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[1] From: "sanjeev nayyar" <exploreindia@vsnl.net> Date: Wed Oct 19, 2005 Subject: Re: [indiathinkersnet] 'Sania Mirza will change the world' Venkat hope the media leaves the kid alone, let her focus on the game. with prem sanjeev 'Sania Mirza will change the world' October 17, 2005 http://in.rediff.com/sports/2005/oct/17sania.htm ------------- [2] From: Hussain Hyder Ali Khowaja <hhalik@yahoo.com> Date: Wed Oct 19, 2005 Subject: IMP: Causes of Pakistani Earth Quake & Tsunami - Indian Plate slowly moving North Causes of Pakistani Earth Quake & Tsunami - Indian Plate slowly moving North The earth's continents rest upon large plates of rock that are slowly moving around the surface of the earth. For millions of years, the Indian subcontinent has been slowly moving north towards Europe and Asia (Eurasia). About 40-50 million years ago (mya), India slammed into Eurasia. Because both India and Eurasia were continents the Eurasia crust crumpled upwards, creating the Himalayan mountains. The leading edge of India was eventually forced underneath the continent in a process geologists call subduction. This movement is still happening today. However, as India continues to move slowly north, it gets hung up and energy builds. When enough energy builds up, there are short bursts of movement, releasing this massive energy and shaking and buckling the ground in what we call an earthquake. http://classic.mountainzone.com/everest/graphics/s-map.gif The Indian plate is being forced northward under the Asian continent. The resulting earthquakes -- among the most destructive on the planet -- formed the Himalay. The region has a long history of seismic activity because it is located on the Indian plate, a piece of the earth's crust moving north at the rate of some 40 millimeters per year. As the plate collides into and slips under the massive Eurasian plate to the north, it lifts the world's highest mountain ranges, the Himalayas, even higher. But major fault lines exist at the plate's edge, where sudden jolts have wreaked massive devastation. The 9.0 magnitude quake that caused the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami occurred on the sea floor, where the India plate rubs against the Burma plate. http://www.eas.purdue.edu/~braile/edumod/platepuzz/platepuzz_files/image007.jpg http://www.earthquakes.bgs.ac.uk/pakistan_08102005.htm SEISMIC ALERT: PAKISTAN 8 OCTOBER 2005 03:50 UTC 7.6 MW DATE : 08 October 2005 ORIGIN TIME : 03:50 38s UTC LAT/LONG : 34.43?° North / 73.54?° East DEPTH : 10 km MAGNITUDE : 7.6 Mw LOCALITY : Northern Pakistan, (95 km NNE of Islamabad) Latest reports indicate that at least 30,000 people may have been killed in Pakistan. Extensive damage has occurred throughout Kashmir and other northern areas. Numerous towns have been severely affected and some villages completely destroyed. This earthquake has had an impact on Pakistan, northern India and parts of Afghanistan. Above: Map showing the seismicity of Northern Pakistan (magnitudes above 6.0) since 1896. This earthquake occurred as a result of the collision of the Indian sub-continent with Eurasia. India is moving north at a rate of around 4 cm/year. The collision causes compression and uplift, forming the Himalaya, Karakoram and Hindu Kush mountain ranges. Compression is also accommodated by slip on a number of major thrust fault zones, resulting in earthquakes over a wide area along the collision zone. The earthquake on 8 October probably occurred on one of these thrust faults. Large destructive earthquakes have struck Kashmir in the past. In 1905, an earthquake on the Kashmir-India border region killed 19,000 people. More recently, a magnitude 6.3 earthquake in 1981 in northwest Kashmir killed over 200 people. Pakistan??™s most damaging earthquake occurred near the city of Quetta in 1935, killing 30,000 people. Above: Map showing aftershocks recorded since the main event of 8 October 2005.Above: Seismograms of the Pakistan earthquake of 8 October 2005 as recorded on BGS seismometers. On land, a 5.8 magnitude quake in northern Afghanistan's Hindu Kush mountains in 2002 killed about 700 people, and in western India in 2001, a 7.6 magnitude earthquake killed at least 11,000 people in Gujarat. US Geologic Survey image shows the approximate epicenter of the October 8 quake in PakistanMassive quakes on the Indian subcontinent were also reported in 1935, when some 35,000 people were estimated killed in a tremor in western Pakistan; and in 1905, when nearly 20,000 died in a 7.9 magnitude quake in northern India. An earthquake's magnitude indicates how much energy it releases, but other factors affect the extent of its devastation, including where tremors strike, the type of terrain around them, and how deep within the earth they occur. In 1974, a magnitude 6.2 earthquake in the same region as Saturday's tremor killed more than 5,000 people. Some seismologists say because Saturday's magnitude 7.6 quake appears to have been very shallow, with much of the violent activity occurring near the earth's surface, it could be more damaging compared to other quakes of similar magnitude. regards Hussain Hyder Ali Khowaja URL: www.hhalik.cjb.net Email: hhalik@... Cellular: 0044 (0) 7951 434197 -------------------- [3] From: Sukla Sen <suklasen@yahoo.com> Date: Wed Oct 19, 2005 Subject: Sandeep Pandey on July 18 Indo-US Nuclear Deal s STATEMENT CONDEMNATION OF INDIA-US NUCLEAR DEAL We are concerned about the July 2005 agreement announced by President George Bush and Prime Minister Manmohan Singh that promises United States support to the nuclear power programme in India. This support includes an unprecedented committment by President Bush to change US laws and international practices in place for over 30 years to restrict the spread of nuclear weapons, and a pledge by Prime Minister Singh to identify civilian nuclear facilities in India and permit them to be inspected by the International Atomic Energy Agency. This agreement, which has grave consequences for the international community and the people of India was presented by President Bush and Prime Minister Singh without any democratic debate. There were no consultations on this agreement with the US Congress, the Indian Parliament, the United Nations or International Atomic Energy Agency. We are opposed to this agreement because we believe it is bad for the people of India, and bad for the international community, especially the urgent efforts to halt the spread of nuclear weapons and to achieve nuclear disarmament. Nuclear power has been costly and dangerous for the people of India, and has undermined our democracy. This agreement promises to make all these problems worse. In India, nuclear power is more expensive than other sources of electricity. The nuclear power programme has been dangerous for the health of both workers and local communities and the environment. India does not yet have a system in place for safe radioactive waste disposal. A bigger power programme would mean bigger waste production. For a thickly populated country like India, where majority of the people live in poverty, the waste will become a liability for the country. Since its inception in 1948, India's nuclear programme has been outside the democratic process, in part because of its deep ties to the nuclear weapons programme. The deal will add international and commercial pressures and further limit public debate and democratic oversight on the nuclear programme. More broadly, this agreement takes India backwards into the future. Nuclear power has been rejected by the overwhelming majority of countries in the world. Most countries in the world have no nuclear reactors at all. A number of countries with nuclear energy have changed their minds. Germany, and some other countries, have decided to phase-out their nuclear power programmes, and no new nuclear reactor has been built in the United States for several decades because of concerns over cost and safety. Nuclear power is expanding only in countries where democratic processes are weak, where sound economics has been ignored and environmental concerns marginalised. Instead of going for nuclear power India must invest in renewable energy alternatives which are environmentally clean. It is a well known fact that nuclear power technology or the so called ???atoms for peace??™ programme promotes nuclear proliferation. It is quite likely that the growth of nuclear power programme in India will result in an expansion of nuclear weapons capablities in India. Under the deal, India can dedicate all its scarce supply of domestic uranium to nuclear weapons and not have to use most of it for fuel in its nuclear power reactors to make electricity. India would no longer be stopped from buying this fuel from the international uranium market. A rapidly growing and much larger Indian nuclear weapons programme is bad for India and for South Asia. It has already started a race. Pakistan has become concerned and the military government of General Perevez Musharraf has asked the US to make the same deal. If Pakistan cannot get this support from the US, it will look elsewhere. The deal does nothing but worsen relations between the two countries which have had a history of years of enmity and serious engagement in arms racing and war. The need is to encourage the two states to talk to each other and agree on confidence building measures to ensure permanent peace and stability in the South Asian region, not to expand their competition in military and nuclear capacity. The international community has long recognised the need to stop the spread of nuclear weapons and abolish them. States should do nothing to erode or reverse this important committment, which is vital for peace and security. The US-India deal will add to the problem of nuclear weapons and is not part of the solution. We urge the governments of India and US to abandon their nuclear deal and instead engage in more meaningful efforts to achieve global nuclear disarmament. Sandeep Pandey National Convenor, National Alliance of People??™s Movements, India A-893, Indira Nagar, Lucknow-226016, U.P., India, Telephone: 91-522-2347365, Mobile: 91-9415022772, e-mail: ashaashram@... |
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