Monday, August 31, 2015

August 15th to 31st August 2015 : Earth Tremors in Srikakulam and Visakhapatnam:

Volume 2015, Issue No.8a, Dated 16th August 2015, Time: 08h56m A.M.
August 15th to 31st August 2015:
Tremors in Srikakulam and Visakhapatnam
by
Professor Dr. Kotcherlakota Lakshmi Narayana,
(Retd. Prof. of Physics, Shivaji University, Kolhapur - 416004)
17-11-10, Narasimha Ashram, Official Colony,
Maharanipeta.P.O., Visakhaptnam 530002, AP. 
ABSTRACT
 
                  Of Dance, Mathematics and Science lectures by demonstrations revealing how one connect dance with geometry and algebra presented by the Bharatanatyam exponent Rajeswari Sainath. She was in Visakhapatnam and her recent discovery is the study of neuro-biology of dance and how neurological circuits affect the MRI scan. Cotopaxi volcano sent ash waves shooting more than 5km in the sky on Friday, 14th August, with a fine gray powder.  17th August 2015: Acharya Dev Vrat who became first Governor of Himachal Pradesh, took the oath of the office in Sanskrit which highlighted his Gurukul moorings. On a single day it rained 74.5cm at Masinram on Wednesday, 19th August 2015, the highest record to date over the previous Chirpunji last three days 150cm and June total rain 478cm. The tremors were felt in areas, Sompeta,  Vajrapukotturu, Kanchalli, Mandsa, Kasibugga and Palasa on Wednesday, 26th morning around 7h20m A.M to 7h25mA.M for about three to four seconds in Srikakulam District. Hardly, one second quake was also felt by the present author in Visakhapatnam, Maharanipeta residence at the same time. During the night from 1.30AM to 3AM the weather became unusually hot, she was awake from 1.30AM to  2A.M, on 23rd August 2015 while myself had a cold water shower bath around 3A.M to ward off the heat over the body. Then only I could sleep, not knowing why the weather became so hot in the middle of the night! Morning I have noticed for the first time, a heavy due to  descending down, and persisted till 7AM. Winter obviously has set at Vizag!  The author identifies the week of Saturday 22nd to Friday 28th as an unprecedented world over disaster that really disturbed the life.  No rain in Visakhapatnam from 28th to 31st August though there was a thunder on 31st August around 3h30mPM. 
 
DETAILS OF THE OBSERVATIONS 
 
WATER SHORTAGE IN US
 
                       Foreign News: The 36-cent balls also will help prevent evaporation of 300 million gallons of water annually from the 3.3 billion-gallon reservoir, the DWP said. The city began using shade balls in 2008, and they now also cover the Upper Stone, Elysian and Ivanhoe reservoirs.

EGYPTIAN HEAT WAVE
                        News Dt.17th August 2015: Egyptian heatwave toll rises to 93 in the past week of August 15th, with temperatures soaring to 46C they are expected to rise in the coming days. Most of those died are elderly. Mideast struck by heat wave since late July.

RAINS IN TELANGAN AND ANDHRA PRDESH
                       People stranded due to heavy rain on Sunday, 16th August at Tirumala with several devotees outside main complex. It failed to bring monsoon deficit in Telangana. It wiped out deficit in Andhra Pradesh. People in Uyyarivaripalem village of Nagaram mandal collected fish from rain fall in agricultural fields, with strong wind currents lifted he fish from ponds, lakes and carried them afar away. AP is with surplus 12% rain. Against normal rainfall o 344.1mm it registered 385.1mm rainfall. Rayalaseema continued to be with -38% deficit rainfall. Six washed away in flash floods in West Godavari district on Sunday. Hyderabad received 24.8mm rainfall with low lying areas submerged on Sunday.

VOLCANO 14th August 2015.

                   Cotopaxi volcano sent ash waves shooting more than 5km in the sky on Friday, 14th August, with a fine gray powder.

Geometry Algebra Science INDIA DANCE,
neuro-biology and Circuits.

                   Dt. 17th August 2015: Of Dance, Mathematics and Science lectures by demonstrations revealing how one connect dance with geometry and algebra presented by the Bharatanatyam exponent Rajeswari Sainath. She has done her PG in Management studies, after completing B.Com, and L.L.B. She was in Visakhapatnam and her recent discovery is the study of neuro-biology of dance and how neurological circuits affect the MRI scan.   
 
SANSKRIT OATH OF OFFICE
                  17th August 2015: Acharya Dev Vrat who became first Governor of Himachal Pradesh, took the oath of the office in Sanskrit which highlighted his Gurukul moorings. Himachal Sanskrit Academy in Shimla has no dearth of funds to foster the ancient language. A biannual research journal would be published jointly with the Himachal Pradesh University.

Flood warnings in UP, Bihar, WB and Assam
        A flood warning issued on 17th August to the four states, due to possibility of heavy rain for the next four days in the foot hills of Himalayas. Swelling of rivers Kosi, Gandak and Ghaghara tributaries of Ganga, and tributaries of Brahmaputra might flood the plains of North India.

IN MYANMAR
 
                        WMO report that Kyaukpyu in Rakhine State saw 86.9 mm of rain in 24 hours to 17 August 2015. OCHA figures also say that 1,152,490 people have been critically affected by the floods, which have left 15,239 houses destroyed.
18th August
          
              Last 24 hours East Godavari district received 32.4mm, Allavaram it rained 108.2mm, while Kotanandhur recorded only 0.1mm. In Konaseema the rice plantations were submerged in rainwater. In Vijayawada in the evening it rained heavily but in Krishna district  in the villages there was no rain at all. Guntur zillaha it rined heavily.  In Pedanandhipadu, Rompicherla, Nizapatnam and Karlepalm mandals 0.3mm it rained. Vijayanagaram it rained slightly, and in Srikakulam it rained scanty. In Chittoor Zillah Ramasamudram mandal tirumalareddi village the lightning struck an electric pole. Tirumala it rained slightly. Palamaneru it rained for one hour heavily. Cotton barrage achieved 3 feet  water level excess. In Badrachalamwaer level was 31 feet.     
 

TELUGU RASHTRA WATER RESOURCES
as on 20th August 2015.


 
 
 
ON A SINGLE DAY RAIN IN BHARAT
             On a single day it rained 74.5cm at Masinram on Wednesday, 19th August 2015, the highest record to date over the previous Chirpunji last three days 150cm and June total rain 478cm. Chirapunji (now known as Sohra) Wednesday 19th August 2015,  recorded only 47.17cm and for the June month it recorded 435cms. In 2005 it rained 40.77cm  in August at this place after that only the present record is highest.
 
19th August : Eight places of intense rain in Bharat
                  Meghalaya, Masinram:Masinram, Chirapunji, in Karnataka state Malgudi:Shimoga Zillaha, Tamil Nadu: Chinnakalar in Coimbattur, Kerala:Neriyamangalam in Ernakulum District, Maharashtra:Aboli,Uttarkhanda: Sitarganj, Odisha:Chandbali, WestBengal:Bhaksa in Jalayaguri Zillaha.
 
Thursday August 20, 2015. 
              Flash floods, triggered by heavy rains in the past few days, have affected nearly two lakh people in seven district of Assam. The Brahmaputra river is flowing above the danger mark in the state's Jorhat and Dibrugarh districts. The Western Disturbance can be seen over Jammu and Kashmir. The western end of the Monsoon trough continues to pass through the foothills of the Himalayas. Both these weather systems will bring good rains along the foothills of Punjab, Haryana and Delhi-NCR. The three hilly states will receive light scattered rains tomorrow.
 
21st August
 
                          There was intense heat wave in Visakhapatnam last four days that ended with an hour  intense rain shower on 20th August evening around 5.30PM but morning upto 1 0'çlock it was intense heat. Jiyymmavalasa, Gummagatt, Owk, Golnegandia, Brhamasamudram it rained 4cm. Settur Kunurpi, Ramagiri, Nandvaram, Parvatipurm, Cheepurplle, Garividi and Nandigama it rained 3cm each. Kandukur, Seethanagram, Paleru Bridge, Atmakur, Kambadur, Atmakur, Aspari, Kanekal, Rudravaram, Alur, Dharmavaram, Done  it rained 2cm each.

Friday August 21, 2015. 
             Flash floods and heavy rains have led to lakhs of people being affected in Assam, due to the rising waters of Saralbhanga River and other major tributaries of the Brahmaputra River, as the Indian Army has now launched major relief operations in Assam. 
 
              Rest of the country observed normal Monsoon conditions on Friday. August begins with plentiful rains in Delhi.  In span of 21 hours from 8:30 am on Friday 21st August, Bareilly recorded 52 mm of rain,   Nellore 64 mm, Port Blair 47 mm, Amritsar 31 mm, Gorakhpur 19 mm, Machilipatnam  33 mm, Kozhikode 21 mm, Goa 14 mm and  Honvar 16. Heavy rainfall in Nagpur led to unprecedented floods, affecting hundreds of families. Jamaat-e-Islami Hind Nagpur and MPJ surveyed the flood-hit areas like Godavari Nagar, Ganga Nagar, Suraj Nagar, Pili Nadi, Yashodhra Nagar, Eint Bhatta Chowk, Banjara Wandevi and Gulshan colony.Traffic entering from Madhya Pradesh has been disrupted as the connector Saunsar-kelvad road is water logged.

August 22, 08:15 AM (IST)

              Southwest Monsoon has been vigorous along the foothills of Uttar Pradesh and coastal parts of Andhra Pradesh,  Active Monsoon conditions have been persisting over West Bengal, Bihar, Kerala, Coastal Karnataka, Rayalseema, Punjab, Haryana, Delhi-NCR and entire Northeast India. Heavy showers were also observed over Lakshdweep Islands and Andaman and Nicobar Islands during last 24 hours.
HIMACHALA P
            Flash flood triggered by cloud burst reportedly killed four people, swept around half a dozen vehicles and damaged private and public property in Dharampur area of Mandi district in Himachal Pradesh on Saturday 22nd August wee hours.
 
23rd August
             The cyclonic circulation lying over West Bengal and adjoining Bangladesh is likely to organize and emerge over the Bay of Bengal. A low pressure area will develop over the Bay on or before August 25. With this the intensity of rainfall will reduce over Northeast India and gain strength over West Bengal, Odisha and adjoining areas. A trough from this circulation will extend up to Tamil Nadu, across Odisha and Andhra Pradesh. The off-shore trough is running along the West Coast. Under the influence of both the troughs, all the states of Peninsular India will receive good rains simultaneously. Rajasthan, Gujarat, Madhya Pradesh and Maharashtra will witness least weather activity on Sunday 23rd August.
 
 
IN BANGLADESH 

                           A cyclonic circulation is over the southern parts of Bangladesh and adjoining Bay of Bengal. Also, the axis of Monsoon trough is running close to the foothills. Both these systems together have caused heavy to very heavy rain in parts of Bangladesh. In the last 24 hours from 8:30 am on Thursday, 20th August. Rangamati observed a whopping 147 mm of rain, Syalhet received 128 mm of rain, Khepupara (103 mm), and Diazpur (71 mm). 

UNUSAL WEATHER AT VISAKHAPTNAM
           The evening of 22nd August 2015 around  6.30PM to 7.30PM, miniature flying insects swarmed the houses, revolving round the light bulbs and  on human bodies,  locally known as RAIN SWARM at Muralinagar, the place of stay of Dr. Lalitha Kumari, M.D (USA). During the night from 1.30AM to 3AM the weather became unusually hot, she was awake from 1.30AM to  2A.M, on 23rd August 2015 while myself had a cold water shower bath around 3A.M to ward off the heat over the body. Then only I could sleep, not knowing why the weather became so hot in the middle of the night! Morning I have noticed for the first time, a heavy due to  descending down, and persisted till 7AM. Winter obviously has set at Vizag!  

NASA's Aqua satellite
           
        It flew over Typhoon Goni on August 19 and the MODIS instrument captured this visible image of thick bands of thunderstorms surrounding the eye. Typhoon Goni slightly weakened on Saturday 22nd as it lashed the northern Philippines with strong rain and wind that set off landslides and flooded low-lying villages, leaving at least seven people dead and two others missing, officials said. The government's weather agency said the typhoon was at sea about 125 kilometres east of northern Calayan Island on the northern tip of the archipelago and is not expected to make landfall. It is packing maximum sustained winds of 160km/hour and gusts of up to 195kph. The slow-moving typhoon is forecast to start blowing away from the country on Sunday August 23rd, passing east of Taiwan and heading toward Okinawa, Japan, early next week.

MIGRATORY BIRDS IN DELHI

              Migratory birds have heralded the onset of winters in Delhi already. Thanks to heavy rains in July and August, popular birding habitats in the city and outskirts are flooded and lush green, inviting small flocks of winter touristy aviansVarieties of sandpipers, redshanks, ruffs, stints and gulls come all the way from Europe and Siberia usually arrive in the city in late September. However, this year, they have already made the Okhla Bird Sanctuary, Najafgarh lake, Basai wetlands and UP's Dhanauri Kalan and Dadri marshes their homes.

HEAVY RAINS

. Heavy rains bring traffic on Delhi-Gurgaon Expressway to standstill.

Itanagar, Aug 19

              Incessant rain in the past couple of days has caused many rivers in Lower Dibang Valley of Arunachal Pradesh to be in high spate and flow above the danger mark. Dambuk Additional Deputy Commissioner (ADC) Atul Tayeng said road communication to ADC headquarters Dambuk and Hunli sub-divisions in the district has been disrupted due to incessant rainfall. Dambuk is cut off from all sides, he said, adding, Dorung river is flowing above the danger level and has caused erosion at Anpum. The Hunli-Desali road is also cut off due to change in the course of Eze river which has eroded the approach road to the temporary bridge over the river. The road serves as lifeline to Hunli-Desali and Anini.

21 Aug National Highway-2:
             The lifeline of Manipur connecting it with Nagaland’s capital from the Southern Angami region has been cut off as incessant rains triggered massive .landslides.
22nd August Flood in Assam

 
 
Stranded in Morigaon district people and domesticated animals
 to be shifted to safer place.
 
                      Flood situation in  Assam worsened on Saturday, 22nd August with over 6.55lakh, affected in more than  1417 villages, across Dhemaji,  Kokrajhar, Chirang, Lakhimpur, Tinsukia, Dibrugarh, Bongaigaon, Sivasagar, Sonitpur, Barpeta, Jorhat, Goalpara, Morigaon, Dhubri, Kamrup, Golaghat and Darrang districts and till Friday evening over 5.76 lakh people were under swirling flood waters across 1,071 villages in 10 districts.  

                          In Visakhapatnam it was raining to-day 31st August at 3h30mPM with heavy thunder and subdued darkness of the covered sky with the rain clouds. It was raining here since last few days, especially evening time or the late afternoon for hardly a few minutes, bringing down the Sun’s heat considerably an escape from the morning or midday scorching Sun.  
SATURDAY 22nd AND SUNDAY 23rd August
 
                Saturday 22 and Sunday 23 it rained heavily in North Korea killing 40 people, and flash floods stranded thousands of people.  
 
AUGUST 23rd Peninsular rains in South India

                     August 23rd, In the last 24 hours, most parts of Peninsular India have received very good rainfall. Andaman and Nicobar Islands, coastal Andhra Pradesh, Rayalaseema, Tamil Nadu, Pondicherry, and south interior Karnataka received more than 100% of normal rains in last 24 hours. Good rains in the region have given way to pleasant weather conditions with temperatures settling at par or below the normal. Only Lakshadweep Islands, coastal Karnataka, and Telangana were the 3 sub-divisions in Peninsular India which received subdued rainfall activity. You may also like: Monsoon India 2015: Southwest Monsoon Forecast For September 01 Monsoon 2015: Latest update on Southwest Monsoon in India By the end of July, rainfall deficit for Peninsular India read 20%. But a marginal improvement was observed by August 22, when rainfall deficiency came down to 19%. But now, as per Skymet Meteorology Division in India, intensity of rain in the region is likely to reduce over many parts.
                                     
 
FLOODS IN ASSAM
      The flood situation in Assam showed signs of improvement on Wednesday 26th August, although more than 1.45 lakh people were hit by the natural calamity in over 300 villages across the state and 15 others have died.  flood report that over 1.45 lakh people were affected till now, in 317 villages across Dhemaji, Kokrajhar, Bongaigaon, Sonitpur, Barpeta, Goalpara, Morigaon, Dhubri, Golaghat, Udalguri and Cachar districts. Till Tuesday, nearly 2.6 lakh people were hit by the flood in over 500 villages across 11 districts. The worst hit is Goalpara district with over 63,000 persons affected due to the flood, followed by Morigaon with more than 33,000 people hit at present.. More than 15,000 hectares of crops are under water currently, the report mentioned. At present, Brahmaputra is flowing above the danger mark at Neamatighat in Jorhat district and Dhubri town,
 
ARUNACHALA PRADESH
                    Flood situation is grim in Namsai (at New Silatoo, Dharmapur, Lekang Gohain Gaon, Dirik Miri,  Ranjalibeel, Rajabeel, and Philobari under Lekang circle)   and Lohit districts of Arunachala Pradesh with rivers flowing above danger mark, due to continuous downpour during last couple  of days.   

                             Flood in Arunachala Pradesh
 
 
 MILD TREMORS FELT IN SRIKAKULAM
                 The tremors were felt in areas, Sompeta,  Vajrapukotturu, Kanchalli, Mandsa, Kasibugga and Palasa on Wednesday, 26th morning around 7h20m A.M to 7h25mA.M for about three to four seconds in Srikakulam District. Hardly, one second quake was also felt by the present author in Visakhapatnam, Maharanipeta residence.  

                               
                                          On August 25th

            The pattern seen in the photo of August 25th is typical Gravity Waves, a prior indication of the gravity disturbances of the region that occurred on the 26th morning around 7.20AM. Not always a pattern of this kind appearing in the sky results in the Earthquake, but phenomenal patterns are quite intriguing, many observed by the  author at Visakhapatnam. 

FLORIDA FLOODS ERIKA STORM

                  The governor of Florida declared a state of emergency Friday ahead of Tropical Storm Erika, which has killed at least 20 people as it rakes the Caribbean. Gov. Rick Scott said the storm constitutes a "severe threat." It is forecast to hit Florida on Monday 24th August, but it's not clear how strong the storm will be. "We've got concerns all across the state now because it's going to be coming clear across the state," Scott told reporters. He spoke soon after forecasters said ERIKA was likely to strike the southern tip of Florida before traveling north of Tampa. Erika may not be a tropical storm by then. The National Hurricane Centre said in a 5 p.m. Friday forecast that it is expected to weaken over the next 48 hours, and could be downgraded to a tropical depression by Saturday 29th August. The storm was bringing heavy rains and winds to the Dominican Republic and was 95 miles west-southwest of Santo Domingo, the Hurricane Centre  said. Maximum sustained winds were 50 mph.

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP)

                       Government leaders ordered schools, airports and even casinos to close and they prepared shelters as Tropical Storm Erika approached the eastern Caribbean on Wednesday, 26th August. The storm was located about 110 miles (175 km) east-southeast of Antigua and was moving west at 16 mph (26kph) with maximum sustained of 45 mph (75kph). The storm was not expected to strengthen over the next two days.
    
August 26 and 27th, 2015
    Gurgaon: The Badshahpur drain, owing to heavy rains, overflows and water spreads on to the service lanes on the either side and the main road, resulting in two to four feet deep water. 
VISAKHAPATNAM: 
                    It rained through out the day on 26th and 27th August. Weather was very cloudy on both days with minimal sunlight. There was  bright Sunlight on the morning of 28th August. Next three days till August 31st there was no rain but only hot morning weather, though on 31st around 3h30mPM it thundered but no rain and suffocation prevailed.

PRE-HISTORIC ISRAEL AND INDIA
            Stone utensils produced floor, groat meals and proto-pita used in Israel and other India Nations dates back to 12,500 years old. Once I have collected a stone pot of nearly one foot height with a diameter of half a foot generally used in ancient times for grinding.   

TWIN NEBULAE COLORED  26th August 2015    
 
 
                   These cosmic clouds are enormous jets of star stuff, streaming off into space at speeds in excess of 600,000 miles per hour. The two stars in this pair each have around the same mass as the Sun, ranging from 0.6 to 1.0 solar masses for the smaller star, and from 1.0 to 1.4 solar masses for its larger companion. The larger star is approaching the end of its days and has already ejected its outer layers of gas into space, whereas its partner is further evolved, and is a small white Dwarf. Within the wings, starting from the star system and extending horizontally outwards like veins are two faint blue patches. Although these may seem subtle in comparison to the nebula’s rainbow colours, these are actually violent twin jets streaming out into space, at speeds in excess of one million kilometres per hour. This is a phenomenon that is another consequence of the binary system at the heart of the nebula. These jets slowly change their orientation, precessing  across the lobes as they are pulled by the wayward gravity of the binary.
               An amalgam of ghostly greens, blues and reds burst forth from the centre of a bright white light, diamond-like in shape. The green emissions split off into opposite directions, forming two lobes shaped like butterfly wings. Inside, they house kaleidoscopic jet streams. As the lobes extend outwards into the vastness of space, the colours fade against the black. The Twin Jet Nebula, or cosmic butterfly, is the subject of a new photo captured by NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope. It lies in the Ophiuchus constellation and is 2,000 light-years away.
                 
EPILOGUE
         The author feels that the weather phenomenon world over during the week  from  Saturday 22nd to Friday 28th August is really peculiar with the sporadic Heavy Rains, Earthquakes, bird migrations, colossal human strikes, agitations, political up-heave's and  sporadic acts of animals indicative of world  order disturbance involving human life and as well of other living creatures. The week is particularly significant of the world-wide disturbance of unprecedented nature.
 

USA DROUGHT 2015

                     Dt.31st August 2015:  OKIEVILLE, Calif. (AP): People living in this dusty neighborhood called Okieville at the heart of California's Central Valley know the harsh reality of drought. Many of their wells have dried up, so some neighbors rig lines from house to house to share water from the remaining wells deep enough to hit water. Others benefit from state drought relief that pays for trucked-in water to fill tanks. Miles of the nation's most productive farms surround Okieville, a neighbourhood of about 100 homes named for refugees who came west from Oklahoma during the 1930s Dust Bowl, but many residents come home at night after working in the fields and wonder if they'll be able to take a shower or flush their toilet. Despite these challenges, people in Okieville are proud to call it home. Rather than moving out, they're coming together.

WATER DEPLETION AT 26 Villages of Northern Barrow

               More than 3.5 trillion tons of water have melted off of Alaska's glaciers since 1959, when Alaska first became a state, studies show, enough to fill more than 1 billion Olympic-sized pools. The crucial, coast-hugging sea ice that protects villages from storms and makes hunting easier is dwindling in summer and is now absent each year a month longer than it was in the 1970s, other studies find. The Army Corps of Engineers identified 26 villages where erosion linked to sea ice loss threatens the communities' very existence. Permafrost is thawing more often as the ground warms, so as the ground oozes, roads, pipelines and houses' foundations tilt and shift, sometimes enough to cause homes to be abandoned. In far northern Barrow, the upper part of the ground is 7 degrees warmer than it was in the late 1950s and getting closer to the melt point in the summer, data shows. And scientists fear the thawing permafrost will unleash large amounts of trapped greenhouse gases and speed up worldwide warming.

NEWS OF FOUND SCULPTURES ANCIENT
                         
                      Dating back to 4th Century at Ameraswaralaya temple tower, known as Gali Gopuram, along with Marble (Pala rai) carvings of Darma Chakra and related Sculptures,  in Amaravathi place of new capital city of Andhra Pradesh,
 
 
The India sculptures of Lord Shiva
and the latter Buddhist sculptures


 31st August
                In Visakhapatnam  to-day 31st August at 3h30mPM with heavy thunder, but no rain and subdued darkness of the covered sky with the rain clouds.  Last five days from 28th to 31st no rain at all in Visakhapatnam. 
 

ACKNOWLEDGEMENT
                       The author is indebted to Late Prof. K. R. Rao D.Sc. (Madras) D. Sc. (London) for his generous advice and guidance at Andhra University, Waltair. I stay in the house Narasima Ashram, 17-11-10, Official Colony, Maharanipeta. P.O., Visakhapatnam - 530002 built by him and his wife during 1932 to 1942, in succession, partly given to me and my brother Late K. Amarnath, Engineer Civil with Andhra Pradesh, at Visakhapatnam.
 
 

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