The Cure House of Louisville, Ky. is recalling an undetermined amount of cured pork products that were produced without the benefit of federal inspection, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) announced today. Consumers who have purchased this product should not eat it.
The recalled cured ham items were produced from 2009 thru Dec. 19, 2015. They were sold in various weights, individually wrapped labelled “Woodland’s Pork Mountain Ham.” The code “Est. 44888” inside the USDA mark of inspection. They were shipped to distributors in Kentucky and New Jersey.
Curehouse and Woodlands Pork products can be obtained through our distributors, Fossil Farms, in all E. Coast destinations, and by mail order http://www.fossilfarms.com
Exotic meats and organic meat available online from Fossil Farms. Our online meat store offers the best in organic, exotic meats and game, including ostrich…
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A MAGNITUDE 7.2 earthquake struck central Chile today (yesterday local time), about 250 kilometres southwest of Santiago, according to the US Geological Survey.
Its epicenter was located near the city of Talca, about 215km south-southwest of Santiago, at a depth of nearly 30 kilometres, the preliminary report said.
Chilean authorities initially ordered people living in coastal areas between Concon and Lebu to evacuate after the quake, but later canceled the order.
Local authorities said one person was injured when they had a traffic accident during the earthquake in the Bio Bio region. Their condition was not immediately known.
The Pacific Tsunami Warning Center said there was no widespread tsunami threat from the earthquake, but warned that earthquakes measuring more than 7.0 magnitude could cause local tsunamis and that local authorities should be prepared.
The Maule coastal region in central Chile where the quake occurred has been periodically shaken by powerful aftershocks since an 8.8 magnitude quake February 27, 2010 that claimed more than 500 lives and billions of dollars in damage, AFP reported.
A 7.2 magnitude earthquake struck central Chile prompting an evacuation of coastal areas for fear of a tsunami and causing scenes of panic in an area devastated by a massive quake two years ago.
There were no immediate reports of deaths or significant damage, officials in Chile said; but authorities ordered the evacuation of the central coast of Chile — the same area devastated in 2010, when officials were criticized for waiting too long to allow residents to escape a tsunami.
The Pacific Tsunami Warning Center said “a destructive Pacific-wide tsunami is not expected.” Government spokesman Andres Chadwick said the Office of National Emergencies had issued the evacuation order as a precaution due to “observation of a certain intake of the sea.”
Recent solar activity may have contributed to this event. Watch for continued extreme weather events over the next 72 hours. This includes earthquakes, volcanoes, tornadoes, and hurricanes.
HILO (AP) – An earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 4.9 rattled a wide area of Hawaii on Saturday but caused no significant damage or injuries, officials said.
The quake was “widely felt” throughout the islands, said Dale Grant, a seismologist with the U.S. Geological Survey. The agency’s website received more than 600 responses on its “Did You Feel It?” link within an hour after the tremor.
Among those responses were more than 40 Maui residents who reported feeling the quake in Kahului, Wailuku, Kihei, Makawao, Paia, Kula and Hana.
The quake hit a little before 11:00 a.m., less than a mile from the tiny community of Honomu, about 10 miles northwest of Hilo, the USGS reported.
People as far away as Honolulu, about 200 miles to the northwest, reported feeling the quake. A dispatcher at the Hawaii Police Department said authorities received a “couple of calls” about the shake but did not get any requests for officers to respond.
The National Center for Disaster Prevention (Cenapred) reported that in the last 24 hours the Popocatepetl volcano registered 33 exhalations of low intensity, accompanied by emissions of water vapor and gas. The body of the Ministry of the Interior (Interior Ministry) explained that on Saturday one of these incidents occurred at 22:29, 23:21 and 23:56 hours on Sunday while they were at 5:14, 5:41 and 8:32 hours. In a statement, adding that Cenapred at 08:42 hours, an earthquake of low magnitude was followed by 96 minutes of spasmodic tremor segments, while the other parameters concerning the volcano remain unchanged. On Saturday night, there were numerous reports of incandescence material seen glowing in the mouth of the crater, though clouds made visibility poor for portions of the evening. The volcanic alert remains at phase two and yellow. Moderate exhalations are likely, some with ash emissions, sporadic bursts of low to moderate probability of emission of incandescent fragments short and a mild glow of the volcano in the crater may also be likely. The Cenapred recommended maintaining the safety radius of 12 kilometers.-Cronica
HILO (AP) – An earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 4.9 rattled a wide area of Hawaii on Saturday but caused no significant damage or injuries, officials said.
The quake was “widely felt” throughout the islands, said Dale Grant, a seismologist with the U.S. Geological Survey. The agency’s website received more than 600 responses on its “Did You Feel It?” link within an hour after the tremor.
Among those responses were more than 40 Maui residents who reported feeling the quake in Kahului, Wailuku, Kihei, Makawao, Paia, Kula and Hana.
The quake hit a little before 11:00 a.m., less than a mile from the tiny community of Honomu, about 10 miles northwest of Hilo, the USGS reported.
People as far away as Honolulu, about 200 miles to the northwest, reported feeling the quake. A dispatcher at the Hawaii Police Department said authorities received a “couple of calls” about the shake but did not get any requests for officers to respond.
Earthquakes are common in the area, according to the USGS, which added that none of the recent quakes has had any noticeable impact on the continuing eruption of Kilauea Volcano.
The Pacific Tsunami Warning Center issued a statement saying no tsunami was expected to be generated from the earthquake.
PADUCAH, Ky. — Recent destructive storms in Kentucky may help the public be more aware of the potential threat of severe weather as spring begins.
National Weather Service meteorologist Christine Wielgos told The Paducah Sun ( http://bit.ly/FQpaa9) that bad storms make people more aware of risks posed by the weather.
She said she doesn’t believe frequent alerts about possible severe storms desensitize people.
“People are more aware of risks because of some bad storms happening here and in their backyards,” Wielgos said. “The storms’ intensity and frequency are increasing, and people know it.”
McCracken County emergency management director Paul Carter said he thought awareness of storm danger had increased in western Kentucky since a tornado hit in 2011 in nearby Joplin, Mo., and killed 160 people.
“There were lessons learned,” Carter said. “We try to stay off the sirens to avoid complacency. We want to make sure there is an acute threat before we start setting off the sirens around the county. So far, that has been very successful.”
Carter said bad weather is always a possibility – twisters were spotted last week in western McCracken County and there was widespread damage in 2007 when high winds from the remnants of Hurricane Ike blew through the area.
He said when bad weather strikes, people should “use common sense. If there is a possibility of a bad storm, pay attention to all media and rely on warnings.”
Wielgos recommended that residents get weather radios and that will give them warnings for counties to the west. Storms most often move from west to east in the area, she said.
Brad Jackson, a Radio Shack manager at Kentucky Oaks Mall, says weather radios are selling better this year than they before spring last year.
“Any time there’s bad weather, weather radios become the No. 1 purchase,” Jackson said. “Maybe we’re selling more this year compared to last because last spring wasn’t as turbulent. We’re definitely selling more weather-related supplies like batteries, flashlights, car chargers for phones. People want to be safe, and after the ice storm two years ago, maybe more people are taking precautions.”
HENRYVILLE, Indiana: A string of violent storms from the Gulf Coast to the Great Lakes scratched away small towns and cut off rural communities as an early season tornado outbreak killed more than 30 people, and the death toll rose as daylight broke on Saturday’s search for survivors.
Massive thunderstorms, predicted by forecasters for days, threw off dozens of tornadoes, hitting the states of Kentucky and Indiana particularly hard. Twisters that crushed entire blocks of homes knocked out cellphones and landlines alike, ripped power lines from broken poles and tossed cars, school buses and tractor-trailers onto roadways made impassable by debris.
Weather that put millions of people at risk Friday killed 31, but both the scale of the devastation and the breadth of the storms made an immediate assessment of the havoc’s full extent all but impossible.
In Kentucky, the National Guard and state police headed out to search wreckage for an unknown number of missing. In Indiana, authorities searched dark county roads connecting rural communities that officials said “are completely gone.”
Susie Renner, 54, said she saw two tornadoes barreling down on the town of Henryville, Kentucky, within minutes of each other. The first was brown from being filled with debris; the second was black.
“I’m a storm chaser,” Renner said, “and I have never been this frightened before.”
Friday’s outbreak came two days after an earlier round of storms killed 13 people in the Midwest and South, and forecasters at the National Weather Service’s Storm Prediction Center had said the day would be one of a handful this year that warranted its highest risk level.
By 10 p.m., the weather service had issued 269 tornado warnings. Only 189 warnings were issued in all of February.
A total of 14 people were reported killed in Indiana. Tony Williams, owner of the Chelsea General Store in the town of Chelsea said a child and mother were huddled in a basement when the storm hit and sucked the 4-year-old out her hands. The mother survived, but her 70-year-old grandparents were upstairs; both died.
Two people also died further north in the town of Holton, where it appeared a tornado cut a diagonal swath down the town’s tiny main drag, demolishing a cinderblock gas station in one spot and leaving a tiny white church intact down the road. Officials also confirmed seven other deaths.
The death toll rose to at least 14 in Kentucky. In West Liberty, Stephen Burton heard the twister coming and pulled his 23-year-old daughter to safety, just before the tornado destroyed the second story of the family’s home.
“I just held onto her and I felt like I was getting sand-blasted on my back,” Burton said.
Kentucky State Police in Morehead said three people were dead in West Liberty and at least 75 were injured.
“All of the downtown area was just devastated,” he said. Samu said West Liberty’s hospital was damaged in the storm and some patients were being transferred to area hospitals.
Officials were having difficulty getting into the area to confirm the damage.
“We can’t even get into some of these counties,” said Kentucky Emergency Management spokesman Buddy Rogers. “The power is out, phones are out, roads are blocked and now it’s dark, which complicates things.”
A line of storms that moved through the Louisville area brought strong winds that caused damaged to homes and knocked out power to about 12,000 homes and businesses.
A line of storms that moved through the Louisville area brought strong winds that caused damaged to homes and knocked out power to about 12,000 homes and businesses.
The National Weather Service is investigating whether a tornado touched down Friday afternoon south of Louisville
Louisville Gas & Electric reported power out in multiple areas around Jefferson County.
Multiple television stations in Louisville showed damage to homes, including parts of roofs torn away, but officials reported no injuries.
Jefferson County Public Schools spokeswoman said students were delayed being dismissed while tornado warnings were in effect.
Oldham County elementary school students were being held at their schools.
The Shelby County schools released students 15 minutes late. The district said parents could expect students to arrive home 30 to 40 minutes late.
After enduring wildfires and drought conditions last year, rainfall in March has put north Louisiana on the path toward one of the wettest on record for the month.
The National Weather Service said this March is the 12th wettest on record in more than 100 years and may rise higher in the rankings before the month ends. This week brought heavy rainfall, causing some areas to flood. Among them was Natchitoches Parish, which suffered from high water levels, flooding and severe storm damage.
“The rain we have had since about November has effectively eliminated the drought,” said Keith Stellman with the National Weather Service. “Most of the water is back for now.”
Stellman said north Louisiana received more than 8 inches of rain this month, just a quarter of an inch shy of the record. The surplus rain may make the early summer months cooler, he said, and hopefully, keep another drought at bay.
The excess water may bode well for the summer months, but it has caused the Red River to rise and become more treacherous.
All of the public boat ramps in the Caddo-Bossier area were closed this week, according to the Red River Waterway Commission, but the river is still open to boat traffic.
“It’s not a safe place out there,” Ken Guidry, with the commission, said adding the ramps will remain closed for an undetermined amount of time.
The river is treacherous at the moment and the “pool stage” is over 14 ½ feet above sea level, he said. The river is expected to crest Monday, but that may change if more rain falls in the areas that drain into the Red River, Guidry said.
“We’re going to monitor the situation, stay tuned to forecasts and see how many flood reservoirs release up river before we make an assessment,” Guidry said.
There was no way to tell how long the river will remain so high, Guidry said, but it may rise even further if another storm breaks next week.
“We’re expecting it to be warm and dry early next week,” said Stellman, “but we may enter a wet cycle again after the weekend.”
He said Monday and Tuesday look to be dry with temperatures in the upper 80s, with the chance of rain increasing as the week progresses. There is a 20 to 30 percent chance of rain Wednesday and Thursday followed by a possible pattern change Friday that may mean even more rain, Stellman said.
The economic impact of a historic drought that has parched Texas and other parts of the Southwest will be felt for years, with ripple effects spreading nationwide as agriculture damage adds to increases in food prices, experts told a Texas legislative committee on Thursday.
Texas had an estimated $7.6 billion in agriculture losses last year, the driest in its history. Crops failed, ranchers sold or slaughtered cattle they couldn’t afford to feed leading to the largest reduction in the state’s herd since the Dust Bowl, municipalities spent millions on stop-gap measures to ensure they didn’t run out of water and at least one community began trucking water into residents.
Food prices are expected to rise because Texas is third in the nation when it comes to agricultural production and the leading producer of beef.
But of even greater concern is the long-term, with experts warning Texas’ climate is getting hotter and drier. This drought, some believe, is only a preview of what the future holds….
(Reuters) – A severe drought in Mexico that has cost farmers more than a billion dollars in crop losses alone and set back the national cattle herd for years, is just a foretaste of the drier future facing Latin America’s second largest economy.
As water tankers race across northern Mexico to reach far-flung towns, and crops wither in the fields, the government has allotted 34 billion pesos ($2.65 billion) in emergency aid to confront the worst drought ever recorded in the country.
The water shortage wiped out millions of acres of farmland this winter, caused 15 billion pesos ($1.18 billion) in lost harvests, killed 60,000 head of cattle and weakened 2 million more livestock, pushing food prices higher in Mexico.
The overall cost to the economy is still being gauged but Mexico’s drought-stung winter has been evolving for years and is expected to worsen as the effect of global climate change takes hold, according to the government.
“Droughts are cyclical – we know that – but they are growing more frequent and severe due to climate change,” said Elvira Quesada, the Minister for the Environment and Natural Resources.
According to Mexico’s AMSDA agricultural association, poor weather destroyed some 7.5 million acres (3 million hectares) of cultivable land in 2011 – an area about the size of Belgium. The federal agriculture ministry puts the figure at about half that.
That helped push Mexico’s food imports up 35 percent last year, a trend likely to persist through the 2012-13 crop cycle.
“There was talk of drought when I got here sixteen years ago,” said Ignacio Becerra, a priest working in the rugged town of Carichi in Chihuahua state, which has suffered massive water shortages. “This year, not even corn or beans came up.”
“Watering holes that never ran dry are empty. Without rain this situation is going to get even more serious,” he said…..
FOREST LAKE, Minn. – Our warm weather has been great to get out and enjoy but the heat and lack of snow this winter puts us at high risk for fires this spring.
The Minnesota Department of Natural Resources (DNR) keeps a close eye on the weather and sets levels for fire dangers.
A lot has changed in a few days. A majority of the state went from a low fire risk on Wednesday to a high risk on Saturday.
Grass fire season has ignited a month early for firefighters from the DNR Carlos Avery Fire Base.
Smoke-chasers, as the firefighters call themselves, checked for hot spots Saturday after a grass fire charred 20 acres in rural Linwood on Friday.
The DNR used a helicopter to help contain the blaze which was started mistakenly by a homeowner…..
Spring arrived Monday night in the wake of a cold storm that added a late layer of snow across Arizona’s high country and ended a three-month rainless streak in Phoenix.
The moisture was a welcome coda to an otherwise drier-than-average winter, but it won’t do much to ease drought conditions that have deepened over the state in recent months.
“We’re calling it a drop in the bucket at this point in the season,” said Dino DeSimone, water-supply specialist at the Natural Resources Conservation Service, the federal agency that tracks snow and runoff. “It certainly will help. It will improve conditions in general, but the soil moisture has been so depleted, it won’t have a significant impact.”
The effects, if any, on fire danger are not yet known. The added moisture could delay the start of the season. But wildfire forecasters were already predicting above-average risks through June, so without more rain or snow, forest and range conditions could dry up again in a hurry.
The storm delivered its chilly punch in winter’s final days, exiting almost in sync with the official start of spring on Monday at 10:14 p.m. Arizona time. It was spring’s earliest arrival in more than a century, in part because this is a leap year…..
Soaring fruit and vegetable prices are set to pile more misery on hard-pressed shoppers this summer as London’s worst drought since 1976 spreads to much of the rest of the country.
The warning comes ahead of the publication of a major “call for action” from the Environment Agency tomorrow that will trigger hosepipe bans in London and across the South East from April 5.
A report from the agency is expected to say that the entire south eastern half of the country – from Yorkshire to Somerset – is at severe risk of drought after two dry winters in a row.
Planting of crops is already down by a fifth on normal because of restrictions on farmers’ water use.
The potato harvest is most vulnerable as it is a particularly “thirsty” crop, according to the National Farmers Union, but carrots, onions, lettuce and peas are also threatened…..
European Crops Damaged by Winter Freeze Now Face Drought
European wheat and rapeseed crops are at risk of drought that may further hurt yields after freezing weather last month destroyed some fields, analysts and forecasters said.
France, Spain, England and northern Italy got less rain than normal since the start of January, European Union weather data show. They will probably stay drier and warmer than usual in the next 30 days, said Joel Burgio, an agricultural meteorologist at Telvent DTN.
The 27-nation EU typically grows about 20 percent of the world’s soft wheat. A cold wave in February may have lopped 5 million metric tons off this year’s harvest, and a lack of rain might further harm EU output, according to Alexandre Marie, an analyst at French farm adviser Offre et Demande Agricole.
“The situation in Europe is alarming,” Marie said by phone yesterday from Bourges, west of Paris. “That will remain a factor of support for the market in coming weeks.”
Paris-traded milling wheat for November delivery was priced above the grain for December delivery in Chicago for the first time in the contracts’ lifetime on Feb. 7. Buyers now need to pay $261.86 a ton for French wheat, $12.77 a ton more than for soft red winter wheat.
“We’re already starting to see a market reaction,” Marie said. European wheat has gained on U.S. grain because of concern about frost damage to the crop, and drought is an additional risk, he said…..
Drought: first desalination opens in mainland Britain as water bosses warn of price rises
More than one million people will be supplied with water from Britain’s first large-scale desalination plant this summer to help cope with what is expected to be a widespread drought.
Within weeks, the new £270million plant in east London will begin supplying homes with seawater that has been turned into drinking water.
More than 20million people are facing hosepipe bans after seven water companies announced restrictions earlier this week. Householders could be fined up to £1,000 for filling a paddling pool or washing their car.
Water companies yesterday faced calls to invest in reducing leaks instead of imposing water restrictions on home owners. According to official figures, the companies are losing 3.4billion litres of water a year to leaks, equivalent to 25 per cent of all water used. Thames Water admitted that its last hosepipe ban, imposed in 2006, resulted in just a 5 per cent drop in water use…..
Aid agencies warn of impending catastrophe in Niger
THE British aid agency Oxfam says millions of dollars are needed urgently to stop a hunger crisis in Niger turning into a catastrophe.
It says some 1.9 million people are at severe risk and that number could rise to 3.5 million next month. More than six million of the population of 17 million need immediate help.
“All signs point to an impending catastrophe” and “the world cannot allow this to happen,” Oxfam’s Niger director Samuel Braimah said
He said Oxfam has received only €2.9 million ($A3.69 million) of the €15 million it needs to help.
Oxfam blamed a lethal mix of drought, erratic rains, high food prices, entrenched poverty and regional conflict that has brought tens of thousands of refugees to Niger.
Solar Flares Likely Knocked Military Satellites Offline
Solar storms earlier this month may have caused military satellites to reboot
By Jason Koebler
Despite being made to withstand radiation emitted from solar flares, a storm caused by the sun earlier this month may have temporarily knocked American military satellites offline, according to General William Shelton, head of the Air Force’s Space Command.
The energy particles associated with two solar storms March 9 and 10 may have caused what are called “single event upsets” on military satellites. “The timing is such that we say this was likely due to [solar radiation],” Shelton told reporters at a Defense Writers Group breakfast Thursday. Although it’s impossible to tell exactly what caused the events—essentially a temporary reboot of satellite instrumentation software—solar storms are known to wreak havoc on satellites.
“We’re very concerned about solar activity,” he said. Military satellites are “hardened [to withstand radiation], but maybe in some cases, not every part is as hard as we would like it to be.”
That’s because building a satellite to withstand solar storms is costly, which is why NASA says commercial satellites are often most vulnerable. Yihua Zheng, head of NASA’s Space Weather Services at Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md., says each satellite is built to withstand a different level of radiation, and that there’s a “cost-benefit analysis” to radiation hardening during a satellite’s development. Most mission-critical military satellites are built to sustain short bursts of solar radiation. Satellites “can reset and come back online.” But if the solar storm is lengthy, the damage could be severe enough that the satellite’s software won’t be able to reboot.
“Most of the satellites are built for this,” she says. “They should be OK.”
In recent years, the military has become more reliant on satellites operated by the Air Force’s Space Command, Shelton said. “Space capability is integral to everything [the military does],” he said, “from GPS targeting and communications to incoming missile warnings for our troops overseas.”
2MIN News Mar23: US Tremors/Serious Weather, Solar Activity
400 Chernobyls: Solar Flares, Electromagnetic Pulses and Nuclear Armageddon
By Matthew Stein, Truthout | News Analysis
There are nearly 450 nuclear reactors in the world, with hundreds more being planned or under construction. There are 104 of these reactors in the United States and 195 in Europe. Imagine what havoc it would wreak on our civilization and the planet’s ecosystems if we were to suddenly witness not just one or two nuclear meltdowns, but 400 or more! How likely is it that our world might experience an event that could ultimately cause hundreds of reactors to fail and melt down at approximately the same time? I venture to say that, unless we take significant protective measures, this apocalyptic scenario is not only possible, but probable.
Consider the ongoing problems caused by three reactor core meltdowns, explosions and breached containment vessels at Japan’s Fukushima Daiichi facility and the subsequent health and environmental issues. Consider the millions of innocent victims who have already died or continue to suffer from horrific radiation-related health problems (“Chernobyl AIDS,” epidemic cancers, chronic fatigue, etcetera) resulting from the Chernobyl reactor explosions, fires and fallout. If just two serious nuclear disasters, spaced 25 years apart, could cause such horrendous environmental catastrophes, it is hard to imagine how we could ever hope to recover from hundreds of similar nuclear incidents occurring simultaneously across the planet. Since more than one-third of all Americans live within 50 miles of a nuclear power plant, this is a serious issue that should be given top priority.[1]……
Hippies head for Noah’s Ark: Queue here for rescue aboard alien spaceship
Thousands of New Agers descend on mountain they see as haven from December’s apocalypse
A mountain looming over a French commune with a population of just 200 is being touted as a modern Noah’s Ark when doomsday arrives – supposedly less than nine months from now.
A rapidly increasing stream of New Age believers – or esoterics, as locals call them – have descended in their camper van-loads on the usually picturesque and tranquil Pyrenean village of Bugarach. They believe that when apocalypse strikes on 21 December this year, the aliens waiting in their spacecraft inside Pic de Bugarach will save all the humans near by and beam them off to the next age.
As the cataclysmic date – which, according to eschatological beliefs and predicted astrological alignments, concludes a 5,125-year cycle in the Mesoamerican Long Count calendar – nears, the goings-on around the peak have become more bizarre and ritualistic.
For decades, there has been a belief that Pic de Bugarach, which, at 1,230 metres, is the highest in the Corbières mountain range, possesses an eery power. Often called the “upside-down mountain” – geologists think that it exploded after its formation and the top landed the wrong way up – it is thought to have inspired Jules Verne’s Journey to the Centre of the Earth and Steven Spielberg’s Close Encounters of the Third Kind. Since the 1960s, it has attracted New Agers, who insist that it emits special magnetic waves……
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Magnitude-4.9 earthquake jolts islands
No tsunami generated from Saturday morning
HONOLULU
Many people from the Big Island to Oahu felt a magnitude 4.9 earthquake Saturday morning.
The quake struck a little after 10:45 a.m., centered just west of Honomu in East Hawaii, at a depth of 27 miles.
There are no reports of major damage or injuries.
Scientists say the earthquake was too small to generate a tsunami and the weight of the Big Island settling is the likely cause.
Geologists at the Hawaiian Volcanoes Observatory say there have been no aftershocks so far, and there’s been no change in the ongoing eruption at Kilauea Volcano.
A magnitude 3.2 earthquake was registered in Libyan waters at 10.28am yesterday, and felt in Gozo.
According to the University of Malta Seismic Monitoring and Research Unit, its epicentre was 177km southwest of Malta. Other seismic activity was recorded in Crete, on Thursday.
The Italian website Meteoweb.eu, also reported the tremor, although the information it gave was different to that officially issued. It said the earthquake’s epicentre was in Gozo and that it had a magnitude of 2.9 on the Richter Scale.
According to the same website, the tremor was felt in Gozo. No damage was caused.
The last significant seismic activity in Malta, was recorded over the weekend of 23 and 24 April, last year.
A series of five earth tremors, with the first occurring at around midnight, were felt in various localities in Malta and people reported objects moving on the shelves.
The tremors had a magnitude of between 2.5 and 4.0.
The location of yesterday’s earthquake may be viewed on the website http://www.phys.um.edu.mt/seismic, where residents may also fill in the online questionnaire if they felt any shaking.
Tornadoes cause one death, damage in half dozen states
CHICAGO (Reuters) – Tornadoes touched down in a half-dozen states on Friday, killing one woman whose mobile home was flipped by a twister and causing damage to homes and businesses, authorities said.
The 60-year-old woman died in Jefferson County, Illinois, when a suspected tornado flipped her mobile home and blew it across a road into a farm field, said county coroner Eddie Joe Marks.
There was at least one other person injured in the county, located in the southern tip of Illinois.
“A young boy had just stepped into his home when the storm hit. He got away with minor scrapes and bruises but went to the hospital,” Marks said.
The tornadoes appeared to be smaller and touched down only briefly as compared to a deadly tornado outbreak in the region early this month, authorities said.
A few homes sustained damage from a suspected tornado in Fern Creek, Kentucky, a town southeast of Louisville, emergency management official Monica French said.
In Alabama, a suspected tornado damaged three homes and some chicken houses in the town of Troy, emergency management spokeswoman Yasamie August said.
Georgia, Indiana, and Missouri also had tornadoes touch down, with no reports of injuries.
“There have been a lot of tornado reports but they’ve all been brief touchdowns or rope-like tornadoes, not large tornadoes,” said Steve Weiss of the Storm Prediction Center in Norman, Oklahoma.
Tornadoes have caused 55 U.S. deaths so far this year, most of them on February 29 and March 2 when swarms of tornadoes wreaked havoc across the Midwest and the South.
Tornadoes were blamed for 550 deaths in the United States last year, the deadliest year in nearly a century, according to the Weather Service.
The storm front bringing rain and severe weather to the nation’s midsection broke a spell of record-breaking, summer-like temperatures.
Among the southern Illinois towns in the severe weather zone that was pelted by hail on Friday was Harrisburg, where seven people were killed when a powerful tornado February 29 flattened part of the town.
(Reporting By Andrew Stern; Editing by Cynthia Johnston and Greg McCune)
Moderate 5.1 earthquake rumbles along the outskirts of Santiago, Chile
by The Extinction Protocol
March 23, 2012 – CHILE – A moderate earthquake of 5.3 magnitude (5.1 USGS) on the Richter scale near Santiago on Saturday morning in the central area of the country, according to the Seismological Service of the University of Chile. The epicenter of the quake, which occurred at 4:28 am was located 43 kilometers northeast of the town of Casablanca, on the border regions of Valparaiso and Santiago, at a depth of 68.9 kilometers. It was in the capital and the fifth region where the earthquake was felt more strongly. According to reports received by the National Bureau of Emegencia (Onemi), the quake reached an intensity of V degrees on the Mercalli scale in Santiago, the Andes, Talagante, Tiltil, Valparaiso, Viña del Mar, Quintero, San Antonio, San Felipe, and German Village. V grades also recorded in Los Vilos, in the Coquimbo Region. In the Region of O’Higgins, meanwhile, the earthquake was felt with a force of IV degrees in Rancagua and III degrees on Christmas, Pichilemu, San Fernando and Santa Cruz. In the El Maule reached II degrees in Curicó and Order. It reached in the Fourth Region II degrees in La Serena. The Onemi received no reports of damage or injured as a result of the earthquake. –El Mostrador (translated)
PADUCAH, Ky. — Recent destructive storms in Kentucky may help the public be more aware of the potential threat of severe weather as spring begins.
National Weather Service meteorologist Christine Wielgos told The Paducah Sun ( http://bit.ly/FQpaa9) that bad storms make people more aware of risks posed by the weather.
She said she doesn’t believe frequent alerts about possible severe storms desensitize people.
“People are more aware of risks because of some bad storms happening here and in their backyards,” Wielgos said. “The storms’ intensity and frequency are increasing, and people know it.”
McCracken County emergency management director Paul Carter said he thought awareness of storm danger had increased in western Kentucky since a tornado hit in 2011 in nearby Joplin, Mo., and killed 160 people.
“There were lessons learned,” Carter said. “We try to stay off the sirens to avoid complacency. We want to make sure there is an acute threat before we start setting off the sirens around the county. So far, that has been very successful.”
Carter said bad weather is always a possibility – twisters were spotted last week in western McCracken County and there was widespread damage in 2007 when high winds from the remnants of Hurricane Ike blew through the area.
He said when bad weather strikes, people should “use common sense. If there is a possibility of a bad storm, pay attention to all media and rely on warnings.”
Wielgos recommended that residents get weather radios and that will give them warnings for counties to the west. Storms most often move from west to east in the area, she said.
Brad Jackson, a Radio Shack manager at Kentucky Oaks Mall, says weather radios are selling better this year than they before spring last year.
“Any time there’s bad weather, weather radios become the No. 1 purchase,” Jackson said. “Maybe we’re selling more this year compared to last because last spring wasn’t as turbulent. We’re definitely selling more weather-related supplies like batteries, flashlights, car chargers for phones. People want to be safe, and after the ice storm two years ago, maybe more people are taking precautions.”
HENRYVILLE, Indiana: A string of violent storms from the Gulf Coast to the Great Lakes scratched away small towns and cut off rural communities as an early season tornado outbreak killed more than 30 people, and the death toll rose as daylight broke on Saturday’s search for survivors.
Massive thunderstorms, predicted by forecasters for days, threw off dozens of tornadoes, hitting the states of Kentucky and Indiana particularly hard. Twisters that crushed entire blocks of homes knocked out cellphones and landlines alike, ripped power lines from broken poles and tossed cars, school buses and tractor-trailers onto roadways made impassable by debris.
Weather that put millions of people at risk Friday killed 31, but both the scale of the devastation and the breadth of the storms made an immediate assessment of the havoc’s full extent all but impossible.
In Kentucky, the National Guard and state police headed out to search wreckage for an unknown number of missing. In Indiana, authorities searched dark county roads connecting rural communities that officials said “are completely gone.”
Susie Renner, 54, said she saw two tornadoes barreling down on the town of Henryville, Kentucky, within minutes of each other. The first was brown from being filled with debris; the second was black.
“I’m a storm chaser,” Renner said, “and I have never been this frightened before.”
Friday’s outbreak came two days after an earlier round of storms killed 13 people in the Midwest and South, and forecasters at the National Weather Service’s Storm Prediction Center had said the day would be one of a handful this year that warranted its highest risk level.
By 10 p.m., the weather service had issued 269 tornado warnings. Only 189 warnings were issued in all of February.
A total of 14 people were reported killed in Indiana. Tony Williams, owner of the Chelsea General Store in the town of Chelsea said a child and mother were huddled in a basement when the storm hit and sucked the 4-year-old out her hands. The mother survived, but her 70-year-old grandparents were upstairs; both died.
Two people also died further north in the town of Holton, where it appeared a tornado cut a diagonal swath down the town’s tiny main drag, demolishing a cinderblock gas station in one spot and leaving a tiny white church intact down the road. Officials also confirmed seven other deaths.
The death toll rose to at least 14 in Kentucky. In West Liberty, Stephen Burton heard the twister coming and pulled his 23-year-old daughter to safety, just before the tornado destroyed the second story of the family’s home.
“I just held onto her and I felt like I was getting sand-blasted on my back,” Burton said.
Kentucky State Police in Morehead said three people were dead in West Liberty and at least 75 were injured.
“All of the downtown area was just devastated,” he said. Samu said West Liberty’s hospital was damaged in the storm and some patients were being transferred to area hospitals.
Officials were having difficulty getting into the area to confirm the damage.
“We can’t even get into some of these counties,” said Kentucky Emergency Management spokesman Buddy Rogers. “The power is out, phones are out, roads are blocked and now it’s dark, which complicates things.”
A line of storms that moved through the Louisville area brought strong winds that caused damaged to homes and knocked out power to about 12,000 homes and businesses.
A line of storms that moved through the Louisville area brought strong winds that caused damaged to homes and knocked out power to about 12,000 homes and businesses.
The National Weather Service is investigating whether a tornado touched down Friday afternoon south of Louisville
Louisville Gas & Electric reported power out in multiple areas around Jefferson County.
Multiple television stations in Louisville showed damage to homes, including parts of roofs torn away, but officials reported no injuries.
Jefferson County Public Schools spokeswoman said students were delayed being dismissed while tornado warnings were in effect.
Oldham County elementary school students were being held at their schools.
The Shelby County schools released students 15 minutes late. The district said parents could expect students to arrive home 30 to 40 minutes late.
Solar Flares Likely Knocked Military Satellites Offline
Solar storms earlier this month may have caused military satellites to reboot
By Jason Koebler
Despite being made to withstand radiation emitted from solar flares, a storm caused by the sun earlier this month may have temporarily knocked American military satellites offline, according to General William Shelton, head of the Air Force’s Space Command.
The energy particles associated with two solar storms March 9 and 10 may have caused what are called “single event upsets” on military satellites. “The timing is such that we say this was likely due to [solar radiation],” Shelton told reporters at a Defense Writers Group breakfast Thursday. Although it’s impossible to tell exactly what caused the events—essentially a temporary reboot of satellite instrumentation software—solar storms are known to wreak havoc on satellites.
“We’re very concerned about solar activity,” he said. Military satellites are “hardened [to withstand radiation], but maybe in some cases, not every part is as hard as we would like it to be.”
That’s because building a satellite to withstand solar storms is costly, which is why NASA says commercial satellites are often most vulnerable. Yihua Zheng, head of NASA’s Space Weather Services at Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md., says each satellite is built to withstand a different level of radiation, and that there’s a “cost-benefit analysis” to radiation hardening during a satellite’s development. Most mission-critical military satellites are built to sustain short bursts of solar radiation. Satellites “can reset and come back online.” But if the solar storm is lengthy, the damage could be severe enough that the satellite’s software won’t be able to reboot.
“Most of the satellites are built for this,” she says. “They should be OK.”
In recent years, the military has become more reliant on satellites operated by the Air Force’s Space Command, Shelton said. “Space capability is integral to everything [the military does],” he said, “from GPS targeting and communications to incoming missile warnings for our troops overseas.”
2MIN News Mar23: US Tremors/Serious Weather, Solar Activity
400 Chernobyls: Solar Flares, Electromagnetic Pulses and Nuclear Armageddon
By Matthew Stein, Truthout | News Analysis
There are nearly 450 nuclear reactors in the world, with hundreds more being planned or under construction. There are 104 of these reactors in the United States and 195 in Europe. Imagine what havoc it would wreak on our civilization and the planet’s ecosystems if we were to suddenly witness not just one or two nuclear meltdowns, but 400 or more! How likely is it that our world might experience an event that could ultimately cause hundreds of reactors to fail and melt down at approximately the same time? I venture to say that, unless we take significant protective measures, this apocalyptic scenario is not only possible, but probable.
Consider the ongoing problems caused by three reactor core meltdowns, explosions and breached containment vessels at Japan’s Fukushima Daiichi facility and the subsequent health and environmental issues. Consider the millions of innocent victims who have already died or continue to suffer from horrific radiation-related health problems (“Chernobyl AIDS,” epidemic cancers, chronic fatigue, etcetera) resulting from the Chernobyl reactor explosions, fires and fallout. If just two serious nuclear disasters, spaced 25 years apart, could cause such horrendous environmental catastrophes, it is hard to imagine how we could ever hope to recover from hundreds of similar nuclear incidents occurring simultaneously across the planet. Since more than one-third of all Americans live within 50 miles of a nuclear power plant, this is a serious issue that should be given top priority.[1]……
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