म्यांमार में7.7 तीव्रता का शक्तिशाली भूकंप, दक्षिण-पूर्व एशिया में हलचल
https://www.newsfeedindia.in/2025/03/7-7-magnitude-earthquake-hits-myanmar-thailand.html
#MyanmarEarthquake #Thailand #Earthquake #BreakingNews #Disaster #RescueEfforts #SeismicActivity #NaturalDisaster #StaySafe
Today In Labor History March 26, 1912: A mining disaster at Jed, West Virginia, killed 83 workers.
Hearing from California, Iowa, Ohio and Oregon that #FEMA and #DHS has not released any disaster grant reimbursements in over 30 days. Most requests were submitted circa 2/20/25 with no funds received as of 3/26/25.
These are critical emergency disaster recovery grants. Lack of approved disaster funding will cripple governments as they work on their budgets. These reimbursements come from American tax dollars that are put into the Disaster Relief Fund.
Today in Labor History March 25, 1947: A coal mine exploded in Centralia, Illinois killing 111. American folksinger Woody Guthrie wrote and recorded a song about the Centralia disaster called “The Dying Miner.”
#DHS Secy #KristiNoem [dog killer] told a Cabinet meeting Monday that the dept would move to “eliminate” the govt’s #disaster relief agency, #FEMA, days after #Trump signed an EO directing state & local govnts to “play a more active & significant role” in responding to catastrophes.
#Noem, whose dept oversees FEMA, has previously vowed to “get rid of FEMA the way it exists today”; Trump has said he would close the agency entirely, which would require an act of #Congress.
https://www.semafor.com/article/03/24/2025/dhs-sec-kristi-noem-says-administration-will-move-to-eliminate-fema
> Even if help is on the way, it may not come quickly. That has prompted people to step in, an informal response that has grown more organized with each crisis. “We all need to be our own first responders because these things are happening really, really fast,” Zegre said.
https://grist.org/extreme-weather/we-know-what-its-like-how-appalachian-towns-are-learning-to-help-each-other-after-floods/
#USPol #MutualAid #Crisis #Disaster
#sapphicfictionsaturday
I’m currently reading Saltblood by TC Parker—rather fitting for the Ides of March, don’t you think? What’s in your hands today? 
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B08CGGWNX6
Bluesky: @tcparker.bsky.social
#whatareyoureading #sapphicbooks #dangerinperil #disaster #dystopian #murder #prisoner #lesfic #bookstodon #readingcommunity #lesbian #lgbtq #lgbtqia
@lgbtqbookstodon @bookstodon @sapphicbooks
The captain of the Solong cargo ship arrested after a collision with a tanker in the North Sea is a Russian national, the ship's owner has confirmed.
Today in Labor History March 12, 1928: The St. Francis Dam failed in Los Angeles, California, killing 431 people. It is the second deadliest disaster in California, after the 1906 earthquake, and one of the worst U.S. civil engineering disasters ever. A defective foundation and design flaws caused the failure. Yet, the inquest absolved chief engineer, William Mulholland, of all criminal responsibility, and he continued to earn a salary from the Bureau of Public Works (though his career was effectively ended). The authorities continued to find the remains of victims of the flood until the mid-1950s. Many of the victims were washed out to sea. Some washed ashore as far south as Mexico. Mulholland was also the designer of the 233-mile Los Angeles Aqueduct, which sucks water from the Owens Valley and is a major cause of the depletion of the fragile Mono Lake. As its water levels continues to decline, it threatens the world’s second largest gull rookery, home to up to 50,000 birds. The aqueduct’s construction, and the shady methods Mulholland used to acquire the water rights, led to the California Water Wars between L.A. County and Owens Valley farmers. Many of those same Anglo farmers (or their predecessors) usurped the land from Piute people during the 1863 Owens Valley Indian War, which was precipitated, in part, by the vast loss of human and cattle lives, and the displacements, caused by the Megaflood of 1861, which inundated much of the West, from Idaho and Oregon, down to northern Baja California. The corruption related to the construction of the aqueduct has been portrayed in the film Chinatown, and in the nonfiction book, “Cadillac Desert.”
For more on the Megaflood of 1861, please read my article, “Worse Than the Big One”: https://michaeldunnauthor.com/2023/01/04/worse-than-the-big-one-californias-coming-megaflood-2/
#workingclass #LaborHistory #flood #dam #mulholland #monolake #owensvalley #disaster #nativeamerican #indigenous #piute #ecology #chinatown #indianwar #habitatdestruction #books #nonfiction #author #writer #losangeles @bookstadon
The Black Elephant is a hybrid of two widely used metaphors:
The Black Swan is a hard-to-foresee event which changes everything.
The Elephant in the Room is an enormous issue that everyone knows is there, but no one wants to talk about.
The Black Elephant is an event that, when it happens, everyone will try to pretend was a Black Swan, when all along it was the Elephant in the Room.
Link: https://www.resilience.org/stories/2025-03-11/finding-each-other-in-the-ruins/
14 years since #Fukushima #nuclear disaster: #Greenpeace statement
March 11, 2025
Tokyo, Japan – "14 years have passed since the #GreatEastJapanEarthquake and the #FukushimaDaiichi nuclear #disaster devastated the northeast region of Japan. #GreenpeaceJapan extends heartfelt condolences to the victims and their families who are still suffering the aftermath of this devastating catastrophe."
Read more:
https://www.greenpeace.org/international/press-release/73383/14-years-since-fukushima-nuclear-disaster-greenpeace-statement/
#FukushimaIsntOver #RethinkNotRestart #WaterIsLife #NoMoreFukushimas #NoMoreChernobyls #Tohuku #Earthquake #StopNucléaire #Nucléaire #EnergiesRenouvelables #AntiAtom #NoNukes #NuclearIsNotCarbonFree #Nucleaire #AtomkraftNeinDanke #Anniversaire311
Like most sequels, Trump 2 has become a predictable flop that has worldwide audiences wondering how it ever made it to the White House a second time.
Fun with the internet archive: cheesy govt PSA short films.
All the "experts" they say are going to be helping you navigate fallout and radiation risks were...defunded and disbanded a long time ago, not to mention what's happening to the remaining agencies now. Just saying.
Also, most houses built today no longer have basements, so....
Facebook searches for Cyclone Alfred were blocked for containing content breaching 'community standards' https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-03-05/meta-blocked-facebook-searches-cyclone-alfred/105013014 Meta as hopeless as ever. #socialmedia #disaster
Per article:
" The modeling center runs the computer models used in day-to-day weather forecasting, and ensures that weather data correctly goes into these models and that they are operating correctly.
The lease cancellation was first reported by The Verge. The National Weather Service didn't immediately respond to a request for comment.
The NOAA employee told Axios the cancellations — along with recent layoffs, early retirements, and travel and hiring limitations — point to an effort to dismantle the agency."
Axios: DOGE moves to cancel NOAA leases on key weather buildings
"...two pivotal centers for weather forecasting will soon have their leases canceled, sources told Axios.
Why it matters: One of the buildings is the nerve center for generating national weather forecasts. ..."
https://www.axios.com/2025/03/03/doge-noaa-weather-building-leases-trump
Over a dozen of the snr leaders at #FEMA, including those w/the most #experience in leading #disaster recovery, have either been fired or have resigned, thinning its management ranks weeks ahead of #hurricane season.
The departures in the snr ranks are IN ADDITION to job cuts & resignations of about 1k of the agency’s ~17k employees.
#USpol #EmergencyPreparedness #ExtremeWeather #ClimateChange #weather #science #government #PublicDisservice #idiocracy #Trump #Musk #DOGE
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/27/climate/fema-trump-resignations-firings.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare&sgrp=p&pvid=F5AEF2DA-1985-41F4-BBB3-2124BE45B474
@dpaldrich reviews "Connecting After Chaos: Social Media and the Extended Aftermath of Disaster" by Stephen F Ostertag which argues 'that during these most desperate of times, our shared concerns, values, and moral judgment come to light through cultural work' and may help build 'a systematic understanding of how people emotionally process and engage with the shocks to come.'
https://doi.org/10.1177/00016993251320205
Great news piece on the Palos Verdes, sliding into the sea in slow motion. It's like a living, moving disaster movie! https://www.cbsnews.com/video/california-neighborhood-is-slowly-sliding-toward-the-ocean/ #PalosVerdes #disaster #landslide
