instantly and the injury was restricted.

    It, nonetheless, began aggravating with the widening of the nationwide freeway in recent times and the unsystematic flushing out of rainwater in absence of a drain alongside the Karnaprayag-Kankhool street.

    Gairola stated that Karnaprayag, being located on the confluence of the Alaknanda and the Pindar rivers, suffers common and heavy soil erosion throughout monsoon.

    ALSO READ| Joshimath: The uncared for warning from 46 years in the past

    Water additionally gushes into properties throughout monsoon, additional weakening their foundations, he stated.

    “The mandi parishad also excavated the area with the help of JCBs during the construction of its buildings which may have further worsened the situation,” Gairola added.

    Pictures of half-tilted homes at Bahuguna Nagar with large cracks on their partitions grabbed folks’s consideration solely after the land subsidence in Joshimath hit nationwide headlines.

    Asked concerning the homes in Karnaprayag growing crack, Chief Minister Pushkar Singh Dhami, who’s in Joshimath, stated, “It has been there for some time. But it will be discussed in the meetings over land subsidence to be held during the day”.

    ALSO READ| How inexperienced was my valley: The Himalayan loot that triggered the Joshimath catastrophe

    Parts of Chamoli district headquarters in Gopeshwar and Semi village close to Guptkashi on the Kedarnath nationwide freeway face an identical scenario, Gairola stated, and demanded rapid help for the affected folks in addition to growing long-term plans to make sure the security of locals.

    Chamoli District Magistrate Himanshu Khurana stated, “Families living in at-risk houses in Karnaprayag have been shifted to safety. We are taking the help of experts from IIT-Roorkee to solve the problem in Karnaprayag. They are studying the problem and preparing a detailed project report based on which remedial measures will be taken”.

    Land subsidence has additionally been reported from Landour in Mussoorie and Atali village close to Rishikesh.

    A 100-metre stretch of the street from Landour Chowk to Kohinoor constructing in Mussoorie has been sinking slowly for the previous 30 years, public representatives from the realm stated and attributed it to heavy development actions within the hill city and a poor drainage system which causes waterlogging.

    Mussoorie SDM Shailendra Singh Negi, who not too long ago visited Landour to examine the cracks, stated land subsidence within the space is presently minor in nature.

    ALSO READ| Study warning of Joshimath sinking was despatched to govt in 2001: Environmentalist

    But within the bigger public curiosity, the components which have led to the scenario are being studied in order that corrective steps may very well be taken, he stated. In Atali village close to Rishikesh, fissures have developed within the floor.

    Villagers declare {that a} railway tunnel being constructed within the space has brought about the crack with Neighbouring Singtali, Lodsi, Kaudiyala and Bavani villages additionally affected.

    SDM Devendra Negi stated a staff of consultants has been constituted which can do an on-the-spot inspection of the affected villages on January 15.

  • 7.1 magnitude earthquake hits northern Philippines

    A robust 7.1 magnitude earthquake struck the Philippine island of Luzon on Wednesday, the U.S. Geological Survey mentioned, badly damaging a hospital and buildings in a northern province and sending robust tremors via the capital, Manila.

    A hospital in Abra province was evacuated after the constructing partially collapsed following the quake, however there have been no casualties reported, mentioned officers.

    “We are still experiencing aftershocks. We have received reports of damage to houses. But so far no casualties,” mentioned Mayor Rovelyn Villamor within the city of Lagangilang in Abra province.

    “We don’t have power supply because that’s automatically cut off due to danger,” Villamor informed DZRH radio.

    The public data workplace of Abra province posted images on its Facebook web page exhibiting buildings badly broken, with partitions with large cracks crumbling.

    USGS mentioned the earthquake’s epicentre was about 11 km (six miles) east-southeast of the city of Dolores and occurred at a shallow depth of 10 km (6 miles).

    “The focus of attention is on Abra and nearby provinces. This is a major earthquake. We expect strong aftershocks,” Renato Solidum, director of the state seismology company, informed DZMM radio station.

    Eric Singson, a congressman within the northern Ilocos Sur province, informed DZMM radio station the quake had been felt strongly.

    “The earthquake lasted 30 seconds or more. I thought my house would fall,” mentioned Singson.

    “Now, we are trying to reach people …. Right now there are aftershocks so we are outside our home.”

    The quake was additionally felt in Manila and town’s metro rail system was halted at rush hour after the quake, the transport ministry mentioned.

    The senate constructing within the capital was additionally evacuated, media reported.

    Also Read: Dog goes again to outdated residence destroyed in lethal Afghanistan earthquake. Heartbreaking pic

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  • Japanese firm invents ‘flood-resistant’ floating properties

    A Japanese housing improvement firm, ‘Ichijo Komuten’, has invented a home which begins floating as quickly as the extent of water will increase.

    Firefighters transport stranded residents on a ship in a highway flooded by heavy rain in western Japan. (File Photo: Reuters)

    A Japanese housing improvement firm, ‘Ichijo Komuten’, has invented a floating home which the corporate claims will assist to resolve the issues of flood-prone international locations.

    The home’s construction is exclusive as a result of it’s waterproof, the corporate stated, including that as quickly as the extent of water will increase, the home begins floating.

    In an interview with a US tv channel, the corporate stated, “The house looks like a normal house, but when the water started filling up around it, the house slowly started leaving the ground and rising upwards.”

    The firm additionally demonstrated the floating home for most of the people, News18 reported.

    Meanwhile, the corporate stated, “The home is related by thick iron rods. It is related to the bottom by thick cables, which launch the home upwards when floods happen and affix it again to the bottom as quickly because the flood is over. As the water will get much less the home touches the bottom. Electric issues have been put in upwards, in order that water doesn’t attain there. The home can float at a peak of as much as 5 meters.”

    Japan has lengthy been conditioned to organize for earthquakes, nevertheless it additionally experiences heavy flooding brought on by torrential rains and typhoons, which results in destruction and lack of lives.

    On the opposite hand, Assam has additionally witnessed probably the most devastating floods this 12 months, with the dying toll attributable to floods and landslides now going as much as 139 throughout the state. The disaster first hit the state on April 6 this 12 months.

    Cachar is the worst-hit district with over 8.62 lakh folks struggling, adopted by Barpeta the place practically 5.73 lakh persons are reeling and over 5.16 lakh folks being hit in Nagaon. Meanwhile, hundreds of flood-affected victims in Silchar city continued to stay in misery for the ninth consecutive day on Tuesday with acute shortage of ingesting water, lack of aid materials and with out electrical energy provide. Most of the areas within the city of the Southern Assam district proceed to stay submerged below waist to knee-deep water.

  • Jammu: Rainfall due to disaster, roads, bridges shed, water infiltrated up to 5 feet in homes

    Jammu, Jagran Correspondent:  Rain has caused havoc in many districts of Jammu division. Due to the rains, the rivers and streams are on the rise, due to which conditions like flooding have been created. There have been reports of heavy losses at many places. On Wednesday, there was heavy waterlogging in all the low-lying areas in Jammu. Several feet of water has entered the homes of people. Electrical appliances were burnt in most homes. Food and drink has gone bad. Not only this, there has been heavy waterlogging on the roads, which has severely affected life. The Meteorological Department has also issued a landslide warning in the hilly areas of Jammu and Kashmir. Along with this, the Meteorological Department has also predicted heavy rains in many areas yesterday.

    Waterlogging is not new in Trikuta Nagar Extension, Ambedkar Nagar of the city, but never before had so much water been added. There was water up to two feet above the drain flowing in the area. Two to five feet of water permeated every house in the locality. Water devastated about forty houses in the locality. In Trikuta Nagar Sector-2A Extension, drain water entered the houses by breaking the wall. The condition in these adjacent villages deteriorated so much that the SDRF team reached the spot to help the people. SDRF pumped water from people’s homes by installing pumps. Deepak Kumar, Jagdish Raj Gupta, Chaudhary Bal Ram, who lived here said that it was difficult to save life when about five feet of water entered the house. All the goods have been destroyed. The food and drink did not survive. No leader or district administration official reached the spot.

    All the drains in the industrial area Gangyal were also in spate. Water from drains and drains entered into people’s homes as well as units. The unit owners suffered significant losses due to waterlogging in other units including bread factory and floor mills located in the industrial area.

    Rajendra Singh, Ankush Sharma, Ravindra Singh, Ram Kumar, Kamal Dev, who live in Ambedkar Nagar, said that such a catastrophe has happened for the first time. Most people in the locality have three-four-foot walls outside the houses to avoid water. Today the water was so much that it entered into the houses, shops, passing over it. There has been a lot of damage. There was no good stuff left in the house. Waterlogging has occurred in all sectors of Nanak Nagar. In the houses along the sewer in Sector 7 and 6 and 12, water permeated from two feet to four feet. Similarly, water entered about thirty houses in Sanjay Nagar. In Digyana, Rupnagar, Udham Singh Nagar also, about twenty houses suffered water damage. 

     Its width was reduced during the construction of drain in Gangyal region. This is the reason that when rains rained today, two to four feet of water got accumulated in most of the Gangaal villages. People’s beds were submerged in water. Fridge, TV, cooler were filled with water. Residents of the area Sanjay Kumar, Gokul Kumar, Ramesh Lal, Swarn Singh said that there was about three feet of water in their house. Instead of widening the drain, the land was saved. Now people are drowning. Overflow of drains in Gangyal also led to water loss in many factories. Waterlogging in some other commercial establishments, including the Amar Floor Mill, resulted in the loss of lakhs of rupees.

    The bridge connecting several villages in the Dadap area adjoining the city was also washed away by the flood in the drain. This bridge was built about six years ago. Due to the flow of this bridge connecting 22 villages, people have been cut off from the city. Due to the flow of this bridge, people had to adopt Bishnah, Miran Sahib and other small paths to reach the city. The bridge was washed away at about half past two in the morning on Wednesday.