An earthquake with a magnitude of 7.0 shook parts of Northern California, temporarily forcing a tsunami warning that led to evacuations in some coastal areas of Northern California and the San Francisco Bay.
The heightened alert was issued late on Wednesday after the 725-meter-high volcano had two large eruptions earlier in the day, spewing a column of ash 3,000 metres into the sky.
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Several people are feared trapped under the rubble of collapsed buildings.
According to the USGS, tsunami waves as high as 1-3 meters are expected to hit Philippines.
Experiences of the disaster and its aftermath, and the meaning people take from them, have varied.
The epicentre, with a depth of 10 km, was initially determined to be at 23.1 degrees south latitude and 171.5 degrees east longitude.
Our approaches to disaster management education suffers from a complacency that is partly driven by the fact that government agencies are the prime movers and actors in the event of a disaster. Disaster education, as it stands today, is merely information and data in bits and pieces. The best way forward would be to transform the stagnant subject into a vibrant exercise in the art of living in consonance with nature.
Technology owes an apology to ecology. The final epitaph is: we have to live, generations after generations after us have to live, and, to live they have to breathe and we have to embark on a new paradigm for conserving the ecological balance. Man has gone through many revolutions throughout history. The revolution that daunts us at this juncture is not a social or political revolution but a revolution of our basic perception, indeed the perception of how we should live and effect a revolution of the future and beyond, a revolution to usher in a quantum shift of our mindset.
The water park is closed and under investigation.
