Hurricanes typhoons and earthquakes more often adorn the daily headlines in the world but it turns out that the heat wave (heatwaves) either directly or indirectly also a lot of swallowing casualties as it did some last week in the European continent from Russia to reach Portugal that made temperatures rise very drastic and causing many deaths due to hyperthermia, crop failures, forest fires, blackouts of electricity connection due to the use of cooling air that's too rose to soften the asphalt highways and causing many traffic accidents. Even in Bryansk, Russia, the impact of the heatwave was the remains of radioactive particles from Chernobyl explosion in 1986 that was absorbed into the ground feared to be detached back to the air and can form an extremely harmful radioactive cloud.
Genesis Heatwave 2010
Not only has the European heat wave also occurred in Asia. In Japan resulted in at least 66 people were killed and 15,000 others hospitalised due to hyperthermia and attacks the brain (stroke). While in China, air temperature reaches 440C and caused tens of bus engines in Beijing suffered leaks to removing oil and burned. Even the Middle East also did not escape from the heat wave strikes this year, to the Assembly of the clergy in the United Arab Emirates issued a fatwa lets labour not to fast if temperatures are too hot.
(BMKG, Indonesia)
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