Papua August 1 2011 earthquake : 2000 people living on Bam volcano island at ...

The video below gives an impression of how people are living on the Bam (Biem) Island . We apologize for the religious messages at the start of this video (we remain impartial), but also thank the Christian missionaries for their video for showing what life is like on this remote island. Copyright remains with the uploader on Youtube. Warning : Primitive living in this area of the world includes a not so friendly treatment of animals.  We warn animal lovers that a number of scenes are very cruel .

The main worry is of course the Biem Islands, the southernmost of the Shouten Islands. Bam is one of the most active volcanoes in Papua New Guinea. The island is located 55km NNE of the mouth of the Sepik River. Bam is oval shaped, 2.4 km x 1.6 km, and covers 6 sq km in area. There are two peaks. The NW peak is the volcano summit, and the SE peak is slightly lower, according to John Seach.

One of these, Brandon Buser, estimates that 2,000 people live there. As of 2008, the community on the island decided to convert to Christianity in the Biem language. If anyone has been on the island, it would be useful to know the building types used there, whether the traditional bamboo/wood hut, or whether volcanic rock is used. We now see using the below video, that the traditional wood hut is the most common.

Having now viewed the video of Brandon Buser and their family, we have seen that the building typologies are wooden with thatch or sheet roofs, which provides some form of flexibility for earthquake resistance. The single nature of the house that was built in 2008, looks to be built quite solidly, but also without many earthquake resistant procedures. Most of the buildings are built on wooden stilts. The wall was placed using a tilt-up procedure. The long supports for the verandahs also look reasonably unstable against lateral movement. As this area is remote and has a lot of volcanoes on a small area of 50 sq. km, we do not expect that the volcanic earthquakes are being followed by scientists.  The relation of the current heavy earthquake and a possible volcanic eruption is of course highly speculative. The main reasons to include an eruption scenario are the nearby volcano, the very shallow depth and the explosive character of some eruptions.

:  The small 2.4 x 1.6 km island of Bam is the summit of a mostly submerged volcano that is one of the more active in Papua New Guinea. Bam is the SE-most of the Schouten Islands, and lies off the coast of New Guinea, about 40 km NNE of the mouth of the Sepik River. A steep-walled summit crater that is 300 m wide and 180 m deep is the source of Bam’s recent eruptions, which have kept the upper half of the cone sparsely vegetated. A NE-trending landslide scarp extends across the upper part of the andesitic volcano from the SW coast, and a large submarine debris-avalanche deposits lies to the south and SW. The younger summit cone partially buries the eastern side of the collapse scarp. The epicenter is located in a remote off-shore area of the island.

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The gameplay is very simple, it’s only a matter of keeping your finger on the screen long enough for the helicopter , if you do not hit the roof or floor of the cave. Caves navigate the wind and twist in the various dips and sweeps, and the slightest touch will make you crash. As soon as it speeds up the game, you really need to keep your wits about you in order to avoid a collision.

Do not expect amazing graphics, you will be bitterly disappointed. But added to the developer, while continuing with the basic premise Extreme Helicopter , issues and different types of helicopters or a realistic standard. These do not change the gameplay, just type something else to do. If you are a complete nihilist, try the chat settings Nyan. Nyan Cat is a site where music is so sweet, cheerful and twee can handle only so long, the idea is in the session on the site is temporary and you can Tweet on time (I took 790 seconds) . There is even an Android game for them. For some reason the developers have included this in the game, “take a break from the intensity of the rest of the game available.” It’s weird, but children will love.

The theme song Nyan Cat hand, the music comes in the game as a flying rock track that is not too bad to be honest. They also have realistic sounds and noise of gas devastating helicopter crash when you finally hit the wall of the cave. This adds to the intensity of the game and is a beautiful effect.

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Extreme Helicopter has a real retro feel about it, and I got a nostalgic old fashioned Atari games like that. The game is obviously dated, and it is probably not enough to have fun in comparison to the plethora of high-resolution 3-D Android games on the market. But if the nostalgic look back at the history of video games, you have something that ticks the boxes.


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