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CHARAmSTICS OF THE DISASTER EVENT: Drought CHILE DATEcT1ME : 1968-1969 LOCATION: Country-wide, especially the Central Valley DAMAGES : 9 Agricultural losses were estimated at between 400 to 600 million escudos. Dollar equivalent of lower estimate is $55 million. About 300,000 sheep and 25,000 cattle died. DESCRIPTION OF THE DISASm Two years of drought in Chile resulted in a water shortage that had serious effects on industry, farms and politics. The following description of the cause and effect of the prolonged drought was given by David N. Belnap of the "Los Angeles Times" in an article datelined Santiago which appeared in the Sunday, March 16, 1969, "Washington Post". "Stretching for 600 miles between the 20th and 27th parallels of south latitude in Chile is the Atacama Desert, the driest place on earth, according to the National Geographic Society. "It is not a desert of shirting dunes but a hilly, dun-colored, treeless expanse in northern Chile, where the track of a jeep across the semihardpan surface remains sharply SA Countries reporting drought conditions in 1968-69 -99-
visible for years. It has a higher rate of evaporation than the Sahara or Gobi deserts. Rain has never fallen on large parts of it in recorded history. "For the past two years, weather typical of the Atacama Desert has been moving southward across Chile's bread basket-the rich, irrigated Central Valley which raises most of the country's food and where two-thirds of its 9.2 million citizens live. "The resulting drought, according to President Ehwd~ Frei in a recent speech, 'is perhaps the maJor natural catastrophe which the country has suffered in its economic history.' "Records preserved by the meteorological service of the Chilean Air Force show that 1968 was the driest of any of the last 119 years. Rainfall deficiet ranged from 100 percent across the northern edge of the drought zone to 52 percent at its southern extreme 300 miles south of this capital city. In Santiago Province, whose 550,000 irrigated acres make it Chile's leading agricultural province, rainfall was 2.75 inches last year--81 percent below normal. "To make matters worse, winter snowfall in the mountains, which ordinarily replenishes lakes and reservoirs as it melts in the spring, has been equally scarce. "Andean peaks a few miles east of here (Santiago), perpetually snow covered to a depth of 10 feet in normal times, are now naked and brown. Even the 'eternal snows1 of the Western Hemisphere's highest sumit, Mt. Aconcagua, near the Argentine frontier, are disappearing under the arid onslaught. "As yet the drought has cost no human lives, but it has provoked the death of animals and human hunger and caused problems ranging from minor inconveniences to major hardships for every sector of the national life. "There are an estimated 120,000 persons who receive all or part of their food through a government relief program." Some of the consequences of the drought besides the food shortage were: thousands of dead cattle and sheep; loss of animal weight; reduced agricultural productions; reduced or vanished incoine for thousands of farmers and farm workers;lower demands for consumer and industrial goods; and expense to the country for drought relief and for foreign exchange to buy imports needed to make up for internal shortages. ?he water shortage caused a drop in the generation of electricity. When finally the Las Ventanas themelectric power plant failed, it became necessary to ration electricity in the whole central valley both for private homes and industry. Because of this, Chile's largest copper. mines produced 30,000 less tons than the previous year, which meant a loss of more than $32 million in foreign exchange. Copper is Chile's main export. Unewloyment skyrocketed in the seasonal farm labor force. It also threatened
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4.5 million other vlctims. The case
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has been undertaken by Ghana, Nepal
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QUICK FACTS AND COMPAlusoNs Wer of
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FISCAL YEAR 1969 ClMJLA'I'rUE DISAS
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* Inccanplete or not reported. X un
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mCRIFTION OF ?HE DISASTER Several c
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damage. The 25,000 persons reported
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"We believe that the limited funds
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MALAGASY EVENT: DATE-TIME: Cyclone
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Overflow of Ikopa River on Tananari
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for this nso gesture of wendship wh
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3,500 pounds of oats, estimated ma.
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Estimated m et value of 15,000 metr
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gatherings were prohibited until mi
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MOROCCO CHARACTERISTICS OF THE DISA
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established for the fire victims by
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P. L. 480, Title 11, sorghum, value
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Large amounts of publicity and pmpa
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As this reporting period closes, th
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oth sides. This was acknowledged by
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The Resident Comnissioners were res
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Ambassador Ferguson in Biafra June
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The work of the kwashiorkor sickbay
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Since the beginning of the program
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Even though the end of the conflict
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donated by them wNch in most instan
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Page 136 and 137: distributed by Peruvlan voluntary a
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Page 141 and 142: Deaths in West Bengal were reported
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the ~nzlximwn length of an unsuppor
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Prime Minister Hoveyda flew to the
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Ministry of Land Reform and Rural C
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Comnts on Effectiveness of Iran's R
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The Ambassador asked GO1 representa
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U. S. Geological Survey The U. S. G
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Damage to Police Academy in Khezri
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P.L. 480 FOO~ - AID CARE - 97,000 p
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warnings should be sent with the te
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U, S, VOLUNTARY AGENCIES AND U'I'HE
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Ferdows, Kakh, Khezri, etc., were f
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Foreground - Ehglish Tent Backgroun
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Japan - Govemnt - cash Red Cross -
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International Organizations United
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CHARACTERISTICS OF THE DISASTER EVE
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in organizing relief activities. Me
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PAKISTAN CHARA-STICS EVENT: OF THE
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In Dinajpur town Breach of Dinaj pu
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This house in Gumnandi village betw
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organizing distribution of clothing
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Governments United Klngdm (114,300
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An ESSA Satellite Photo, April 14,
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CARE.also authorized local purchase
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several persons were injured frm sh
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mmsTICS OF THE DISASTER EYENT: Bush
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CHARACTERISTICS OF THE DISASTER EVE
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cHAFMmST1CS OF THE DISASTER E3ENT:
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Red Cross was able to carry out its
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CARE-Medico provided the services o
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warehouse in the Manila South Harbo
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(3iAFiAmsmCs OF THE DISASTER Emlc:
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A formal request for assistance was
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