Tuesday, December 15, 2015

December 1 to 15, 2015 World Events

Volume 2015, Issue No. 12a, Dated: 1 to 15 December 2015, Time: 5:47 A. M

December 1 to 15, 2015 World Events

Professor Dr. Kotcherlakota Lakshmi Narayana,
(Retd. Prof. of Physics, Shivaji University, Kolhapur - 416004)
Res: 17-11-10, Narasimha Ashram, Official Colony,
Maharanipeta. P. O., Visakhapatnam-530002, A.P. 
Mobile: 09491902867.
ABSTRACT
                       The cyclone hat has hit Tamil Nadu was a severe perfect storm of unusual version, and continued to rain from Nov 24 to Nov 30 normally, but on Dec 1 and 2 it recorded maximum down pour unprecedented in the last 100 years. NASA report. 3 December 2015 at  22:13 GMT : Mount Etna, the volcano on the Italian island of Sicily, has erupted in spectacular fashion.   North India is shivering under fall of temperatures less than the usual in this season, with foggy weather and cold winds.  Abinavagupta wrote volumes, on Tantralok, Partintrika Vivran, Paramarthsaar, Tantrasaar, Geetarthasangrata etc. He retired to a cave at the age of seventy on January 4, 1016 and died there. The cave still exists at Bhairav Gufa. He inspired the ancient spiritual and cultural heritage of Kashmir. India on Thursday cleared a $14.7 billion Japanese proposal to build its first bullet train line, one of the country’s biggest foreign investments in its infrastructure sector. Japan had offered to finance 80% of the cost of the train linking financial capital Mumbai with Ahmedabad.  Delhi experienced 6C. The air with humidity is about 85% to 40% fluctuating. Jammu and Kashmir temperature is -12C, and Leh on Sunday night recorded -12.2C. Kargil recorded -12.1C. Hishar in Haryana, recorded less by 3.4C. Chandigarh, Amritsar recorded 3.2C. Jaipur recorded 5.4C. Due to foggy weather many trains are unable to keep up scheduled times of arrivals and departures. Havara-Srinagar train delayed by 9.20h. Thansukhi-Lalgad train 5.25h late running. Pluto in colours photo by New Horizons, Mountains, Sand Dunes, and Glaciers visible clearly.
                               
          Words:  World Events, Mount Etna, Abinavagupta, Bhairav Gufa.    
INTRODUCTION
        The fortnight seems to be a hell of  world wide wrecks due to rains and unforeseen floods. Worst was at Chennai and its suburbs. So also to certain extent in Andhra Pradesh.

 RAINS IN CHENNAI AND ANDHRA

               Nellore and Chittoor under heavy rain fall on Tuesday 1 December 2015, with hundreds of villages marooned in floods waters. Temple town of Tirumala again badly hit by incessant rains since the 1 December morning. High alert sounded in Naidupeta, Gudur, Kota, Chillakuru and Venkatagiri mandals in Nellore following 9-10 cm rainfall in the last 12 hours. Kavali and Gudur towns were the worst affected.

                  Heavy rains battered Tamil Nadu on 1 December, with several parts in Chennai, with possible rain showers next four days. Pondcherry and its suburbs continued to be lashed by heavy rains, since Monday 39 November night, recorded 15.2 cm rain in 24 hours. 
Fig.1 on 07 12 2015 at 5h 44m AM Moon 
with the two planets of Earth

   
Fig.1a 07 12 2015 at 5h 45m AM Moon with two Planets

                                Fig.2  on 7 12 2015 at 10h 45m AM The Hindu Newspaper.
                    The cyclone hat has hit Tamil Nadu was a severe perfect storm of unusual version, and continued to rain from Nov 24 to Nov 30 normally, but on Dec 1 and 2 it recorded maximum down pour unprecedented in the last 100 years. NASA report.
Fig.3. Flood waters of Chennai on Friday
                  Reports say there has been no rain in Chennai on Friday 4, Dec 2015 morning and water levels are receding in some parts of the city.

 8 December 2015
        Large parts of the city remain without power, including hospitals.Vast swathes of the southern metropolitan city of Chennai in India are affected by heavy flooding following incessant rains over the last three weeks. Flooded rail tracks and airport runways have halted train and flight services. Thousands of citizens remain stranded on rooftops and a large portion of a major arterial road has caved in due to water-logging. While educational institutions remain closed, Indian Army personnel have been pressed to service for rescue and relief operations. Large parts of the city remain without power, including hospitals.
        Chennaiites, battling to pick up pieces of their lives after an unprecedented deluge caused death and destruction, have seen everything from panic-mongering on WhatsApp to apathy of government officials in the past one month. While people were deprived of essential commodities like milk and clean drinking water, a service that continued unaffected was of liquor supply.  According to  The News Minute, liquor shops in Nungambakkam, Choolaimedu, Anna Nagar and Arumbakkam have been functioning from 11am to 10pm for the past week. Vast swathes of the southern metropolitan city of Chennai in India are affected by heavy flooding following incessant rains over the last three weeks. Flooded rail tracks and airport runways have halted train and flight services. Thousands of citizens remain stranded on rooftops and a large portion of a major arterial road has caved in due to water-logging. While educational institutions remain closed, Indian Army personnel have been pressed to service for rescue and relief operations.

                          From November 24 to November 30, the city Chennai experienced minimal rainfall, the out flows from the reservoirs were limited. Official  of PWD  asserted inflow of 31,000 cusecs resulted in the high flow of 29,000 cusecs from the  reservoir on December 1. NASA reported the heavy rain fall was on the two days December 1 and 2. 
                                                     Fig.4    TWO DAYS AGO 8 December 2015
                                                         Fig.4a Chennai flood
   

CNN senior Meteorologist Report: Dec 2, 2015: at 18 h 37 m GMT(0237 HKT):

El Nino leads to boom hurricane season in Pacific, busts in Atlantic

MOUNT ETNA IN ITALY
                    3 December 2015 Last updated at 22:13 GMT : Mount Etna, the volcano on the Italian island of Sicily, has erupted in spectacular fashion.  Etna sent a plume of fire and ash into the  sky, several  kilometres high. The eruption caused  the closure of the nearest airport on the Italian mainland and left several villages covered in a thick layer of ash.

KASHMIR PHILOSOPHER ABINAVGUPTA
              He was a 10-11 century Shaivite Scholar and literary critic from Kashmir, studied under 19 teachers, learning grammar from his father Narasimhagupta. Authored about 50 books and wrote volumes on Tantralok, Partintrika Vivran, Paramarthsaar, Tantrasaar, Geetarthasangrata etc. He retired to a cave at the age of seventy on January 4, 1016 and died there. The cave still exists at Bhairav Gufa. He inspired the ancient spiritual and cultural heritage of Kashmir.
                     
Quake hits Tajikistan
          Tremors felt in North India, Kashmir also in Delhi, around 1h 20m PM  (IST) of the 7.0 R magnitude Earth Quake that struck at the Central Asian country of Tajikistan on Monday 7 December 2015. The depth of the quake was 25 km.  
  
Thin Power Paper developed that stores Energy
           A nano-cellulose paper and a conducting polymer, with one sheet 15 cm in diameter, and a few tenths of millimeter thick can store energy, similar to super capacitors. It has three dimensions. It was produced using simple materials, renewable cellulose, and an easily available polymer. It is light in weight, water proof, requires no dangerous chemicals or heavy meals. The material can be recharged hundreds of times claims, Professor Organic Electronics, at Linkoping University Sweden, said Xavier Crispin.  

Storm Desmond: Floods, power shortage hit North-West England

CNN: 151GMT (2311HKT) Dec 7, 2015
          Strong winds and heavy rains brought by Atlantic storm Desmond have hit normal life in parts of the United Kingdom and Ireland since Dec. 5, 2015. Several rivers in Scotland, Wales, England, and northern Ireland have reached record levels, and the Met Office has issued flood warnings in more than 60 areas. Gusts of wind reaching a speed of 85 mph (136.9 kph) were recorded in Wales, while 1,000 people were evacuated from Hawick at the Scottish borders as River Teviot breached its banks. Flooding has also disrupted power, train services, forced closure of roads, and caused landslides. Storm Desmond dumped record levels of rain on northern England and Scotland over the weekend, flooding areas of Cumbria and Lancashire counties and prompting authorities to call in the armed forces to help evacuate people. The waters inundated neighbourhoods, train lines and sports grounds, and knocked out electricity to more than 60,000 homes. Record rainfall hit northern England and Scotland, flooding some 2,000 homes. The area got a month's worth of rainfall in a day. 1:54am IST - 01:07: At least two people have died and hundreds made homeless by some of the worst flooding to hit northern England and Scotland in decades. Prime Minister David Cameron says the government is doing all it can to help ease the crisis.

DECEMBER 9, 2015

                                              Fig.5  Munt Etna spews on Monday 7, Dec 2015.

     Italy's Mount Etn, which is Europe's tallest and most active volcano, spews lava as it erupts on the  southern island of Sicily on Monday, 7, Dec, 2015.

CHILLY WEATHER IN VISAKAPATNAM
              Last two am feeling biting cold and today, 9 Dec 2015 I wore a double cloth to protect from the chill. Sun shine very much subdued due to the chill weather.

AHMEDABAD: After the first excavations at PM Narendra Modi's hometown Vadnagar threw up enough evidence of ancient trading activities to put it on the Indo-Roman trade route, Archaeological Survey of India (ASI) officials will begin their second season there from Tuesday. This time the focus is to ascertain the town's importance as an international trade centre in the first millennium.

           The town is also important due to its connection with Chinese traveller Hiuen Tsang (Xu angzang) who recorded witnessing around 1,000 monks of the Sammitiya School in 10 monasteries during his visit to Vadnagar in 641AD.  Jinping was also presented a drawing of a Buddhist monastery excavated by state archaeology department near the Ghaskol Darwaja area of the town.       

       Officials said that their prime motivation for the excavations has been to establish the ancient town as a sthala pattana (land port), an important location on ancient trade routes such as the Silk Route and chronicle its history which dates back to at least the 1st century AD also found antiquities dating back to the 2nd century BC, the 2nd century AD at Babano Tekro and 1,200-year-old structural remains at the Kirti Toran area. It is seen in ancient cities that monasteries flourished near thriving hubs and trade routes. The first excavations had encouraging results regarding the town's trading activities that could put it on the Indo-Roman trade route. She, Archaeologist, said their focus will be on the Kirti Toran and Babano Tekro sites. At both places, they found structures underground through satellite imagery which they want to explore further. "The project would provide a chronological setup of Vadnagar from the 1st century AD and earlier. Artefacts could also throw light on trading goods and settlements," she said. 


                                            Fig.6 Kashmir village women preparing mat
                                                      for winter protection  year:2015
 

                  Kashmir women weave a traditional mat on the outskirts of  Srinagar on Tuesday, 8 Dec 2015. Kashmiris are stocking supplies for themselves and their cattle to face the bitter on coming winter.

J and K tourists can now  fly high

       For the first time snowbound places of Phalgam and Sonmarg will see activities like heli-skiing, snow sculpting, snow boarding and on snow-sports. It  only costs Rs.12000/- to Pahalgam, while sortie for Gulmarg costs Rs.10000/-. 

 INDIA AND JAPAN BULLET TRAIN

                India on Thursday cleared a $14.7 billion Japanese proposal to build its first bullet train line, one of the country’s biggest foreign investments in its infrastructure sector. Japan had offered to finance 80% of the cost of the train linking financial capital Mumbai with Ahmedabad, the commercial centre of Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s home state of Gujarat, at an interest rate of less than 1%. Japan’s International Cooperation Agency completed a feasibility study in July on the 505-km Mumbai-Ahmedabad corridor offering to cut travel time to two hours from the current seven to eight hours. French and Spanish firms are also conducting studies into building two of the routes in a quadrilateral of high-speed train lines criss-crossing the country that would drastically reduce travel times.

DELHI POLLUTION MEASURE
Fig.7 Delhi pollution on 10 December 2015
more than Beijing in China.
                Delhi’s PM 2.5 concentration exceeded 250 µg/m³ thrice over the last week, placing it under ‘severe’ category. The ‘severe’ rating means the PM 2.5 concentration is so high that it might affect healthy people and seriously impact those with existing diseases. PM 2.5 are fine particulate matter found in the air with a diameter of 2.5 micrometres or less and are known to pose the greatest risk to human beings.

    Fig.8 The Lammasingi  in the Eastern Ghats
    in the Dec 10, Agency area of Visakhapatnam
    temperature drops to zero

Fig.9 Lammasingi a tribal women braving 
the winter chilli on Eastern Ghats, in Agency area. 

                   Kashmir valley of Andhra Pradesh, located in the tribal village, of Visakhapatnam. Four years ago, on January 15, 2012, due to weather condition it recorded zero degrees temperature. Now it is about 1.5 to 1 deg C.Associated Press

December 09, 2015 9:06 AM

 Magnitude-7.2 earthquake hits Tajikistan: Posted 07 Dec 2015 16:52
07 Dec 2015 17:38
NEW DELHI/ALMATY: An earthquake measuring 7.2 magnitude struck 109 km west of Murghob in Tajikistan on Monday (Dec 7), shaking buildings as far away as the Indian capital of New Delhi and in Pakistan, the US Geological Survey and witnesses said. A spokesman for Tajikistan's Emergencies Committee said it had no information so far on any casualties or damage from the quake. The quake did not affect Russian military bases in Tajikistan, RIA news agency reported, citing Russia's defence ministry. According to the USGS, the epicentre was located in a remote area some 345 km east of the capital Dushanbe. A Dushanbe resident told Reuters by telephone the quake had been felt in the capital, but described it as moderate. The quake was also felt in the capital of neighbouring Kyrgyzstan to the north, northern parts of Afghanistan to the south as well as nearby Pakistan. "I felt the windows moving and that only happens when there's an earthquake. The room was swinging," said Sara Seerat, a lawyer in Pakistan's capital Islamabad, where workers voluntarily evacuated office buildings.

JAKARTA, INDONESIA
 12 Dec 2015
A strong earthquake struck off the coast of eastern Indonesia on Wednesday, causing panic among residents but no destructive tsunami. The U.S. Geological Survey said the magnitude-6.9 quake hit 106 kilometers (66 miles) southeast of Amahai, a town on Seram, the biggest island in Maluku province.It said the quake was centered in the Banda Sea at a depth of 33.9 kilometers (21 miles). Wahyu, an official in Indonesia's Meterology, Geophysics and Climatology Agency, said there was no danger of a tsunami. The quake was felt in Banda Neira and in Maluku's capital, Ambon, said Wahyu, who like many Indonesians uses a single name. Marzuki, a hotel employee in Banda Neira on Banda Island, about 2,600 kilometers (1,615 miles) east of Jakarta, said residents and hotel guests rushed out into the streets in panic. “They ran to higher areas, some screaming `tsunami, tsunami,”' Marzuki said.Indonesia is prone to earthquakes due to its location on the Pacific “Ring of Fire,” an arc of volcanoes and fault lines in the Pacific Basin. 

UTTARAKHAND
14 Dec 2015
            Shimla: Most parts of Himachal Pradesh shivered under piercing cold wave conditions as high altitude tribal areas and other higher ranges received another spell of moderate snowfall and foggy conditions prevailed in mid and lower hills.  
Fig. 10   Snow fall in Shimla
           The icy march of winter is knocking on Uttarakhand's doors, with the higher reaches of the hill state set to receive 23 cm of snow and hail over the next three days, the meteorological department has predicted. There is also a possibility of avalanches in the interior parts of Uttarakhand. Met Department Director Vikram Singh told reporters that a strong western disturbance is moving towards the state, which would bring rain, hail and snow over the next three days. While the districts in the upper reaches like Uttarkashi, Pithoragarh, Chamoli and Rudraprayag might experience snow, sleet and hail, Dehradun, Haridwar, Udhamsingh Nagar, Pauri and Nainital will get their share of heavy to moderate downpour along with hail in some places. The mercury may dip by some five to six degrees.

VOLCANOE ETNA:

                  Volcanoes Today, 9 Dec 2015: Colima volcano, Turrialba, Etna. Wednesday Dec 09, 2015 14:00 PM | Ash emissions from NE crater. Ash emission from Etna's NE crater.

                             Fig.10 Snow Fall on Dec 11, 2015 Gulamarg 22" snow.

                                        Plains in Kashmir received first snow fall on Dec 11, Gulamarg recorded 22 inches.

Fig.11  Kashmir walk on now covered Mugal Road in Pir Panjal
                        Kashmir women walk on on the snow covered Mugal Road near Pir Panjal ranges in Shopian.
Fig.11 The Highest peaks of Himalayas 
India Soldiers safe guard
         
Fig.12 The Visakhapatnam Red
beach reflections, on Sunday, Dec.13, 2015
         The beach shows the red colour of the sky due to the dusty emissions from the volcanoes of Indonesia. I found a similar colouration of the sky, due to the disturbances in Indonesia volcanoes, even while I was in Kolhapur, MS, on SU campus, during 1966 to 2000.

LOW TEMPERATURES IN ANDHRA
                                   .  
Fig.13 Konaseema Heavy Fog on Monday 14 Dec 2015.

NORTH INDIA GRIPPING COLD             
          North India is shivering under fall of temperatures less than the usual in this season, with foggy weather and cold winds. Delhi experienced 6C. The air with humidity about  85% to 40% fluctuating. Jammu and Kashmir temperature is -12C, and Leh on Sunday night recorded -12.2C. Kargil recorded -12.1C. Hishar in Haryana, recorded less by 3.4C. Candigarh, Amrutsar recorded 3.2C. Jaipur recorded 5.4C. Due to foggy weather many trains are unable to keep up scheduled times of arrivals and departures. Havara-Srinagar train delayed by 9.20h. Thansukhi-Lalgad train 5.25h late running.


THE PLUTO IN COLOURS

                                      
Fig. 14 Pluto in colours photo by New Horizons 
Mountains, Sand Dunes, Glaciers visible clearly.
    
SBH CLEANTECH
            
              SBG Cleantech won the project, under the Jawaharlal Nehru National Solar Mission, at a bid of Rs. 4.63 per kilowatt-hour India has raised its 2022 solar energy target to 100 GW from 20GW. 

   Philippines Melor typhoon Dec 15, 2015                

           At least 4 killed as typhoon Melor leaves Philippines in dark :  AFP, Bulan, Philippines: Dec 15, 2015 13:14 IST: Tattered lanterns, festive lights and tin roofs littered towns in the central Philippines on Tuesday after typhoon Melor swept through, killing at least four people and leaving millions without power ahead of Christmas. the storm packing winds of 140 kph (87 mph) was about 40 km (25 mile) north-northeast of Romblon island early on Tuesday, moving west and weakening. "Melor will continue to weaken as it crosses the central Philippines into Tuesday," weather provider Accuweather said. "However, damaging wind gusts higher than 130 kph will target the rest of southern Luzon to Mindoro." Romblon residents reported heavy rain and strong winds from midnight. Power was cut as transmission lines and electric posts came down

15 December 2015
              There was no wind breeze in Visakhapatnam, but due to winter cool weather, people have not suffered much, in fact the loss of air and wind, went unnoticed.

 DARK MATTER DETECTOR 
                        The Large Underground Xenon (LUX) dark matter experiment, which operates nearly a mile underground at the Sanford Underground Research Facility (SURF) in the Black Hills of South Dakota, has already proven itself to be the most sensitive detector in the hunt for dark matter.  It is designed to identify the very rare occasions when a dark matter particle collides with a xenon atom inside the detector. These calibrations have deepened our understanding of the response of xenon to dark matter and to backgrounds.          
   
ACKNOWLEDGEMENT
           The author is indebted to Late Prof. K. R. Rao D.Sc.(Madras) D.Sc.(London) for his concern of Nature and eventualities that inspired the author, to monitor the awesome peculiarities of Nature. The research yielded lot of information on phenomenal events of changes of weather and the world over the peculiar happenings. I regard the fortnight of Dec 1-15 as something different, in respect of Global weather, fluctuations of heavy rain, unusual cold, and absence of rains in some places. 
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