ABOUT two weeks before the 6.7 magnitude earthquake hit Surigao City, two oarfish have been found in the beaches of Butuan City and another oarfish was washed ashore in Misamis Occidental and in Agusan del Norte days later. Residents near the shores took selfies and posted the sightings on social media networks without looking into the cause of this sighting.
Category: Asian Tsunami Disaster
New Indonesia tsunami network could add crucial minutes
Indonesia’s tsunami detection system, made up of seafloor sensors that communicate with transmitting buoys on the surface, has been rendered useless by vandals and lack of funding. Now Indonesian and U.S. scientists say they’ve developed a way to dispense with the expensive buoys and possibly add crucial extra minutes of warning for vulnerable coastal cities.
Small town boy helps shape the globe
Civil engineer Dr Ian Greenwood’s work in asset management takes him to places like here at the failed Chernobyl nuclear facility, war ravaged Ukraine and Boko Haram and Ebola affected Nigeria. Keeping his ear drums intact in a bomb blast, or what level of a hotel to stay in that would put him above a terrorist bomb blast set off in reception, yet low enough to be reached by a fire ladder, are just a couple of the health and safety requirements for civil engineer Doctor Ian Greenwood.