News writing Assignment 1

Earthquake Story

ALEUTIAN ISLANDS- Earthquake shook three Aleutian Island fishing villages and strong earthquake hit Aleutian Islands at Sunday night.

Aleutian Islands earthquake hit at Sunday 7:01 p.m. George Carts said the quake was felt strongly in the towns of Unalaska, Dutch Harbor and Nikolski. These three fishing villages are located on western islands in the Aleutian chain. George Carts said, "There was some very minor damage at Nikolski, with items knocked off shelves and small items damaged."

The distance of the epicentre in the North Pacific about 40 miles east of the village of Nikolski whereas 850 miles southwest of Anchorage. There have 20 aftershocks and one measured 5.0 level of the earthquake on the scale. This level not powerful enough to cause a tsunami, officials said.

Alaska Tsunami Warning Center reported it measured has 6.6 level of earthquake on Richter scale. The earthquake of 6.6 magnitudes can cause severe damage if it hits populated areas. There have no reports of injuries or major damage.

Richter scale measures ground motion and is recorded on seismographs and each increase of one number means a tenfold increase in magnitude. For instance, 7.5 is 10 times greater than 6.5. Official categories: 3.5 can cause slight damage; 4, moderate damage; 5, considerable damage; 6, severe damage; 7, major earthquake, can cause widespread heavy damage; 8, great quake. After all, Aleutians are sparsely settled.           

News writing Assignment 1

Malaysia Green Forum 2010

PUTRAJAYA- Dato’ Sri Mohd Najib Bin Tun Haji Abdul Razak gave a speech on title of Malaysia Green Forum 2010 which the government with an opportunity to reaffirm its resounding commitment towards environmental sustainability in Malaysia.

The purpose of Malaysia Green Forum is to build an action-oriented network relate with environmental problems in a whole manner is certainly refreshing. The participation of senior government officials, industry captains, society leaders and academic profesionals from within and outside the country has drawn by MGF 2010. Malaysia consider as the richest biodiversity in the world, prized with 16 million hectares of tropical forest area.

Malaysia is earliest nations in the world which adopted a serious concern towards Environment Quality Act in 1974. Sustainability concept was an integral part of Third Malaysia Plan and before the idea of Sustainable Development was popularized in the late eighties by the Brundtland Report. Y.A.B Tun Abdullah Ahmad Badawi bought 14 agencies from 4 different ministries together when he established the Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment in 2004 that paved the way for a more detailed and cohesive way in settling environmental problems.

The government has constantly permitted its promises to environmental sustainability over the years and mortgage to continue this throughout administration. Dato’ Sri Mohd Najib Bin Tun Haji Abdul Razak announced the formation of the Ministry of Energy, Green Technology and Water after six day of taking office. Growing need and urgency of green technology towards sustainable development is still continues by the government to identify it. A technical arm called The National Green Technology Center also came to being through a restructuring exercise of the then Malaysia Energy Centre.

MGF 2010 has associated leaders and professionals from the very multiple backgrounds on platform where environmental problems can be dealt with the overall. The government is welcomes all the constructive creative ideas that could make this Malaysia greener and more sustainable.