Beiging earthquake

The death toll in China's major earthquake by 4820 to 60,560 as of noon today, according to the Information Office of the State Council. And injured 352,290 people and 26,221 missing in the quake measuring 8.0 on the Richter scale hit the southwestern Sichuan Province on May 12 was affected by a total of 45.5 million people in the quake, were evacuated nearly 14.4 million quake-affected people, according to the office. He said 27 aftershocks measuring magnitude 5 above, and four above magnitude 6, and as of Monday noon, 178 aftershocks were monitored power above 4 on the Richter scale struck in Sichuan, and among them, in the office. Sources and medical treatment of victims of the earthquake, nearly 290,000. Has been in the hospital a total of 75,086 injured victims after the earthquake. Among them, 40,644 have been discharged from hospitals 0.23864 are still in the hospital and transferred to other hospitals out of 4274 of Sichuan for treatment. And reached the domestic and foreign donations for earthquake survivors reached 26.1 billion yuan in cash and goods, up 1.5 billion yuan from the previous day. Of the total, transferred 3.68 billion yuan for disaster railway area.The whole Baoji - Chengdu, were damaged by the earthquake, the key road between the north and south in the west of China, linking Chengdu with Baoji city in neighboring Shaanxi Province, to open the Saturday after the passage of 283 hours of closure, allowing batch transport of disaster relief goods to Sichuan. Train carrying relief supplies are urgently needed tents and medicines passed through the railway tunnel No. 109 at 9:53 on Saturday morning, where a freight train of 40 vehicles off the tracks and was trapped, paralyzing the railway in the May 12 earthquake. Electricity was restored partially in 16 counties in Sichuan by Saturday noon, but the blackout was still two hardest hit counties (Beichuan and Lixian) out. Resumed services of telecommunications in all quake regions, except for Hongguang Town, Qingchuan. Hongguang residents were evacuated because of fears of possible further geological disasters.

meteorological department warning for sindh,balochistan fisherman

The sea condition would become rough to very rough on Friday and the fishermen who were in the open sea must return to the coast before it.
It stated that a well-marked low-pressure area in the eastern Arabian Sea was likely to intensify into a depression (strong weather system) on Wednesday evening/night. “The current sea surface temperature is (around 30 degrees centigrade) and other meteorological parameters are favourable for the development of a tropical cyclone on Thursday/ Friday,” it added.Officials said that as a result of this cyclonic activity the coastal areas of Balochistan and Sindh, including Karachi, would receive rain with thunderstorm by Friday.However, Met Department Director-General Arif Mehmood told Dawn that it was too early to forecast rain in Karachi or anywhere else due to this low-pressure area in the Arabian Sea.“So far it (the cyclone) is in the development process and we don’t know what will be its track and where it will go.”Although the direction of wind did not change on Tuesday and remained south-westerly with a speed of 12 knots, the city’s maximum temperature increased by two degrees compared to Monday’s maximum temperature of 37 degrees centigrade.The maximum temperature in the city was 39 degrees centigrade on Tuesday. The level of humidity, a measure of the amount of moisture in the air, also dropped to 38 per cent from Monday’s 57 per cent.The Met Office forecast hot and dry weather in Karachi on Wednesday with the maximum temperature ranging between 36 and 38 degrees centigrade.