Under Pressure
Wednesday, 2. September 2009, 14:38:05
If the cap fits and the sky falls on you you won't get it off again easily.
The producers of a about schoolchildren murdered in last year's Sichuan earthquake were denied visas to attend their film’s opening in Beijing. Government pressure is keeping Professor Peter Kwong of New York’s City University out of the danger zone.
Talking of pressure:
The Chinese government has squelched 5,335 children in 7,000 classrooms in the May 2008 quake and imprisoned or harassed parents for demanding justice.
The badly desiged, shoddy construction could not possibly have anything to do with the government. So whilst they investigate themselves they feel it is for the best that grieviong mothers be given a distraction or shot.
Talking about shooting:
Kwong, Jon Alpert, Matthew O'Neill and others involved in the production were held up by local officials blocked its web site and repeatedly removed copies posted on the web for download.
Back to more crushing:
The New York Times quoted an e-mail from the producers saying that the visa problem "fits in with a pattern of what seems to be a complete commitment on the part of this Chinese government to crush any inquiry into the possibility of wrongful deaths during the earthquake in Sichuan."
My own impression is that if a building falls on your head the cap is going to fit very closely indeed.
WIDGETIZE
Weatherlawyer # 2. September 2009, 14:50
May I take it the large mag series took place when there was a failure of tornadoes?
Magnitude>6 List and Waveforms
D a t e Time (UTC) Location Dep Magni. T AGY R e g i o n
02Sep2009 07:55:00.0 7.8S 107.5E 60 MS=7.0 M*GSR JAWA,
INDONESIA 0936
02Sep2009 07:55:05.2 7.9S 106.6E 60 mb=7.1 *ROM JAWA,
INDONESIA 0915
02Sep2009 07:55:03.8 7.8S 107.3E 70 Mw=7.3 M*EMS JAWA,
INDONESIA 0823
02Sep2009 07:55:02.5 7.8S 107.3E 62 M =7.4 M*NEI JAWA,
INDONESIA 0809
28Aug2009 01:51:18.6 7.1S 123.5E630 mb=6.5 M*GSR BANDA
SEA 0404
28Aug2009 01:51:19.9 7.2S 123.4E633 Mw=6.8 M*EMS BANDA
SEA 0232
28Aug2009 01:51:19.9 7.1S 123.4E633 M =6.8 M*NEI BANDA
SEA 0210
17Aug2009 00:05:48.4 23.5N 123.8E 33 MS=6.8 M*GSR SOUTHWESTERN RYUKYU
ISLAND0132
17Aug2009 00:05:47.7 23.5N 123.5E 10 Mw=6.7 M*EMS SOUTHWESTERN RYUKYU
ISLAND0043
17Aug2009 00:05:47.5 23.5N 123.6E 10 M =6.7 M*NEI SOUTHWESTERN RYUKYU
ISLAND0024
16Aug2009 07:38:24.1 1.4S 99.7E 50 MS=6.8 M*GSR SOUTHERN SUMATERA,
INDONES0903
16Aug2009 07:38:26.1 1.4S 99.5E 50 Mw=6.9 M*EMS SOUTHERN SUMATERA,
INDONES0831
16Aug2009 07:38:26.4 1.4S 99.5E 50 M =7.0 M*NEI SOUTHERN SUMATERA,
INDONES0756
12Aug2009 22:48:53.0 32.9N 140.8E 90 mb=6.7 M*GSR SOUTH OF HONSHU,
JAPAN 0034
12Aug2009 22:48:58.6 32.8N 140.4E117 Mw=6.6 M*EMS SOUTH OF HONSHU,
JAPAN 2319
12Aug2009 22:48:56.4 32.8N 140.4E 96 M =6.7 M*NEI SOUTH OF HONSHU,
JAPAN 2305
10Aug2009 20:07:06.3 34.8N 138.5E 33 mb=6.8 M*GSR NEAR S. COAST OF
HONSHU, J2230
10Aug2009 19:55:37.6 14.0N 93.0E 33 MS=7.7 M*GSR ANDAMAN ISLANDS,
INDIA 2144
10Aug2009 19:55:36.3 14.2N 93.0E 10 Mw=7.6 M*EMS ANDAMAN ISLANDS,
INDIA 2026
10Aug2009 19:55:39.2 14.0N 92.9E 33 M =7.6 M*NEI ANDAMAN ISLANDS,
INDIA 2015
09Aug2009 10:55:24.8 30.8N 139.7E130 mb=7.0 M*ROM SOUTH OF HONSHU,
JAPAN 1151
09Aug2009 10:55:54.7 33.2N 138.2E300 mb=6.8 M*GSR SOUTH OF HONSHU,
JAPAN 1145
09Aug2009 10:55:55.9 33.1N 138.0E300 Mw=6.9 M*EMS SOUTH OF HONSHU,
JAPAN 1132
09Aug2009 10:55:56.4 33.1N 138.0E303 M =7.1 M*NEI SOUTH OF HONSHU,
JAPAN 1115
03Aug2009 17:59:57.4 29.4N 112.9W 10 MS=7.1 M*GSR GULF OF
CALIFORNIA 2058
03Aug2009 17:59:59.5 29.3N 112.8W 10 Mw=6.9 M*EMS GULF OF
CALIFORNIA 1907
03Aug2009 17:59:59.9 29.4N 112.8W 10 M =6.9 M*NEI GULF OF
CALIFORNIA 1826
15Jul2009 09:22:31.8 45.6S 166.7E 33 MS=7.6 M*GSR OFF W. COAST OF S.
ISLAND,1142
15Jul2009 09:22:32.8 45.7S 166.6E 35 M =7.8 M*NEI OFF W. COAST OF S.
ISLAND,1015
15Jul2009 09:22:30.5 45.7S 166.6E 2 Mw=7.7 M*EMS OFF W. COAST OF S.
ISLAND,0955
This is interesting:
01Jul2009 09:30:11.8 34.1N 25.4E 30 Mw=6.4 M*EMS
CRETE 1132
01Jul2009 09:30:11.8 34.4N 25.4E 33 MS=6.4 M*GSR
CRETE 1054
01Jul2009 09:30:12.9 34.2N 25.4E 40 Mw=6.7 M*EMS
CRETE 1048
01Jul2009 09:30:12.3 34.2N 25.4E 38 M =6.7 M*NEI
CRETE 0945
23Jun2009 14:19:21.4 5.1S 153.6E 65 MS=6.0 M*GSR NEW IRELAND REGION,
P.N.G.0629
23Jun2009 14:19:17.4 5.1S 153.5E 60 mb=5.9 M*GSR NEW IRELAND REGION,
P.N.G.0541
23Jun2009 14:19:17.6 5.2S 153.7E 65 M =5.5 M*NEI NEW IRELAND REGION,
P.N.G.1946
23Jun2009 14:19:17.5 5.1S 153.5E 60 MS=6.0 M*GSR NEW IRELAND REGION,
P.N.G.1632
23Jun2009 14:19:21.9 5.3S 153.4E 80 Mw=6.8 M*EMS NEW IRELAND REGION,
P.N.G.1454
23Jun2009 14:19:16.8 5.3S 153.4E 35 M =6.7 M*NEI NEW IRELAND REGION,
P.N.G.1440
28May2009 08:24:43.0 16.7N 86.4W 10 MS=7.3 M*GSR CARIBBEAN
SEA 1025
28May2009 08:24:44.4 16.6N 86.4W 2 Mw=7.3 M*EMS CARIBBEAN
SEA 0850
28May2009 08:24:45.7 16.8N 86.2W 10 M =7.1 M*NEI CARIBBEAN
SEA 0840
16Apr2009 14:57:03.7 60.4S 27.2W 10 Mw=6.7 M*EMS SOUTH SANDWICH
ISLANDS REG1723
16Apr2009 14:57:05.5 60.7S 27.3W 10 MS=7.0 M*GSR SOUTH SANDWICH
ISLANDS REG1707
16Apr2009 14:57:03.7 60.4S 27.2W 10 Mw=7.0 M*EMS SOUTH SANDWICH
ISLANDS REG1602
16Apr2009 14:57:05.2 60.3S 27.0W 10 M =6.5 M*NEI SOUTH SANDWICH
ISLANDS REG1514
07Apr2009 04:23:33.4 46.1N 151.6E 50 MS=7.0 M*GSR KURIL
ISLANDS 0558
07Apr2009 04:23:20.5 44.1N 153.8E 24 mb=6.6 M*ROM EAST OF KURIL
ISLANDS 0511
07Apr2009 04:23:32.6 46.1N 151.6E 40 Mw=7.0 M*EMS KURIL
ISLANDS 0509
07Apr2009 04:23:34.5 46.1N 151.4E 39 M =7.0 M*NEI KURIL
ISLANDS 0443
Last (automatic) Update: 2Sep2009 14:23 UTC / uk
http://www.seismo.ethz.ch/redpuma/redpuma_plus6_list.html
At least 15 people have been killed after a powerful earthquake struck near the Indonesian island of Java.
Dozens of properties collapsed in the city of Tasikmalaya on the west of the island and thousands of people have been evacuated, officials said.
The magnitude 7.0 quake also damaged buildings in the university city of Bandung, also close to the epicentre.
In the capital, Jakarta, 200km (120 miles) north, hundreds fled into the streets from offices and shops.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/asia-pacific/8233344.stm
Weatherlawyer # 5. September 2009, 14:12
Or should that be apparata?