Eastern part of USA is traumatized by the wrath of mother nature. And nothing much the people can do except prepare for evacuation and off course-panics.
As it is, The impact of the disaster, could be worst than 9/11 and fire in California combined?
According to report, two days ago a rare earthquake of at least 5.9 magnitudes shook much of the American east coast, being felt as far as Canada and prompting the evacuation of buildings in Washington and New York City.
And on today news, US is also bracing for devastation as a large and dangerous storm roars towards the densely populated East Coast, including New York.
Hurricane Irene is forecast to become a lethal Category 4 storm with winds of 135 miles per hour by as early as Thursday, according to the US National Hurricane Center.
Some religious scholars even believed, the catastrophic Earthquakes and the Killer Hurricanes are send by God as punishment for whatever wrongdoing, the US had done to this planet.
You can call it a mitosis, but in this bizarre scenario...Many people will get hurt. And so much so, we pray God have mercy on the people of America.
You can call it a mitosis, but in this bizarre scenario...Many people will get hurt. And so much so, we pray God have mercy on the people of America.
Earthquakes
The US Geological Survey said the earthquake was half a mile deep and its epicenter was the bvillage of Mineral, close to the state capital Richmond. Tremors lasted for more than 20 seconds, sending people running from their houses and office buildings. - Parts of the White House, the US Capitol and the Pentagon were evacuated amid fears that Washington might be under terrorist attack. There were no initial reports of injuries or major structural damage. Some pinnacles were reported to have fallen off Washington’s National Cathedral, while flights at John F Kennedy International Airport in New York and Reagan National Airport in Washington were suspended.
- The quake was felt on the island of Martha’s Vineyard in Massachusetts, where President Barack Obama is on holiday. Obama was playing golf at the time and it was not immediately known whether he had detected the earth moving.
Tens of thousands of people were evacuated from buildings and mobile phone services jammed. The earthquake led to disruptions in air traffic, stooped trains and created traffic jams, leading to jibes from Americans on the West Coast who are more inured to seismic tremors.
Perhaps the most trauma occurred in Mineral itself. The quake stopped everything for hours. Schools closed. Coffee shops shut down. At the Food Lion, on the outskirts,
managers shooed reporters away but not before one employee said: "The whole floor was going up and down. It was crazy in there."
There were also tremors in Maryland, Pennsylvania, New York, New Jersey, Vermont, Rhode Island, North Carolina, South Carolina while one witness claimed to have felt it in Toronto, Canada. Earthquakes of such magnitude are very rare on America’s earth coast.
Hurricane Irene
Tourists have been fleeing from the storm's path through the Caribbean in recent days as Irene gained in strength, pummeling the Bahamas last night as a Category 3 monster.
- Evacuations have begun from the islands off North Carolina, near where the storm is predicted to make landfall on Saturday.
- President Barack Obama, holidaying on Martha's Vineyard off the East Coast, may also have to face evacuation depending on the storm's path.
- The US Navy on Thursday ordered all its ships in the huge port of Hampton Roads, Virginia, out to sea to weather the storm.
- On Thursday the NHC issued an alert for the entire US East Coast. Forecasters said they expected the eye to come close to Cape Hatteras, North Carolina early Saturday, then continue north over water toward the eastern edge of New York's Long Island on Sunday.
The storm carved a path through the Bahamas yesterday, destroying houses and flattening trees. Captain Stephen Russell, director of the country's National Emergency Management Agency, said he was getting "disturbing reports" from the two islands in the chain most affected, but that he was not yet able to get a full assessment.
"That can be devastating for some of those islands," Captain Russell said.
If Irene makes a direct landfall in the continental United States, it will be the first hurricane to hit there since Ike pounded Texas in 2008.
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