My youngest son, who is six, has severe stomach cramps and diarrhoea. In the same year Tokyo also unveiled what was billed as the world's first wide-scale quake alert system, designed to give public utilities and citizens a few seconds advance notice before a tremor reaches them. It is important to consider the fact that Ibnat town, being located at the western edge of the wereda and at an altitude of around 2000 meters still part of the highlands which enjoy generally more favourable climatic conditions. Wildfire, deliberate burning - mostly to get pasture grasses regenerated and control animal exo-parasites like ticks, deforestation and bush clearing are major threats to the biodiversity of this unique ecosystem. The floods began in late July in the northwest after exceptionally heavy monsoon rains, expanding rivers that have since swamped eastern Punjab province and Sindh province in the south. Thus far, extreme cold weather conditions have been affecting Thailand since November this year and would likely to continue until mid-February of 2009. The e-mail from Marta Benavides came days after the first, devastating earthquake shook El Salvador on January 13. According to area-wise distribution, 46% area of the country received excess to normal rainfall, 35% deficient rainfall and 19% area received scanty rainfall between September 11 and 17. Because of the widespread public support it received, DEVELOPMENT AND PEACE is also eligible for $11.7 million in matching funds from the Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA). Around 15,000 people fled their homes on Manam Island off PNG's north coast after a series of volcanic explosions in late 2004. The temporary schools are located in the villages of Kareung Ateuh, Keude Unga and Cuenamprong, in the district of Aceh Jaya, and are currently one of the few educational facilities in these areas. But even with people on the ground, Myanmar currently suffers a shortage of the plastic sheeting that is needed get families out of the monsoonal downpours and under cover. Its deadliest eruption occurred in 1930 when more than 1,300 people were killed. Prices are expected to continue climbing as the cold wintery weather continues, JP Morgan Chase, the investment bank, said in its 2011 China Economic Outlook. Fung Wong will be the strongest tropical storm so far this year, and will strike along China's eastern and southern regions with heavy rain and strong winds, according to observatories in Fujian, Guangdong, Zhejiang and Jiangxi provinces. During past 24 hours fairly widespread rainfall with heavy to very heavy rainfall has occurred over Madhya Pradesh, Orissa and Vidarbha. Tharparker district lies in the Great Indian Desert and scattered rain fed agriculture is practiced in some parts. Heavy continuous monsoon rains have inundated the northern provinces of Pakistan. Located on the Eastern coast of Japan, the six nuclear power reactors at Daiichi are boiling water reactors (BWRs). Water purification tablets were distributed and the boiling of water only served as a short term solution. In addition, the heavy unseasonable rains in parts of the country in October and November have damaged crops and led to pre-harvest losses according to preliminary information from the field according to WFP report; this will further affect households' recovery from current acute food insecurity. In Zambia the unusually severe drought has caused severe food shortages. Mountainous terrain, cold weather, and damaged or collapsed infrastructure affect the delivery of humanitarian assistance. These temperatures are perceived as severe cold by the general population, who are used to much warmer weather, even at this time of the year. The OLF has pursued armed opposition since leaving the coalition government in 1993, and has been blamed for insecurity on the roads in eastern Haraghe, now vital for transportation of relief supplies into the Ogaden region. Since 1999, the combination of many causes and the severity of the summer droughts followed by unusually cold temperatures in autumn and then very heavy snowfalls and extremely low temperatures in winter, have given rise to the term multiple dzud", to describe this complex phenomenon.