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Earth Watch Report – Friday October 19th, 2012

October 19, 2012

Earthquakes

MAG	UTC DATE-TIME y/m/d h:m:s	LAT deg	LON deg	DEPTH km	Region
MAP	2.5	2012/10/18 23:22:28	59.663	-151.391	54.3	KENAI PENINSULA, ALASKA
MAP	4.8	2012/10/18 21:24:22	-62.721	155.813	10.0	BALLENY ISLANDS REGION
MAP	2.5	2012/10/18 17:38:48	61.168	-147.125	7.8	SOUTHERN ALASKA
MAP	2.5	2012/10/18 17:26:30	62.549	-149.949	65.5	CENTRAL ALASKA
MAP	4.9	2012/10/18 16:26:50	-0.121	125.563	20.0	MOLUCCA SEA
MAP	2.9	2012/10/18 15:50:07	60.587	-149.625	68.6	KENAI PENINSULA, ALASKA
MAP	2.6	2012/10/18 12:31:40	18.609	-65.649	77.0	PUERTO RICO REGION
MAP	2.7	2012/10/18 12:14:52	19.377	-155.240	3.5	ISLAND OF HAWAII, HAWAII
MAP	4.5	2012/10/18 11:26:42	-20.598	-178.360	545.7	FIJI REGION
MAP	4.5	2012/10/18 09:00:05	-6.505	98.031	14.9	SOUTHWEST OF SUMATRA, INDONESIA
MAP	4.6	2012/10/18 08:38:35	39.321	-29.875	10.0	AZORES ISLANDS, PORTUGAL
MAP	3.3	2012/10/18 07:10:26	19.631	-64.224	61.0	VIRGIN ISLANDS REGION
MAP	4.6	2012/10/18 05:23:14	-34.689	-71.906	43.0	LIBERTADOR O’HIGGINS, CHILE
MAP	3.6	2012/10/18 05:21:11	42.217	-101.978	5.0	NEBRASKA
MAP	2.9	2012/10/18 04:56:45	51.655	-175.225	37.4	ANDREANOF ISLANDS, ALEUTIAN IS., ALASKA
MAP	4.6	2012/10/18 04:32:32	53.391	-35.141	9.7	REYKJANES RIDGE
MAP	5.1	2012/10/18 04:14:32	-8.098	123.597	32.7	FLORES REGION, INDONESIA
MAP	2.6	2012/10/18 03:37:04	63.280	-151.086	5.4	CENTRAL ALASKA
MAP	2.5	2012/10/18 03:10:20	19.383	-155.241	2.0	ISLAND OF HAWAII, HAWAII
MAP	5.0	2012/10/18 02:33:29	23.855	81.294	14.8	MADHYA PRADESH, INDIA
MAP	5.7	2012/10/18 01:27:15	-54.273	143.919	10.2	WEST OF MACQUARIE ISLAND
MAP	4.6	2012/10/18 00:35:12	48.330	154.451	48.2	KURIL ISLANDS

	MAG	UTC DATE-TIME y/m/d h:m:s	LAT deg	LON deg	DEPTH km	Region
MAP	3.1	2012/10/17 22:43:02	19.671	-64.358	34.0	VIRGIN ISLANDS REGION
MAP	3.1	2012/10/17 21:21:35	59.627	-150.866	32.2	KENAI PENINSULA, ALASKA
MAP	2.8	2012/10/17 20:50:43	68.444	-144.526	9.8	NORTHERN ALASKA
MAP	5.0	2012/10/17 19:38:56	1.301	97.229	35.2	NIAS REGION, INDONESIA
MAP	2.8	2012/10/17 18:40:49	64.048	-148.951	15.2	CENTRAL ALASKA
MAP	2.6	2012/10/17 18:34:00	38.718	-112.566	0.1	UTAH
MAP	2.9	2012/10/17 18:23:03	18.804	-64.129	36.0	VIRGIN ISLANDS REGION
MAP	3.1	2012/10/17 17:42:45	51.540	-174.965	31.9	ANDREANOF ISLANDS, ALEUTIAN IS., ALASKA
MAP	5.5	2012/10/17 17:23:42	-19.011	-174.162	29.8	TONGA
MAP	4.7	2012/10/17 15:58:56	-1.124	126.870	39.2	KEPULAUAN SULA, INDONESIA
MAP	2.6	2012/10/17 15:37:42	19.062	-66.355	62.0	PUERTO RICO REGION
MAP	5.0	2012/10/17 14:50:00	-14.946	-173.713	29.5	SAMOA ISLANDS REGION
MAP	2.5	2012/10/17 11:32:18	36.465	-121.035	5.0	CENTRAL CALIFORNIA
MAP	2.9	2012/10/17 11:08:54	35.748	-113.088	4.9	ARIZONA
MAP	2.9	2012/10/17 09:40:32	18.774	-64.872	30.0	VIRGIN ISLANDS REGION
MAP	2.9	2012/10/17 09:39:04	50.146	179.994	31.2	RAT ISLANDS, ALEUTIAN ISLANDS, ALASKA
MAP	3.2	2012/10/17 09:33:01	65.430	-147.984	34.4	NORTHERN ALASKA
MAP	2.8	2012/10/17 09:27:05	65.396	-148.033	25.7	NORTHERN ALASKA
MAP	2.6	2012/10/17 08:24:24	65.608	-148.096	0.2	NORTHERN ALASKA
MAP	2.5	2012/10/17 08:19:43	65.475	-148.003	17.3	NORTHERN ALASKA
MAP	2.5	2012/10/17 08:09:53	52.054	-173.369	45.3	ANDREANOF ISLANDS, ALEUTIAN IS., ALASKA
MAP	2.8	2012/10/17 07:23:38	45.273	-112.791	12.1	WESTERN MONTANA
MAP	2.5	2012/10/17 07:02:01	52.626	-167.031	6.5	FOX ISLANDS, ALEUTIAN ISLANDS, ALASKA
MAP	2.9	2012/10/17 07:00:26	50.223	179.099	31.5	RAT ISLANDS, ALEUTIAN ISLANDS, ALASKA
MAP	2.8	2012/10/17 06:36:12	19.354	-155.213	1.0	ISLAND OF HAWAII, HAWAII
MAP	4.8	2012/10/17 05:49:23	-4.885	151.624	153.0	NEW BRITAIN REGION, PAPUA NEW GUINEA
MAP	2.9	2012/10/17 05:48:03	19.184	-64.839	24.0	VIRGIN ISLANDS REGION
MAP	3.2	2012/10/17 04:42:40	35.678	-97.115	5.0	OKLAHOMA
MAP	6.0	2012/10/17 04:42:31	4.191	124.573	337.4	CELEBES SEA
MAP	2.5	2012/10/17 03:50:16	40.898	-124.552	16.7	OFFSHORE NORTHERN CALIFORNIA
MAP	4.7	2012/10/17 03:30:47	18.707	-70.873	12.7	DOMINICAN REPUBLIC
MAP	2.7	2012/10/17 02:57:32	32.483	-96.960	12.1	NORTHERN TEXAS
MAP	4.5	2012/10/17 02:55:22	12.428	-88.853	35.2	OFFSHORE EL SALVADOR
MAP	3.4	2012/10/17 02:50:27	18.081	-68.135	90.0	MONA PASSAGE, DOMINICAN REPUBLIC
MAP	3.1	2012/10/17 02:12:44	19.096	-66.773	23.0	PUERTO RICO REGION
MAP	4.4	2012/10/17 01:26:41	14.155	-91.187	62.0	GUATEMALA
MAP	4.5	2012/10/17 00:44:05	36.705	140.291	54.2	NEAR THE EAST COAST OF HONSHU, JAPAN
MAP	3.2	2012/10/17 00:36:57	65.040	-152.191	17.1	NORTHERN ALASKA

	MAG	UTC DATE-TIME y/m/d h:m:s	LAT deg	LON deg	DEPTH km	Region
MAP	5.7	2012/10/16 23:42:55	-38.538	176.117	103.9	NORTH ISLAND OF NEW ZEALAND
MAP	4.0	2012/10/16 23:12:23	43.592	-70.676	6.6	MAINE
MAP	2.9	2012/10/16 21:31:01	19.064	-66.397	55.0	PUERTO RICO REGION
MAP	2.6	2012/10/16 21:23:20	18.149	-68.491	66.0	MONA PASSAGE, DOMINICAN REPUBLIC
MAP	4.4	2012/10/16 19:19:34	36.760	71.299	172.7	HINDU KUSH REGION, AFGHANISTAN
MAP	4.2	2012/10/16 19:03:23	16.158	-61.966	174.4	GUADELOUPE REGION, LEEWARD ISLANDS
MAP	4.8	2012/10/16 17:51:59	-5.500	147.137	225.6	EASTERN NEW GUINEA REG, PAPUA NEW GUINEA
MAP	2.6	2012/10/16 15:59:09	18.043	-65.489	17.0	PUERTO RICO REGION
MAP	2.8	2012/10/16 15:37:15	39.353	-118.100	12.6	NEVADA
MAP	4.9	2012/10/16 15:10:59	39.749	15.550	260.3	SOUTHERN ITALY
MAP	2.9	2012/10/16 15:03:24	19.180	-64.841	67.0	VIRGIN ISLANDS REGION
MAP	2.5	2012/10/16 14:36:33	61.735	-150.780	59.3	SOUTHERN ALASKA
MAP	4.5	2012/10/16 13:50:00	16.216	-94.023	96.4	CHIAPAS, MEXICO
MAP	5.3	2012/10/16 13:39:26	31.221	130.192	168.3	KYUSHU, JAPAN
MAP	4.7	2012/10/16 13:07:14	48.228	154.538	58.6	KURIL ISLANDS
MAP	5.6	2012/10/16 12:41:24	49.569	156.526	64.7	KURIL ISLANDS
MAP	2.5	2012/10/16 12:39:36	19.383	-155.244	3.7	ISLAND OF HAWAII, HAWAII
MAP	2.7	2012/10/16 12:36:19	18.011	-67.624	35.0	MONA PASSAGE, PUERTO RICO
MAP	4.9	2012/10/16 12:31:07	32.946	141.354	43.7	IZU ISLANDS, JAPAN REGION
MAP	2.7	2012/10/16 11:38:19	51.868	-175.141	66.2	ANDREANOF ISLANDS, ALEUTIAN IS., ALASKA
MAP	2.7	2012/10/16 11:17:56	19.381	-155.244	3.7	ISLAND OF HAWAII, HAWAII
MAP	4.6	2012/10/16 10:25:20	37.459	35.689	26.6	CENTRAL TURKEY
MAP	2.6	2012/10/16 07:28:24	63.377	-152.266	8.0	CENTRAL ALASKA
MAP	2.9	2012/10/16 06:22:46	42.252	-124.793	24.6	OFFSHORE OREGON
MAP	2.7	2012/10/16 05:32:31	60.737	-150.114	93.7	KENAI PENINSULA, ALASKA
MAP	2.5	2012/10/16 04:30:45	34.822	-121.050	2.8	OFFSHORE CENTRAL CALIFORNIA
MAP	4.5	2012/10/16 04:15:34	38.268	46.960	32.4	NORTHWESTERN IRAN
MAP	5.4	2012/10/16 02:03:29	31.289	140.288	102.6	IZU ISLANDS, JAPAN REGION
MAP	4.4	2012/10/16 01:16:04	37.273	37.083	5.1	CENTRAL TURKEY
MAP	5.0	2012/10/16 00:16:42	-36.828	78.729	9.8	MID-INDIAN RIDGE
MAP	3.4	2012/10/16 00:02:11	62.223	-145.689	16.0	CENTRAL ALASKA

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Dominican Republic Shaken by 4.7-Magnitude Earthquake Near Constanza

By the Caribbean Journal staff

The Dominican Republic was shaken by its second earthquake since Sunday on Tuesday night, according to the United States Geological Survey.

The quake had a magnitude of 4.7 on the Richter scale, according to the USGS.

The epicentre was about 26 kilometres south-southwest of Constanza in La Vega, and 31 kilometres north-northwest of Azua.

It occurred at approximately 10:30 PM local time.

Light shaking was felt across the Dominican Republic, including in Peralta in Azul and in the capital, Santo Domingo.

The quake came just a few days after a 4.4-magnitude quake on Sunday off the coast of Samana on the country’s northern peninsula.

This one was towards the southern portion of the Dominican Republic, west of the capital, and far east of the border of Haiti.

It was not yet clear if any damage or injuries had been reported.

Earthquake hits Boston and Maine

The 4.5 magnitude earthquake was centered near Lake Arrowhead in Maine.

Talia Ralph

An earthquake in Southern Maine reverberated all the way to the Boston metropolitan area at 7:12 p.m. Tuesday evening.

“Notice how it seemed to kind of ‘roll’ through, shaking momentarily but kind of coming in a wave,” New England Sports Network, based in Boston, reported of feeling the quake.

Registering at a 4.5 magnitude, the temblor was centered 3.7 miles Maine’s Lake Arrowhead, Reuters reported.

There were no reported injuries or damage.

Maine has experienced over 80 earthquakes since 1997, according to the state’s Bureau of Geology. The state’s most serious earthquake was in 1904. It registered as a 5.1 on the Richter scale, and was felt through most of New England and the Canadian provinces of New Brunswick and Nova Scotia.

4.0-M earthquake centered in ME shakes New England

PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — An earthquake that hit southern Maine Tuesday night rattled nearby New England states as far as Connecticut, including the Boston area, but caused no injuries or apparent damage.

The U.S. Geological Survey at first estimated the 7:12 p.m. quake as a 4.6 magnitude, but later downgraded that to 4.0. The epicenter, about 3 miles west of Hollis Center, Maine, is about 3 miles deep. That location is about 20 miles west of Portland.

About 10 miles away in Waterboro, about 20 customers and staff at Waterboro House of Pizza ran outside when they heard a loud bang and the building shook.

“It was loudest bang you ever heard in your life. We actually thought it was an explosion of some type,” said owner Jessica Hill. “The back door and door to the basement blew open.”

In the same town, employees at the Milk Room said towels and other items started falling off shelves.

“I heard a bang, and it felt like the building was just shaking it went on for three seconds and then it started shaking again,” said George Moutsos, an employee.

In nearby Saco, Sue Hadiaris said, “The whole house shook. It felt like a train was coming right through the house. It was very unnerving because you could feel the floor shaking. There was a queasy feeling.”

Afterward, Hadiaris called her 15-year-old niece in Falmouth to make sure she was safe. “She said, `We can cross that off our bucket list. We’ve lived through an earthquake,”‘ Hadiaris said.

Lynette Miller, a spokeswoman for the Maine Emergency Management Agency, said her dogs started barking several seconds before the quake. “It was several seconds of good shaking but nothing falling down,” Miller said from her home in Readfield, about 60 miles north of Portland.

The Seabrook Station nuclear plant, about 63 miles away in New Hampshire, declared an unusual event — the lowest of four emergency classifications, but said it was not affected. The plant has been offline for refueling.

“There has been no impact at all to the plant from the earthquake and our refueling maintenance activities have not been affected,” said Alan Griffith, spokesman for Next EnergyEra Seabrook Station.

Jim Van Dongen, public information officer for the New Hampshire Department of Safety said New Hampshire 911 got about 1,000 calls in the first hour after the quake, but they later dropped off. He said no major damage was reported.

Brief, but noticeable shaking was felt in downtown Boston and the surrounding area.

In Melrose, just north of Boston, Peter Ward said the shaking he felt seemed to last about four seconds. “It felt like a big gust of wind shaking the house. I don’t want to overstate it, but the glass did rattle a little,” he said.

Former Maine resident Victoria Brett, who also has lived in San Francisco, felt the quake in Northampton, Mass.

“At first, it felt like something slowly wiggling the outside walls of the house. Then the table and floor started vibrating. I looked around and the water in the glass flower vase looked like a wave pool. I knew right away it was an earthquake,” she said.

Earthquakes are rare in New England but they’re not unheard of. In 2006 there was a series of earthquakes around Maine’s Acadia National Park, including one with a magnitude of 4.2 that caused boulders to fall from ledges onto Acadia National Park’s loop road. One of the park’s trails was closed for three years because of damage from the quake.

The strongest earthquake recorded in Maine occurred in 1904 in the Eastport area, near the state’s eastern border with Canada, according the Weston Observatory at Boston College. With a magnitude estimated at 5.7 to 5.9, it damaged chimneys and brick walls and could be felt in Massachusetts and New Hampshire.

East Coast quakes are rarely strong enough to be felt over a wide area. A quake of magnitude 5.8 on Aug. 23, 2011, was centered in Virginia and felt all along the coast, including in New York City and Boston. Experts say the region’s geology can make the effects felt in an area up to 10 times larger than quakes of similar size on the West Coast.

More than 100 small earthquakes shake Spanish Springs

Reported by: Ashley Cullins

RENO, Nev. (KRNV & MyNews4.com) — Some rattling and rolling in the area has earthquake experts on alert. In the past week more than 100 small earthquakes have shaken the earth beneath Spanish Springs.

So far they’ve been too small to feel, but quake experts want you to know they’re happening. There’s no reason to panic – but it’s a good reminder to make sure you’re prepared.

“People can consider certain mitigation steps in case these earthquakes increase in intensity and there’s a larger one,” said Ken Smith, associate director of the Nevada Seismological Laboratory.

Smith says most injuries from earthquakes are caused by falling or flying objects – and you don’t want to wait for a big quake to get ready.

“Secure your water heaters. Secure your valuables. Secure your book cases,” Smith said.

It’s not strange for a dozen quakes this size to happen in a week, but there have been at least 115 since October 8, and about 60 of those have been since Thursday.

“These things are totally unpredictable,” Smith said. “It could stop today, or it could keep going at a level of very small events that no one would feel.”

Or they could get stronger. so far they’re small – with the biggest two quakes shaking at magnitude one – but there’s potential for one that really rocks Reno.

“We have faults around here that are capable of magnitude seven type events,” Smith said.

So this week the Great Nevada Shakeout will teach people to drop, cover and hold-on just in case there’s a big quake. It’s Nevada’s largest earthquake drill and it’s this Thursday, October 18 at 10:18 am.

Earthquake Rattles Western Nebraska

The US Geological Survey (USGS) says an earthquake occurred Wednesday evening in Western Nebraska. About 1330 miles southeast of Rapid City.

The 3.6 magnitude earthquake occurred at 11:21 pm at a depth of about4 miles , 18 miles northwest of Hyannis, Nebraska.

Although not as common as in some other states earthquakes do occur in Nebraska. The strongest occurred on November 15, 1877 with a magnitude of 5.1. Two shocks 45 minutes apart rocked most of Nebraska and portions of surrounding states , including South Dakota.

California, Other States Preparing for Earthquakes

Associated Press

AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes, File

In this Oct. 15, 2009 file photo, children participate in the “Great California ShakeOut” earthquake drill at the Para Los Ninos Elementary School in Los Angeles. Millions in the United States and several countries are set to participate in an earthquake preparedness drill, dubbed the “Great ShakeOut,” Thursday, Oct. 18, 2012.

LOS ANGELES — Get ready to rumble. Millions in the United States and several countries are set to participate in an earthquake preparedness drill Thursday.

Dubbed the “Great ShakeOut,” homeowners, schoolchildren and office workers across the West and Southeast will practice dropping to the ground, covering their heads and holding on to something sturdy – a technique that experts say minimizes injuries during strong shaking. Residents in British Columbia, Italy, Puerto Rico and Guam also signed up for the exercise.

(MORE: Earthquake Safety and Preparedness)

Organizers estimated some 14 million people, including 9.3 million in California, will participate. Newcomers include Washington, D.C., Maryland and Virginia, where a magnitude-5.8 hit last year that was felt along the East Coast.

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Northeast Shaken by Quake

In Los Angeles, commuters at Union Station will be asked to duck and take cover. Subways and light-rail trains will slow down so that operators can visually inspect the tracks – a process that’s expected to take 15 minutes. In an actual quake, trains can be stopped. Transportation officials also planned to show the public tips to safely evacuate a train.

Southern California held the first safety drill in 2008 based on a fictional magnitude-7.8 event on the southern San Andreas Fault. The entire state participated the following year and the exercise has since spread around the world.

“It’s not looking at earthquakes as doom and gloom,” said organizer Mark Benthien. “It’s all about what we’re going to do as a community to be prepared so that when there’s an earthquake, we’ll get back on our feet and recover.”

Southern California has not experienced a seismic disaster since the 1994 Northridge quake, which killed 72 people and caused $25 billion in damage to the Los Angeles region.

Listado Terremotos últimos 10 días

List of Earthquakes For The Last 10 days

Terremotos de los últimos 10 días en las Islas Canarias de magnitud igual o superior a 1.5 o sentidos:

List of earthquakes for the last 10 days for the Canary Islands of magnitude equal to or greater than 1.5
La información de terremotos de magnitud inferior se puede obtener en Catálogo y boletines sísmicos.
Information for earthquakes of lesser intensity can be obtained at Catálogo y boletines sísmicos.Esta información está sujeta a modificaciones como consecuencia de la continua revisión del análisis sísmico.This information is subject to modification as a consequence of continuous revision and analysis of seismic data.Event Date Time Lat. Long. Depth Mag. Location Info.

Evento	Fecha	Hora(GMT)*	Latitud	Longitud	Prof. (km)	Int. Máx.	Mag.	Tipo Mag. (**)	Localización	Info
1170963	19/10/2012	17:21:12	27.7721	-18.0876	11		2.5	mbLg	W FRONTERA.IHI	[+]
1170881	18/10/2012	21:38:00	27.6812	-18.0863	20		1.8	mbLg	W EL PINAR.IHI	[+]
1170640	17/10/2012	05:31:59	27.7946	-18.1027	12		1.7	mbLg	NW FRONTERA.IHI	[+]
1170134	14/10/2012	14:37:28	27.6978	-18.0196	21	I-II	2.2	mbLg	W EL PINAR.IHI	[+]
1169884	12/10/2012	12:45:00	27.6916	-18.0169	20		2.6	mbLg	SW EL PINAR.IHI	[+]
1169573	10/10/2012	08:49:04	27.7369	-18.0301	12		2.0	mbLg	SW FRONTERA.IHI	[+]
1169505	10/10/2012	05:09:26	27.6900	-18.0335	22		1.9	mbLg	SW EL PINAR.IHI	[+]
1169479	09/10/2012	20:23:56	27.6965	-18.0199	23		2.5	mbLg	W EL PINAR.IHI	[+]

*** Translation by Desert Rose

LISS – Live Internet Seismic Server

GSN Stations

These data update automatically every 30 minutes. Last update: October 19, 2012 18:18:57 UTC

Seismograms may take several moments to load. Click on a plot to see larger image.

CU/ANWB, Willy Bob, Antigua and Barbuda

CU/BBGH, Gun Hill, Barbados

CU/BCIP, Isla Barro Colorado, Panama

CU/GRGR, Grenville, Grenada

CU/GRTK, Grand Turk, Turks and Caicos Islands

CU/GTBY, Guantanamo Bay, Cuba

CU/MTDJ, Mount Denham, Jamaica

CU/SDDR, Presa de Sabaneta, Dominican Republic

CU/TGUH, Tegucigalpa, Honduras

IC/BJT, Baijiatuan, Beijing, China

IC/ENH, Enshi, China

IC/HIA, Hailar, Neimenggu Province, China

IC/LSA, Lhasa, China

IC/MDJ, Mudanjiang, China

IC/QIZ, Qiongzhong, Guangduong Province, China

IU/ADK, Aleutian Islands, Alaska, USA

IU/AFI, Afiamalu, Samoa

IU/ANMO, Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA

IU/ANTO, Ankara, Turkey

IU/BBSR, Bermuda

IU/BILL, Bilibino, Russia

IU/CASY, Casey, Antarctica

IU/CCM, Cathedral Cave, Missouri, USA

IU/CHTO, Chiang Mai, Thailand

IU/COLA, College Outpost, Alaska, USA

IU/COR, Corvallis, Oregon, USA

IU/CTAO, Charters Towers, Australia

IU/DAV,Davao, Philippines

IU/DWPF,Disney Wilderness Preserve, Florida, USA

IU/FUNA,Funafuti, Tuvalu

IU/FURI, Mt. Furi, Ethiopia

IU/GNI, Garni, Armenia

IU/GRFO, Grafenberg, Germany

IU/GUMO, Guam, Mariana Islands

IU/HKT, Hockley, Texas, USA

IU/HNR, Honiara, Solomon Islands

IU/HRV, Adam Dziewonski Observatory (Oak Ridge), Massachusetts, USA

IU/INCN, Inchon, Republic of Korea

IU/JOHN, Johnston Island, Pacific Ocean

IU/KBS, Ny-Alesund, Spitzbergen, Norway

IU/KEV, Kevo, Finland

IU/KIEV, Kiev, Ukraine

IU/KIP, Kipapa, Hawaii, USA

IU/KMBO, Kilima Mbogo, Kenya

IU/KNTN, Kanton Island, Kiribati

IU/KONO, Kongsberg, Norway

IU/KOWA, Kowa, Mali

IU/LCO, Las Campanas Astronomical Observatory, Chile

IU/LSZ, Lusaka, Zambia

IU/LVC, Limon Verde, Chile

IU/MA2, Magadan, Russia

IU/MAJO, Matsushiro, Japan

IU/MAKZ,Makanchi, Kazakhstan

IU/MBWA, Marble Bar, Western Australia

IU/MIDW, Midway Island, Pacific Ocean, USA

IU/MSKU, Masuku, Gabon

IU/NWAO, Narrogin, Australia

IU/OTAV, Otavalo, Equador

IU/PAB, San Pablo, Spain

IU/PAYG Puerto Ayora, Galapagos Islands

IU/PET, Petropavlovsk, Russia

IU/PMG, Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea

IU/PMSA, Palmer Station, Antarctica

IU/POHA, Pohakaloa, Hawaii

IU/PTCN, Pitcairn Island, South Pacific

IU/PTGA, Pitinga, Brazil

IU/QSPA, South Pole, Antarctica

IU/RAO, Raoul, Kermandec Islands

IU/RAR, Rarotonga, Cook Islands

IU/RCBR, Riachuelo, Brazil

IU/RSSD, Black Hills, South Dakota, USA

IU/SAML, Samuel, Brazil

IU/SBA, Scott Base, Antarctica

IU/SDV, Santo Domingo, Venezuela

IU/SFJD, Sondre Stromfjord, Greenland

IU/SJG, San Juan, Puerto Rico

IU/SLBS, Sierra la Laguna Baja California Sur, Mexico

IU/SNZO, South Karori, New Zealand

IU/SSPA, Standing Stone, Pennsylvania USA

IU/TARA, Tarawa Island, Republic of Kiribati

IU/TATO, Taipei, Taiwan

IU/TEIG, Tepich, Yucatan, Mexico

IU/TIXI, Tiksi, Russia

IU/TRIS, Tristan da Cunha, Atlantic Ocean

IU/TRQA, Tornquist, Argentina

IU/TSUM, Tsumeb, Namibia

IU/TUC, Tucson, Arizona

IU/ULN, Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia

IU/WAKE, Wake Island, Pacific Ocean

IU/WCI, Wyandotte Cave, Indiana, USA

IU/WVT, Waverly, Tennessee, USA

IU/XMAS, Kiritimati Island, Republic of Kiribati

IU/YAK, Yakutsk, Russia

IU/YSS, Yuzhno Sakhalinsk, Russia

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Volcanic Activity

Katla Eruption Levees in South Iceland Checked

Chief of Police in Hvolsvöllur, a representative of the Icelandic Road Administration and geophysicist Magnús Tumi Guðmundsson will discuss at a meeting on Thursday whether the levees to the east of Vík, which lies across the Ring Road near the river Múlakvísl, must be raised to prove effective in case of a volcanic eruption in Katla.

Vík. Photo by Bernhild Vögel.

Geologist Ari Trausti Guðmundsson stated in an article in Morgunblaðið yesterday that it is important to raise the levees judging by the information available on the volume and depth of flooding from Katla, ruv.is reports.

The volcano lies underneath the Mýrdalsjökull icecap and a volcanic eruption is likely to cause a major glacier outburst.

The levees are the responsibility of the Icelandic Road Administration and according to a report conducted by Einar Hafliðason, a representative of the Road Administration, last spring there was no need to raise the levees given the conditions at hand.

The levees are now five meters high and 4,000-5,000 meters long.

Scientists are monitoring the volcano closely due to ongoing seismic activity.

Kilauea Volcano lava lake reaches highest level

Published on Oct 16, 2012 by bigislandvideonews

16.10.2012 06:37 PM

Pacific Ocean – Northwest, Japan

Unnamed Underwater Volcano, About 3 miles north-northeast of Minami-Iwoto island

Volcano Eruption

0804-093

Submarine volcano ?

No. 0

Volcano Eruption in Japan on Tuesday, 16 October, 2012 at 18:37 (06:37 PM) UTC.

Description

An underwater volcanic eruption was detected Wednesday morning close to Minami-Iwoto island in the Pacific Ocean and an expert speculated that the eruption could form a permanent island. A coast guard vessel spotted a white plume of smoke rising from the sea about three miles north-northeast of the island. It was the first time since July 2005 that volcanic smoke had been detected in the area, which is located about 745 miles south of central Tokyo. According to an announcement by the 3rd Regional Coast Guard Headquarters of the Japan Coast Guard, based in Yokohama, the volcano spewed ash and smoke about 100 meters into the air, and the surrounding sea area changed to a yellowish-green color while other parts became a cloudy gray. According to the Meteorological Agency, the volcano, known as Fukutokuokanoba, has erupted seven times since 1904, when its activities were first recorded. On three occasions, land masses were formed, but all later sank below the waterline. Tokyo Institute of Technology Prof. Kenji Nogami, an expert in geoscience, said: “In the 1986 eruption, a new island appeared after lava accumulated. The island was washed away by waves, but seabed upheaval reduced the water depth to 22 meters in 1999. It’s possible that this (recent) volcanic activity could form a permanent island.”

15.10.2012 12:23 PM

Kamchatka Peninsula, Russia [Asia]

Klyuchevskaya Sopka Volcano

Volcano Eruption

1000-26=

Stratovolcano

2009

No. 0

Volcano Eruption in Russia [Asia] on Monday, 15 October, 2012 at 12:23 (12:23 PM) UTC.

Description

The highest active volcano in Eurasia, Klyuchevskaya Sopka has started to erupt, officials with the Institute of Volcanology and Seismology said. On the night of October 15, there was light seen over the summit of the volcano indicating a blowout of lava in its crater, Vesti.ru reports. Experts believe the release of ash to the height of 6 feet above sea level may start any moment. Lava flows on the slopes of the volcano are also expected. Yellow aviation color code has been assigned to the volcano to warn about the potential danger that the volcanic ash and gases may pose to aircraft engines. Nothing has been said about the possible threat to human settlements. The nearest settlement is 30 kilometers far from Klyuchevskaya Sopka. The last eruption of Klyuchevskaya Sopka took place from September 2009 to December 2010. In June this year, the giant began to wake up again.

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Extreme Temperatures/ Weather

Global drought a ‘new normal’: report

by Staff Writers
New York (UPI)

disclaimer: image is for illustration purposes only

Increasing drought conditions across the planet are part of a “new normal” which oddly presents new business opportunities, a new Bank of America Merrill Lynch report says.

The report comes just after insurer Munich Re’s findings that North America has borne the brunt of weather-related natural catastrophes, with 30,000 deaths and insured losses of $510 billion in the 1980-2011 period.

The ongoing drought is the worst in the United States since at least 1956, with 63 percent of the lower 48 states suffering drought conditions in August, says the BofA Merrill Lynch report, “Global Drought — Opportunities and Risks.”

While conditions are far from those in the Dust Bowl years of the 1930s, drought conditions are the new normal, the report said.

Previous reports in a series focused on obesity, energy efficiency and safety and security.

“Food, water and energy security are increasingly bigger issues, and as governments, businesses and other players struggle to adapt to and mitigate drought conditions, there will be an evolving set of opportunities and risks for investors,” the bankers said in their findings.

For investors interested in the fight against drought and in promoting food, water and energy security, the financial group has introduced a screen that identifies liquid stocks exposed to global drought-related themes under the Bloomberg ticker MLEIARID.

The stocks included in the screen are those that it considers to be long-term solution providers in such areas as water, fertilizers, crop science, energy efficiency, second-generation biofuels and renewables.

“The severity of the global drought underscores the long-term challenges for national and global economies,” said Sarbjit Nahal, a co-author of the report.

The Munich Re report also cited conditions in which North American stakeholders could benefit by learning about the weather risks.

The study was prepared in order to support underwriters and Munich Re clients in North America, the world’s largest insurance and reinsurance market.

“The North American continent is exposed to every type of hazardous weather peril — tropical cyclone, thunderstorm, winter storm, tornado, wildfire, drought and flood. One reason for this is that there is no mountain range running east to west that separates hot from cold air,” said the report.

Nowhere in the world is the rising number of natural catastrophes more evident than in North America, it said.

Munich Re’s Geo Risks Research unit head Peter Hoppe called on all concerned to “collaborate and close ranks” to meet the situation.

Peter Roder, Munich Re board member with responsibility for the U.S. market, said, “We should prepare for the weather risk changes that lie ahead, and nowhere more so than in North America.”

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Extreme Weather

Malaysia

State of Pulau Pinang, Kampung Sungai Burung

Extreme Weather in Malaysia on Friday, 19 October, 2012 at 15:01 (03:01 PM) UTC.

Description

Twenty-two houses at Kampung Sungai Burung and Jalan Baru Sungai Korok here were badly damaged during a severe thunderstorm today. In the noon incident, the winds blew away rooftops while falling trees compounded the destruction on the houses. Resident Zulkiflee Mat Yusof, 50, said many of the electrical items in his house were damaged by rain water, fanned by the winds into the house. A Bakso stall operator who only wanted to be identified as Anis, 31, said she was busy serving customers when the thunderstorm struck. “It was so sudden that I had no time to act,” she said, finding her stall and wares completely destroyed in the aftermath. Senior citizen Jamaludin Ahamad, 65, said he and his family were having their lunch in the living room when a tree at the back of the house fell and hit the kitchen roof.

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Storms / Flooding / Tornadoes

Active tropical storm system(s)

Name of storm system	Location	Formed	Last update	Last category	Course	Wind Speed	Gust	Wave	Source	Details
Maria (23W)	Pacific Ocean	14.10.2012	19.10.2012	Tropical Depression	100 °	56 km/h	74 km/h	4.57 m	JTWC

Tropical Storm data

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Storm name:	Maria (23W)
Area:	Pacific Ocean
Start up location:	N 17° 48.000, E 142° 24.000
Start up:	14th October 2012
Status:	Active
Track long:	1,379.19 km
Top category.:
Report by:	JTWC

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Past track
Date	Time	Position	Speed km/h	Wind km/h	Gust km/h	Category	Course	Wave	Pressure	Source
14th Oct 2012	17:15:13	N 17° 48.000, E 142° 24.000	19	65	83	Tropical Storm	290	10		JTWC
15th Oct 2012	05:06:53	N 19° 30.000, E 142° 6.000	17	93	120	Tropical Storm	345	13		JTWC
15th Oct 2012	10:54:07	N 20° 54.000, E 141° 24.000	28	93	120	Tropical Storm	335	10		JTWC
15th Oct 2012	15:21:40	N 22° 42.000, E 141° 6.000	33	93	120	Tropical Storm	350	15		JTWC
16th Oct 2012	04:50:36	N 25° 24.000, E 140° 42.000	17	93	120	Tropical Storm	350	16		JTWC
16th Oct 2012	10:53:28	N 26° 54.000, E 141° 6.000	28	102	130	Tropical Storm	15	15		JTWC
16th Oct 2012	16:20:31	N 27° 36.000, E 141° 36.000	15	102	130	Tropical Storm	30	16		JTWC
17th Oct 2012	05:09:34	N 28° 54.000, E 143° 30.000	20	102	130	Tropical Storm	70	11		JTWC
17th Oct 2012	12:10:15	N 29° 30.000, E 144° 48.000	24	93	120	Tropical Storm	60	19		JTWC
17th Oct 2012	16:13:13	N 30° 24.000, E 146° 18.000	30	83	102	Tropical Storm	55	16		JTWC
18th Oct 2012	10:43:32	N 32° 12.000, E 153° 18.000	48	74	93	Tropical Storm	80	18		JTWC

Current position
Date	Time	Position	Speed km/h	Wind km/h	Gust km/h	Category	Course	Wave feet	Pressure	Source
19th Oct 2012	12:08:22	N 31° 12.000, E 158° 48.000	19	56	74	Tropical Depression	100 °	15		JTWC

Forecast track
Date	Time	Position	Category	Wind km/h	Gust km/h	Source
20th Oct 2012	06:00:00	N 30° 30.000, E 162° 12.000	Tropical Depression	37	56	JTWC

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Bill Read’s Blog: Rare Tropical Cyclone in Indian Ocean

Author: Bill Read, KPRC Local 2 Hurricane Expert

HOUSTON –

Tropical Cyclone Anais is estimated to have a maximum wind of 115 mph as of early this morning, which is equivalent to a category 3 hurricane in the Atlantic Ocean.
The southwestern Indian Ocean is prone to tropical cyclones but what makes Anais so rare is that it is occurring in October, which is early springtime in the southern Hemisphere.

The peak period for tropical events in this part of the world is normally during our winter months of January-March.

Anais is forecast to move southwest in the general direction of Madagascar for the next five days and weaken as it moves into cooler waters and unfavorable winds.

We rarely hear much about the southern Indian Ocean storms as the area has little land and the storms mostly stay at sea.

Occasionally Madagascar or the island nations of Mauritius and Reunion will take a hit, and more rarely a storm will reach mainland Africa.

Forecast responsibility for this region is through the French weather service, Meteo France, located in La Reunion to the east of Madagascar.

The countries in the Indian Ocean simply refer to these storms as Tropical Cyclones, regardless of intensity.

Tropical Cyclone Anais is the same thing as a hurricane in the Atlantic or typhoon in the western Pacific.

However, note that it rotates the opposite direction, clockwise, because it is in the southern Hemisphere.

To illustrate how unusual this event is, Anais is like having a Category 3 hurricane in the Caribbean in April.

Tropical cyclones are occurring more frequently than before

by Staff Writers
Copenhagen, Denmark (SPX)

Storm surges are considered to be the most dangerous and the most destructive aspect of tropical cyclones. The study shows that globally warm years has been associated with a significantly higher risk of extreme hurricane storm surges like the one that followed Katrina, which hit the New Orleans area in 2005 and caused devastating floods and thousands of deaths. Credit: Credit: LCDR Mark Moran, NOAA Corps, NMAO/AOC.

Are there more tropical cyclones now than in the past? – or is it just something we believe because we now hear more about them through media coverage and are better able detect them with satellites?

New research from the Niels Bohr Institute clearly shows that there is an increasing tendency for cyclones when the climate is warmer, as it has been in recent years. The results are published in the scientific journal PNAS.

How can you examine the frequency of tropical cyclones throughout history when they have not been systematically registered? Today cyclones are monitored from satellites and you can follow their progress and direction very accurately. But it is only the last approx. 40 years that we have been able to do this.

Previously, they used observations from ships and aircraft, but these were not systematic measurements. In order to get a long-term view of the frequency of cyclones, it is necessary to go further back in time and use a uniform reference.

Climate scientist Aslak Grinsted of the Centre for Ice and Climate at the Niels Bohr Institute at the University of Copenhagen therefore wanted to find some instruments that have stood and registered measurements continuously over a long period of time.

Correlation between sea levels and cyclones
“Tropical cyclones typically form out in the Atlantic Ocean and move towards the U.S. East Coast and the Gulf of Mexico.

“I found that there were monitoring stations along the Eastern Seaboard of the United States where they had recorded the daily tide levels all the way back to 1923.

“I have looked at every time there was a rapid change in sea level and I could see that there was a close correlation between sudden changes in sea level and historical accounts of tropical storms,” explains Aslak Grinsted.

Aslak Grinsted now had a tool to create statistics on the frequency of cyclones that make landfall – all the way back to 1923. He could see that there has been an increasing trend in the number of major storm surges since 1923.

Correlation between cyclones and climate
Together with colleagues in China and England, he then looked at the global temperatures over the period to see whether there was a trend for a higher frequency of cyclones in a warmer climate.

The global temperature has increased 0.7 degrees C since 1923, but there are variations. For example, there was a warm period in the 1940s but the temperature has really risen since 1980.

“We simply counted how many extreme cyclones with storm surges there were in warm years compared to cold years and we could see that there was a tendency for more cyclones in warmer years,” says Aslak Grinsted.

But not all cyclones are equally harmful and those with the highest storm surges tend to cause the most damage. Cyclones with a strength like Katrina, which hit the New Orleans area in 2005 and caused devastating floods and thousands of deaths, make landfall every 10-30 years on average.

“We have calculated that extreme hurricane surges like Katrina are twice as likely in warm years than in cold years. So when the global climate becomes 3 degrees warmer in the future, as predictions show, what happens then?,” reflects Aslak Grinsted.

Multiple Tornadoes Strike Arkansas, Mississippi

By Bill Deger, Meteorologist

At least eight people were injured as a round of severe storms, including a few tornadoes, swept through the Mississippi Valley and South Wednesday and Wednesday night.

According to preliminary reports compiled by the Storm Prediction Center (SPC), at least four tornadoes touched down across Arkansas and Mississippi.

Photos: Late-Night Tornadoes Keep People Up All Night

A potent cold front moving across the Lower Mississippi Valley acted as the ignition for the thunderstorms. Enough humid air was in place to support the growth of severe thunderstorms capable of spawning tornadoes. Twisting winds in the atmosphere aided the rotation in thunderstorms, further aiding tornado development.

Strong winds, wind damage or hail was reported across a half dozen states in total, from Illinois to Mississippi.

One particularly damaging tornado tracked across Sharkey County, Miss., shortly before 11:00 p.m. local time, destroying numerous mobile homes and injuring five near the town of Louise, which sustained “heavy” damage according to local law enforcement.

The same tornadic thunderstorm narrowly missed nearby Yazoo City, which was devastated by a pair of tornadoes in 2010.

The towns of Clarendon and West Jericho, Ark., and Shelby, Miss., were also impacted by tornadoes Wednesday evening, according to various reports.

Severe storm reports from Wed., Oct. 17. Strong winds and wind damage incidents are indicated in blue, while tornadoes are plotted in red and hail in green. (SPC)

It is possible that more tornadoes will be confirmed to have touched down across the region as other incidents of wind damage are assessed by the National Weather Service over the next couple of days.

One such incident occurred in Scott County, Miss., where a person was injured when a tree fell onto their mobile home.

Strong thunderstorm winds heavily damaged about a dozen buildings in Bland, Mo., earlier in the day, including the town’s post office, where two people sustained minor injuries.

As of 4:30 a.m. EST Thursday, there were nearly 100 reports of severe weather and damage from the severe weather outbreak. Eighty of the reports alone were wind damage, ranging from downed trees and power lines to partially collapsed structures.

While not as prolific, a few storms produced one-inch diameter hail stones in Arkansas, Mississippi and Tennessee.

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Tornado

USA

State of Mississippi, [East of Jackson]

Tornado in USA on Friday, 19 October, 2012 at 03:21 (03:21 AM) UTC.

Description

The National Weather Service has confirmed that at least four tornadoes were part of the storm system that raked northern and central Mississippi on Wednesday night and Thursday morning. The biggest of the four storms was a twister that traveled 16 miles from Scott into Newton counties east of Jackson. With a half-mile-wide damage path, it was rated EF-3 on the Fujita scale, with peak winds estimated at 140 mph. That storm blew down trees as well as three electrical transmission towers. One person was injured when a tree fell through a roof. Authorities said Thursday that at least seven people were injured when a line of storms pushed across the state.

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Tornado

USA

State of Arkansas, Clarendon

Tornado in USA on Friday, 19 October, 2012 at 02:59 (02:59 AM) UTC.

Description

As severe storms pounded central and eastern Arkansas Wednesday evening, the Monroe County town of Clarendon experienced widespread power outages and heavy damage to some buildings. With most of the town without power for much of the night, several community members drove around town trying to offer help as best they could. Metal awnings from a building were ripped off and tossed across the street, and trees were downed, including one that hit a Clarendon video store just moments after the owner, Denise Davenport, left. Davenport said she left after friends called her and told her the storm was approaching. Shortly afterward, she says she heard the city’s weather sirens sound. Davenport also credits the support from the community for keeping her safe in a dangerous situation.

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Radiation / Nuclear

Quake prompts ‘unusual event’ at Seabrook nuke plant

By John Breneman
jbreneman@seacoastonline.com
SEABROOK — An “unusual event” indeed. The 4.0 magnitude earthquake that rumbled across the Seacoast and beyond Tuesday evening triggered normal safety protocols at the Seabrook Station nuclear power plant.

The Nuclear Regulatory Commission declared an “unusual event” — NRC-speak for the lowest of its four levels of emergency classifications — at 7:20 p.m. Tuesday. The declaration was prompted by on-site ground motion resulting from an earthquake centered near Hollis, Maine — about 50 miles from the plant.

“There was absolutely no impact to the plant from the earthquake,” said Al Griffith, spokesman for NextEra Energy, the plant’s owner. Griffith said a series of mandated safety checks were conducted at the plant, concluding at 1:49 a.m., some six and a half hours after the tremor.

Citing the “robustness” of the plant’s design, Griffith assured that it is capable of withstanding a far, far greater impact than Tuesday’s quake.

There are seismic monitors on site and Griffith said officials will be conducting “a very thorough examination and analysis of all of our data.”

An NRC resident inspector assigned to Seabrook responded to the site last night to confirm that there were no immediate safety issues at the plant, which is currently shut down for a scheduled refueling and maintenance outage.

“The reactor was fully shut down at the time the earthquake occurred,” said Neil Sheehan, regional public officer for the NRC.

“Following procedures used when there is seismic activity affecting the plant, NextEra personnel conducted initial walkdowns, i.e., visual inspections, and confirmed that all key safety systems were functioning properly and that there was no significant structural damage,” Sheehan said in a statement. “The company will subsequently gather more seismic data and perform more detailed inspections.”

Asked about the need to be vigilant in preparing for and reacting to any seismic activity, particularly in the wake of the March 2011 disaster following an earthquake and tsunami at the Fukushima Nuclear Power Plant in Japan, Sheehan said, “What happened at Fukushima served as a vivid reminder” of why the highest safety protocols are put in place and enforced.

Last April, NextEra Energy conducted a tsunami drill Tuesday at the Seabrook Station plant in order to identify strengths and weaknesses of the plant in case of such a disaster.

Gavin Allwright Talks About Fukushima.

Published on Oct 16, 2012 by Goodisplanetearth gipetv

Gavin Allwright Talks About Fukushima @ Bridgewater Anti-Nuclear Rally Say No To Hinkley C.
http://www.greenheartproject.org/en/

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Epidemic Hazards / Diseases

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Epidemic Hazard

Uganda

Western Uganda, [Kabale District]

Epidemic Hazard in Uganda on Friday, 19 October, 2012 at 10:56 (10:56 AM) UTC.

Description
Health experts have confirmed an outbreak of the deadly Marburg virus in the western district of Kabale after samples from two relatives taken to the Uganda Virus Institute tested positive. Police Thursday stopped the burial of Boaz Turyahikayo a lecturer at Uganda Christian University and his sister Mildrid Asasira after it emerged that their family had lost four people from a mysterious disease in just a month. The other two are Lillian Banegura their mother and an elder brother Bernard Rutaro who passed away early this month. Dr. Patrick Tusiime the Kabale district health officer said a team from the Ministry of Health and World Health Organization is on its way to oversee the burial of the two victims. The Marburg virus was last reported in Uganda in 2008. It carries symptoms similar to those of Ebola that include fever, vomiting and internal bleeding.
Biohazard name:	Marburg virus disease (MVD)
Biohazard level:	4/4 Hazardous
Biohazard desc.:	Viruses and bacteria that cause severe to fatal disease in humans, and for which vaccines or other treatments are not available, such as Bolivian and Argentine hemorrhagic fevers, H5N1(bird flu), Dengue hemorrhagic fever, Marburg virus, Ebola virus, hantaviruses, Lassa fever, Crimean-Congo hemorrhagic fever, and other hemorrhagic or unidentified diseases. When dealing with biological hazards at this level the use of a Hazmat suit and a self-contained oxygen supply is mandatory. The entrance and exit of a Level Four biolab will contain multiple showers, a vacuum room, an ultraviolet light room, autonomous detection system, and other safety precautions designed to destroy all traces of the biohazard. Multiple airlocks are employed and are electronically secured to prevent both doors opening at the same time. All air and water service going to and coming from a Biosafety Level 4 (P4) lab will undergo similar decontamination procedures to eliminate the possibility of an accidental release.
Symptoms:
Status:	confirmed

17.10.2012

Epidemic Hazard

Portugal

Atlantic Ocean – North, [Madeira Autonomous Region]

Epidemic Hazard in Portugal on Friday, 12 October, 2012 at 16:59 (04:59 PM) UTC.

Description
Eighteen people are confirmed to be suffering from dengue fever in the Portuguese archipelago of Madeira and another 191 probably have the mosquito-borne disease which is also called “breakbone fever” because of the severe pain it can cause. The European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC.L) which monitors disease in the European Union, said the outbreak was “significant but not entirely unexpected” given that the most efficient carriers of the disease, mosquitoes known as Aedes aegypti, have an established presence in Madeira. “Portuguese public health authorities are implementing control measures to reduce the risk of sustained transmission locally, the export of infected vectors from the island, and to minimise the impact on the affected population,” it said. The ECDC said the risk for tourists visiting Madeira and for residents of the island would “depend on the course of the outbreak in the coming weeks and the effectiveness of the control measures.” It did not recommend any restrictions on travel or tourism to Madeira, but advised people to protect themselves adequately against mosquito bites, particularly during the day which is when dengue-carrying mosquitoes are most active.
Biohazard name:	Dengue Fever
Biohazard level:	2/4 Medium
Biohazard desc.:	Bacteria and viruses that cause only mild disease to humans, or are difficult to contract via aerosol in a lab setting, such as hepatitis A, B, and C, influenza A, Lyme disease, salmonella, mumps, measles, scrapie, dengue fever, and HIV. “Routine diagnostic work with clinical specimens can be done safely at Biosafety Level 2, using Biosafety Level 2 practices and procedures. Research work (including co-cultivation, virus replication studies, or manipulations involving concentrated virus) can be done in a BSL-2 (P2) facility, using BSL-3 practices and procedures. Virus production activities, including virus concentrations, require a BSL-3 (P3) facility and use of BSL-3 practices and procedures”, see Recommended Biosafety Levels for Infectious Agents.
Symptoms:	The disease is a viral infection that can cause a range of symptoms, from mild flu-like illness to more serious illnesses including rashes and bone pain. Severe and potentially deadly forms develop in around 5 percent of patients.
Status:	confirmed

Epidemic Hazard in Portugal on Friday, 12 October, 2012 at 16:59 (04:59 PM) UTC.

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Updated:	Wednesday, 17 October, 2012 at 03:06 UTC
Description
The United Kingdomâs Health Protection Agency reported 18 confirmed cases of dengue fever on the Madeira archipelago in Portugal and 191 probable cases since early October. The reported cases mark the first time that the mosquito-borne viral infection has been reported in Madeira. Health authorities in Madeira are looking into the cases and are implementing prevention and control measures along with a public awareness campaign. âDengue fever cannot be passed from person to person and infection occurs after being bitten by the Aedes mosquito carrying the virus,â Jane Jones, a travel-associated infection expert at the HPA, said. âTo minimize the risk of being bitten it is advisable to wear appropriate clothing to cover up â such as long sleeve tops and trousers, and to use insect repellents.â Dengue can cause multiple clinical symptoms, including a mild flu-like illness. It can also cause more serious symptoms such as rash, bone pain and severe complications. âThere is no specific preventive medicine or vaccination against dengue fever and prevention relies on avoiding mosquito bites particularly around dusk and dawn when the day biting mosquitoes are most active,â Dipti Patel, the joint director of the National Travel Health Network and Center, said. âAnyone who develops a fever or flu-like symptoms within two weeks of returning from a trip to Madeira should seek medical advice from NHS Direct or their GP.â Approximately 2.5 billion people worldwide are at risk of acquiring dengue fever, according to the World Health Organization.

17.10.2012

Epidemic Hazard

Zambia

Central State, [Lukanga Swamps (Kapiri Mposhi district)]

Epidemic Hazard in Zambia on Friday, 12 October, 2012 at 15:30 (03:30 PM) UTC.

Description
The diarrhoeal disease which broke-out last week and has since claimed over 14 lives of fishermen in Lukanga Swamps in Kapiri Mposhi district has been confirmed to be cholera. Kapiri Mposhi District Medical Officer, Charles Mwinuna confirmed to ZANIS today that according to the second-round of tests conducted on the samples obtained from the patients admitted at Waya clinic in the area, the diarrheal disease was confirmed cholera. Over 20 patients are admitted to Waya clinic after experiencing severe diarrhoea and vomiting. Dr Mwinuna said officers from the District Health Management Team have since been dispatched to Lukanga Swamps and were treating people with cholera symptoms. He also said precautionary measures were being taken to ensure that the disease does not spread to other areas in the district. Dr Mwinuna said the health personnel dispatched to Lukanga Swamps are also conducting further tests and contact tracing of the origin of patients admitted to the clinic and were sensitizing the community on hygiene and providing chlorine to households to reduce the chances of spreading the diarrheal disease. Fourteen people have so far died of the disease which was earlier mistaken to be severe diarrhoea. The diarrhoea and vomiting disease broke out at Kaswende, Waya, Kabosha and Ngwenya fishing camps on Lukanga Swamps. The bodies of the deceased are being buried at a cholera designated graveyard in the area Meanwhile, a traditional leader has appealed to the Ministry of Health to open-up cholera Centres in all fishing camps to treat patients and reduce chances of further spreading the diarrheal disease. Headwoman Agnes Chimbuleni noted that the disease has claimed many lives in the area because of the distances patients had to cover to Waya clinic from the fishing camps for treatment.
Biohazard name:	Cholera
Biohazard level:	2/4 Medium
Biohazard desc.:	Bacteria and viruses that cause only mild disease to humans, or are difficult to contract via aerosol in a lab setting, such as hepatitis A, B, and C, influenza A, Lyme disease, salmonella, mumps, measles, scrapie, dengue fever, and HIV. “Routine diagnostic work with clinical specimens can be done safely at Biosafety Level 2, using Biosafety Level 2 practices and procedures. Research work (including co-cultivation, virus replication studies, or manipulations involving concentrated virus) can be done in a BSL-2 (P2) facility, using BSL-3 practices and procedures. Virus production activities, including virus concentrations, require a BSL-3 (P3) facility and use of BSL-3 practices and procedures”, see Recommended Biosafety Levels for Infectious Agents.
Symptoms:
Status:	confirmed

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Climate Change

Global warming is ‘causing more hurricanes’

Scientists use tidal data to link frequency and intensity of storms to rises in temperature

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Scientists have found support for the controversial idea that global warming is causing more frequent and destructive hurricanes, a subject that has been hotly debated during the past decade.

Data gathered from tide gauges, which monitor the rapid changes to sea levels caused by storm surges, show a significant link between both the frequency and intensity of tropical storms and increases in annual temperatures since the tidal records began in 1923.

The study found that during the 90-year period, when the average global temperature has increased by 0.7C, extreme hurricanes similar to Katrina, which devastated New Orleans in 2005, were nearly twice as likely in warmer years as colder years.

Although scientists were not able to prove that climate change is causing more large hurricanes, they believe the study is consistent with the predictions that global warming and warmer seas could bring about more intense tropical storms.

Hurricanes form when the sea’s surface temperature increases above 26C. However, they result from a chaotic interaction between the difference in sea and air temperatures, humidity and wind, so there is disagreement about how frequent they will become in a warmer world.

Studying the link between global warming and tropical storms has been hampered by the lack of data on hurricanes before the satellite age. Many hurricanes out at sea were missed before the first weather satellites were launched about 40 years ago.

However, a network of tide gauges around the south-east coast of the US has produced a reliable record of the rapid changes to sea level caused by storm surges resulting from tropical cyclones, said Aslak Grinsted of the Niels Bohr Institute at Copenhagen University.

“I found that there were monitoring stations along the eastern seaboard of the United States where they had recorded the daily tide levels all the way back to 1923. I have looked at every time there was a rapid change in sea level and I could see there was a close correlation between sudden changes in sea level and historical accounts of tropical storms,” Dr Grinsted said.

Once the correlation between storm surges and tropical storms was established, the researchers analysed global temperature records to compare the number of storm surges in warm years with the number observed in cold years.

“We simply counted how many extreme cyclones with storm surges there were in warm years compared with cold years and we could see that there was a tendency for more cyclones in warmer years,” Dr Grinsted said.

Storms of destruction: devastating weather

Wilma (2005)

The most intense Atlantic hurricane on record started in the Caribbean Sea near Jamaica, moving across the Gulf of Mexico to Cancun where it hit land with devastating consequences.

Katrina (2005)

The most costly hurricane in history caused damages of $85bn. The category-3 storm formed over the Bahamas crossed Florida and the Gulf of Mexico before striking New Orleans.

Gilbert (1988)

The second most intense hurricane observed in the Atlantic. It began to the east of Barbados before hitting Jamaica and the Gulf of Mexico. It raged for nine days, killing 433 people.

Dinosaur-era acoustics: Global warming may give oceans the ‘sound’ of the Cretaceous

by Staff Writers
Washington DC (SPX)

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Global temperatures directly affect the acidity of the ocean, which in turn changes the acoustical properties of sea water. New research suggests that global warming may give Earth’s oceans the same hi-fi sound qualities they had more than 100 million years ago, during the Age of the Dinosaurs.

The reason for this surprising communication upgrade is that whales vocalize in the low-frequency sound range, typically less than 200 hertz, and the new research predicts that by the year 2100, global warming will acidify saltwater sufficiently to make low-frequency sound near the ocean surface travel significantly farther than it currently does – perhaps twice as far.

Rhode Island acoustician David G. Browning, lead scientist on the research team, will present his findings at the 164th meeting of the Acoustical Society of America (ASA), held Oct. 22 – 26 in Kansas City, Missouri.

He explains the sea change this way: “We call it the Cretaceous acoustic effect, because ocean acidification forced by global warming appears to be leading us back to the similar ocean acoustic conditions as those that existed 110 million years ago, during the Age of Dinosaurs.”

Their work builds on the recent investigation by other researchers who analyzed historic levels of boron in seafloor sediments to reconstruct ocean acidity for the past 300 million years.

Using boron’s sound absorption traits and impact on low-frequency transmission, Browning and his colleagues were able to predict the soundscape of ancient oceans to conclude that 300 million years ago, during the Paleozoic, the low frequency sound transmission in the ocean was similar to conditions today.

They also found that transmission improved as the ocean became more acidic, reaching its best transmission value around 110 million years ago – allowing low frequency sound to travel twice as far.

“This knowledge is important in many ways,” notes Browning.

“It impacts the design and performance prediction of sonar systems. It affects estimation of low frequency ambient noise levels in the ocean. And it’s something we have to consider to improve our understanding of the sound environment of marine mammals and the effects of human activity on that environment.”

If further work validates this model, future SCUBA divers might hear in the oceans with the same clarity as the dinosaurs.

Tropical collapse caused by lethal heat

by Staff Writers
Leeds UK (SPX)

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Scientists have discovered why the ‘broken world’ following the worst extinction of all time lasted so long – it was simply too hot to survive.

The end-Permian mass extinction, which occurred around 250 million years ago in the pre-dinosaur era, wiped out nearly all the world’s species. Typically, a mass extinction is followed by a ‘dead zone’ during which new species are not seen for tens of thousands of years. In this case, the dead zone, during the Early Triassic period which followed, lasted for a perplexingly long period: five million years.

A study jointly led by the University of Leeds and China University of Geosciences (Wuhan), in collaboration with the University of Erlangen-Nurnburg (Germany), shows the cause of this lengthy devastation was a temperature rise to lethal levels in the tropics: around 50-60 degrees C on land, and 40 degrees C at the sea-surface.

Lead author Yadong Sun, who is based in Leeds while completing a joint PhD in geology, says: “Global warming has long been linked to the end-Permian mass extinction, but this study is the first to show extreme temperatures kept life from re-starting in Equatorial latitudes for millions of years.”

It is also the first study to show water temperatures close to the ocean’s surface can reach 40 degrees C – a near-lethal value at which marine life dies and photosynthesis stops. Until now, climate modellers have assumed sea-surface temperatures cannot surpass 30 degrees C. The findings may help us understand future climate change patterns.

The dead zone would have been a strange world – very wet in the tropics but with almost nothing growing. No forests grew, only shrubs and ferns. No fish or marine reptiles were to be found in the tropics, only shellfish, and virtually no land animals existed because their high metabolic rate made it impossible to deal with the extreme temperatures. Only the polar regions provided a refuge from the baking heat.

Before the end-Permian mass extinction the Earth had teemed with plants and animals including primitive reptiles and amphibians, and a wide variety of sea creatures including coral and sea lillies.

This broken world scenario was caused by a breakdown in global carbon cycling. In normal circumstances, plants help regulate temperature by absorbing Co2 and burying it as dead plant matter. Without plants, levels of Co2 can rise unchecked, which causes temperatures to increase.

The study, published [19 October 2012] in the journal Science, is the most detailed temperature record of this study period (252-247 million years ago) to date.

Sun and his colleagues collected data from 15,000 ancient conodonts (tiny teeth of extinct eel-like fishes) extracted from two tonnes of rocks from South China. Conodonts form a skeleton using oxygen.

The isotopes of oxygen in skeletons are temperature controlled, so by studying the ratio of oxygen isotopes in the conodonts he was able to detect temperature levels hundreds of millions of years ago.

Professor Paul Wignall from the School of Earth and Environment at the University of Leeds, one of the study’s co-authors, said: “Nobody has ever dared say that past climates attained these levels of heat.

Hopefully future global warming won’t get anywhere near temperatures of 250 million years ago, but if it does we have shown that it may take millions of years to recover.”

The study is the latest collaboration in a 20-year research partnership between the University of Leeds and China University of Geosciences in Wuhan. It was funded by the Chinese Science Foundation.

‘Lethally hot temperatures during the early Triassic greenhouse’ by Yadong Sun (University of Leeds and China University of Geosciences), Michael Joachimski (University Erlangen-Nurnberg, Germany), Paul B. Wignall (University of Leeds), Chunbo Yan (China University of Geosciences), Yanlong Chen (University of Graz, Austria), Haishui Jiang (China University of Geosciences, Lina Wang (China University of Geosciences) and Xulong Lai (China University of Geosciences) is published in Science on 19 October 2012.

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Solar Activity

Massive solar flare erupts from sun

Reported by David Farrell

A large solar flare has burst forth from the sun, showcasing the awesome scale in the universe.

A gigantic solar flare, 100,000 miles across, has erupted from the sun, showcasing how truly great the scale of things can be in the universe. In comparison, the Earth only has a diameter of roughly 7926 miles.

An image of the solar flare. Earth would fit more than ten times along the length of the flare.

Solar flares are a massive energy release of the sun, sometimes up to a sixth of the sun’s total energy output, or 160,000,000,000 megatons of TNT, which can be seen as a sudden brightening in the sun and is often followed by a coronal mass ejection (CME), essentially a burst of solar material being flung out into the solar system.

These CMEs usually reach earth about one or two days later, and it is the earth’s interaction with these ionized particles which, together with regular solar winds, are the cause of auroras. If a solar flare is powerful enough though, they may cause damage, disturbing power grids and radio systems. A particularly disastrous solar flare may even permanently disable many electronic components, such as transformers, leading to widespread power outages.

Solar flares affect the entire solar system though; one hazard that would be encountered during a manned missions to Mars for example, would be the radiation emitted from solar winds, which the astronauts would somehow have to shield against during the entire flight.

2MIN News October 17. 2012

Published on Oct 17, 2012 by Suspicious0bservers

TODAY’S LINKS
Record Temp: http://www.nnvl.noaa.gov/MediaDetail2.php?MediaID=1209&MediaTypeID=1
Reversals can happen quickly: http://phys.org/news/2012-10-extremely-reversal-geomagnetic-field-climate.html
Titan Surface Features: http://phys.org/news/2012-10-saturn-moon-titan.html
Antarctic Rift: http://www.nasa.gov/topics/earth/features/pine-island-rift.html
Shakeout: http://community.fema.gov/connect.ti/readynpm/viewevent?cid=191601&eid=11…
Tropical Storms more Common: http://phys.org/news/2012-10-tropical-cyclones-frequently.html

REPEAT LINKS
Spaceweather: http://spaceweather.com/ [Look on the left at the X-ray Flux and Solar Wind Speed/Density]

HAARP: http://www.haarp.alaska.edu/haarp/data.html [Click online data, and have a little fun]

CERES JPL: http://ssd.jpl.nasa.gov/sbdb.cgi?sstr=ceres;orb=1;cov=0;log=0;cad=0#orb

SDO: http://sdo.gsfc.nasa.gov/data/ [Place to find Solar Images and Videos – as seen from earth]

Helioviewer: http://www.helioviewer.org/

SOHO: http://sohodata.nascom.nasa.gov/cgi-bin/soho_movie_theater [SOHO; Lasco and EIT – as seen from earth]

Stereo: http://stereo.gsfc.nasa.gov/cgi-bin/images [Stereo; Cor, EUVI, HI – as seen from the side]

SunAEON:http://www.sunaeon.com/#/solarsystem/ [Just click it… trust me]

SOLARIMG: http://solarimg.org/artis/ [All purpose data viewing site]

iSWA: http://iswa.gsfc.nasa.gov/iswa/iSWA.html [Free Application; for advanced sun watchers]

NASA ENLIL SPIRAL: http://iswa.gsfc.nasa.gov:8080/IswaSystemWebApp/iSWACygnetStreamer?timestamp=…
NOAA ENLIL SPIRAL: http://www.swpc.noaa.gov/wsa-enlil/

US Wind Map: http://hint.fm/wind/

NOAA Bouys: http://www.ndbc.noaa.gov/

RADIATION Network: http://radiationnetwork.com/

NOAA Environmental Visualization Laboratory: http://www.nnvl.noaa.gov/Default.php

RSOE: http://hisz.rsoe.hu/alertmap/index2.php [That cool alert map I use]

GOES Xray: http://www.swpc.noaa.gov/sxi/goes15/index.html

JAPAN Radiation Map: http://jciv.iidj.net/map/

LISS: http://earthquake.usgs.gov/monitoring/operations/heliplots_gsn.php

Gamma Ray Bursts: http://grb.sonoma.edu/ [Really? You can’t figure out what this one is for?]

BARTOL Cosmic Rays: http://neutronm.bartol.udel.edu//spaceweather/welcome.html [Top left box, look for BIG blue circles]

TORCON: http://www.weather.com/news/tornado-torcon-index [Tornado Forecast for the day]

GOES Weather: http://rsd.gsfc.nasa.gov/goes/ [Clouds over America]

RAIN RECORDS: http://www.cocorahs.org/ViewData/ListIntensePrecipReports.aspx

EL DORADO WORLD WEATHER MAP: http://www.eldoradocountyweather.com/satellite/ssec/world/world-composite-ir-…

PRESSURE MAP: http://www.woweather.com/cgi-bin/expertcharts?LANG=us&MENU=0000000000&…

HURRICANE TRACKER: http://www.weather.com/weather/hurricanecentral/tracker

INTELLICAST: http://www.intellicast.com/ [Weather site used by many youtubers]

NASA News: http://science.nasa.gov/science-news/science-at-nasa/

PHYSORG: http://phys.org/ [GREAT News Site!]

QUAKES LIST FULL: http://www.emsc-csem.org/Earthquake/seismologist.php

2MIN News October 18. 2012

Published on Oct 18, 2012 by Suspicious0bservers

TODAY’S LINKS
Lake Michigan Low: http://www.weather.com/news/lake-michigan-levels-20121017
Sea Level Rise: http://phys.org/news/2012-10-sea-level-northeast-coast.html
Adaptation is the Answer?: http://phys.org/news/2012-10-late-global-emissions-scientists-policies.html
Uranus Weather: http://phys.org/news/2012-10-keck-weather-uranus-sharp-focus.html

REPEAT LINKS
Spaceweather: http://spaceweather.com/ [Look on the left at the X-ray Flux and Solar Wind Speed/Density]

HAARP: http://www.haarp.alaska.edu/haarp/data.html [Click online data, and have a little fun]

CERES JPL: http://ssd.jpl.nasa.gov/sbdb.cgi?sstr=ceres;orb=1;cov=0;log=0;cad=0#orb

SDO: http://sdo.gsfc.nasa.gov/data/ [Place to find Solar Images and Videos – as seen from earth]

Helioviewer: http://www.helioviewer.org/

SOHO: http://sohodata.nascom.nasa.gov/cgi-bin/soho_movie_theater [SOHO; Lasco and EIT – as seen from earth]

Stereo: http://stereo.gsfc.nasa.gov/cgi-bin/images [Stereo; Cor, EUVI, HI – as seen from the side]

SunAEON:http://www.sunaeon.com/#/solarsystem/ [Just click it… trust me]

SOLARIMG: http://solarimg.org/artis/ [All purpose data viewing site]

iSWA: http://iswa.gsfc.nasa.gov/iswa/iSWA.html [Free Application; for advanced sun watchers]

NASA ENLIL SPIRAL: http://iswa.gsfc.nasa.gov:8080/IswaSystemWebApp/iSWACygnetStreamer?timestamp=…
NOAA ENLIL SPIRAL: http://www.swpc.noaa.gov/wsa-enlil/

US Wind Map: http://hint.fm/wind/

NOAA Bouys: http://www.ndbc.noaa.gov/

RADIATION Network: http://radiationnetwork.com/

NOAA Environmental Visualization Laboratory: http://www.nnvl.noaa.gov/Default.php

RSOE: http://hisz.rsoe.hu/alertmap/index2.php [That cool alert map I use]

GOES Xray: http://www.swpc.noaa.gov/sxi/goes15/index.html

JAPAN Radiation Map: http://jciv.iidj.net/map/

LISS: http://earthquake.usgs.gov/monitoring/operations/heliplots_gsn.php

Gamma Ray Bursts: http://grb.sonoma.edu/ [Really? You can’t figure out what this one is for?]

BARTOL Cosmic Rays: http://neutronm.bartol.udel.edu//spaceweather/welcome.html [Top left box, look for BIG blue circles]

TORCON: http://www.weather.com/news/tornado-torcon-index [Tornado Forecast for the day]

GOES Weather: http://rsd.gsfc.nasa.gov/goes/ [Clouds over America]

RAIN RECORDS: http://www.cocorahs.org/ViewData/ListIntensePrecipReports.aspx

EL DORADO WORLD WEATHER MAP: http://www.eldoradocountyweather.com/satellite/ssec/world/world-composite-ir-…

PRESSURE MAP: http://www.woweather.com/cgi-bin/expertcharts?LANG=us&MENU=0000000000&…

HURRICANE TRACKER: http://www.weather.com/weather/hurricanecentral/tracker

INTELLICAST: http://www.intellicast.com/ [Weather site used by many youtubers]

NASA News: http://science.nasa.gov/science-news/science-at-nasa/

PHYSORG: http://phys.org/ [GREAT News Site!]

QUAKES LIST FULL: http://www.emsc-csem.org/Earthquake/seismologist.php

2MIN News October 19. 2012: F1 Layer at it Again

Published on Oct 19, 2012 by Suspicious0bservers

TODAY’S LINKS
UK Odd Weather: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-19995084
NC Fish Deaths: http://www.newbernsj.com/news/local/massive-fish-kill-continues-in-the-neuse-…
Greek Protests: http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/photo/2012-10/19/c_131916376.htm
Australian Cloud Seeding: http://www.weatherzone.com.au/news/permanent-cloud-seeding-gets-green-light/2…
Geoengineering Experiment: http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2012/oct/15/pacific-iron-fertilisation-…

REPEAT LINKS
Spaceweather: http://spaceweather.com/ [Look on the left at the X-ray Flux and Solar Wind Speed/Density]

HAARP: http://www.haarp.alaska.edu/haarp/data.html [Click online data, and have a little fun]

CERES JPL: http://ssd.jpl.nasa.gov/sbdb.cgi?sstr=ceres;orb=1;cov=0;log=0;cad=0#orb

SDO: http://sdo.gsfc.nasa.gov/data/ [Place to find Solar Images and Videos – as seen from earth]

Helioviewer: http://www.helioviewer.org/

SOHO: http://sohodata.nascom.nasa.gov/cgi-bin/soho_movie_theater [SOHO; Lasco and EIT – as seen from earth]

Stereo: http://stereo.gsfc.nasa.gov/cgi-bin/images [Stereo; Cor, EUVI, HI – as seen from the side]

SunAEON:http://www.sunaeon.com/#/solarsystem/ [Just click it… trust me]

SOLARIMG: http://solarimg.org/artis/ [All purpose data viewing site]

iSWA: http://iswa.gsfc.nasa.gov/iswa/iSWA.html [Free Application; for advanced sun watchers]

NASA ENLIL SPIRAL: http://iswa.gsfc.nasa.gov:8080/IswaSystemWebApp/iSWACygnetStreamer?timestamp=…
NOAA ENLIL SPIRAL: http://www.swpc.noaa.gov/wsa-enlil/

US Wind Map: http://hint.fm/wind/

NOAA Bouys: http://www.ndbc.noaa.gov/

RADIATION Network: http://radiationnetwork.com/

NOAA Environmental Visualization Laboratory: http://www.nnvl.noaa.gov/Default.php

RSOE: http://hisz.rsoe.hu/alertmap/index2.php [That cool alert map I use]

GOES Xray: http://www.swpc.noaa.gov/sxi/goes15/index.html

JAPAN Radiation Map: http://jciv.iidj.net/map/

LISS: http://earthquake.usgs.gov/monitoring/operations/heliplots_gsn.php

Gamma Ray Bursts: http://grb.sonoma.edu/ [Really? You can’t figure out what this one is for?]

BARTOL Cosmic Rays: http://neutronm.bartol.udel.edu//spaceweather/welcome.html [Top left box, look for BIG blue circles]

TORCON: http://www.weather.com/news/tornado-torcon-index [Tornado Forecast for the day]

GOES Weather: http://rsd.gsfc.nasa.gov/goes/ [Clouds over America]

RAIN RECORDS: http://www.cocorahs.org/ViewData/ListIntensePrecipReports.aspx

EL DORADO WORLD WEATHER MAP: http://www.eldoradocountyweather.com/satellite/ssec/world/world-composite-ir-…

PRESSURE MAP: http://www.woweather.com/cgi-bin/expertcharts?LANG=us&MENU=0000000000&…

HURRICANE TRACKER: http://www.weather.com/weather/hurricanecentral/tracker

INTELLICAST: http://www.intellicast.com/ [Weather site used by many youtubers]

NASA News: http://science.nasa.gov/science-news/science-at-nasa/

PHYSORG: http://phys.org/ [GREAT News Site!]

QUAKES LIST FULL: http://www.emsc-csem.org/Earthquake/seismologist.php

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Space

Bright Light, Loud Boom May Have Been Meteor

Astronomy experts will be searching an area near Martinez Thursday as they hunt for remnants of Wednesday night’s meteor

By Lori Preuitt

|Watch NBC Video Here

The Bay Area was buzzing Wednesday night after a bright streak moved across the sky. It was accompanied by a loud boom.

This happened around 7:40 p.m.

Early bets said it was a meteor. The Orionids meteor shower is happening right now, but experts told NBC Bay Area that Wednesday’s streak was not from Orion because the earth is shielding us from those meteors tonight.

Whatever it was, it caught the attention of hundreds, if not thousands of people.

NASA Ames astronomer Peter Jennikens helped us get the photo at the top of this article and below. Jennikens said he will be up all night researching where the meteor may have landed. He will be out early Thursday morning looking for remnants. He’s hoping to get more video from security cameras that might have been rolling when the meteor hit.

Beppy Tobeler told us on our Facebook page that she saw it from Dublin Security Storage. “It was so low and close I thought it was someone setting off fireworks,” Tobeler said. She said it sailed across the sky and broke up in several pieces.

Steve Siegel said he saw it from Sunnyvale. He described it as a super bright streak going north about 30 degrees into the sky. He said it lasted for 7 or 8 seconds.

“I saw one giant, bright as close as a firework ball of light with long tail out visiting my parents in Forestville. One of the coolest things I’ve ever seen nothing at all like a shooting star,” Jessica Collins said on our Facebook page.

People at the Lick Observatory posted two raw clips of the what they said was a meteor breaking up over San Jose. It was taken by a security camera from the top of the observatory.

NASA posted on a science Website earlier this week that said this is the week to watch for the Orionid meteor shower caused by Halley’s Comet.

An article on NASA Science News said that every year in mid-to-late October, the Earth passes through a stream of dusty debris from Comet Halley. It promised sightings in the pre-dawn hours. Wednesday night’s streak was in the evening hours. Also, usually the meteor showers related to Hailey’s Comet are much smaller than what is being described.

NASA said that the highlight of the Orionid meteor shower is coming this weekend

“We expect to see about 25 meteors per hour when the shower peaks on Sunday morning, Oct 21st,” says Bill Cooke, the head of NASA’s Meteoroid Environment Office.

Earth approaching objects (objects that are known in the next 30 days)

Object Name

Apporach Date

Left

AU Distance

LD Distance

Estimated Diameter*

Relative Velocity

214869 (2007 PA8)

05th November 2012

17 day(s)

0.0433

16.8

1.5 km – 3.3 km

10.79 km/s

38844 km/h

(2011 UG21)

06th November 2012

18 day(s)

0.1784

69.4

340 m – 760 m

19.73 km/s

71028 km/h

(2010 WT)

07th November 2012

19 day(s)

0.1251

48.7

53 m – 120 m

6.53 km/s

23508 km/h

333358 (2001 WN1)

09th November 2012

21 day(s)

0.1285

50.0

370 m – 830 m

8.73 km/s

31428 km/h

330233 (2006 KV86)

11th November 2012

23 day(s)

0.1876

73.0

450 m – 1.0 km

23.35 km/s

84060 km/h

(2008 LH2)

12th November 2012

24 day(s)

0.1487

57.9

35 m – 78 m

5.10 km/s

18360 km/h

(2001 YM2)

12th November 2012

24 day(s)

0.0860

33.5

440 m – 980 m

9.26 km/s

33336 km/h

(2012 KF25)

15th November 2012

27 day(s)

0.1528

59.5

23 m – 51 m

9.75 km/s

35100 km/h

1 AU = ~150 million kilometers,1 LD = Lunar Distance = ~384,000 kilometers

Source: NASA-NEO

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Earth Changes

An extremely brief reversal of the geomagnetic field, climate variability and a super volcano

41,000 years ago, a complete and rapid reversal of the geomagnetic field occured. Magnetic studies of the GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences on sediment cores from the Black Sea show that during this period, during the last ice age, a compass at the Black Sea would have pointed to the south instead of north. Moreover, data obtained by the research team formed around GFZ researchers Dr. Norbert Nowaczyk and Prof. Helge Arz, together with additional data from other studies in the North Atlantic, the South Pacific and Hawaii, prove that this polarity reversal was a global event. Their results are published in the latest issue of the scientific journal “Earth and Planetary Science Letters“.

What is remarkable is the speed of the reversal: “The field geometry of reversed polarity, with field lines pointing into the opposite direction when compared to today’s configuration, lasted for only about 440 years, and it was associated with a field strength that was only one quarter of today’s field,” explains Norbert Nowaczyk. “The actual polarity changes lasted only 250 years. In terms of geological time scales, that is very fast.” During this period, the field was even weaker, with only 5% of today’s field strength. As a consequence, the Earth nearly completely lost its protection shield against hard cosmic rays, leading to a significantly increased radiation exposure.

This is documented by peaks of radioactive beryllium (10Be) in ice cores from this time, recovered from the Greenland ice sheet. 10Be as well as radioactive carbon (14C) is caused by the collision of high-energy protons from space with atoms of the atmosphere.

The Laschamp event

The polarity reversal now found with the magnetisation of Black Sea sediments has already been known for 45 years. It was first discovered after the analysis of the magnetisation of several lava flows near the village Laschamp near Clermont-Ferrand in the Massif Central, which differed significantly from today’s direction of the geomagnetic field. Since then, this geomagnetic feature is known as the ‘Laschamp event’. However, the data of the Massif Central represent only some point readings of the geomagnetic field during the last ice age, whereas the new data from the Black Sea give a complete image of geomagnetic field variability at a high temporal resolution.

Abrupt climate changes and a super volcano

Besides giving evidence for a geomagnetic field reversal 41,000 years ago, the geoscientists from Potsdam discovered numerous abrupt climate changes during the last ice age in the analysed cores from the Black Sea, as it was already known from the Greenland ice cores. This ultimately allowed a high precision synchronisation of the two data records from the Black Sea and Greenland. The largest volcanic eruption on the Northern hemisphere in the past 100 000 years, namely the eruption of the super volcano 39400 years ago in the area of today’s Phlegraean Fields near Naples, Italy, is also documented within the studied sediments from the Black Sea. The ashes of this eruption, during which about 350 cubic kilometers of rock and lava were ejected, were distributed over the entire eastern Mediterranean and up to central Russia. These three extreme scenarios, a short and fast reversal of the Earth’s magnetic field, short-term climate variability of the last ice age and the volcanic eruption in Italy, have been investigated for the first time in a single geological archive and placed in precise chronological order.

Source: Helmholtz Association of German Research Centres

Our World is Changing: Looking Beyond ‘the 2012’

Published on Oct 16, 2012 by Suspicious0bservers

DEDICATED
~October.15.2012~ You were a wonderful pet. I miss you already.

Information courtesy of NASA, NOAA, the US Library, the Goddard Space Flight Center, the Jet Propulsion Lab, the Environmental Visualization Laboratory, the NASA Earth Observatory, SDO, SOHO, Stereo, ISWA, SSEC, HAARP, and SolarIMG – Your information, images, and videos were essential to this video.

STARWATER: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LiC-92YgZvQ
Electric Universe: google the Thunderbolts Project

NOAA Environmental Visualization Lab: http://www.nnvl.noaa.gov/Default.php
Thunderstorms = Ozone Holes & UV Radiation: http://www.sciencemag.org/content/337/6096/835.abstract
US Floods: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:USfloodmap8May2011.png
US Drought: You need no link.
2011 US Tornado Records: http://www.noaanews.noaa.gov/2011_tornado_information.html
US Record Wildfires 2011: http://www.motherjones.com/blue-marble/2012/08/record-wildfire-year
2011 Weather: http://earthsky.org/earth/a-look-back-at-summer-2011s-weather-extremes-and-di…
2011 Texas Fire Record: http://blog.chron.com/sciguy/2011/09/this-historic-texas-wildfire-season-has-…
2011/12 Bad Winter: http://www.Real-Science.com/images-from-the-winter-that-wasnt
2011/12 Winter– Europe Deaths: http://www.worldweatherpost.com/2012/02/03/europe-cold-wave-deaths-hit-200-lo… Europe Cold: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:NWS-NOAA_Europe_Extreme_minimum_temperature…
Warm US Winter: http://www.whitehouse.gov/blog/2012/03/26/us-winter-2011-2012-fourth-warmest-…
Atmospheric Ions: http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=electric%20currents%20atmosphe…

Noctilucent Clouds: http://spaceweather.com/archive.php?view=1&day=12&month=07&year=2012 ; http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/aim/news/noctilucent-season2012.html ; http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cirrus_cloud ; http://science.nasa.gov/science-news/science-at-nasa/2012/07aug_meteorsmoke/

Hot Flow Anomaly: http://www.space.com/14796-venus-space-weather-explosions.html
Magnetic Reconnection: http://ia700500.us.archive.org/15/items/CIL-10110/reconnectionAng_512kb.mp4
More Quakes: http://www.thehorizonproject.com/earthquakes.cfm
Summer Ozone Holes over the US: http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2012/07/120726-storms-ozone-hole-glob…
Pilot Mistakes Venus for Airplane: http://news.cnet.com/8301-17852_3-57415375-71/pilot-mistakes-venus-for-plane-…
Heavy Elements in CMEs: ftp://sohoftp.nascom.nasa.gov/pub/oldwww/explore/faq/cme.html#CME_COMPOS
CMEs cause Earth Ejections: http://pwg.gsfc.nasa.gov/istp/polar/coronal.html
Longwave Radiation Flow: http://iridl.ldeo.columbia.edu/maproom/.Global/.Precipitation/Pentad_OLR.html

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Biological Hazards / Wildlife / Hazmat

Massive fish kill continues in the Neuse River

A massive fish kill on the Neuse River Tuesday washed up on the beach by Neuse Harbor. Mitch Blake, Neuse Riverkeeper, viewed the fish kill Tuesday afternoon, saying there were several hundred thousand washed up on the beach and in the river. For 21 days, mostly Atlantic menhaden have been dying over a large portion of the river from New Bern to Hancock Creek, Blake said.

Chuck Beckley/Sun Journal

By Eddie Fitzgerald, Sun Journal Staff

Published: Wednesday, October 17, 2012 at 15:35 PM.

A massive fish kill on the Neuse River that has been ongoing for nearly a month has resulted in thousands of menhaden washed up on beaches near Neuse Harbor.

Mitch Blake, Neuse Riverkeeper, viewed the area Tuesday afternoon, saying there were several hundred thousand dead fish washed up on the beach and in the river.

For 21 days, mostly Atlantic menhaden have been dying over a large portion of the river from New Bern to Hancock Creek, Blake said in an email.

Some of the dead menhaden have ulcers that National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration officials have identified as Aphanomyces invadans from six samples analyzed in Beaufort. Fish samples were taken from the Neuse River in an impaired region by the Neuse Riverkeeper Foundation at the first sign of menhaden showing problems, Blake said.

“Over the 21-day period fish have been reported dead from New Bern to Hancock Creek and include areas in Slocum, Beard, Goose, Upper Broad, Northwest and Duck Creek,” he said.

Very few other species have been reported dead during the fish kill, except for isolated spots around Bay Point, which also had red drum, striped bass and spot.

“At this time we continue to see large schools of Atlantic menhaden, some floating, some are sinking to the bottom upon death,” Blake said. “An accurate count has not been totaled due to the massive area but just (Tuesday) I counted areas that were over 500 yards in length with approximately 90 dead fish per foot. With numbers like this it could easily go into the millions. In these areas there are dead, decaying, and in some cases just bones to reveal the timeline and magnitude of the kill.”

Joe Freemon, who lives in Neuse Harbor, said that on Tuesday there was a solid belt of dead fish on the beach of the river that bordered his property.

“You could stand there and see lots of others floating on top of the water,” Freemon said. “It’s the biggest (fish kill) I’ve seen and I’ve been on the water here over 50 years. You could smell it a couple of hundred feet away. … It’s a bad situation and unfortunate. ”

Blake said experts have told him the fish kill may continue due to the complexity of the area and lack of funding to run the proper analyzing equipment.

“There have been issues with oxygen, phytoplankton, stratification, nitrogen, pollutants among others, so the exact cause of death in the areas listed, has been complex to say the least,” he said.

Blake said he has been talking to a lot of people in the scientific community about what is causing the fish to die.

“I’m trying to put together a team to analyze it better,” Blake said.

As a nonprofit and staff of three to cover the Neuse Basin, The Neuse Riverkeeper Foundation depends on community support and volunteers.

“I’ve been working diligently to get information to the scientific community, the translation that comes from that is very important to the communities and people along the Neuse,” Blake said. “I think these menhaden stocks are extremely important to the dynamics of the estuary and millions of dead fish adding to the nutrient load creates its own set of concerns. As a community we have to address the impacts we have on the basin and we deserve to know where these impacts are coming from.”

Jill Paxson, environmental senior specialist with the N.C. Division of Water Quality, said for the past three weeks her office has been inundated with calls about menhaden fish kills, and not only in the Neuse River. There has been large kills in the Pamlico Sound also, she said.

Paxson said menhaden have a tough time living in a fresh and salt water estuary like the Neuse River. Some of the tributaries are shallow and the water can cool or warm up fast, causing a strain for the fish, she said.

“It is a very difficult place if you are a fish,” she said.

Paxson said as a precaution people should not go in the water around the fish or let their pets in the water and should wash if they do come in contact with the fish or water.

People usually don’t eat menhaden. They are on the bottom of the food chain and are eaten by larger fish like tuna and sharks, Paxson said.

Eddie Fitzgerald can be reached at 252-635-5675 or at eddie.fitzgerald@newbernsj.com. Follow him on Twitter @staffwriter3.

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Biological Hazard

Vietnam

Province of Dien Bien , Noong Luong Commune [Dien Bien District]

Biological Hazard in Vietnam on Friday, 19 October, 2012 at 06:39 (06:39 AM) UTC.

Description
Cases of bird flu have been reported in Noong Luong Commune, Dien Bien District in the northern mountainous province of Dien Bien. Director of the provincial Department of Animal Health Cao Thi Tuyet Lan said bird flu outbreaks were discovered last Friday in two households in the commune’s Village 12, with nearly 720 livestock suffering from the disease. Three days later, local authority discovered nearly 400 other livestock infected with the H5N1 virus in Village 15. Since the outbreak, authorities have detected and culled more than 1,000 sick livestock in the commune. The province banned sick livestock from being transported, processed and traded out of the affected area, and closely supervised slaughter and trade in other districts and communes of the province. The provincial People’s Committee also quarantined the affected areas, and counted the number of livestock, especially ducks in Noong Luong Commune and Muong Thanh District, to ensure that a bird flu epidemic does not spread. The Department of Agriculture and Rural Development also gave guidance on carrying out preventive measures such as sterilisation of farms where infected poultry have been reported.
Biohazard name:	H5N1 – Highly pathogenic avian influenza virus
Biohazard level:	4/4 Hazardous
Biohazard desc.:	Viruses and bacteria that cause severe to fatal disease in humans, and for which vaccines or other treatments are not available, such as Bolivian and Argentine hemorrhagic fevers, H5N1(bird flu), Dengue hemorrhagic fever, Marburg virus, Ebola virus, hantaviruses, Lassa fever, Crimean-Congo hemorrhagic fever, and other hemorrhagic or unidentified diseases. When dealing with biological hazards at this level the use of a Hazmat suit and a self-contained oxygen supply is mandatory. The entrance and exit of a Level Four biolab will contain multiple showers, a vacuum room, an ultraviolet light room, autonomous detection system, and other safety precautions designed to destroy all traces of the biohazard. Multiple airlocks are employed and are electronically secured to prevent both doors opening at the same time. All air and water service going to and coming from a Biosafety Level 4 (P4) lab will undergo similar decontamination procedures to eliminate the possibility of an accidental release.
Symptoms:
Status:	confirmed

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Biological Hazard

USA

State of Hawaii, Kahului [Kite Beach (Kaa Point)]

Biological Hazard in USA on Friday, 19 October, 2012 at 03:07 (03:07 AM) UTC.

Description
Officials closed beaches around Kanaha Beach Park Thursday morning after a shark bit a stand-up paddle board around 7:30 a.m. off of an area known as “Kite Beach,” or Kaa Point. Stand-up paddle boarder David Peterson of Pukalani was not injured, officials said. The 55-year-old paddle board and surfboard shaper said he was standing on his board waiting for waves to come in and “all of a sudden (I get) knocked off my board. I didn’t see anything.” He said the shark had a hold of his board and would not let go of it, so Peterson hit the shark with his paddle as he was in the water. The shark let go but then came between him and the board and with his hands Peterson pushed the shark away and jumped back on his board. Peterson said he suffered some scrapes from getting back onto the damaged board. Otherwise, he wasn’t hurt. The shark is estimated to be 6 to 8 feet long. Staff officials said it is unknown what type of shark was involved. Shark warning signs were to be posted, according to the state Department of Land and Natural Resources.
Biohazard name:	Shark attack (non-fatal)
Biohazard level:	0/4 —
Biohazard desc.:	This does not included biological hazard category.
Symptoms:
Status:	confirmed

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Biological Hazard

Nepal

Bhaktapur District, Bode

Biological Hazard in Nepal on Monday, 15 October, 2012 at 07:41 (07:41 AM) UTC.

Description
Authorities in Bhaktapur’s Bode have culled more than 1500 chickens following a suspected outbreak of bird flu, health officials said. The outbreak of avian influenza initially killed 500 chickens out of 2000 at the poultry farm of a local Om Khadka. A meeting of health officials is underway at Bhaktapur to confirm whether the reported case is of bird flu.
Biohazard name:	H5N1 – Highly pathogenic avian influenza virus
Biohazard level:	4/4 Hazardous
Biohazard desc.:	Viruses and bacteria that cause severe to fatal disease in humans, and for which vaccines or other treatments are not available, such as Bolivian and Argentine hemorrhagic fevers, H5N1(bird flu), Dengue hemorrhagic fever, Marburg virus, Ebola virus, hantaviruses, Lassa fever, Crimean-Congo hemorrhagic fever, and other hemorrhagic or unidentified diseases. When dealing with biological hazards at this level the use of a Hazmat suit and a self-contained oxygen supply is mandatory. The entrance and exit of a Level Four biolab will contain multiple showers, a vacuum room, an ultraviolet light room, autonomous detection system, and other safety precautions designed to destroy all traces of the biohazard. Multiple airlocks are employed and are electronically secured to prevent both doors opening at the same time. All air and water service going to and coming from a Biosafety Level 4 (P4) lab will undergo similar decontamination procedures to eliminate the possibility of an accidental release.
Symptoms:
Status:	confirmed

Biological Hazard in Nepal on Monday, 15 October, 2012 at 07:41 (07:41 AM) UTC.

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Updated:	Wednesday, 17 October, 2012 at 14:38 UTC
Description
Hundreds of birds have been culled in central Nepal following confirmation of a highly pathogenic avian influenza outbreak on a poultry farm. Animal health officials decided to cull all birds and destroy eggs suspected to be infected with a strain of H5N1 virus in Bhaktapur district, 15 km east of the capital Kathmandu. The Directorate of Animal Health killed 780 chickens at the poultry farm following the confirmation and around 150 crates of eggs and six sacks of feeds stored at the farm were also destroyed as part of preventive measures. Samples were sent to an animal health laboratory for examination after a sudden spurt in deaths at the farm. According to officials out of 2,500 chickens at the farm, 1,200 had already died of infection from the virus. “Surveillance will be intensified and veterinary officials deployed to monitor other poultry farms in the area,” said Dr Narayan Prasad Ghimire, a senior veterinary officer at Department of Animal Health. High alert was issued in and around Kathmandu to prevent the spreading of the virus.

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Chemical Accident

United Kingdom

England, Bamber Bridge [Lancashire]

Chemical Accident in United Kingdom on Friday, 19 October, 2012 at 11:08 (11:08 AM) UTC.

Description

A grenade left over from the second World War left 13 people needing hospital treatment in England. The casualties were exposed to toxic fumes after workmen disturbed the stockpile of phosphorous grenades left in the sealed-up cellar of a property in Bamber Bridge near Preston, Lancashire. It is thought one of the grenades, issued to members of the Home Guard during the war, was dislodged and cracked, Lancashire Fire and Rescue Service said. The devices, glass bottles about eight inches long, were intended to release a highly flammable mixture of phosphorus and benzene after being thrown, self-igniting on exposure to air. They were to be used by reservists against Nazi occupiers if Britain had fallen to German invasion, but had lain forgotten for almost 70 years in the sealed-off cellar of a former fire station, now used as a printing firm premises. A further six such devices were found in cellar space which had been bricked up for some years.

Firefighters were first called to reports of a fire at the premises of Sprint Print on Station Road in Bamber Bridge at 12.23pm yesterday. On arrival they established the smoke was in fact chemical fumes from what was thought to be a small container or bottle of acid in the cellar. Two drainage company employees investigating a report from the occupier of damp masonry are thought to have inadvertently dislodged one of the bottles in the stockpile, causing it to leak. They were exposed to the fumes and were injured along with three workers at Sprint Print. Of these five casualties, two suffered chemical burns and three experienced breathing problems. Two paramedics and six hospital staff at the Royal Preston Hospital – where the casualties had been taken – subsequently also complained of breathing difficulties. All 13 casualties responded well to treatment and have been allowed home. The cracked grenade was made safe and removed for disposal by an army disposal team and the rest of the stockpile will be disposed of in a controlled explosion, the fire service said.

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Power Outage

USA

State of Iowa, Sioux City

Power Outage in USA on Friday, 19 October, 2012 at 02:58 (02:58 AM) UTC.

Description

Winds gusting up to 52 miles per hour and transformer fires were blamed for power outages Thursday that affected more than 2,000 homes and businesses in Sioux City. Service was restored to many of the homes within a few hours. The first outages were reported at 5:47 a.m. near 15th and Pierce streets. Outages caused by transformer fires were reported at 10:17 a.m. at 4105 Gordon Drive and about 12:30 p.m. at 2116 W. Third St. Officials at MidAmerican Energy Co. aren’t sure what caused the transformer fires but suspect the weather was a factor, company spokeswoman Tina Potthoff said. The company’s transmission system had been trouble-free before the powerful wind gusts arrived, she said. The top of a power pole exploded with a bang at Ultra No Touch Car Wash at 4105 Gordon Drive, said manager Brandon Swift. The flash was so intense, he thought something at the business had been struck by lighting.

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Earth Watch Report – Monday October 15th, 2012

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October 15, 2012

Earthquakes

USGS

MAG	UTC DATE-TIME y/m/d h:m:s	LAT deg	LON deg	DEPTH km	Region
MAP	5.5	2012/10/15 17:52:21	14.150	-91.000	76.5	GUATEMALA
MAP	2.5	2012/10/15 17:23:57	19.369	-155.231	3.2	ISLAND OF HAWAII, HAWAII
MAP	2.6	2012/10/15 17:19:19	35.791	-118.504	3.0	CENTRAL CALIFORNIA
MAP	4.5	2012/10/15 16:35:37	-3.235	136.997	68.9	PAPUA, INDONESIA
MAP	4.3	2012/10/15 16:05:12	-10.843	113.701	19.5	SOUTH OF JAVA, INDONESIA
MAP	3.1	2012/10/15 14:00:37	19.704	-64.087	7.0	VIRGIN ISLANDS REGION
MAP	3.1	2012/10/15 13:43:20	59.294	-149.786	25.4	KENAI PENINSULA, ALASKA
MAP	3.6	2012/10/15 13:33:35	19.767	-64.269	35.0	NORTH OF THE VIRGIN ISLANDS
MAP	3.0	2012/10/15 12:44:38	38.815	-122.798	2.4	NORTHERN CALIFORNIA
MAP	3.1	2012/10/15 09:55:52	18.749	-64.811	51.0	VIRGIN ISLANDS REGION
MAP	5.3	2012/10/15 07:49:03	-13.157	165.525	45.2	VANUATU
MAP	2.5	2012/10/15 05:23:04	36.853	-121.315	7.5	CENTRAL CALIFORNIA
MAP	3.0	2012/10/15 04:02:15	44.389	-111.053	6.2	YELLOWSTONE NATIONAL PARK, WYOMING
MAP	2.7	2012/10/15 03:45:21	44.395	-111.049	8.0	YELLOWSTONE NATIONAL PARK, WYOMING
MAP	2.5	2012/10/15 03:22:33	44.396	-111.072	15.6	YELLOWSTONE NATIONAL PARK, IDAHO
MAP	2.8	2012/10/15 03:20:45	44.386	-111.050	7.1	YELLOWSTONE NATIONAL PARK, WYOMING
MAP	2.6	2012/10/15 03:06:13	44.376	-111.087	1.1	YELLOWSTONE NATIONAL PARK, IDAHO
MAP	2.5	2012/10/15 03:05:44	44.404	-111.050	16.9	YELLOWSTONE NATIONAL PARK, WYOMING
MAP	3.1	2012/10/15 02:54:52	44.394	-111.043	12.4	YELLOWSTONE NATIONAL PARK, WYOMING
MAP	2.6	2012/10/15 02:52:58	44.377	-111.008	11.7	YELLOWSTONE NATIONAL PARK, WYOMING
MAP	4.4	2012/10/15 02:46:42	19.203	-69.044	61.3	DOMINICAN REPUBLIC REGION
MAP	5.6	2012/10/15 01:19:03	51.912	159.446	21.8	OFF THE EAST COAST OF KAMCHATKA, RUSSIA
MAP	4.8	2012/10/15 00:05:38	-38.267	175.925	155.2	NORTH ISLAND OF NEW ZEALAND

	MAG	UTC DATE-TIME y/m/d h:m:s	LAT deg	LON deg	DEPTH km	Region
MAP	4.8	2012/10/14 23:07:59	25.159	101.940	10.0	YUNNAN, CHINA
MAP	4.6	2012/10/14 22:40:56	12.747	-88.783	66.5	OFFSHORE EL SALVADOR
MAP	2.8	2012/10/14 21:24:22	18.903	-64.984	9.0	VIRGIN ISLANDS REGION
MAP	4.8	2012/10/14 19:36:52	55.648	161.750	83.0	NEAR THE EAST COAST OF KAMCHATKA, RUSSIA
MAP	2.6	2012/10/14 19:34:54	17.965	-67.448	11.0	PUERTO RICO REGION
MAP	3.3	2012/10/14 17:43:07	31.985	-115.065	22.7	BAJA CALIFORNIA, MEXICO
MAP	4.0	2012/10/14 16:53:07	40.645	-125.272	23.4	OFFSHORE NORTHERN CALIFORNIA
MAP	4.3	2012/10/14 16:30:09	40.712	74.099	10.0	KYRGYZSTAN
MAP	2.5	2012/10/14 16:29:21	36.855	-121.315	7.7	CENTRAL CALIFORNIA
MAP	4.6	2012/10/14 16:25:53	-1.202	26.778	10.0	DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF THE CONGO
MAP	5.0	2012/10/14 14:16:52	48.388	154.450	53.4	KURIL ISLANDS
MAP	5.1	2012/10/14 13:18:53	-10.264	161.409	62.0	SOLOMON ISLANDS
MAP	5.1	2012/10/14 13:17:29	36.167	69.240	53.7	HINDU KUSH REGION, AFGHANISTAN
MAP	3.4	2012/10/14 13:11:37	19.326	-65.651	77.0	PUERTO RICO REGION
MAP	4.5	2012/10/14 12:14:41	42.778	142.552	35.4	HOKKAIDO, JAPAN REGION
MAP	3.3	2012/10/14 11:59:41	63.475	-144.981	-5.8	CENTRAL ALASKA
MAP	5.6	2012/10/14 11:11:35	38.227	144.340	24.8	OFF THE EAST COAST OF HONSHU, JAPAN
MAP	5.2	2012/10/14 11:09:35	48.373	154.440	35.3	KURIL ISLANDS
MAP	4.8	2012/10/14 10:50:17	-35.306	-73.933	20.4	OFF THE COAST OF MAULE, CHILE
MAP	5.4	2012/10/14 10:41:25	14.711	-92.393	83.2	CHIAPAS, MEXICO
MAP	5.3	2012/10/14 10:13:39	41.861	46.362	10.0	GEORGIA (SAK’ART’VELO)
MAP	4.4	2012/10/14 10:08:25	41.694	46.385	9.5	AZERBAIJAN
MAP	4.3	2012/10/14 09:58:27	60.105	-152.543	86.9	SOUTHERN ALASKA
MAP	5.8	2012/10/14 09:41:59	48.304	154.532	35.5	KURIL ISLANDS
MAP	2.5	2012/10/14 09:27:32	35.678	-118.040	13.5	CENTRAL CALIFORNIA
MAP	4.1	2012/10/14 09:25:11	36.123	70.231	120.2	HINDU KUSH REGION, AFGHANISTAN
MAP	2.9	2012/10/14 09:16:24	61.176	-151.981	89.9	SOUTHERN ALASKA
MAP	3.0	2012/10/14 07:45:31	40.406	-125.224	3.4	OFFSHORE NORTHERN CALIFORNIA
MAP	2.5	2012/10/14 07:28:37	33.386	-109.206	5.0	ARIZONA
MAP	4.9	2012/10/14 06:16:48	-2.586	142.288	25.4	NEAR NORTH COAST OF NEW GUINEA, P.N.G.
MAP	5.9	2012/10/14 04:58:08	-7.191	156.064	60.9	SOLOMON ISLANDS
MAP	4.9	2012/10/14 03:42:26	4.550	125.156	42.7	KEPULAUAN SANGIHE, INDONESIA
MAP	4.6	2012/10/14 03:37:31	-34.620	-72.285	23.1	OFFSHORE LIBERTADOR O’HIGGINS, CHILE
MAP	2.6	2012/10/14 02:27:13	19.345	-155.497	8.7	ISLAND OF HAWAII, HAWAII
MAP	2.8	2012/10/14 01:15:15	36.593	-117.379	10.6	CENTRAL CALIFORNIA
MAP	4.9	2012/10/14 01:02:40	-2.757	100.073	27.5	KEPULAUAN MENTAWAI REGION, INDONESIA

	MAG	UTC DATE-TIME y/m/d h:m:s	LAT deg	LON deg	DEPTH km	Region
MAP	2.5	2012/10/13 23:36:53	59.995	-141.110	5.8	SOUTHEASTERN ALASKA
MAP	5.2	2012/10/13 23:07:52	-2.521	142.301	6.7	NEAR NORTH COAST OF NEW GUINEA, P.N.G.
MAP	5.1	2012/10/13 22:36:31	-16.964	-174.438	47.4	TONGA
MAP	3.0	2012/10/13 21:34:36	19.722	-64.296	24.0	VIRGIN ISLANDS REGION
MAP	2.7	2012/10/13 21:13:59	32.919	-117.907	8.3	GULF OF SANTA CATALINA, CALIFORNIA
MAP	2.7	2012/10/13 20:51:44	47.723	-122.620	21.2	SEATTLE-TACOMA URBAN AREA, TONGA
MAP	3.4	2012/10/13 20:22:32	19.721	-64.171	36.0	VIRGIN ISLANDS REGION
MAP	2.8	2012/10/13 20:12:49	62.010	-147.771	13.9	CENTRAL ALASKA
MAP	3.3	2012/10/13 20:03:52	62.020	-150.248	53.1	CENTRAL ALASKA
MAP	4.6	2012/10/13 18:44:12	41.744	46.342	17.4	AZERBAIJAN
MAP	4.5	2012/10/13 17:59:08	36.678	71.143	202.9	HINDU KUSH REGION, AFGHANISTAN
MAP	5.0	2012/10/13 17:52:51	-19.895	-173.949	25.6	TONGA
MAP	2.5	2012/10/13 17:11:13	59.429	-153.166	107.1	SOUTHERN ALASKA
MAP	2.5	2012/10/13 15:50:13	40.315	-124.468	7.5	OFFSHORE NORTHERN CALIFORNIA
MAP	2.7	2012/10/13 15:31:43	40.312	-124.640	10.4	OFFSHORE NORTHERN CALIFORNIA
MAP	2.5	2012/10/13 12:10:38	62.328	-151.457	11.7	CENTRAL ALASKA
MAP	2.6	2012/10/13 11:35:37	51.636	-178.137	8.9	ANDREANOF ISLANDS, ALEUTIAN IS., ALASKA
MAP	2.6	2012/10/13 11:04:53	19.498	-155.800	11.7	ISLAND OF HAWAII, HAWAII
MAP	5.1	2012/10/13 10:03:58	-11.059	162.767	38.1	SOLOMON ISLANDS
MAP	2.9	2012/10/13 09:53:25	19.649	-64.199	29.0	VIRGIN ISLANDS REGION
MAP	3.2	2012/10/13 09:45:58	52.425	-169.157	28.4	FOX ISLANDS, ALEUTIAN ISLANDS, ALASKA
MAP	3.0	2012/10/13 08:25:51	18.800	-65.573	43.0	PUERTO RICO REGION
MAP	4.9	2012/10/13 08:25:46	-22.267	170.431	36.0	SOUTHEAST OF THE LOYALTY ISLANDS
MAP	4.7	2012/10/13 07:08:42	37.561	95.763	30.3	NORTHERN QINGHAI, CHINA
MAP	2.6	2012/10/13 06:17:11	19.383	-155.246	3.6	ISLAND OF HAWAII, HAWAII
MAP	3.3	2012/10/13 05:39:07	59.976	-141.042	0.0	SOUTHEASTERN ALASKA
MAP	2.5	2012/10/13 04:03:09	34.971	-84.353	8.0	GEORGIA, USA
MAP	2.7	2012/10/13 03:13:27	61.723	-146.510	11.8	SOUTHERN ALASKA
MAP	2.6	2012/10/13 02:40:44	18.843	-155.162	9.2	HAWAII REGION, HAWAII
MAP	4.4	2012/10/13 01:24:54	16.808	-100.215	30.8	OFFSHORE GUERRERO, MEXICO

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LISS – Live Internet Seismic Server

GSN Stations

These data update automatically every 30 minutes. Last update: October 15, 2012 19:49:05 UTC

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CU/ANWB, Willy Bob, Antigua and Barbuda

CU/BBGH, Gun Hill, Barbados

CU/BCIP, Isla Barro Colorado, Panama

CU/GRGR, Grenville, Grenada

CU/GRTK, Grand Turk, Turks and Caicos Islands

CU/GTBY, Guantanamo Bay, Cuba

CU/MTDJ, Mount Denham, Jamaica

CU/SDDR, Presa de Sabaneta, Dominican Republic

CU/TGUH, Tegucigalpa, Honduras

IC/BJT, Baijiatuan, Beijing, China

IC/ENH, Enshi, China

IC/HIA, Hailar, Neimenggu Province, China

IC/LSA, Lhasa, China

IC/MDJ, Mudanjiang, China

IC/QIZ, Qiongzhong, Guangduong Province, China

IU/ADK, Aleutian Islands, Alaska, USA

IU/AFI, Afiamalu, Samoa

IU/ANMO, Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA

IU/ANTO, Ankara, Turkey

IU/BBSR, Bermuda

IU/BILL, Bilibino, Russia

IU/CASY, Casey, Antarctica

IU/CCM, Cathedral Cave, Missouri, USA

IU/CHTO, Chiang Mai, Thailand

IU/COLA, College Outpost, Alaska, USA

IU/COR, Corvallis, Oregon, USA

IU/CTAO, Charters Towers, Australia

IU/DAV,Davao, Philippines

IU/DWPF,Disney Wilderness Preserve, Florida, USA

IU/FUNA,Funafuti, Tuvalu

IU/FURI, Mt. Furi, Ethiopia

IU/GNI, Garni, Armenia

IU/GRFO, Grafenberg, Germany

IU/GUMO, Guam, Mariana Islands

IU/HKT, Hockley, Texas, USA

IU/HNR, Honiara, Solomon Islands

IU/HRV, Adam Dziewonski Observatory (Oak Ridge), Massachusetts, USA

IU/INCN, Inchon, Republic of Korea

IU/JOHN, Johnston Island, Pacific Ocean

IU/KBS, Ny-Alesund, Spitzbergen, Norway

IU/KEV, Kevo, Finland

IU/KIEV, Kiev, Ukraine

IU/KIP, Kipapa, Hawaii, USA

IU/KMBO, Kilima Mbogo, Kenya

IU/KNTN, Kanton Island, Kiribati

IU/KONO, Kongsberg, Norway

IU/KOWA, Kowa, Mali

IU/LCO, Las Campanas Astronomical Observatory, Chile

IU/LSZ, Lusaka, Zambia

IU/LVC, Limon Verde, Chile

IU/MA2, Magadan, Russia

IU/MAJO, Matsushiro, Japan

IU/MAKZ,Makanchi, Kazakhstan

IU/MBWA, Marble Bar, Western Australia

IU/MIDW, Midway Island, Pacific Ocean, USA

IU/MSKU, Masuku, Gabon

IU/NWAO, Narrogin, Australia

IU/OTAV, Otavalo, Equador

IU/PAB, San Pablo, Spain

IU/PAYG Puerto Ayora, Galapagos Islands

IU/PET, Petropavlovsk, Russia

IU/PMG, Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea

IU/PMSA, Palmer Station, Antarctica

IU/POHA, Pohakaloa, Hawaii

IU/PTCN, Pitcairn Island, South Pacific

IU/PTGA, Pitinga, Brazil

IU/QSPA, South Pole, Antarctica

IU/RAO, Raoul, Kermandec Islands

IU/RAR, Rarotonga, Cook Islands

IU/RCBR, Riachuelo, Brazil

IU/RSSD, Black Hills, South Dakota, USA

IU/SAML, Samuel, Brazil

IU/SBA, Scott Base, Antarctica

IU/SDV, Santo Domingo, Venezuela

IU/SFJD, Sondre Stromfjord, Greenland

IU/SJG, San Juan, Puerto Rico

IU/SLBS, Sierra la Laguna Baja California Sur, Mexico

IU/SNZO, South Karori, New Zealand

IU/SSPA, Standing Stone, Pennsylvania USA

IU/TARA, Tarawa Island, Republic of Kiribati

IU/TATO, Taipei, Taiwan

IU/TEIG, Tepich, Yucatan, Mexico

IU/TIXI, Tiksi, Russia

IU/TRIS, Tristan da Cunha, Atlantic Ocean

IU/TRQA, Tornquist, Argentina

IU/TSUM, Tsumeb, Namibia

IU/TUC, Tucson, Arizona

IU/ULN, Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia

IU/WAKE, Wake Island, Pacific Ocean

IU/WCI, Wyandotte Cave, Indiana, USA

IU/WVT, Waverly, Tennessee, USA

IU/XMAS, Kiritimati Island, Republic of Kiribati

IU/YAK, Yakutsk, Russia

IU/YSS, Yuzhno Sakhalinsk, Russia

Indian Ocean Region
Date/Time (UTC)	Message	Location	Magnitude	Depth	Status	Details
12.10.2012 00:37 AM	Tsunami Information Bulletin	Aru Islands Region Indonesia	6.7	0 km

Original Bulletin

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Tsunami Information Bulletin in Aru Islands Region Indonesia, Indian Ocean

000
WEIO23 PHEB 120037
TIBIOX

TSUNAMI BULLETIN NUMBER 001
PACIFIC TSUNAMI WARNING CENTER/NOAA/NWS
ISSUED AT 0037Z 12 OCT 2012

THIS BULLETIN IS FOR ALL AREAS OF THE INDIAN OCEAN.

... TSUNAMI INFORMATION BULLETIN ...

THIS MESSAGE IS FOR INFORMATION ONLY.

THIS BULLETIN IS ISSUED AS ADVICE TO GOVERNMENT AGENCIES.  ONLY
NATIONAL AND LOCAL GOVERNMENT AGENCIES HAVE THE AUTHORITY TO MAKE
DECISIONS REGARDING THE OFFICIAL STATE OF ALERT IN THEIR AREA AND
ANY ACTIONS TO BE TAKEN IN RESPONSE.

AN EARTHQUAKE HAS OCCURRED WITH THESE PRELIMINARY PARAMETERS

 ORIGIN TIME -  0032Z 12 OCT 2012
 COORDINATES -   5.1 SOUTH  134.1 EAST
 LOCATION    -  ARU ISLANDS REGION  INDONESIA
 MAGNITUDE   -  6.7

EVALUATION

 A DESTRUCTIVE WIDESPREAD TSUNAMI THREAT DOES NOT EXIST BASED ON
 HISTORICAL EARTHQUAKE AND TSUNAMI DATA.

 HOWEVER - THERE IS A VERY SMALL POSSIBILITY OF A LOCAL TSUNAMI
 THAT COULD AFFECT COASTS LOCATED USUALLY NO MORE THAN A HUNDRED
 KILOMETERS FROM THE EARTHQUAKE EPICENTER. AUTHORITIES IN THE
 REGION NEAR THE EPICENTER SHOULD BE MADE AWARE OF THIS
 POSSIBILITY.

THIS WILL BE THE ONLY BULLETIN ISSUED BY THE PACIFIC TSUNAMI
WARNING CENTER FOR THIS EVENT UNLESS ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
BECOMES AVAILABLE.

THE JAPAN METEOROLOGICAL AGENCY MAY ISSUE ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
FOR THIS EVENT. IN THE CASE OF CONFLICTING INFORMATION...THE
MORE CONSERVATIVE INFORMATION SHOULD BE USED FOR SAFETY.

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Volcanic Activity

Eruption continues at Paluweh; activity not specified

BY: VOLCANOBULLETIN

The CVGHM (or VSI) raised the Alert Level for Paluweh to ORANGE on 13 October based on ‘seismic and visual monitoring without specifying the activity; eruptive activity is most definitely on-going.

The Darwin VAAC has detected no ash plumes from Paluweh in the past 7 days.

All news about: Paluweh volcano
Information about: Paluweh volcano

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Links / Sources:

proxy.vsi.esdm.go.id/index.php: Volcanological Survey of Indonesia
www.bom.gov.au/info/vaac/advisories.shtml: Darwin VAAC

Odd “Sombrero” Uplift Observed In Andean Mountains Due To Magma Chamber

Radar data from ERS-1, -2 and Envisat show a central uplift of about 10 mm per year near the Uturuncu volcano (dark red). The surrounding region shows a slower subsidence at a rate of about 2 mm per year (blue). Data were acquired 1992–2010. Scientists refer to the deformation pattern as the ‘sombrero uplift’. Credit: Y. Fialko, SIO/UCSD

Brett Smith for redOrbit.com – Your Universe Online

Geophysicists at University of California, San Diego (UCSD) have identified a unique phenomenon in Altiplano-Puna plateau, located in the central Andes near the borders of Bolivia, Chile and Argentina.

Magma underneath the Earth’s crust is forcing the ground up in one spot, and at the same time sinking the ground around it. The result is something the researchers have described as the “sombrero uplift,” after the popular Mexican hat.

According to their report on the phenomenon, published in the journal Science, the two UC San Diego scientists recorded uplift in the crust that measured about 0.4 inches per year for 20 years across an area 62 miles wide; the surrounding area sunk at a lower rate—about eight-hundredths of an inch.

“It’s a subtle motion, pushing up little by little every day, but it’s this persistence that makes this uplift unusual. Most other magmatic systems that we know about show episodes of inflation and deflation,” said Yuri Fialko, a professor of geophysics at UCSD and Planetary Physics at the Scripps Institute of Oceanography.

Fialko and co-author Jill Pearse said the phenomenon was the result of a diapir, or a blob of magma, that rises to Earth’s crust like heated wax inside a lava lamp.

Using satellite data from European Remote Sensing (ERS) and Envisat missions, the geophysicists were able to study the uplift in great detail. In 2006, the team asked for the satellites to gather more data from their orbits over Altiplano-Puna.

“It was really important to have good data from different lines of sight, as this allowed us to estimate contributions from vertical and horizontal motion of Earth’s surface, and place crucial constraints on depth and mechanism of the inflation source,” Fialko said.

“Back in 2006, it looked like the satellites stopped acquiring data from the ascending orbits over the area of interest. Fortunately, ESA was very responsive to our requests, and generated an excellent dataset that made our study possible.”

“Satellite data and computer models allowed us to make the important link between what’s observed at the surface and what’s happening with the magma body at depth,” he added.

Fialko said the study’s findings could fuel future research around magmatic events, including the formation of large calderas. Although this diapir in the Altiplano-Puna plateau appears unlikely to cause such a phenomenon—the creation of large calderas, “supervolcanoes,” are highly destructive events that spew thousands of cubic kilometers of magma into the atmosphere. An event of this type would dwarf the Icelandic volcano eruption in 2011 that ejected large amounts of ash into the atmosphere and disrupted global air travel, Fialko said.

Diapirs have been known to exist before, but this new study is the first to recognize an active diapir currently rising through the crust. Fialko said a less prominent uplift phenomenon is taking place near Socorro, New Mexico.

The Altiplano-Puna plateau is a highly active area for magma and is part of a South American volcanic arc that extends along the northwest side of the continent. Experts have described the area as the largest known active magma body in Earth’s continental crust.

Source: Brett Smith for redOrbit.com – Your Universe Online

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Once Again Activity has been recorded at The Cerro Machin Volcano in Colombia

El nuevodia

According to the Volcanological and Seismological Observatory of Manizales, an earthquake measuring 2.6 on the Richter scale occurred yesterday at 11:54 am. The communique also points out that the incident “is associated with rock fracturing within the volcanic edifice.” The volcano-tectonic earthquake occurred to the southeast of the main dome at a depth of 12.33 kilometers ( approx. 8 miles). Although the movement was felt in the district Tapias, rural zone of Ibagué, Eduardo Rodríguez, director of the Departmental Committee for Risk Management, confirmed that no emergencies have been reported thus far. The Cerro Machin volcano alert remains yellow. There have been three earthquakes reported in the vicinity of the volcano within a week. On Sunday two separate seismic occurrences were recorded at 9:32 and 9:35 pm with a magnitude of 4.6 and 3.9 on the Richter scale, respectively, located southeast of the main dome at a depth of 12 kilometers ( approx. 7 miles). The two municipalities which experienced the tremors are Cajamarca and Ibague.

Translation Desert Rose

Klyuchevskoy volcano starts erupting in Kamchatka

Moscow Time

Вулкан Ключевской

Photo: RIA Novosti

The Klyuchevskoy volcano, the highest active volcano in Eurasia, has started erupting in Kamchatka, in the Russian Far East.

The luminescence over the volcano summit is evidence that glowing lava is flowing in the crater.

The volcano may start blowing out ash any moment now.

The Level of Concern Colour Code has been raised to Yellow, which is a potential danger warning for aircraft. The giant volcano last erupted from September 2009 to December 2010, and it began to again wake up in June this year. Klyuchevskoy volcano is 4,750 metres above sea.

Voice of Russia,TASS

Scientist warns of Fuji eruption chaos

By North Asia correspondent Mark Willacy

Snow covers the peak of Japan's Mount Fuji, with the city of Gotenba below

Photo: Sleeping giant – Fuji remains an active volcano, capable of causing carnage and chaos all the way to Tokyo (Koichi Kamoshida, file photo: Getty Images)

Map: Japan

A Japanese scientist has warned Mount Fuji is due for a “big-scale explosive eruption” that could affect millions of people and cause billions of dollars worth of damage.

Last month a study found the magma chamber under the mountain has come under immense pressure, which could even trigger a volcanic eruption.

It said the added pressure could have been caused by last year’s earthquake, which was followed a few days later by another large tremor directly underneath Fuji.

Professor Toshitsugu Fujii, the head of Japan’s volcanic eruption prediction panel, says an eruption could cause chaos and carnage all the way to Tokyo.

“Mount Fuji has been resting for 300 years now, and this is abnormal,” he told Saturday AM.

“It usually erupts in some form every 30 years.

“So the next eruption could be a big-scale explosive eruption.”

Ever since last year’s massive 9.0-magnitude earthquake off Japan’s north-east, the country’s meteorological agency has been keeping a closer eye on Mount Fuji.

Of even greater concern to the agency was a magnitude-6.2 quake right under the volcano a few days after the big one.

“It’s known that when a large earthquake happens, it can trigger a nearby volcano to erupt,” Professor Fujii said.

“That’s what happened 300 years ago, when Fuji erupted just 40 days after a big quake.”

Audio: Scientists fear Mount Fuji eruption (AM)

If there is a large eruption, the government fears it could cause more than $30 billion in damage to public health and agriculture.

Ash accumulations in some areas could be as high as 60 centimetres.

Even Tokyo, 100 kilometres to the north-east, could be coated in volcanic ash.

“Volcanic rocks will fall near the mountain,” Professor Fujii said.

“Tokyo will be covered in a few centimetres of ash. Yokohama will be under 10 centimetres.

“Trains will stop, planes won’t fly and crops will fail.

“Millions will be affected.”

For the hundreds of thousands who live in the shadow of Fuji, an eruption is a constant worry.

Haruo Tomitsuka, a professional photographer who lives by a lake on the east side of the mountain, has been taking photos of Fuji for nearly three decades.

“I’m worried about an eruption, but mostly I worry it will change the beautiful shape of the mountain,” he said.

But for now Fuji remains a sleeping giant, and everyone living in the shadow of the national symbol is hoping the volcano’s slumber will long continue.

12.10.2012

Volcano Activity

Indonesia

East Nusa Tenggara, [Mount Rokatenda Volcano, Pulue Island]

Volcano Activity in Indonesia on Friday, 12 October, 2012 at 09:54 (09:54 AM) UTC.

Description

Hundreds of local residents have been forced to evacuate as hot ashes spewed by Mount Rokatenda in Pulue Island, Sikka, East Nusa Tenggara on Thursday. “Volcanic ashes have reached four villages: Nitunglea, Rokirole, Kesokoja and Lidi. Our team has distributed masks and medicine for the residents,” Sikka disaster management agency head Silvanus Tibo said on Friday. Rokatenda’s volcanic activities have increased since Oct. 1, records show that there have been more than 50 volcanic earthquakes and 15 local tectonic earthquakes coupled with flames. The volcano’s last eruption was on March 23, 1985, with volcanic ashes reaching two kilometers above the mountain’s peak. Rokatenda also erupted during the period of Aug. 4 to Sept.25 1928. Nearly 6,000 people are currently living in four villages surrounding Mount Rokatenda.

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Volcano Eruption

Russia [Asia]

Kamchatka Peninsula, [Klyuchevskaya Sopka Volcano]

Volcano Eruption in Russia [Asia] on Monday, 15 October, 2012 at 12:23 (12:23 PM) UTC.

Description

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Extreme Temperatures/ Weather

Spring snow falls in NSW and ACT

Staff writers and wires
From: News Limited Network

Making the most of the snow fun at Falls Creek in Victoria is Romy Jackson 3, with her Teddy Bear ‘PJ’. . Picture: Chris Hocking Herald Sun

SNOW has fallen across New South Wales and the ACT as a cold snap hits the region.

The unseasonal weather saw residents in areas including the Blue Mountains and southern tablelands waking up to snow on Friday.

There is also snow around Canberra, following the coldest October day there in more than 40 years. There was a maximum temperature of 8C in the Canberra area on Thursday, 11 degrees below the October average and the coldest since 1967.

Overnight snow fell in the hills between Canberra and Bungendore and in areas around Goulburn and Crookwell to the north.

The Bureau of Meteorology said many areas could see snow, frost and hail as the result of a low pressure system moving across NSW.

“We’ve had quite a few reports of snow. We’re expecting snow down to 700m over many parts of the state,” said meteorologist Julie Evans.

There has been 2.5cm of snow on the ground reported at Nerriga, in the southern tablelands. In the Blue Mountains, snow has been falling between Blackheath and Katoomba.

Sussex Inlet on the south coast experienced a thunderstorm about 4am on Friday, with “extensive small hail” falling, Ms Evans said.

“We do get this late season snow but it doesn’t happen very often,” she added.

“The last time was in 2008 when we saw snow in the Snowy Mountains and central tablelands in November.”

In some areas, the temperatures will struggle to reach double figures on Friday, with central western Orange seeing a high of 9C. On Saturday, temperatures will dip below zero with Walcha, in the state’s north, due to get a low of -4C.

The low pressure was expected to affect Sydney in the form of heavy rain on Friday, along with a “sharp increase in wind”, Ms Evans said.

Coastal areas will bear the brunt and surfing conditions were described by the meteorologist as dangerous.

On Saturday there is likely to be extensive frost up and down the tablelands but temperatures are set to improve across the state as the weekend progresses.

Ausgrid has warned residents in Sydney, the Central Coast and Hunter Valley to beware of powerlines that may have fallen as a result of the bad weather.

Ulladulla on the NSW south coast was hit by strong winds and rainfall.

The town saw 225mm of rain fall in less than 24 hours and there were gusts of 47 knots on Friday morning, approaching 90km an hour.

South of the town, heavy storms led to even higher falls, with 288mm at Burrill Lake in the same period.

In Sydney, large swells caused the cancellation of ferries between Manly and Circular Quay.

The Great Western Highway has been closed in both directions at Wentworth Falls due to heavy snow and black ice.

The cold front had already swept through South Australia, causing unseasonal snow flurries around Adelaide and trapping a schoolgroup who were hiking in Victoria.

In Queensland, there also have been reports of sleet hitting part of the state’s southeast.

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Storms / Flooding / Tornadoes

Active tropical storm system(s)

Name of storm system	Location	Formed	Last update	Last category	Course	Wind Speed	Gust	Wave	Source	Details
Prapiroon (22W)	Pacific Ocean	08.10.2012	15.10.2012	Typhoon II	240 °	139 km/h	167 km/h	2.74 m	JTWC

Tropical Storm data

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Storm name:	Prapiroon (22W)
Area:	Pacific Ocean
Start up location:	N 17° 54.000, E 135° 42.000
Start up:	08th October 2012
Status:	Active
Track long:	430.67 km
Top category.:
Report by:	JTWC

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Past track
Date	Time	Position	Speed km/h	Wind km/h	Gust km/h	Category	Course	Wave	Pressure	Source
08th Oct 2012	05:04:27	N 17° 54.000, E 135° 42.000	9	83	102	Tropical Storm	270	15		JTWC
08th Oct 2012	11:07:36	N 18° 0.000, E 135° 6.000	11	93	120	Tropical Storm	280	16		JTWC
08th Oct 2012	16:15:09	N 18° 18.000, E 134° 12.000	17	102	130	Tropical Storm	290	1155		JTWC
09th Oct 2012	05:29:14	N 17° 42.000, E 132° 36.000	9	120	148	Typhoon I.	260	15		JTWC
09th Oct 2012	10:49:25	N 17° 30.000, E 132° 6.000	9	120	148	Typhoon I.	245	15		JTWC
09th Oct 2012	15:14:10	N 18° 0.000, E 131° 48.000	7	130	157	Typhoon I.	300	9		JTWC
10th Oct 2012	05:20:41	N 18° 24.000, E 130° 54.000	9	157	194	Typhoon II.	295	15		JTWC
10th Oct 2012	16:31:28	N 18° 54.000, E 129° 48.000	13	167	204	Typhoon II.	295	17		JTWC
11th Oct 2012	05:19:36	N 19° 12.000, E 128° 48.000	11	167	204	Typhoon II.	290	16		JTWC
11th Oct 2012	10:17:17	N 19° 30.000, E 128° 30.000	7	176	213	Typhoon II.	315	11		JTWC
11th Oct 2012	16:18:03	N 19° 18.000, E 128° 30.000	0	176	213	Typhoon II.	0	15		JTWC
12th Oct 2012	05:08:38	N 19° 48.000, E 128° 42.000	6	185	232	Typhoon III.	45	9		JTWC
12th Oct 2012	17:03:46	N 20° 12.000, E 129° 18.000	7	167	204	Typhoon II.	60	14		JTWC
13th Oct 2012	06:20:18	N 20° 48.000, E 129° 54.000	6	148	185	Typhoon I.	45	11		JTWC
13th Oct 2012	17:33:17	N 21° 42.000, E 130° 36.000	9	139	167	Typhoon I.	35	11		JTWC
14th Oct 2012	06:47:02	N 22° 12.000, E 130° 36.000	6	120	148	Typhoon I.	15	9		JTWC
14th Oct 2012	17:17:10	N 22° 42.000, E 131° 18.000	6	120	148	Typhoon I.	55	13		JTWC

Current position
Date	Time	Position	Speed km/h	Wind km/h	Gust km/h	Category	Course	Wave feet	Pressure	Source
15th Oct 2012	15:22:11	N 22° 24.000, E 131° 6.000	4	139	167	Typhoon II	240 °	9		JTWC

Forecast track
Date	Time	Position	Category	Wind km/h	Gust km/h	Source
16th Oct 2012	12:00:00	N 25° 24.000, E 131° 18.000	Typhoon II	139	167	JTWC
16th Oct 2012	00:00:00	N 24° 30.000, E 130° 54.000	Typhoon II	130	157	JTWC
17th Oct 2012	12:00:00	N 27° 24.000, E 133° 24.000	Typhoon II	130	157	JTWC
18th Oct 2012	12:00:00	N 30° 12.000, E 137° 36.000	Typhoon I	120	148	JTWC
19th Oct 2012	12:00:00	N 33° 54.000, E 143° 24.000	Typhoon I	102	130	JTWC

Anais (01S)

Indian Ocean

12.10.2012

15.10.2012

Cyclone IV

220 °

185 km/h

232 km/h

3.66 m

JTWC

Tropical Storm data

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Storm name:	Anais (01S)
Area:	Indian Ocean
Start up location:	S 7° 54.000, E 71° 0.000
Start up:	12th October 2012
Status:	Active
Track long:	518.09 km
Top category.:
Report by:	JTWC

Useful links:

Past track
Date	Time	Position	Speed km/h	Wind km/h	Gust km/h	Category	Course	Wave	Pressure	Source
12th Oct 2012	17:05:45	S 7° 54.000, E 71° 0.000	11	65	83	Tropical Storm	241	16		JTWC
13th Oct 2012	06:22:52	S 8° 54.000, E 70° 6.000	15	83	102	Tropical Storm	225	11		JTWC
13th Oct 2012	17:34:12	S 10° 0.000, E 68° 30.000	17	120	148	Cyclone I.	245	11		JTWC
14th Oct 2012	06:49:22	S 10° 54.000, E 66° 54.000	20	157	194	Cyclone II.	250	11		JTWC
14th Oct 2012	17:19:20	S 11° 24.000, E 65° 54.000	9	194	241	Cyclone III.	235	15		JTWC

Current position
Date	Time	Position	Speed km/h	Wind km/h	Gust km/h	Category	Course	Wave feet	Pressure	Source
15th Oct 2012	10:55:10	S 12° 24.000, E 64° 54.000	11	185	232	Cyclone IV	220 °	12		JTWC

Forecast track
Date	Time	Position	Category	Wind km/h	Gust km/h	Source
16th Oct 2012	12:00:00	S 15° 0.000, E 59° 18.000	Cyclone III	167	204	JTWC
16th Oct 2012	00:00:00	S 14° 12.000, E 61° 6.000	Cyclone IV	204	250	JTWC
17th Oct 2012	12:00:00	S 16° 12.000, E 56° 48.000	Cyclone II	139	167	JTWC
18th Oct 2012	12:00:00	S 17° 42.000, E 54° 18.000	Cyclone I	102	130	JTWC
19th Oct 2012	12:00:00	S 19° 24.000, E 52° 54.000	Tropical Depression	74	93	JTWC

Rafael (AL17)

Carib Sea

13.10.2012

15.10.2012

Hurricane I

335 °

111 km/h

139 km/h

3.35 m

NOAA NHC

Tropical Storm data

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Storm name:	Rafael (AL17)
Area:	Carib Sea
Start up location:	N 15° 24.000, W 63° 24.000
Start up:	13th October 2012
Status:	Active
Track long:	437.98 km
Top category.:
Report by:	NOAA NHC

Useful links:

Past track
Date	Time	Position	Speed km/h	Wind km/h	Gust km/h	Category	Course	Wave	Pressure	Source
13th Oct 2012	06:11:55	N 15° 24.000, W 63° 24.000	17	65	83	Tropical Storm	325	10	1007 MB	NOAA NHC
13th Oct 2012	17:26:58	N 15° 54.000, W 64° 6.000	15	676	83	Hurricane V.	330	16	1006 MB	NOAA NHC
14th Oct 2012	06:41:30	N 18° 24.000, W 63° 36.000	22	83	102	Tropical Storm	355	17	1004 MB	NOAA NHC
14th Oct 2012	17:22:25	N 20° 0.000, W 64° 6.000	19	93	111	Tropical Storm	335	11	997 MB	NOAA NHC

Current position
Date	Time	Position	Speed km/h	Wind km/h	Gust km/h	Category	Course	Wave feet	Pressure	Source
15th Oct 2012	10:51:33	N 22° 30.000, W 65° 18.000	17	111	139	Hurricane I	335 °	11	988 MB	NOAA NHC

Forecast track
Date	Time	Position	Category	Wind km/h	Gust km/h	Source
16th Oct 2012	12:00:00	N 27° 30.000, W 65° 0.000	Hurricane II	130	157	NOAA NHC
16th Oct 2012	00:00:00	N 24° 48.000, W 65° 54.000	Hurricane II	130	157	NOAA NHC
17th Oct 2012	00:00:00	N 31° 30.000, W 62° 36.000	Hurricane I	120	148	NOAA NHC
18th Oct 2012	00:00:00	N 40° 30.000, W 55° 0.000	Hurricane I	111	139	NOAA NHC
19th Oct 2012	00:00:00	N 48° 0.000, W 39° 0.000	Hurricane I	102	120	NOAA NHC
20th Oct 2012	00:00:00	N 49° 0.000, W 26° 0.000	Tropical Depression	93	111	NOAA NHC

Paul (EP16)

Pacific Ocean – East

14.10.2012

15.10.2012

Hurricane I

10 °

120 km/h

148 km/h

4.88 m

NOAA NHC

Tropical Storm data

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Storm name:	Paul (EP16)
Area:	Pacific Ocean – East
Start up location:	N 14° 12.000, W 114° 6.000
Start up:	14th October 2012
Status:	Active
Track long:	136.48 km
Top category.:
Report by:	NOAA NHC

Useful links:

Past track
Date	Time	Position	Speed km/h	Wind km/h	Gust km/h	Category	Course	Wave	Pressure	Source
14th Oct 2012	06:42:57	N 14° 12.000, W 114° 6.000	20	83	102	Tropical Storm	270	10	1001 MB	NOAA NHC
14th Oct 2012	17:25:26	N 14° 48.000, W 115° 6.000	15	83	102	Tropical Storm	300	12	1001 MB	NOAA NHC

Current position
Date	Time	Position	Speed km/h	Wind km/h	Gust km/h	Category	Course	Wave feet	Pressure	Source
15th Oct 2012	10:51:05	N 16° 12.000, W 114° 54.000	11	120	148	Hurricane I	10 °	16	988 MB	NOAA NHC

Forecast track
Date	Time	Position	Category	Wind km/h	Gust km/h	Source
16th Oct 2012	12:00:00	N 22° 6.000, W 114° 12.000	Hurricane I	120	148	NOAA NHC
16th Oct 2012	00:00:00	N 19° 36.000, W 114° 42.000	Hurricane II	139	167	NOAA NHC
17th Oct 2012	00:00:00	N 24° 12.000, W 114° 12.000	Hurricane I	102	120	NOAA NHC
18th Oct 2012	00:00:00	N 27° 0.000, W 117° 0.000	Tropical Depression	65	83	NOAA NHC
19th Oct 2012	00:00:00	N 29° 30.000, W 122° 0.000	Tropical Depression	46	65	NOAA NHC

Maria (23W)

Pacific Ocean

14.10.2012

15.10.2012

Typhoon I

350 °

93 km/h

120 km/h

4.57 m

JTWC

Tropical Storm data

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Storm name:	Maria (23W)
Area:	Pacific Ocean
Start up location:	N 17° 48.000, E 142° 24.000
Start up:	14th October 2012
Status:	Active
Track long:	119.07 km
Top category.:
Report by:	JTWC

Useful links:

Past track
Date	Time	Position	Speed km/h	Wind km/h	Gust km/h	Category	Course	Wave	Pressure	Source
14th Oct 2012	17:15:13	N 17° 48.000, E 142° 24.000	19	65	83	Tropical Storm	290	10		JTWC

Current position
Date	Time	Position	Speed km/h	Wind km/h	Gust km/h	Category	Course	Wave feet	Pressure	Source
15th Oct 2012	15:21:40	N 22° 42.000, E 141° 6.000	33	93	120	Typhoon I	350 °	15		JTWC

Forecast track
Date	Time	Position	Category	Wind km/h	Gust km/h	Source
16th Oct 2012	00:00:00	N 24° 30.000, E 140° 30.000	Typhoon I	93	120	JTWC
16th Oct 2012	12:00:00	N 27° 18.000, E 141° 36.000	Typhoon I	93	120	JTWC
17th Oct 2012	12:00:00	N 32° 6.000, E 146° 42.000	Tropical Depression	83	102	JTWC
18th Oct 2012	12:00:00	N 35° 48.000, E 154° 6.000	Tropical Depression	74	93	JTWC
19th Oct 2012	12:00:00	N 37° 24.000, E 164° 24.000	Tropical Depression	65	83	JTWC

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19 killed, 1,500 fishermen missing in Bangladesh storm

by Staff Writers
Dhaka (AFP)

At least 19 people were killed and an estimated 1,500 fishermen are missing after tropical storms smashed into Bangladesh’s southern coastal islands and districts early Thursday, police said.

Police said at least 1,500 mud, tin and straw-built houses were also levelled in the storms that swept Bhola, Hatiya and Sandwip Islands and half a dozen coastal districts after Wednesday midnight.

At the worst-hit island of Hatiya, at least seven people were killed after they were buried under their houses or hit by fallen trees, said local police chief Moktar Hossain. More than 1,000 houses were flattened.

“More than 100 fishing trawlers, each carrying at least 10 fishermen, have been missing since the storm,” he told AFP, calling it one of the most powerful in decades.

Many fishermen are expected to have taken shelter in other remote islands in the Bay of Bengal or in the neighbouring Sundarbans, the world’s largest mangrove forest.

In the past, many fishermen thought to be missing from storms returned home to coastal villages a week or two later.

Four people were killed in Bhola, three each in Sandwip and Companyganj and two at Char Jabbar, police said.

The police chief of Bhola district, Bashir Ahmed, told AFP more than 500 fishermen were missing from the country’s largest island and at least 500 mud and straw-built houses were levelled by the sudden storm.

Bangladesh’s weather office forecast heavy rain in the coastal region and advised fishermen to take care near the shore, but there was no major storm warning.

“We only got the warning signal number three. But the storm was so powerful, the weather office should have hoisted the signal number seven or eight,” said Ahmed, referring to the intensity of the storm on a scale of ten.

“It caught the fishermen and coastal people by surprise. Till now we haven’t had any reports from the missing fishermen,” he said, adding the authorities had sent relief to thousands of affected people.

Related Links
Weather News at TerraDaily.com

13.10.2012

Flood

Philippines

Government of South Cotabato, [Communities in Lake Sebu]

Flood in Philippines on Saturday, 13 October, 2012 at 09:21 (09:21 AM) UTC.

Description

The provincial government of South Cotabato has ordered the evacuation of around 600 residents from three upland communities in Lake Sebu town following a series of landslides in the area since last week. Lawyer Hilario de Pedro III, acting Provincial Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Office (PDRRMO) chief, said Friday they decided to evacuate residents from sitios Bentung, Lemuti and Tokobokong in Barangay Lamlahak, Lake Sebu to avert a possible tragedy due to the threats of landslides in the area. He said the three communities are considered as high-risk or in a danger zone due to the “multiple landslides” that occurred in the area since September 28. A PDRRMO report cited that the landslides initially displaced 109 families in the area.
It said the incident was caused by almost a week of continuous rains that eventually triggered several ridges of the area’s barren mountain slopes to give in. “(The rains) generated earth cracks which caused the soil descent,” de Pedro said. John Lorca, PDRRMO’s disaster operations chief, said 25 families were also affected in another landslide that occurred in the area earlier this week. He said two houses were destroyed in the incident, which was caused anew by the heavy rains in the area. Lorca said that three to four hectares of the area’s mountains were deemed highly vulnerable to landslides due to the presence of ground cracks. De Pedro, who is also the acting provincial administrator, said 155 families or a total of 620 individuals have been evacuated from the affected communities. He said the provincial government initially delivered food and other relief items to the evacuees, who are currently taking temporary shelter at the village center in Lamlahak. The official said they initially requested the Department of Environment and Natural Resources’ Mines and Geosciences Bureau (MGB) to conduct an assessment of the affected areas and determine whether it’s still safe for the residents to return there.

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Today

Tornado

USA

State of Mississippi, Wren [Monroe County]

Tornado in USA on Monday, 15 October, 2012 at 14:47 (02:47 PM) UTC.

Description

Significant damage from a possible tornado has been reported in Monroe County in northeast Mississippi. Law enforcement reported the roof of a home was removed with numerous trees downed about three miles south southeast of the town of Wren at around 7:04 p.m. Sunday. The National Weather Service issued a tornado warning for northern Monroe County from 6:52 p.m. to 7:30 p.m., indicating that a rotating severe storm was located near Wren and or seven miles northwest of Aberdeen, moving east at 25 mph. Luckily, there have not been any reports of injuries. The severe storm was associated with a cold front that was moving across the state. Mississippi is approaching what is considered the state’s second severe weather season in the late fall. The month of November is historically the second most active month for tornadoes behind April. The state observes Severe Weather Awareness Day on Oct. 24. Statewide tornado drills will also be conducted.

Today

Tornado

USA

State of Kentucky, Mayfield

Tornado in USA on Monday, 15 October, 2012 at 11:32 (11:32 AM) UTC.

Description

Forecasters say strong winds spun up a small tornado in Mayfield. Only one injury was reported after the storm on Sunday, but property damage included the scoreboard toppled at War Memorial Stadium. Graves County Sheriff Dewayne Redmon said Lions Club Park was heavily damaged. National Weather Service meteorologist Rick Shanklin said an EF-1 tornado struck near the Mills Manor nursing home with winds of 105 mph. No residents of the home were hurt, but cars were moved about in the parking lot and car windows blew out. Graves County Emergency Management Director Jamey Locke said at least two businesses and about a dozen homes were damaged. A homeowner was injured when the storm blew the roof of another building into his house.

Today

Tornado

USA

State of Texas, Lexington [Lee County]

Tornado in USA on Monday, 15 October, 2012 at 03:15 (03:15 AM) UTC.

Description

A small tornado damaged a farm in Lexington, about 70 miles east of Austin in Lee County. Cecil and Darene Rexroat’s home in lexington was hit hard Saturday night. “It was like a bomb went off,” said home owner Darene Rexroat. The damage is easy to see. The tin on the roof crumpled like paper. Limbs of a centuries old tree broken off and thrown around the yard. Glass shattered and scattered inside. “About 6:45, apparently, there was a tornado that came through here. We weren’t at home,” said Darene Rexroat. Dispatchers at the Lee County Sheiff’s Office said the tornado was small, and quickly disappated after touching the ground. The Rexroat home took most of the damage. “It was scary. It was scary not knowing what, what was damaged or how damaged or anything like that because we couldn’t get in because the electrical line was laying on the ground so we didn’t go anywhere near it,” said Darene. Rexroat says professionals will come look at the house monday. In the mean time, she and her husband will be hard at work. A task that will be made a little easier with the company of friends and neighbors. Helping the Rexroat’s find serenity and peace among the destruction.

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Epidemic Hazards / Diseases

Today

Epidemic Hazard

Myanmar (Burma)

Sagaing Division, Tamu Town [India-Myanmar Borderline]

Epidemic Hazard in Myanmar (Burma) on Monday, 15 October, 2012 at 14:19 (02:19 PM) UTC.

Description
An unkown disease showing symptoms of fever is now fast spreading in Tamu town, neighbouring Moreh on the Indo-Myanmar border. The disease is suspected to be dengue. An official of the National Vector Borne Disease Control Society, however, maintained that they have received reports about outbreak of an unknown disease showing symptoms of fever but no definite information about the particular disease has been received so far.
Biohazard name:	Unknown fever illness (Susp. Dengue)
Biohazard level:	3/4 Hight
Biohazard desc.:	Bacteria and viruses that can cause severe to fatal disease in humans, but for which vaccines or other treatments exist, such as anthrax, West Nile virus, Venezuelan equine encephalitis, SARS virus, variola virus (smallpox), tuberculosis, typhus, Rift Valley fever, Rocky Mountain spotted fever, yellow fever, and malaria. Among parasites Plasmodium falciparum, which causes Malaria, and Trypanosoma cruzi, which causes trypanosomiasis, also come under this level.
Symptoms:
Status:	suspected

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Solar Activity

2MIN News October 12. 2012

Published on Oct 12, 2012 by Suspicious0bservers

Pole Shift Video: http://youtu.be/uI10tKuLtFU
STARWATER: http://youtu.be/LiC-92YgZvQ

TODAY’S LINKS
Spring Snow Kills Livestock: http://www.weatherzone.com.au/news/snow-causes-livestock-deaths/22654
Late Cold Down South: http://www.weatherzone.com.au/news/snow-causes-havoc-across-eastern-australia…
RadNet: http://radiationnetwork.com/USA.JPG

REPEAT LINKS
Spaceweather: http://spaceweather.com/ [Look on the left at the X-ray Flux and Solar Wind Speed/Density]

HAARP: http://www.haarp.alaska.edu/haarp/data.html [Click online data, and have a little fun]

CERES JPL: http://ssd.jpl.nasa.gov/sbdb.cgi?sstr=ceres;orb=1;cov=0;log=0;cad=0#orb

SDO: http://sdo.gsfc.nasa.gov/data/ [Place to find Solar Images and Videos – as seen from earth]
Helioviewer: http://www.helioviewer.org/

SOHO: http://sohodata.nascom.nasa.gov/cgi-bin/soho_movie_theater [SOHO; Lasco and EIT – as seen from earth]

Stereo: http://stereo.gsfc.nasa.gov/cgi-bin/images [Stereo; Cor, EUVI, HI – as seen from the side]

SunAEON:http://www.sunaeon.com/#/solarsystem/ [Just click it… trust me]

SOLARIMG: http://solarimg.org/artis/ [All purpose data viewing site]

iSWA: http://iswa.gsfc.nasa.gov/iswa/iSWA.html [Free Application; for advanced sun watchers]

NASA ENLIL SPIRAL: http://iswa.gsfc.nasa.gov:8080/IswaSystemWebApp/iSWACygnetStreamer?timestamp=…
NOAA ENLIL SPIRAL: http://www.swpc.noaa.gov/wsa-enlil/

US Wind Map: http://hint.fm/wind/

NOAA Bouys: http://www.ndbc.noaa.gov/

NOAA Environmental Visualization Laboratory: http://www.nnvl.noaa.gov/Default.php

RSOE: http://hisz.rsoe.hu/alertmap/index2.php [That cool alert map I use]

GOES Xray: http://www.swpc.noaa.gov/sxi/goes15/index.html

JAPAN Radiation Map: http://jciv.iidj.net/map/

LISS: http://earthquake.usgs.gov/monitoring/operations/heliplots_gsn.php

Gamma Ray Bursts: http://grb.sonoma.edu/ [Really? You can’t figure out what this one is for?]

BARTOL Cosmic Rays: http://neutronm.bartol.udel.edu//spaceweather/welcome.html [Top left box, look for BIG blue circles]

TORCON: http://www.weather.com/news/tornado-torcon-index [Tornado Forecast for the day]

GOES Weather: http://rsd.gsfc.nasa.gov/goes/ [Clouds over America]

RAIN RECORDS: http://www.cocorahs.org/ViewData/ListIntensePrecipReports.aspx

EL DORADO WORLD WEATHER MAP: http://www.eldoradocountyweather.com/satellite/ssec/world/world-composite-ir-…

PRESSURE MAP: http://www.woweather.com/cgi-bin/expertcharts?LANG=us&MENU=0000000000&…

HURRICANE TRACKER: http://www.weather.com/weather/hurricanecentral/tracker

INTELLICAST: http://www.intellicast.com/ [Weather site used by many youtubers]

NASA News: http://science.nasa.gov/science-news/science-at-nasa/

PHYSORG: http://phys.org/ [GREAT News Site!]

QUAKES LIST FULL: http://www.emsc-csem.org/Earthquake/seismologist.php

2MIN News October 13. 2012

Published on Oct 13, 2012 by Suspicious0bservers

Pole Shift Video: http://youtu.be/uI10tKuLtFU
STARWATER: http://youtu.be/LiC-92YgZvQ

TODAY’S LINKS
Public Opinion Sways: http://www.wunderground.com/blog/angelafritz/comment.html?entrynum=28
Sept US Climate Report: http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/news/ncdc-releases-september-2012-us-monthly-climate…
Nigeria Floods: http://www.presstv.ir/detail/2012/10/12/266191/floodhit-nigeria-declares-ntl-…
Gulf Stream Deviation: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/10/121012122648.htm
Atlanta Wave Clouds: http://www.weather.com/news/wave-clouds-atlanta-20121012
Trolls: http://phys.org/news/2012-10-trolls-criminals-britain-social-media.html
Change in NE Trade Winds: http://phys.org/news/2012-10-documented-decrease-frequency-hawaii-northeast.html
New Arctic Ice High: http://phys.org/news/2012-10-antarctic-sea-ice-high.html
LA Tornado: http://www.myfoxla.com/video?clipId=7834247&autostart=true
Oceanic Acidity: http://phys.org/news/2012-10-oceans-acidity-threat-shellfish-humans.html

REPEAT LINKS
Spaceweather: http://spaceweather.com/ [Look on the left at the X-ray Flux and Solar Wind Speed/Density]

HAARP: http://www.haarp.alaska.edu/haarp/data.html [Click online data, and have a little fun]

CERES JPL: http://ssd.jpl.nasa.gov/sbdb.cgi?sstr=ceres;orb=1;cov=0;log=0;cad=0#orb

SDO: http://sdo.gsfc.nasa.gov/data/ [Place to find Solar Images and Videos – as seen from earth]

Helioviewer: http://www.helioviewer.org/

SOHO: http://sohodata.nascom.nasa.gov/cgi-bin/soho_movie_theater [SOHO; Lasco and EIT – as seen from earth]

Stereo: http://stereo.gsfc.nasa.gov/cgi-bin/images [Stereo; Cor, EUVI, HI – as seen from the side]

SunAEON:http://www.sunaeon.com/#/solarsystem/ [Just click it… trust me]

SOLARIMG: http://solarimg.org/artis/ [All purpose data viewing site]

iSWA: http://iswa.gsfc.nasa.gov/iswa/iSWA.html [Free Application; for advanced sun watchers]

NASA ENLIL SPIRAL: http://iswa.gsfc.nasa.gov:8080/IswaSystemWebApp/iSWACygnetStreamer?timestamp=…
NOAA ENLIL SPIRAL: http://www.swpc.noaa.gov/wsa-enlil/

US Wind Map: http://hint.fm/wind/

NOAA Bouys: http://www.ndbc.noaa.gov/

RADIATION Network: http://radiationnetwork.com/

NOAA Environmental Visualization Laboratory: http://www.nnvl.noaa.gov/Default.php

RSOE: http://hisz.rsoe.hu/alertmap/index2.php [That cool alert map I use]

GOES Xray: http://www.swpc.noaa.gov/sxi/goes15/index.html

JAPAN Radiation Map: http://jciv.iidj.net/map/

LISS: http://earthquake.usgs.gov/monitoring/operations/heliplots_gsn.php

Gamma Ray Bursts: http://grb.sonoma.edu/ [Really? You can’t figure out what this one is for?]

BARTOL Cosmic Rays: http://neutronm.bartol.udel.edu//spaceweather/welcome.html [Top left box, look for BIG blue circles]

TORCON: http://www.weather.com/news/tornado-torcon-index [Tornado Forecast for the day]

GOES Weather: http://rsd.gsfc.nasa.gov/goes/ [Clouds over America]

RAIN RECORDS: http://www.cocorahs.org/ViewData/ListIntensePrecipReports.aspx

EL DORADO WORLD WEATHER MAP: http://www.eldoradocountyweather.com/satellite/ssec/world/world-composite-ir-…

PRESSURE MAP: http://www.woweather.com/cgi-bin/expertcharts?LANG=us&MENU=0000000000&…

HURRICANE TRACKER: http://www.weather.com/weather/hurricanecentral/tracker

INTELLICAST: http://www.intellicast.com/ [Weather site used by many youtubers]

NASA News: http://science.nasa.gov/science-news/science-at-nasa/

PHYSORG: http://phys.org/ [GREAT News Site!]

QUAKES LIST FULL: http://www.emsc-csem.org/Earthquake/seismologist.php

3MIN News October 14. 2012

Published on Oct 14, 2012 by Suspicious0bservers

Pole Shift Video: http://youtu.be/uI10tKuLtFU
STARWATER: http://youtu.be/LiC-92YgZvQ

TODAY’S LINKS
Glaciers Cracking: http://www.iop.org/news/12/oct/page_58615.html
Record NE Lows: http://www.weather.com/news/daily-weather-extra-20121008
Soyuz: http://phys.org/news/2012-10-soyuz-rocket-galileo-satellites.html
Chinese Launch: http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/photo/2012-10/14/c_131905260_4.htm

REPEAT LINKS
Spaceweather: http://spaceweather.com/ [Look on the left at the X-ray Flux and Solar Wind Speed/Density]

HAARP: http://www.haarp.alaska.edu/haarp/data.html [Click online data, and have a little fun]

CERES JPL: http://ssd.jpl.nasa.gov/sbdb.cgi?sstr=ceres;orb=1;cov=0;log=0;cad=0#orb

SDO: http://sdo.gsfc.nasa.gov/data/ [Place to find Solar Images and Videos – as seen from earth]

Helioviewer: http://www.helioviewer.org/

SOHO: http://sohodata.nascom.nasa.gov/cgi-bin/soho_movie_theater [SOHO; Lasco and EIT – as seen from earth]

Stereo: http://stereo.gsfc.nasa.gov/cgi-bin/images [Stereo; Cor, EUVI, HI – as seen from the side]

SunAEON:http://www.sunaeon.com/#/solarsystem/ [Just click it… trust me]

SOLARIMG: http://solarimg.org/artis/ [All purpose data viewing site]

iSWA: http://iswa.gsfc.nasa.gov/iswa/iSWA.html [Free Application; for advanced sun watchers]

NASA ENLIL SPIRAL: http://iswa.gsfc.nasa.gov:8080/IswaSystemWebApp/iSWACygnetStreamer?timestamp=…
NOAA ENLIL SPIRAL: http://www.swpc.noaa.gov/wsa-enlil/

US Wind Map: http://hint.fm/wind/

NOAA Bouys: http://www.ndbc.noaa.gov/

RADIATION Network: http://radiationnetwork.com/

NOAA Environmental Visualization Laboratory: http://www.nnvl.noaa.gov/Default.php

RSOE: http://hisz.rsoe.hu/alertmap/index2.php [That cool alert map I use]

GOES Xray: http://www.swpc.noaa.gov/sxi/goes15/index.html

JAPAN Radiation Map: http://jciv.iidj.net/map/

LISS: http://earthquake.usgs.gov/monitoring/operations/heliplots_gsn.php

Gamma Ray Bursts: http://grb.sonoma.edu/ [Really? You can’t figure out what this one is for?]

BARTOL Cosmic Rays: http://neutronm.bartol.udel.edu//spaceweather/welcome.html [Top left box, look for BIG blue circles]

TORCON: http://www.weather.com/news/tornado-torcon-index [Tornado Forecast for the day]

GOES Weather: http://rsd.gsfc.nasa.gov/goes/ [Clouds over America]

RAIN RECORDS: http://www.cocorahs.org/ViewData/ListIntensePrecipReports.aspx

EL DORADO WORLD WEATHER MAP: http://www.eldoradocountyweather.com/satellite/ssec/world/world-composite-ir-…

PRESSURE MAP: http://www.woweather.com/cgi-bin/expertcharts?LANG=us&MENU=0000000000&…

HURRICANE TRACKER: http://www.weather.com/weather/hurricanecentral/tracker

INTELLICAST: http://www.intellicast.com/ [Weather site used by many youtubers]

NASA News: http://science.nasa.gov/science-news/science-at-nasa/

PHYSORG: http://phys.org/ [GREAT News Site!]

QUAKES LIST FULL: http://www.emsc-csem.org/Earthquake/seismologist.php

3MIN News October 15. 2012

Published on Oct 15, 2012 by Suspicious0bservers

Pole Shift Video: http://youtu.be/uI10tKuLtFU
STARWATER: http://youtu.be/LiC-92YgZvQ

TODAY’S LINKS
Starwater on the Moon: http://phys.org/news/2012-10-solar-particles-source-lunar-soils.html
Agenda 21 Article: http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/10/15/us-usa-campaign-teaparty-agenda-idU…
Satellite Falls from Orbit: http://space.brevardtimes.com/2012/10/satellite-falls-out-of-orbit-due-to.html
SpaceRef: http://www.spaceref.com/news/viewsr.html?pid=42332

REPEAT LINKS
Spaceweather: http://spaceweather.com/ [Look on the left at the X-ray Flux and Solar Wind Speed/Density]

HAARP: http://www.haarp.alaska.edu/haarp/data.html [Click online data, and have a little fun]

CERES JPL: http://ssd.jpl.nasa.gov/sbdb.cgi?sstr=ceres;orb=1;cov=0;log=0;cad=0#orb

SDO: http://sdo.gsfc.nasa.gov/data/ [Place to find Solar Images and Videos – as seen from earth]

Helioviewer: http://www.helioviewer.org/

SOHO: http://sohodata.nascom.nasa.gov/cgi-bin/soho_movie_theater [SOHO; Lasco and EIT – as seen from earth]

Stereo: http://stereo.gsfc.nasa.gov/cgi-bin/images [Stereo; Cor, EUVI, HI – as seen from the side]

SunAEON:http://www.sunaeon.com/#/solarsystem/ [Just click it… trust me]

SOLARIMG: http://solarimg.org/artis/ [All purpose data viewing site]

iSWA: http://iswa.gsfc.nasa.gov/iswa/iSWA.html [Free Application; for advanced sun watchers]

NASA ENLIL SPIRAL: http://iswa.gsfc.nasa.gov:8080/IswaSystemWebApp/iSWACygnetStreamer?timestamp=…
NOAA ENLIL SPIRAL: http://www.swpc.noaa.gov/wsa-enlil/

US Wind Map: http://hint.fm/wind/

NOAA Bouys: http://www.ndbc.noaa.gov/

RADIATION Network: http://radiationnetwork.com/

NOAA Environmental Visualization Laboratory: http://www.nnvl.noaa.gov/Default.php

RSOE: http://hisz.rsoe.hu/alertmap/index2.php [That cool alert map I use]

GOES Xray: http://www.swpc.noaa.gov/sxi/goes15/index.html

JAPAN Radiation Map: http://jciv.iidj.net/map/

LISS: http://earthquake.usgs.gov/monitoring/operations/heliplots_gsn.php

Gamma Ray Bursts: http://grb.sonoma.edu/ [Really? You can’t figure out what this one is for?]

BARTOL Cosmic Rays: http://neutronm.bartol.udel.edu//spaceweather/welcome.html [Top left box, look for BIG blue circles]

TORCON: http://www.weather.com/news/tornado-torcon-index [Tornado Forecast for the day]

GOES Weather: http://rsd.gsfc.nasa.gov/goes/ [Clouds over America]

RAIN RECORDS: http://www.cocorahs.org/ViewData/ListIntensePrecipReports.aspx

EL DORADO WORLD WEATHER MAP: http://www.eldoradocountyweather.com/satellite/ssec/world/world-composite-ir-…

PRESSURE MAP: http://www.woweather.com/cgi-bin/expertcharts?LANG=us&MENU=0000000000&…

HURRICANE TRACKER: http://www.weather.com/weather/hurricanecentral/tracker

INTELLICAST: http://www.intellicast.com/ [Weather site used by many youtubers]

NASA News: http://science.nasa.gov/science-news/science-at-nasa/

PHYSORG: http://phys.org/ [GREAT News Site!]

QUAKES LIST FULL: http://www.emsc-csem.org/Earthquake/seismologist.php

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Space

Earth approaching objects (objects that are known in the next 30 days)

Object Name

Apporach Date

Left

AU Distance

LD Distance

Estimated Diameter*

Relative Velocity

(2012 PA20)

15th October 2012

0 day(s)

0.1502

58.5

100 m – 230 m

10.36 km/s

37296 km/h

(2012 RV16)

18th October 2012

3 day(s)

0.1270

49.4

310 m – 700 m

16.14 km/s

58104 km/h

214869 (2007 PA8)

05th November 2012

21 day(s)

0.0433

16.8

1.5 km – 3.3 km

10.79 km/s

38844 km/h

(2011 UG21)

06th November 2012

22 day(s)

0.1784

69.4

340 m – 760 m

19.73 km/s

71028 km/h

(2010 WT)

07th November 2012

23 day(s)

0.1251

48.7

53 m – 120 m

6.53 km/s

23508 km/h

333358 (2001 WN1)

09th November 2012

25 day(s)

0.1285

50.0

370 m – 830 m

8.73 km/s

31428 km/h

330233 (2006 KV86)

11th November 2012

27 day(s)

0.1876

73.0

450 m – 1.0 km

23.35 km/s

84060 km/h

(2008 LH2)

12th November 2012

28 day(s)

0.1487

57.9

35 m – 78 m

5.10 km/s

18360 km/h

(2001 YM2)

12th November 2012

28 day(s)

0.0860

33.5

440 m – 980 m

9.26 km/s

33336 km/h

1 AU = ~150 million kilometers,1 LD = Lunar Distance = ~384,000 kilometers

Source: NASA-NEO

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Mysterious Booms / Rumblings / Sounds

Wellington ‘hum’ becomes nationwide obsession

The most bizarre theory was from a man convinced Daleks had surrounded the city

By Lloyd Burr

News of the ‘Wellington hum’ has reverberated across the country with the local council inundated with calls on theories about the phenomenon.

The Wellington City Council says calls have flooded in since the noise was first reported in parts of the city three days ago.

The cause of the noise is still unknown but council spokesperson Clayton Anderson says there are several theories floating around.

“We’ve had around 20 phone calls and got around a dozen emails from around New Zealand from people speculating what it is,” he says.

One theory is that the Wellington sewerage pump station is reverberating through the pipes into people’s house.

Another caller said the work being carried out on the Mt Victoria Tunnel ventilation shaft could be producing a low-pitched hum.

The most bizarre theory was from a man convinced Daleks – fictional mutant aliens from the TV series Doctor Who – had surrounded the city.

But Daleks or not, it appears the noise is spreading with the council receiving its first call from a resident in Berhampore last night.

It takes the total to around 20 noise complaints from Mt Victoria, Mt Cook, Newtown, Berhampore and Karori.

“We’ve put the word out to our business units about what could potentially be making that noise and they’ve all come back saying it’s not us,” says Mr Anderson.

He says the council will continue to go out and monitor noise complaints.

3 News

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Biological Hazards / Wildlife / Environmental Pollution

Today

Biological Hazard

Nepal

Bhaktapur District, Bode

Biological Hazard in Nepal on Monday, 15 October, 2012 at 07:41 (07:41 AM) UTC.

Description
Authorities in Bhaktapur’s Bode have culled more than 1500 chickens following a suspected outbreak of bird flu, health officials said. The outbreak of avian influenza initially killed 500 chickens out of 2000 at the poultry farm of a local Om Khadka. A meeting of health officials is underway at Bhaktapur to confirm whether the reported case is of bird flu.
Biohazard name:	H5N1 – Highly pathogenic avian influenza virus
Biohazard level:	4/4 Hazardous
Biohazard desc.:	Viruses and bacteria that cause severe to fatal disease in humans, and for which vaccines or other treatments are not available, such as Bolivian and Argentine hemorrhagic fevers, H5N1(bird flu), Dengue hemorrhagic fever, Marburg virus, Ebola virus, hantaviruses, Lassa fever, Crimean-Congo hemorrhagic fever, and other hemorrhagic or unidentified diseases. When dealing with biological hazards at this level the use of a Hazmat suit and a self-contained oxygen supply is mandatory. The entrance and exit of a Level Four biolab will contain multiple showers, a vacuum room, an ultraviolet light room, autonomous detection system, and other safety precautions designed to destroy all traces of the biohazard. Multiple airlocks are employed and are electronically secured to prevent both doors opening at the same time. All air and water service going to and coming from a Biosafety Level 4 (P4) lab will undergo similar decontamination procedures to eliminate the possibility of an accidental release.
Symptoms:
Status:	confirmed

Today

Environment Pollution

USA

Gulf of Mexico, [Location of Deepwater Horizon disaster]

Environment Pollution in USA on Monday, 15 October, 2012 at 03:19 (03:19 AM) UTC.

Description

The Federal On-Scene Coordinator for the Deepwater Horizon oil spill in New Orleans issued a Notice of Federal Interest to BP and Transocean Tuesday. Coast Guard Capt. Duke Walker issued the NOFI following sample results from an oil sheen located in the vicinity of where the Deepwater Horizon drill rig exploded and sank more than two years ago. The sheen was first reported to the National Response Center Sept. 16 by BP based on satellite images from the 9th and 14th overpasses in the Mississippi Canyon, block 252, approximately 50 miles off the coast of Louisiana. The sheen is not feasible to recover and does not pose a risk to the shoreline. The Coast Guard, in concert with BP and NOAA, has conducted regular assessments of the sheen by aircraft and boat since its discovery. The observed sheen size has varied over time depending upon the conditions present. Samples of the sheen were taken by Coast Guard Marine Safety Unit Morgan City Sept. 26 and sent to the Coast Guard Marine Safety Lab in New London, Conn. The Marine Safety Laboratory results indicate the sheen correlates to oil that originated from BP’s Macondo Well. The exact source of the sheen is uncertain at this time but could be residual oil associated with wreckage and/or debris left on the seabed from the Deepwater Horizon incident in 2010. The NOFI effectively informs BP and Transocean that the Coast Guard matched the sheen samples to the Deepwater Horizon spill or sunken drilling debris and that either party or both may be held accountable for any cost associated with further assessments or operations related to this sheen. The Gulf Coast Incident Management Team remains committed to the continued cleanup of the Gulf Coast and all shorelines affected as a result of the Deepwater Horizon oil rig explosion. The FOSC is determined to continue response activities to remove all oil where it is technologically feasible, environmentally beneficial and safe for workers to perform recovery operations.

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Articles of Interest

Today

Power Outage

USA

State of Michigan, [METRO Detroit region]

Power Outage in USA on Monday, 15 October, 2012 at 14:31 (02:31 PM) UTC.

Description

About 18,000 DTE Energy customers are without power after high winds blasted through southeast Michigan overnight. The outages include 7,000 customers without power in Wayne County, with the rest scattered throughout Macomb, Oakland and Washtenaw counties, DTE spokesman Scott Simons said this morning. “They should be back by sometime today,” Simons said. “It was high winds: gusts up to 45 miles per hour.” DTE provides electric power to 2.1 million customers throughout southeast Michigan. The power outage closed Detroit Public Schools’ Thirkell Elementary, 7724 14th Street, for the day today. National Weather Service meteorologist Mike Richter said today that the highest winds blew through between 8 p.m. and midnight Sunday. High gusts at 44 m.p.h. were clocked at Detroit Metro Airport at 9:52 p.m. Sunday and City Airport 10:42 p.m. “It was a really strong cold front that moved through, so we had a good burst of wind,” Richter said this morning from the agency’s White Lake Township office. “We’re going to have gusts about 25 m.p.h through most of the day today — considerably cooler today. It’s not going to get much warmer than what it is now.” Today’s high temperature is expected to reach 53 degrees, with a 30% chance of light showers across the region, he said. Temperatures will start to climb again on Tuesday, with a high of 60 degrees and a high of 70 degrees expected on Wednesday. Another front arrives with chances of rain Wednesday night and into Thursday, Richter said. Temperatures will drop again to highs around 60 on Thursday, then down to highs in the mid-50s for the weekend. “It’s going to be a little bit of a roller coaster ride,” Richter said.

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Scientists Uncover Diversion of Gulf Stream Path in Late 2011

by Staff Writers
Cape Cod, MA (SPX)

illustration only

At a meeting with New England commercial fishermen last December, physical oceanographers Glen Gawarkiewicz and Al Plueddemann from the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) were alerted by three fishermen about unusually high surface water temperatures and strong currents on the outer continental shelf south of New England.

“I promised them I would look into why that was happening,” Gawarkiewicz says.

The result of his investigation was a discovery that the Gulf Stream diverged well to the north of its normal path beginning in late October 2011, causing the warmer-than-usual ocean temperatures along the New England continental shelf.

The researchers’ findings, “Direct interaction between the Gulf Stream and the shelfbreak south of New England,” were published in the August 2012 issue of the journal Scientific Reports.

To begin to unravel the mystery, Gawarkiewicz and his colleagues assembled data from a variety of sources and recreated a record of the Gulf Stream path during the fall of 2011.

First, they tapped into data collected by a program called eMOLT, a non-profit collaboration of fishing industry, research, academic and government entities, run by James Manning of National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s Northeast Fisheries Science Center. For more than a decade the program has recorded near-bottom ocean temperatures by distributing temperature probes to lobstermen.

Manning and scientists from WHOI, including Robert Todd and Magdalena Andres, analyzed a time series of temperatures from two eMOLT sites, OC01 and TA51, which were located over the outer continental shelf near the shelfbreak, and identified two events when temperatures suddenly increased by 6.2 and 6.7 degrees C, respectively, to highs of more than 18 degrees C.

“These are very dramatic events for the outer continental shelf, at least 2 degrees C warmer than we’ve seen since 2001,” says Gawarkiewicz. “Near-bottom temperatures of 18 degrees C on the outer shelf are extremely high for late autumn.” The maximum recorded temperature in December 2011 was the warmest bottom temperature recorded in 6 years of records at the OC01 site.

In typical years, the warm Gulf Stream waters only indirectly influence ocean currents and temperatures near the continental shelfbreak south of New England when eddies, called warm core rings, pinch off from the Gulf Stream and drift toward the outer continental shelf. Such rings normally drift past a site after a few weeks, and therefore cause only limited warming of the water on the outer shelf.

Gawarkiewicz and his colleagues collected additional data on water temperature and salinity from December 4, 2011 through January 4, 2012, from instruments on temporary test moorings placed 12 km south of the shelfbreak by the Ocean Observatories Initiative (OOI). The researchers compared those salinity measurements to historical data, and discovered that high salinity levels – consistent with the salinity of waters carried by the Gulf Stream – coincided with the warming periods.

The extent and duration of the two 2011 warming events combined with the high salinity observed by the researchers suggested the cause was not a transient warm core ring, but the Gulf Stream itself that carried warm, salty water to the outer shelf.

To solidify that finding, Gawarkiewicz received serendipitous help from students in the Marine Advanced Technology Education (MATE) program at Cape Fear Community College in Wilmington, NC, who had deployed a surface drifter during the period coinciding with the two warming events. Drifters use satellites to transmit their positions roughly every six hours, key information for the WHOI scientists, who analyzed the drifter tracks and speeds.

“Drifters around the edges of warm core rings drift toward the continental shelf at about 1 knot,” Gawarkiewicz says. “But we saw the drifter cut across the slope towards the shelf at about 2.5 knots. It only took it eight days to travel from Cape Fear, North Carolina, to a point 40 miles south of Georges Bank, a total distance of 580 miles.”

The periods of high speeds for the drifters coincided with the records for high temperatures on the outer shelf, which told the scientists that the core of the Gulf Stream had diverted to 39.9 degrees N at 68 degrees W – 125 miles north of its mean position, further north than had ever been recorded by satellite altimeters at this particular longitude.

The temporary shift in Gulf Stream path observed last fall potentially has significant longer-term implications. Studies have shown that temperature increases of 2 degrees C have caused major shifts in silver hake populations, for example, and in spring 2012, migratory bluefish and striped bass were observed off the coast of Cape Cod much earlier than in previous years.

But, the scientists say, more research is needed to determine just how the Gulf Stream’s behavior in 2011 affected the continental shelf ecosystem and marine organisms.

It is unclear what might have caused this shift in the Gulf Stream path. It occurred shortly after Hurricanes Irene and Katia drenched the east coast with rain, and this might have impacted the Gulf Stream separation from the continental shelf near Cape Hatteras.

Another possibility is that a cold core ring, an eddy south of the Gulf Stream core, might have deflected the Gulf Stream. Further research will be necessary to determine exactly how and why this occurred, which will be helpful in the long term in predicting Gulf Stream motions.

In the meantime, Gawarkiewicz and his colleagues will be keeping an eye on what the Gulf Stream does this fall, with the hope of someday being able to predict such a shift. “We’re checking in from time to time to monitor it. We’ll be talking to the fishermen, and academics, and keeping an eye on things,” he says.

Fishermen David Spencer, Fred Mattera, and Norbert Stamps first alerted the researchers to the anomaly. Profile data were made available by the OOI, which is funded by the National Science Foundation and managed by the Consortium for Ocean Leadership. Tim Shaw and David Calhoun at Cape Fear Community College provided drifter data. WHOI scientists on this project were supported by the NSF, the Cooperative Institute for the North Atlantic Region, the Penzance Endowed Fund in Support of Assistant Scientists, and the Postdoctoral Scholar Program at WHOI.

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Earth Watch Report – Wednesday October 10th, 2012

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October 10, 2012

Earthquakes

USGS

MAG	UTC DATE-TIME y/m/d h:m:s	LAT deg	LON deg	DEPTH km	Region
MAP	4.2	2012/10/09 22:51:19	-43.470	172.780	9.0	SOUTH ISLAND OF NEW ZEALAND
MAP	2.7	2012/10/09 22:22:38	53.543	-166.035	48.8	FOX ISLANDS, ALEUTIAN ISLANDS, ALASKA
MAP	4.8	2012/10/09 22:14:23	-59.790	-26.637	99.1	SOUTH SANDWICH ISLANDS REGION
MAP	2.5	2012/10/09 21:01:35	63.001	-150.385	119.3	CENTRAL ALASKA
MAP	3.4	2012/10/09 20:56:13	18.760	-65.142	50.0	VIRGIN ISLANDS REGION
MAP	2.9	2012/10/09 19:18:45	18.376	-64.438	101.0	VIRGIN ISLANDS REGION
MAP	4.7	2012/10/09 18:34:51	-4.475	129.245	52.0	BANDA SEA
MAP	2.9	2012/10/09 17:24:37	58.717	-153.623	13.0	KODIAK ISLAND REGION, ALASKA
MAP	3.8	2012/10/09 17:21:40	19.493	-64.377	64.0	VIRGIN ISLANDS REGION
MAP	4.3	2012/10/09 16:11:58	20.759	122.184	158.2	BATAN ISLANDS REGION, PHILIPPINES
MAP	3.7	2012/10/09 16:06:50	19.627	-64.324	54.0	VIRGIN ISLANDS REGION
MAP	4.0	2012/10/09 15:50:55	24.438	-109.398	10.0	GULF OF CALIFORNIA
MAP	3.5	2012/10/09 15:21:30	19.566	-64.429	52.0	VIRGIN ISLANDS REGION
MAP	2.5	2012/10/09 13:03:32	62.862	-150.833	109.5	CENTRAL ALASKA
MAP	3.4	2012/10/09 13:00:02	33.711	-117.343	9.2	SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA
MAP	6.4	2012/10/09 12:32:04	-61.033	153.960	10.2	BALLENY ISLANDS REGION
MAP	4.5	2012/10/09 12:14:29	-23.428	-179.854	596.6	SOUTH OF THE FIJI ISLANDS
MAP	2.6	2012/10/09 11:24:56	60.114	-153.183	126.6	SOUTHERN ALASKA
MAP	3.0	2012/10/09 08:49:10	35.777	-97.163	5.0	OKLAHOMA
MAP	4.8	2012/10/09 07:57:52	-2.692	139.200	45.9	NEAR THE NORTH COAST OF PAPUA, INDONESIA
MAP	5.5	2012/10/09 07:49:54	-2.757	139.179	36.9	NEAR THE NORTH COAST OF PAPUA, INDONESIA
MAP	5.2	2012/10/09 07:14:59	-2.710	139.088	33.3	NEAR THE NORTH COAST OF PAPUA, INDONESIA
MAP	3.4	2012/10/09 04:55:44	62.780	-149.622	70.1	CENTRAL ALASKA
MAP	4.6	2012/10/09 04:41:59	4.856	96.543	54.2	NORTHERN SUMATRA, INDONESIA
MAP	4.7	2012/10/09 03:30:35	-29.413	-69.348	111.4	SAN JUAN, ARGENTINA
MAP	2.6	2012/10/09 03:00:53	47.103	-121.113	1.5	WASHINGTON
MAP	4.8	2012/10/09 00:30:21	-20.896	-174.074	27.7	TONGA
MAP	2.6	2012/10/09 00:11:32	18.950	-66.373	40.0	PUERTO RICO REGION

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Seismic movement in Hunza: Landslides affect 15 families, damage infrastructure

By Our Correspondent

A view of the mountains affected by tremors in Mayoon and Hussainabad villages of Hunza-Nagar District. PHOTO: SHABBIR MIR/THE EXPRESS TRIBUNE

GILGIT: At least 15 families have abandoned their houses due to landslides triggered by tremors in two villages of Hunza-Nagar District.

The landslides damaged a main water channel and other public and private property in Mayoon and Hussainabad villages.

“At least 15 families have moved in with their relatives in view of the looming threat,” Shahzad Hussain, a resident of the area told The Express Tribune on Monday. He said that the landslides started two weeks ago.

So far a main water channel, a link road and 12 electricity polls have been damaged. The landslides have also destroyed wild fruit trees.

“There is no light or no water in the area,” Hussain said, adding that the remaining villagers are also considering moving due to the tremors. Complaints to officials over the disrupted water and electricity supply yielded no result.

Another resident said fissures have already appeared in the ground in some parts. He said the villagers who had moved away did so on the advice of experts sent by a non-governmental organisation.

Another villager said, “We hope the government will act swiftly to minimise our losses.”

Others were not as hopeful, saying that past landslides have devastated several houses, orchards and standing crops in Shinaki area, but the government did not do anything for the people.

Gilgit-Baltistan Disaster Management Authority Director Burhan Afandi said that the government is planning to conduct a survey in the area to find the cause behind landslides and tremors.

“Thirteen families have been relocated as a precautionary measure and we will be conducting a survey to find out the causes,” he said.

In 2010, the government had shifted 55 families from Hussainabad village to safer places due to landslides, but later the villages returned as the situation turned back to normal. According to the then Hunza deputy commissioner, fissures had developed on some parts of the surface, causing landslide in the region, which is on a fault line.

Published in The Express Tribune

Deformation of Earth’s crust to south of Baku can lead to serious quakes and narrowing of Caspian

Baku, Fineko/abc.az. American seismologist predicts an increase in seismic activity of Baku and on the Absheron peninsula.

At the International Seismology Conference taking place in Baku American scientist and seismologist Robert King has informed that in Baku and Absheron peninsula it is expected an increase in seismic activity as a result of compression fracture between the Minor and the Greater Caucasus.

“Our research showed that the Arabian and Eurasian lithospheric plate is characterized by high strength, and as a result they do not deform internally, and tremors are the result of oceanic activity, located between these territories. In the entire Caucasus a fault is observed, in the south and the north there is some movement and deformation in the lowlands between the Minor and the Greater Caucasus. In the Baku seismic zone the speed of fault is 12 mm a year over 100 km. At that, to the south of Baku it is observed fracture and displacement of the Earth’s crust in the direction of the Caspian Sea, where compression takes place that will lead to a narrowing of the Caspian Sea. At the same time, we find it difficult to predict the results of all the occurring processes,” he said.

According to Mr. King, in order to predict the results of the occurring processes it is needed to determine whether a similar contraction is in the depths of the earth, develop a range of different geodetic models, neotectonics, a map of faults that will be possible as the installation of 25 new seismic stations.

“To continue the research, stations should be installed at a distance of 5-10 km from each other on the perimeter of the fault. It is necessary to invest in this as much money as has already been invested in the purchase and installation of stations in order to study the processes occurring in the soil, as well as raising of the level of oil reservoirs. All these studies are important in order to determine possible effects of very large deformations that occur to the south of Baku, in order to prepare for a possible earthquake,” he said.

No tsunami threat from southwestern Pacific quake

By Star-Advertiser staff

A preliminary 6.4-magnitude earthquake struck 452 miles northwest of the Balleny Islands region early this morning at 2:32 a.m., but presented no tsunami threat to Hawaii, according to the Pacific Tsunami Warning Center.

The earthquake struck at a depth of about 6.3 miles.

The Balleny Islands are a series of uninhabited volcanic islands that are part of Antarctica.

LISS – Live Internet Seismic Server

GSN Stations

These data update automatically every 30 minutes. Last update: October 10, 2012 06:49:11 UTC

Seismograms may take several moments to load. Click on a plot to see larger image.

CU/ANWB, Willy Bob, Antigua and Barbuda

CU/BBGH, Gun Hill, Barbados

CU/BCIP, Isla Barro Colorado, Panama

CU/GRGR, Grenville, Grenada

CU/GRTK, Grand Turk, Turks and Caicos Islands

CU/GTBY, Guantanamo Bay, Cuba

CU/MTDJ, Mount Denham, Jamaica

CU/SDDR, Presa de Sabaneta, Dominican Republic

CU/TGUH, Tegucigalpa, Honduras

IC/BJT, Baijiatuan, Beijing, China

IC/ENH, Enshi, China

IC/HIA, Hailar, Neimenggu Province, China

IC/LSA, Lhasa, China

IC/MDJ, Mudanjiang, China

IC/QIZ, Qiongzhong, Guangduong Province, China

IU/ADK, Aleutian Islands, Alaska, USA

IU/AFI, Afiamalu, Samoa

IU/ANMO, Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA

IU/ANTO, Ankara, Turkey

IU/BBSR, Bermuda

IU/BILL, Bilibino, Russia

IU/CASY, Casey, Antarctica

IU/CCM, Cathedral Cave, Missouri, USA

IU/CHTO, Chiang Mai, Thailand

IU/COLA, College Outpost, Alaska, USA

IU/COR, Corvallis, Oregon, USA

IU/CTAO, Charters Towers, Australia

IU/DAV,Davao, Philippines

IU/DWPF,Disney Wilderness Preserve, Florida, USA

IU/FUNA,Funafuti, Tuvalu

IU/FURI, Mt. Furi, Ethiopia

IU/GNI, Garni, Armenia

IU/GRFO, Grafenberg, Germany

IU/GUMO, Guam, Mariana Islands

IU/HKT, Hockley, Texas, USA

IU/HNR, Honiara, Solomon Islands

IU/HRV, Adam Dziewonski Observatory (Oak Ridge), Massachusetts, USA

IU/INCN, Inchon, Republic of Korea

IU/JOHN, Johnston Island, Pacific Ocean

IU/KBS, Ny-Alesund, Spitzbergen, Norway

IU/KEV, Kevo, Finland

IU/KIEV, Kiev, Ukraine

IU/KIP, Kipapa, Hawaii, USA

IU/KMBO, Kilima Mbogo, Kenya

IU/KNTN, Kanton Island, Kiribati

IU/KONO, Kongsberg, Norway

IU/KOWA, Kowa, Mali

IU/LCO, Las Campanas Astronomical Observatory, Chile

IU/LSZ, Lusaka, Zambia

IU/LVC, Limon Verde, Chile

IU/MA2, Magadan, Russia

IU/MAJO, Matsushiro, Japan

IU/MAKZ,Makanchi, Kazakhstan

IU/MBWA, Marble Bar, Western Australia

IU/MIDW, Midway Island, Pacific Ocean, USA

IU/MSKU, Masuku, Gabon

IU/NWAO, Narrogin, Australia

IU/OTAV, Otavalo, Equador

IU/PAB, San Pablo, Spain

IU/PAYG Puerto Ayora, Galapagos Islands

IU/PET, Petropavlovsk, Russia

IU/PMG, Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea

IU/PMSA, Palmer Station, Antarctica

IU/POHA, Pohakaloa, Hawaii

IU/PTCN, Pitcairn Island, South Pacific

IU/PTGA, Pitinga, Brazil

IU/QSPA, South Pole, Antarctica

IU/RAO, Raoul, Kermandec Islands

IU/RAR, Rarotonga, Cook Islands

IU/RCBR, Riachuelo, Brazil

IU/RSSD, Black Hills, South Dakota, USA

IU/SAML, Samuel, Brazil

IU/SBA, Scott Base, Antarctica

IU/SDV, Santo Domingo, Venezuela

IU/SFJD, Sondre Stromfjord, Greenland

IU/SJG, San Juan, Puerto Rico

IU/SLBS, Sierra la Laguna Baja California Sur, Mexico

IU/SNZO, South Karori, New Zealand

IU/SSPA, Standing Stone, Pennsylvania USA

IU/TARA, Tarawa Island, Republic of Kiribati

IU/TATO, Taipei, Taiwan

IU/TEIG, Tepich, Yucatan, Mexico

IU/TIXI, Tiksi, Russia

IU/TRIS, Tristan da Cunha, Atlantic Ocean

IU/TRQA, Tornquist, Argentina

IU/TSUM, Tsumeb, Namibia

IU/TUC, Tucson, Arizona

IU/ULN, Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia

IU/WAKE, Wake Island, Pacific Ocean

IU/WCI, Wyandotte Cave, Indiana, USA

IU/WVT, Waverly, Tennessee, USA

IU/XMAS, Kiritimati Island, Republic of Kiribati

IU/YAK, Yakutsk, Russia

IU/YSS, Yuzhno Sakhalinsk, Russia

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Extreme Temperatures/ Weather

09.10.2012

Forest / Wild Fire

Bulgaria

Sofia-Capital, [Vitosha Mountain]

Forest / Wild Fire in Bulgaria on Tuesday, 09 October, 2012 at 12:55 (12:55 PM) UTC.

Description

A large wildfire has erupted Tuesday around noon on the Vitosha Mountain just outside Bulgaria’s capital Sofia. Firefighters have been alerted by citizens about a blaze in the Mecha Polyana (Bear’s Glade) area between the Aleko center and the Bistrishko Branishte reserve in the mountain. The billowing smoke, fanned by high winds, is clearly visited from Sofia, which is located on Vitosha’s northern foothills. Bulgaria’s firefigthing service has reported that the blaze is hard to tackle due to the terrain and windy conditions. 70 firefighters and foresters have been sent to the location, which currently encompasses some 2.5 acres of alpine grassland and pine forest.

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Storms / Flooding

Active tropical storm system(s)

Name of storm system	Location	Formed	Last update	Last category	Course	Wind Speed	Gust	Wave	Source	Details
Prapiroon (22W)	Pacific Ocean	08.10.2012	10.10.2012	Typhoon III	295 °	157 km/h	194 km/h	4.57 m	JTWC

Tropical Storm data

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Storm name:	Prapiroon (22W)
Area:	Pacific Ocean
Start up location:	N 17° 54.000, E 135° 42.000
Start up:	08th October 2012
Status:	Active
Track long:	316.97 km
Top category.:
Report by:	JTWC

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Past track
Date	Time	Position	Speed km/h	Wind km/h	Gust km/h	Category	Course	Wave	Pressure	Source
08th Oct 2012	05:04:27	N 17° 54.000, E 135° 42.000	9	83	102	Tropical Storm	270	15		JTWC
09th Oct 2012	05:29:14	N 17° 42.000, E 132° 36.000	9	120	148	Typhoon I.	260	15		JTWC

Current position
Date	Time	Position	Speed km/h	Wind km/h	Gust km/h	Category	Course	Wave feet	Pressure	Source
10th Oct 2012	05:20:41	N 18° 24.000, E 130° 54.000	9	157	194	Typhoon III	295 °	15		JTWC

Forecast track
Date	Time	Position	Category	Wind km/h	Gust km/h	Source
11th Oct 2012	12:00:00	N 19° 42.000, E 129° 12.000	SuperTyphoon	213	259	JTWC
11th Oct 2012	00:00:00	N 19° 12.000, E 129° 24.000	Typhoon IV	204	250	JTWC
12th Oct 2012	00:00:00	N 20° 24.000, E 129° 24.000	SuperTyphoon	213	259	JTWC
13th Oct 2012	00:00:00	N 21° 12.000, E 130° 18.000	Typhoon IV	204	250	JTWC
14th Oct 2012	00:00:00	N 22° 6.000, E 131° 12.000	Typhoon IV	194	241	JTWC
15th Oct 2012	00:00:00	N 23° 30.000, E 132° 48.000	Typhoon IV	176	213	JTWC

Today

Flash Flood

Russia [Asia]

Republic of Dagestan, [Derbent City region]

Flash Flood in Russia [Asia] on Wednesday, 10 October, 2012 at 06:39 (06:39 AM) UTC.

Description

Heavy rains caused flooding that killed seven people in the southern Russian province of Dagestan on Wednesday, the Emergency Situations Ministry said. About 320 homes in the Caspian Sea coastal city of Derbent close to the Caucasus Mountains were flooded and seven bodies were found, the ministry said. In Derbent, warnings were issued from loudspeakers at mosques and mounted on cars dispatched around the city in the mostly Muslim province, Ekho Moskvy radio reported.

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Epidemic Hazards / Diseases

Today

Epidemic

Puerto Rico

[Statewide]

Epidemic in Puerto Rico on Wednesday, 10 October, 2012 at 03:12 (03:12 AM) UTC.

Description
Puerto Rico’s health department has declared a dengue epidemic. Health Secretary Lorenzo Gonzalez says at least six people have died, including two children younger than 10. A total of 4,816 cases have been reported, including 21 cases of the potentially fatal hemorrhagic dengue. The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says 342 new cases were reported in one week last month, twice the number of cases during the same period last year. Dengue cases usually flare up from August to January. The mosquito-borne virus causes fever, severe headaches and extreme joint and muscle pain. Dengue claimed a record 31 lives during a 2010 epidemic that saw more than 12,000 suspected cases. Gonzalez made the announcement on Monday.
Biohazard name:	Dengue Fever
Biohazard level:	3/4 Hight
Biohazard desc.:	Bacteria and viruses that can cause severe to fatal disease in humans, but for which vaccines or other treatments exist, such as anthrax, West Nile virus, Venezuelan equine encephalitis, SARS virus, variola virus (smallpox), tuberculosis, typhus, Rift Valley fever, Rocky Mountain spotted fever, yellow fever, and malaria. Among parasites Plasmodium falciparum, which causes Malaria, and Trypanosoma cruzi, which causes trypanosomiasis, also come under this level.
Symptoms:
Status:	confirmed

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Climate Change

Vast differences in Antarctic and Arctic polar ocean microbial communities reported

Scientists uncover vast differences in Earth's polar ocean microbial communities

The Swedish icebreaker Oden off the coast of Antarctica, with an emperor penguin in the foreground. Credit: J. Wegelius. (Phys.org)—An international team of scientists, including a University of Michigan graduate student, has demonstrated that a clear difference exists between the marine microbial communities in the Southern and Arctic oceans, contributing to a better understanding of the biodiversity of marine life at the poles.

The most comprehensive comparison of microbial diversity at both of Earth’s polar oceans showed that about 75 percent of the organisms at each pole are different. This insight sheds light on newly recognized biodiversity patterns and reinforces the importance of studying Earth’s polar regions in the face of a changing climate. And it highlights the need for further research on the impacts of sea ice, seasonal shifts and freshwater input in both regions. “We believe that significant differences in the environmental conditions at each pole and unique selection mechanisms in the Arctic and Southern oceans are at play in controlling surface and deep-ocean community structure,” said Alison Murray, leader of the international team and an associate research professor at the Desert Research Institute in Reno, Nev.

The team reported its findings online Monday in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

Scientists uncover vast differences in Earth's polar ocean microbial communities

A sample-collecting device called a rosette is lowered into the ocean off the coast of Antarctica. Credit: Lollie Garay. Kevin Bakker, a graduate student in the U-M Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, is a co-author of the PNAS paper. Before arriving at U-M last month, Bakker conducted molecular and microbial marine science off the coast of Antarctica while working at the University of Georgia. The scientists found that the differences between the two poles were most pronounced in the microbial communities sampled from the coastal regions, which is “likely a result of the significant differences in freshwater sourcing to the two polar oceans,” said Jean-François Ghiglione, first author of the report and research professor at the French Microbial Oceanography Laboratory.

In the Southern Ocean, glacial melt water accounts for most of the freshwater that flows into the system, Ghiglione said. In contrast, the Arctic Ocean receives much bigger pulses of freshwater from several large river systems with huge continental drainage basins, in addition to glacial melt water. While the surface microbial communities appear to be dominated by environmental selection, the deep ocean communities are more constrained by historical events and connected through oceanic circulation, providing evidence for biogeographically defined communities in the global ocean. “Neither latitude nor temperature drove the composition of the surface bacterial communities directly. Rather, short-term effects such as seasonal river input or melting glaciers shaped community composition,” said U-M’s Bakker. “In contrast, it seems like the deep oceans are driven more by long-term changes.”

Scientists uncover vast differences in Earth's polar ocean microbial communities

U-M graduate student Kevin Bakker in a laboratory aboard the icebreaker Oden. After collecting water samples, Bakker filtered the water to extract microbial DNA, then sent the genetic material to another lab for sequencing. Credit: Patricia Yager. The collaboration involved scientists from six countries: Canada, France, New Zealand, Spain, Sweden and the United States. The project was made possible through the International Polar Year, a global research campaign, and the Sloan Foundation’s Census of Marine Life Program, which stimulated field efforts at both poles, along with a separate program targeting marine microbes, the International Census of Marine Microbes. In addition, the national polar research programs from each of the six contributing nations, including the U.S. National Science Foundation, supported field expeditions. “The collective energies required to bring this study to fruition was remarkable,” Murray said. “By using similar strategies and technologies in sample collection through next-generation sequencing, we have a highly comparable, unprecedented data set that for the first time has allowed us to take an in-depth look across a large number of samples into the similarities of the microbial communities between the two polar oceans.” Scientists compared 20 samples from the Southern Ocean against 24 samples from the Arctic Ocean taken from both surface and deep-water sites. They also included an additional 48 samples from Earth’s lower latitudes to investigate the polar signal in global marine bacterial biogeography. The researchers specifically compared samples from coastal and open oceans and between winter and summer seasons to test whether or how environmental conditions and dispersal patterns shape microbial communities in the polar oceans. Samples were processed and analyzed by the International Census of Marine Microbes using an identical approach based on pyrosequencing and involving more than 800,000 sequences from each of the 92 samples. “Our analyses identified a number of key organisms in both poles in the surface and deep-ocean waters that are important in driving the differences between the communities,” Murray said. “Still, further research is needed to address the ecological and evolutionary processes that underlie these unique patterns.”

More information: “Pole-to-pole biogeography of surface and deep marine bacterial communities,” by Jean-Francois Ghiglione et al. doi: 10.1073/pnas.1208160109

Journal reference: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

Provided by University of Michigan

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Solar Activity

3MIN News October 9. 2012

Published on Oct 9, 2012 by Suspicious0bservers

Pole Shift Video: http://youtu.be/uI10tKuLtFU
STARWATER: http://youtu.be/LiC-92YgZvQ

TODAY’S LINKS
SpaceX Fail: http://cosmiclog.nbcnews.com/_news/2012/10/08/14297705-spacex-launch-problems…
Polar Biodiversity: http://phys.org/news/2012-10-vast-differences-antarctic-arctic-polar.html

REPEAT LINKS
Spaceweather: http://spaceweather.com/ [Look on the left at the X-ray Flux and Solar Wind Speed/Density]

HAARP: http://www.haarp.alaska.edu/haarp/data.html [Click online data, and have a little fun]

CERES JPL: http://ssd.jpl.nasa.gov/sbdb.cgi?sstr=ceres;orb=1;cov=0;log=0;cad=0#orb

SDO: http://sdo.gsfc.nasa.gov/data/ [Place to find Solar Images and Videos – as seen from earth]

SOHO: http://sohodata.nascom.nasa.gov/cgi-bin/soho_movie_theater [SOHO; Lasco and EIT – as seen from earth]

Stereo: http://stereo.gsfc.nasa.gov/cgi-bin/images [Stereo; Cor, EUVI, HI – as seen from the side]

SunAEON:http://www.sunaeon.com/#/solarsystem/ [Just click it… trust me]

SOLARIMG: http://solarimg.org/artis/ [All purpose data viewing site]

iSWA: http://iswa.gsfc.nasa.gov/iswa/iSWA.html [Free Application; for advanced sun watchers]

NASA ENLIL SPIRAL: http://iswa.gsfc.nasa.gov:8080/IswaSystemWebApp/iSWACygnetStreamer?timestamp=…
NOAA ENLIL SPIRAL: http://www.swpc.noaa.gov/wsa-enlil/

US Wind Map: http://hint.fm/wind/

NOAA Bouys: http://www.ndbc.noaa.gov/

NOAA Environmental Visualization Laboratory: http://www.nnvl.noaa.gov/Default.php

RSOE: http://hisz.rsoe.hu/alertmap/index2.php [That cool alert map I use]

GOES Xray: http://www.swpc.noaa.gov/sxi/goes15/index.html

JAPAN Radiation Map: http://jciv.iidj.net/map/

LISS: http://earthquake.usgs.gov/monitoring/operations/heliplots_gsn.php

Gamma Ray Bursts: http://grb.sonoma.edu/ [Really? You can’t figure out what this one is for?]

BARTOL Cosmic Rays: http://neutronm.bartol.udel.edu//spaceweather/welcome.html [Top left box, look for BIG blue circles]

TORCON: http://www.weather.com/news/tornado-torcon-index [Tornado Forecast for the day]

GOES Weather: http://rsd.gsfc.nasa.gov/goes/ [Clouds over America]

RAIN RECORDS: http://www.cocorahs.org/ViewData/ListIntensePrecipReports.aspx

EL DORADO WORLD WEATHER MAP: http://www.eldoradocountyweather.com/satellite/ssec/world/world-composite-ir-…

PRESSURE MAP: http://www.woweather.com/cgi-bin/expertcharts?LANG=us&MENU=0000000000&…

HURRICANE TRACKER: http://www.weather.com/weather/hurricanecentral/tracker

INTELLICAST: http://www.intellicast.com/ [Weather site used by many youtubers]

NASA News: http://science.nasa.gov/science-news/science-at-nasa/

PHYSORG: http://phys.org/ [GREAT News Site!]

QUAKES LIST FULL: http://www.emsc-csem.org/Earthquake/seismologist.php

ACTIVE SUNSPOT:

A sunspot, currently located on the farside of the sun, is about to emerge over the sun’s southeastern limb. It is crackling with M-class solar flares and could bring a significant uptick in solar activity.

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Space

Earth approaching objects (objects that are known in the next 30 days)

Object Name

Apporach Date

Left

AU Distance

LD Distance

Estimated Diameter*

Relative Velocity

(1994 EK)

14th October 2012

4 day(s)

0.1356

52.8

230 m – 520 m

12.22 km/s

43992 km/h

(2012 PA20)

15th October 2012

5 day(s)

0.1502

58.5

100 m – 230 m

10.36 km/s

37296 km/h

(2012 RV16)

18th October 2012

8 day(s)

0.1270

49.4

310 m – 700 m

16.14 km/s

58104 km/h

214869 (2007 PA8)

05th November 2012

26 day(s)

0.0433

16.8

1.5 km – 3.3 km

10.79 km/s

38844 km/h

(2011 UG21)

06th November 2012

27 day(s)

0.1784

69.4

340 m – 760 m

19.73 km/s

71028 km/h

(2010 WT)

07th November 2012

28 day(s)

0.1251

48.7

53 m – 120 m

6.53 km/s

23508 km/h

1 AU = ~150 million kilometers,1 LD = Lunar Distance = ~384,000 kilometers

Source: NASA-NEO

DRAGON AND THE ISS:

Laden with supplies, SpaceX’s Dragon spacecraft is approaching the International Space Station for docking on Wednesday, Oct. 10th. Last night, David Blanchard saw the commercial spacecraft chasing the ISS across the sky above Flagstaff, Arizona:

“The Dragon capsule raced to catch the ISS as the pair moved across the western sky separated by about 20 seconds,” says Blanhard. “This image is a single 30-s exposure that shows the separation and how Dragon trails ISS.”

On Wednesday, these two streaks will merge. As the Dragon approaches the ISS, astronaut and station commander Suni Williams will reach out with the station’s robot arm to grapple the capsule. The spacecraft will then be joined to one of the station’s ports where astronauts will unload its 1,000 pounds of food, clothing, science gear and other items. Later, the astronauts will load almost 2,000 pounds of used equipment and experiments into the Dragon to be returned to Earth safely in about three weeks.

GEOMAGNETIC ACTIVITY CONTINUES:

For the third day in a row, geomagnetic storms are circling the poles. In North America, auroras have spilled across the Canadian border descending as far south as Utah, Colorado, Kansas, and Nebraska. The best place to see the show, according to pilot Matt Melnyk, is from the window of an airplane:

“I photographed an unbelievable display from the cockpit at 21,000 feet while flying across Alberta Canada,” says Melnyk. “Being the pilot we get a front row view of the amazing aurora and this display was nothing less than spectacular!”

The storms were instigated by a CME strike on Oct. 8th and they are about to be re-energized by a solar wind stream due to hit Earth’s magnetic field on Oct. 10th. NOAA forecasters estimate a 40% chance of strong geomagnetic storms during the next 24 hours, so high-latitude sky watchers should remain alert for auroras

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Biological Hazards / Wildlife / Hazmat

Biological Hazard in South Africa on Tuesday, 09 October, 2012 at 09:55 (09:55 AM) UTC.

Description
A large section of coastline in South Africa has been closed after a 30-metre whale washed ashore following an attack by Great White sharks. The whale was removed from the surf after its carcass attracted high numbers of Great Whites to the coast by Muizenberg beach, near Cape Town, on Sunday. Authorities have since taken the southern right whale from the beach but have closed off a stretch of shore from Muizenberg to Monwabisi ‘as a precaution’. Disaster response teams had moved swiftly to get the animal out of the water and onto a flat-bed truck. Wilfred Solomons-Johannes, a spokesman for Cape Town’s disaster risk management centre, said: ‘A decision was taken to begin the recovery operation immediately because of the increase of shark activity off beaches along the False Bay coastline.’ The warning did not stop curious onlookers streaming to the site. Claire McKinnon, manager of the Cape Town cleansing and solid-waste management department, said samples were taken from the carcass to enable pathologists to establish the cause of death before it was disposed of at a landfill site. Once the whale was out of the water, a bulldozer rolled it over the sand. Solomons-Johannes said it was not known whether the whale was alive when the sharks attacked it or had succumbed to an illness. ‘Under normal circumstances predators such as sharks often sneak up on their prey from behind or underneath. Predators don’t usually face off in a fight,’ he said. ‘A predator goes in quickly and quietly attacks the prey. Predators choose the ill, injured, young or old animals to hunt because they are easier to catch.’
Biohazard name:	Shark Attack (Great White Shark)
Biohazard level:	1/4 Low
Biohazard desc.:	Bacteria and viruses including Bacillus subtilis, canine hepatitis, Escherichia coli, varicella (chicken pox), as well as some cell cultures and non-infectious bacteria. At this level precautions against the biohazardous materials in question are minimal, most likely involving gloves and some sort of facial protection. Usually, contaminated materials are left in open (but separately indicated) waste receptacles. Decontamination procedures for this level are similar in most respects to modern precautions against everyday viruses (i.e.: washing one’s hands with anti-bacterial soap, washing all exposed surfaces of the lab with disinfectants, etc). In a lab environment, all materials used for cell and/or bacteria cultures are decontaminated via autoclave.
Symptoms:
Status:	confirmed

09.10.2012

Biological Hazard

Zimbabwe

Province of Manicaland, [Buhera, Mutare, Mutasa and Chipinge districts]

Biological Hazard in Zimbabwe on Tuesday, 09 October, 2012 at 08:57 (08:57 AM) UTC.

Description
Anthrax has killed hundreds of animals mostly in the communal parts of Manicaland within the past two months, and veterinary experts say the risk of the hemorrhagic infection may be greater with drought covering much of the province. Though there were no immediate reports of human deaths in the outbreak, health authorities in Manicaland have recorded several hospitalised cases following the consumption of infected carcasses. Humans usually get anthrax through direct contact with infected livestock, often when spores get into a cut on the skin or eating infected carcasses. Without treatment, anthrax can be fatal, but early treatment with antibiotics is very effective. Dr Kurai Pride Kapondo, the acting provincial veterinary officer for Manicaland, confirmed the developments, adding that Anthrax cases have frequently been documented in Buhera, Mutare, Mutasa and Chipinge districts. The movement of cattle from these affected districts has been suspended with immediate effect, and those caught moving animals from these affected areas will be penalised because the spread of the disease is partially blamed on illegal animal movements. Natural anthrax is endemic in Zimbabwe where its bacillus spores can live for decades in dry soil and are ingested by animals ruminating for remnants of vegetation in the driest months of September and October. Anthrax outbreaks happen occasionally in livestock herds and wild animals in Zimbabwe, usually in the Gonarezhou area. Animals typically contract the disease by ingesting or inhaling spores that can survive in soil for decades. Once infected, livestock can die within hours. Anthrax bacteria react to drought and other harsh conditions by producing more spores, and experts said conditions are ripe for disease this year. A drought stretches throughout the entirety of Manicaland. “The division of veterinary field services would like to inform the general public that there have been cases of anthrax in Manicaland Province. Anthrax is a notifiable disease and the division of veterinary services must be notified of suspected cases,” said Dr Kapondo, adding that the disease presents itself as sudden death and animals are found with tarry blood oozing from the nose, mouth and anus. “Carcasses bloat and decompose very rapidly. The carcasses of suspected anthrax cases should never be opened and the meat should never be consumed. Should a case of anthrax occur on your farm, you may help to stop the spread of infection by burning or burying dead animals, and disinfecting the place using the most effective disinfectants like quicklime, formalin or caustic soda,” said Dr Kapondo. The veterinary department is suffering from perennial shortage of vaccines and farmers are being encouraged to purchase their own vaccines.
Biohazard name:	Anthrax
Biohazard level:	4/4 Hazardous
Biohazard desc.:	Viruses and bacteria that cause severe to fatal disease in humans, and for which vaccines or other treatments are not available, such as Bolivian and Argentine hemorrhagic fevers, H5N1(bird flu), Dengue hemorrhagic fever, Marburg virus, Ebola virus, hantaviruses, Lassa fever, Crimean-Congo hemorrhagic fever, and other hemorrhagic or unidentified diseases. When dealing with biological hazards at this level the use of a Hazmat suit and a self-contained oxygen supply is mandatory. The entrance and exit of a Level Four biolab will contain multiple showers, a vacuum room, an ultraviolet light room, autonomous detection system, and other safety precautions designed to destroy all traces of the biohazard. Multiple airlocks are employed and are electronically secured to prevent both doors opening at the same time. All air and water service going to and coming from a Biosafety Level 4 (P4) lab will undergo similar decontamination procedures to eliminate the possibility of an accidental release.
Symptoms:
Status:	confirmed

10.10.2012

HAZMAT

South Korea

Province of Gyeonggi, Gumi

HAZMAT in South Korea on Saturday, 06 October, 2012 at 10:55 (10:55 AM) UTC.

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Updated:	Wednesday, 10 October, 2012 at 03:17 UTC
Description
A chemical leak at a plant in Gumi, S Korea, about 10 km from US army base Camp Carroll, killed five people and injured 18 others 27 September but details of the extent of the damage are only now becoming clear, with officials declaring it a disaster area Monday 8 October. People living within one kilometre of the plant were evacuated and 3,000 people are reported to have been sickened by the hydrofluoric acid leak, reports RT. The area southeast of the capital Seoul is known as Koreaâs Silicon Valley.

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Today

Power Outage

USA

State of Texas, [Lower Valley]

Power Outage in USA on Wednesday, 10 October, 2012 at 03:18 (03:18 AM) UTC.

Description

A power outage in the Lower Valley left 13,800 customers without electricity and numerous intersections without working traffic lights. The outage began around 2:16 p.m. and was restored by 3:06 p.m., according to El Paso Electric officials. Police responded to multiple traffic-related calls in the affect area. Officials said the outage affected the Border Highway area all the way to the Yarbrough Drive exit. The cause of the outage is still unknown, but officials said it has something to do with equipment failure at the Ascarate substation. The cause of the outage is unknown, and according to the outage map, repairs may be completed within three hours.

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Earth Watch Report – Thursday October 4th,2012

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October 4, 2012

Earthquakes

USGS

	MAG	UTC DATE-TIME y/m/d h:m:s	LAT deg	LON deg	DEPTH km	Region
MAP	2.7	2012/10/03 23:05:49	36.900	-117.418	8.0	CENTRAL CALIFORNIA
MAP	4.9	2012/10/03 22:48:58	-14.331	-76.217	32.0	NEAR THE COAST OF CENTRAL PERU
MAP	4.7	2012/10/03 22:23:22	46.760	97.920	12.6	WESTERN MONGOLIA
MAP	5.0	2012/10/03 21:02:39	-5.765	151.126	56.9	NEW BRITAIN REGION, PAPUA NEW GUINEA
MAP	2.6	2012/10/03 20:25:52	38.529	-122.323	0.1	NORTHERN CALIFORNIA
MAP	3.8	2012/10/03 19:51:08	39.724	-119.436	10.9	NEVADA
MAP	2.7	2012/10/03 18:30:14	53.395	-164.278	20.0	UNIMAK ISLAND REGION, ALASKA
MAP	5.4	2012/10/03 18:28:33	5.860	126.955	144.5	MINDANAO, PHILIPPINES
MAP	3.3	2012/10/03 16:49:04	19.141	-65.120	84.0	VIRGIN ISLANDS REGION
MAP	2.9	2012/10/03 16:25:14	57.427	-154.107	13.6	KODIAK ISLAND REGION, ALASKA
MAP	4.6	2012/10/03 14:41:28	44.884	9.865	10.0	NORTHERN ITALY
MAP	5.7	2012/10/03 13:32:35	-0.451	97.648	10.0	KEPULAUAN BATU, INDONESIA
MAP	3.1	2012/10/03 10:04:04	19.802	-64.287	24.0	NORTH OF THE VIRGIN ISLANDS
MAP	4.9	2012/10/03 09:39:59	38.070	141.898	35.4	NEAR THE EAST COAST OF HONSHU, JAPAN
MAP	4.4	2012/10/03 09:20:45	44.655	7.311	10.0	NORTHERN ITALY
MAP	4.7	2012/10/03 08:16:41	44.352	-129.006	10.0	OFF THE COAST OF OREGON
MAP	4.8	2012/10/03 08:02:16	14.851	147.797	35.1	MARIANA ISLANDS REGION
MAP	3.2	2012/10/03 06:44:56	18.192	-67.845	50.0	MONA PASSAGE, PUERTO RICO
MAP	4.2	2012/10/03 06:26:41	12.296	-87.831	64.7	NEAR THE COAST OF NICARAGUA
MAP	5.3	2012/10/03 06:26:17	-6.277	152.746	30.5	NEW BRITAIN REGION, PAPUA NEW GUINEA
MAP	3.4	2012/10/03 03:31:03	57.241	-154.888	12.6	KODIAK ISLAND REGION, ALASKA
MAP	2.5	2012/10/03 03:22:30	62.448	-151.512	107.2	CENTRAL ALASKA
MAP	2.9	2012/10/03 02:36:14	62.911	-148.674	82.6	CENTRAL ALASKA
MAP	4.3	2012/10/03 02:13:13	44.475	-128.814	10.0	OFF THE COAST OF OREGON
MAP	4.6	2012/10/03 00:50:29	53.216	-166.719	39.8	FOX ISLANDS, ALEUTIAN ISLANDS, ALASKA
MAP	3.7	2012/10/03 00:35:53	19.684	-64.335	33.0	VIRGIN ISLANDS REGION
MAP	2.8	2012/10/03 00:19:51	60.613	-147.537	6.7	SOUTHERN ALASKA

	MAG	UTC DATE-TIME y/m/d h:m:s	LAT deg	LON deg	DEPTH km	Region
MAP	3.4	2012/10/02 22:41:21	19.635	-64.387	7.0	VIRGIN ISLANDS REGION
MAP	3.4	2012/10/02 22:38:48	19.580	-64.407	47.0	VIRGIN ISLANDS REGION
MAP	3.4	2012/10/02 21:00:48	19.637	-64.269	18.0	VIRGIN ISLANDS REGION
MAP	3.8	2012/10/02 19:59:32	51.552	-178.046	5.0	ANDREANOF ISLANDS, ALEUTIAN IS., ALASKA
MAP	4.1	2012/10/02 19:43:09	24.678	-110.179	15.4	GULF OF CALIFORNIA
MAP	5.3	2012/10/02 19:41:30	-65.008	177.926	16.6	BALLENY ISLANDS REGION
MAP	3.4	2012/10/02 19:17:14	19.662	-64.273	56.0	VIRGIN ISLANDS REGION
MAP	4.8	2012/10/02 19:16:02	37.142	71.812	138.9	TAJIKISTAN
MAP	3.4	2012/10/02 19:15:19	19.732	-64.250	48.0	VIRGIN ISLANDS REGION
MAP	5.0	2012/10/02 18:39:08	-20.607	-174.229	3.1	TONGA
MAP	5.1	2012/10/02 18:37:41	26.847	92.788	51.6	ASSAM, INDIA
MAP	4.9	2012/10/02 18:23:16	-6.071	146.248	118.1	EASTERN NEW GUINEA REG, PAPUA NEW GUINEA
MAP	4.4	2012/10/02 17:50:19	-27.498	-68.945	79.6	CATAMARCA, ARGENTINA
MAP	5.2	2012/10/02 17:37:24	-2.876	101.931	116.6	SOUTHERN SUMATRA, INDONESIA
MAP	4.8	2012/10/02 17:24:58	-6.336	130.286	135.2	BANDA SEA
MAP	3.4	2012/10/02 16:46:51	19.457	-64.275	8.0	VIRGIN ISLANDS REGION
MAP	4.5	2012/10/02 14:55:31	-3.632	101.476	57.5	SOUTHERN SUMATRA, INDONESIA
MAP	3.5	2012/10/02 13:28:08	19.476	-64.164	85.0	VIRGIN ISLANDS REGION
MAP	3.2	2012/10/02 12:05:13	19.666	-64.235	55.0	VIRGIN ISLANDS REGION
MAP	4.7	2012/10/02 11:37:53	39.774	143.243	29.8	OFF THE EAST COAST OF HONSHU, JAPAN
MAP	5.1	2012/10/02 11:35:52	-21.109	-174.474	34.7	TONGA
MAP	2.6	2012/10/02 10:02:22	32.800	-116.154	6.6	SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA
MAP	3.4	2012/10/02 09:08:11	18.216	-68.175	125.0	MONA PASSAGE, DOMINICAN REPUBLIC
MAP	4.4	2012/10/02 08:43:35	37.558	72.321	190.1	TAJIKISTAN
MAP	4.8	2012/10/02 08:34:55	32.461	76.641	12.6	HIMACHAL PRADESH, INDIA
MAP	4.1	2012/10/02 08:28:15	32.805	-116.144	10.5	SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA
MAP	2.7	2012/10/02 07:16:10	50.251	179.183	30.2	RAT ISLANDS, ALEUTIAN ISLANDS, ALASKA
MAP	5.1	2012/10/02 06:25:32	8.293	123.314	41.1	MINDANAO, PHILIPPINES
MAP	2.5	2012/10/02 05:43:29	34.215	-117.090	5.9	SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA
MAP	3.2	2012/10/02 04:41:36	52.038	176.335	46.0	RAT ISLANDS, ALEUTIAN ISLANDS, ALASKA
MAP	4.2	2012/10/02 04:21:03	52.473	173.398	49.5	NEAR ISLANDS, ALEUTIAN ISLANDS, ALASKA
MAP	2.8	2012/10/02 04:12:32	52.094	176.423	50.0	RAT ISLANDS, ALEUTIAN ISLANDS, ALASKA
MAP	5.3	2012/10/02 03:33:30	-18.820	-174.836	96.7	TONGA
MAP	3.1	2012/10/02 03:20:53	36.220	-118.318	5.5	CENTRAL CALIFORNIA
MAP	4.2	2012/10/02 03:17:12	45.897	142.685	342.6	HOKKAIDO, JAPAN REGION
MAP	2.5	2012/10/02 03:14:04	59.818	-150.519	60.3	KENAI PENINSULA, ALASKA
MAP	3.1	2012/10/02 03:05:47	18.513	-67.368	19.0	MONA PASSAGE, PUERTO RICO
MAP	2.8	2012/10/02 02:57:00	40.329	-125.431	6.4	OFFSHORE NORTHERN CALIFORNIA
MAP	2.6	2012/10/02 02:38:32	51.559	-178.031	4.8	ANDREANOF ISLANDS, ALEUTIAN IS., ALASKA
MAP	4.8	2012/10/02 01:51:39	39.600	143.424	33.2	OFF THE EAST COAST OF HONSHU, JAPAN
MAP	4.6	2012/10/02 01:10:46	36.206	140.937	17.7	NEAR THE EAST COAST OF HONSHU, JAPAN

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Earthquake at Katla Volcano

An earthquake of a magnitude of 3.2 hit Katla volcano, which lies underneath the Mýrdalsjökull icecap in south Iceland, just before 9:30 this morning.

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Mýrdalsjökull, under which Katla volcano lies. Photo by Páll Stefánsson.According to Gunnar Guðmundsson, seismologist at the Icelandic Office of Meteorology, the earthquake hit at a depth of 100 meters. Several smaller earthquakes occurred shortly before the larger one but no earthquakes have been recorded since, mbl.is reports.

Gunnar says there have been quakes of this strength before in the volcano but that they are not common. There has been little activity in Katla in the last month and there is no evidence of any further developments, he adds.

The glacier-covered volcano is monitored closely. A major glacial outburst flood occurred in July 2011, tearing a hole in the Ring Road in South Iceland.

Click here to read more about seismic activity in Katla and here to read about other recent earthquakes in Iceland.

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LISS – Live Internet Seismic Server

GSN Stations

These data update automatically every 30 minutes. Last update: October 4, 2012 08:48:51 UTC

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CU/ANWB, Willy Bob, Antigua and Barbuda

CU/BBGH, Gun Hill, Barbados

CU/BCIP, Isla Barro Colorado, Panama

CU/GRGR, Grenville, Grenada

CU/GRTK, Grand Turk, Turks and Caicos Islands

CU/GTBY, Guantanamo Bay, Cuba

CU/MTDJ, Mount Denham, Jamaica

CU/SDDR, Presa de Sabaneta, Dominican Republic

CU/TGUH, Tegucigalpa, Honduras

IC/BJT, Baijiatuan, Beijing, China

IC/ENH, Enshi, China

IC/HIA, Hailar, Neimenggu Province, China

IC/LSA, Lhasa, China

IC/MDJ, Mudanjiang, China

IC/QIZ, Qiongzhong, Guangduong Province, China

IU/ADK, Aleutian Islands, Alaska, USA

IU/AFI, Afiamalu, Samoa

IU/ANMO, Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA

IU/ANTO, Ankara, Turkey

IU/BBSR, Bermuda

IU/BILL, Bilibino, Russia

IU/CASY, Casey, Antarctica

IU/CCM, Cathedral Cave, Missouri, USA

IU/CHTO, Chiang Mai, Thailand

IU/COLA, College Outpost, Alaska, USA

IU/COR, Corvallis, Oregon, USA

IU/CTAO, Charters Towers, Australia

IU/DAV,Davao, Philippines

IU/DWPF,Disney Wilderness Preserve, Florida, USA

IU/FUNA,Funafuti, Tuvalu

IU/FURI, Mt. Furi, Ethiopia

IU/GNI, Garni, Armenia

IU/GRFO, Grafenberg, Germany

IU/GUMO, Guam, Mariana Islands

IU/HKT, Hockley, Texas, USA

IU/HNR, Honiara, Solomon Islands

IU/HRV, Adam Dziewonski Observatory (Oak Ridge), Massachusetts, USA

IU/INCN, Inchon, Republic of Korea

IU/JOHN, Johnston Island, Pacific Ocean

IU/KBS, Ny-Alesund, Spitzbergen, Norway

IU/KEV, Kevo, Finland

IU/KIEV, Kiev, Ukraine

IU/KIP, Kipapa, Hawaii, USA

IU/KMBO, Kilima Mbogo, Kenya

IU/KNTN, Kanton Island, Kiribati

IU/KONO, Kongsberg, Norway

IU/KOWA, Kowa, Mali

IU/LCO, Las Campanas Astronomical Observatory, Chile

IU/LSZ, Lusaka, Zambia

IU/LVC, Limon Verde, Chile

IU/MA2, Magadan, Russia

IU/MAJO, Matsushiro, Japan

IU/MAKZ,Makanchi, Kazakhstan

IU/MBWA, Marble Bar, Western Australia

IU/MIDW, Midway Island, Pacific Ocean, USA

IU/MSKU, Masuku, Gabon

IU/NWAO, Narrogin, Australia

IU/OTAV, Otavalo, Equador

IU/PAB, San Pablo, Spain

IU/PAYG Puerto Ayora, Galapagos Islands

IU/PET, Petropavlovsk, Russia

IU/PMG, Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea

IU/PMSA, Palmer Station, Antarctica

IU/POHA, Pohakaloa, Hawaii

IU/PTCN, Pitcairn Island, South Pacific

IU/PTGA, Pitinga, Brazil

IU/QSPA, South Pole, Antarctica

IU/RAO, Raoul, Kermandec Islands

IU/RAR, Rarotonga, Cook Islands

IU/RCBR, Riachuelo, Brazil

IU/RSSD, Black Hills, South Dakota, USA

IU/SAML, Samuel, Brazil

IU/SBA, Scott Base, Antarctica

IU/SDV, Santo Domingo, Venezuela

IU/SFJD, Sondre Stromfjord, Greenland

IU/SJG, San Juan, Puerto Rico

IU/SLBS, Sierra la Laguna Baja California Sur, Mexico

IU/SNZO, South Karori, New Zealand

IU/SSPA, Standing Stone, Pennsylvania USA

IU/TARA, Tarawa Island, Republic of Kiribati

IU/TATO, Taipei, Taiwan

IU/TEIG, Tepich, Yucatan, Mexico

IU/TIXI, Tiksi, Russia

IU/TRIS, Tristan da Cunha, Atlantic Ocean

IU/TRQA, Tornquist, Argentina

IU/TSUM, Tsumeb, Namibia

IU/TUC, Tucson, Arizona

IU/ULN, Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia

IU/WAKE, Wake Island, Pacific Ocean

IU/WCI, Wyandotte Cave, Indiana, USA

IU/WVT, Waverly, Tennessee, USA

IU/XMAS, Kiritimati Island, Republic of Kiribati

IU/YAK, Yakutsk, Russia

IU/YSS, Yuzhno Sakhalinsk, Russia

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Volcanic Activity

Suwanosejima volcano (Japan): new explosion reported & activity summary for August 2012

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An explosion was reported this morning (around 07 am GMT time) with an ash plume reaching 10,000 (about 3 km) altitude.

Summary for August 2012 activity (JMA):
No explosive eruptions occurred at Otake crater in August (as in July). The plume was observed only August 19th and the height was approx. 300 m above the crater rim during this period (maximum. 400 m in July). Weak volcanic glows in the crater were recorded at night with a high-sensitivity camera on August 8th-10th, 12th-14th, 18th-20th and 24th.
Seismic activity remained at low levels, with 17 A-type events (29 in July) and 39 B-type events (123 in July).
No volcanic tremor was observed in August (total tremor duration 38h 5m in July).
No unusual ground deformation was seen in GPS observation data.
At Otake crater, no eruption was observed during this period, but eruptions nevertheless have occurred repeatedly over a long time.

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NASA Radar to Study Volcanoes in Alaska and Japan

This UAVSAR interferogram shows active volcano Mount St. Helens (left) and dormant volcano Mount Adams, both in Washington state. The sensor collected data for this image during flights in July 2009 and August 2010 to compute the surface deformation that could indicate activity in the volcanoes’ magma. No deformation was evident during this period. (NASA image)
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A NASA aircraft carrying a unique 3-D aerial radar developed by NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif., has left California for a 10-day campaign to study active volcanoes in Alaska and Japan.

The modified NASA C-20A (G-III) aircraft, with JPL’s Uninhabited Aerial Vehicle Synthetic Aperture Radar (UAVSAR) installed in a pod under its belly, departed NASA’s Dryden Aircraft Operations Facility in Palmdale, Calif., Oct. 2, en route to Joint Base Lewis-McChord in Tacoma, Wash. Along the way, it will image volcanoes in the western United States. After refueling, the aircraft will travel on to Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson near Anchorage, Alaska, where UAVSAR will image a series of volcanoes, including those in the Aleutian Islands.

UAVSAR can see below Earth’s surface to monitor very subtle deformations. NASA scientists periodically use UAVSAR to monitor subtle changes in volcanic activity. The radar uses a technique called interferometry, which sends pulses of microwave energy from the sensor on the aircraft to the ground to detect and measure very subtle Earth surface deformations.

The plane will then fly to Japan’s Yokota Air Force Base near Tokyo. Yokota is the staging location for science missions to collect data about volcanoes on several islands in Japan that pose a hazard to nearby populations. On its return, the aircraft will repeat the route, acquiring data from the opposite viewing direction, before arriving back at its base in Palmdale Oct. 11.

This study builds on UAVSAR research of U.S. West Coast and Hawaiian volcanoes acquired from 2009 through 2011 and additional observations of Central and South American volcanoes gathered in 2010 and 2011.

The aircraft features a high-precision autopilot designed and developed by engineers at NASA’s Dryden Flight Research Center. The Precision Platform Autopilot guides the aircraft using a kinematic differential Global Positioning System developed by JPL along with the aircraft’s inertial navigation system to enable it to fly repeat paths to an accuracy of 15 feet (4.6 meters) or less. With the precision autopilot engaged, the synthetic aperture radar is able to acquire repeat-pass data that can measure land-surface changes within millimeters.

UAVSAR provides a measurement system that complements satellite-based observations by providing rapid revisits and imaging of active volcanoes to better understand their deformation prior to, during or after an eruption.

In addition to the NASA study of volcanoes, the UAVSAR team is working with Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency scientists to define cross-calibration sites, including flight lines over disaster and forested areas, between the UAVSAR and the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency’s Polarimetric and Interferometry Synthetic Aperture Radar with L-band 2 (PISAR-L2).

For more on UAVSAR, visit: http://uavsar.jpl.nasa.gov/index.html .

Written by Beth Hagenauer, Public Affairs
NASA Dryden Flight Research Center

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Storms / Flooding / Landslides

Active tropical storm system(s)

Name of storm system	Location	Formed	Last update	Last category	Course	Wind Speed	Gust	Wave	Source	Details
Nadine (AL14)	Atlantic Ocean	11.09.2012	04.10.2012	Tropical Depression	40 °	74 km/h	93 km/h	4.88 m	NOAA NHC

Tropical Storm data

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Storm name:	Nadine (AL14)
Area:	Atlantic Ocean
Start up location:	N 16° 18.000, W 43° 6.000
Start up:	11th September 2012
Status:	28th September 2012
Track long:	1,762.49 km
Top category.:
Report by:	NOAA NHC

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Past track
Date	Time	Position	Speed km/h	Wind km/h	Gust km/h	Category	Course	Wave	Pressure	Source
12th Sep 2012	05:01:17	N 17° 48.000, W 45° 12.000	24	65	83	Tropical Storm	300	13	1004 MB	NOAA NHC
12th Sep 2012	10:46:22	N 18° 36.000, W 46° 36.000	28	74	93	Tropical Storm	300	15	1001 MB	NOAA NHC
13th Sep 2012	05:34:52	N 20° 42.000, W 50° 6.000	26	111	139	Tropical Storm	305	17	990 MB	NOAA NHC
13th Sep 2012	11:12:43	N 21° 30.000, W 51° 18.000	26	111	139	Tropical Storm	305	17	990 MB	NOAA NHC
14th Sep 2012	05:11:31	N 25° 0.000, W 53° 42.000	24	111	139	Tropical Storm	330	17	989 MB	NOAA NHC
15th Sep 2012	06:55:17	N 30° 0.000, W 52° 48.000	22	120	148	Hurricane I.	25	17	985 MB	NOAA NHC
15th Sep 2012	10:59:20	N 30° 42.000, W 51° 24.000	24	120	148	Hurricane I.	50	13	985 MB	NOAA NHC
16th Sep 2012	05:13:53	N 30° 36.000, W 46° 36.000	28	130	157	Hurricane I.	95	15	983 MB	NOAA NHC
17th Sep 2012	05:22:55	N 31° 24.000, W 38° 6.000	30	111	139	Tropical Storm	75	16	987 MB	NOAA NHC
17th Sep 2012	10:47:47	N 32° 0.000, W 36° 24.000	28	111	139	Tropical Storm	65	15	985 MB	NOAA NHC
18th Sep 2012	05:15:16	N 33° 54.000, W 34° 12.000	15	93	111	Tropical Storm	45	18	989 MB	NOAA NHC
18th Sep 2012	10:46:51	N 34° 18.000, W 33° 36.000	13	93	111	Tropical Storm	45	14	990 MB	NOAA NHC
19th Sep 2012	05:31:59	N 35° 48.000, W 32° 12.000	11	83	102	Tropical Storm	25	15	993 MB	NOAA NHC
19th Sep 2012	11:00:20	N 36° 24.000, W 32° 6.000	7	83	102	Tropical Storm	360	9	993 MB	NOAA NHC
20th Sep 2012	05:12:41	N 37° 6.000, W 31° 24.000	6	83	102	Tropical Storm	60	9	990 MB	NOAA NHC
20th Sep 2012	11:02:24	N 36° 48.000, W 30° 36.000	15	83	102	Tropical Storm	120	18	983 MB	NOAA NHC
21st Sep 2012	10:40:35	N 35° 6.000, W 27° 12.000	13	102	120	Tropical Storm	140	14	981 MB	NOAA NHC
22nd Sep 2012	06:38:52	N 31° 54.000, W 26° 36.000	20	93	111	Tropical Storm	165	15	984 MB	NOAA NHC
27th Sep 2012	04:58:41	N 29° 30.000, W 31° 24.000	9	83	102	Tropical Storm	220	15	993 MB	NOAA NHC
27th Sep 2012	12:03:57	N 28° 54.000, W 31° 30.000	9	93	111	Tropical Storm	220	10	992 MB	NOAA NHC
29th Sep 2012	11:21:43	N 31° 54.000, W 35° 54.000	19	111	139	Tropical Storm	340	20	992 MB	NOAA NHC
30th Sep 2012	06:48:45	N 35° 36.000, W 37° 30.000	17	139	167	Hurricane I.	340	19	984 MB	NOAA NHC
01st Oct 2012	04:38:54	N 36° 42.000, W 39° 24.000	11	139	167	Hurricane I.	230	16	981 MB	NOAA NHC
02nd Oct 2012	05:24:46	N 34° 42.000, W 38° 54.000	9	102	120	Tropical Storm	125	15	995 MB	NOAA NHC
02nd Oct 2012	10:57:37	N 34° 30.000, W 38° 6.000	11	102	120	Tropical Storm	105	16	995 MB	NOAA NHC
03rd Oct 2012	04:47:11	N 34° 24.000, W 35° 42.000	15	83	102	Tropical Storm	90	18	996 MB	NOAA NHC
03rd Oct 2012	11:00:21	N 34° 54.000, W 34° 36.000	17	83	102	Tropical Storm	75	19	998 MB	NOAA NHC

Current position
Date	Time	Position	Speed km/h	Wind km/h	Gust km/h	Category	Course	Wave feet	Pressure	Source
04th Oct 2012	11:03:25	N 38° 24.000, W 28° 24.000	37	74	93	Tropical Depression	40 °	16	996 MB	NOAA NHC

Forecast track
Date	Time	Position	Category	Wind km/h	Gust km/h	Source
05th Oct 2012	12:00:00	N 47° 0.000, W 26° 30.000	Tropical Depression	65	83	NOAA NHC
05th Oct 2012	00:00:00	N 44° 30.000, W 26° 30.000	Tropical Depression	65	83	NOAA NHC
06th Oct 2012	00:00:00	N 49° 0.000, W 27° 0.000	Tropical Depression	65	83	NOAA NHC

Gaemi (21W)

Pacific Ocean

01.10.2012

04.10.2012

Tropical Depression

235 °

83 km/h

102 km/h

3.35 m

JTWC

Tropical Storm data

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Storm name:	Gaemi (21W)
Area:	Pacific Ocean
Start up location:	N 17° 18.000, E 114° 48.000
Start up:	01st October 2012
Status:	Active
Track long:	290.77 km
Top category.:
Report by:	JTWC

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Past track
Date	Time	Position	Speed km/h	Wind km/h	Gust km/h	Category	Course	Wave	Pressure	Source
02nd Oct 2012	05:30:45	N 16° 24.000, E 115° 18.000	9	65	83	Tropical Storm	170	15		JTWC
02nd Oct 2012	10:37:35	N 16° 6.000, E 115° 36.000	7	74	93	Tropical Storm	135	9		JTWC
03rd Oct 2012	04:52:53	N 15° 30.000, E 117° 54.000	9	93	120	Tropical Storm	110	15		JTWC
03rd Oct 2012	11:01:04	N 15° 18.000, E 117° 30.000	7	102	130	Tropical Storm	245	8		JTWC

Current position
Date	Time	Position	Speed km/h	Wind km/h	Gust km/h	Category	Course	Wave feet	Pressure	Source
04th Oct 2012	11:04:11	N 14° 42.000, E 118° 6.000	7	83	102	Tropical Depression	235 °	11		JTWC

Forecast track
Date	Time	Position	Category	Wind km/h	Gust km/h	Source
05th Oct 2012	00:00:00	N 14° 42.000, E 117° 24.000	Tropical Depression	83	102	JTWC
05th Oct 2012	12:00:00	N 14° 42.000, E 115° 48.000	Tropical Depression	83	102	JTWC
06th Oct 2012	00:00:00	N 14° 48.000, E 113° 42.000	Typhoon I	93	120	JTWC
07th Oct 2012	00:00:00	N 14° 54.000, E 108° 42.000	Tropical Depression	56	74	JTWC
08th Oct 2012	00:00:00	N 15° 18.000, E 104° 24.000	Tropical Depression	37	56	JTWC

Oscar (AL15)

Atlantic Ocean

03.10.2012

04.10.2012

Tropical Depression

345 °

65 km/h

83 km/h

5.49 m

NOAA NHC

Tropical Storm data

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Storm name:	Oscar (AL15)
Area:	Atlantic Ocean
Start up location:	N 17° 18.000, W 41° 30.000
Start up:	03rd October 2012
Status:	Active
Track long:	145.59 km
Top category.:
Report by:	NOAA NHC

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Past track
Date	Time	Position	Speed km/h	Wind km/h	Gust km/h	Category	Course	Wave	Pressure	Source

Current position
Date	Time	Position	Speed km/h	Wind km/h	Gust km/h	Category	Course	Wave feet	Pressure	Source
04th Oct 2012	11:03:02	N 20° 0.000, W 42° 30.000	15	65	83	Tropical Depression	345 °	18	1006 MB	NOAA NHC

Forecast track
Date	Time	Position	Category	Wind km/h	Gust km/h	Source
05th Oct 2012	12:00:00	N 23° 48.000, W 39° 24.000	Tropical Depression	74	93	NOAA NHC
05th Oct 2012	00:00:00	N 22° 0.000, W 41° 24.000	Tropical Depression	74	93	NOAA NHC

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Today

Landslide

China

Province of Yunnan, Zhenhe [Youfang Elementary School]

Landslide in China on Thursday, 04 October, 2012 at 08:35 (08:35 AM) UTC.

Description

Chinese state media say a landslide has buried 18 elementary school students in a southwest region that was already recovering from a devastating earthquake. The landslide destroyed the Youfang Elementary School and two farmhouses in Zhenhe village early Thursday. Normally, the students would not have been in school, because China is in the middle of a week-long national holiday period. But officials say the students were making up for classes that were canceled following last month’s earthquake, that left 81 people dead. Zhenhe village is located in southwestern Yunnan province, a mountainous, earthquake-prone region.

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Updated:	Tuesday, 02 October, 2012 at 10:00 UTC
Description
The Ebola epidemic that affects the northeast of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), is the probable cause of 36 deaths in the 81 patients registered until last Saturday. According to a report from the Ministry of Health published today, on September 29 there were 81 cases including 20 confirmed, 32 probable, 29 suspected and 36 deaths registered. The laboratory tests revealed that 10 of the deaths were directly linked to the disease. Currently, 216 people who had contact with the 81 reported cases are under surveillance. An epidemic was declared in mid-August in the Eastern Province, where almost all the cases were detected. Meanwhile, the International Committee fighting against Ebola conducted an investigation in May, which revealed a large number of cases. Given the current situation, the Ministry of Health, the World Health Organization (WHO), the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) in Atlanta and Doctors Without Borders (MSF) are working together to face this hemorrhagic fever. So far, there is no treatment or vaccine against Ebola, which kills between the 25 and 90 percent of those infected, according to WHO. The disease is transmitted by direct contact with blood, body fluids (sweat, saliva), as well as sexual contact. Careless handling of contaminated corpses can also lead to infection. Media reports stated that since the first appearance of the disease, this country has seen eight epidemics.

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Climate Change

Study finds Southern Hemisphere becoming drier

A decline in April-May rainfall over south-east Australia is associated with a southward expansion of the subtropical dry-zone according to research published today in Scientific Reports, a primary research journal from the publishers of Nature.

CSIRO scientists Wenju Cai, Tim Cowan and Marcus Thatcher explored why autumn rainfall has been in decline across south-eastern Australia since the 1970s, a period that included the devastating Millennium drought from 1997-2009. Previous research into what has been driving the decline in autumn rainfall across regions like southern Australia has pointed the finger at a southward shift in the storm tracks and weather systems during the late 20th century. However, the extent to which these regional rainfall reductions are attributable to the poleward expansion of the subtropical dry-zone has not been clarified before now. Mr Cowan said rainfall patterns in the subtropics are known to be influenced by the Hadley cell, the large-scale atmospheric circulation that transports heat from the tropics to the sub-tropics. “There has been a southward expansion of the edge of the Hadley cell – also called subtropical dry-zone – over the past 30 years, with the strongest expansion occurring in mid-late autumn, or April to May, ranging from 200 to 400 kilometres,” Mr Cowan said. The CSIRO researchers found that the autumn southward expansion of the subtropical dry-zone is greatest over south-eastern Australia, and to a lesser extent, over the Southern Ocean to the south of Africa. “The Hadley cell is comprised of a number of individual branches, so the impact of a southward shift of the subtropical dry-zone on rainfall is not the same across the different semi-arid regions of the Southern Hemisphere,” says CSIRO’s Dr Wenju Cai.

The researchers tested the hypothesis that the dry-zone expansion would give rise to a southward shift in the average rainfall during April and May, and questioned how rainfall across semi-arid regions, including southern-coastal Chile and southern Africa, would be affected. “During April and May, when the dry-zone expansion is strong, rainfall over south-eastern Africa, south-eastern Australia and southern-coastal Chile is higher than over regions immediately to their north,” Dr Cai said. Using high-quality observations and an atmospheric model the CSIRO team found that for south-eastern Australia, up to 85% of recent rainfall reduction can be accounted for by replacing south-eastern Australia rainfall with rainfall 400km to the north. Such a southward shift of rainfall can explain only a small portion of the southern Africa rainfall trend, but none of the autumn drying observed over southern Chile. “For south-east Australia, autumn is an important wetting season,” Dr Cai explained. “Good autumn rainfall wets the soil and effectively allows for vital runoff from follow-on winter and spring rain to flow into catchments.” According to the study an important issue remains as to why the poleward expansion is largest in autumn, and there is still uncertainty about the role of external forcings – such as greenhouse gases – as climate models underestimate the southward expansion of the Hadley cell edge. This research was conducted through CSIRO’s Water for a Healthy Country Flagship, and was funded by the Goyder Institute for Water Research and the Australian Climate Change Science Programme. Wenju Cai, Tim Cowan and Marcus Thatcher are from CSIRO’s Marine and Atmospheric Research division.

Journal reference: Scientific Reports Nature

Provided by CSIRO

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Solar Activity

2MIN News October 2. 2012

Published on Oct 2, 2012 by Suspicious0bservers

Pole Shift Video: http://youtu.be/uI10tKuLtFU
STARWATER: http://youtu.be/LiC-92YgZvQ

REPEAT LINKS
Spaceweather: http://spaceweather.com/ [Look on the left at the X-ray Flux and Solar Wind Speed/Density]

HAARP: http://www.haarp.alaska.edu/haarp/data.html [Click online data, and have a little fun]

CERES JPL: http://ssd.jpl.nasa.gov/sbdb.cgi?sstr=ceres;orb=1;cov=0;log=0;cad=0#orb

SDO: http://sdo.gsfc.nasa.gov/data/ [Place to find Solar Images and Videos – as seen from earth]

SOHO: http://sohodata.nascom.nasa.gov/cgi-bin/soho_movie_theater [SOHO; Lasco and EIT – as seen from earth]

Stereo: http://stereo.gsfc.nasa.gov/cgi-bin/images [Stereo; Cor, EUVI, HI – as seen from the side]

SunAEON:http://www.sunaeon.com/#/solarsystem/ [Just click it… trust me]

SOLARIMG: http://solarimg.org/artis/ [All purpose data viewing site]

iSWA: http://iswa.gsfc.nasa.gov/iswa/iSWA.html [Free Application; for advanced sun watchers]

NASA ENLIL SPIRAL: http://iswa.gsfc.nasa.gov:8080/IswaSystemWebApp/iSWACygnetStreamer?timestamp=…
NOAA ENLIL SPIRAL: http://www.swpc.noaa.gov/wsa-enlil/

US Wind Map: http://hint.fm/wind/

NOAA Bouys: http://www.ndbc.noaa.gov/

NOAA Environmental Visualization Laboratory: http://www.nnvl.noaa.gov/Default.php

RSOE: http://hisz.rsoe.hu/alertmap/index2.php [That cool alert map I use]

GOES Xray: http://www.swpc.noaa.gov/sxi/goes15/index.html

JAPAN Radiation Map: http://jciv.iidj.net/map/

LISS: http://earthquake.usgs.gov/monitoring/operations/heliplots_gsn.php

Gamma Ray Bursts: http://grb.sonoma.edu/ [Really? You can’t figure out what this one is for?]

BARTOL Cosmic Rays: http://neutronm.bartol.udel.edu//spaceweather/welcome.html [Top left box, look for BIG blue circles]

TORCON: http://www.weather.com/news/tornado-torcon-index [Tornado Forecast for the day]

GOES Weather: http://rsd.gsfc.nasa.gov/goes/ [Clouds over America]

RAIN RECORDS: http://www.cocorahs.org/ViewData/ListIntensePrecipReports.aspx

EL DORADO WORLD WEATHER MAP: http://www.eldoradocountyweather.com/satellite/ssec/world/world-composite-ir-…

PRESSURE MAP: http://www.woweather.com/cgi-bin/expertcharts?LANG=us&MENU=0000000000&…

HURRICANE TRACKER: http://www.weather.com/weather/hurricanecentral/tracker

INTELLICAST: http://www.intellicast.com/ [Weather site used by many youtubers]

NASA News: http://science.nasa.gov/science-news/science-at-nasa/

PHYSORG: http://phys.org/ [GREAT News Site!]

QUAKES LIST FULL: http://www.emsc-csem.org/Earthquake/seismologist.php

2MIN News October 3. 2012

Published on Oct 3, 2012 by Suspicious0bservers

Pole Shift Video: http://youtu.be/uI10tKuLtFU

TODAY’S LINKS
Beached Pilot Whales: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/10/02/pilot-whales-indonesia_n_1932375.htm…
Black Hole Jets: http://physicsworld.com/cws/article/news/2012/sep/27/origins-of-galactic-jet-…
Drought Monitor: http://www.drought.gov/drought/content/products-current-drought-and-monitorin…
Dry US: http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/IOTD/view.php?id=79316
EU Weather Forecast: http://www.wsi.com/4010a794-a7f6-4110-bb24-1fa9dfeb71f0/news-scheduled-foreca…

REPEAT LINKS
Spaceweather: http://spaceweather.com/ [Look on the left at the X-ray Flux and Solar Wind Speed/Density]

HAARP: http://www.haarp.alaska.edu/haarp/data.html [Click online data, and have a little fun]

CERES JPL: http://ssd.jpl.nasa.gov/sbdb.cgi?sstr=ceres;orb=1;cov=0;log=0;cad=0#orb

SDO: http://sdo.gsfc.nasa.gov/data/ [Place to find Solar Images and Videos – as seen from earth]

SOHO: http://sohodata.nascom.nasa.gov/cgi-bin/soho_movie_theater [SOHO; Lasco and EIT – as seen from earth]

Stereo: http://stereo.gsfc.nasa.gov/cgi-bin/images [Stereo; Cor, EUVI, HI – as seen from the side]

SunAEON:http://www.sunaeon.com/#/solarsystem/ [Just click it… trust me]

SOLARIMG: http://solarimg.org/artis/ [All purpose data viewing site]

iSWA: http://iswa.gsfc.nasa.gov/iswa/iSWA.html [Free Application; for advanced sun watchers]

NASA ENLIL SPIRAL: http://iswa.gsfc.nasa.gov:8080/IswaSystemWebApp/iSWACygnetStreamer?timestamp=…
NOAA ENLIL SPIRAL: http://www.swpc.noaa.gov/wsa-enlil/

US Wind Map: http://hint.fm/wind/

NOAA Bouys: http://www.ndbc.noaa.gov/

NOAA Environmental Visualization Laboratory: http://www.nnvl.noaa.gov/Default.php

RSOE: http://hisz.rsoe.hu/alertmap/index2.php [That cool alert map I use]

GOES Xray: http://www.swpc.noaa.gov/sxi/goes15/index.html

JAPAN Radiation Map: http://jciv.iidj.net/map/

LISS: http://earthquake.usgs.gov/monitoring/operations/heliplots_gsn.php

Gamma Ray Bursts: http://grb.sonoma.edu/ [Really? You can’t figure out what this one is for?]

BARTOL Cosmic Rays: http://neutronm.bartol.udel.edu//spaceweather/welcome.html [Top left box, look for BIG blue circles]

TORCON: http://www.weather.com/news/tornado-torcon-index [Tornado Forecast for the day]

GOES Weather: http://rsd.gsfc.nasa.gov/goes/ [Clouds over America]

RAIN RECORDS: http://www.cocorahs.org/ViewData/ListIntensePrecipReports.aspx

EL DORADO WORLD WEATHER MAP: http://www.eldoradocountyweather.com/satellite/ssec/world/world-composite-ir-…

PRESSURE MAP: http://www.woweather.com/cgi-bin/expertcharts?LANG=us&MENU=0000000000&…

HURRICANE TRACKER: http://www.weather.com/weather/hurricanecentral/tracker

INTELLICAST: http://www.intellicast.com/ [Weather site used by many youtubers]

NASA News: http://science.nasa.gov/science-news/science-at-nasa/

PHYSORG: http://phys.org/ [GREAT News Site!]

QUAKES LIST FULL: http://www.emsc-csem.org/Earthquake/seismologist.php

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Space

Earth approaching objects (objects that are known in the next 30 days)

Object Name

Apporach Date

Left

AU Distance

LD Distance

Estimated Diameter*

Relative Velocity

(2012 QE50)

09th October 2012

5 day(s)

0.0809

31.5

450 m – 1.0 km

11.47 km/s

41292 km/h

(1994 EK)

14th October 2012

10 day(s)

0.1356

52.8

230 m – 520 m

12.22 km/s

43992 km/h

(2012 PA20)

15th October 2012

11 day(s)

0.1502

58.5

100 m – 230 m

10.36 km/s

37296 km/h

(2012 RV16)

18th October 2012

14 day(s)

0.1270

49.4

310 m – 700 m

16.14 km/s

58104 km/h

1 AU = ~150 million kilometers,1 LD = Lunar Distance = ~384,000 kilometers

Source: NASA-NEO

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Biological Hazards / Wildlife/ Hazmat

03.10.2012

HAZMAT

Zimbabwe

Mashonaland West Province, Kadoma

HAZMAT in Zimbabwe on Wednesday, 03 October, 2012 at 11:13 (11:13 AM) UTC.

Description

Four people died from suspected food poisoning in Kadoma last week, while six others are battling for life at Harare Central Hospital. The poison also claimed birds, goats and dogs. The dogs died after eating goats that died after consuming the food in a chain reaction that has left people at Hezelmare 19 Mine and surrounding areas shocked. On the fateful Friday afternoon last week, Gift Watungwa (37) allegedly took a 20kg bucket of maize to the mill and on arrival he requested for an empty sack to transfer his maize, but the mill operator Mr Norbert Mhazi said he did not have any. Instead, he was shown a pile of maize and mealie-meal bags on the other side of the room. Watungwa allegedly took a bag that used to contain mealie- meal and put his maize inside. He headed home where another mineworker Douglas Pepukai (22) prepared sadza using mealie-meal from the bag.

The sadza was served with chicken bought at Hezelmare Shopping Centre. After eating the food, the 10 men started complaining of stomach pains and their condition continued to deteriorate before they fell unconscious. Another worker, who did not eat the food, made a report to the police and they were taken to Kadoma General Hospital. The 10 were subsequently transferred to Harare Central Hospital after their condition got serious. Acting Mashonaland West police spokesperson Assistant Inspector Ian Kohwera confirmed the incident. He said the bodies of the dead were awaiting post-mortem at Harare Central Hospital mortuary. The other six victims are still admitted at Harare Hospital where their condition was reported to be stable. “We are investigating a case in which four people have so far died after eating food suspected to have been contaminated with poison,” said Asst Insp Kohwera. “Investigations are still at their infancy and we are following on a number of leads.” The mill operator is assisting police with investigations.

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Articles of Interest

Today

Power Outage

USA

State of California, Santa Cruz

Power Outage in USA on Thursday, 04 October, 2012 at 02:59 (02:59 AM) UTC.

Description

A flood of an underground utility vault on Dakota Street in Santa Cruz caused about 6,600 Pacific Gas & Electric Co. customers to lose power Wednesday morning. The outage was reported about 4:30 a.m. at homes and business near Ocean Street and Broadway, said PG&E spokeswoman Monica Tell. Utility representatives initially reported that the power outage was caused when a vehicle that struck a power pole. Tell said later Wednesday that the collision was not related to the outage. Power was restored to all customers about 11:15 a.m.

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Earth Watch Report – Monday October 1st, 2012

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October 1, 2012

Earthquakes

MAG	UTC DATE-TIME y/m/d h:m:s	LAT deg	LON deg	DEPTH km	Region
MAP	4.7	2012/09/30 23:04:44	41.443	81.868	35.0	SOUTHERN XINJIANG, CHINA
MAP	4.4	2012/09/30 22:47:25	2.954	127.599	58.1	MOLUCCA SEA
MAP	4.6	2012/09/30 22:39:16	38.284	142.144	15.8	NEAR THE EAST COAST OF HONSHU, JAPAN
MAP	4.5	2012/09/30 21:49:27	56.322	164.351	30.4	KOMANDORSKIYE OSTROVA, RUSSIA REGION
MAP	4.7	2012/09/30 20:43:39	2.521	89.939	15.0	NORTH INDIAN OCEAN
MAP	3.0	2012/09/30 19:17:17	35.523	-96.778	5.0	OKLAHOMA
MAP	3.3	2012/09/30 18:00:27	19.661	-64.230	63.0	VIRGIN ISLANDS REGION
MAP	3.7	2012/09/30 16:59:39	68.478	-147.328	2.7	NORTHERN ALASKA
MAP	7.3	2012/09/30 16:31:36	1.916	-76.355	168.3	COLOMBIA
MAP	2.6	2012/09/30 16:27:23	63.848	-148.806	104.6	CENTRAL ALASKA
MAP	5.4	2012/09/30 15:35:54	22.992	146.050	35.0	VOLCANO ISLANDS, JAPAN REGION
MAP	3.1	2012/09/30 14:29:31	51.574	-173.280	16.9	ANDREANOF ISLANDS, ALEUTIAN IS., ALASKA
MAP	3.0	2012/09/30 13:41:25	19.280	-64.034	96.0	VIRGIN ISLANDS REGION
MAP	4.3	2012/09/30 09:30:13	8.396	-77.105	43.2	PANAMA-COLOMBIA BORDER REGION
MAP	2.7	2012/09/30 07:22:14	19.560	-64.384	58.0	VIRGIN ISLANDS REGION
MAP	4.3	2012/09/30 07:14:42	38.303	71.383	47.6	TAJIKISTAN
MAP	4.2	2012/09/30 06:49:25	26.997	-111.585	9.7	GULF OF CALIFORNIA
MAP	3.3	2012/09/30 06:44:19	53.636	-159.180	40.9	SOUTH OF ALASKA
MAP	2.6	2012/09/30 06:03:37	51.482	-178.257	29.8	ANDREANOF ISLANDS, ALEUTIAN IS., ALASKA
MAP	3.1	2012/09/30 05:47:38	19.675	-64.552	29.0	VIRGIN ISLANDS REGION
MAP	3.0	2012/09/30 05:36:12	19.542	-64.326	67.0	VIRGIN ISLANDS REGION
MAP	3.1	2012/09/30 04:46:26	19.969	-64.194	24.0	NORTH OF THE VIRGIN ISLANDS
MAP	3.1	2012/09/30 04:09:03	32.768	-96.915	5.1	NORTHERN TEXAS
MAP	3.4	2012/09/30 04:05:01	32.847	-96.956	5.0	NORTHERN TEXAS
MAP	2.6	2012/09/30 04:03:35	17.980	-64.260	26.0	VIRGIN ISLANDS REGION
MAP	3.1	2012/09/30 02:26:00	60.192	-149.094	16.5	KENAI PENINSULA, ALASKA
MAP	3.0	2012/09/30 02:13:08	38.830	-122.760	1.3	NORTHERN CALIFORNIA
MAP	3.0	2012/09/30 01:53:31	18.765	-67.372	59.0	PUERTO RICO REGION
MAP	4.9	2012/09/30 01:52:26	2.606	89.721	10.1	NORTH INDIAN OCEAN

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7.1 mb – COLOMBIA

Preliminary Earthquake Report
Magnitude	7.1 mb
Date-Time	30 Sep 2012 16:31:34 UTC 30 Sep 2012 11:31:34 near epicenter 30 Sep 2012 10:31:34 standard time in your timezone
Location	1.969N 76.315W
Depth	150 km
Distances	62 km (39 miles) SSE (149 degrees) of Popayan, Colombia 89 km (55 miles) WNW (296 degrees) of Florencia, Colombia 137 km (85 miles) NE (51 degrees) of Pasto, Colombia 345 km (214 miles) NE (45 degrees) of QUITO, Ecuador
Location Uncertainty	Horizontal: 3.0 km; Vertical 6.9 km
Parameters	Nph = 717; Dmin = 885.8 km; Rmss = 0.89 seconds; Gp = 57° M-type = mb; Version = A
Event ID	us 2012gdap

For updates, maps, and technical information, see:
Event Page
or
USGS Earthquake Hazards Program

National Earthquake Information Center
U.S. Geological Survey
http://neic.usgs.gov/

Two earthquakes rattle North Texas

by WALT ZWIRKO

WFAA

Twin earthquakes

IRVING — The U.S. Geological Survey recorded a 3.4 magnitude earthquake centered near Irving at 11:05 p.m. Saturday.

Four minutes later, there was a magnitude 3.1 quake in West Dallas. Both were estimated at a depth of 3.1 miles.

News 8 has been receiving calls and Facebook postings from people who felt the earth moving in Richardson, Garland, Coppell, Dallas, Grapevine, and other locations in North Texas.

The epicenter of the initial quake was located near MacArthur Boulevard and Rochelle Road near Farine Elementary School, according to coordinates provided by the USGS.

The second tremor was centered near the intersection of Loop 12 and Interstate 30, about six miles southeast of the first earthquake.

Irving’s emergency operators were flooded with more than 400 calls after the initial quake as people reported such minor damage as cracks in some walls and a ceiling, pictures knocked down and a report of a possible gas leak, according to an emergency official, Pat McMacken. City officials said they were still following up on the various reports early Sunday.

Beverly Rangel’s home on New Haven Street in Irving was at the epicenter of the first quake. “The table started shaking,” she said. “It’s a pretty heavy table for it to be shaking!”

“I kind of got scared,” said her son, Emmanuel. “I was sitting right here, and the couch just started shaking.”

Ashley Finley in Las Colinas said she felt two tremors that shook her walls and furniture.

Cheryl Gideon in Irving said she and her neighbors all ran outside.

Irving police checked neighborhoods near the epicenter to ensure there was no damage.

“We felt it twice in Euless about five minutes apart,” wrote Denise Perez. “We weren’t sure if a plane had crashed or the roof was caving in. It sounded massive.”

Joni Gregory of Carrollton said she was surprised she could feel the quake so far away. “The house shook a couple of times… didn’t know what was going on,” she said. “Maybe it’s wind? No, it’s too much.”

Geophysicist Randy Baldwin at the USGS earthquake center in Golden, Colorado told The Associated Press that the quake was just strong enough to likely have been felt for about 15 or 20 miles around the epicenter. He says the quake’s online reporting system received no reports of any damages or injuries but there were some 1,200 responses from people who felt the quake.

Baldwin says smaller aftershocks are a possibility in that area in coming hours or days. He said the Saturday night quakes were detected by a seismological station located about 65 miles from the epicenter — somewhat distant — and the preliminary magnitude of 3.4 for the initial tremor could be revised up or down once further data is evaluated.

Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport continued operations normally during and after the quakes, which barely rattled nerves at the airport located partially within the city limits of Irving, said airport public affairs officer David Magaña. He told AP said the airport, which bustles at peak hours to get some 1,800 flights in and out daily, was in a quiet period with very little air traffic late Saturday night.

But he said those still in the airport definitely felt the quakes.

“I wouldn’t call it panic. I would call it surprise,” Magaña said.

He said members of the airport operations team immediately conducted a special inspection of the airfield, buildings and found nothing harmed by the quake.

“We don’t have any damage to report. There were no impacts or (power) outages and no disruptions to flights,” Magaña said. “I felt it at my house. It shook it a little bit but it wasn’t enough of a jolt to shake anything loose like you have in California. I’ve been in California and this was nothing like that.”

The Associated Press contributed to this report.

LISS – Live Internet Seismic Server

GSN Stations

These data update automatically every 30 minutes. Last update: October 1, 2012 07:49:12 UTC

Seismograms may take several moments to load. Click on a plot to see larger image.

CU/ANWB, Willy Bob, Antigua and Barbuda

CU/BBGH, Gun Hill, Barbados

CU/BCIP, Isla Barro Colorado, Panama

CU/GRGR, Grenville, Grenada

CU/GRTK, Grand Turk, Turks and Caicos Islands

CU/GTBY, Guantanamo Bay, Cuba

CU/MTDJ, Mount Denham, Jamaica

CU/SDDR, Presa de Sabaneta, Dominican Republic

CU/TGUH, Tegucigalpa, Honduras

IC/BJT, Baijiatuan, Beijing, China

IC/ENH, Enshi, China

IC/HIA, Hailar, Neimenggu Province, China

IC/LSA, Lhasa, China

IC/MDJ, Mudanjiang, China

IC/QIZ, Qiongzhong, Guangduong Province, China

IU/ADK, Aleutian Islands, Alaska, USA

IU/AFI, Afiamalu, Samoa

IU/ANMO, Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA

IU/ANTO, Ankara, Turkey

IU/BBSR, Bermuda

IU/BILL, Bilibino, Russia

IU/CASY, Casey, Antarctica

IU/CCM, Cathedral Cave, Missouri, USA

IU/CHTO, Chiang Mai, Thailand

IU/COLA, College Outpost, Alaska, USA

IU/COR, Corvallis, Oregon, USA

IU/CTAO, Charters Towers, Australia

IU/DAV,Davao, Philippines

IU/DWPF,Disney Wilderness Preserve, Florida, USA

IU/FUNA,Funafuti, Tuvalu

IU/FURI, Mt. Furi, Ethiopia

IU/GNI, Garni, Armenia

IU/GRFO, Grafenberg, Germany

IU/GUMO, Guam, Mariana Islands

IU/HKT, Hockley, Texas, USA

IU/HNR, Honiara, Solomon Islands

IU/HRV, Adam Dziewonski Observatory (Oak Ridge), Massachusetts, USA

IU/INCN, Inchon, Republic of Korea

IU/JOHN, Johnston Island, Pacific Ocean

IU/KBS, Ny-Alesund, Spitzbergen, Norway

IU/KEV, Kevo, Finland

IU/KIEV, Kiev, Ukraine

IU/KIP, Kipapa, Hawaii, USA

IU/KMBO, Kilima Mbogo, Kenya

IU/KNTN, Kanton Island, Kiribati

IU/KONO, Kongsberg, Norway

IU/KOWA, Kowa, Mali

IU/LCO, Las Campanas Astronomical Observatory, Chile

IU/LSZ, Lusaka, Zambia

IU/LVC, Limon Verde, Chile

IU/MA2, Magadan, Russia

IU/MAJO, Matsushiro, Japan

IU/MAKZ,Makanchi, Kazakhstan

IU/MBWA, Marble Bar, Western Australia

IU/MIDW, Midway Island, Pacific Ocean, USA

IU/MSKU, Masuku, Gabon

IU/NWAO, Narrogin, Australia

IU/OTAV, Otavalo, Equador

IU/PAB, San Pablo, Spain

IU/PAYG Puerto Ayora, Galapagos Islands

IU/PET, Petropavlovsk, Russia

IU/PMG, Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea

IU/PMSA, Palmer Station, Antarctica

IU/POHA, Pohakaloa, Hawaii

IU/PTCN, Pitcairn Island, South Pacific

IU/PTGA, Pitinga, Brazil

IU/QSPA, South Pole, Antarctica

IU/RAO, Raoul, Kermandec Islands

IU/RAR, Rarotonga, Cook Islands

IU/RCBR, Riachuelo, Brazil

IU/RSSD, Black Hills, South Dakota, USA

IU/SAML, Samuel, Brazil

IU/SBA, Scott Base, Antarctica

IU/SDV, Santo Domingo, Venezuela

IU/SFJD, Sondre Stromfjord, Greenland

IU/SJG, San Juan, Puerto Rico

IU/SLBS, Sierra la Laguna Baja California Sur, Mexico

IU/SNZO, South Karori, New Zealand

IU/SSPA, Standing Stone, Pennsylvania USA

IU/TARA, Tarawa Island, Republic of Kiribati

IU/TATO, Taipei, Taiwan

IU/TEIG, Tepich, Yucatan, Mexico

IU/TIXI, Tiksi, Russia

IU/TRIS, Tristan da Cunha, Atlantic Ocean

IU/TRQA, Tornquist, Argentina

IU/TSUM, Tsumeb, Namibia

IU/TUC, Tucson, Arizona

IU/ULN, Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia

IU/WAKE, Wake Island, Pacific Ocean

IU/WCI, Wyandotte Cave, Indiana, USA

IU/WVT, Waverly, Tennessee, USA

IU/XMAS, Kiritimati Island, Republic of Kiribati

IU/YAK, Yakutsk, Russia

IU/YSS, Yuzhno Sakhalinsk, Russia

Earthquake in USA on Monday, 01 October, 2012 at 05:18 (05:18 AM) UTC.

Description

Damage from a small earthquake and a subsequent aftershock in a suburb west of Dallas was mostly limited to cracked walls and knocked-down pictures, authorities said. The unscathed Dallas-Fort Worth airport, near the epicenter of Saturday’s late-night temblor, kept up with normal flight operations. Emergency officials said there were no indications of any injuries. The initial earthquake, measured at a preliminary magnitude of 3.4, struck at 11:05 p.m. central time Saturday and was centered about 2 miles north of the Dallas suburb of Irving, the U.S. Geological Survey’s national earthquake monitoring center in Golden, Colo., reported. USGS geophysicist Randy Baldwin told The Associated Press that the initial quake lasted several seconds and appeared strong enough to be felt up to 15 or 20 miles away. He said the smaller aftershock, with an estimated 3.1 magnitude, occurred four minutes later and just a few miles away in another area west of Dallas. Irving’s emergency operators were flooded with more than 400 calls after the initial quake, with people reporting minor damage, such as cracks in some walls and a ceiling, pictures that had been knocked down and a report of a possible gas leak, emergency official Pat McMacken said Sunday.

Tsunami Information

Pacific Ocean Region
Date/Time (UTC)	Message	Location	Magnitude	Depth	Status	Details
30.09.2012 16:38 PM	Tsunami Information Bulletin	Colombia	7.4	140 km

Tsunami Information Bulletin in Colombia, Pacific Ocean

GuID:	pacific.TIBPAC.2012.09.30.1638
Date/Time:	2012-09-30 16:38:57
Source:	PTWC
Area:	Pacific Ocean
Location:	Colombia
Magnitude:	M 7.4
Depth:	140 km
Tsunami observed:	Not observed.

Original Bulletin

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Tsunami Information Bulletin in Colombia, Pacific Ocean

000
WEPA42 PHEB 301638
TIBPAC

TSUNAMI BULLETIN NUMBER 001
PACIFIC TSUNAMI WARNING CENTER/NOAA/NWS
ISSUED AT 1638Z 30 SEP 2012

THIS BULLETIN APPLIES TO AREAS WITHIN AND BORDERING THE PACIFIC
OCEAN AND ADJACENT SEAS...EXCEPT ALASKA...BRITISH COLUMBIA...
WASHINGTON...OREGON AND CALIFORNIA.

... TSUNAMI INFORMATION BULLETIN ...

THIS BULLETIN IS FOR INFORMATION ONLY.

THIS BULLETIN IS ISSUED AS ADVICE TO GOVERNMENT AGENCIES.  ONLY
NATIONAL AND LOCAL GOVERNMENT AGENCIES HAVE THE AUTHORITY TO MAKE
DECISIONS REGARDING THE OFFICIAL STATE OF ALERT IN THEIR AREA AND
ANY ACTIONS TO BE TAKEN IN RESPONSE.

AN EARTHQUAKE HAS OCCURRED WITH THESE PRELIMINARY PARAMETERS

 ORIGIN TIME -  1632Z 30 SEP 2012
 COORDINATES -   2.0 NORTH   76.6 WEST
 DEPTH       -  140 KM
 LOCATION    -  COLOMBIA
 MAGNITUDE   -  7.4

EVALUATION

 A DESTRUCTIVE TSUNAMI WAS NOT GENERATED BASED ON EARTHQUAKE AND
 HISTORICAL TSUNAMI DATA.

THIS WILL BE THE ONLY BULLETIN ISSUED FOR THIS EVENT UNLESS
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION BECOMES AVAILABLE.

THE WEST COAST/ALASKA TSUNAMI WARNING CENTER WILL ISSUE PRODUCTS
FOR ALASKA...BRITISH COLUMBIA...WASHINGTON...OREGON...CALIFORNIA.

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Storms / Flooding

Active tropical storm system(s)

Name of storm system	Location	Formed	Last update	Last category	Course	Wind Speed	Gust	Wave	Source	Details
Nadine (AL14)	Atlantic Ocean	11.09.2012	01.10.2012	Hurricane II	230 °	139 km/h	167 km/h	4.88 m	NOAA NHC

Tropical Storm data

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Storm name:	Nadine (AL14)
Area:	Atlantic Ocean
Start up location:	N 16° 18.000, W 43° 6.000
Start up:	11th September 2012
Status:	28th September 2012
Track long:	1,426.96 km
Top category.:
Report by:	NOAA NHC

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Past track
Date	Time	Position	Speed km/h	Wind km/h	Gust km/h	Category	Course	Wave	Pressure	Source
12th Sep 2012	05:01:17	N 17° 48.000, W 45° 12.000	24	65	83	Tropical Storm	300	13	1004 MB	NOAA NHC
12th Sep 2012	10:46:22	N 18° 36.000, W 46° 36.000	28	74	93	Tropical Storm	300	15	1001 MB	NOAA NHC
13th Sep 2012	05:34:52	N 20° 42.000, W 50° 6.000	26	111	139	Tropical Storm	305	17	990 MB	NOAA NHC
14th Sep 2012	05:11:31	N 25° 0.000, W 53° 42.000	24	111	139	Tropical Storm	330	17	989 MB	NOAA NHC
15th Sep 2012	06:55:17	N 30° 0.000, W 52° 48.000	22	120	148	Hurricane I.	25	17	985 MB	NOAA NHC
15th Sep 2012	10:59:20	N 30° 42.000, W 51° 24.000	24	120	148	Hurricane I.	50	13	985 MB	NOAA NHC
16th Sep 2012	05:13:53	N 30° 36.000, W 46° 36.000	28	130	157	Hurricane I.	95	15	983 MB	NOAA NHC
17th Sep 2012	05:22:55	N 31° 24.000, W 38° 6.000	30	111	139	Tropical Storm	75	16	987 MB	NOAA NHC
17th Sep 2012	10:47:47	N 32° 0.000, W 36° 24.000	28	111	139	Tropical Storm	65	15	985 MB	NOAA NHC
18th Sep 2012	05:15:16	N 33° 54.000, W 34° 12.000	15	93	111	Tropical Storm	45	18	989 MB	NOAA NHC
18th Sep 2012	10:46:51	N 34° 18.000, W 33° 36.000	13	93	111	Tropical Storm	45	14	990 MB	NOAA NHC
19th Sep 2012	05:31:59	N 35° 48.000, W 32° 12.000	11	83	102	Tropical Storm	25	15	993 MB	NOAA NHC
19th Sep 2012	11:00:20	N 36° 24.000, W 32° 6.000	7	83	102	Tropical Storm	360	9	993 MB	NOAA NHC
20th Sep 2012	05:12:41	N 37° 6.000, W 31° 24.000	6	83	102	Tropical Storm	60	9	990 MB	NOAA NHC
21st Sep 2012	10:40:35	N 35° 6.000, W 27° 12.000	13	102	120	Tropical Storm	140	14	981 MB	NOAA NHC
22nd Sep 2012	06:38:52	N 31° 54.000, W 26° 36.000	20	93	111	Tropical Storm	165	15	984 MB	NOAA NHC
27th Sep 2012	04:58:41	N 29° 30.000, W 31° 24.000	9	83	102	Tropical Storm	220	15	993 MB	NOAA NHC
30th Sep 2012	06:48:45	N 35° 36.000, W 37° 30.000	17	139	167	Hurricane I.	340	19	984 MB	NOAA NHC

Current position
Date	Time	Position	Speed km/h	Wind km/h	Gust km/h	Category	Course	Wave feet	Pressure	Source
01st Oct 2012	04:38:54	N 36° 42.000, W 39° 24.000	11	139	167	Hurricane II	230 °	16	981 MB	NOAA NHC

Forecast track
Date	Time	Position	Category	Wind km/h	Gust km/h	Source
02nd Oct 2012	12:00:00	N 35° 12.000, W 37° 54.000	Hurricane I	102	120	NOAA NHC
02nd Oct 2012	00:00:00	N 35° 42.000, W 39° 0.000	Hurricane I	111	139	NOAA NHC
03rd Oct 2012	00:00:00	N 35° 24.000, W 36° 24.000	Tropical Depression	93	111	NOAA NHC
04th Oct 2012	00:00:00	N 38° 0.000, W 31° 18.000	Tropical Depression	83	102	NOAA NHC
05th Oct 2012	00:00:00	N 44° 36.000, W 26° 24.000	Tropical Depression	74	93	NOAA NHC
06th Oct 2012	00:00:00	N 50° 0.000, W 27° 18.000	Tropical Depression	74	93	NOAA NHC

20W

Pacific Ocean

01.10.2012

Tropical Depression

290 °

56 km/h

74 km/h

3.05 m

JTWC

Tropical Storm data

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Storm name:	20W
Area:	Pacific Ocean
Start up location:	N 16° 54.000, E 146° 18.000
Start up:	01st October 2012
Status:	Active
Track long:	0.00 km
Top category.:
Report by:	JTWC

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Past track
Date	Time	Position	Speed km/h	Wind km/h	Gust km/h	Category	Course	Wave	Pressure	Source

Current position
Date	Time	Position	Speed km/h	Wind km/h	Gust km/h	Category	Course	Wave feet	Pressure	Source
01st Oct 2012	10:51:23	N 17° 48.000, E 145° 48.000	19	56	74	Tropical Depression	310 °	15		JTWC

Forecast track
Date	Time	Position	Category	Wind km/h	Gust km/h	Source
02nd Oct 2012	12:00:00	N 21° 12.000, E 141° 6.000	Typhoon I	111	139	JTWC
02nd Oct 2012	00:00:00	N 19° 48.000, E 142° 30.000	Typhoon I	93	120	JTWC
03rd Oct 2012	00:00:00	N 23° 6.000, E 140° 6.000	Typhoon II	130	157	JTWC
04th Oct 2012	00:00:00	N 26° 42.000, E 140° 36.000	Typhoon II	139	167	JTWC
05th Oct 2012	00:00:00	N 32° 24.000, E 146° 24.000	Typhoon I	120	148	JTWC
06th Oct 2012	00:00:00	N 39° 30.000, E 155° 42.000	Tropical Depression	83	102	JTWC

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Today

Tropical Storm

Japan

Capital City, Tokyo

Tropical Storm in Japan on Monday, 01 October, 2012 at 03:25 (03:25 AM) UTC.

Description

A weakening tropical storm was speeding out of Japan on Monday after bringing gale-strength winds to Tokyo and injuring dozens of people, causing blackouts and paralyzing traffic to the south and west of the capital. Japan’s Meteorological Agency had warned Tokyo residents to stay indoors while Typhoon Jelawat passed Sunday night. The storm then had winds of up to 126 kilometers (78 miles) an hour but weakened to a tropical storm with 108 kph (67 mph) in the morning. On Sunday, Nagoya city issued an evacuation advisory to more than 50,000 residents because of fear of flooding from a swollen river. A similar advisory was issued for more than 10,000 people in the northern city of Ishinomaki that was hit by last year’s tsunami. The typhoon left 145 people with minor injuries in southern and western Japan, about half of them on the southern island of Okinawa, public broadcaster NHK said. Tens of thousands of homes were without electricity. Kyodo news agency reported one fatality, a man who was swept away by seawater while fishing in Okinawa. Dozens of trains were halted in coastal areas around Tokyo and many stores inside the capital closed early Sunday as the storm approached. It is expected to move into the Pacific Ocean early Monday.

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Epidemic Hazards / Diseases

New virus in Africa looks like rabies, acts like Ebola

Frederick A. Murphy / CDC handout via EPA file

A new virus that appears similar to rabies, but has the symptoms and lethality of Ebola, shown here, has been dubbed the Bas-Congo virus. It killed two teenagers in the Congo in 2009.

By Maggie Fox, NBC News

A virus that killed two teenagers in Congo in 2009 is a completely new type, related to rabies but causing the bleeding and rapid death that makes Ebola infection so terrifying, scientists reported on Thursday. They’re searching for the source of the virus, which may be transmitted by insects or bats.

The new virus is being named Bas-Congo virus, for the area where it was found. Researchers are finding more and more of these new viruses, in part because new tests make it possible, but also in the hope of better understanding them so they can prevent pandemics of deadly disease.

The virus infected a 15-year-old boy and a 13-year-old girl in the same village in Congo in 2009. They didn’t stand a chance, says Joseph Fair of Metabiota, a company that investigates pathogens. Fair is in the Democratic Republic of Congo now, under contract to the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) to help battle an ongoing Ebola outbreak.

“They expired within three days,” Fair said in a telephone interview. “It was a very rapid killer.”

A few days later a male nurse who cared for the two teenagers developed the same symptoms and survived. Samples from the lucky nurse have been tested and it turned out a completely new virus had infected him, Fair and other researchers report in the Public Library of Science journal PLoS pathogens.

The genetic sequences went to Dr. Charles Chiu, of the University of California, San Francisco.

“We were astounded that this patient had sequences in his blood from a completely unknown and unidentified virus,” Chiu said. They weren’t expecting that.

“Congo is very much known for having Ebola and Marburg outbreaks. Yet about 20 percent of the time we have hemorrhagic fever outbreaks that are completely negative, which means unknown causes and they are not Ebola.”

The sequencing puts this new virus on its own branch of the bad virus family tree — somewhat related to Ebola and the virus that causes Lassa fever, another horrific killer, and most closely related to the rhabdoviruses. This family usually only infects animals with one notable exception — rabies.

But rabies is not known to cause hemorrhaging. It’s plenty horrible on its own, of course, killing virtually all patients if they aren’t vaccinated soon after infection.

A nurse who took care of the first infected nurse had antibodies to the new virus. It doesn’t look like the teenagers infected one another, says Fair, but they probably infected the first nurse, who probably infected the second. Tests of other villagers have found no more evidence of the virus, however, which is good news.

“Although the source of the virus remains unclear, study findings suggest that Bas-Congo virus may be spread by human-to-human contact and is an emerging pathogen associated with acute hemorrhagic fever in Africa,” the researchers wrote.

Africa is loaded with nasty viruses. Lassa fever virus comes from a family known as arenaviruses and causes 500,000 cases of hemorrhagic fever a year. Crimean-Congo hemorrhagic fever and Rift Valley Fever viruses are in another family called bunyaviruses; Ebola and Marburg viruses are filoviruses that kill anywhere between 30 percent and 90 percent of victims. They’re also helping wipe out great apes such as gorillas in Central Africa. This adds a new one to the list.

It worries Chiu because its closest relative is spread by biting flies in Australia. “We think that is potentially a valuable clue. This virus may have come from an insect vector,” Chiu says. “What is scary about this virus is if it does happen to be spread by insects, it has the potential to be something like West Nile.”

West Nile showed up in the United States for the first time in 1999, having never been seen here before. It causes regular outbreaks in Africa and parts of Europe, however, and some experts think a mosquito or an infected person carried it on a flight to New York. It’s killed 147 people in an especially bad U.S. outbreak this year, although more than 90 percent of people infected with West Nile never even know it.

New viruses often cause disease — there was severe acute respiratory syndrome or SARS, which killed 800 people and infected 8,000 in 2003 before it was stopped. Scientists are now watching a similar virus that has emerged in the Middle east.

Chiu says there is not enough information to know how deadly the new Bas-Congo virus is.

“It has probably been lurking out there in remote areas and causing sporadic cases of hemorrhagic fever and no one had the resources to discover it,” Chiu said. “This is probably the tip of the iceberg. I believe there are many, many more of these emerging viruses that have yet to be discovered,” he added.

“This points to the importance of being vigilant, especially these remote areas of Africa and Asia. This is the area that I believe the next generation of emerging viruses will come from.”

Fair agrees, and says his team will be looking. They’ll also be checking to see if bats or insects can spread it. “It is a frightening prospect. That is why the next step in this process is to look for the vector,” Fair said.

That’s not so easy. Fair’s team and hundreds of other scientists have been looking for the reservoir — the animal or insect source –of Ebola. That would be a bat or other creature that can carry it without getting sick itself. So far they have had no luck, although fruit bats are a major suspect.

And for the new Bas-Congo virus, the trail is now three years old. “Everything we do will be as a forensic investigation,” Fair said. “We really have to go look for a needle in a sack of needles.”

And in the meantime, there’s an outbreak of Ebola to cope with. Fair says a coordinated effort is going on, although this isn’t the worst outbreak he has seen. It’s killing about 30 percent to 40 percent of patients — not nearly as bad as some strains, which killed up to 90 percent of victims.

“If you had to get Ebola, this is the strain to get,” he said.

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Solar Activity

2MIN News Sept 30. 2012

Published on Sep 30, 2012 by Suspicious0bservers

Pole Shift Video: http://youtu.be/uI10tKuLtFU

REPEAT LINKS
Spaceweather: http://spaceweather.com/ [Look on the left at the X-ray Flux and Solar Wind Speed/Density]

HAARP: http://www.haarp.alaska.edu/haarp/data.html [Click online data, and have a little fun]

SDO: http://sdo.gsfc.nasa.gov/data/ [Place to find Solar Images and Videos – as seen from earth]

SOHO: http://sohodata.nascom.nasa.gov/cgi-bin/soho_movie_theater [SOHO; Lasco and EIT – as seen from earth]

Stereo: http://stereo.gsfc.nasa.gov/cgi-bin/images [Stereo; Cor, EUVI, HI – as seen from the side]

SunAEON:http://www.sunaeon.com/#/solarsystem/ [Just click it… trust me]

SOLARIMG: http://solarimg.org/artis/ [All purpose data viewing site]

iSWA: http://iswa.gsfc.nasa.gov/iswa/iSWA.html [Free Application; for advanced sun watchers]

NASA ENLIL SPIRAL: http://iswa.gsfc.nasa.gov:8080/IswaSystemWebApp/iSWACygnetStreamer?timestamp=…
NOAA ENLIL SPIRAL: http://www.swpc.noaa.gov/wsa-enlil/

US Wind Map: http://hint.fm/wind/

NOAA Bouys: http://www.ndbc.noaa.gov/

NOAA Environmental Visualization Laboratory: http://www.nnvl.noaa.gov/Default.php

RSOE: http://hisz.rsoe.hu/alertmap/index2.php [That cool alert map I use]

GOES Xray: http://www.swpc.noaa.gov/sxi/goes15/index.html

JAPAN Radiation Map: http://jciv.iidj.net/map/

LISS: http://earthquake.usgs.gov/monitoring/operations/heliplots_gsn.php

Gamma Ray Bursts: http://grb.sonoma.edu/ [Really? You can’t figure out what this one is for?]

BARTOL Cosmic Rays: http://neutronm.bartol.udel.edu//spaceweather/welcome.html [Top left box, look for BIG blue circles]

TORCON: http://www.weather.com/news/tornado-torcon-index [Tornado Forecast for the day]

GOES Weather: http://rsd.gsfc.nasa.gov/goes/ [Clouds over America]

RAIN RECORDS: http://www.cocorahs.org/ViewData/ListIntensePrecipReports.aspx

EL DORADO WORLD WEATHER MAP: http://www.eldoradocountyweather.com/satellite/ssec/world/world-composite-ir-…

PRESSURE MAP: http://www.woweather.com/cgi-bin/expertcharts?LANG=us&MENU=0000000000&…

HURRICANE TRACKER: http://www.weather.com/weather/hurricanecentral/tracker

INTELLICAST: http://www.intellicast.com/ [Weather site used by many youtubers]

NASA News: http://science.nasa.gov/science-news/science-at-nasa/

PHYSORG: http://phys.org/ [GREAT News Site!]

QUAKES LIST FULL: http://www.emsc-csem.org/Earthquake/seismologist.php

SUBSIDING GEOMAGNETIC STORM:

A strong (Kp=7) geomagnetic storm sparked by a CME impact on Sept. 30th is subsiding now. At maximum, during the early hours of Oct. 1st, Northern Lights descended as far south in the United States as Michigan, Maryland, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, Ohio, Montana, Minnesota, Washington, Idaho, Illinois and South Dakota. Even California experienced some auroras. Tim Piya Trepetch caught a patch of sky turning purple over the Lassen Volcanic National Park:

“Purple auroras erupted right over Lassen Peak,” says Trepetch.

California auroras are not as rare as some people think. The webmaster of spaceweather.com lives in California and has witnessed auroras no fewer than six times. The trick is knowing when to look.
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Space

Realtime Aurora Photo Gallery

ISS COMPANION:

Europe’s massive ATV-3 cargo carrier undocked from the International Space Station (ISS) on Sept. 28th. Now the spacecraft, as large as a double-decker bus, is leading the ISS in orbit around Earth. Monika Landy-Gyebnar saw it this morning flying over Veszprem, Hungary:

“I went outside to see the ISS,” says Landy-Gyebnar. “About a minute before the space station appeared, I saw a realtively bright object flying overheads almost where the ISS was to fly. Then I remembered that the ATV-3 undocked from ISS on Friday–and there it was! Just as ATV-3 has faded, the ISS emerged from the clouds and followed the small cargo vehicle towards the east.”

The ATV-3 will reenter Earth’s atmosphere on or about October 3rd, disintegrating in a spectacular fireball over the Pacific Ocean. Until then, sky watchers should be alert for the cargo vessel leading the ISS across the night sky. ATV-3 and ISS flyby predictions may be found on the web or on your smartphone.

Earth approaching objects (objects that are known in the next 30 days)

Object Name	Apporach Date	Left	AU Distance	LD Distance	Estimated Diameter*	Relative Velocity
(2012 RH10)	03rd October 2012	2 day(s)	0.1260	49.0	98 m – 220 m	12.90 km/s	46440 km/h
(2012 QE50)	09th October 2012	8 day(s)	0.0809	31.5	450 m – 1.0 km	11.47 km/s	41292 km/h
(1994 EK)	14th October 2012	13 day(s)	0.1356	52.8	230 m – 520 m	12.22 km/s	43992 km/h
(2012 PA20)	15th October 2012	14 day(s)	0.1502	58.5	100 m – 230 m	10.36 km/s	37296 km/h
(2012 RV16)	18th October 2012	17 day(s)	0.1270	49.4	310 m – 700 m	16.14 km/s	58104 km/h

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Sinkhole

Sinkhole grows, hits Assumption business and home values

Don Ames/AP Reporting

The sinkhole in Assumption Parish keeps getting bigger.The parish’s director of homeland security and emergency preparedness, John Boudreaux, says a 15-hundred square foot section of the earth caved in last week, pulling down several trees and part of a road.

The road that caved in was built to assist in the cleanup efforts. The sinkhole is about four acres in size and has grown since it emerged on August third.

150 homes in two nearby communities are evacuated as a result of the sinkhole.

Experts believe an underground brine cavern encased in a salt dome could be the cause of the sink hole. Sonar testing inside the cavern began a few days ago.

Boudreaux says an unknown substance was found at the bottom of the cavern. “The substance could be soil and sand that now has entered the cavern that created the sinkhole.”

Scientists are still trying to determine precisely why the hole appeared.

Residents and businesses in the area are growing increasingly concerned that it may swallow up their investments.

The hole filled with sludge and muck as it swallowed hundreds of yards of swampland.

Area residents have been worried not only by tremors, possibly caused by natural gas shifting underground in or near the dome, but also by concerns the value of their homes and business could suffer.

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Articles of Interest

Today

Power Outage

USA

State of Colorado, [Greeley, Garden City, Evans, LaSalle and surrounding areas]

Power Outage in USA on Monday, 01 October, 2012 at 04:29 (04:29 AM) UTC.

Description

Power has been restored to about 17,000 Xcel Energy customers who were affected Sunday evening by an outage in the Greeley area. Xcel Energy spokeswoman Michelle Aguayo said at least 16,900 customers in Greeley, Garden City, Evans, LaSalle and surrounding areas were affected. She said the outage originated at a Greeley substation at 6:18 p.m. The outage lasted a little more than two hours. As of Sunday night, Aguayo said crews were still trying to determine the cause of the outage, but it did not appear to be weather-related. Xcel Energy’s outage hotline was inundated with calls. Aguayo said the company encourages customers to call and leave messages. Paul Sadd, a mechanic at North Colorado Medical Center, said the hospital was running on emergency power during the outage. He said several people were stuck in elevators, but workers were able to get them out safely. Aguayo said Xcel works closely with large customers like hospitals and law enforcement agencies to ensure that they have back-up power resources.

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August 30, 2012

Earthquakes

RSOE EDIS

Date/Time (UTC)	Magnitude	Area	Country	State/Prov./Gov.	Location	Risk	Source	Details
30.08.2012 10:46:02	4.3	North America	United States	Alaska	Atka		USGS-RSOE
30.08.2012 10:25:41	4.9	South America	Chile	Bío-Bío	Arauco		USGS-RSOE
30.08.2012 09:35:39	2.4	North America	United States	California	Weott		USGS-RSOE
30.08.2012 09:36:08	2.5	North America	United States	California	Yorba Linda		USGS-RSOE
30.08.2012 09:25:32	2.4	North America	United States	Alaska	Petersville		USGS-RSOE
30.08.2012 09:36:32	4.4	Indonesian archipelago	Indonesia		Mas		USGS-RSOE
30.08.2012 09:55:29	4.4	Indonesian Archipelago	Indonesia		Mas		EMSC
30.08.2012 09:20:28	5.2	Indonesian archipelago	Indonesia		Mas		USGS-RSOE
30.08.2012 09:56:02	5.3	Indonesian Archipelago	Indonesia		Mas		EMSC
30.08.2012 08:55:24	2.0	Asia	Turkey	Mu?la	Ula		EMSC
30.08.2012 08:15:26	2.0	North America	United States	California	Cobb		USGS-RSOE
30.08.2012 08:50:28	3.6	Caribbean	British Virgin Islands		Road Town		USGS-RSOE
30.08.2012 07:35:36	2.2	North America	United States	California	Ponderosa		USGS-RSOE
30.08.2012 07:50:26	2.5	Asia	Turkey	Mu?la	Datca		EMSC
30.08.2012 09:36:56	2.8	Caribbean	British Virgin Islands		Road Town		USGS-RSOE
30.08.2012 07:20:34	2.3	North America	United States	California	Yorba Linda		USGS-RSOE
30.08.2012 07:15:57	2.3	North America	United States	Alaska	Pedro Bay		USGS-RSOE
30.08.2012 07:10:53	2.5	North America	United States	Alaska	Tyonek		USGS-RSOE
30.08.2012 06:50:26	2.2	North America	United States	California	Brawley		USGS-RSOE
30.08.2012 06:45:19	2.5	Europe	France	Rhône-Alpes	Saint-Bonnet-le-Chateau		EMSC
30.08.2012 08:55:49	2.3	Europe	Albania	Dibër	Duricaj		EMSC
30.08.2012 07:50:48	2.5	Europe	Greece	North Aegean	Agios Dimitrios		EMSC
30.08.2012 07:52:00	3.4	Caribbean	British Virgin Islands		Road Town		USGS-RSOE
30.08.2012 07:05:35	3.4	Caribbean	British Virgin Islands		Road Town		USGS-RSOE
30.08.2012 05:25:47	4.9	South America	Peru	Ucayali	Campoverde		USGS-RSOE
30.08.2012 05:45:20	5.0	South-America	Peru	Ucayali	Campoverde		EMSC
30.08.2012 05:45:43	3.3	Europe	Greece	Peloponnese	Koroni		EMSC
30.08.2012 04:46:13	2.0	North America	United States	California	Brawley		USGS-RSOE
30.08.2012 04:35:46	2.3	North America	United States	California	Brawley		USGS-RSOE
30.08.2012 07:11:17	3.7	Caribbean	British Virgin Islands		Road Town		USGS-RSOE
30.08.2012 05:15:28	3.8	Caribbean	British Virgin Islands		Road Town		USGS-RSOE
30.08.2012 07:51:07	2.5	Asia	Turkey	Antalya	Kalkan		EMSC
30.08.2012 03:50:31	2.1	North America	United States	California	Brawley		USGS-RSOE
30.08.2012 04:25:43	3.8	Caribbean	British Virgin Islands		Road Town		USGS-RSOE
30.08.2012 03:35:29	2.5	North America	United States	California	Brawley		USGS-RSOE
30.08.2012 03:05:32	2.0	North America	United States	California	Westmorland		USGS-RSOE
30.08.2012 03:45:21	3.1	South-America	Chile	Atacama	Vallenar		EMSC
30.08.2012 03:45:43	3.9	South-America	Bolivia	Potosí	Villa Alota		EMSC
30.08.2012 04:45:20	4.4	Middle-America	Nicaragua	Chinandega	Jiquilillo		EMSC
30.08.2012 04:30:26	4.4	Middle America	Nicaragua	Chinandega	Jiquilillo		USGS-RSOE
30.08.2012 02:40:21	2.1	Europe	Italy	Emilia-Romagna	San Prospero		EMSC
30.08.2012 04:45:46	4.3	Middle-America	El Salvador	Usulután	Puerto El Triunfo		EMSC
30.08.2012 04:46:37	4.3	Middle America	El Salvador	Usulután	Puerto El Triunfo		USGS-RSOE
30.08.2012 08:56:11	3.3	Europe	Greece	South Aegean	Karpathos		EMSC
30.08.2012 02:40:47	2.3	Europe	Italy	Sicily	Saponara Villafranca		EMSC
30.08.2012 01:35:25	3.1	Asia	Turkey	Mu?la	Sarigerme		EMSC
30.08.2012 01:05:31	2.0	North America	United States	California	Brawley		USGS-RSOE
30.08.2012 01:00:29	2.5	North America	United States	California	King City		USGS-RSOE
30.08.2012 00:50:37	2.1	North America	United States	California	Pearsonville		USGS-RSOE
30.08.2012 00:35:40	4.2	Caribbean	British Virgin Islands		Road Town		USGS-RSOE

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Yorba Linda earthquake a likely aftershock from earlier cluster

The 4.1 earthquake that jolted Yorba Linda on Wednesday afternoon appears to be an aftershock of the cluster of quakes that hit the region earlier this month, seismologists said.

The jolted area included southeastern Los Angeles County, Orange County and the Inland Empire. The quake occurred in about the same location of an earthquake doublet, two 4.5 quakes that occurred on Aug. 7 at 11:23 p.m. and Aug. 8 at 9:33 a.m. The area was also hit by a 4.0 quake on June 14.

Wednesday’s quake, which hit at 1:31 p.m., was located near the center point of the magnitude-5.5 Chino Hills earthquake that reverberated through the Los Angeles Basin in the summer of 2008, U.S. Geological Survey seismologist Lucy Jones told The Times.

Wednesday’s quake appeared to be located in the “Yorba Linda trend,” a seismic area identified by Caltech geophysicist Egill Hauksson in 1990, that might be a buried fault.

Many who felt the quake said it was relatively mild.

At Vinjon’s Kennel in Yorba Linda, the quake hit just as Carisa Feeney, 22, was giving a bath to a year-and-a-half-old boxer mix. When the quake delivered its single strong jolt, the dog leaped up in the tub –- and both quickly ran outside.

“I’m pretty much covered in water,” Feeney said.

Nancy Ferguson, who owns SGO Designer Glass in Old Town Yorba Linda, said, “We had a big jolt, just for a few seconds, then everything just kind of swayed.”

Ferguson, who has hundreds of pieces of glass on display in her store, said she holds her breath every time there’s an earthquake. “But nothing fell over today, so we’re feeling pretty lucky,” she said.

It is unlikely that the earthquake swarm that has hit Imperial County with hundreds of quakes since the weekend is related to Wednesday’s quake in Yorba Linda, Jones said.

Southern California town declares emergency over quake swarm

LOS ANGELES

Aug 29 (Reuters) – The southern California town of Brawley has taken the unusual step of declaring a state of emergency after a swarm of earthquakes rattled nearly 20 mobile homes off their blocks and forced a slaughterhouse to close, the mayor said on Wednesday.

It is uncommon for quake-hardy California cities to declare emergencies due to tremors, but Brawley mayor George Nava said the earthquake swarm is a unique case because it has lasted for days and caused millions of dollars in damage.

The cluster of relatively small quakes, which are caused by water and other fluids moving around in the Earth’s crust, began on Saturday evening and climaxed the next day with a 5.5 temblor, according to the U.S. Geological Survey.

The tremors were continuing on Wednesday and geologists say there have been hundreds in total.

Nava said leaders in Brawley, a city of 25,000 residents south of the state’s inland Salton Sea and 170 miles (275 km) southeast of Los Angeles, declared a local emergency late on Tuesday. Officials with surrounding Imperial County made a similar declaration on Wednesday.

Nineteen mobile homes were knocked off their blocks and their residents forced out, Nava said. The auditorium at Brawley Union High School has been damaged and closed off, and the National Beef slaughter plant in Brawley has been temporarily shut down due to damage, he said.

Local businesses have suffered millions of dollars in losses from closures and from customers staying away, Nava said. But he could not give an exact account of quake-related losses.

The Red Cross and local government agencies will offer services to residents on Friday and Saturday at a local center. The emergency declaration allows Brawley to receive more assistance from Imperial County, Nava said.

At one point, about 10,000 residents in the city were without power, and the quakes have also caused water line disruptions, Nava said.

“When you don’t have an AC or running water, it’s just not a good thing in this weather,” he said.

Jeanne Hardebeck, research seismologist for the U.S. Geological Survey, said earlier this week that the cluster of quakes is not a sign that a larger temblor is imminent. (Reporting By Alex Dobuzinskis; Editing by Tim Gaynor and Sandra Maler)

30.08.2012

Earthquake

USA

State of California, [Imperial County]

Earthquake in USA on Monday, 27 August, 2012 at 03:20 (03:20 AM) UTC.

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Wednesday, 29 August, 2012 at 03:10 UTC

Description

An unusual swarm of hundreds of mostly small earthquakes has struck Southern California over the last three days and shaken the nerves of quake-hardy residents, but scientists say the cluster is not a sign a larger temblor is imminent. The earthquakes, the largest of which measured magnitude 5.5, began on Saturday evening and have been centered near the town of Brawley close to the state’s inland Salton Sea, said Jeanne Hardebeck, research seismologist for the U.S. Geological Survey. Scientists were monitoring the earthquake cluster, which continued on Tuesday, to see if it approaches the Imperial Fault, about three miles away. A destructive and deadly earthquake of magnitude 7.0 struck on that fault in 1940, she said. “We don’t have any reason to believe that the (earthquake) storm is going to trigger on the Imperial Fault, but there’s a minute possibility that it could,” Hardebeck said, adding that the swarm of quakes was not moving closer to that fault.The Brawley quake cluster, which is caused by hot fluid moving around in the Earth’s crust, is different than a typical earthquake, in which two blocks of earth slip past each other along a tectonic fault line. After that kind of an earthquake of magnitude 5.5 or above, there is a 5 percent chance a larger quake will follow, Hardebeck said. But she added the same kinds of probability estimates were not possible with earthquake clusters caused by the movement of hot fluid. “We understand them even less than we understand normal earthquakes,” Hardebeck said, adding that scientists do not know why a cluster of earthquakes will occur at one time rather than another. The swarm led to jangled nerves in Brawley, a town of about 25,000 residents 170 miles southeast of Los Angeles near the border with Mexico. “It’s pretty bad. We had to evacuate the hotel just for safety,” Rowena Rapoza, office manager of a local Best Western Hotel, said on Sunday. There were two earthquakes on Sunday afternoon, one with a 5.5 magnitude and one measuring 5.3, Hardebeck said. Those were the largest quakes in the cluster amid hundreds of others, she said.

In the past, earthquake clusters have gone on for as long as two weeks, Hardebeck said. Before this recent cluster in Brawley, the last swarm of this size to hit the area was in 1981, she said. Earlier this month, a pair of moderate-sized earthquakes both registering a magnitude 4.5 struck the California town of Yorba Linda within 10 hours of each other, but no damage was reported. Yorba Linda, the birthplace of the late President Richard Nixon, is 145 miles northwest of Brawley.

Earthquake in USA on Monday, 27 August, 2012 at 03:20 (03:20 AM) UTC.

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Updated:	Wednesday, 29 August, 2012 at 19:21 UTC
Description
Earthquake swarms continued Wednesday in Imperial County as the city of Brawley declared an emergency to deal with the damage. The swarm that began Sunday morning showed signs of slowing down Wednesday, with fewer quakes reported by the U.S. Geological Survey than on recent days. The magnitude of the quakes is also declining. There was scattered damage around Brawley, but officials have not yet compiled a full estimate of the costs. The Brawley City Council on Tuesday declared a local emergency, according to the Imperial Valley Press. More than 400 earthquakes greater than magnitude 1.0 have been recorded in Imperial County since Saturday evening, said U.S. Geological Survey geophysicist Elizabeth Cochran. The largest were a 5.3 and a 5.5 about midday Sunday. Scientists say the reason is not fully understood, but there is a clue: Earthquake faults work much differently south of the Salton Sea than they do closer to Los Angeles. Take, for instance, the San Andreas fault as it runs through Los Angeles County. Itâs a fault where, generally speaking, two plates of the Earthâs crust are grinding past each other. The Pacific plate is moving to the northwest, while the North American plate is pushing to the southeast.South of the Salton Sea, the fault dynamic changes. The Pacific and North American plates start to pull away from each other, Cochran told The Times from her Pasadena office. (That movement is what created the Gulf of California, which separates Baja California from the rest of Mexico.) So Imperial County is caught between these two types of faults in what is called the âBrawley Seismic Zone,â which can lead to an earthquake swarm, Cochran said. The last major swarm was in 2005, Cochran said, when the largest magnitude was a 5.1. The largest swarm before last weekend’s occurred in 1981, when the biggest quake topped out at 5.8. Before that, there were swarms in the 1960s and 1970s. Brawley school officials told the Imperial Valley Press that Palmer Auditorium, a performance facility it manages with a local arts group, has been shut down after an inspection. âWe were told by engineers it needs to be shut down because there were huge structural damages,â school Supt. Hasmik Danielian told the paper. Crews would have a better idea of the total damage caused by the quakes in the coming days, said Maria Peinado, a spokeswoman for the Imperial County Public Health Department, but so far the list of affected structures includes about 20 mobile homes shifted from their foundations. The earthquakes also caused “cosmetic” damage to at least three buildings dating to the 1930s in downtown Brawley, said Capt. Jesse Zendejas of the Brawley Fire Department. A few displaced residents spent Sunday night at an American Red Cross shelter at the Imperial Valley College gymnasium, Peinado said.

Earthquake in USA on Monday, 27 August, 2012 at 03:20 (03:20 AM) UTC.

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Updated:	Thursday, 30 August, 2012 at 02:56 UTC
Description
The southern California town of Brawley has taken the unusual step of declaring a state of emergency after a swarm of earthquakes rattled nearly 20 mobile homes off their blocks and forced a slaughterhouse to close, the mayor said on Wednesday. It is uncommon for quake-hardy California cities to declare emergencies due to tremors, but Brawley mayor George Nava said the earthquake swarm is a unique case because it has lasted for days and caused millions of dollars in damage. The cluster of relatively small quakes, which are caused by water and other fluids moving around in the Earth’s crust, began on Saturday evening and climaxed the next day with a 5.5 temblor, according to the U.S. Geological Survey. The tremors were continuing on Wednesday and geologists say there have been hundreds in total.Nava said leaders in Brawley, a city of 25,000 residents south of the state’s inland Salton Sea and 170 miles (275 km) southeast of Los Angeles, declared a local emergency late on Tuesday. Officials with surrounding Imperial County made a similar declaration on Wednesday. Nineteen mobile homes were knocked off their blocks and their residents forced out, Nava said. The auditorium at Brawley Union High School has been damaged and closed off, and the National Beef slaughter plant in Brawley has been temporarily shut down due to damage, he said. Local businesses have suffered millions of dollars in losses from closures and from customers staying away, Nava said. But he could not give an exact account of quake-related losses. The Red Cross and local government agencies will offer services to residents on Friday and Saturday at a local center. The emergency declaration allows Brawley to receive more assistance from Imperial County, Nava said. At one point, about 10,000 residents in the city were without power, and the quakes have also caused water line disruptions, Nava said. “When you don’t have an AC or running water, it’s just not a good thing in this weather,” he said. Jeanne Hardebeck, research seismologist for the U.S. Geological Survey, said earlier this week that the cluster of quakes is not a sign that a larger temblor is imminent.

29.08.2012

Earthquake

British Virgin Islands

Atlantic Ocean, [Between 94 to 108 kilometers of the Road Town]

Earthquake in British Virgin Islands on Wednesday, 29 August, 2012 at 07:42 (07:42 AM) UTC.

Description
A total of 104 earthquakes were observed in the last four days, British Virgin Islands area. The smallest was M2.0 and the strongest quake was M4.8 on the Richter scale. The center of the earthquake at a distance of 94 to 108 kilometers and the depth were between 5 and 90 kilometers.

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Extreme Temperatures/ Weather

Today

Heat Wave

USA

State of South Dakota, [SD-wide]

Heat Wave in USA on Thursday, 30 August, 2012 at 03:25 (03:25 AM) UTC.

Description

South Dakota students are used to extreme cold and having classes called off because of winter blizzards, but the weather that caused their school day to be cut short Wednesday was intense for a different reason: the triple-digit temperatures. More than two dozen school districts across the state shut down early Wednesday as temperatures rose above 100 degrees, turning classrooms into saunas. “The major factor in the decision is the safety and welfare of students and staff members. It’s tough to learn in an environment when a room is 100 degrees,” said Eureka Superintendent Bo Beck, whose north-central South Dakota district joined others in dismissing students a few hours early because their classrooms lack air conditioning. Eureka and other districts have called off classes due to late-summer heat in past years, but school closures are more common in winter months when snow, frigid temperatures and howling winds make travel unsafe, Beck said. Scott Doering, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service in Aberdeen, said high temperatures Wednesday were expected to range from the low 90s in northeastern South Dakota to as high as 107 in the center of the state as a ridge of high pressure made the northern and central Plains area the nation’s hotspot.Some places in central South Dakota could break or come close to breaking records before temperatures start to drop to the 80s and lower 90s Thursday, Doering said. He said temperatures topping 100 sometimes persist in South Dakota, even into September. “It’s unusual, but not highly unusual,” he added, referring to Wednesday’s heat. Don Hotalling, superintendent for the Stanley County School District, said all students in Fort Pierre were being sent home at 1 p.m. because some classrooms are not air-conditioned. That problem will be solved after a new building is completed next year, he said. “With 106 degrees forecast for today, we knew it really was going to be miserable for some of the students,” Hotalling said. “With the humidity and the heat, it’s very uncomfortable. Not much learning is going to be going on later in the afternoon, when it gets hotter.” Stanley County eighth-grader Madison Bogue was happy her Fort Pierre school ended the day early. “It’s really awesome. It’s better than sitting in there all day,” the 13-year-old said. The district used fans to try to cool buildings Tuesday, when a lot of parents picked up their kids and took them home to beat the heat, Hotalling said. Staff encouraged students to drink plenty of water, but some students complained Tuesday of headaches, he said. Deputy state Education Secretary Mary Stadick Smith said she didn’t know how many schools were closing because of the heat, but at least two dozen schools from northeastern South Dakota to Rapid City in the west let radio and television stations know of early closures.

“Typically in South Dakota, schools are closed because of cold weather and blizzards that kind of thing, so it is a little unusual,” Stadick Smith said. Schools will not have to make up the missed time as long as they meet annual requirements for hours spent in classrooms, she said. The Rapid City Journal reported that schools in that city also were closing early because 15 of the 25 public schools do not have air conditioning. “When we start reaching temperatures above 90 degrees in classrooms, we have concerns as to trying to do something to relieve that stress on the teachers and the students that have been trying to work in those rooms,” Rapid City Area Schools Superintendent Tim Mitchell told the newspaper. Principal Robin Gillespie said teachers at Rapid City’s Wilson Elementary have been beating the heat with fans, low lights, water breaks and Popsicles. Many South Dakota residents seemed to take the heat in stride.

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Mustang Complex Fires in Idaho

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Sparked by lightning in July, the Mustang Complex fire had burned 149,828 acres (60,633 hectares) of rugged terrain near Salmon, Idaho, by August 29, 2012. The fire burned in steep, inaccessible terrain.

This natural-color satellite image shows thick smoke from the fires streaming northeast toward Montana. It was collected by the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) aboard the Aqua satellite on August 28, 2012. Actively burning areas, detected by MODIS’s thermal bands, are outlined in red.

By August 23, more than 1,106,545 acres (447,803 hectares) had burned in Idaho—more than any other state except for Oregon. By August 29, more than 7,277,838 acres (2,945,236 hectares) had burned throughout the United States in what has proven to be one of the most severe wildfire seasons in the last decade.

Reference
Inciweb. (2012, August 29). Mustang Complex Fire. Accessed August 29, 2012.
National Interagency Fire Center. (2012, August 29). Year-to-Date Statistics. Accessed August 29, 2012.
National Interagency Fire Center. (2012, August 29). National Year-to-Date Statistics on Fires and Acres Burned by State. Accessed August 29, 2012.

Further Reading
Idaho Press-Tribune. (2012, August 29). Black Bear Cub Treated for Burn Injuries. Accessed August 29, 2012.

NASA image courtesy Jeff Schmaltz, LANCE MODIS Rapid Response. Caption by Adam Voiland.

Instrument: Aqua – MODIS

Today

Forest / Wild Fire

USA

State of Montana, [Near to Butte and Roscoe]

Forest / Wild Fire in USA on Thursday, 30 August, 2012 at 03:16 (03:16 AM) UTC.

Description

Crews dug in Wednesday against another round of Montana wildfires as evacuations were ordered ahead of blazes near Butte and Roscoe that authorities said threatened at least 130 houses. Searing heat set in across much of the drought-parched state, and gusting winds pushed flames through tinder-dry stands of timber and grasslands. The dangerous conditions prompted Gov. Brian Schweitzer to declare a statewide fire emergency. Eight large fires were burning on more than 73 square miles Wednesday, and more than 1,300 square miles already have burned in Montana this summer. Most of that destruction has been in the rain-starved eastern half of the state. Compounding residents’ woes are plumes of smoke pouring into mountain valleys from local fires and blazes in neighboring Idaho. The air quality has deteriorated most significantly in Hamilton, where it was listed as unhealthy by state officials. In Butte, Helena, Great Falls and Bozeman, officials downgraded the air quality to unhealthy for sensitive groups. About 10 miles south of Butte, the 19 Mile fire torched at least two homes and two outbuildings after growing to several square miles. Officials said the exact size was hard to determine because of all the smoke. Residents of the Whiskey Gulch and Friends Road area were told to evacuate Wednesday, after people living on Upper and Lower Radar Creek and Toll Mountain roads were advised to leave Tuesday. A spokeswoman for the fire, Mariah Leuschen with the U.S. Forest Service, said the evacuations covered roughly 150 people living in about 80 homes. But the Federal Emergency Management Agency put the figure higher – 275 people living in 103 homes, with another 100 to 110 houses put on pre-evacuation notice. The reason for the discrepancy was not immediately clear. State officials sought and received federal help to pay for the effort against the fire. That authorizes FEMA to pay 75 percent of the state’s firefighting costs on the blaze, but does not provide assistance to individual homes or business owners.

29.08.2012

Forest / Wild Fire

USA

State of Oregon, [Malheur National Forest]

Forest / Wild Fire in USA on Wednesday, 29 August, 2012 at 09:41 (09:41 AM) UTC.

Description

A wildfire that broke out Tuesday afternoon in the Malheur National Forest spread to at least 2,500 acres before sundown, officials said. The fire ignited at about 2:30 p.m. near Parish Cabin Campground, about 10 miles east of Seneca. No injuries have been reported — as of late evening, the fire remained in the center of the forest and mainly was a threat to campgrounds and historic buildings in the immediate area, said Mike Stearly, information officer for Malheur National Forest. “It’s in some prime timber growth areas…the conditions are right,” Stearly said. He said the fire grew to between 2,500 acres and 3,000 acres through the afternoon and evening. Crews will be working through the night to fight the blaze, and spike camps have been set up. A Type 2 incident management team is coming in Wednesday morning, Stearly said. The goal is to hold the fire south of the Strawberry Mountain Wilderness. Firefighters and the Grant’s County Sheriff’s Department evacuated Parish Cabin Campground. Evacuees included a number of bow hunters in the area for archery season, Stearly said. The cause of the fire remains unknown.

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Storms / Flooding / Tornadoes

Active tropical storm system(s)

Name of storm system	Location	Formed	Last update	Last category	Course	Wind Speed	Gust	Wave	Source	Details
Tembin (15W)	Pacific Ocean	19.08.2012	29.08.2012	Tropical Depression	15 °	83 km/h	102 km/h	6.71 m	JTWC

Tropical Storm data

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Storm name:	Tembin (15W)
Area:	Pacific Ocean
Start up location:	N 17° 42.000, E 124° 36.000
Start up:	19th August 2012
Status:	Active
Track long:	1,166.36 km
Top category.:
Report by:	JTWC

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Past track
Date	Time	Position	Speed km/h	Wind km/h	Gust km/h	Category	Course	Wave	Pressure	Source
19th Aug 2012	05:28:29	N 17° 42.000, E 124° 36.000	9	56	74	Tropical Depression	190	11		JTWC
19th Aug 2012	10:11:34	N 17° 30.000, E 124° 48.000	6	83	102	Tropical Storm	135	9		JTWC
20th Aug 2012	05:16:05	N 18° 0.000, E 124° 48.000	6	139	167	Typhoon I.	360	9		JTWC
20th Aug 2012	10:35:24	N 18° 24.000, E 124° 54.000	7	176	213	Typhoon II.	15	9		JTWC
21st Aug 2012	04:48:23	N 20° 12.000, E 125° 18.000	13	213	259	Typhoon IV.	360	15		JTWC
21st Aug 2012	10:41:18	N 21° 0.000, E 125° 24.000	15	204	250	Typhoon III.	5	16		JTWC
22nd Aug 2012	10:16:00	N 22° 30.000, E 124° 12.000	9	167	204	Typhoon II.	310	15		JTWC
23rd Aug 2012	04:49:56	N 22° 30.000, E 123° 36.000	4	204	232	Typhoon III.	270	9		JTWC
23rd Aug 2012	10:42:38	N 22° 42.000, E 123° 6.000	9	194	241	Typhoon III.	295	15		JTWC
24th Aug 2012	05:23:44	N 22° 6.000, E 120° 30.000	19	185	232	Typhoon III.	245	19		JTWC
24th Aug 2012	10:05:02	N 22° 18.000, E 119° 48.000	13	111	139	Tropical Storm	285	17		JTWC
25th Aug 2012	05:19:01	N 22° 24.000, E 118° 6.000	13	139	167	Typhoon I.	260	17		JTWC
26th Aug 2012	05:24:20	N 21° 0.000, E 116° 54.000	7	157	194	Typhoon II.	155	14		JTWC
27th Aug 2012	04:54:48	N 20° 18.000, E 117° 36.000	11	157	194	Typhoon II.	125	19		JTWC
27th Aug 2012	10:50:55	N 20° 30.000, E 118° 6.000	9	148	185	Typhoon I.	90	15		JTWC
28th Aug 2012	04:53:36	N 23° 0.000, E 121° 54.000	28	102	130	Tropical Storm	35	19		JTWC
28th Aug 2012	10:29:05	N 24° 6.000, E 122° 42.000	26	102	130	Tropical Storm	30	19		JTWC
29th Aug 2012	04:47:41	N 27° 48.000, E 124° 0.000	22	83	102	Tropical Storm	10	19		JTWC
29th Aug 2012	10:39:33	N 29° 6.000, E 124° 6.000	24	93	120	Tropical Storm	5	21		JTWC

Current position
Date	Time	Position	Speed km/h	Wind km/h	Gust km/h	Category	Course	Wave feet	Pressure	Source
30th Aug 2012	10:50:31	N 34° 30.000, E 126° 30.000	43	65	83	Tropical Depression	25 °	0		JTWC

Forecast track
Date	Time	Position	Category	Wind km/h	Gust km/h	Source
31st Aug 2012	00:00:00	N 41° 42.000, E 131° 24.000	Tropical Depression	56	74	JTWC

Isaac (AL09)

Atlantic Ocean

21.08.2012

30.08.2012

Tropical Depression

325 °

74 km/h

93 km/h

0.00 m

NOAA NHC

Tropical Storm data

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Storm name:	Isaac (AL09)
Area:	Atlantic Ocean
Start up location:	N 15° 12.000, W 51° 12.000
Start up:	21st August 2012
Status:	Active
Track long:	2,761.47 km
Top category.:
Report by:	NOAA NHC

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Past track
Date	Time	Position	Speed km/h	Wind km/h	Gust km/h	Category	Course	Wave	Pressure	Source
21st Aug 2012	10:45:53	N 15° 12.000, W 51° 12.000	31	56	74	Tropical Depression	270	12	1007 MB	NOAA NHC
22nd Aug 2012	04:54:04	N 15° 36.000, W 55° 36.000	30	65	83	Tropical Storm	275	16	1006 MB	NOAA NHC
23rd Aug 2012	05:06:43	N 15° 48.000, W 63° 0.000	31	74	93	Tropical Storm	270	22	1003 MB	NOAA NHC
24th Aug 2012	05:17:31	N 16° 42.000, W 68° 42.000	28	74	93	Tropical Storm	290	19	1001 MB	NOAA NHC
25th Aug 2012	05:21:33	N 17° 42.000, W 72° 30.000	22	111	139	Tropical Storm	310	15	990 MB	NOAA NHC
26th Aug 2012	06:01:20	N 22° 6.000, W 77° 12.000	28	93	111	Tropical Storm	305	19	997 MB	NOAA NHC
27th Aug 2012	04:49:08	N 24° 12.000, W 82° 54.000	22	102	120	Tropical Storm	285	19	993 MB	NOAA NHC
28th Aug 2012	05:00:18	N 27° 6.000, W 87° 0.000	17	111	139	Tropical Storm	310	19	310 MB	NOAA NHC
29th Aug 2012	04:56:03	N 29° 0.000, W 89° 42.000	13	130	157	Hurricane I.	310	17	968 MB	NOAA NHC

Current position
Date	Time	Position	Speed km/h	Wind km/h	Gust km/h	Category	Course	Wave feet	Pressure	Source
30th Aug 2012	10:48:30	N 30° 54.000, W 91° 36.000	13	74	93	Tropical Depression	325 °	0	983 MB	NOAA NHC

Forecast track
Date	Time	Position	Category	Wind km/h	Gust km/h	Source
31st Aug 2012	12:00:00	N 34° 54.000, W 93° 36.000	Tropical Depression	46	65	NOAA NHC
31st Aug 2012	00:00:00	N 32° 48.000, W 92° 54.000	Tropical Depression	56	74	NOAA NHC
01st Sep 2012	00:00:00	N 37° 18.000, W 93° 24.000	Tropical Depression	37	56	NOAA NHC
02nd Sep 2012	00:00:00	N 39° 30.000, W 91° 18.000	Tropical Depression	28	37	NOAA NHC
03rd Sep 2012	00:00:00	N 40° 0.000, W 87° 0.000	Tropical Depression	28	37	NOAA NHC
04th Sep 2012	00:00:00	N 40° 30.000, W 83° 0.000	Tropical Depression	28	37	NOAA NHC

Ileana (EP09)

Pacific Ocean – East

28.08.2012

30.08.2012

Hurricane I

325 °

120 km/h

148 km/h

4.27 m

NOAA NHC

Tropical Storm data

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Storm name:	Ileana (EP09)
Area:	Pacific Ocean – East
Start up location:	N 15° 30.000, W 107° 42.000
Start up:	28th August 2012
Status:	Active
Track long:	434.23 km
Top category.:
Report by:	NOAA NHC

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Past track
Date	Time	Position	Speed km/h	Wind km/h	Gust km/h	Category	Course	Wave	Pressure	Source
28th Aug 2012	04:45:33	N 15° 30.000, W 107° 42.000	19	74	93	Tropical Storm	290	15	1000 MB	NOAA NHC
29th Aug 2012	04:37:35	N 17° 0.000, W 111° 6.000	17	93	111	Tropical Storm	305	11	997 MB	NOAA NHC
29th Aug 2012	10:41:45	N 17° 36.000, W 111° 48.000	15	102	120	Tropical Storm	315	18	995 MB	NOAA NHC

Current position
Date	Time	Position	Speed km/h	Wind km/h	Gust km/h	Category	Course	Wave feet	Pressure	Source
30th Aug 2012	10:47:41	N 19° 42.000, W 113° 30.000	13	120	148	Hurricane I	325 °	14	987 MB	NOAA NHC

Forecast track
Date	Time	Position	Category	Wind km/h	Gust km/h	Source
31st Aug 2012	12:00:00	N 21° 30.000, W 115° 30.000	Tropical Depression	93	111	NOAA NHC
31st Aug 2012	00:00:00	N 20° 48.000, W 114° 42.000	Hurricane I	111	139	NOAA NHC
01st Sep 2012	00:00:00	N 22° 30.000, W 116° 30.000	Tropical Depression	74	93	NOAA NHC
02nd Sep 2012	00:00:00	N 23° 30.000, W 119° 0.000	Tropical Depression	56	74	NOAA NHC
03rd Sep 2012	00:00:00	N 24° 30.000, W 122° 0.000	Tropical Depression	37	56	NOAA NHC
04th Sep 2012	00:00:00	N 25° 0.000, W 125° 30.000	Tropical Depression	37	56	NOAA NHC

Kirk (AL02)

Atlantic Ocean

29.08.2012

30.08.2012

Hurricane I

310 °

102 km/h

120 km/h

5.79 m

NOAA NHC

Tropical Storm data

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Storm name:	Kirk (AL02)
Area:	Atlantic Ocean
Start up location:	N 23° 54.000, W 45° 0.000
Start up:	29th August 2012
Status:	Active
Track long:	248.65 km
Top category.:
Report by:	NOAA NHC

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Past track
Date	Time	Position	Speed km/h	Wind km/h	Gust km/h	Category	Course	Wave	Pressure	Source
29th Aug 2012	04:44:17	N 23° 54.000, W 45° 0.000	19	74	93	Tropical Storm	280	15	1007 MB	NOAA NHC
29th Aug 2012	10:42:14	N 24° 18.000, W 45° 18.000	15	74	93	Tropical Storm	290	16	1007 MB	NOAA NHC

Current position
Date	Time	Position	Speed km/h	Wind km/h	Gust km/h	Category	Course	Wave feet	Pressure	Source
30th Aug 2012	10:48:04	N 26° 30.000, W 49° 0.000	17	102	120	Hurricane I	310 °	19	997 MB	NOAA NHC

Forecast track
Date	Time	Position	Category	Wind km/h	Gust km/h	Source
31st Aug 2012	12:00:00	N 30° 36.000, W 50° 48.000	Hurricane I	120	148	NOAA NHC
31st Aug 2012	00:00:00	N 28° 36.000, W 50° 30.000	Hurricane I	111	139	NOAA NHC
01st Sep 2012	00:00:00	N 33° 18.000, W 49° 42.000	Hurricane II	130	157	NOAA NHC
02nd Sep 2012	00:00:00	N 39° 24.000, W 43° 42.000	Hurricane III	148	185	NOAA NHC
03rd Sep 2012	00:00:00	N 47° 6.000, W 34° 54.000	Hurricane II	130	157	NOAA NHC

30.08.2012

Tropical Storm

USA

State of Louisiana, [Southern Region]

Tropical Storm in USA on Wednesday, 29 August, 2012 at 07:29 (07:29 AM) UTC.

Description

Nearly 100,000 homes and businesses lost power after Hurricane Isaac landed in the southeastern part of the U.S. state of Louisiana later Tuesday, local media reported. And among the homes and businesses being left without power, near half are in Orleans Parish, the reports said. Utility companies in the southwestern U.S. state on Tuesday morning started bringing in extra crews to help restore power in case strong winds bring down power lines. New Orleans Mayor Mitch Landrieu warned residents about the dangers of approaching downed power lines. “These are serious threats, as I have said many times, which can cause fatalities,” Landrieu said. State authorities have mobilized more than 4,100 troops, with 680 of them in Orleans Parish. A further 35,000 troops and almost 100 aircraft are available for mobilization, according to reports on the website of NOLA.com. The troops are assisting with the setting up of evacuation shelters, including a “mega-shelter” with about 2,500 cots in the inland city of Alexandria. Some 300 soldiers will work as bus drivers in Metairie, supporting the state departments of transportation and education. At a press conference on Tuesday, Luisiana Governor Bobby Jindal said the State National Guard posted 23 liaison teams with local governments, adding that 13 communications teams will deployed in the region, along with 921 security vehicles, 531 high-water vehicles, 40 aircraft and 74 boats.

29.08.2012

Tropical Storm

USA

State of Louisiana, New Orleans

Tropical Storm in USA on Wednesday, 29 August, 2012 at 19:36 (07:36 PM) UTC.

Description

In New Orleans, streets were flooding and up to 85% of residents were without power, Mayor Mitch Landrieu said. “One of the great challenges with this storm … is that it’s going so slowly … which means that it’s going to hover over us,” he told the Weather Channel on Wednesday morning. “The longer the rain and the greater the wind … (that) continues to concern us. That wind is really, really heavy, which is why it’s important you stay inside.” “We’re asking people to be patient,” he said. New Orleans, devastated by Katrina seven years ago to the day, was reporting 60-mph winds and drenching rains. Landrieu said about 1,000 National Guard troops are positioned in the city, working with police, firefighters and standing by for rescue operations. The historic French Quarter that forms the heart of New Orleans’ tourism industry appeared to have dodged the worst of Isaac. Downed tree limbs, minor flooding at intersections and a brief electrical outage overnight were the main problems confronting the residents who stayed , and stayed mostly indoors. “Honestly, man, it’s just been rain,” said Huggington “Huggy” Behr, manager of Flanagan’s Pub on St. Phillips, which stayed open through the night and served “about a dozen” patrons. “To us, we’ve seen the worst, so it’s business as usual.”

29.08.2012

Tropical Storm

USA

State of Mississippi, [Southern region]

Tropical Storm in USA on Wednesday, 29 August, 2012 at 19:35 (07:35 PM) UTC.

Description

Southern Mississippi was still feeling the effects of the storm but emergency management officials along the coast said they got through the night relatively unharmed. No injuries or deaths were reported overnight in the coastal counties of Hancock or Harrison, which were two of the hardest hit by Hurricane Katrina seven years ago. The biggest worry overnight from Hurricane Isaac? “We’re in the process of picking two people up who got stranded by the water and they’re scared,” Hancock County Emergency Management Director Brian Adam said Wednesday morning. With sustained winds throughout the region topping out at about 40 mph, the main concern remains flooding from a constantly driving storm surge and what is expected to be prolonged rainfall for several days. In Harrison County, the rising waters knocked a boat off its moorings. County Emergency Management Director Rupert Lacy said the boat slammed into Popps Ferry Bridge, forcing officials to shut it down until crews can inspect the integrity of the bridge. The bridge is one of two connecting Biloxi from the mainland, but Lacy said it could be a long time before an inspection can be done. “We cautioned our public safety employees … that you don’t need to be out there if the winds are too high,” Lacy said.

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Twelve dead. 10 missing as typhoon pounds S. Korea

by Staff Writers
Seoul (AFP)

Twelve people were killed and 10 were missing after a strong typhoon pounded South Korea Tuesday, uprooting trees, sinking ships and cutting power to almost 200,000 homes.

By early evening Typhoon Bolaven — the strongest to hit the South for almost a decade — had moved to North Korea, which is still struggling to recover from deadly floods earlier this summer.

Hundreds of flights in the South were grounded, ferry services were suspended and schools in Seoul and several other areas were closed.

Bolaven left a trail of death and damage in southwestern and south-central regions of the country, although it was little felt in central parts of Seoul.

Off the southern island of Jeju, the storm drove two Chinese fishing ships aground early Tuesday, sparking a dramatic rescue operation.

Coastguards wearing wetsuits struggled through high waves and then used a line-launcher to fire ropes to one ship, a coastguard spokesman said. The other boat broke apart.

Rescuers saved 12 people while six swam ashore, but 10 crew members are still missing, the spokesman said. Five bodies were recovered.

In the southern county of Wanju, a 48-year-old man was killed by a shipping container flipped over by gale-force winds, the public administration ministry said.

An elderly woman was crushed to death when a church spire collapsed onto her house in the southwestern city of Gwangju, while another elderly woman was blown off the roof of her home in the western county of Seocheon.

A workman fell from the roof of a hospital in the southwestern port of Mokpo. At Imsil county in North Jeolla province, a 51-year-old man died while clearing toppled trees.

In Yeongkwang county west of Gwangju, a 72-year-old man suffered fatal head injuries when his house wall collapsed. At Buyeo city in South Chungcheong province, a woman aged 75 died after falling due to strong winds.

A 77,000-tonne bulk carrier broke in two off the southeastern port of Sacheon but no casualties were reported, the public administration ministry said.

The transport ministry said all 87 sea ferry services had been halted. A total of 247 flights — 183 domestic and 64 international — have been cancelled since Monday.

The typhoon — packing winds of 144 kilometres (90 miles) per hour at one time — brought heavy rain and strong winds to southern and western areas. It toppled street lights and signs, shattered windows, uprooted trees and tore off shop signs.

The National Emergency Management Agency said 197,751 homes in Jeju and the southwest and south-central regions lost power.

A total of 83 people, mostly in the southwest, were evacuated from their homes and taken to shelters. Some 21 homes were damaged.

The US and South Korean armed forces called a temporary halt to a large-scale joint military exercise that began last week.

After sweeping up the Yellow Sea to the west of South Korea, Bolaven made landfall in North Korea in the early evening.

The impoverished nation is already struggling to recover from a devastating summer drought, followed by floods which killed 169 people, left about 400 missing and made 212,000 people homeless, according to official figures.

Weather officials said Typhoon Tembin was also threatening the Korean peninsula, and was forecast to be some 200 kilometres west of Jeju early Friday.

Hurricane Isaac pounds Louisiana, water pours over levee

By Rick Jervis, USA TODAY

NEW ORLEANS – Hurricane Isaac pounded Louisiana with heavy rains and damaging winds Wednesday as forecasters said the storm surge and serious flooding will likely continue through the night.

USA TODAYHurricane Issac landed at 3:15 a.m. EST just west of Port Fourchon, about 60 miles south-southwest of New Orleans.

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Hurricane Issac landed at 3:15 a.m. EST just west of Port Fourchon, about 60 miles south-southwest of New Orleans.

Isaac was still maintaining Category 1 hurricane strength, but just barely, with sustained winds of 75 mph, the National Hurricane Center reported. It was located directly over Houma, La., which is about 45 miles southwest of New Orleans.

The storm was crawling to the northwest at just 6 mph. It is expected to weaken to a tropical storm later Wednesday.

Widespread flooding was reported in New Orleans and other coastal cities.

One of the worst hit areas was Plaquemines Parish, about 50 miles southeast of New Orleans, where water spilled over a levee. Isaac passed directly over the region of marshland, fishing towns and marinas, peeling off roofs and flooding some areas.

The northern part of the parish is ringed in by the area’s hurricane protection system of fortified levees and floodwalls. But stretches of it on the east bank of the Mississippi River and further south lie outside the protection system, making it vulnerable to storm surge and flooding, Parish Councilman Kirk Lepine said.

Isaac came up the western edge of the parish, lashing at the area with powerful winds and storm surge, Lepine said.

“It came in at the worse scenario we can imagine,” he said. “There’s nowhere for that water to go than here.”

Rescue efforts were focused Wednesday in the small enclave of Braithwaite, on the east bank of the Mississippi River in Plaquemines Parish. Sheriff Deputies there were conducting rescue missions of residents trapped in homes, as flooding from Isaac overtook the area, said Trooper Melissa Matey, a Louisiana State Police spokeswoman.

Braithwaite was under a mandatory evacuation order prior to Isaac but some residents chose to stay, she said.

Early Wednesday, state police troopers were escorting National Guard troops with high-water vehicles down to that area to help in rescue efforts, state police spokesman Capt. Doug Cain said. Many of the roads in the area had become impassable.

Flanked by marshes and water, low-lying Plaquemines Parish has been repeatedly hit by disasters – from Katrina to Gustav to the 2010 BP oil spill, Cain said. Isaac late Tuesday passed directly over the area, pummeling the parish with powerful winds and a strong storm surge.

“The geography of it makes it vulnerable,” Cain said. “But talk about a resilient people. They’ve been through this before, and they’re going to make it through this one.”

Isaac also forced the closures of major roadways throughout the area, including US 90 at the Jefferson Parish/St. Charles Parish line, the causeway over Lake Pontchartrain and LA-73 south of Plaquemines, he said.

Besides dealing with downed trees across roadways from New Orleans to Baton Rouge, state police also encountered residents who may have underestimated the storm, he said. Troopers kept busy throughout the night with highway accidents, broken down cars and several DWI arrests.

“People aren’t adhering to the warnings,” Cain said. “Today, we’re really encouraging people to shelter in place.”

The Federal Amergency Management Agency has staged supplies throughout the south in Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia, Florida, Arkansas and South Carolina. At Mississippi’s Camp Shelby, FEMA has 54 generators and 256,000 ready-to-eat meals. At Maxwell Air Force Base in Alabama, FEMA has 1.2 million meals, 2,134 cots and 3,800 tarps.

Volunteer organizations such as the American Red Cross and the Salvation Army can provide 65,000 hot meals a day in Louisiana, FEMA said in its daily briefing report.

So far the 350 miles of levees and floodwalls surrounding and meandering through New Orleans were holding back storm surge water as designed early Wednesday, city spokesman Hayne Rainey said. The city had not received any reports of levee breaches or calls for rescues, he said.

Early reports from Isaac’s effects were far different from the events that unfolded around Hurricane Katrina— which slammed the region seven years to the day and led to levee breaches and mass flooding of the city. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers rebuilt the levee and floodwall system in the New Orleans area to be much stronger at a cost of $14.45 billion.

“All reports are indicating the federal levees protecting the city of New Orleans are holding,” he said.

The storm landed at 3:15 a.m. ET just west of Port Fourchon, about 60 miles south-southwest of New Orleans, said the National Hurricane Center.

Isaac, upgraded from a tropical storm to a Category 1 hurricane midday Tuesday, first touched land in Plaquemines Parish, about 90 miles southeast of New Orleans on Tuesday evening before heading back over the Gulf of Mexico.

Because it is moving so slowly, the storm system could dump up to 20 inches of rain in some areas. The hurricane center said Mississippi and southeastern Louisiana could see peak surges of 12 feet.

In New Orleans, streets were flooding and up to 75% of residents were without power, Mayor Mitch Landrieu said.

“One of the great challenges with this storm … is that it’s going so slowly … which means that it’s going to hover over us,” he told the Weather Channel on Wednesday morning. “The longer the rain and the greater the wind … (that) continues to concern us. That wind is really, really heavy, which is why it’s important you stay inside.”

“We’re asking people to be patient,” he said.

New Orleans, devastated by Katrina seven years ago to the day, was reporting 60-mph winds and drenching rains. Landrieu said about 1,000 National Guard troops are positioned in the city, working with police, firefighters and standing by for rescue operations.

More than 470,000 homes and businesses have lost power, including 156,000 in New Orleans and 162,000 in the New Orleans suburbs, Entergy reported.

The company, which serves most of southern Louisiana, said its crews would begin restoring power as soon as sustained wind speeds fall below 30 mph.

“We expect outages to last several days,” the company said on its storm center website. “Severe weather conditions are expected across Louisiana and Mississippi through early Thursday morning.”

Officials in coastal Alabama were heading out Wednesday morning to assess damage from the storm.

“Right now, we are compiling our assessment teams,” said Paula Tillman, spokeswoman for the Baldwin County Emergency Management Agency. “As soon as it gets good and daylight, we’ll be sending them out.”

Some roads along the coast were closed because of flooding. “Those are down in those lower areas near Fort Morgan, right in the beach area,” Tillman said. “Those roads are pretty typical for flooding.”

At 6:30 a.m. central time, there had been no reports of injuries or deaths from the storm in Alabama. In Baldwin County, which includes the resort communities of Gulf Shores and Orange Beach, 243 people were in two county evacuation shelters.

In Mobile, there was virtually no evidence of storm impact.

Officials were warning residents that flooding from storm surges and heavy rainfall expected with the storm could still pose a threat.

Southern Mississippi still has a long way to go before Hurricane Isaac moves past, but emergency management officials along the coast say they got through the night relatively unharmed.

No injuries or deaths were reported overnight in the coastal counties of Hancock or Harrison, which were two of the hardest hit by Hurricane Katrina seven years ago.

The biggest worry overnight from Hurricane Isaac?

“We’re in the process of picking two people up who got stranded by the water and they’re scared,” Hancock County Emergency Management Director Brian Adam said Wednesday morning.

With sustained winds throughout the region topping out at about 40 mph, the main concern remains flooding from a constantly-driving storm surge and what is expected to be prolonged rainfall for several days.

In Harrison County, the rising waters knocked a boat off its moorings. County Emergency Management Director Rupert Lacy said the boat slammed into Popps Ferry Bridge, forcing officials to shut it down until crews can inspect the integrity of the bridge. The bridge is one of two connecting Biloxi from the mainland, but Lacy said it could be a long time before an inspection can be done.

“We cautioned our public safety employees…that you don’t need to be out there if the winds are too high,” Lacy said.

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Isaac’s eye wall to pass ‘right over’ sinkhole

Hurricane Isaac
By: Deborah Dupre

Isaac 50 miles south of Sinkhole

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Although Hurricane Isaac‘s path has shifted a small degree, officials state Monday morning that all advisories released by the Assumption Parish Office of Homeland Security & Emergency Service remain, to expect the eye wall of Isaac to pass “right over” the parish, home of Louisiana’s giant sinkhole. Hard rains are causing concerning flooding of low-lying areas and power outages.

“Please note that as predicted, this update still shows 75 mph winds in Assumption parish at 1:00 p.m. today,” officials reported at 5:45 a.m. Wednesday.

“The track has shifted a bit; however, all advisories released by the Assumption Office of Homeland Security & Emergency Preparedness remain.”

Tuesday evening, Assumption Parish officials state that the latest update put the track of Hurricane Isaac‘s eye wall “right over Assumption Parish.”

A hurricane’s eye wall is located just outside of the eye. The eye wall is where the most damaging winds and intense rainfall is found.

The eye is typically the most calm location. It passes a vulnerable area in the hurricane path before the worst damage hits, thus the cliche, “The calm before the storm.”

“By 6:00 a.m., we should be experiencing tropical storm force winds,” officials advised.

“At noon, the forecast shows we will experience the strongest winds as the forecast predicts the eye wall to be right over us at that time,” the parish alert stated.

Up to 20 inches of rain could pound the already vulnerable giant sinkhole in Louisiana.

Rains were anticipated to make “flooding of low lying areas a concern,” WAFB reports Wednesday.

Isaac’s core is expected to pass over the sinkhole area west of New Orleans with winds close to 80 mph.

Winds could gust up to 100 mph at times.

“The hurricane is expected to gradually weaken, but only after dumping 7 to 14 inches of rain across the state, with some places receiving up to 20 inches,” reports Associated Press Wednesday morning.

Jeff Morrow with the WAFB Storm Team says that high winds will also cause widespread power outages, and “if that happens find the battery operated radio and tune to Tiger Country 100.7 FM as we will be simulcasting our advisories there.”

Katrina haunts thousands of residents

In New Orleans, Mayor Mitch Landrieu said evacuations would not be ordered and told residents to prepare carefully and ride it out. Nevertheless, Monday and Tuesday, traffic was bumper to bumper heading out of New Orleans.

In those vehicles were people too hurt and fearful to risk unpredictability of high waters and no power at home, with only hours away from the seventh anniversary of Hurricane Katrina.

By midafternoon Tuesday, 400 residents of Plaquemines Parish, where Isaac made landfall southeast of New Orleans, were calling a hurricane shelter in Belle Chasse home.

Arriving on the eve of Hurricane Katrina’s seventh anniversary, Isaac is the first hurricane to hit Louisiana since Ike in 2008.

Everything reminds you of Katrina. When the wind howls, I think of Katrina. I don’t think of Isaac,” explained CNN iReporter Eileen Romero, a student in New Orleans who survived Katrina in 2005 but lost everything during it.

Romero still lives in New Orleans, in a different neighborhood and in a house built in 1908.

After going out Tuesday to take photographs, she said, “I am not seeing people real concerned to be honest. I think there is a false sense of security.

“Everybody talks about how we party all the time. When hurricanes are coming, people have hurricane parties.”

Many residents of public housing apartments never returned after 2005.

“Where are the people who lived here prior to Katrina?” she asked. “I don’t think they have a place to come back to.”

Assumption Parish officials ordered a mandatory evacuation. Monday morning, officials there ask that people who remained in the area to “please abide by the curfew and remain sheltered in place.”

Sources: CNN, Assumption Parish Police Jury, Associated Press, ABC News

Storm Surge in USA on Wednesday, 29 August, 2012 at 14:25 (02:25 PM) UTC.

Description

Isaac inundated low-lying areas along Mississippi’s Gulf Coast on Wednesday as hurricane-driven water rose several feet in some spots while thousands waited out the storm in shelters. Officials in Hancock and Harrison counties extended curfews until 9 a.m. to keep off roads until after the high tide passes at around 8 a.m. Harrison County emergency management director Rupert Lacy said the storm surge coupled with the high tide could lead to more extensive flooding. Lacy said coastal rivers also were beginning to rise from the rainfall. More than 15,000 people remained without power in coastal areas.

29.08.2012

Flash Flood

United Kingdom

Scotland, Edinburgh

Flash Flood in United Kingdom on Wednesday, 29 August, 2012 at 19:42 (07:42 PM) UTC.

Description

A flood warning has been issued for the Capital after torrential rain battered the city this afternoon. Thunder and lightning storms were accompanied by the heavy rains at around 2.30pm. Environmental Agency SEPA issued a flood alert and warned that standing water was likely to pose a hazard to drivers and urged travellers to check the Traffic Scotland website before setting out. A spokesman for SEPA said: “ Due to the showery nature of the rainfall, it is difficult to predict which areas are most at risk, however, the overall risk is expected to decline during the early hours of Thursday morning.”

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Flash Flood

USA

State of Mississippi, Pearlington

Flash Flood in USA on Thursday, 30 August, 2012 at 02:54 (02:54 AM) UTC.

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Mississippi wildlife officers and National Guard soldiers rescued at least 75 people from Isaac’s flooding Wednesday in Hancock County, including an 88-year-old man who had a stroke as the storm dumped heavy rains on his isolated neighborhood in Pearlington, near the Louisiana state line. The stroke victim was the last person brought out of the neighborhood, about 7:30 p.m. CDT, and Mississippi National Guard 1st Sgt. William Maddox said the man’s house is about six miles off the main thoroughfare, U.S. Highway 90. Rescuers spent hours trying to reach him, attempting with several vehicles. A paramedic waded through chest-deep water to get to the house, and then guided a large military truck to the man. Maddox said the man appeared to be in stable condition and was taken care of by paramedics at the scene. It was not immediately clear whether the man would be taken to a hospital. With a steady rain falling, wildlife officers used small motorboats to rescue at least two dozen people in Pearlington, including several members of an extended family. More than a dozen National Guard soldiers also helped with the rescues, as did ambulance crews and other emergency responders.One of those plucked from a rural neighborhood that had become a lake was 63-year-old Dianne Burton. She told The Associated Press that she and members of her extended family didn’t leave before Isaac because they didn’t expect so much water. She has lived there 46 years and said the only other time the area flooded was during Hurricane Katrina in 2005. “Everything is under water. We picked up the furniture and stuff, as much as we could. I can’t believe it. The road and everything was dry yesterday,” Burton said after officers deposited her, her 82-year-old mother, her 46-year-old disabled daughter and two grandchildren, ages 10 and 12, safely on dry land. Those rescued were put onto school buses and were taken to shelters on higher ground. Mississippi Gov. Phil Bryant said Wednesday afternoon that officers from the state Department of Wildlife, Fisheries and Parks had rescued at least 58 people in Hancock County, which borders Louisiana. The rescue of Burton, her relatives and at least 20 other people was happening at the same time Bryant was doing a press briefing in Gulfport, and his initial figures didn’t include them.

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Flash Flood

United Kingdom

England, Egremont [Cumbria]

Flash Flood in United Kingdom on Thursday, 30 August, 2012 at 07:19 (07:19 AM) UTC.

Description

Parts of Cumbria have been hit by flash flooding after a night of heavy rain. The west of the county appears to have been worst affected, with police and fire crews reporting cars partially submerged in the Egremont area. About 20 elderly residents were moved to an emergency shelter at Egremont Market Hall, after a power cut. Cumbria Fire Service said it received more than 100 calls for help, mainly involving requests for sandbags. Forecasters say the rain is now easing. Northern Rail services between Whitehaven and Barrow have been cancelled after a landslip near St Bees and some roads are only passable with care because of debris left by floodwaters. A spokesman for Cumbria Police said drains were unable to cope with the amount of water after the River Ehen and several becks in the Egremont area burst their banks. The Environment Agency said one flood alert remained in force for the River Ehen in Copeland. The police spokesman said: “We started getting calls from about 1am, mainly from people concerned that water was coming into their homes and asking for sandbags.”We also had calls from the fire and ambulance services asking for our assistance in reaching some areas and had to close some roads for a time. “The Egremont and Middletown areas appear to have had the worst of it.” Emma Jane Taylor said floodwater began entering her St Bees home shortly before midnight. She said: “We’ve had heavy rain here before, but it’s never been this bad before. “I alerted some neighbours, but within 30 minutes it was through my front door and coming up through my floorboards. “It’s lifted the block paving from my grandmother’s house nearby and was also coming through her French windows. “We just hope the rain doesn’t come back because the drains are full to the top and wouldn’t be able to take any more.” Wasdale Mountain Rescue volunteers also assisted the fire service to pump out several properties in the Egremont area. Earlier this week the rear of a four-storey house house in Egremont collapsed into the River Ehen after heavy rain.

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Tornado

USA

State of Mississippi, Ocean Springs

Tornado in USA on Thursday, 30 August, 2012 at 03:32 (03:32 AM) UTC.

Description

A tornado touched down in an Ocean Springs neighborhood about 7:30 p.m. tonight, the Jackson County Emergency Management Agency said. While EMA officials said that initial reports indicated that the tornado knocked down trees and power lines, at least one witness told the Mississippi Press that at least one house was reported damaged. Two houses on East Simmons Bayou in Gulf Park Estates have sustained damage, according to Jackson County Sheriff Mike Byrd who is en route to the scene. Byrd said there were no injuries reported. “There’s extensive damage at two houses,” Byrd said. “There’s a roof off one house and a shed was taken away from another one. We have deputies on the scene assessing the situation. In addition to the tornado, Jackson County emergency officials announced waterspouts have been spotted at Miss. 57 and I-10, headed northeast.

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Radiation

Sinkhole radiation 15 times over limit. Residents urged to record health signs

New York Guard training for dirty bomb attack

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Epidemic Hazards / Diseases

Thief targets Ebola patient, gets infected

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A thief in Uganda has contracted Ebola after stealing the mobile phone of a hospital patient suffering from the potentially fatal infection.

Security and medical officials in Kibaale District, mid-west Uganda, told the Daily Monitor website that the man went into the isolation ward at Kagadi Hospital and stole a cellular phone from one of the Ebola patients.

The patient, who later died from the hemorrhagic fever, reported the theft.

Police began tracking the thief when he started using the phone, the Daily Monitor reported.

But by the time they found him he had gone to hospital with symptoms similar to those of Ebola.

He reportedly confessed to stealing the phone.

Kibaale District Health Officer Dr Dan Kyamanywa, told the Daily Monitor: “The suspect is admitted at Kagadi Hospital with clinical signs of Ebola.” “He is receiving medication. We have obtained samples from him,” Mr Kyamanywa added.

The Uganda Virus Research Institute is yet to release the results of the tests.

West Nile Cases Still Rising, 66 Dead: CDC

Texas bears the brunt of the outbreak, which has yet to peak, experts say

By Steven Reinberg
HealthDay Reporter

WEDNESDAY, Aug. 29 (HealthDay News) — One of the worst outbreaks of West Nile virus to ever hit the United States continues to expand, with 66 deaths and 1,590 illnesses reported as of Tuesday, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

Cases have jumped 40 percent nationwide since just last week, the agency added.

Cases have now reached their highest level since the mosquito-borne virus was first found in the United States in 1999, agency officials said in a Wednesday press briefing.

While almost all states have reported at least one case of West Nile illness, over 70 percent of cases have come from six states — Texas, South Dakota, Mississippi, Oklahoma, Louisiana, and Michigan.

The outbreak has hit hardest in Texas, where nearly half (45 percent) of the total U.S. cases have been reported.

“The number of people reported with West Nile virus continues to rise,” said Dr. Lyle Petersen, director of the CDC’s Division of Vector-Borne Infectious Diseases. “We have seen this trend in previous West Nile epidemics, so the increase is not unexpected,” he added. “In fact, we think the reported numbers will get higher through October.”

According to Peterson, of the cases reported so far, 56 percent are what is called neuroinvasive disease, when the virus enters the nervous system causing conditions such as meningitis or encephalitis. The remaining reported cases (44 percent) are non-neuroinvasive.

“These numbers represent a 40 percent increase of last week’s report of 1,118 total cases and 41 deaths,” Petersen said.

These numbers can be somewhat misleading since most cases of West Nile are non-neuroinvasive and are mostly unreported, the CDC said. That means that the number of unreported cases probably far exceeds reported ones.

Neuroinvasive disease is the most serious for of West Nile infection and these patients usually are hospitalized, Petersen said. The size of the outbreak is based on these cases since they are the ones easily identifiable, he added.

The only states that have not reported cases are Alaska and Hawaii, he said.

“Based on current reports, we think the number of cases may come close to, or even exceed, the total number reported in the epidemic years of 2002 and 2003, when more than 3,000 cases of neuroinvasive disease and more than 260 deaths were reported each year,” Petersen said.

The reasons for a major outbreak this year aren’t clear, Petersen said. The drought in Texas may have played a role, but there were probably other factors as well, he added.

The best way to avoid the virus is to wear insect repellant and support local programs to eradicate misquotes, Petersen said.

There is currently no treatment for West Nile virus and no vaccine to prevent it, he added.

Speaking at the press conference, Dr. David L. Lakey, Commissioner of the Texas Department of State Health Services said that, “As I look at the data, I am not convinced that we have peaked.”

Since last week, there have been 197 new cases and 10 more deaths in Texas, Lakey said. “Those numbers will continue to go up,” he added.

Generally speaking, 80 percent of people who are infected with West Nile virus develop no or few symptoms, while 20 percent develop mild symptoms such as headache, joint pain, fever, skin rash and swollen lymph glands.

Less than 1 percent will develop neurological illnesses, such as encephalitis or meningitis, and develop paralysis or cognitive difficulties that can last for years, if not for life.

People older than 50 and those with certain medical conditions, such as cancer, diabetes, hypertension, kidney disease and organ transplants, are at greater risk for serious illness, according to the CDC.

There are no specific treatments for West Nile virus; the greatest risk for infection with West Nile virus typically occurs from June through September, with cases peaking in mid-August.

And because reporting lags behind actual infections, “we expect many more cases to occur and the risk of West Nile infection will probably continue through the end of September,” said Petersen.

Although most people with mild cases of West Nile virus will recover on their own, the CDC recommends that anyone who develops symptoms should see their doctor right away. The best way to protect yourself from West Nile virus is to avoid getting bitten by mosquitoes, which can pick up the disease from infected birds.

30.08.2012

Epidemic Hazard

USA

State of Colorado, [Cimarrona Campground, Archuleta County]

Epidemic Hazard in USA on Wednesday, 29 August, 2012 at 15:48 (03:48 PM) UTC.

Description
In the first confirmed case of bubonic plague in Colorado since 2006, an Archuleta County resident has tested positive for the disease. The last human case in Archuleta County, which borders on New Mexico, was in 1998. It is believed that the person contracted the plague during a family outing in the Cimarrona Campground northwest of Pagosa Springs, but the investigation is ongoing, according to a news release from the San Juan Basin Health Department. The gender and age of the victim were not released, the paper reported. In 2006, Colorado had four cases of plague, all in La Plata County, Joe Fowler, a disease-control nurse with the San Juan Basin Health Department said. Most human cases of plague tend to occur in rural areas in two regions — northern Arizona and New Mexico and southern Colorado or in California, southern Oregon and western Nevada. One human case has been reported in New Mexico so far this year – in a 78-year-old Torrance County man who contracted the disease in May, in what state health officials called the nation’s first human plague case of the yea
Biohazard name:	Plague
Biohazard level:	4/4 Hazardous
Biohazard desc.:	Viruses and bacteria that cause severe to fatal disease in humans, and for which vaccines or other treatments are not available, such as Bolivian and Argentine hemorrhagic fevers, H5N1(bird flu), Dengue hemorrhagic fever, Marburg virus, Ebola virus, hantaviruses, Lassa fever, Crimean-Congo hemorrhagic fever, and other hemorrhagic or unidentified diseases. When dealing with biological hazards at this level the use of a Hazmat suit and a self-contained oxygen supply is mandatory. The entrance and exit of a Level Four biolab will contain multiple showers, a vacuum room, an ultraviolet light room, autonomous detection system, and other safety precautions designed to destroy all traces of the biohazard. Multiple airlocks are employed and are electronically secured to prevent both doors opening at the same time. All air and water service going to and coming from a Biosafety Level 4 (P4) lab will undergo similar decontamination procedures to eliminate the possibility of an accidental release.
Symptoms:
Status:	confirmed

Epidemic Hazard in USA on Wednesday, 29 August, 2012 at 15:48 (03:48 PM) UTC.

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Updated:	Thursday, 30 August, 2012 at 03:20 UTC
Description
A camper near Pagosa Springs has contracted bubonic plague. The Durango Herald reports that the person contracted the plague during a family outing in the Cimarrona Campground. The San Juan Basin Health Department did not give the victim’s age or gender. Warning signs are being posted in the campground, The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reports an average of seven cases of plague each year across the country. Most human cases tend to occur in rural areas in the Southwest. Symptoms of plague begin two to six days after a person is bitten by an infected flea, rodent or cat. The plague can be successfully treated if diagnosed promptly.

Today

Epidemic Hazard

Haiti

[Statewide]

Epidemic Hazard in Haiti on Thursday, 30 August, 2012 at 07:23 (07:23 AM) UTC.

Description
Ouest Haiti Department reported new cases of cholera as aftermath of the tropical storm Isaac, but Public Health Ministry General Director Guirlene Raymond sustains that so far the numbers do not match outbreak ratings. Dr. Donald Francis, Ministry official on the matter, said the percentage of cases remain stable. Early July official statistics from the initial 2010 outbreak says the death rate climbed to 7,418, while the WHO talks of more than 42,000 new cases this year, blaming low budget and the rain season which undermines anti-epidemic efforts. The specialists think that enforcement and continuity of health promotional programs, access to drinkable water, sanitation and hygiene will stall propagation. US investigators suggested in June as source of the outbreak two distinctive cholera breads, not just one as they originally announced. Earlier studies indicated as source a microorganism -already reported in Asia- introduced by Nepalese soldiers working for the Minustah (UN Mission for the Stabilization of Haiti). However, a group of geneticists from Maryland University have found a new breed, seemingly of local origin and thought unable to stimulate epidemics. V. cholerae 01/0139 is part of the common populace in streams and lakes in the Western Hemisphere. It may cause diarrheas but only in very few cases. Just two percent of Haiti 10 million population has access to clean water and the majority defecates outdoors and in water sources like rivers and next to their homes.
Biohazard name:	Cholera
Biohazard level:	2/4 Medium
Biohazard desc.:	Bacteria and viruses that cause only mild disease to humans, or are difficult to contract via aerosol in a lab setting, such as hepatitis A, B, and C, influenza A, Lyme disease, salmonella, mumps, measles, scrapie, dengue fever, and HIV. “Routine diagnostic work with clinical specimens can be done safely at Biosafety Level 2, using Biosafety Level 2 practices and procedures. Research work (including co-cultivation, virus replication studies, or manipulations involving concentrated virus) can be done in a BSL-2 (P2) facility, using BSL-3 practices and procedures. Virus production activities, including virus concentrations, require a BSL-3 (P3) facility and use of BSL-3 practices and procedures”, see Recommended Biosafety Levels for Infectious Agents.
Symptoms:
Status:	confirmed

29.08.2012

Epidemic Hazard

Pakistan

North Waziristan, [Danada Derpakhel area]

Epidemic Hazard in Pakistan on Wednesday, 29 August, 2012 at 14:24 (02:24 PM) UTC.

Description
The epidemic of measles in North Waziristan Agency claimed the lives of two minor girls in Danada Derpakhel area on Wednesday while dozens of infected children are being brought to the Miranshah Headquarters Hospital for treatment. Talking to INP, Agency Surgeon Dr Mohammad Sadiq said that dozens of measles infected children have been admitted to the Miranshah Headquarters Hospital for treatment, adding that measles vaccine is not available in the tribal region to control the infection. “Around 40 children are infected by measles in three weeks that are brought to the hospital for treatment and two minor girls fell prey to the infection in Danda Derpakhel area of the tribal region,” Dr Mohammad Sadiq said. He said that health department should initiate measures on war footing in the area to control the spread of measles in the tribal region where vaccines of measles are short. The agency surgeon said that not only from North Waziristan but children infected by measles are being brought from across the border to Miranshah for treatment, adding that scarcity of vaccines was creating problem in controlling the spread of epidemic.
Biohazard name:	Measles (fatal)
Biohazard level:	2/4 Medium
Biohazard desc.:	Bacteria and viruses that cause only mild disease to humans, or are difficult to contract via aerosol in a lab setting, such as hepatitis A, B, and C, influenza A, Lyme disease, salmonella, mumps, measles, scrapie, dengue fever, and HIV. “Routine diagnostic work with clinical specimens can be done safely at Biosafety Level 2, using Biosafety Level 2 practices and procedures. Research work (including co-cultivation, virus replication studies, or manipulations involving concentrated virus) can be done in a BSL-2 (P2) facility, using BSL-3 practices and procedures. Virus production activities, including virus concentrations, require a BSL-3 (P3) facility and use of BSL-3 practices and procedures”, see Recommended Biosafety Levels for Infectious Agents.
Symptoms:
Status:	confirmed

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Solar Activity

2MIN News August 29. 2012: NASA Sees Another NLC-Space Connection

Published on Aug 29, 2012 by Suspicious0bservers

TODAY’S LINKS
Jupiter’s Energy Toroid: http://www.science20.com/news_articles/now_broadcasting_radio_jupiter-93369 Similar older story: http://www.science20.com/news_articles/new_radiation_belt_discovered_around_s…
Shuttle Exhaust Makes Clouds: http://phys.org/news/2012-08-bright-arctic-clouds-exhaust-space.html
Financial Issues: http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/08/28/us-spain-economy-idUSBRE87R08D20120828
Tropic Watch: http://www.weather.com/news/weather-hurricanes/tropics-watch-hurricane-season…

REPEAT LINKS
Spaceweather: http://spaceweather.com/ [Look on the left at the X-ray Flux and Solar Wind Speed/Density]

HAARP: http://www.haarp.alaska.edu/haarp/data.html [Click online data, and have a little fun]

SDO: http://sdo.gsfc.nasa.gov/data/ [Place to find Solar Images and Videos – as seen from earth]

SOHO: http://sohodata.nascom.nasa.gov/cgi-bin/soho_movie_theater [SOHO; Lasco and EIT – as seen from earth]

Stereo: http://stereo.gsfc.nasa.gov/cgi-bin/images [Stereo; Cor, EUVI, HI – as seen from the side]

SunAEON:http://www.sunaeon.com/#/solarsystem/ [Just click it… trust me]

SOLARIMG: http://solarimg.org/artis/ [All purpose data viewing site]

iSWA: http://iswa.gsfc.nasa.gov/iswa/iSWA.html [Free Application; for advanced sun watchers]

NASA ENLIL SPIRAL: http://iswa.gsfc.nasa.gov:8080/IswaSystemWebApp/iSWACygnetStreamer?timestamp=…
NOAA ENLIL SPIRAL: http://www.swpc.noaa.gov/wsa-enlil/

NOAA Bouys: http://www.ndbc.noaa.gov/

RSOE: http://hisz.rsoe.hu/alertmap/index2.php [That cool alert map I use]

JAPAN Radiation Map: http://jciv.iidj.net/map/

LISS: http://earthquake.usgs.gov/monitoring/operations/heliplots_gsn.php

Gamma Ray Bursts: http://grb.sonoma.edu/ [Really? You can’t figure out what this one is for?]

BARTOL Cosmic Rays: http://neutronm.bartol.udel.edu//spaceweather/welcome.html [Top left box, look for BIG blue circles]

TORCON: http://www.weather.com/news/tornado-torcon-index [Tornado Forecast for the day]

GOES Weather: http://rsd.gsfc.nasa.gov/goes/ [Clouds over America]

RAIN RECORDS: http://www.cocorahs.org/ViewData/ListIntensePrecipReports.aspx

EL DORADO WORLD WEATHER MAP: http://www.eldoradocountyweather.com/satellite/ssec/world/world-composite-ir-…

PRESSURE MAP: http://www.woweather.com/cgi-bin/expertcharts?LANG=us&MENU=0000000000&…

HURRICANE TRACKER: http://www.weather.com/weather/hurricanecentral/tracker

INTELLICAST: http://www.intellicast.com/ [Weather site used by many youtubers]

NASA News: http://science.nasa.gov/science-news/science-at-nasa/

PHYSORG: http://phys.org/ [GREAT News Site!]

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Space

Earth approaching objects (objects that are known in the next 30 days)

Object Name

Apporach Date

Left

AU Distance

LD Distance

Estimated Diameter*

Relative Velocity

(2012 LU7)

02nd September 2012

3 day(s)

0.1200

46.7

440 m – 990 m

8.16 km/s

29376 km/h

(2012 FS35)

02nd September 2012

3 day(s)

0.1545

60.1

2.3 m – 5.2 m

2.87 km/s

10332 km/h

(2012 HG31)

03rd September 2012

4 day(s)

0.0716

27.9

440 m – 990 m

10.33 km/s

37188 km/h

(2012 PX)

04th September 2012

5 day(s)

0.0452

17.6

61 m – 140 m

9.94 km/s

35784 km/h

(2012 EH5)

05th September 2012

6 day(s)

0.1613

62.8

38 m – 84 m

9.75 km/s

35100 km/h

(2011 EO11)

05th September 2012

6 day(s)

0.1034

40.2

9.0 m – 20 m

8.81 km/s

31716 km/h

(2007 PS25)

06th September 2012

7 day(s)

0.0497

19.3

23 m – 52 m

8.50 km/s

30600 km/h

329520 (2002 SV)

08th September 2012

9 day(s)

0.1076

41.9

300 m – 670 m

9.17 km/s

33012 km/h

(2011 ES4)

10th September 2012

11 day(s)

0.1792

69.8

20 m – 44 m

12.96 km/s

46656 km/h

(2008 CO)

11th September 2012

12 day(s)

0.1847

71.9

74 m – 160 m

4.10 km/s

14760 km/h

(2007 PB8)

14th September 2012

15 day(s)

0.1682

65.5

150 m – 340 m

14.51 km/s

52236 km/h

226514 (2003 UX34)

14th September 2012

15 day(s)

0.1882

73.2

260 m – 590 m

25.74 km/s

92664 km/h

(1998 QC1)

14th September 2012

15 day(s)

0.1642

63.9

310 m – 700 m

17.11 km/s

61596 km/h

(2002 EM6)

15th September 2012

16 day(s)

0.1833

71.3

270 m – 590 m

18.56 km/s

66816 km/h

(2002 RP137)

16th September 2012

17 day(s)

0.1624

63.2

67 m – 150 m

7.31 km/s

26316 km/h

(2009 RX4)

16th September 2012

17 day(s)

0.1701

66.2

15 m – 35 m

8.35 km/s

30060 km/h

(2005 UC)

17th September 2012

18 day(s)

0.1992

77.5

280 m – 640 m

7.55 km/s

27180 km/h

(2012 FC71)

18th September 2012

19 day(s)

0.1074

41.8

24 m – 53 m

3.51 km/s

12636 km/h

(1998 FF14)

19th September 2012

20 day(s)

0.0928

36.1

210 m – 480 m

21.40 km/s

77040 km/h

331990 (2005 FD)

19th September 2012

20 day(s)

0.1914

74.5

320 m – 710 m

15.92 km/s

57312 km/h

(2009 SH2)

24th September 2012

25 day(s)

0.1462

56.9

28 m – 62 m

7.52 km/s

27072 km/h

333578 (2006 KM103)

25th September 2012

26 day(s)

0.0626

24.4

250 m – 560 m

8.54 km/s

30744 km/h

(2002 EZ2)

26th September 2012

27 day(s)

0.1922

74.8

270 m – 610 m

6.76 km/s

24336 km/h

1 AU = ~150 million kilometers,1 LD = Lunar Distance = ~384,000 kilometers

Source: NASA-NEO

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Description
A team of Animal Resource and Husbandry Department (ARD) on Wednesday visited Swarupnagar in North 24-Parganas to collect blood samples of dead chickens as reports of widespread deaths of poultry were reported from the area, triggering fear of an outbreak of bird flu. In the last 22 days, around 50,000 chickens have reportedly died in the four blocks of Swarupnagar — Baduria, Kakrasuti, Lakshmikantapur and Nayabandh. “I am closely monitoring the situation and the blood samples have been sent to Belgachia government laboratory for test,” said Chief Medical Officer (Health) of North 24-Parganas Susanta Kumar Sil. ARD Minister Noor -E- Alam Chowdhury urged people not to panic and said the government is prepared to tackle any outbreak of bird flu. “Yes, birds have died, but there can be a number of reasons behind it. We are prepared to tackle any such outbreak,” he said. Senior officials said if the blood samples of the dead birds are found positive of Avian Influenza Virus (H5N1) then it would be sent to National Institute of Virology in Pune for confirmation. Positive result from Pune lab would lead to beginning of culling operation within three days. Rapid response teams will be formed to carry out surveillance of bird deaths, said an official. Lime and bleaching powder are being sprayed in the area as a preventive measure. Leaflets containing dos and don’ts are being distributed. “We have started an awareness campaign in the area and asked villagers to dispose of the carcasses of the birds in a pit,” said an official. Villagers are being told to wear gloves while feeding their poultry or wild birds.
Biohazard name:	Highly pathogenic avian influenza virus (H5N1)
Biohazard level:	4/4 Hazardous
Biohazard desc.:	Viruses and bacteria that cause severe to fatal disease in humans, and for which vaccines or other treatments are not available, such as Bolivian and Argentine hemorrhagic fevers, H5N1(bird flu), Dengue hemorrhagic fever, Marburg virus, Ebola virus, hantaviruses, Lassa fever, Crimean-Congo hemorrhagic fever, and other hemorrhagic or unidentified diseases. When dealing with biological hazards at this level the use of a Hazmat suit and a self-contained oxygen supply is mandatory. The entrance and exit of a Level Four biolab will contain multiple showers, a vacuum room, an ultraviolet light room, autonomous detection system, and other safety precautions designed to destroy all traces of the biohazard. Multiple airlocks are employed and are electronically secured to prevent both doors opening at the same time. All air and water service going to and coming from a Biosafety Level 4 (P4) lab will undergo similar decontamination procedures to eliminate the possibility of an accidental release.
Symptoms:
Status:	confirmed

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Articles of Interest

AP News

Remote Alaska to stockpile food, just in case

By Becky Bohrer

JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) — Alaska is known for pioneering, self-reliant residents who are accustomed to remote locations and harsh weather. Despite that, Gov. Sean Parnell worries a major earthquake or volcanic eruption could leave the state’s 720,000 residents stranded and cut off from food and supply lines. His answer: Build giant warehouses full of emergency food and supplies, just in case.

For some in the lower 48, it may seem like an extreme step. But Parnell says this is just Alaska.

In many ways, the state is no different than the rest of America. Most people buy their groceries at stores, and rely on a central grid for power and heat. But, unlike the rest of the lower 48, help isn’t a few miles away. When a fall storm cut off Nome from its final fuel supply last winter, a Russian tanker spent weeks breaking through thick ice to reach the remote town.

Weather isn’t the only thing that can wreak havoc in Alaska, where small planes are a preferred mode of transportation and the drive from Seattle to Juneau requires a ferry ride and 38 hours in a car. The state’s worst natural disaster was in 1964, when a magnitude-9.2 earthquake and resulting tsunami killed 131 people and disrupted electrical systems, water mains and communication lines in Anchorage and other cities.

“We have a different motivation to do this, because help is a long ways away,” said John Madden, Alaska’s emergency management director.

The state plans two food stockpiles in or near Fairbanks and Anchorage, two cities that also have military bases. Construction on the two storage facilities will begin this fall, and the first food deliveries are targeted for December. The goal is to have enough food to feed 40,000 people for up to a week, including three days of ready-to-eat meals and four days of bulk food that can be prepared and cooked for large groups. To put that number into perspective, Alaska’s largest city, Anchorage, has about 295,000 people, according to the U.S. Census Bureau, and Juneau, its third largest, about 31,000.

It’s not unusual for states that routinely experience hurricanes or other large-scale disasters to have supplies like water, ready-to-eat meals, cots and blankets. But Alaska is interested in stocking food with at least a five-year shelf life that meets the nutrition, health and cultural requirements of the state’s unique demographics. That means, as part of the effort, trying to incorporate cultural foods like salmon for Alaska Natives as well as foods that would be more common in urban areas, state emergency management spokesman Jeremy Zidek said.

An estimated 90 percent of commodities entering Alaska are delivered through the Port of Anchorage. Air service is also a critical link to the outside world and generally the only way to reach many rural communities. A volcanic blast emitting a large amount of smoke and ash could disrupt supply lines by air and water for an extended period, Madden said, and an earthquake could knock out airport runways or ports. Those are just some of the disasters that might require emergency supplies.

Parnell has made disaster readiness a priority of his administration. His spokeswoman said he has experienced firsthand the devastation of natural disasters, including heavy flooding that knocked some buildings off foundations in Eagle in 2009, when he was lieutenant governor, and the Joplin, Mo., tornado last year. Parnell and his wife visited Joplin with members of the relief organization Samaritan’s Purse.

Madden said Alaska’s readiness is better than it once was and it continues to improve.

State officials have been working to encourage individual responsibility, with talks at schools and public gatherings. Emergency management officials plan to have a booth at the Alaska State Fair. A statewide disaster drill is planned for October.

Over the past year, the state has acquired or purchased water purification units and generators designed to work in cold climates, including units that could power facilities like hospitals, Madden said. Officials also are determining what the state needs in terms of emergency medical supplies and shelter, he said.

Delivery of the food stockpiles would be staggered over three years. It would be replaced after it’s used or expired, and it’s entirely possible that much of the food will never be needed. It is not clear what the state will do with the expired, unused food.

The project has a budget of around $4 million and hasn’t generated any real controversy.

Allen Geiger, enjoying hot dogs from a street vendor Tuesday in Anchorage’s Town Square Park, said he had no objections to the plan.

“It seems like an OK idea,” Geiger said. “The scale of it is not too huge.”

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Associated Press writer Dan Joling in Anchorage contributed to this report.

29.08.2012

Power Outage

USA

State of Louisiana, [Southern Regions]

Power Outage in USA on Wednesday, 29 August, 2012 at 19:33 (07:33 PM) UTC.

Description

More than half a million Louisiana homes and businesses lost power during Isaac and most will stay that way for at least several days, Entergy spokesman Chanel Lagarde said. As of noon Wednesday, 552,000 customers were without electricity, including 85% of New Orleans, Lagarde said. Entergy, which serves most of Louisiana, initially planned to dispatch 4,000 workers to repair the power lines once the storm passed. But with outages so widespread, the company said it will need 10,000 workers. Crews from power companies in 24 states, through mutual aid agreements, will pitch in, he said. “The one thing that’s really hampering us is that the winds are still here. The storm is just hanging around,” Lagarde said. “Looks like it won’t be until tomorrow (Thursday) that we can get out there.” Workers cannot go up in bucket trucks to do repairs until the winds drop below 30 mph. Entergy expects it will take “several days” before the company can restore power to most of its customers. The company will not have a more accurate estimate until the storm subsides and workers can assess the damage, Lagarde said. Lagarde also said the number of outages will continue to rise as the storm travels north through the state.

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Earth Watch Report – Tuesday August 28th, 2012

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August 28, 2012

Earthquakes

USGS

	MAG	UTC DATE-TIME y/m/d h:m:s	LAT deg	LON deg	DEPTH km	Region
MAP	5.0	2012/08/27 23:16:01	30.614	-113.876	10.1	GULF OF CALIFORNIA
MAP	4.5	2012/08/27 23:05:49	12.470	-88.692	35.6	OFFSHORE EL SALVADOR
MAP	4.6	2012/08/27 23:05:29	36.508	142.857	31.4	OFF THE EAST COAST OF HONSHU, JAPAN
MAP	2.5	2012/08/27 22:40:51	33.030	-115.556	13.0	SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA
MAP	4.8	2012/08/27 22:07:40	12.397	-88.645	35.6	OFFSHORE EL SALVADOR
MAP	4.8	2012/08/27 21:13:29	11.914	-88.719	35.3	OFF THE COAST OF CENTRAL AMERICA
MAP	2.8	2012/08/27 19:13:03	52.305	-170.594	25.5	FOX ISLANDS, ALEUTIAN ISLANDS, ALASKA
MAP	3.0	2012/08/27 18:05:59	32.961	-115.549	12.8	SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA
MAP	5.3	2012/08/27 17:54:24	3.639	126.675	19.9	KEPULAUAN TALAUD, INDONESIA
MAP	3.7	2012/08/27 17:50:47	19.525	-64.451	5.0	VIRGIN ISLANDS REGION
MAP	3.7	2012/08/27 17:47:52	33.008	-115.567	9.2	SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA
MAP	2.7	2012/08/27 17:44:27	33.043	-115.543	10.3	SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA
MAP	2.7	2012/08/27 17:44:25	58.486	-154.149	71.5	ALASKA PENINSULA
MAP	2.8	2012/08/27 17:14:10	32.926	-115.605	8.3	SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA
MAP	3.8	2012/08/27 17:05:14	19.628	-64.284	42.0	VIRGIN ISLANDS REGION
MAP	2.5	2012/08/27 17:04:31	32.990	-115.577	12.5	SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA
MAP	3.6	2012/08/27 17:00:51	19.599	-64.225	60.0	VIRGIN ISLANDS REGION
MAP	4.4	2012/08/27 16:39:43	19.572	-64.531	6.0	VIRGIN ISLANDS REGION
MAP	5.0	2012/08/27 16:00:50	-27.140	-176.751	39.7	KERMADEC ISLANDS REGION
MAP	2.7	2012/08/27 15:34:57	33.002	-114.709	23.5	SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA
MAP	3.3	2012/08/27 15:33:48	36.014	-118.404	2.6	CENTRAL CALIFORNIA
MAP	2.5	2012/08/27 14:44:40	32.928	-115.507	9.7	SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA
MAP	4.6	2012/08/27 14:36:32	11.963	-89.195	35.0	OFF THE COAST OF CENTRAL AMERICA
MAP	2.6	2012/08/27 13:48:49	19.425	-155.320	7.8	ISLAND OF HAWAII, HAWAII
MAP	4.5	2012/08/27 13:46:15	12.098	-88.540	35.0	OFF THE COAST OF EL SALVADOR
MAP	4.4	2012/08/27 13:34:21	12.571	-88.256	35.0	OFFSHORE EL SALVADOR
MAP	4.6	2012/08/27 12:55:21	12.926	-88.450	20.5	OFFSHORE EL SALVADOR
MAP	3.3	2012/08/27 12:19:58	60.281	-152.437	94.6	SOUTHERN ALASKA
MAP	5.0	2012/08/27 12:05:23	10.346	92.937	45.4	ANDAMAN ISLANDS, INDIA REGION
MAP	2.6	2012/08/27 11:25:54	37.173	-114.842	5.2	NEVADA
MAP	4.7	2012/08/27 10:59:41	12.124	-88.490	20.6	OFF THE COAST OF EL SALVADOR
MAP	5.1	2012/08/27 09:05:01	12.154	-88.306	20.1	NEAR THE COAST OF NICARAGUA
MAP	5.3	2012/08/27 09:01:23	2.378	99.002	151.2	NORTHERN SUMATRA, INDONESIA
MAP	2.6	2012/08/27 08:58:23	33.056	-115.537	8.7	SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA
MAP	4.6	2012/08/27 08:16:18	12.360	-88.673	19.9	OFFSHORE EL SALVADOR
MAP	4.5	2012/08/27 08:14:48	12.312	-88.932	20.2	OFF THE COAST OF EL SALVADOR
MAP	2.8	2012/08/27 08:08:30	19.527	-64.337	9.0	VIRGIN ISLANDS REGION
MAP	4.8	2012/08/27 08:05:54	12.313	-89.105	20.4	OFF THE COAST OF EL SALVADOR
MAP	2.8	2012/08/27 07:55:33	19.432	-155.313	6.5	ISLAND OF HAWAII, HAWAII
MAP	2.5	2012/08/27 07:53:38	32.961	-115.531	3.5	SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA
MAP	2.5	2012/08/27 07:50:59	33.026	-115.542	13.9	SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA
MAP	4.7	2012/08/27 07:47:13	12.063	-88.435	20.2	OFF THE COAST OF EL SALVADOR
MAP	3.0	2012/08/27 07:32:06	32.979	-115.579	14.9	SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA
MAP	4.2	2012/08/27 06:37:42	12.100	-88.661	19.2	OFF THE COAST OF EL SALVADOR
MAP	4.5	2012/08/27 06:37:30	48.907	154.883	62.1	KURIL ISLANDS
MAP	3.4	2012/08/27 06:31:29	33.044	-115.529	5.4	SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA
MAP	2.8	2012/08/27 06:24:54	19.693	-64.214	25.0	VIRGIN ISLANDS REGION
MAP	2.7	2012/08/27 06:13:00	19.677	-64.217	24.0	VIRGIN ISLANDS REGION
MAP	2.9	2012/08/27 06:09:05	19.631	-64.278	41.0	VIRGIN ISLANDS REGION
MAP	4.3	2012/08/27 06:02:30	12.326	-88.682	20.0	OFFSHORE EL SALVADOR
MAP	4.4	2012/08/27 05:55:48	12.253	-88.534	20.0	OFF THE COAST OF EL SALVADOR
MAP	2.9	2012/08/27 05:47:33	19.426	-155.312	5.9	ISLAND OF HAWAII, HAWAII
MAP	3.0	2012/08/27 05:47:25	33.040	-115.532	12.3	SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA
MAP	2.9	2012/08/27 05:39:43	32.913	-115.532	14.5	SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA
MAP	5.4	2012/08/27 05:38:02	12.258	-88.656	20.3	OFF THE COAST OF EL SALVADOR
MAP	5.2	2012/08/27 05:23:23	30.732	-113.875	10.1	GULF OF CALIFORNIA
MAP	2.9	2012/08/27 05:20:51	33.054	-115.582	0.3	SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA
MAP	3.3	2012/08/27 05:09:05	33.056	-115.544	8.1	SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA
MAP	2.8	2012/08/27 05:08:00	32.527	-115.648	18.5	BAJA CALIFORNIA, MEXICO
MAP	4.5	2012/08/27 05:06:06	12.065	-88.997	20.2	OFF THE COAST OF EL SALVADOR
MAP	4.6	2012/08/27 05:01:30	12.124	-88.645	19.9	OFF THE COAST OF EL SALVADOR
MAP	2.9	2012/08/27 05:01:22	33.048	-115.535	10.8	SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA
MAP	2.8	2012/08/27 04:59:36	33.008	-115.548	10.6	SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA
MAP	2.8	2012/08/27 04:59:24	19.791	-155.570	16.2	ISLAND OF HAWAII, HAWAII
MAP	2.8	2012/08/27 04:57:04	33.050	-115.542	8.8	SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA
MAP	2.5	2012/08/27 04:54:56	33.008	-115.567	0.2	SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA
MAP	4.8	2012/08/27 04:53:53	12.593	-88.753	20.3	OFFSHORE EL SALVADOR
MAP	2.5	2012/08/27 04:49:10	33.027	-115.542	10.0	SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA
MAP	2.7	2012/08/27 04:46:14	33.020	-115.494	11.3	SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA
MAP	4.9	2012/08/27 04:41:37	33.030	-115.531	9.0	SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA
MAP	7.3	2012/08/27 04:37:20	12.278	-88.528	20.3	OFFSHORE EL SALVADOR
MAP	2.7	2012/08/27 04:20:13	32.988	-115.595	12.7	SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA
MAP	3.6	2012/08/27 03:47:43	19.740	-64.342	34.0	VIRGIN ISLANDS REGION
MAP	5.0	2012/08/27 03:47:18	2.234	126.844	82.3	MOLUCCA SEA
MAP	2.5	2012/08/27 03:41:41	33.014	-115.547	13.6	SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA
MAP	2.6	2012/08/27 03:29:42	33.025	-115.546	13.0	SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA
MAP	3.8	2012/08/27 03:21:31	19.730	-64.180	35.0	VIRGIN ISLANDS REGION
MAP	2.5	2012/08/27 03:18:48	33.021	-115.546	14.5	SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA
MAP	3.1	2012/08/27 03:03:33	32.993	-115.588	13.6	SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA
MAP	3.1	2012/08/27 02:57:52	19.503	-64.109	76.0	VIRGIN ISLANDS REGION
MAP	3.2	2012/08/27 02:53:15	32.977	-115.609	13.2	SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA
MAP	2.5	2012/08/27 02:47:24	33.009	-115.554	12.6	SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA
MAP	2.5	2012/08/27 02:28:10	33.023	-115.540	14.0	SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA
MAP	3.2	2012/08/27 02:03:19	19.204	-64.090	92.0	VIRGIN ISLANDS REGION
MAP	3.2	2012/08/27 01:51:03	19.461	-64.165	76.0	VIRGIN ISLANDS REGION
MAP	3.4	2012/08/27 00:58:45	32.998	-115.579	13.0	SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA
MAP	3.4	2012/08/27 00:58:34	33.018	-115.539	0.1	SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA
MAP	2.7	2012/08/27 00:47:02	19.521	-64.144	71.0	VIRGIN ISLANDS REGION
MAP	5.1	2012/08/27 00:39:53	-23.805	-69.120	57.1	ANTOFAGASTA, CHILE
MAP	3.1	2012/08/27 00:29:10	19.658	-64.140	57.0	VIRGIN ISLANDS REGION
MAP	2.9	2012/08/27 00:13:45	33.005	-115.596	18.0	SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA
MAP	2.9	2012/08/27 00:12:26	33.037	-115.549	8.9	SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA
MAP	4.4	2012/08/27 00:12:11	-23.850	-68.707	76.6	ANTOFAGASTA, CHILE
MAP	3.4	2012/08/27 00:05:53	19.637	-64.268	49.0	VIRGIN ISLANDS REGION
MAP	2.6	2012/08/27 00:03:52	19.730	-64.194	21.0	VIRGIN ISLANDS REGION

	MAG	UTC DATE-TIME y/m/d h:m:s	LAT deg	LON deg	DEPTH km	Region
MAP	2.5	2012/08/26 23:59:20	19.736	-64.176	22.0	VIRGIN ISLANDS REGION
MAP	2.5	2012/08/26 23:57:54	19.657	-64.209	10.0	VIRGIN ISLANDS REGION
MAP	3.2	2012/08/26 23:53:15	33.033	-115.535	13.5	SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA
MAP	2.6	2012/08/26 23:46:34	32.246	-114.746	9.1	SONORA, MEXICO
MAP	3.3	2012/08/26 23:44:32	19.486	-64.145	76.0	VIRGIN ISLANDS REGION
MAP	3.8	2012/08/26 23:36:58	33.052	-115.533	7.7	SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA
MAP	3.4	2012/08/26 23:34:51	33.001	-115.547	5.2	SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA
MAP	4.6	2012/08/26 23:33:25	33.033	-115.531	9.2	SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA
MAP	3.1	2012/08/26 23:28:51	19.545	-64.174	67.0	VIRGIN ISLANDS REGION
MAP	3.1	2012/08/26 23:26:14	19.174	-63.901	99.0	VIRGIN ISLANDS REGION
MAP	2.8	2012/08/26 23:23:41	19.115	-63.923	96.0	VIRGIN ISLANDS REGION
MAP	2.5	2012/08/26 23:21:07	59.992	-153.523	100.0	SOUTHERN ALASKA
MAP	2.7	2012/08/26 23:21:05	33.021	-115.541	13.3	SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA
MAP	2.8	2012/08/26 23:19:06	18.894	-63.961	90.0	VIRGIN ISLANDS REGION
MAP	4.3	2012/08/26 23:17:16	12.167	-88.074	65.5	NEAR THE COAST OF NICARAGUA
MAP	2.6	2012/08/26 23:16:22	33.007	-115.564	13.0	SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA
MAP	2.6	2012/08/26 23:13:46	33.032	-115.536	12.9	SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA
MAP	5.0	2012/08/26 23:06:13	2.684	128.858	44.6	HALMAHERA, INDONESIA
MAP	3.1	2012/08/26 23:01:19	19.496	-64.081	81.0	VIRGIN ISLANDS REGION
MAP	4.3	2012/08/26 22:58:42	32.990	-115.590	13.0	SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA
MAP	2.5	2012/08/26 22:54:48	33.011	-115.553	12.4	SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA
MAP	3.4	2012/08/26 22:53:36	33.023	-115.553	12.5	SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA
MAP	3.4	2012/08/26 22:52:10	32.998	-115.589	12.4	SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA
MAP	2.5	2012/08/26 22:51:34	40.304	-124.429	11.0	OFFSHORE NORTHERN CALIFORNIA
MAP	2.5	2012/08/26 22:51:23	32.997	-115.570	0.1	SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA
MAP	3.4	2012/08/26 22:38:56	19.618	-64.347	26.0	VIRGIN ISLANDS REGION
MAP	4.2	2012/08/26 22:34:57	14.065	-91.259	90.9	GUATEMALA
MAP	3.5	2012/08/26 22:34:46	33.007	-115.589	13.6	SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA
MAP	2.8	2012/08/26 22:34:05	32.992	-115.593	13.9	SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA
MAP	3.0	2012/08/26 22:23:57	32.989	-115.428	6.0	SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA
MAP	2.8	2012/08/26 22:22:54	32.923	-115.555	12.3	SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA
MAP	2.8	2012/08/26 22:22:35	32.962	-115.564	12.7	SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA
MAP	2.8	2012/08/26 22:16:24	32.998	-115.589	13.1	SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA
MAP	2.7	2012/08/26 22:16:03	32.938	-115.669	0.0	SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA
MAP	2.7	2012/08/26 22:13:04	32.999	-115.578	15.8	SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA
MAP	3.6	2012/08/26 22:10:24	19.691	-64.186	40.0	VIRGIN ISLANDS REGION
MAP	2.8	2012/08/26 22:08:06	33.021	-115.549	14.1	SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA
MAP	3.4	2012/08/26 22:06:29	33.014	-115.539	9.6	SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA
MAP	3.5	2012/08/26 22:03:09	19.525	-64.229	66.0	VIRGIN ISLANDS REGION
MAP	3.0	2012/08/26 22:02:00	33.028	-115.541	13.4	SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA
MAP	3.0	2012/08/26 21:54:16	33.004	-115.586	16.2	SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA
MAP	3.0	2012/08/26 21:53:58	32.971	-115.551	14.8	SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA
MAP	2.7	2012/08/26 21:47:18	33.026	-115.538	10.9	SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA
MAP	3.1	2012/08/26 21:46:12	32.996	-115.591	12.5	SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA
MAP	2.5	2012/08/26 21:45:26	32.967	-115.551	13.1	SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA
MAP	2.9	2012/08/26 21:42:51	33.022	-115.541	11.5	SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA
MAP	2.5	2012/08/26 21:37:50	33.051	-115.577	0.0	SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA
MAP	2.7	2012/08/26 21:34:48	33.027	-115.532	11.8	SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA
MAP	2.5	2012/08/26 21:30:55	33.005	-115.565	12.4	SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA
MAP	3.8	2012/08/26 21:26:40	33.038	-115.527	12.4	SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA
MAP	3.5	2012/08/26 21:23:24	32.999	-115.590	14.3	SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA
MAP	2.9	2012/08/26 21:21:57	32.998	-115.549	0.3	SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA
MAP	2.9	2012/08/26 21:21:22	32.970	-115.588	12.9	SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA
MAP	2.6	2012/08/26 21:20:24	33.032	-115.524	4.3	SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA
MAP	2.8	2012/08/26 21:20:06	33.022	-115.536	10.0	SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA
MAP	2.5	2012/08/26 21:19:35	32.974	-115.561	1.4	SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA
MAP	2.7	2012/08/26 21:19:01	33.013	-115.536	0.0	SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA
MAP	3.9	2012/08/26 21:17:27	32.984	-115.608	9.2	SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA
MAP	4.2	2012/08/26 21:15:29	33.041	-115.543	8.0	SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA
MAP	2.8	2012/08/26 21:13:59	33.026	-115.524	11.9	SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA
MAP	2.9	2012/08/26 21:12:38	32.959	-115.585	0.0	SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA
MAP	3.6	2012/08/26 21:08:46	32.997	-115.587	11.4	SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA
MAP	3.1	2012/08/26 21:05:12	33.027	-115.537	4.3	SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA
MAP	5.5	2012/08/26 20:57:58	33.024	-115.549	9.0	SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA
MAP	2.6	2012/08/26 20:45:49	33.030	-115.545	12.2	SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA
MAP	3.4	2012/08/26 20:34:40	19.646	-64.273	14.0	VIRGIN ISLANDS REGION
MAP	2.5	2012/08/26 20:33:02	33.008	-115.529	0.8	SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA
MAP	3.1	2012/08/26 20:31:13	33.024	-115.543	4.7	SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA
MAP	2.8	2012/08/26 20:28:58	33.009	-115.528	9.6	SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA
MAP	2.5	2012/08/26 20:28:20	33.004	-115.553	12.0	SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA
MAP	2.5	2012/08/26 20:24:52	33.007	-115.553	12.0	SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA
MAP	3.4	2012/08/26 20:20:25	33.026	-115.543	11.9	SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA
MAP	3.5	2012/08/26 20:16:54	33.012	-115.564	12.7	SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA
MAP	2.5	2012/08/26 20:16:43	33.029	-115.535	10.0	SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA
MAP	3.0	2012/08/26 20:14:46	32.996	-115.582	12.5	SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA
MAP	2.6	2012/08/26 20:10:14	33.000	-115.561	11.1	SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA
MAP	2.5	2012/08/26 20:08:32	32.928	-115.577	7.9	SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA
MAP	2.9	2012/08/26 20:06:10	33.029	-115.537	3.6	SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA
MAP	2.5	2012/08/26 20:04:50	33.008	-115.559	9.6	SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA
MAP	3.6	2012/08/26 19:58:17	33.025	-115.541	13.6	SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA
MAP	2.8	2012/08/26 19:57:34	33.010	-115.541	9.8	SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA
MAP	3.4	2012/08/26 19:50:15	33.007	-115.586	12.8	SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA
MAP	2.8	2012/08/26 19:48:04	33.021	-115.558	24.8	SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA
MAP	2.5	2012/08/26 19:47:08	32.989	-115.572	12.4	SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA
MAP	3.2	2012/08/26 19:45:56	32.993	-115.575	0.2	SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA
MAP	3.0	2012/08/26 19:43:41	33.023	-115.541	10.6	SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA
MAP	4.3	2012/08/26 19:40:13	32.990	-115.598	13.8	SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA
MAP	2.6	2012/08/26 19:39:31	32.998	-115.572	7.7	SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA
MAP	3.4	2012/08/26 19:35:52	32.995	-115.485	7.9	SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA
MAP	4.9	2012/08/26 19:33:01	33.021	-115.554	14.5	SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA
MAP	5.3	2012/08/26 19:31:23	33.019	-115.546	12.3	SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA
MAP	2.6	2012/08/26 19:30:55	33.035	-115.536	10.2	SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA
MAP	3.4	2012/08/26 19:28:45	33.023	-115.561	13.7	SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA
MAP	3.5	2012/08/26 19:21:04	33.003	-115.546	11.0	SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA
MAP	4.6	2012/08/26 19:20:05	33.019	-115.545	13.1	SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA
MAP	4.0	2012/08/26 19:16:12	33.019	-115.549	10.6	SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA
MAP	2.5	2012/08/26 19:06:48	33.024	-115.541	13.4	SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA
MAP	2.5	2012/08/26 19:06:32	33.027	-115.542	13.3	SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA
MAP	3.0	2012/08/26 19:03:19	33.027	-115.538	14.5	SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA
MAP	3.1	2012/08/26 18:58:12	33.024	-115.546	13.5	SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA
MAP	2.8	2012/08/26 18:56:40	19.681	-64.297	24.0	VIRGIN ISLANDS REGION
MAP	2.6	2012/08/26 18:55:55	33.008	-115.560	12.2	SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA
MAP	3.1	2012/08/26 18:43:16	19.789	-64.160	30.0	NORTH OF THE VIRGIN ISLANDS
MAP	2.6	2012/08/26 18:39:37	19.734	-64.201	15.0	VIRGIN ISLANDS REGION
MAP	3.5	2012/08/26 18:32:55	19.537	-64.491	16.0	VIRGIN ISLANDS REGION
MAP	2.7	2012/08/26 18:11:24	33.014	-115.560	12.7	SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA
MAP	2.5	2012/08/26 18:08:57	19.745	-64.083	25.0	VIRGIN ISLANDS REGION
MAP	3.4	2012/08/26 18:05:13	19.778	-64.120	38.0	NORTH OF THE VIRGIN ISLANDS
MAP	2.6	2012/08/26 17:39:03	19.603	-64.288	25.0	VIRGIN ISLANDS REGION
MAP	2.6	2012/08/26 17:37:16	33.011	-115.551	12.0	SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA
MAP	3.4	2012/08/26 17:30:42	19.595	-64.374	16.0	VIRGIN ISLANDS REGION
MAP	3.2	2012/08/26 17:24:23	19.609	-64.302	31.0	VIRGIN ISLANDS REGION
MAP	2.6	2012/08/26 17:18:13	33.010	-115.556	12.2	SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA
MAP	2.5	2012/08/26 17:17:23	33.017	-115.556	12.2	SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA
MAP	3.3	2012/08/26 17:16:02	33.023	-115.549	13.4	SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA
MAP	2.9	2012/08/26 17:13:52	33.017	-115.555	12.7	SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA
MAP	2.5	2012/08/26 17:06:53	19.441	-64.472	53.0	VIRGIN ISLANDS REGION
MAP	2.6	2012/08/26 17:03:40	32.996	-115.548	6.0	SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA
MAP	3.8	2012/08/26 17:02:13	33.019	-115.563	13.2	SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA
MAP	3.0	2012/08/26 16:45:42	59.587	-153.405	100.0	SOUTHERN ALASKA
MAP	3.4	2012/08/26 16:26:17	19.765	-64.094	54.0	NORTH OF THE VIRGIN ISLANDS
MAP	2.5	2012/08/26 16:18:16	33.018	-115.555	12.4	SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA
MAP	2.8	2012/08/26 16:14:51	59.977	-152.290	60.5	SOUTHERN ALASKA
MAP	3.1	2012/08/26 16:12:37	19.665	-64.083	66.0	VIRGIN ISLANDS REGION
MAP	3.4	2012/08/26 16:02:12	19.616	-64.311	27.0	VIRGIN ISLANDS REGION
MAP	3.1	2012/08/26 16:00:53	18.701	-63.541	104.0	ANGUILLA REGION, LEEWARD ISLANDS
MAP	4.2	2012/08/26 15:56:10	19.582	-64.388	9.0	VIRGIN ISLANDS REGION
MAP	3.1	2012/08/26 15:50:28	19.660	-64.239	39.0	VIRGIN ISLANDS REGION
MAP	2.5	2012/08/26 15:48:24	32.998	-115.559	11.4	SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA
MAP	2.5	2012/08/26 15:48:11	33.010	-115.548	12.0	SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA
MAP	2.5	2012/08/26 15:33:04	33.015	-115.552	12.5	SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA
MAP	3.1	2012/08/26 15:28:27	19.889	-64.354	73.0	NORTH OF THE VIRGIN ISLANDS
MAP	2.7	2012/08/26 15:17:06	18.299	-67.322	82.0	MONA PASSAGE, PUERTO RICO
MAP	2.5	2012/08/26 15:13:53	19.708	-64.140	14.0	VIRGIN ISLANDS REGION
MAP	3.1	2012/08/26 15:11:57	19.674	-64.290	42.0	VIRGIN ISLANDS REGION
MAP	6.6	2012/08/26 15:05:37	2.197	126.835	91.9	MOLUCCA SEA
MAP	2.9	2012/08/26 15:00:15	19.634	-64.040	71.0	VIRGIN ISLANDS REGION
MAP	2.7	2012/08/26 14:57:31	19.691	-64.293	27.0	VIRGIN ISLANDS REGION
MAP	2.9	2012/08/26 14:55:14	19.762	-68.845	55.0	DOMINICAN REPUBLIC REGION
MAP	2.8	2012/08/26 14:49:52	19.736	-64.133	39.0	VIRGIN ISLANDS REGION
MAP	2.8	2012/08/26 14:42:11	19.420	-63.968	95.0	VIRGIN ISLANDS REGION
MAP	4.1	2012/08/26 14:37:51	19.660	-64.264	32.0	VIRGIN ISLANDS REGION
MAP	4.4	2012/08/26 14:30:30	37.077	142.533	36.3	OFF THE EAST COAST OF HONSHU, JAPAN
MAP	2.6	2012/08/26 14:00:24	35.640	-97.282	5.0	OKLAHOMA
MAP	3.0	2012/08/26 12:09:34	19.347	-155.091	8.1	ISLAND OF HAWAII, HAWAII
MAP	4.6	2012/08/26 12:02:48	-6.038	103.379	35.5	SOUTHWEST OF SUMATRA, INDONESIA
MAP	4.9	2012/08/26 11:27:04	-6.634	102.996	34.2	SOUTHWEST OF SUMATRA, INDONESIA
MAP	5.4	2012/08/26 11:22:23	-65.439	-179.843	10.0	PACIFIC-ANTARCTIC RIDGE
MAP	4.1	2012/08/26 11:13:41	13.670	-90.199	91.7	OFFSHORE GUATEMALA
MAP	2.5	2012/08/26 09:55:43	61.708	-154.202	0.1	SOUTHERN ALASKA
MAP	3.3	2012/08/26 09:53:14	33.871	-116.194	7.5	SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA
MAP	3.0	2012/08/26 07:21:32	18.416	-66.209	113.0	SAN JUAN URBAN AREA, PUERTO RICO
MAP	2.5	2012/08/26 06:49:34	35.984	-117.863	4.7	CENTRAL CALIFORNIA
MAP	4.3	2012/08/26 06:43:25	55.519	-162.540	132.0	ALASKA PENINSULA
MAP	2.7	2012/08/26 06:41:15	19.136	-64.889	63.0	VIRGIN ISLANDS REGION
MAP	2.5	2012/08/26 06:06:07	38.437	-122.254	11.8	NORTHERN CALIFORNIA
MAP	2.7	2012/08/26 04:22:07	19.245	-155.536	7.4	ISLAND OF HAWAII, HAWAII
MAP	4.8	2012/08/26 03:20:55	53.041	-35.183	10.6	REYKJANES RIDGE
MAP	4.6	2012/08/26 03:16:52	53.058	-35.054	10.0	REYKJANES RIDGE

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6.4 Mwp – MOLUCCA SEA

Preliminary Earthquake Report
Magnitude	6.4 Mwp
Date-Time	26 Aug 2012 15:05:35 UTC 26 Aug 2012 23:05:35 near epicenter 26 Aug 2012 09:05:35 standard time in your timezone
Location	2.231N 126.865E
Depth	69 km
Distances	169 km (105 miles) NNW (340 degrees) of Ternate, Moluccas, Indonesia 239 km (148 miles) ENE (70 degrees) of Manado, Sulawesi, Indonesia 460 km (286 miles) ENE (66 degrees) of Gorontalo, Sulawesi, Indonesia 1021 km (634 miles) SW (236 degrees) of KOROR, Palau
Location Uncertainty	Horizontal: 13.4 km; Vertical 7.2 km
Parameters	Nph = 250; Dmin = 170.5 km; Rmss = 1.18 seconds; Gp = 15° M-type = Mwp; Version = 8
Event ID	us c000c76x

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National Earthquake Information Center
U.S. Geological Survey
http://neic.usgs.gov/

7.4 Mwp – OFF COAST OF CENTRAL AMERICA Near Ecuador

Preliminary Earthquake Report
Magnitude	7.4 Mwp
Date-Time	27 Aug 2012 04:37:23 UTC 26 Aug 2012 22:37:23 near epicenter 26 Aug 2012 22:37:23 standard time in your timezone
Location	12.279N 88.530W
Depth	52 km
Distances	118 km (74 miles) S (185 degrees) of Usulután, Usulután, El Salvador 138 km (86 miles) SSW (196 degrees) of San Miguel, San Miguel, El Salvador 139 km (86 miles) SSW (212 degrees) of La Unión, La Unión, El Salvador 169 km (105 miles) SSE (156 degrees) of SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador
Location Uncertainty	Horizontal: 16.5 km; Vertical 8.8 km
Parameters	Nph = 362; Dmin = 130.5 km; Rmss = 1.02 seconds; Gp = 114° M-type = Mwp; Version = 8
Event ID	us c000c7yw

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USGS Earthquake Hazards Program

National Earthquake Information Center
U.S. Geological Survey
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California earthquake swarm felt in Arizona, Mexico, USGS says

The USGS recorded more than two dozen earthquakes in Imperial County, many of them near Brawley. Officials said people reported feeling the quake in Yuma, Ariz., Lake Havasu as well as in Baja California.

The USGS’s “Do You Feel It” system shows the quakes were felt as far away as San Diego, Temecula and San Clemente. The 5.4 quake was also felt in Moreno Valley, Indio, National City and Palm Desert.

The quakes could be felt in the press box at the Del Mar Race Track in neighboring San Diego County, where the $1-million Pacific Classic is scheduled later Sunday.

Between 10 a.m. and 12:50 p.m., the same area was shaken by quakes ranging in magnitude from 2.0 to 5.4, the USGS reported.

The burst of quakes took place roughly 16 miles from El Centro and 92 miles from Tijuana. In the last 10 days, there have been six earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater centered nearby.

There were no immediate reports of serious damage or injuries from the temblor, though reports were still coming in.

The border region is known for frequent seismic activity, though the size of these quakes is larger than typically seen.

Here is a preliminary magnitude count of some of the quakes Sunday:

— 5.3 magnitude at 12:32:59

— 5.4 magnitude at 12:31:23

— 5.3 magnitude at 12:30:54

— 3.7 magnitude at 12:30:27

— 4.7 magnitude at 12:21:04

— 4.6 magnitude at 12:20:04

The size of the quakes are subject to change as the USGS refines its data.

Read more about California earthquakes on L.A. Now.

Earthquake swarm rattles Southern California

By Associated Press and KOMO Staff

Map provided by the U.S. Geologic Survey shows the earthquake swarm. The most recent quakes are in red.

SAN DIEGO (AP) – Dozens of small to moderate earthquakes struck the southeastern corner of California on Sunday, causing minor damages to structures and rattling nerves in a small farming town east of San Diego.

The largest quake registered at a magnitude 5.5 and was centered about three miles northwest of the town of Brawley, said Robert Graves, a geophysicist with the U.S. Geological Survey. Another quake Sunday registered at magnitude 5.3.

More than 30 additional earthquakes with magnitudes of at least 3.5 jiggled the same area near the southern end of the Salton Sea, Graves said.

“The type of activity that we’re seeing could possibly continue for several hours or even days,” Graves said.

At the El Sol Market in Brawley, food packages fell from the shelves, littering aisle ways.

Several glasses and a bottle of wine crashed to the floor and shattered at Assaggio, an Italian restaurant in Brawley, said owner Jerry Ma. The shaking was short-lived but intense, he said.

“It felt like there was quake every 15 minutes. One after another. My kids are small and they’re scared and don’t want to come back inside,” said Mike Patel, who manages Townhouse Inn & Suites in Brawley.

A TV came crashing down and a few light fixtures broke inside the motel, Patel said.

A Brawley Police Department dispatcher said several downtown buildings sustained minor damage. No injuries were reported.

The first quake, with a magnitude of 3.9, occurred at 10:02 a.m. The USGS said more than 100 aftershocks struck the same approximate epicenter, about 16 miles north of El Centro.

Some shaking was felt along the San Diego County coast in Del Mar, some 120 miles from the epicenter, as well as in the Coachella Valley, southern Orange County and parts of northern Mexico.

USGS seismologist Lucy Jones said earthquake swarms are characteristic of the region, known as the Brawley Seismic Zone.

“The area sees lots of events at once, with many close to the largest magnitude, rather than one main shock with several much smaller aftershocks,” Jones said.

The last major swarm was in 2005, following a magnitude-5.1 quake, she said.

Sunday’s quake cluster occurred in what scientists call a transition zone between the Imperial and San Andreas faults, so they weren’t assigning the earthquakes to either fault, Graves said.

27.08.2012

Earthquake

USA

State of California, [Imperial County]

Earthquake in USA on Monday, 27 August, 2012 at 03:20 (03:20 AM) UTC.

Description

The series of moderate earthquakes — including several magnitude 5.0 and above — were felt as far north as Orange County, east into Arizona and south into Mexico, according to the U.S. Geological Survey. The USGS recorded more than two dozen earthquakes in Imperial County, many of them near Brawley. Officials said people reported feeling the quake in Yuma, Ariz., Lake Havasu as well as in Baja California. The USGS’s “Do You Feel It” system shows the quakes were felt as far away as San Diego, Temecula and San Clemente. The 5.4 quake was also felt in Moreno Valley, Indio, National City and Palm Desert. The quakes could be felt in the press box at the Del Mar Race Track in neighboring San Diego County, where the $1-million Pacific Classic is scheduled later Sunday. Between 10 a.m. and 12:50 p.m., the same area was shaken by quakes ranging in magnitude from 2.0 to 5.4, the USGS reported. The burst of quakes took place roughly 16 miles from El Centro and 92 miles from Tijuana. In the last 10 days, there have been six earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater centered nearby. There were no immediate reports of serious damage or injuries from the temblor, though reports were still coming in. The border region is known for frequent seismic activity, though the size of these quakes is larger than typically seen.

Home video captured the aftermath of one of two moderate earthquakes that struck Imperial County on Sunday, part of a swarm of more than 70 that hit the region. The video shows books and DVDs toppled from shelves and some belongings fallen to the floor. The video was posted on YouTube on Sunday afternoon. But damage appear to be minor. Imperial County officials said no injuries have been reported. A handful of buildings in downtown Brawley had minor damage after an earthquake swarm rattled the area Sunday, officials said. Most of the quakes occurred in and around that California town. Capt. Jesse Zendejas of the Brawley Fire Department described the damage as “cosmetic” and said it occurred in at least three buildings dating to the 1930s. Crews were still assessing other areas of the city, but no injuries had been reported, he said. Imperial County firefighters were also assisting in the survey. The first quake – a magnitude 3.8 temblor, which was downgraded from 3.9 – occurred at 10:02 a.m. about three miles northwest of Brawley and was followed by a series of other quakes in the same general area, according to the U.S. Geological Survey, which may continue to revise the numbers. Thomas Jordan, director of the USC-based Southern California Earthquake Center, called the activity a “very active swarm” – something not unusual for the southern edge of the San Andreas Fault, which has seen similar occurrences in recent years. This swarm could continue to rumble the region for a few days, Jordan added. “It’s been pretty productive so far,” he said. “It’s a vigorous one. We got some pretty good-sized events.” As data continued to roll in, Jordan said, scientists would study the swarm to learn how the sequence developed and what effect it could have on the fault. “We’re always concerned where there is significant seismic activity because that means there is a higher probability of having more seismic activity,” he said.

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Intense Magnitude 5 quake nearby Fukushima plant — Hits hours after even stronger quake in Northern Japan (MAP)

Title: Earthquake Information
Source: Japan Meteorological Agency

USS Live Seismic Server

CU/ANWB, Willy Bob, Antigua and Barbuda

CU/BBGH, Gun Hill, Barbados

CU/BCIP, Isla Barro Colorado, Panama

CU/GRGR, Grenville, Grenada

CU/GRTK, Grand Turk, Turks and Caicos Islands

CU/GTBY, Guantanamo Bay, Cuba

CU/MTDJ, Mount Denham, Jamaica

CU/SDDR, Presa de Sabaneta, Dominican Republic

CU/TGUH, Tegucigalpa, Honduras

IC/BJT, Baijiatuan, Beijing, China

IC/ENH, Enshi, China

IC/HIA, Hailar, Neimenggu Province, China

IC/LSA, Lhasa, China

IC/MDJ, Mudanjiang, China

IC/QIZ, Qiongzhong, Guangduong Province, China

IU/ADK, Aleutian Islands, Alaska, USA

IU/AFI, Afiamalu, Samoa

IU/ANMO, Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA

IU/ANTO, Ankara, Turkey

IU/BBSR, Bermuda

IU/BILL, Bilibino, Russia

IU/CASY, Casey, Antarctica

IU/CCM, Cathedral Cave, Missouri, USA

IU/CHTO, Chiang Mai, Thailand

IU/COLA, College Outpost, Alaska, USA

IU/COR, Corvallis, Oregon, USA

IU/CTAO, Charters Towers, Australia

IU/DAV,Davao, Philippines

IU/DWPF,Disney Wilderness Preserve, Florida, USA

IU/FUNA,Funafuti, Tuvalu

IU/FURI, Mt. Furi, Ethiopia

IU/GNI, Garni, Armenia

IU/GRFO, Grafenberg, Germany

IU/GUMO, Guam, Mariana Islands

IU/HKT, Hockley, Texas, USA

IU/HNR, Honiara, Solomon Islands

IU/HRV, Adam Dziewonski Observatory (Oak Ridge), Massachusetts, USA

IU/INCN, Inchon, Republic of Korea

IU/JOHN, Johnston Island, Pacific Ocean

IU/KBS, Ny-Alesund, Spitzbergen, Norway

IU/KEV, Kevo, Finland

IU/KIEV, Kiev, Ukraine

IU/KIP, Kipapa, Hawaii, USA

IU/KMBO, Kilima Mbogo, Kenya

IU/KNTN, Kanton Island, Kiribati

IU/KONO, Kongsberg, Norway

IU/KOWA, Kowa, Mali

IU/LCO, Las Campanas Astronomical Observatory, Chile

IU/LSZ, Lusaka, Zambia

IU/MAJO, Matsushiro, Japan

IU/MAKZ,Makanchi, Kazakhstan

IU/MBWA, Marble Bar, Western Australia

IU/MIDW, Midway Island, Pacific Ocean, USA

IU/NWAO, Narrogin, Australia

IU/OTAV, Otavalo, Ecuador

IU/PAB, San Pablo, Spain

IU/PAYG Puerto Ayora, Galapagos Islands

IU/PET, Petropavlovsk, Russia

IU/PMG, Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea

IU/PMSA, Palmer Station, Antarctica

IU/POHA, Pohakaloa, Hawaii

IU/PTCN, Pitcairn Island, South Pacific

IU/PTGA, Pitinga, Brazil

IU/QSPA, South Pole, Antarctica

IU/RAO, Raoul, Kermadec Islands

IU/RAR, Rarotonga, Cook Islands

IU/RCBR, Riachuelo, Brazil

IU/RSSD, Black Hills, South Dakota, USA

IU/SAML, Samuel, Brazil

IU/SBA, Scott Base, Antarctica

IU/SDV, Santo Domingo, Venezuela

IU/SFJD, Sondre Stromfjord, Greenland

IU/SJG, San Juan, Puerto Rico

IU/SLBS, Sierra la Laguna Baja California Sur, Mexico

IU/SNZO, South Karori, New Zealand

IU/SSPA, Standing Stone, Pennsylvania USA

IU/TARA, Tarawa Island, Republic of Kiribati

IU/TATO, Taipei, Taiwan

IU/TEIG, Tepich, Yucatan, Mexico

IU/TIXI, Tiksi, Russia

IU/TRIS, Tristan da Cunha, Atlantic Ocean

IU/TRQA, Tornquist, Argentina

IU/TSUM, Tsumeb, Namibia

IU/TUC, Tucson, Arizona

IU/ULN, Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia

IU/WAKE, Wake Island, Pacific Ocean

IU/WCI, Wyandotte Cave, Indiana, USA

IU/WVT, Waverly, Tennessee, USA

IU/XMAS, Kiritimati Island, Republic of Kiribati

Forest / Wild Fire in France on Monday, 27 August, 2012 at 09:06 (09:06 AM) UTC.

Description

Gendarmes have moved in to try to find the cause of a fire that destroyed two houses and around 900 hectares of forest and arable farmlands and forced the evacuation of a campsite. Around 900 firefighters plus 12 water-bomber aircraft were needed to control what was the summer’s largest forest fire in the south-east, half-way between Avignon and Aix-en-Provence. The fire, which covered lands in the communes of Orgon, Sénas and Eyguières, was pushed by a strong Mistral wind which was reaching up to 70kph after several days of intense hot weather. The RD569 between Organ and Eyguières was cut by the fire. Smoke could be seen from several tens of kilometres away and ash was blown as far as Marseille. Firefighters managed to stop the spread late yesterday afternoon but 700 of them were still on the scene at Orgon in Bouches-du-Rhône, near the border with the Vaucluse, this morning. Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur prefect Hugues Parant said they fear that the wind will turn around midday and the fire will take off again. It is not yet known how the fire started, but it was first spotted around midnight on Saturday night near a campsite on a rocky ridge on the edge of the Alpilles. Halfway through the night rescue crews evacuated 70 people from the campsite but could not save two houses and outbuildings in Sénas from being destroyed. One man was also rescued from his car which was caught in the path of the flames. The initial 500 firefighters from Vaucluse and Bouches-du-Rhône were reinforced by others from Hérault, Drôme and Alpes-Maritimes along with seven Canadair, two Tracker and one Dash water-bombers, plus two helicopters. Already this summer more than 650 hectares of forest have been destroyed in a fire at Lacanau, in Gironde, in the south-west.

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Tsunami

27.08.2012

Tsunami

Other

Pacific Ocean – South, [DART 43413 buoy]

Tsunami in Other on Monday, 27 August, 2012 at 07:24 (07:24 AM) UTC.

Description
Tsunami wave has been observed in DART 43413 buoy on 27.08.2012 at 06:19 UTC. The observed tsunami wave height was 0.1 feet (0.10 cm). The wave height wasn’t dangerous.

Tsunami in Other on Monday, 27 August, 2012 at 07:24 (07:24 AM) UTC.

Base data
EDIS Number:	TS-20120827-36341-OTH
Event type:	Tsunami
Date/Time:	Monday, 27 August, 2012 at 07:24 (07:24 AM) UTC
Last update:	—
Cause of event:
Damage level:	Unknown
Geographic information
Continent:	Other
Country:	Other
County / State:	Pacific Ocean – South
Area:	DART 43413 buoy
City:
Coordinate:	N 10° 48.000, W 100° 6.000
Number of affected people / Humanities loss
Foreign people:	Affected is unknown.
Dead person(s):	—
Injured person(s):	—
Missing person(s):	—
Evacuated person(s):	—
Affected person(s):	—

27.08.2012

Tsunami

El Salvador

Departamento de La Union, La Union

Tsunami in El Salvador on Monday, 27 August, 2012 at 07:22 (07:22 AM) UTC.

Description
Tsunami wave has been observed following the M 7.3 magnitude earthquake in La Union, El Salvador on 27.08.2012 at 06:27 UTC. The observed tsunami wave height was 0.1 feet (0.20 cm). The wave height wasn’t dangerous.

Tsunami in El Salvador on Monday, 27 August, 2012 at 07:22 (07:22 AM) UTC.

Base data
EDIS Number:	TS-20120827-36340-SLV
Event type:	Tsunami
Date/Time:	Monday, 27 August, 2012 at 07:22 (07:22 AM) UTC
Last update:	—
Cause of event:
Damage level:	Unknown
Geographic information
Continent:	Central-America
Country:	El Salvador
County / State:	Departamento de La Union
Area:
City:	La Union
Coordinate:	N 13° 18.000, W 87° 48.000
Number of affected people / Humanities loss
Foreign people:	Affected is unknown.
Dead person(s):	—
Injured person(s):	—
Missing person(s):	—
Evacuated person(s):	—
Affected person(s):	—

27.08.2012

Tsunami

El Salvador

Departmento de Sonsonate, Acajutla

Tsunami in El Salvador on Monday, 27 August, 2012 at 06:25 (06:25 AM) UTC.

Description
Tsunami wave has been observed following the M 7.3 magnitude earthquake in El Salvador on 27.08.2012 at 05:40 UTC. The observed tsunami wave height was 0.3 feet (0.10 cm). The wave height wasn’t dangerous.

Tsunami in El Salvador on Monday, 27 August, 2012 at 06:25 (06:25 AM) UTC.

Base data
EDIS Number:	TS-20120827-36339-SLV
Event type:	Tsunami
Date/Time:	Monday, 27 August, 2012 at 06:25 (06:25 AM) UTC
Last update:	—
Cause of event:
Damage level:	Unknown
Geographic information
Continent:	Central-America
Country:	El Salvador
County / State:	Departmento de Sonsonate
Area:
City:	Acajutla
Coordinate:	N 13° 36.000, W 89° 48.000
Number of affected people / Humanities loss
Foreign people:	Affected is unknown.
Dead person(s):	—
Injured person(s):	—
Missing person(s):	—
Evacuated person(s):	—
Affected person(s):	—

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Storms / Flooding

Active tropical storm system(s)

Name of storm system	Location	Formed	Last update	Last category	Course	Wind Speed	Gust	Wave	Source	Details
Tembin (15W)	Pacific Ocean	19.08.2012	28.08.2012	Typhoon I	35 °	102 km/h	130 km/h	5.79 m	JTWC

Tropical Storm data

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Storm name:	Tembin (15W)
Area:	Pacific Ocean
Start up location:	N 17° 42.000, E 124° 36.000
Start up:	19th August 2012
Status:	Active
Track long:	405.65 km
Top category.:
Report by:	JTWC

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Past track
Date	Time	Position	Speed km/h	Wind km/h	Gust km/h	Category	Course	Wave	Pressure	Source
20th Aug 2012	05:16:05	N 18° 0.000, E 124° 48.000	6	139	167	Typhoon I.	360	9		JTWC
21st Aug 2012	04:48:23	N 20° 12.000, E 125° 18.000	13	213	259	Typhoon IV.	360	15		JTWC
23rd Aug 2012	04:49:56	N 22° 30.000, E 123° 36.000	4	204	232	Typhoon III.	270	9		JTWC
25th Aug 2012	05:19:01	N 22° 24.000, E 118° 6.000	13	139	167	Typhoon I.	260	17		JTWC
27th Aug 2012	04:54:48	N 20° 18.000, E 117° 36.000	11	157	194	Typhoon II.	125	19		JTWC

Current position
Date	Time	Position	Speed km/h	Wind km/h	Gust km/h	Category	Course	Wave feet	Pressure	Source
28th Aug 2012	04:53:36	N 23° 0.000, E 121° 54.000	28	102	130	Typhoon I	35 °	19		JTWC

Forecast track
Date	Time	Position	Category	Wind km/h	Gust km/h	Source
29th Aug 2012	12:00:00	N 29° 24.000, E 124° 0.000	Typhoon I	102	130	JTWC
29th Aug 2012	00:00:00	N 27° 6.000, E 123° 54.000	Typhoon I	93	120	JTWC
30th Aug 2012	00:00:00	N 31° 42.000, E 123° 48.000	Typhoon I	102	130	JTWC
31st Aug 2012	00:00:00	N 36° 30.000, E 123° 54.000	Tropical Depression	83	102	JTWC
01st Sep 2012	00:00:00	N 42° 42.000, E 126° 0.000	Tropical Depression	65	83	JTWC
02nd Sep 2012	00:00:00	N 48° 6.000, E 130° 6.000	Tropical Depression	37	56	JTWC

Bolaven (16W)

Pacific Ocean

20.08.2012

28.08.2012

Typhoon I

350 °

102 km/h

130 km/h

7.01 m

JTWC

Tropical Storm data

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Storm name:	Bolaven (16W)
Area:	Pacific Ocean
Start up location:	N 17° 18.000, E 141° 30.000
Start up:	20th August 2012
Status:	Active
Track long:	1,586.63 km
Top category.:
Report by:	JTWC

Useful links:

Past track
Date	Time	Position	Speed km/h	Wind km/h	Gust km/h	Category	Course	Wave	Pressure	Source
20th Aug 2012	05:13:46	N 17° 18.000, E 141° 30.000	13	56	74	Tropical Depression	330	12		JTWC
21st Aug 2012	04:47:46	N 18° 12.000, E 140° 30.000	9	93	120	Tropical Storm	295	10		JTWC
23rd Aug 2012	04:49:02	N 19° 42.000, E 135° 36.000	9	167	204	Typhoon II.	280	10		JTWC
24th Aug 2012	05:22:54	N 21° 0.000, E 133° 36.000	11	194	241	Typhoon III.	325	16		JTWC
25th Aug 2012	05:16:28	N 23° 30.000, E 132° 6.000	15	232	278	Typhoon IV.	325	18		JTWC
26th Aug 2012	05:21:23	N 25° 18.000, E 129° 30.000	17	213	259	Typhoon IV.	315	19		JTWC
27th Aug 2012	04:52:17	N 28° 36.000, E 126° 48.000	22	176	213	Typhoon II.	335	19		JTWC

Current position
Date	Time	Position	Speed km/h	Wind km/h	Gust km/h	Category	Course	Wave feet	Pressure	Source
28th Aug 2012	04:51:25	N 34° 48.000, E 124° 42.000	33	102	130	Typhoon I	350 °	23		JTWC

Forecast track
Date	Time	Position	Category	Wind km/h	Gust km/h	Source
29th Aug 2012	12:00:00	N 47° 24.000, E 130° 36.000	Tropical Depression	56	74	JTWC
29th Aug 2012	00:00:00	N 43° 0.000, E 127° 24.000	Tropical Depression	65	83	JTWC

Isaac (AL09)

Atlantic Ocean

21.08.2012

27.08.2012

Hurricane I

305 °

102 km/h

120 km/h

5.18 m

NOAA NHC

Tropical Storm data

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Storm name:	Isaac (AL09)
Area:	Atlantic Ocean
Start up location:	N 15° 12.000, W 51° 12.000
Start up:	21st August 2012
Status:	Active
Track long:	2,435.14 km
Top category.:
Report by:	NOAA NHC

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Past track
Date	Time	Position	Speed km/h	Wind km/h	Gust km/h	Category	Course	Wave	Pressure	Source
22nd Aug 2012	04:54:04	N 15° 36.000, W 55° 36.000	30	65	83	Tropical Storm	275	16	1006 MB	NOAA NHC
23rd Aug 2012	05:06:43	N 15° 48.000, W 63° 0.000	31	74	93	Tropical Storm	270	22	1003 MB	NOAA NHC
24th Aug 2012	05:17:31	N 16° 42.000, W 68° 42.000	28	74	93	Tropical Storm	290	19	1001 MB	NOAA NHC
25th Aug 2012	05:21:33	N 17° 42.000, W 72° 30.000	22	111	139	Tropical Storm	310	15	990 MB	NOAA NHC
27th Aug 2012	04:49:08	N 24° 12.000, W 82° 54.000	22	102	120	Tropical Storm	285	19	993 MB	NOAA NHC

Current position
Date	Time	Position	Speed km/h	Wind km/h	Gust km/h	Category	Course	Wave feet	Pressure	Source
28th Aug 2012	05:00:18	N 27° 6.000, W 87° 0.000	17	111	139	Hurricane I	310 °	19	310 MB	NOAA NHC

Forecast track
Date	Time	Position	Category	Wind km/h	Gust km/h	Source
29th Aug 2012	12:00:00	N 29° 54.000, W 90° 6.000	Hurricane I	120	148	NOAA NHC
29th Aug 2012	00:00:00	N 29° 6.000, W 89° 12.000	Hurricane III	148	185	NOAA NHC
30th Aug 2012	00:00:00	N 30° 42.000, W 90° 42.000	Tropical Depression	93	111	NOAA NHC
31st Aug 2012	00:00:00	N 33° 18.000, W 91° 42.000	Tropical Depression	56	74	NOAA NHC
01st Sep 2012	00:00:00	N 37° 30.000, W 91° 30.000	Tropical Depression	46	65	NOAA NHC
02nd Sep 2012	00:00:00	N 40° 30.000, W 87° 30.000	Tropical Depression	37	56	NOAA NHC

Ileana (EP09)

Pacific Ocean – East

28.08.2012

Tropical Depression

290 °

74 km/h

93 km/h

4.57 m

NOAA NHC

Tropical Storm data

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Storm name:	Ileana (EP09)
Area:	Pacific Ocean – East
Start up location:	N 15° 30.000, W 107° 42.000
Start up:	28th August 2012
Status:	Active
Track long:	0.00 km
Top category.:
Report by:	NOAA NHC

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Past track
Date	Time	Position	Speed km/h	Wind km/h	Gust km/h	Category	Course	Wave	Pressure	Source

Current position
Date	Time	Position	Speed km/h	Wind km/h	Gust km/h	Category	Course	Wave feet	Pressure	Source
28th Aug 2012	04:45:33	N 15° 30.000, W 107° 42.000	19	74	93	Tropical Depression	290 °	15	1000 MB	NOAA NHC

Forecast track
Date	Time	Position	Category	Wind km/h	Gust km/h	Source
29th Aug 2012	12:00:00	N 17° 18.000, W 111° 54.000	Hurricane I	120	148	NOAA NHC
29th Aug 2012	00:00:00	N 16° 36.000, W 110° 36.000	Hurricane I	111	139	NOAA NHC
30th Aug 2012	00:00:00	N 18° 6.000, W 112° 48.000	Hurricane II	130	157	NOAA NHC
31st Aug 2012	00:00:00	N 19° 30.000, W 114° 0.000	Hurricane II	139	167	NOAA NHC
01st Sep 2012	00:00:00	N 21° 0.000, W 115° 30.000	Hurricane I	120	148	NOAA NHC
02nd Sep 2012	00:00:00	N 22° 30.000, W 119° 0.000	Tropical Depression	93	111	NOAA NHC

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Massive Typhoon Bolaven slams Okinawa, heads for Koreas

By the CNN Wire Staff

Riding out typhoon in Okinawa

STORY HIGHLIGHTS

NEW: “It’s been a long and rough night,” storm chaser says
Bolaven crosses over Okinawa
It is the strongest typhoon in the region since 1956
Typhoon Bolaven’s cloud field is about 20 times the length of Okinawa

Tokyo (CNN) — A massive typhoon crossed over Okinawa on Sunday, bringing winds more ferocious than even the typhoon-weary Japanese island has seen in decades.

Typhoon Bolaven, with wind gusts that reached as high as 259 kilometers per hour (161 mph), is the strongest to strike the region in nearly 50 years. And with a cloud field of 2,000 kilometers (1,250 miles), it is 20 times larger than Okinawa’s length.

“It’s been very, very severe,” said storm chaser James Reynolds, who was on the northwestern coast of the island during the worst of the storm.

Typhoon makes landfall in Taiwan

Tree branches were flying through the air amid torrential rain, he said.

Speaking to CNN early Monday morning on Okinawa, Reynolds said, “It’s been a long and rough night.”

“The eye of the typhoon actually crashed ashore just after dark. … Like the rest of the population we all just kind of holed up in the strong and sturdy buildings which make up Okinawa,” he said.

The infrastructure on Okinawa is designed to withstand violent storms. “Everything’s made of solid concrete,” said Reynolds.

The last storm of this scale was Typhoon Naha in 1956.

At 3 a.m. Monday local time (2 p.m. ET Sunday), Bolaven had winds of 194 kilometers per hour, with gusts at 240 kilometers per hour, CNN International meteorologist Jennifer Delgado reported.

Bolaven could make landfall at the Korean peninsula on Tuesday morning, or potentially in South Korea on Monday night, Delgado said.

In the meantime, rainfall totals in Okinawa could top 500 mm (20 inches) in 24 hours, said CNN International meteorologist Tom Sater.

Bolaven is “roughly the size of France to Poland in land mass,” said Sater.

Storm surges were expected to be a major problem for Okinawa. More than 400,000 people in the area live at elevations less than 50 meters (164 feet).

“The large battering waves on both sides of Okinawa are going to be a threat to people living near the water,” Reynolds predicted. “But I think the worst has passed now. The storm is moving away and unfortunately it’s the people in the Korean peninsula who look like they’ve got to prepare for the incoming storm.”

Taiwan, meanwhile, could be in for a pounding due to something called the Fujiwhara effect.

Typhoon Tembin made landfall in southern Taiwan a few days ago, and was expected to work its way toward Hong Kong. But Bolaven, which is much stronger, has stopped Tembin’s movement toward Hong Kong and has been spinning it around. Tembin is likely to make a second landfall in southern Taiwan, also on Tuesday morning.

“As Typhoon Bolaven moves northward towards the Yellow Sea, it will drag Tembin toward the China coast very near Shanghai,” said Sater. “That’s an amazing change in direction.”

27.08.2012

Power Outage

USA

State of Florida, [Southern Regions]

Power Outage in USA on Monday, 27 August, 2012 at 16:06 (04:06 PM) UTC.

Description

About 63,000 homes and businesses were out of power mid-morning in the South Florida area as heavy wind and rain continue. The outages represent about 3 percent of Florida Power and Light’s 2.4 million customers in the tri-county area. In Broward, roughly 24,130 locations are without power, according to FPL, out of 800,000 customers. In Miami-Dade, 23,200 are without power out of more than 1 million customers. In Palm Beach, 18,380 locations are without power out of 600,000 customers. That’s significantly more than the roughly 18,000 customers left without power in the hours following Isaac’s closest path to the area, as the large storm continues sending debris and branches into FPL lines. “Palm fronds, believe it or not, are actually a huge cause of power outages,’’ said Richard Gibbs, an FPL spokesman.

27.08.2012

Flash Flood

India

Capital City, New Delhi

Flash Flood in India on Monday, 27 August, 2012 at 18:34 (06:34 PM) UTC.

Description

A torrential downpour Monday evening turned several roads in the capital into virtual rivulets, causing massive traffic jams that affected tens of thousands. “The whole of Delhi is witnessing traffic jams,” an exasperated Delhi Traffic Police officer told IANS. A city that had been complaining about poor rainfall this year was suddenly hit by blinding rains after 6 p.m., taking motorists and people by surprise. In no time, scores of roads big and small became flooded, thanks to choked drains. In some areas, water entered houses and shops. Motorists had a harrowing time all across the city. On some streets, there was knee deep water. “It took me more than 45 minutes to cross a distance that normally takes just 15 minutes,” complained software professional Punit Chadda. Chadda was driving on the arterial Ring Road, which witnessed flooding at several spots.

North Delhi Mayor Meera Aggarwal told IANS that there was no flooding in the areas she visited. “But when there is such heavy downpour, flooding is bound to happen,” she said. Public Relations Executive Manish Arora was stuck on an otherwise busy road near the All India Institute of Medical Sciences for some 30 minutes because of bumper to bumper traffic. Delhi Metro reported huge crowds as harried Delhites chose the network, even dumping their own vehicles. “Though office hours are always rush hours in metro, today the volume of crowd is more than usual,” Madhulika, a regular commuter, told IANS. South Delhi Mayor Sarita Chaudhary blamed multiple civic agencies for the chaos on the roads. “Sometimes PWD digs up the road but it doesn’t come under us. Who is responsible?” North and East Delhi Municipal Corporation spokesman Yogendra Singh Mann said it was high time the capital’s drainage system was given an overhaul. Rainfall recorded in the last 24 hours till 5.30 p.m. was 26 mm. Officials said data for the later rains was not immediately available. Rains are also expected Tuesday, with the India Meteorological Department predicting light rains or thundershowers. With the Yamuna’s level rising menacingly, the Delhi government asked people living along the river’s banks to move to safer places.

An official said the Yamuna had touched 204.16 metres — 67 centimetres short of danger mark. “All preparations are in place to deal any flood like situation in Delhi,” said Irrigation and Flood Control Minister A.K. Walia. The official said 43,218 cusecs (cubic meters per second) of water has been released from upstream at the Hathnikund Barrage in Yamuna Nagar district of Haryana Monday. Delhi’s rainfall this monsoon has been 26 percent less than the average. So far, 372.1 millimetres of rain has been recorded, against the average of 504.3 millimetres.

27.08.2012

Flash Flood

Nigeria

MultiStates, [States of Adamawa, Katsina and Niger]

Flash Flood in Nigeria on Monday, 27 August, 2012 at 10:09 (10:09 AM) UTC.

Description

Floods wreaked havoc in several states in the North at the weekend, killing at least 15 people in Adamawa State and another four in Niger State. Hundreds of homes and farmlands were destroyed in floods in Katsina State, while roadways and bridges were submerged in Nasarawa State. The Adamawa flood affected 36 villages in 13 local government areas and was partly caused by the release of excess water from the Lagdo Dam in Cameroon, emergency authorities said. A local diver said apart from the 15 people who died, as many others were declared missing. “In Yola we counted three corpses, Numan 2, Demsa 3, Guyuk 4, Michika 2, and the list goes on,” he said, asking not to be named. Apart from the Cameroon dam water release, torrential rainfall in the affected areas worsened the floods, head of the Adamawa State Emergency Management Agency, Mr Shadrach Daniel, said. Hundreds of acres of farmlands were submerged in Mayo-Belwa, Song, Fufore, Yola South, Yola North, Shelleng, Lamurde and Numan local government areas wasting farm produce worth millions. Daniel said over 20,000 people have so far been rendered homeless by the incident across the three senatorial districts of the state. He confirmed that people died but said he could not give figures.

27.08.2012

Flash Flood

Philippines

Provincia del Zamboanga del Sur, [Province-wide]

Flash Flood in Philippines on Monday, 27 August, 2012 at 09:14 (09:14 AM) UTC.

Description

At least one person was killed while two people were reported missing in two separate flash flooding incidents in Zamboanga del Sur over the weekend, the National Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Council (NDRRMC) said on Monday. In its 6:00 a.m. report, the NDRRMC said a person was killed after a flash flood caused a cargo truck to overturn in the Salug Dako River, Mahayag town in Zamboanga del Sur at 5:30 p.m. p.m. on Saurday. “The victims were on board a cargo truck when a strong current coming from the said river hit the vehicle, which caused it to overturn,” the NDRRMC said. The NDRRMC heavy rain may have caused the river to overflow and destroyed the spillway that connects Mahayag and Dumingag towns. The NDRRMC did not name the fatality but said five other passengers of the truck were rescued.

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Epidemic Hazards / Diseases

Epidemic Hazard in Russia [Asia] on Monday, 27 August, 2012 at 03:14 (03:14 AM) UTC.

Description
An anthrax outbreak in a Siberian village left one person dead and 10 others hospitalized as the Russian government declared a state of emergency in the area in a bid to prevent an epidemic. There were at least two other confirmed cases of anthrax infection in the village of Druzhba in the Altai region, reported an unidentified officials. The death was reported in a statement today by the Moscow-based Emergency Situations Ministry, which didn’t say whether it was caused by anthrax. Roads around the village have been closed off, Yevgenia Belikova, a spokeswoman for investigators in Altai. Veterinary officials killed several heads of cattle infected with anthrax and vaccinated another 187, as well as 21 horses and pigs, the Altai region’s press office said on its website. The anthrax outbreak is “under control and localized,” Deputy Governor Daniil Bessarabov said in the statement. The anthrax bacteria, known as Bacillus anthracis, occurs most commonly in cattle, sheep and goats and can be lethal to humans. The bacteria, which can cause skin infections and more severe lung infections, may survive in soil decades after an outbreak.
Biohazard name:	Anthrax
Biohazard level:	4/4 Hazardous
Biohazard desc.:	Viruses and bacteria that cause severe to fatal disease in humans, and for which vaccines or other treatments are not available, such as Bolivian and Argentine hemorrhagic fevers, H5N1(bird flu), Dengue hemorrhagic fever, Marburg virus, Ebola virus, hantaviruses, Lassa fever, Crimean-Congo hemorrhagic fever, and other hemorrhagic or unidentified diseases. When dealing with biological hazards at this level the use of a Hazmat suit and a self-contained oxygen supply is mandatory. The entrance and exit of a Level Four biolab will contain multiple showers, a vacuum room, an ultraviolet light room, autonomous detection system, and other safety precautions designed to destroy all traces of the biohazard. Multiple airlocks are employed and are electronically secured to prevent both doors opening at the same time. All air and water service going to and coming from a Biosafety Level 4 (P4) lab will undergo similar decontamination procedures to eliminate the possibility of an accidental release.
Symptoms:
Status:	confirmed

Epidemic Hazard in Russia [Asia] on Monday, 27 August, 2012 at 03:14 (03:14 AM) UTC.

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Updated:	Monday, 27 August, 2012 at 16:11 UTC
Description
Russian emergency officials quarantined the village of Druzhba after a suspected exposure to anthrax killed one person and sent 10 others to area hospitals. Officials said one person died and three people were sickened from anthrax exposure Saturday in Druzhba. Seven others were hospitalized for tests, officials said. Authorities said 32 people in the Altai territory are thought to have come into contact with infected animals. Druzhba, with a population of 740, was quarantined and officials ordered all animals vaccinated. Stray animals were killed to help contain the outbreak.

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Climate Change

United States Is Losing Ozone!
Unexpected And Serious Discovery Scientists Say

MessageToEagle.com – Scientists have discovered a serious and unexpected loss of ozone over United States this summer.

How worried should we be?

The finding is startling because the complex atmospheric chemistry that destroys ozone has previously been thought to occur only at very cold temperatures over polar regions where there is very little threat to humans. (A large hole in the ozone layer persists over Antarctica.)

The discovery also links—for the first time—ozone loss (an issue around which world leaders successfully organized to ban chlorofluorocarbons, or CFCs) to climate change (a global problem that has so far proven politically intractable).

The ozone layer blocks a large fraction of the sun’s ultraviolet light from reaching the earth, protecting life forms from potentially damaging radiation that in humans can lead to skin cancer.But stratospheric ozone is susceptible to chemical catalysts of manmade origin, such as chlorine and bromine, which are present in the earth’s atmosphere as a result of the formerly widespread commercial use of CFCs. And the chemical reactions that destroy ozone are highly dependent on both atmospheric temperature and the presence of water vapor.

The finding was published in advance online on July 26 at Science’s Science Express website.

Anderson’s team has discovered that during intense summer storms over the United States, water vapor is thrust by convection far higher into the lower stratosphere than previously thought possible, altering atmospheric conditions in a way that leads to substantial, widespread ozone loss throughout the ensuing week.

The paper links the loss of ozone over populated mid-latitude regions in summer to the frequency and intensity of these big storms, which could increase with climate change resulting from rising levels of carbon dioxide and methane in the atmosphere.

Storms threaten ozone layer over United States. Image credit: Harvard

“We were investigating the behavior of convective water vapor as part of our climate research,” Anderson says, “not ozone photochemistry.

What proved surprising was the remarkable altitude to which water vapor was being lofted—altitudes exceeding 60,000 feet—and how frequently it was happening.” Anderson and his team realized the significance of the finding because higher water- vapor concentrations in the cold reaches of the lower stratosphere change the threshold temperature at which chlorine is converted to a free radical state: in the presence of water vapor, direct catalytic removal of ozone takes place at warmer temperatures.

In continuing studies the team used isotopic signatures to demonstrate that the water vapor had been carried directly to the stratosphere as a result of convective injection. And in the region of convectively injected water vapor, the researchers found that the catalytic loss of ozone increased by a hundredfold.

As a result, rates of ozone loss could exceed the natural rates of ozone regeneration (and replacement through transport from other regions) by two orders of magnitude. These data come from experimental evidence gathered over the United States, but the researchers note that similar conditions may exist elsewhere.

Harvard scientists have discovered that intense summer storms can force water vapor into the dry and cold stratosphere through a process called convective injection. The presence of such water vapor, which normally stops at the tropopause (the boundary between the troposphere and the stratosphere), changes the threshold temperature at which ozone is destroyed by chemistry dependent on manmade chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs), which are still present in the atmosphere despite an international ban on their use.

The chemical reactions that destroy ozone typically occur only at very cold temperatures. The presence of water vapor raises the temperature at which ozone loss takes place, to the point that threshold conditions for ozone destruction are routinely crossed during the summer above the United States and possibly elsewhere. The frequency and intensity of these summer storms is expected to increase with climate forcing due to increasing levels of heat-trapping atmospheric carbon dioxide and methane. Reductions in stratospheric ozone would allow more DNA-damaging ultraviolet radiation to reach Earth, with potential biological effects on human beings, animals, and plants. Image credit: James G. Anderson/Art by Rob Stanhope

These findings have a public-health impact because they indicate that significant amounts of ozone can be destroyed in only a few days within regions of high water-vapor concentration—and skin-cancer incidence is associated with ultraviolet (UV) dosage levels, which in turn depend on ozone concentrations.

The findings are troubling also because—if the currently extremely dry stratosphere were to become wetter (as happened during earlier periods of elevated carbon dioxide, as indicated in the paleorecord)—the impact on ozone levels could be significant. The high current loading of chlorine and bromine resulting from earlier commercial release of CFCs and halons is unprecedented in Earth’s history. “Were the intensity and frequency of convective events to increase irreversibly as a result of climate forcing,” the scientists write, “decreases in ozone and associated increases in UV dosage would also be irreversible.”

The Science paper notes that loss of ice in the Arctic threatens to release significant amounts of carbon dioxide and methane from the soils of Siberia and Northern Alaska, potentially accelerating climate change. The researchers also note that an increasingly cited remedy for climate change—geo-engineering the climate by launching sulfate particles directly into the atmosphere in order to reflect sunlight away from Earth—would accelerate the process of ozone loss by increasing the reactive surface area for the conversion of chlorine to free radical form, as was observed after the eruption of Mount Pinatubo in 1991.

Loss of ice in the Arctic threatens to release significant amounts of carbon dioxide.

Mario Molina, S.D. ’12, Distinguished Professor of chemistry and biochemistry at UC, San Diego, and co-recipient of the 1995 Nobel Prize in chemistry for his work on CFCs and ozone depletion, says that the findings described in the Science paper are “something very much to worry about, because there is the potential for a pretty significant effect on stratospheric ozone at latitudes where we normally wouldn’t think that would happen.” His own famous 1974 paper on CFC and ozone chemistry, he notes, was largely hypothesis, whereas the Anderson team’s work is based on science that is well-established: even though the results will have to be tested with further measurements, he says that “there is not much speculation” in the paper.

The location of the ozone loss in this case gives special cause for concern. Because the Antarctic ozone hole is confined to the most southern latitudes and only occasionally moves toward the southern tip of South America, scientists have little field experience with biological impacts. “DNA, of course, is constantly being damaged by ultraviolet radiation,” notes Molina, “and there is a natural repair mechanism.

But should ozone disappear in the way described in Professor Anderson’s paper, this would very much be a threat. Many ecological systems are quite sensitive to ultraviolet radiation and they have not evolved the repair mechanisms for more severe ozone depletion.”

Dramatic loss of ozone in the lower stratosphere over Antarctica was first noticed in the 1970s by a research group from the British Antarctic Survey (BAS) who were monitoring the atmosphere above Antarctica from a research station. Today, we learn about unexpected loss of ozone over United States.

Molina says this is “a further indication of society having impacts on the environment which in principle we can do something about.” Harking back to the ozone issue, he points out that if there had “been no international agreement to ban CFCs” in the late 1980s, this newly described problem “would have been a lot worse.” He hopes that “these types of warnings will make the case even stronger for society to begin to react to the climate-change issue, just like we managed to do with the ozone issue.”

Ralph Cicerone, president of the National Academy of Sciences and himself an atmospheric chemist, says that Anderson’s group has “come up with a very important overall picture where the individual pieces are well mapped out; they have been studied by the world’s best experts and they work.”

How serious the findings are is not yet clear, Cicerone says, “but what the Anderson group is talking about can be measured fairly quickly. It is now just a matter of marshaling the people and resources to investigate further.”

“Then we can figure out what the influence is on ozone,” he continues, “and how much more ultraviolet light penetrates to the surface of the earth, so that we can get to the bottom-line effects on human health, as well as crop and other damage.” If further investigation verifies the Anderson team’s findings, then the impacts in “a future climate where the air is getting warmer and moister” will need to be considered, Cicerone says.

Are these storms that “thrust moisture into the stratosphere going to be more frequent?” he asks. “We think they are.”

MessageToEagle.com based on information provided by Harvard

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Solar Activity

2MIN News August 26.2012: Gulf Coast Alert

Published on Aug 26, 2012 by Suspicious0bservers

TODAY’S LINKS
Isaac Video: http://www.reuters.com/video/2012/08/25/isaac-roars-through-the-caribbean?vid…
Isaac Video 2: http://www.weather.com/weather/videos/news-41/top-stories-169/raw-isaac-cause…
Venezuela Oil Explosion: http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/08/25/us-venezuela-refinery-idUSBRE87O02R…
Venezuela Fire Video: http://www.reuters.com/article/video/idUSBRE87O02R20120825?videoId=237280302

REPEAT LINKS
Spaceweather: http://spaceweather.com/ [Look on the left at the X-ray Flux and Solar Wind Speed/Density]

HAARP: http://www.haarp.alaska.edu/haarp/data.html [Click online data, and have a little fun]

SDO: http://sdo.gsfc.nasa.gov/data/ [Place to find Solar Images and Videos – as seen from earth]

SOHO: http://sohodata.nascom.nasa.gov/cgi-bin/soho_movie_theater [SOHO; Lasco and EIT – as seen from earth]

Stereo: http://stereo.gsfc.nasa.gov/cgi-bin/images [Stereo; Cor, EUVI, HI – as seen from the side]

SunAEON:http://www.sunaeon.com/#/solarsystem/ [Just click it… trust me]

SOLARIMG: http://solarimg.org/artis/ [All purpose data viewing site]

iSWA: http://iswa.gsfc.nasa.gov/iswa/iSWA.html [Free Application; for advanced sun watchers]

NASA ENLIL SPIRAL: http://iswa.gsfc.nasa.gov:8080/IswaSystemWebApp/iSWACygnetStreamer?timestamp=…
NOAA ENLIL SPIRAL: http://www.swpc.noaa.gov/wsa-enlil/

NOAA Bouys: http://www.ndbc.noaa.gov/

RSOE: http://hisz.rsoe.hu/alertmap/index2.php [That cool alert map I use]

JAPAN Radiation Map: http://jciv.iidj.net/map/

LISS: http://earthquake.usgs.gov/monitoring/operations/heliplots_gsn.php

Gamma Ray Bursts: http://grb.sonoma.edu/ [Really? You can’t figure out what this one is for?]

BARTOL Cosmic Rays: http://neutronm.bartol.udel.edu//spaceweather/welcome.html [Top left box, look for BIG blue circles]

TORCON: http://www.weather.com/news/tornado-torcon-index [Tornado Forecast for the day]

GOES Weather: http://rsd.gsfc.nasa.gov/goes/ [Clouds over America]

EL DORADO WORLD WEATHER MAP: http://www.eldoradocountyweather.com/satellite/ssec/world/world-composite-ir-…

PRESSURE MAP: http://www.woweather.com/cgi-bin/expertcharts?LANG=us&MENU=0000000000&…

HURRICANE TRACKER: http://www.weather.com/weather/hurricanecentral/tracker

INTELLICAST: http://www.intellicast.com/ [Weather site used by many youtubers]

NASA News: http://science.nasa.gov/science-news/science-at-nasa/

PHYSORG: http://phys.org/ [GREAT News Site!]

2MIN News August 27. 2012: Earth Shakes

Published on Aug 27, 2012 by Suspicious0bservers

TODAY’S LINKS
Rainfall Records: http://www.cocorahs.org/ViewData/ListIntensePrecipReports.aspx

REPEAT LINKS
Spaceweather: http://spaceweather.com/ [Look on the left at the X-ray Flux and Solar Wind Speed/Density]

HAARP: http://www.haarp.alaska.edu/haarp/data.html [Click online data, and have a little fun]

SDO: http://sdo.gsfc.nasa.gov/data/ [Place to find Solar Images and Videos – as seen from earth]

SOHO: http://sohodata.nascom.nasa.gov/cgi-bin/soho_movie_theater [SOHO; Lasco and EIT – as seen from earth]

Stereo: http://stereo.gsfc.nasa.gov/cgi-bin/images [Stereo; Cor, EUVI, HI – as seen from the side]

SunAEON:http://www.sunaeon.com/#/solarsystem/ [Just click it… trust me]

SOLARIMG: http://solarimg.org/artis/ [All purpose data viewing site]

iSWA: http://iswa.gsfc.nasa.gov/iswa/iSWA.html [Free Application; for advanced sun watchers]

NASA ENLIL SPIRAL: http://iswa.gsfc.nasa.gov:8080/IswaSystemWebApp/iSWACygnetStreamer?timestamp=…
NOAA ENLIL SPIRAL: http://www.swpc.noaa.gov/wsa-enlil/

NOAA Bouys: http://www.ndbc.noaa.gov/

RSOE: http://hisz.rsoe.hu/alertmap/index2.php [That cool alert map I use]

JAPAN Radiation Map: http://jciv.iidj.net/map/

LISS: http://earthquake.usgs.gov/monitoring/operations/heliplots_gsn.php

Gamma Ray Bursts: http://grb.sonoma.edu/ [Really? You can’t figure out what this one is for?]

BARTOL Cosmic Rays: http://neutronm.bartol.udel.edu//spaceweather/welcome.html [Top left box, look for BIG blue circles]

TORCON: http://www.weather.com/news/tornado-torcon-index [Tornado Forecast for the day]

GOES Weather: http://rsd.gsfc.nasa.gov/goes/ [Clouds over America]

EL DORADO WORLD WEATHER MAP: http://www.eldoradocountyweather.com/satellite/ssec/world/world-composite-ir-…

PRESSURE MAP: http://www.woweather.com/cgi-bin/expertcharts?LANG=us&MENU=0000000000&…

HURRICANE TRACKER: http://www.weather.com/weather/hurricanecentral/tracker

INTELLICAST: http://www.intellicast.com/ [Weather site used by many youtubers]

NASA News: http://science.nasa.gov/science-news/science-at-nasa/

PHYSORG: http://phys.org/ [GREAT News Site!]

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Space

Earth approaching objects (objects that are known in the next 30 days)

Object Name

Apporach Date

Left

AU Distance

LD Distance

Estimated Diameter*

Relative Velocity

331769 (2003 BQ35)

28th August 2012

0 day(s)

0.1585

61.7

240 m – 530 m

4.64 km/s

16704 km/h

(2010 SC)

28th August 2012

0 day(s)

0.1679

65.3

16 m – 36 m

9.56 km/s

34416 km/h

4769 Castalia

28th August 2012

0 day(s)

0.1135

44.2

1.4 km

12.06 km/s

43416 km/h

(2012 LU7)

02nd September 2012

5 day(s)

0.1200

46.7

440 m – 990 m

8.16 km/s

29376 km/h

(2012 FS35)

02nd September 2012

5 day(s)

0.1545

60.1

2.3 m – 5.2 m

2.87 km/s

10332 km/h

(2012 HG31)

03rd September 2012

6 day(s)

0.0716

27.9

440 m – 990 m

10.33 km/s

37188 km/h

(2012 PX)

04th September 2012

7 day(s)

0.0452

17.6

61 m – 140 m

9.94 km/s

35784 km/h

(2012 EH5)

05th September 2012

8 day(s)

0.1613

62.8

38 m – 84 m

9.75 km/s

35100 km/h

(2011 EO11)

05th September 2012

8 day(s)

0.1034

40.2

9.0 m – 20 m

8.81 km/s

31716 km/h

(2007 PS25)

06th September 2012

9 day(s)

0.0497

19.3

23 m – 52 m

8.50 km/s

30600 km/h

329520 (2002 SV)

08th September 2012

11 day(s)

0.1076

41.9

300 m – 670 m

9.17 km/s

33012 km/h

(2011 ES4)

10th September 2012

13 day(s)

0.1792

69.8

20 m – 44 m

12.96 km/s

46656 km/h

(2008 CO)

11th September 2012

14 day(s)

0.1847

71.9

74 m – 160 m

4.10 km/s

14760 km/h

(2007 PB8)

14th September 2012

17 day(s)

0.1682

65.5

150 m – 340 m

14.51 km/s

52236 km/h

226514 (2003 UX34)

14th September 2012

17 day(s)

0.1882

73.2

260 m – 590 m

25.74 km/s

92664 km/h

(1998 QC1)

14th September 2012

17 day(s)

0.1642

63.9

310 m – 700 m

17.11 km/s

61596 km/h

(2002 EM6)

15th September 2012

18 day(s)

0.1833

71.3

270 m – 590 m

18.56 km/s

66816 km/h

(2002 RP137)

16th September 2012

19 day(s)

0.1624

63.2

67 m – 150 m

7.31 km/s

26316 km/h

(2009 RX4)

16th September 2012

19 day(s)

0.1701

66.2

15 m – 35 m

8.35 km/s

30060 km/h

(2005 UC)

17th September 2012

20 day(s)

0.1992

77.5

280 m – 640 m

7.55 km/s

27180 km/h

(2012 FC71)

18th September 2012

21 day(s)

0.1074

41.8

24 m – 53 m

3.51 km/s

12636 km/h

(1998 FF14)

19th September 2012

22 day(s)

0.0928

36.1

210 m – 480 m

21.40 km/s

77040 km/h

331990 (2005 FD)

19th September 2012

22 day(s)

0.1914

74.5

320 m – 710 m

15.92 km/s

57312 km/h

(2009 SH2)

24th September 2012

27 day(s)

0.1462

56.9

28 m – 62 m

7.52 km/s

27072 km/h

333578 (2006 KM103)

25th September 2012

28 day(s)

0.0626

24.4

250 m – 560 m

8.54 km/s

30744 km/h

(2002 EZ2)

26th September 2012

29 day(s)

0.1922

74.8

270 m – 610 m

6.76 km/s

24336 km/h

1 AU = ~150 million kilometers,1 LD = Lunar Distance = ~384,000 kilometers

Source: NASA-NEO

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First X-Rays From The Remains Of A Supernova
Observed Over 50 Years Ago

MessageToEagle.com – Astronomers have detected X-rays from the remains of a supernova in the constellation Hydra, first seen from Earth over 50 years ago.

While detected in the radio and optical for decades, the supernova SN 1957D, the fourth one detected in the year 1957, did not appear in previous X-ray images.

Astronomers needed a long observation (8.5 days) from Chandra of the spiral galaxy where SN 1957D is found to finally detect it.

The Chandra data suggest a rapidly rotating neutron star was formed by the explosion, which would be one of the youngest objects of this type ever observed.Over fifty years ago, a supernova was discovered in M83, a spiral galaxy about 15 million light years from Earth. Astronomers have used NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory to make the first detection of X-rays emitted by the debris from this explosion.

Named SN 1957D because it was the fourth supernova to be discovered in the year of 1957, it is one of only a few located outside of the Milky Way galaxy that is detectable, in both radio and optical wavelengths, decades after its explosion was observed.

In 1981, astronomers saw the remnant of the exploded star in radio waves, and then in 1987 they detected the remnant at optical wavelengths, years after the light from the explosion itself became undetectable.

A relatively short observation — about 14 hours long — from NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory in 2000 and 2001 did not detect any X-rays from the remnant of SN 1957D.

Click on image to enlargeThis new Chandra image of M83 is one of the deepest X-ray observations ever made of a spiral galaxy beyond our own. Credits: Chandra X-Ray Observatory
However, a much longer observation obtained in 2010 and 2011, totaling nearly 8 and 1/2 days of Chandra time, did reveal the presence of X-ray emission. The X-ray brightness in 2000 and 2001 was about the same as or lower than in this deep image.

This new Chandra image of M83 is one of the deepest X-ray observations ever made of a spiral galaxy beyond our own.

This full-field view of the spiral galaxy shows the low, medium, and high-energy X-rays observed by Chandra in red, green, and blue respectively. The location of SN 1957D, which is found on the inner edge of the spiral arm just above the galaxy’s center, is outlined in the box (or can be seen by mousing over the image.)

Click on image to enlargeMultipanel with Optical, H-alpha & X-ray images of SN 1957D in M83

This set of images from the Hubble Space Telescope shows optical and H-alpha images of the area around SN 1957D in M83. The optical images, shown at two different zooms, includes one filter at ultraviolet wavelengths and two different filters at optical wavelengths, colored blue, green and red. The H-alpha images show light emitted by hydrogen in red, sulfur in green and oxygen in blue. In each case SN 1957D is located in the middle of the image. In the optical images the star cluster containing the supernova is visible and in the H-alpha images the remains of the supernova are visible. The multipanel shows the optical and H-alpha images next to the Chandra image. Credit: Optical: NASA/STScI
The new X-ray data from the remnant of SN 1957D provide important information about the nature of this explosion that astronomers think happened when a massive star ran out of fuel and collapsed. The distribution of X-rays with energy suggests that SN 1957D contains a neutron star, a rapidly spinning, dense star formed when the core of pre-supernova star collapsed. This neutron star, or pulsar, may be producing a cocoon of charged particles moving at close to the speed of light known as a pulsar wind nebula.

If this interpretation is confirmed, the pulsar in SN 1957D is observed at an age of 55 years, one of the youngest pulsars ever seen. The remnant of SN 1979C in the galaxy M100 contains another candidate for the youngest pulsar, but astronomers are still unsure whether there is a black hole or a pulsar at the center of SN 1979C.

An image from the Hubble Space Telescope (in the box labeled “Optical Close-Up”) shows that the debris of the explosion that created SN 1957D is located at the edge of a star cluster less than 10 million years old.

Many of these stars are estimated to have masses about 17 times that of the Sun. This is just the right mass for a star’s evolution to result in a core-collapse supernova as is thought to be the case in SN 1957D.

These results will appear in an upcoming issue of The Astrophysical Journal. The researchers involved with this study were Knox Long (Space Telescope Science Institute), William Blair (Johns Hopkins University), Leith Godfrey (Curtin University, Australia), Kip Kuntz (Johns Hopkins), Paul Plucinsky (Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics), Roberto Soria (Curtin University), Christopher Stockdale (University of Oklahoma and the Australian Astronomical Observatory), Bradley Whitmore (Space Telescope Science Institute), and Frank Winkler (Middlebury College).
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Mysterious Booms / Rumblings & Sinkholes

Source Of Loud Boom In Foothills A Mystery

EL DORADO COUNTY (CBS13) – People from all over El Dorado County say they’re hearing loud booms several times a week, but there are many theories on what is causing them.

“I thought it was thunder,” said one person.

“It’s definitely not thunder; too consistent. I thought it was just mining,” said another person.

“I always considered them to be sonic booms from flying aircrafts for years,” said Loring Brunius, owner of Sierra Rock Diamond Quarry.

People who live near Pleasant Valley say their days have been interrupted by loud booms, shaking the floor beneath them.

“You can feel it in the ground, no question about it. But no one’s been able to figure out why,” said Pleasant Valley resident Peter O’Grady. “I tend to hear somewhere between four to six of these things during the weekdays usually between 11 p.m. and 2 p.m.

“Boom, boom, boom, boom just like that,” said Lorren Gonzales, who lives near Pleasant Valley.

And the rolling foothills of El Dorado County make it difficult for them to even tell where it’s coming from.

We asked the owner of Sierra Rock Diamond Quarry what he knew about it. He says they havent blasted since last year. And any miners or quarry owners would need government permission before they can set off any explosives.

“It’s a federally mandated system, and enforced,” said Brunius.

Some think the booms are from nearby wineries using propane cannons to scare away birds.

“We’ve never done it and I don’t know of any other winery that does,” said Carrie Bendick, a winemaker at Holly’s Hill Winery.

According to USGS, there aren’t enough seismic stations to pinpoint the exact location. Meanwhile, some say the booms have been around so long and happen so often they barely notice them anymore. Still, others want to solve the mystery.

“I would like to know what it is, yeah. And I’d like to know when it’s going to stop too,” said O’Grady.

CBS13 spoke to Fallon Naval Air Station that said any supersonic flight operations they do are only allowed over Dixie Valley, which is hundreds of miles away.

Some think illegal mining could be the source of the sounds, but Brunius doubts that theory. He said if that was the case, the culprit would have been caught by now.

08/25/12 Flyover Bayou Corne

Gas-detecting plane will fly near sinkhole

BY DAVID J. MITCHELL

River Parishes bureau

PIERRE PART — A U.S. Environmental Protection Agency aircraft is expected to make back-and-forth aerial passes at 300 feet as soon as Saturday over the Bayou Corne and Grand Bayou areas in an attempt to detect possible plumes of natural gas leaking from the land and water below.

The Louisiana Department of Natural Resources has hired a firm to drill a ground water observation well to test whether natural gas may be in a water aquifer underneath the same area.

And, a science advisory team has recommended a battery of tests for Texas Brine Co. LLC to conduct with the investigatory well that Texas Brine is already drilling to peer inside one of the company’s salt caverns.

Louisiana Department of Natural Resources officials detailed these and other steps during a public meeting Friday.

All are aimed at getting to the bottom of a large sinkhole that was found between Bayou Corne and Grand Bayou on Aug. 3 and prompted an ongoing mandatory evacuation of people living in about 150 homes.

DNR was one of several agencies providing an overview Friday at the parish hall of St. Joseph the Worker Catholic Church in Pierre Part about recent developments in response to the sinkhole and the continuing natural gas releases that preceded the sinkhole by about two months.

DNR scientists think the cavern inside the Napoleonville Dome may have failed and released its brine contents, causing the sinkhole.

The 1-mile-by-3-mile dome is a large salt deposit pushed up from an ancient sea bed under the earth.

The cavern was used in solution mining for nearly three decades to produce brine for industry. In the process, the cavern was hollowed out of the salt dome with water into the shape of a narrow, upside-down vase 3,400 feet underground.

Brent Campbell, DNR Pipeline Division director, told a few hundred people in the church hall that the Office of Conservation and DNR are committed to be in the Bayou Corne area for the long haul.

“We are going to continue to provide any resources that we need to personnel so we can find the cause and try to resolve this problem,” he said.

The group also learned about other theories being considered as a possible causes of the sinkhole or natural gas releases.

Officials with the Louisiana departments of Environmental Quality and Health and Hospitals also continued to say that samples collected from the air and water in and around the sinkhole do not pose a risk to public health.

“While there are a lot of interesting things happening here, one of them is not health risk from pollution. I’d like to make that very clear and the Health Department will point that out when they come as well,” said Chris Piehler, DEQ Inspection Division administrator, adding: “Your health is not threatened from air pollution.”

Piehler noted that the agency’s equipment is sensitive and picking up a variety of chemicals but they are at very low levels, including traces of carcinogenic benzene, or are not toxic, such as natural gas.

“These are incredibly low levels. In fact, I confirmed before coming here tonight that the air quality as indicated by those samples is better than it is in Baton Rouge,” Piehler said.

But residents also received some unsettling news as well.

Michel Cernuska, 36, of Brule St. Martin, asked DNR officials what was being considered by the science advisory group to fix the cavern or its well casing if either has had a failure.

“If it’s as simple as a casing, yes (it can be fixed). If it’s a cavern fracture, failure, whatever, there’s little that you can do,” said Chris Knotts, a civil engineer with DNR who is coordinating the science group studying the sinkhole.

A low but audible rumble in the crowd followed that statement.

Cernuska also asked about the “oxymoronic” evacuation order in light of DEQ and DHH are saying people’s health is not at risk.

But Assumption parish Police Jury President Martin “Marty” Triche said parish officials are not comfortable lifting the order with so many unknowns about the cavern’s cause.

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Articles of Interest

27.08.2012

Explosion

Venezuela

Departmento de Falcon, [Paraguana Refinery Complex]

Explosion in Venezuela on Saturday, 25 August, 2012 at 12:56 (12:56 PM) UTC.

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Updated:

Monday, 27 August, 2012 at 03:19 UTC

Description

After nightfall on Friday, as red lights began glowing atop the massive Amuay refinery in western Venezuela, the odor of sulfur made its way through the surrounding neighborhood of working-class homes and small shops. Francisco Gonzalez, a stocky accountant with dark hair, noticed the smell after 7 p.m. as he climbed the stairs to his second-story apartment across the street from the refinery. He had smelled the fumes from gas leaks many times before, so he didn’t think much about it as he shut the door. Six hours later, disaster struck. A powerful explosion ripped through the neighborhood and engulfed part of the refinery in flames, killing at least 39 people and injuring more than 80 in Venezuela’s deadliest refinery blast ever. “The first thing I saw was that the apartment didn’t have windows or doors or walls, just a floor and a roof,” Gonzalez said. “I don’t know how we survived.” In the dark, the 31-year-old man made his way downstairs to the street, where he, his brother and sister-in-law joined terrified neighbors. Some were wounded. Others were shouting.

When Gonzalez looked at the back of his right hand, it was bleeding from gashes. At about 2 a.m., the halls of the hospital were filling up with wounded people. Doctors and nurses hurried to treat the most seriously hurt, while Gonzalez and others sat on the floor waiting their turn. Back at the refinery, soldiers, firefighters and state oil company workers were diving into action. Bodies were pulled from the rubble and lifted onto pickup trucks. Stella Lugo, the governor of Falcon state, went on state television to update the nation, setting the initial toll at seven people dead and 48 injured. The toll steadily rose in the next hours. When she reached the refinery at dawn, Lugo posted a photo on Twitter showing balls of fire and black smoke billowing. Other government officials went on television saying the gas leak had led to the blast and that the fire was being brought under control. President Hugo Chavez ordered an investigation and declared three days of mourning in the country. A total of 209 homes and 11 businesses were damaged in the explosion, and a National Guard post next to the refinery was destroyed, Vice President Elias Jaua said on Saturday. He said 18 of the victims were National Guard soldiers.

On Saturday night, dozens of people who had fled their homes in the neighborhood of La Pastora returned to streets covered with rubble, twisted scraps of metal and puddles of spilled fuel. Gabriela Nunez, a housewife, went back to her home to gather belongings, saying she was worried about looters who had stolen goods from nearby stores hours after the explosion. “That forced us to come back, even though we’re afraid, to save what can be saved and secure our houses,” Nunez said. More than a day after the blast, the flames were still raging on Sunday, sending up a column of dark smoke. Some oil experts and government critics were also raising questions, saying they believe there hasn’t been sufficient maintenance at refineries and that the situation could be making such incidents more likely. Refinery manager Jesus Luongo denied that, as did Chavez, who spoke to journalists near the refinery on Sunday. The president said investigators haven’t determined what caused the disaster. “Lack of maintenance? Who can, who can say that right now with any seriousness? Nobody,” Chavez said. He said he had spoken personally with some of the military officers who were on duty at the time. “They tell me that very night, in the rounds that were made a few hours earlier, no substantial leak was detected,” said Chavez, who later visited the refinery complex and attended a Mass for the victims. Amuay is among the world’s largest refineries and is part of the Paraguana Refinery Complex, which also includes the adjacent Cardon refinery. Together, the refineries process about 900,000 barrels of crude per day ad 200,000 barrels of gasoline. Oil Minister Rafael Ramirez said the country has enough fuel in storage, “10 days of inventories,” to keep the Venezuelan market fully supplied. He said fires were still burning in two fuel storage tanks but that other “process areas” of the refinery were otherwise unaffected.

Once the flames are completely extinguished, Ramirez said, “we have the ability to restart our refinery in two days.” Restarting will be a challenge for Gonzalez, who picked through what remained of his family’s apartment, sweeping away debris with a broom. Broken glass littered the floor along with fragments of the shattered walls. The shop on the first floor was also destroyed, but Gonzalez and his brother and sister-in-law all survived with only minor injuries. “I’m happy to be here telling this story,” Gonzalez said, his hand covered in a bandage and with stitches on his arms. “Material things, although they cost us a great deal to obtain, aren’t worth much when you compare them with life.”

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Hidden Rift Valley As Big As Grand Canyon
Discovered Beneath West Antarctica

MessageToEagle.com – A new discovery suggests that a rift in the Antarctic rock as deep as the Grand Canyon is increasing ice melt from the continent.

Experts from the University of Aberdeen and British Antarctic Survey (BAS) made the discovery below Ferrigno Ice Stream, a region visited only once previously, over fifty years ago, in 1961, and one that is remote even by Antarctic standards.

Their findings, reported in Nature this week reveal that the ice-filled ancient rift basin is connected to the warming ocean which impacts upon contemporary ice flow and loss.

The West Antarctic Ice Sheet is of great scientific interest and societal importance as it is losing ice faster than any other part of Antarctica with some glaciers shrinking by more than one metre per year.

Understanding the processes that influence ice loss from West Antarctica is important to improve predictions of its future behaviour in a warming world.

Dr Robert Bingham, a glaciologist working in the University of Aberdeen’s School of Geosciences and lead author of the study, discovered the rift valley whilst undertaking three months of fieldwork with British Antarctic Survey in 2010.Dr Bingham, whose fieldwork was funded by the UK’s Natural Environment Research Council (NERC) said:“Over the last 20 years we have used satellites to monitor ice losses from Antarctica, and we have witnessed consistent and substantial ice losses from around much of its coastline.

“For some of the glaciers, including Ferrigno Ice Stream, the losses are especially pronounced, and, to understand why, we needed to acquire data about conditions beneath the ice surface.”

The team gathered the data using an ice-penetrating radar system towed behind a skidoo driven across the relatively flat ice surface, over a distance of 1500 miles — greater than that between London and Athens.

Dr Bingham continued: “What we found is that lying beneath the ice there is a large valley, parts of which are approximately a mile deeper than the surrounding landscape.

“If you stripped away all of the ice here today, you’d see a feature every bit as dramatic as the huge rift valleys you see in Africa and in size as significant as the Grand Canyon.

“This is at odds with the flat ice surface that we were driving across — without these measurements we would never have known that it was there.

“What’s particularly important is that this spectacular valley aligns perfectly with the recordings of ice-surface lowering and ice loss that we have witnessed with satellite observations over this area for the last twenty years.”

Co-author and geophysicist Dr Fausto Ferraccioli from British Antarctic Survey added: “The newly discovered Ferrigno Rift is part of a huge and yet poorly understood rift system that lies beneath the West Antarctic Ice Sheet.

The ice-margin of Ferrigno Ice Stream where it flows into Eltanin Bay.
(Credit: Photo Rob Bingham)

“What this study shows is that this ancient rift basin, and the others discovered under the ice that connect to the warming ocean can influence contemporary ice flow and may exacerbate ice losses by steering coastal changes further inland.”

Image credit: NASA

Professor David Vaughan, from British Antarctic Survey leads Ice2sea, a major EU-funded FP7 research programme to improve projections of global and regional sea-level. He said, “Thinning ice in West Antarctica is currently contributing nearly 10 per cent of global sea level rise. It’s important to understand this hot spot of change so we can make more accurate predictions for future sea level rise.”

Glossary

Rift valley: A linear-shaped lowland between highlands or mountain ranges created by the action of a geologic rift or fault. This action is manifest as crustal extension, a spreading apart of the surface which is subsequently further deepened by the forces of erosion.

Glacier: A ‘river of ice’ fed by the accumulation of snow. Glaciers drain ice from mountains to lower levels, where the ice either melts, breaks away into the sea as icebergs, or feeds into an ice shelf.

Ice sheet: The huge mass of ice, up to 4 km thick that covers bedrock in Antarctica or Greenland. It flows from the centre of the continent towards the coast where it feeds ice shelves.

MessageToEagle.com via British Antarctic Survey

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August 13, 2012

Earthquakes

RSOE EDIS

Date/Time (UTC)	Magnitude	Area	Country	State/Prov./Gov.	Location	Risk	Source	Details
13.08.2012 10:45:32	2.9	North America	United States	Alaska	Tyonek		USGS-RSOE
13.08.2012 10:50:28	4.1	Middle East	Iran	East Azarbaijan	Ahar		USGS-RSOE
13.08.2012 11:21:02	4.2	Middle-East	Iran	East Azarbaijan	Ahar		EMSC
13.08.2012 10:00:34	4.4	Europe	Italy	Sicily	Sclafani		USGS-RSOE
13.08.2012 10:15:25	3.8	Europe	Italy	Sicily	Sclafani		EMSC
13.08.2012 09:25:28	2.1	North America	United States	Nevada	Mina		USGS-RSOE
13.08.2012 09:00:34	2.1	North America	United States	Alaska	Adak		USGS-RSOE
13.08.2012 09:15:24	2.6	Europe	Greece	West Greece	Selianitika		EMSC
13.08.2012 08:10:34	3.7	Middle-East	Iran	East Azarbaijan	Ahar		EMSC
13.08.2012 08:45:32	4.9	South America	Peru	San Martín	Jepelacio		USGS-RSOE
13.08.2012 08:10:58	5.0	South-America	Peru	Loreto	Barranca		EMSC
13.08.2012 08:11:20	4.1	Asia	Kyrgyzstan	Ysyk-Köl	Kadzhi-Say		EMSC
13.08.2012 10:05:33	3.7	Caribbean	Dominican Republic	La Altagracia	Otra Banda		USGS-RSOE
13.08.2012 06:25:32	2.1	North America	United States	California	Pearsonville		USGS-RSOE
13.08.2012 07:05:20	3.8	Middle-East	Iran	East Azarbaijan	Ahar		EMSC
13.08.2012 05:55:27	2.1	North America	United States	Alaska	Glacier View		USGS-RSOE
13.08.2012 05:50:37	3.8	North America	United States	Alaska	Karluk		USGS-RSOE
13.08.2012 09:15:43	4.6	Indonesian Archipelago	East Timor		Gunung Dilarini		EMSC
13.08.2012 06:00:30	3.5	Europe	Italy	Sicily	Panarea		EMSC
13.08.2012 05:20:29	2.1	Caribbean	Puerto Rico	Adjuntas	Adjuntas		USGS-RSOE
13.08.2012 06:00:55	2.7	Middle-East	Iran	?z??rb?yj?n-e Gharb?	Salmas		EMSC
13.08.2012 04:56:36	4.4	Middle-East	Iran	East Azarbaijan	Ahar		EMSC
13.08.2012 06:01:19	4.6	Middle East	Iran	East Azarbaijan	Ahar		USGS-RSOE
13.08.2012 03:55:21	2.0	North America	United States	Alaska	Cantwell		USGS-RSOE
13.08.2012 02:45:48	2.5	North America	United States	Alaska	Ouzinkie		USGS-RSOE
13.08.2012 02:55:21	2.4	Asia	Turkey	Bal?kesir	Marmara		EMSC
13.08.2012 02:15:27	2.5	North America	United States	California	Brooktrails		USGS-RSOE
13.08.2012 02:10:28	2.6	North America	United States	Alaska	Y		USGS-RSOE
13.08.2012 01:56:37	4.4	Asia	Russia	Sakhalin	Vostok		USGS-RSOE
13.08.2012 01:55:20	4.3	Europe	Russia	Sakhalin	Vostok		EMSC
13.08.2012 01:20:33	4.4	Indonesian archipelago	Indonesia	Maluku Utara	Ternate		USGS-RSOE
13.08.2012 01:55:46	4.4	Indonesian Archipelago	Indonesia	Maluku Utara	Ternate		EMSC
13.08.2012 01:56:08	3.6	South-America	Peru	Tacna	Sobraya		EMSC
13.08.2012 07:05:48	2.1	Asia	Turkey	Kütahya	Saphane		EMSC
13.08.2012 00:50:20	3.8	Asia	Turkey	Van	Yuvacik		EMSC
13.08.2012 01:15:27	2.8	North America	United States	Alaska	Adak		USGS-RSOE
13.08.2012 00:50:39	4.3	Indonesian Archipelago	Indonesia	Aceh	Sinabang		EMSC
13.08.2012 00:05:51	4.3	Indonesian archipelago	Indonesia	Aceh	Sinabang		USGS-RSOE
13.08.2012 00:51:02	2.2	Europe	Italy	Emilia-Romagna	San Prospero		EMSC
12.08.2012 23:45:28	2.6	Europe	Greece	Thessaly	Glossa		EMSC
13.08.2012 02:20:33	2.3	North America	Canada	British Columbia	Princeton		USGS-RSOE
12.08.2012 23:20:27	2.6	North America	United States	Alaska	Kokhanok		USGS-RSOE
12.08.2012 22:40:26	3.1	Europe	Greece	West Greece	Temeni		EMSC
12.08.2012 22:30:36	2.4	North America	United States	California	Darwin		USGS-RSOE
12.08.2012 22:20:32	2.2	North America	United States	California	Yorba Linda		USGS-RSOE
12.08.2012 22:25:35	4.7	Indonesian archipelago	Indonesia	Central Sulawesi	Beteleme		USGS-RSOE
12.08.2012 22:40:48	4.7	Indonesian Archipelago	Indonesia	Central Sulawesi	Beteleme		EMSC
12.08.2012 21:45:46	2.3	North America	United States	Alaska	Valdez		USGS-RSOE
12.08.2012 22:41:10	2.0	Asia	Turkey	Tunceli	Pulumer		EMSC
12.08.2012 20:35:24	2.3	Asia	Turkey	Malatya	Arguvan		EMSC

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13.08.2012

Earthquake

Iran

Province of East Azarbaijan, [About 21 miles west of Ahar]

Earthquake in Iran on Saturday, 11 August, 2012 at 15:59 (03:59 PM) UTC.

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Monday, 13 August, 2012 at 02:58 UTC

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The death toll from twin earthquakes rose to 300, officials said Sunday, as rescue efforts in northwest Iran continued and more bodies were expected to be found. But some witnesses complained that the government was not aiding the efforts of residents and private agencies to rescue possible victims of Saturday’s tremors. “From the first minutes in the aftermath … the survivors rushed to unearth the dead and alive and injured and that rescue goes on,” said a witness in one of the affected towns. “But official rescues halted or seem to have stopped, as there is no hope of any alive to be unearthed and the number of Red Crescent rescue team is not big enough and few of them are trained enough.” Air-rescue operations were suspended hours after the earthquakes, one of them measuring a magnitude 6.2, struck as night fell and helicopters were unable to fly in the dark in the mountainous region. Much of the efforts now are said to be about providing food and shelter for the survivors. The quakes hit in a sparsely populated region, but entire villages were sent crumbling to the ground. Many others were partially damaged, and more than 2,000 people have been injured. Even with the relatively low population of the region, Naser Zargar, who heads the coroner’s office in the epicenter town of Ahar, told Iran’s official Islamic Republic News Agency, or IRNA, on Saturday that the death count could be over 1,000.The mayor of Varzaghan, one of the hardest-hit towns, said 12 villages in the region had been destroyed. Each of those villages had up to 1,000 residents and as many as a third may have been killed, he told IRNA. Many of the dead are women and children killed under the rubble of falling homes as the earthquake struck in late afternoon, a time when men were still outdoors working in this agricultural region. “Due to the traditional architecture of the villages, using clay bricks mixed with straw, rural areas have sustained most of the damage,” said Reza Sedighi, Ahar’s governor and head of the disaster relief center. He estimated that 25% of the public places, administrative buildings and people’s houses were damaged. The food and canned products that have been delivered to Ahar so far have been insufficient and the area is in desperate need of water, dried food and canned goods, he said. “People need tents and blankets as the weather is cold at night and they have to sleep under they sky, anticipating more tremors,” said Majan Laghaie, a reporter for the independent Shargh newspaper. “We visited many villages, five of them entirely heaps of rubble and debris. … People are shocked and still anticipating more tremors.” Ayatollah Shabestari, the provincial representative of Iran’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, called for two days of mourning. There was early criticism of the government’s response to the disaster, even as President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s Cabinet members sent their official condolences to people of East Azerbaijan province. On Saturday, as the nascent stages of rescue efforts were still underway, Turkish separatists in the region called in to an opposition TV station and complained of the slow response. They appealed to the governments of neighboring Turkey and Azerbaijan to send aid.

Iran has a deadly history of earthquakes. In 2003, more than 25,000 people were killed when a magnitude 6.6 quake struck the southeast part of the country. “Nowhere in the world does a 6 Richter scale earthquake kill so many people,” Iran’s leading seismologist, Bahram Akasheh, told a local news agency on Sunday. “The maximum number of the casualties should have been 10 injured. Due to the inappropriate constructions, our cities and villages are heavily damaged. It shows our crisis management has failed to strengthen the foundation of buildings. “We have predicted an over-7 Richter earthquake in the central or eastern … mountain ranges,” Akasheh said. “We should for sure anticipate for it in the future.” A former member of parliament, Gholamali Masoudi Rayhan, told the semi-official Iranian Labor News Agency, or ILNA, that there were also problems in how state media were covering the disaster.

Earthquake in Iran on Saturday, 11 August, 2012 at 15:59 (03:59 PM) UTC.

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Monday, 13 August, 2012 at 08:10 UTC

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Overcrowded hospitals in northwest Iran struggled to cope with thousands of earthquake victims on Sunday as rescuers raced to reach remote villages after two powerful quakes killed nearly 300 people. Thousands huddled in makeshift camps or slept in the street after Saturday’s quakes for fear of more aftershocks, 60 of which had already struck. A lack of tents and other supplies left them exposed to the night chill, one witness told Reuters. “I saw some people whose entire home was destroyed, and all their livestock killed,” Tahir Sadati, a local photographer, said by telephone. “People need help, they need warm clothes, more tents, blankets and bread.” The worst damage and most casualties appeared to have been in rural villages around the towns of Ahar, Varzaghan and Harees, near the major city of Tabriz, Iranian media reported. Tabriz resident Ahmad, 41, told Reuters his cousin living in a village near Ahar was killed and his body found. “Nobody knows what happened to his wife and two daughters,” aged 4 and 7, Ahmad said. “We fear that if rescuers don’t get to them soon, they will lose their lives too if they’re still alive.” But Iranian officials said rescue operations had ended by Sunday afternoon and that all those trapped beneath the rubble had been freed, Iran’s English-language Press TV reported.Many villages are hard to reach by road, hindering rescue efforts. Hospitals in Tabriz, Ardabil and other cities nearby took in many of the injured, residents and Iranian media said, and there were long queues of survivors waiting to be treated. “I wanted to go there last night to help but heard there was bad traffic and that it wasn’t safe enough,” Ahmad said. “People in those villages need help.” Abbas Falahi, member of parliament for Ahar and Harees, said people in some villages were still “in dire need of food and drinking water”, the semi-official Mehr news agency reported. “Despite the promises of officials, little first aide has been distributed in the region and most people are left without tents. If the situation continues, the toll will rise,” he said. Aidin, a Tabriz resident, said he went to give blood at a local hospital on Saturday and saw staff struggling to cope with the influx of patients. Most patients had been taken there by their families, he said, indicating a shortage of ambulances. Ahar’s 120-bed hospital was full, said Arash, a college student in the town. There were traffic jams on the narrow road to Tabriz as victims tried to reach hospitals, he said by telephone.

“People are scared and won’t go back into their houses because they fear the buildings aren’t safe.” The U.S. Geological Survey measured Saturday’s first quake at 6.4 magnitude and said it struck 60 km (37 miles) northeast of the city of Tabriz, a trading hub far from Iran’s oil-producing areas and known nuclear facilities. The second, measuring 6.3, struck 11 minutes later near Varzaghan, 49 km (30 miles) northeast of Tabriz. More than 1,000 villages in the area were affected by the earthquakes, Ahmad Reza Shaji’i, a Red Crescent official, told the Iranian Students’ News Agency (ISNA). Some 130 villages suffered more than 70 percent damage, and 20 villages were completely destroyed, he said. “We saw some villages that were truly destroyed,” said Sadati, the photographer who was documenting the quake aftermath. “One good thing was that the earthquake happened during the day, so many people were not in their homes. If it had happened at night the casualties would have been far worse.” Close to 300 people were believed to be dead, said Reza Sadighi, Ahar’s local governor, Fars news agency said. National emergency head Gholam Reza Masoumi said 5,000 people are believed to be injured, according to ISNA.

Nearly 100 ambulances and 1,100 Red Crescent workers were deployed, Shaji’i said, along with 44,000 food packages and 5,600 tents for shelter. The relief agency had enough supplies and most residents in the area had access to clean water but Shaji’i asked residents to donate cash to the relief effort. Tehran officials sent condolences to the victims and declared two days of mourning in the province, ISNA reported. About 36,000 people in the quake-hit area have been given emergency shelter, Masoumi was quoted as saying by ISNA. Iranian lawmaker Mohammad Hassan-Nejad warned that if relief efforts did not speed up, the death toll would swiftly rise. “Relief groups have still not reached many villages, because in normal conditions some of these villages are several hours away,” he told ISNA. “Currently the roads are closed and the only way to reach these villages is by air.”

Photographs posted on Iranian news websites showed numerous bodies, including children, lying on the floor of a white-tiled morgue in Ahar and medical staff treating the injured in the open air as dusk fell on Saturday. Other images showed rescue workers digging people out of rubble – some alive, many dead. Twenty-eight year old Narges in Tehran said she saw dozens of people in a hospital waiting to donate blood for the victims. Iran is crisscrossed by major fault lines and has suffered several devastating earthquakes in recent years, including a 6.6 magnitude quake in 2003 that reduced the historic southeastern city of Bam to dust and killed about 31,000 people. Saturday’s quakes struck in East Azerbaijan province, a mountainous region that neighbors Azerbaijan and Armenia to the north. Buildings in Tabriz, the provincial capital, are substantially built and ISNA reported nobody in the city had been killed or hurt. Homes and business premises in Iranian villages, however, are often made of concrete blocks or mud brick that can crumble and collapse in a strong quake. Water, electricity, and phone lines in the area of Varzaghan are all down, further hindering rescue efforts, Iran’s English-language Press TV reported. Tabriz residents left their homes and crowded the streets following the two quakes, those in the city said. “Everyone was scared last night,” a resident said by telephone. “They set up tents and were sleeping in the streets and in parks.”

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Rescuers stop searches after Iran quakes kill 250

TEHRAN, Iran (AP) – Residents of the zone in northwestern Iran hit by powerful twin earthquakes described moments of terror and panic with birds crowing loudly in warning seconds before the ground shook. As the death toll rose Sunday to more than 250 with entire villages leveled, rescuers called off searches for survivors and turned their attention to caring for the 16,000 people left homeless.

By Arash Khamoushi, APIranians search the ruins of buildings after Saturday’s earthquake.

At least 20 villages were totally destroyed in the quakes on Saturday that were followed by some 36 aftershocks, state television reported. Ahmad Reza Shajiei, a senior government official in charge of rescue operations, said more than 5,000 tents have been set up to shelter the thousands of displaced who spent the night outdoors.

“The moment the earthquake hit, it was like a snake biting from underground. It was the worst experience of my life,” said resident Morteza Javid, 47, from Ahar.

“The walls were shaking and moving from side to side. It took about a minute before I could run out of the house,” he said. “Seconds before the earthquake, crows were making a lot of noise, but I didn’t understand why. It was only after the quake that I learned the crows were warning us.” Javid said he drove more than a dozen injured people to hospitals during the night.

State television said at least 250 died. The semiofficial Mehr news agency quoted a local official who put the toll at 277. State TV said 44,000 food packages and thousands of blankets have been distributed in the stricken area.

In Washington, the White House press secretary sent a message of sympathy for the victims.

“Our thoughts are with the families of those who were lost, and we wish the wounded a speedy recovery,” it said.” We stand ready to offer assistance in this difficult time.”

The U.S. and Iran are locked in a bitter fight over Tehran’s disputed nuclear program, which the West suspect is aimed at producing weapons. Iran denies the allegation.

The U.N. also issued a message of sympathy and offered aid.

The U.S. Geological Survey reported that Saturday’s first quake was magnitude 6.4 and struck 35 miles northeast of the city of Tabriz at a depth of 6.2 miles. State TV quoted local Crisis Committee chief Khalil Saei as saying the epicenter was a region between the towns of Ahar and Haris, about 350 miles northwest of the capital Tehran.

The second quake was a magnitude 6.3 and struck 11 minutes later, the USGS reported. Its epicenter was 30 miles northeast of Tabriz at a depth of 6.1 miles.

The quakes hit the towns of Ahar, Haris and Varzaqan in East Azerbaijan province, state television reported. In addition to 20 villages destroyed, more than 130 others sustained heavy damage, state TV said.

The aftershocks were felt in a wide region near the Caspian Sea, causing panic among the people.

Iran is located on seismic fault lines and is prone to earthquakes. It experiences at least one earthquake every day on average, although most are so small they go unnoticed. In 2003, some 26,000 people were killed by a magnitude 6.6 quake that flattened the historic southeastern city of Bam.

Television showed images of people being evacuated on stretchers, while others were treated for broken limbs and concussions. Dozens of families were sleeping on blankets laid out on the ground in parks. Some were crying, and others shivered from the cold in the mountainous region hit by the quake, near the border with Azerbaijan.

More than 1,100 rescuers worked through the night to pull out those trapped under rubble and to reach some of the more remote villages affected. Some 15 dogs were brought in to search for survivors.

By afternoon, state television reported that search operations had ceased. The government’s attention shifted to providing shelter to the homeless and removing debris from the buildings destroyed.

Officials said the search was ended relatively quickly because the remote area is sparsely populated.

Naimeh Alapour said she ran out of her house without the mandatory Islamic headscarf when she felt the earthquake. Alapour, 35, lives in Tabriz, the provincial capital, about 30 miles from the epicenter of the earthquake.

“I simply took my kid and ran down the steps. The elevator was out of service. I don’t know how I walked nine floors down. It felt like this was the end of the world,” she said.

Officials have announced two days of mourning in East Azerbaijan province.

Interior Minister Mostafa Mohammad Najjar said the government will allocate funds to rebuild the houses destroyed in the quake, aiming to complete the construction before the arrival of cold winter temperatures.

Najjar said the plans aim to construct buildings resistant to earthquake. Most of houses in rural areas are built of mud, and they can crumble when even a moderate quake hits.

According to Najjar, several foreign countries have offered assistance, but he said Iran doesn’t need outside help and can manage the situation. He did not name the countries.

Strong quake jolts western China

(AFP)

BEIJING — A shallow 6.3-magnitude earthquake shook a remote area of China’s western region of Xinjiang, near the border with Tibet, on Sunday, the US Geological Survey said.

It was not immediately clear if there was any damage or casualties and rescue teams had been rushed to the mountainous quake zone to assess the situation, a local official told AFP.

The quake’s epicentre, at a depth of nine kilometres (5.6 miles), was about 280 kilometres east of Hotan town, USGS said. It struck at 6:45 pm (1045 GMT).

The China Earthquake Networks Centre measured it at 6.2-magnitude and put it at a deeper 30 kilometres, the state-run Xinhua news agency said.

“A rescue team and other officials are now on the way to the earthquake zone, which is in a mountainous area,” an official with the emergency office of Yutian county — also known as Keriya — told AFP.

“As of now, we haven’t received any news.”

The county is on the southern edge of China’s vast Taklimakan desert.

On Saturday, a quake measuring 5.3 hit Xinjiang, about 188 km from the town of Shache, according to the USGS.

Xinjiang is a vast region with a population of around 20 million, of whom some nine million are Uighurs, a Turkic-speaking, mainly Muslim ethnic minority.

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Volcanic Activity

13.08.2012

Volcano Eruption

New Zealand

Kermadec Island Region, [Monowai Volcano (underwater volcano)]

Volcano Eruption in New Zealand on Saturday, 11 August, 2012 at 11:31 (11:31 AM) UTC.

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A swarm of more than 150 earthquakes over two days last month caused a previously dormant volcano to erupt beneath the Pacific Ocean, a scientist said Monday. The eruption of the Havre Volcano, about halfway between New Zealand and Tonga, is believed to have caused a floating island of pumice larger than 4,000 square miles that was encountered by a New Zealand navy ship last week. Cornel de Ronde, principal scientist of New Zealand’s Institute of Geological and Nuclear Sciences, told Radio New Zealand the source of the pumice had been identified in cooperation with French researchers in Tahiti who monitor earthquakes in the southwest Pacific. “When they looked at their physical records they saw that on July 17th and 18th, there were some 157 earthquakes of magnitudes between 3.0 and 4.8,” he said. De Ronde said they occurred near the time of the first sighting of the pumice “raft.” When the institute looked at its database, it found the Havre volcano, which it had previously surveyed. It was a caldera volcano, like White Island off the west coast of New Zealand’s North Island, which erupted last week, but the Havre was not thought to have erupted before, he said. De Ronde said the pumice island was so light that it had floated several hundred kilometers from the volcano when it was encountered by the HMNZS Canterbury, which took samples last week. Scientists were also analyzing samples of rock ejected from Mount Tongariro, on New Zealand’s North Island, to try to find out why it erupted a week ago for the first time in 115 years.

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Extreme Temperatures/ Weather / Sinkholes

Excessive Heat Warning

SAN DIEGO CA
LOS ANGELES/OXNARD CA
PHOENIX AZ

Heat Advisory

TUCSON AZ

Red Flag Warning

FIRE WEATHER MESSAGE

CHEYENNE WY
POCATELLO ID
BOISE ID

Fire Weather Watch

GREAT FALLS MT
BILLINGS MT
GLASGOW MT
MISSOULA MT

Extreme Fire Danger

RAPID CITY SD

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Forest / Wild Fire

USA

State of California, [Lake County]

Forest / Wild Fire in USA on Monday, 13 August, 2012 at 06:08 (06:08 AM) UTC.

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Two major grass fires are burning in Lake County this weekend, according to state fire officials. The Walker fire, at Walker Ridge and state Highway 20 near the Colusa County border, has consumed around 400 acres, some of them in Colusa County, Battalion Chief Julie Hutchinson said. The fire, reported at 3;49 p.m., is in a fairly remote rural area dominated by oak woodland, Hutchinson said. The second fire, however, is much larger and is threatening inhabited areas. The Wye fire, reported just after 4 p.m., is burning on around 5,000 acres in the area of state Highways 20 and 53. The fire is threatening Spring Valley, an unincorporated community with a reported population of more than 800 people, and reidents in the area have been ordered to evacuate, Hutchinson said. One structure has been lost, but Hutchinson could not confirm whether it was a home. Both fires remain uncontained, and the causes remain under investigation. Around 100 fire personnel are on the scene of the Walker fire, and another 200 to 300 at the Wye fire. Hutchinson said there have not been reports of strong winds, but high temperatures have left the vegetation in the area very dry. “We’ve had a week or more of really high temperatures accompanied by a winter with very little rainfall, so the vegetation has all been very dry, very drought stressed,” Hutchinson said.

13.08.2012

Forest / Wild Fire

Canary-Islands (Esp.)

Island of La Gomera, [Garajonay National Park]

Forest / Wild Fire in Canary-Islands (Esp.) on Sunday, 12 August, 2012 at 12:27 (12:27 PM) UTC.

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Updated:	Monday, 13 August, 2012 at 02:48 UTC
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The Canary Islands are battling forest fires that have caused around 4,700 people to evacuate their homes. Spanish firefighters are struggling to contain the blazes as high temperatures and strong winds spur on the flames. A statement issued to reporters said that officials were “finding it difficult to limit the spread of fire”. “We are living through hell, we have asked the central government for more resources with which to fight the fire,” said Casimimo Curbelo, local government leader of La Gomera. The fires are the worst the Islands, which are located off the coast of Morocco, have experienced in at least a decade, and follow the driest winter in 70 years.

Enormous 400ft deep Louisiana sinkhole swallows 100ft tall trees and raises concerns of explosions and radiation leaks

Fears that low levels of radiation are being emitted from the sinkhole and residents are being asked to leave
Gas bubbles have been bubbling in the Louisiana bayou for weeks and residents have felt small tremors for years
Officials said on Friday it will be at least 40 days before they get definitive answers about an enormous sinkhole that opened up in Assumption Parish
Some residents have refused to leave their homes

By Daily Mail Reporter

A massive 400-foot deep sinkhole that has opened up in a Louisiana bayou has swallowed all of the 100-foot trees in the surrounding area and led to mandatory evacuations.

About 150 people have been ordered to leave their residences after the 400-sqaure-foot gaping hole opened in Assumption Parish amid fears of potential radiation leaks and natural gas explosions.

But despite the authorities enacting the mandatory evacuation, most people have decided to stay following allegations of a cover-up and industrial mis-management from the owners of a nearby salt cavern.

Diesel sheen is seen on the water in an aerial view of the sinkhole. State officials said on that small amounts of diesel hydrocarbons were found in swamp water where an acre of swampland liquefied over the last week

As state scientists monitored the toxicity of naturally occurring radiation at a slurry hole in Assumption Parish, residents said Thursday they were furious with their public state officials because they think they have been withholding information.

The Louisiana Department of Environmental Quality said the slurry hole near Bayou Corne is near areas that have been used for oil and gas exploration. Low levels of radioactivity may be remaining from the work, though not at harmful levels, officials say.

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‘Out of abundance of caution and because of the ongoing incident, I have decided to further enhance our monitoring efforts,’ DEQ Secretary Peggy Hatch said in a statement.

Officials said the first set of 15 samples from the area show that there are no detectable levels of naturally occurring radioactive material on the surface of the sinkhole and Hatch says they’re confident residents aren’t at risk for exposure.

Bubbles come to the surface where pipelines come across Bayou Corne and a pipeline sign is seen on the right

Department spokesman Rodney Mallett said such material tends to accumulate in low levels on equipment used to drill for oil and gas.

Gas bubbles have been erupting in the area for weeks. Residents have been especially alarmed at the possibility of a natural gas explosion after 28 residents in Grand Bayou had to evacuate their homes on Christmas 2003 because natural gas was seeping from a salt dome storage cavern and bubbling up into water wells.

Residents have also been reporting earthquakes but despite a battery of tests conducted by federal, parish and local officials, no one has been able to figure out the source of the tremors.

Randy Rousseau, who lives in Grand Bayou and owns a body shop in Belle Rose, said he’s noticed tremors for years. He eventually moved out of his house because he didn’t feel safe and has been unable to sell it because the property value plummeted after several small sinkholes opened up in his yard.

The massive sinkhole has caused the governor to order the evacuation of 150 residents from the parish

Scientists said at a community meeting Tuesday the sinkhole might be related to a brine cavern owned by Houston-based Texas Brine Co. contained within an underground salt dome.

It has been reported that local officials at Texas Brine have known since at least January 2011 that there have been problems with the structural integrity of a brine cavern that was plugged in June 2010. Officials did not mention those issues at the meeting.

‘It’s what I’ve been saying all along, that they’ve been hiding things,’ Rousseau said. ‘I think our local officials are trying to do the best they can, but I think they’re being hindered by the higher-ups hiding things.’

Rousseau said he was especially worried after a parish official had him fill out a form asking him to list his next of kin Thursday morning.

‘That’s a little disturbing to me. They said it’s in case they can’t reach us to evacuate. But I mean, come on. They can reach everyone,’ he said.

Rep. Joe Harrison, R-Napoleonville, said he wants more transparency and answers from the Office of Conservation. He said he had no idea about structural issues within the brine cavern until he read about them in the paper.

Residents were told it will be at least 40 days before they get definitive answers about an enormous sinkhole that opened up in Assumption Parish

‘There is a serious lack of competence now in the state, and we knew nothing. Nothing. Why did they close the mine? We didn’t get any answers. It’s a real lack of competence now,’ Harrison said.

Sonny Cranch, spokesman for Texas Brine, said they’re continuing to monitor the area for any changes.

‘We’ve installed booms around the perimeter of the sinkhole to contain any floating contaminants, the diesel, anything else,’ Cranch said.

Dr. Madhurendu Kumar, director of the state Department of Natural Resources’ oil and gas division, said the sinkhole could have been caused by structural problems within the salt dome that sits underneath it.

The wall of salt between the brine cavern and the salt dome might be thinner than experts were led to believe, he said.

He said this sinkhole was unusual because it sits on the edge of the dome, when sinkholes normally sit right on top.

Some residents in the area said that they had been experiencing tremors for years before the enormous sinkhole opened up

Officials said the sinkhole, which has swallowed up and liquefied a 372-foot wide circle of swampland, has not grown in size since Saturday.

The owners of four natural gas pipelines nearby were asked to depressurize and vent off their pipelines as a precaution after the slurry area bent a 400-foot-long section of pipeline.

Governor Bobby Jindal declared a state of emergency Friday in Assumption Parish and ordered an immediate evacuation of 150 homes and several businesses. The evacuation remains in effect.

Officials said on Friday it will be at least 40 days before they get definitive answers about an enormous sinkhole that opened up in Assumption Parish.

Mark Cartwright, president of United Brine Services, a subsidiary of Texas Brine Co., said the company spent the last week ‘intensely focused’ on an emergency response as they try to figure out the cause behind a sinkhole near Bayou Corne.

Low levels of radioactivity may be emanating, though not at harmful levels, officials said

Cartwright said they’ll be drilling a relief well to investigate a brine cavern they own, which is housed within the Napoleonville salt dome. It will take at least 40 days to drill the well, and scientists have speculated that the 372-foot-wide and 422-foot-deep sinkhole might be related to structural problems within the cavern, he said.

‘Our efforts are going to be more focused on diagnostics, and looking into what caused this event,’ Cartwright said at a press conference in Gonzales.

Commissioner of Conservation Jim Welsh ordered the company Thursday to drill a well and investigate the salt cavern and ‘further evaluate potential causes of the subsidence near its well site,’ as well as obtain samples of cavern content.

Cartwright said the company was just as shocked as anyone else when the sinkhole erupted last Friday, swallowing up an acre of bald cypress trees and leaving diesel fumes and slurry water in its wake.

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Storms / Tornadoes / Flooding

Active tropical storm system(s)

Name of storm system	Location	Formed	Last update	Last category	Course	Wind Speed	Gust	Wave	Source	Details
Hector (EP08)	Pacific Ocean – East	11.08.2012	13.08.2012	Tropical Depression	270 °	65 km/h	83 km/h	4.88 m	NOAA NHC

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Storm name:	Hector (EP08)
Area:	Pacific Ocean – East
Start up location:	N 17° 30.000, W 106° 0.000
Start up:	11th August 2012
Status:	12th August 2012
Track long:	311.90 km
Top category.:
Report by:	NOAA NHC

Useful links:

Past track
Date	Time	Position	Speed km/h	Wind km/h	Gust km/h	Category	Course	Wave	Pressure	Source
12th Aug 2012	05:40:34	N 18° 30.000, W 108° 6.000	20	65	83	Tropical Storm	290	11	999 MB	NOAA NHC

Current position
Date	Time	Position	Speed km/h	Wind km/h	Gust km/h	Category	Course	Wave feet	Pressure	Source
13th Aug 2012	10:38:02	N 18° 6.000, W 111° 24.000	11	65	83	Tropical Depression	270 °	16	994 MB	NOAA NHC

Forecast track
Date	Time	Position	Category	Wind km/h	Gust km/h	Source
14th Aug 2012	18:00:00	N 18° 18.000, W 114° 36.000	Tropical Depression	65	83	NOAA NHC
14th Aug 2012	06:00:00	N 18° 6.000, W 113° 30.000	Tropical Depression	65	83	NOAA NHC
15th Aug 2012	06:00:00	N 18° 36.000, W 115° 24.000	Tropical Depression	56	74	NOAA NHC
16th Aug 2012	06:00:00	N 19° 24.000, W 117° 0.000	Tropical Depression	46	65	NOAA NHC
17th Aug 2012	06:00:00	N 20° 0.000, W 118° 30.000	Tropical Depression	46	65	NOAA NHC
18th Aug 2012	06:00:00	N 20° 30.000, W 120° 30.000	Tropical Depression	37	56	NOAA NHC

Kai-tak (14W)

Pacific Ocean

12.08.2012

13.08.2012

Tropical Depression

275 °

65 km/h

83 km/h

5.18 m

JTWC

Tropical Storm data

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Storm name:	Kai-tak (14W)
Area:	Pacific Ocean
Start up location:	N 16° 36.000, E 128° 30.000
Start up:	12th August 2012
Status:	Active
Track long:	46.86 km
Top category.:
Report by:	JTWC

Useful links:

Past track
Date	Time	Position	Speed km/h	Wind km/h	Gust km/h	Category	Course	Wave	Pressure	Source

Current position
Date	Time	Position	Speed km/h	Wind km/h	Gust km/h	Category	Course	Wave feet	Pressure	Source
13th Aug 2012	10:04:19	N 16° 36.000, E 126° 36.000	24	65	83	Tropical Depression	275 °	17		JTWC

Forecast track
Date	Time	Position	Category	Wind km/h	Gust km/h	Source
14th Aug 2012	18:00:00	N 19° 6.000, E 122° 54.000	Tropical Depression	83	102	JTWC
14th Aug 2012	06:00:00	N 18° 0.000, E 124° 12.000	Tropical Depression	74	93	JTWC
15th Aug 2012	06:00:00	N 20° 12.000, E 121° 12.000	Typhoon I	102	130	JTWC
16th Aug 2012	06:00:00	N 22° 0.000, E 117° 42.000	Typhoon I	120	148	JTWC
17th Aug 2012	06:00:00	N 23° 24.000, E 114° 36.000	Tropical Depression	83	102	JTWC
18th Aug 2012	06:00:00	N 25° 12.000, E 111° 54.000	Tropical Depression	37	56	JTWC

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Today

Tornado

USA

State of California, [Near to Nuevo, Ramona Expressway]

Tornado in USA on Monday, 13 August, 2012 at 08:24 (08:24 AM) UTC.

Description

A menacing thunderstorm spawned a tornado that touched down near Nuevo this afternoon. The tornado downed up to twelve power-lines prompting authorities to shut down both directions of the Ramona Expressway while So Cal Edison removed and repaired the damage. “There are no reported injuries and one vehicle is stranded with the driver trapped while So Cal Edison takes care of the live lines in the roadway,” Riverside County Fire Department spokeswoman Melodie Hendrickson said. A total of six occupants in the single vehicle that was temporarily stranded were assisted to a safe location at approximately 5:20 p.m., according to a Riverside County Fire Department report.

Flash Flood Watch

SAN DIEGO CA

Flood Warning

TALLAHASSEE FL
AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX
TAMPA BAY AREA - RUSKIN FL

Flood Advisory

MIDLAND/ODESSA TX

Today

Flash Flood

New Zealand

Southland, Christchurch

Flash Flood in New Zealand on Monday, 13 August, 2012 at 02:40 (02:40 AM) UTC.

Description

Residents had to evacuate about 10 homes after torrential rain caused flooding in the Christchurch area on Sunday night. Christchurch City Council’s civil defence manager Murray Sinclair said Dallington was particularly bad, as was St Albans, where Dudley Creek had burst its banks. He said contractors had been putting sandbags on roads in Lyttelton to divert water away from properties and people had evacuated around 10 properties in Lyttelton, Sumner and Akaroa after they flooded. Earthquake-damaged roads in the eastern suburbs were vulnerable to surface flooding because the drains were not taking the water away as effectively as they used to, he said. Dozens of homes were threatened by flash flooding in Lyttelton, after a retaining wall burst. Residents said the wall at the top of Canterbury Street was washed out after a build up of shingle and rocks blocked storm water drains, causing a flash flood on Sunday night. Rowena Laing described seeing a “river of water” washing down a nearby street, Fairfax reports. Firefighters managed to divert the water away from homes. The New Zealand Transport Agency is urging drivers to take care on State Highway 83 from Pukeuri to Duntroon and SH79 from Geraldine to Fairlie due to flooding. And in the North Island, SH29 about 17km west of Auckland near Ruahihi Rd has been reduced to one lane due to a slip on Sunday. Motorists are advised to avoid using this road. More heavy rain is expected to hit Canterbury and eastern Otago on Monday and Tuesday as a front moves slowly across the area. More than 100mm may fall in some places on top of what is already “a very sodden situation”, the Metservice website said. “Members of the public are advised that streams and rivers may rise rapidly and there may be areas of flooding and slips.” Rain or showers are expected across most of the country on Monday.

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Radiation / Nuclear

Today

Nuclear Event

USA

State of Michigan, South Haven [Palisades Nuclear Power Plant]

Nuclear Event in USA on Monday, 13 August, 2012 at 02:32 (02:32 AM) UTC.

Description

The Palisades nuclear plant in southwestern Michigan has been removed from service to repair what officials said is a “very small, very minor” cooling water leak. No radioactive materials were released, spokesman Mark Savage said Sunday. The leak was being repaired inside a containment building at the plant in Covert Township, southwest of Grand Rapids. “Palisades is taking this conservative measure at this time because of our unrelenting commitment and focus on nuclear safety,” Savage said in Sunday morning in a release. “Palisades will be returned to service when repairs are completed.” Officials had been monitoring the leak for a month. Cooling water is used to cool off components of a nuclear reactor by picking up and carrying heat from the reactor. The plant’s reactor was shut down June 12 to repair a leak in a refueling water storage tank and was back online by July 11. “Shortly after that we noticed slowly increasing levels of this (cooling water) leakage,” Savage told The Associated Press on Sunday afternoon. Shutting down the plant drops radiation levels in the containment building and allows workers to safely repair the leak, he added. Palisades has been designated by the Nuclear Regulatory Commission as one of the nation’s four worst-performing nuclear plants, and it’s come under increasing public and federal scrutiny recently. New Orleans-based Entergy Corp. owns the plant and says it’s working to improve the plant’s safety culture. Last month, Michigan health officials reminded people who live, work or visit within 10 miles of Palisades to have potassium iodide pills on hand. The pills may prevent illnesses associated with radioactive iodine should an accident occur. The Michigan Department of Community Health makes the pills available for free to people near the plant and the state’s other nuclear power plants.

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Epidemic Hazards / Diseases

Epidemic Hazard in China on Monday, 13 August, 2012 at 06:46 (06:46 AM) UTC.

Description
Two cases of cutaneous anthrax have been confirmed in Lianyungang of east China’s Jiangsu Province, reported a spokesman for the Ministry of Health on Monday. Skin irritations were found among seven villagers in Lianyungang, said Deng Haihua, the spokesman said at a press conference here. The symptoms of the other five villagers were not typical, but they have also been placed under medical observation, he said. All seven villagers are in stable, non-serious conditions, he added. The infected villagers were believed to have taken part in killing a sick cow. Cutaneous, or skin, anthrax is the least serious form of the disease. It is usually contracted when a person with a cut or sore on their skin comes into direct, unprotected contact with anthrax spores on a sick or dead animal. The provincial health department responded shortly after the events were reported. Medical teams were sent to treat the villagers and sanitise the farm and their residences, Deng said. Health departments will raise the monitoring level on anthrax and help educate local people about the disease, he said. Agricultural departments were also informed of the events, he said. “We will closely follow the development of these cases and make sure the disease is under control,” he said.
Biohazard name:	Anthrax (cutaneous)
Biohazard level:	4/4 Hazardous
Biohazard desc.:	Viruses and bacteria that cause severe to fatal disease in humans, and for which vaccines or other treatments are not available, such as Bolivian and Argentine hemorrhagic fevers, H5N1(bird flu), Dengue hemorrhagic fever, Marburg virus, Ebola virus, hantaviruses, Lassa fever, Crimean-Congo hemorrhagic fever, and other hemorrhagic or unidentified diseases. When dealing with biological hazards at this level the use of a Hazmat suit and a self-contained oxygen supply is mandatory. The entrance and exit of a Level Four biolab will contain multiple showers, a vacuum room, an ultraviolet light room, autonomous detection system, and other safety precautions designed to destroy all traces of the biohazard. Multiple airlocks are employed and are electronically secured to prevent both doors opening at the same time. All air and water service going to and coming from a Biosafety Level 4 (P4) lab will undergo similar decontamination procedures to eliminate the possibility of an accidental release.
Symptoms:
Status:	confirmed

13.08.2012

Epidemic Hazard

Nepal

Capital City, Kathmandu

Epidemic Hazard in Nepal on Saturday, 04 August, 2012 at 04:51 (04:51 AM) UTC.

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Updated:	Monday, 13 August, 2012 at 02:33 UTC
Description
Fifteen cholera cases have been confirmed in Kathmandu district since the onset of monsoon. Sukraraj Tropical and Infectious Disease Hospital has confirmed 14 cases, while one case is reported in Kanti Children’s Hospital. Contaminated water is the main cause of cholera and diarrhoea in Kathmandu, doctors said. The cholera patients, between three and 88 years of age, were from Teku, Tahachal, Kalimati, Swayambhu, Baneshwor, Rabibhawan, Dallu, Bhimsengola, Kalanki and Pinglasthan in Kathmandu, the hospitals involved in the patients’ treatment reported. According to Dr Indra Prasad Prajapati, the hospital director, cholera cases have gone up this year compared to corresponding periods in the preceding years. “Only eight cases were reported last year during this time,” the director said and feared of focal outbreak if the number kept on rising. However, the epidemic could be limited to small focal area with people drinking the same contaminated water, Dr Prajapati said. He further said that three of the total cholera cases were based in Swayambhu. Dr Prajapati said leakage of drainage pipes and water pipelines is mainly responsible for the contamination of water. The contaminated water causes waterborne diseases like cholera, diarrhoea, dysentery, typhoid, cholera, worm infection and jaundice. The doctor suggested to boil, double filter and to treat water with chlorine before drinking it. He also urged the government to disseminate awareness messages and repair the drainage and water supply system at the soonest. A total of 2,167 patients were diagnosed with gastrointestinal infections, including diarrhoea and dysentery in 2010/11 and 1,712 in 2011/12, according to hospitals. A miking campaign to make people aware of waterborne diseases is under way at high risk places, director of Kathmandu District Public Health Office (DPHO), Mahendra Prasad Shrestha, informed. “We are also holding a multi-sectoral meeting with Kathmandu Upatyaka Khanepani Limited (KUKL), Department of Water Supply and Sewerage, the Local Development Minister and others,” DPHO director Shrestha said. He further said that they have further asked the KUKL to increase the amount of chlorine in drinking water for water purification.

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Disease alert as Philippines flood toll jumps to 85

by Jason Gutierrez

Emergency relief officials and doctors deployed to flood devastated communities in the Philippines Sunday to prevent outbreaks of disease as the death toll jumped to 85.

The flooding that submerged 80 percent of Manila early in the week has largely subsided but more than 150 towns and cities around the capital remain under water, affecting more than three million people. Amid the ongoing relief operation, the weather bureau warned of a low pressure area developing some 850 kilometers (528 miles) to the east in the Pacific Ocean that could turn into a storm and bring more rain. Many provinces around Manila remained inundated as overflowing dams continued to release water, the national disaster coordinating agency said. Relief workers were dealing with “clogged pipelines and trash everywhere. Sanitation has emerged as a key problem,” Red Cross secretary general Gwendolyn Pang told AFP. “We have deployed health officers in evacuation centres and in flood-hit communities with the likelihood of diseases erupting.” The health department said water purification tablets were being distributed, while mass immunizations were being carried out to prevent an outbreak of diseases such as flu. Of particular concern is a possible outbreak of leptospirosis, caused by exposure to water contaminated by rat urine, which infected 3,300 people and claimed some 250 lives in the aftermath of similar flooding in 2009. “Many may have escaped the floods, but many could still die from leptospirosis or other diseases,” Ramos said. The Red Cross put up huge rubber bladder tanks for clean water, while local officials sent portable latrines to packed evacuation centers. Food packs were also rushed to some 770,000 people displaced by flooding. Civil defense chief Benito Ramos said more than half of them were living in dire conditions in 948 evacuation centers — mostly schools and churches converted into temporary shelter areas. But in a town north of Manila, at least one family had set up camp on top of elevated tombs at a cemetery as they waited for aid, illustrating the extent of the crisis. In all, more than three million people in 167 towns and 16 cities were affected by the heavy rains and floods, the disaster agency said. “Many have returned to their homes as the waters subsided, but it is far from a normal situation,” Ramos said. “We are trying to help them return to their normal lives with a massive clean-up operation. There is muck everywhere, and it would take some time.” Ramos said the death toll rose to 85 on Sunday from 66 the previous day, with most of the casualties due to drowning. The floods were caused by seasonal southwest monsoon that brought an unusual amount of rainfall over Manila and nearby areas, causing dams and river systems to overflow. If the new low pressure disturbance develops into a major storm, it would bring more misery, Ramos warned.

12.08.2012

Epidemic Hazard

Kenya

Coast Province, Mombasa

Epidemic Hazard in Kenya on Sunday, 12 August, 2012 at 17:20 (05:20 PM) UTC.

Description
A truck driver was yesterday quarantined at Mombasa’s Aga Khan Hospital on suspicion he was infected with the deadly Ebola virus. The man only identified as Moses, 61, is said to have been in Kampala as from August 3, and arrived yesterday in Mombasa with symptoms resembling those of Ebola. According to Coast provincial director of Public Health and Sanitation Anisa Omar, the man had symptoms of fatigue, sore throat and fever, prompting doctors to seclude him from the rest of the patients at the hospital. “It’s true the man was in Kampala from August 3 and when he arrived, he developed the symptoms. He decided to seek medical attention at the hospital where he was isolated from the other patients after being examined by the doctors,’ Omar said. Anisa said the patient’s blood samples have been taken to the Kenya Medical Research Institute in Nairobi. She however allayed fears of the virus spreading to other parts of the region saying the situation is under control. This comes a week after Public Health Minister Beth Mugo assured the country that the government was doing all it can to shield Kenyans from the deadly virus. Ebola kiled 14 people in Western Uganda two weeks ago.
Biohazard name:	Ebola (susp.)
Biohazard level:	4/4 Hazardous
Biohazard desc.:	Viruses and bacteria that cause severe to fatal disease in humans, and for which vaccines or other treatments are not available, such as Bolivian and Argentine hemorrhagic fevers, H5N1(bird flu), Dengue hemorrhagic fever, Marburg virus, Ebola virus, hantaviruses, Lassa fever, Crimean-Congo hemorrhagic fever, and other hemorrhagic or unidentified diseases. When dealing with biological hazards at this level the use of a Hazmat suit and a self-contained oxygen supply is mandatory. The entrance and exit of a Level Four biolab will contain multiple showers, a vacuum room, an ultraviolet light room, autonomous detection system, and other safety precautions designed to destroy all traces of the biohazard. Multiple airlocks are employed and are electronically secured to prevent both doors opening at the same time. All air and water service going to and coming from a Biosafety Level 4 (P4) lab will undergo similar decontamination procedures to eliminate the possibility of an accidental release.
Symptoms:
Status:	suspected

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Solar Activity

2MIN News August 12, 2012: Quakes, M Flare, Weather

Published on Aug 12, 2012 by Suspicious0bservers

Earthquake/Solar Flare Watch: http://youtu.be/zd7Z6dmABf8 [August 12-18, 2012]
[EXPLANATION Video For Earthquake Watches] Last Quake Watch: http://youtu.be/SMiHsOYwdCs
*****Astrotometry™ Response Video: http://youtu.be/DlJAw6x1STc

TODAY’S LINKS
4 Iran Quakes? http://news.am/eng/news/116869.html
Video: http://www.usatoday.com/news/world/story/2012-08-11/iran-earthquake/56969296/1
250 Dead: http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10000872396390444318104577584474193941882.html
Heat Tracking: http://www.weather.com/news/weather-forecast/heat-wave-tracker-20120627
China Flood: http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/news-video/raw-video-floods-devastate-chi…

REPEAT LINKS
Spaceweather: http://spaceweather.com/ [Look on the left at the X-ray Flux and Solar Wind Speed/Density]

HAARP: http://www.haarp.alaska.edu/haarp/data.html [Click online data, and have a little fun]

SDO: http://sdo.gsfc.nasa.gov/data/ [Place to find Solar Images and Videos – as seen from earth]

SOHO: http://sohodata.nascom.nasa.gov/cgi-bin/soho_movie_theater [SOHO; Lasco and EIT – as seen from earth]

Stereo: http://stereo.gsfc.nasa.gov/cgi-bin/images [Stereo; Cor, EUVI, HI – as seen from the side]

SunAEON:http://www.sunaeon.com/#/solarsystem/ [Just click it… trust me]

SOLARIMG: http://solarimg.org/artis/ [All purpose data viewing site]

iSWA: http://iswa.gsfc.nasa.gov/iswa/iSWA.html [Free Application; for advanced sun watchers]

NOAA ENLIL SPIRAL: http://www.swpc.noaa.gov/wsa-enlil/cme-based/ [CME Evolution]

NOAA Bouys: http://www.ndbc.noaa.gov/

RSOE: http://hisz.rsoe.hu/alertmap/index2.php [That cool alert map I use]

JAPAN Radiation Map: http://jciv.iidj.net/map/

LISS: http://earthquake.usgs.gov/monitoring/operations/heliplots_gsn.php

Gamma Ray Bursts: http://grb.sonoma.edu/ [Really? You can’t figure out what this one is for?]

BARTOL Cosmic Rays: http://neutronm.bartol.udel.edu//spaceweather/welcome.html [Top left box, look for BIG blue circles]

TORCON: http://www.weather.com/news/tornado-torcon-index [Tornado Forecast for the day]

GOES Weather: http://rsd.gsfc.nasa.gov/goes/ [Clouds over America]

EL DORADO WORLD WEATHER MAP: http://www.eldoradocountyweather.com/satellite/ssec/world/world-composite-ir-…

PRESSURE MAP: http://www.woweather.com/cgi-bin/expertcharts?LANG=us&MENU=0000000000&…

HURRICANE TRACKER: http://www.weather.com/weather/hurricanecentral/tracker

INTELLICAST: http://www.intellicast.com/ [Weather site used by many youtubers]

NASA News: http://science.nasa.gov/science-news/science-at-nasa/

PHYSORG: http://phys.org/ [GREAT News Site!]

Earthquake/Solar Flare Predictions: August 12-18, 2012

Published on Aug 9, 2012 by Suspicious0bservers

SOLAR FLARE PREDICTION:

DCSYMBOLS:
dcsymbols Flare Watch: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sR0mg03vz6k
BigBytes [dcsymbols] Websites: http://dcsymbols.com/ & http://dcsymbols.com/future/quepaso.htm & http://dcsymbols.com/future/future.htm

PATRICK GERYL:
Patrick Geryl: Flare Watch: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KngICgxdpws&feature=youtu.be
Patrick Geryl Website: http://www.howtosurvive2012.com/htm_night/home.htm

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EARTHQUAKE PREDICTION:

Suspicious0bservers LAST Quake Watch & Explanation: http://youtu.be/SMiHsOYwdCs
[We had 4 Significant Magnitude Earthquakes During the Last Watch, Luckily None Caused Damage]

Other Earthquake Forecasters: Concurrence & Background

dcsymbols:
http://youtu.be/HE2FIE7D4xY

Astrotometry™:
http://youtu.be/Y5iZ8owQSVI
http://youtu.be/uqDPQdwAm9s

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Space

Earth approaching objects (objects that are known in the next 30 days)

Object Name

Apporach Date

Left

AU Distance

LD Distance

Estimated Diameter*

Relative Velocity

(2012 HS15)

14th August 2012

1 day(s)

0.1804

70.2

200 m – 450 m

11.54 km/s

41544 km/h

4581 Asclepius

16th August 2012

3 day(s)

0.1079

42.0

220 m – 490 m

13.48 km/s

48528 km/h

(2008 TC4)

18th August 2012

5 day(s)

0.1937

75.4

140 m – 300 m

17.34 km/s

62424 km/h

(2012 OP4)

18th August 2012

5 day(s)

0.1039

40.4

300 m – 670 m

22.54 km/s

81144 km/h

(2012 EC)

20th August 2012

7 day(s)

0.0815

31.7

56 m – 130 m

5.57 km/s

20052 km/h

(2006 CV)

20th August 2012

7 day(s)

0.1744

67.9

290 m – 640 m

13.24 km/s

47664 km/h

162421 (2000 ET70)

21st August 2012

8 day(s)

0.1503

58.5

670 m – 1.5 km

12.92 km/s

46512 km/h

(2007 WU3)

21st August 2012

8 day(s)

0.1954

76.0

56 m – 120 m

5.25 km/s

18900 km/h

(2012 BB14)

24th August 2012

11 day(s)

0.1234

48.0

27 m – 60 m

2.58 km/s

9288 km/h

(2012 FM52)

25th August 2012

12 day(s)

0.0599

23.3

510 m – 1.1 km

17.17 km/s

61812 km/h

66146 (1998 TU3)

25th August 2012

12 day(s)

0.1265

49.2

3.0 km – 6.8 km

16.03 km/s

57708 km/h

(2009 AV)

26th August 2012

13 day(s)

0.1615

62.8

670 m – 1.5 km

22.51 km/s

81036 km/h

331769 (2003 BQ35)

28th August 2012

15 day(s)

0.1585

61.7

240 m – 530 m

4.64 km/s

16704 km/h

(2010 SC)

28th August 2012

15 day(s)

0.1679

65.3

16 m – 36 m

9.56 km/s

34416 km/h

4769 Castalia

28th August 2012

15 day(s)

0.1135

44.2

1.4 km

12.06 km/s

43416 km/h

(2012 LU7)

02nd September 2012

20 day(s)

0.1200

46.7

440 m – 990 m

8.16 km/s

29376 km/h

(2012 FS35)

02nd September 2012

20 day(s)

0.1545

60.1

2.3 m – 5.2 m

2.87 km/s

10332 km/h

(2012 HG31)

03rd September 2012

21 day(s)

0.0716

27.9

440 m – 990 m

10.33 km/s

37188 km/h

(2012 PX)

04th September 2012

22 day(s)

0.0452

17.6

61 m – 140 m

9.94 km/s

35784 km/h

(2012 EH5)

05th September 2012

23 day(s)

0.1613

62.8

38 m – 84 m

9.75 km/s

35100 km/h

(2011 EO11)

05th September 2012

23 day(s)

0.1034

40.2

9.0 m – 20 m

8.81 km/s

31716 km/h

(2007 PS25)

06th September 2012

24 day(s)

0.0497

19.3

23 m – 52 m

8.50 km/s

30600 km/h

329520 (2002 SV)

08th September 2012

26 day(s)

0.1076

41.9

300 m – 670 m

9.17 km/s

33012 km/h

(2011 ES4)

10th September 2012

28 day(s)

0.1792

69.8

20 m – 44 m

12.96 km/s

46656 km/h

(2008 CO)

11th September 2012

29 day(s)

0.1847

71.9

74 m – 160 m

4.10 km/s

14760 km/h

1 AU = ~150 million kilometers,1 LD = Lunar Distance = ~384,000 kilometers

Source: NASA-NEO

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Updated:	Monday, 13 August, 2012 at 02:58 UTC
Description
After more than three decades without a case of anthrax in Colorado, the lethal bacterial disease has come back to an unusual extent on at least one Logan County ranch. After initial reports of one cow death last week, Veterinary Practice News reported Friday, the death of nearly 60 cattle from the anthrax bacillus. The one cow fatality from early last week has been laboratory-confirmed to have died from anthrax by the Colorado State Veterinary Diagnostic Laboratory. According to the report, officials said they are certain “beyond a reasonable doubt,” based on the clinical signs, that the other cattle died from anthrax as well. The Colorado Department of Agriculture quarantined the affected ranch last week and because no cattle left the Logan County ranch in the months before detection of the clinical signs of anthrax, infected cattle likely did not enter the food chain. Colorado State Veterinarian, Dr. Keith Roehr says drought conditions may have created a favorable environment for bacterial growth; however, he is confident that the outbreak has been contained. The moderator for the International Society for Infectious Diseases website, ProMED mail says, “With this very high number of affected animals on the one Logan County ranch, neighboring ranches up to 5 miles out are at immediate risk from biting flies with contaminated mouthparts. In fact, ranches up to three counties out should be on full alert.”Anthrax is a pathogen in livestock and wild animals. Some of the more common herbivores are cattle, sheep, goats, horses, camels and deers. It infects humans primarily through occupational or incidental exposure with infected animals of their skins. Anthrax is caused by the bacterium, Bacillus anthracis. This spore forming bacteria can survive in the environment for years because of its ability to resist heat, cold, drying, etc. this is usually the infectious stage of anthrax. When conditions become favorable, the spores germinate into colonies of bacteria. An example would be a grazing cow ingests spores that in the cow, germinate, grow spread and eventually kill the animal. The bacteria will form spores in the carcass and then return to the soil to infect other animals. The vegetative form is rarely implicated in transmission. There are no reports of person-to-person transmission of anthrax. People get anthrax by handling contaminated animal or animal products, consuming undercooked meat of infected animals and more recently, intentional release of spores. There are three types of human anthrax with differing degrees of seriousness: cutaneous, gastrointestinal and inhalation.

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Articles of Interest

China reservoir collapse kills at least 10: state media

by Staff Writers
Shanghai (AFP)

At least 10 people were killed and dozens injured after the earthen wall of a reservoir collapsed in eastern China, flooding a rural area, state media said Sunday.

The 29-metre (96-foot) wall, part of a reservoir in Zhejiang province, collapsed early Friday, following heavy rainfall after Typhoon Haikui passed through the area, the China Daily newspaper said.

The paper put the death toll at 10 while the official Xinhua news agency said Saturday that 11 people died and 27 were injured.

Local officials in Shenjiakeng village, where the accident took place, could not be immediately reached for comment.

The collapse flooded a “large area” of the village with water and silt, affecting 80 families and damaging at least a third of homes, China Daily said.

Haikui, now a tropical storm, had previously killed at least six people and continues to bring heavy rain to parts of eastern China, Xinhua has reported, quoting government statistics.

More than 10,000 earthworms found dead in a parking lot of 250m2 North Japan

Posted by Mochizuki

Fukushima Diary

In Komatsu city Ishikawa, more than 10,000 earthworms found dead in a parking lot. Ishikawa prefecture is facing Japan / Korea sea.

Mr. Kobayashi is living near the parking lot. He comments he found earthworms dead in the evening of 8/5/2012. It kept increasing and now it’s scattered around in the 250 m2 of the area.
There are about 500 dead worms in the space for one car. Because 16 cars can park there, more than 10,000 worms are dead in the whole area including the passageway.

Former director of insects museum visited the place to comment it is rare to see this many worms dead at once. It’s an ordinary type of earthworm. He assumes they came from the near greenery to the parking lot for water because of the intense heat and died there.

Citizens nearby the area talks, “I haven’t seen such a thing. Is this because of the intense heat ?” or “It may increase more.”

Today

Power Outage

USA

State of California, Sacramento

Power Outage in USA on Monday, 13 August, 2012 at 06:06 (06:06 AM) UTC.

Description

Nearly 14,000 households in northeast Sacramento were rolling in darkness Sunday evening for 2 1/2 hours as SMUD struggled to restore power to the affected customers. SMUD spokesman Clint Swett said an equipment problem at a Citrus Heights area substation caused the outage that affected people from Carmichael to Citrus Heights. The outage was first reported at 5:30 p.m., and power was restored by 8 p.m. Swett said it was premature to speculate whether the power failure was caused by the heat. Sacramento topped out at 104 degrees Sunday afternoon. “When we have a power outage, we do our best to restore power first and then investigate what happened,” Swett said.

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Earth Watch Report – Friday July 27th, 2012

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July 27, 2012

Earthquakes

RSOE EDIS

Date/Time (UTC)	Magnitude	Area	Country	State/Prov./Gov.	Location	Risk	Source	Details
27.07.2012 08:40:30	4.4	Atlantic Ocean	Argentina	Salta	San Antonio de los Cobres		USGS-RSOE
27.07.2012 09:30:25	4.4	South-America	Argentina	Salta	San Antonio de los Cobres		EMSC
27.07.2012 08:05:32	2.8	North America	United States	Alaska	Kokhanok		USGS-RSOE
27.07.2012 09:25:35	2.8	Caribbean	Puerto Rico	Rincon	Rincon		USGS-RSOE
27.07.2012 07:40:39	3.1	North America	United States	Alaska	Valdez		USGS-RSOE
27.07.2012 07:00:32	2.6	North America	United States	Alaska	Petersville		USGS-RSOE
27.07.2012 07:30:21	3.7	South-America	Bolivia	Potosí	Villa Alota		EMSC
27.07.2012 06:25:32	2.8	Europe	Greece	Peloponnese	Pragmateftis		EMSC
27.07.2012 06:10:45	2.6	North America	United States	Alaska	Pedro Bay		USGS-RSOE
27.07.2012 06:20:27	4.7	Asia	Russia	Tyva	Saryg-Sep		USGS-RSOE
27.07.2012 06:25:55	4.7	Europe	Russia	Tyva	Saryg-Sep		EMSC
27.07.2012 06:26:17	2.0	Europe	Italy	Sicily	Rodi		EMSC
27.07.2012 06:00:39	5.4	Pacific Ocean	Northern Mariana Islands	Northern Islands Municipality	Agrihan Village		USGS-RSOE
27.07.2012 06:26:38	5.4	Pacific Ocean – East	Northern Mariana Islands	Northern Islands Municipality	Agrihan Village		EMSC
27.07.2012 05:29:34	2.3	North America	United States	Alaska	Chase		USGS-RSOE
27.07.2012 05:25:02	3.4	Europe	Italy	Sicily	Rodi		EMSC
27.07.2012 05:26:35	4.4	Middle-America	Mexico	Oaxaca	Santiago Pinotepa Nacional		EMSC
27.07.2012 04:45:25	4.4	Middle America	Mexico	Oaxaca	Santiago Pinotepa Nacional		USGS-RSOE
27.07.2012 05:27:43	4.7	Middle-America	Guatemala	Guatemala	Mixco		EMSC
27.07.2012 04:30:29	4.7	Middle America	Guatemala	Guatemala	Mixco		USGS-RSOE
27.07.2012 04:20:29	2.0	Europe	Italy	Sicily	Rodi		EMSC
27.07.2012 04:20:53	2.3	Asia	Turkey	Tunceli	Pulumer		EMSC
27.07.2012 03:40:37	2.0	North America	United States	California	Saratoga		USGS-RSOE
27.07.2012 03:41:05	2.0	North America	United States	Alaska	Yakutat		USGS-RSOE
27.07.2012 03:17:21	2.2	North America	United States	California	Cobb		USGS-RSOE
27.07.2012 04:21:32	2.5	Europe	Italy	Sicily	Rodi		EMSC
27.07.2012 02:55:26	2.0	North America	United States	California	Montara		USGS-RSOE
27.07.2012 03:15:21	2.5	Europe	Greece	Central Greece	Roviai		EMSC
27.07.2012 03:00:32	2.4	Caribbean	Puerto Rico	Rincon	Stella		USGS-RSOE
27.07.2012 02:40:31	3.3	North America	United States	Alaska	Petersville		USGS-RSOE
27.07.2012 03:15:45	2.1	Asia	Turkey	Tunceli	Hozat		EMSC
27.07.2012 02:11:26	2.0	North America	United States	California	Redlands		USGS-RSOE
27.07.2012 02:20:29	4.9	Indonesian archipelago	Papua New Guinea	East New Britain	Rabaul		USGS-RSOE
27.07.2012 03:16:07	4.9	Indonesian Archipelago	Papua New Guinea	East New Britain	Rabaul		EMSC
27.07.2012 02:35:29	3.3	Caribbean	Puerto Rico	San Juan	San Juan		USGS-RSOE
27.07.2012 01:50:31	2.1	North America	United States	Alaska	Petersville		USGS-RSOE
27.07.2012 01:15:27	2.1	North America	United States	Alaska	Petersville		USGS-RSOE
27.07.2012 02:10:32	2.7	Asia	Turkey	Van	Toyga		EMSC
27.07.2012 00:50:30	2.9	North America	United States	Alaska	Pedro Bay		USGS-RSOE
27.07.2012 00:50:52	3.3	North America	United States	Alaska	Nanwalek		USGS-RSOE
27.07.2012 01:10:27	4.4	Pacific Ocean – West	Philippines	Cagayan Valley	Namuac		EMSC
27.07.2012 00:25:34	4.4	Pacific Ocean – West	Philippines	Cagayan Valley	Namuac		USGS-RSOE
27.07.2012 01:10:55	3.5	South-America	Chile	Coquimbo	Coquimbo		EMSC
27.07.2012 00:10:26	4.0	South-America	Chile	Antofagasta	Tocopilla		EMSC
27.07.2012 00:10:55	3.5	Europe	Italy	Sicily	Panarea		EMSC
27.07.2012 03:16:34	2.0	Asia	Turkey	Siirt	Uzyum		EMSC
27.07.2012 00:11:18	4.5	Indonesian Archipelago	East Timor		Gunung Dilarini		EMSC
26.07.2012 22:00:23	2.9	Asia	Turkey	??rnak	Birlikkoy		EMSC
26.07.2012 22:00:51	2.1	Asia	Turkey	Denizli	Civril		EMSC
26.07.2012 21:10:36	2.4	North America	United States	Hawaii	Pahala		USGS-RSOE

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Strong quake hits off Mauritius

SINGAPORE

(Reuters) – A magnitude 5.8 earthquake struck off the Indian Ocean island of Mauritius on Thursday, the United States Geological Survey said.

The quake was centered 212 miles northeast of Rodrigues island and at a depth of 20.5 miles. The USGS initially put the magnitude at 6.7.

(Writing by Sanjeev Miglani; Editing by Ron Popeski)

8.6 Quake Possible in Southern California? Caltech Suggests New ‘Mega-Earthquake’

By Dennis Romero

LA Weekly

Ben+Sam / Flickr

In recent years, scientists, first responders and utilities have been preparing for “The Big One,” that inevitable quake that will rock Southern California to its core. It’s coming. For sure. They just don’t know when.

But the U.S. Geological Survey and Caltech have been on the ball, working from a likely scenario, a simulated “Shakeout” (see video after the jump) that would have a 7.8 quake hitting greater L.A. It would be deadly, destructive and put us in the dark for days, if not weeks.

Unfortunately, a 7.8 might now be too low of an estimate for The Big One:

Caltech researchers looked at Sumatra’s April 11 8.6 earthquake and concluded — maybe — that a similar temblor could happen along the same San Andreas fault that will produce our Big One.

Make that a possible Bigger One.

Uploaded by ShakeOut2008 on Aug 5, 2008

Simulations for the magnitude 7.8 “ShakeOut” earthquake on the southern San Andreas fault, developed by the Southern California Earthquake Center ShakeOut Simulation workgroup. Simulation by Rob Graves, URS/SCEC. Visualization by Geoff Ely, USC/SCEC.

Scientists said the Indonesian rocker was larger than they ever thought such a quake “could be,” according to Caltech. It was a “intraplate strike-slip quake,” similar to what would happen at San Andreas, where much of California, from Baja to San Francisco, is moving north as the rest of America moves south.

In Sumatra, scientists found that this was not only the biggest strike-slip fault temblor ever, but that it set of a series of right-angle ruptures that amplified the shaking, like a block of ice cracking up in the heat.

And yes, it could happen here. The research, published last week in the journal Science Express, argues:

The new details provide fresh insights into the possibility of ruptures involving multiple faults occurring elsewhere–something that could be important for earthquake-hazard assessment along California’s San Andreas fault, which itself is made up of many different segments and is intersected by a number of other faults at right angles.

Lingsen Meng, lead author of the Caltech research:

If other earthquake ruptures are able to go this deep or to connect as many fault segments as this earthquake did, they might also be very large and cause significant damage.

The USGS, of course, is begging Southern Californians to prepare for our “mega-earthquake,” as academics called the Indonesian shaker. You know, flashlights, batteries, radios, water, nonperishable food. All that good stuff.

But 8.6? Be prepared to kiss your ass goodbye.

[@dennisjromero / djromero@laweekly.com / @LAWeeklyNews]

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Volcanic Activity

27.07.2012

Volcano Eruption

Japan

Prefecture of Kagoshima, [Volcano Sakura-jima]

Volcano Eruption in Japan on Thursday, 26 July, 2012 at 02:59 (02:59 AM) UTC.

Description

A volcano in Sakurajima in southern Japan has erupted, spewing volcanic ash onto Kagoshima City. The eruption at one of Japan’s most active volcanoes caused ash to cover roads. Residents of Kagoshima donned face masks to protect themselves while sweeping away the ash. The volcano has erupted over 600 times this year and is expected to continue its intermittent eruptions. Currently, the volcano warning there is at level three out of a possible five levels. A level five would mean that the residents living near the crater would have to be evacuated, while level three warns people not to approach the volcano.

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Extreme Temperatures/ Weather

Excessive Heat Warning

ST LOUIS MO
MOUNT HOLLY NJ
NEWPORT/MOREHEAD CITY NC
WAKEFIELD VA

Heat Advisory

ST LOUIS MO
TULSA OK
PEACHTREE CITY GA
MOUNT HOLLY NJ
CHARLESTON SC
GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC
WILMINGTON NC
NEWPORT/MOREHEAD CITY NC
JACKSONVILLE FL
WAKEFIELD VA
BALTIMORE MD/WASHINGTON DC
RALEIGH NC

27.07.2012

Heat Wave

Japan

[Statewide]

Heat Wave in Japan on Wednesday, 25 July, 2012 at 03:36 (03:36 AM) UTC.

Description

The number of people taken to hospitals by ambulance due to heatstroke in the week through Sunday more than doubled from the preceding week to 5,467, preliminary data showed Tuesday. The figure, up from 2,622 in the week to July 15, hit the highest for a single week this summer, according to the data released by the Fire and Disaster Management Agency. Deaths caused by heatstroke increased to 13 from five in the preceding week. Tokyo and Saitama Prefecture had the most victims, with ambulances called for 388 people each. They were followed by 382 in Aichi Prefecture and 372 in Osaka Prefecture. People aged 65 or older accounted for 45.9 percent of the total. Since the agency started this year’s survey on May 28, 11,116 people were taken to hospitals as of Sunday. Twenty-three people have died. The rise in heatstroke cases reflects the smothering heat wave, with temperatures of 35 degrees or higher observed in many places for the four days from July 16, agency officials said. In Tatebayashi, Gunma Prefecture, the mercury shot up to 37.6 on July 16 and to 39.2 the following day, according to the Meteorological Agency.

Weather Extremes Leave Parts of U.S. Grid Buckling

Travis Long/The News & Observer, via Associated Press

Emergency repairs on a highway that buckled in triple-digit temperatures last month near Cary, N.C.

By MATTHEW L. WALD and JOHN SCHWARTZ

WASHINGTON — From highways in Texas to nuclear power plants in Illinois, the concrete, steel and sophisticated engineering that undergird the nation’s infrastructure are being taxed to worrisome degrees by heat, drought and vicious storms.

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On a single day this month here, a US Airways regional jet became stuck in asphalt that had softened in 100-degree temperatures, and a subway train derailed after the heat stretched the track so far that it kinked — inserting a sharp angle into a stretch that was supposed to be straight. In East Texas, heat and drought have had a startling effect on the clay-rich soils under highways, which “just shrink like crazy,” leading to “horrendous cracking,” said Tom Scullion, senior research engineer with the Texas Transportation Institute at Texas A&M University. In Northeastern and Midwestern states, he said, unusually high heat is causing highway sections to expand beyond their design limits, press against each other and “pop up,” creating jarring and even hazardous speed bumps.

Excessive warmth and dryness are threatening other parts of the grid as well. In the Chicago area, a twin-unit nuclear plant had to get special permission to keep operating this month because the pond it uses for cooling water rose to 102 degrees; its license to operate allows it to go only to 100. According to the Midwest Independent System Operator, the grid operator for the region, a different power plant had had to shut because the body of water from which it draws its cooling water had dropped so low that the intake pipe became high and dry; another had to cut back generation because cooling water was too warm.

The frequency of extreme weather is up over the past few years, and people who deal with infrastructure expect that to continue. Leading climate models suggest that weather-sensitive parts of the infrastructure will be seeing many more extreme episodes, along with shifts in weather patterns and rising maximum (and minimum) temperatures.

“We’ve got the ‘storm of the century’ every year now,” said Bill Gausman, a senior vice president and a 38-year veteran at the Potomac Electric Power Company, which took eight days to recover from the June 29 “derecho” storm that raced from the Midwest to the Eastern Seaboard and knocked out power for 4.3 million people in 10 states and the District of Columbia.

In general, nobody in charge of anything made of steel and concrete can plan based on past trends, said Vicki Arroyo, who heads the Georgetown Climate Center at Georgetown University Law Center in Washington, a clearinghouse on climate-change adaptation strategies.

Highways, Mr. Scullion noted, are designed for the local climate, taking into account things like temperature and rainfall. “When you get outside of those things, man, all bets are off.” As weather patterns shift, he said, “we could have some very dramatic failures of highway systems.”

Adaptation efforts are taking place nationwide. Some are as huge as the multibillion-dollar effort to increase the height of levees and flood walls in New Orleans because of projections of rising sea levels and stronger storms to come; others as mundane as resizing drainage culverts in Vermont, where Hurricane Irene damaged about 2,000 culverts. “They just got blown out,” said Sue Minter, the Irene recovery officer for the state.

In Washington, the subway system, which opened in 1976, has revised its operating procedures. Authorities will now watch the rail temperature and order trains to slow down if it gets too hot. When railroads install tracks in cold weather, they heat the metal to a “neutral” temperature so it reaches a moderate length, and will withstand the shrinkage and growth typical for that climate. But if the heat historically seen in the South becomes normal farther north, the rails will be too long for that weather, and will have an increased tendency to kink. So railroad officials say they will begin to undertake much more frequent inspection.

Some utilities are re-examining long-held views on the economics of protecting against the weather. Pepco, the utility serving the area around Washington, has repeatedly studied the idea of burying more power lines, and the company and its regulators have always decided that the cost outweighed the benefit. But the company has had five storms in the last two and a half years for which recovery took at least five days, and after the derecho last month, the consensus has changed. Both the District of Columbia and Montgomery County, Md., have held hearings to discuss the option — though in the District alone, the cost would be $1.1 billion to $5.8 billion, depending on how many of the power lines were put underground.

Even without storms, heat waves are changing the pattern of electricity use, raising peak demand higher than ever. That implies the need for new investment in generating stations, transmission lines and local distribution lines that will be used at full capacity for only a few hundred hours a year. “We build the system for the 10 percent of the time we need it,” said Mark Gabriel, a senior vice president of Black & Veatch, an engineering firm. And that 10 percent is “getting more extreme.”

Even as the effects of weather extremes become more evident, precisely how to react is still largely an open question, said David Behar, the climate program director for the San Francisco Public Utilities Commission. “We’re living in an era of assessment, not yet in an area of adaptation,” he said.

He says that violent storms and forest fires can be expected to affect water quality and water use: runoff from major storms and falling ash could temporarily shut down reservoirs. Deciding how to address such issues is the work of groups like the Water Utility Climate Alliance, of which he is a member. “In some ways, the science is still catching up with the need of water managers for high-quality projection,” he said.

Some needs are already known. San Francisco will spend as much as $40 million to modify discharge pipes for treated wastewater to prevent bay water from flowing back into the system.

Even when state and local officials know what they want to do, they say they do not always get the cooperation they would like from the federal government. Many agencies have officially expressed a commitment to plan for climate change, but sometimes the results on the ground can be frustrating, said Ms. Minter of Vermont. For instance, she said, Vermont officials want to replace the old culverts with bigger ones. “We think it’s an opportunity to build back in a more robust way,” she said. But the Federal Emergency Management Agency wants to reuse the old culverts that washed out, or replace them with similar ones, she said.

Ms. Arroyo of Georgetown said the federal government must do more. “They are not acknowledging that the future will look different from the past,” she said, “and so we keep putting people and infrastructure in harm’s way.”

Matthew L. Wald reported from Washington, and John Schwartz from New York.

Fire Weather Watch

BOISE ID
POCATELLO ID

Extreme Fire Danger

RAPID CITY SD

Today

Forest / Wild Fire

USA

State of Montana, [Southeast of Columbus]

Forest / Wild Fire in USA on Friday, 27 July, 2012 at 04:46 (04:46 AM) UTC.

Description

Residents were asked to evacuate from a rural area in southern Montana Thursday as a 5-square-mile wildfire approached the edge of a spread-out subdivision. County workers and firefighters were going door to door asking people to leave along a five-mile stretch of Shane Creek Road south of Columbus, officials said. The voluntary evacuation covered roughly 10 houses in Stillwater County, according to a hotline set up by the county. Shane Creek resident Shane Fouhy said he was packing some belongings, setting out sprinklers to water down his house and yard and heading into Columbus to stay with relatives. “I’ve been out all morning watering and the wind is kind of whirling,” he said. “It’s burning in all directions.” Paula Short with the Department of Natural Resources and Conservation said the Skibstad Fire was burning in grass and timber and had approached within two miles of houses along Shane Creek Road. Residents of more than 100 houses were put on notice that they, too, might have to go. Firefighters were trying to hold the fire along a nearby ridge top to keep it from reaching the houses, Short said. But they were braced for the blaze to spread amid hot, dry conditions and winds of 5 to 10 miles per hour. Columbus High School was set up as a shelter for evacuees. Some structures were confirmed burned; how many and whether any were houses remained unclear. The fire started Wednesday evening in a secondary building on Skibstad Road and quickly spread across the surrounding landscape. It was pushed to the south by the wind, eventually reaching into areas of Carbon County. A heavy air tanker and several smaller aircraft were providing support to at least 60 firefighters with more personnel en route, Short said.

27.07.2012

Forest / Wild Fire

USA

State of Nebraska, [Fairfield Creek]

Forest / Wild Fire in USA on Thursday, 26 July, 2012 at 03:10 (03:10 AM) UTC.

Description

More federal firefighters were being deployed to bone-dry Nebraska, where a huge wildfire is threatening more structures and two smaller fires are still out of control. The handful of people living in Sparks, a gateway to canoeing and tubing on the Niobrara River, were on alert for possible evacuation. A 14-mile stretch of the valley already has been evacuated. While a cold front is expected to provide some relief, highs Wednesday will still be in the mid-90s. The front may also bring some rain, but major storms aren’t likely to develop near the fire. Plus, storms could also bring lightning and spark new fires. Hot, windy weather on Monday helped the main Fairfield Creek Fire expand to 58,000 acres, or nearly 92 square miles. Two other smaller fires about 20 miles east of the main fire had burned more than six square miles. And Tuesday’s high temperature again topped Officials estimate the fires, which have already destroyed at least 10 homes, are about 25 percent contained. Some 200 federal firefighters were being sent to join the more than 300 crews already on the front lines. Four helicopters are also fighting the fires, and three firefighters have been injured. Much of the fire-swept land near the river is rugged, forested and populated with cabins, so only 17 residences had been evacuated as of Tuesday morning.

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Storms / Flooding / Landslides

Severe Thunderstorm Warning

PEACHTREE CITY GA

26.07.2012

Complex Emergency

China

Capital City, Beijing

Complex Emergency in China on Thursday, 26 July, 2012 at 08:01 (08:01 AM) UTC.

Description

A much expected downpour bypassed Beijing Wednesday but battered the neighboring city of Tianjin, flooding many downtown streets and vehicles. As of 11 a.m. Thursday, the maximum precipitation had exceeded 300 millimeters, Tianjin’s meteorological center said in a press release. It said the city proper received an average rainfall of 147 mm, while the outer Xiqing district, one of the worst-battered areas, received 309.8 mm. The local fire prevention bureau sent 190 fire engines and 1,140 rescuers to help rescue flood stranded vehicles and pedestrians. The rain had largely stopped by midday, but the center issued another orange alarm at 11:10 a.m., warning residents of a further rainstorm. The downpour has paralyzed traffic in downtown Tianjin, drowning many roads. Dozens of vehicles were stranded on Baidi road in Nankai district after their engines died in the flood. Many pedestrians complained they had to trek in knee-deep water. In some sections of Xianyang Street, flood water was waist deep. On the badly flooded Friendship Road in Hexi district, five workers kept watch next to sewage wells whose manholes had been removed for faster drainage.The rain disrupted air traffic at Tianjin’s airport, where 20 flights were canceled and 34 delayed.8 The first flight, an incoming flight from Shanghai, landed in Tianjin after the rain subsided at 11:32 a.m., and the first departing flight took off at 12:08 p.m., according to the airport’s official website. Railway transportation, however, was largely unaffected, including the express rail link to Beijing, the city’s railway authorities confirmed. Vegetable prices were up at the city’s major wholesale markets Thursday. “Each kilo is at least 0.4 yuan — about 30 percent — more expensive than yesterday,” said Cui Hongqing, a wholesaler at Hongqi Market. Cui predicted further price hikes Friday as the rain devastated crops and increased transportation costs. China’s capital Beijing was on guard against heavy rain Wednesday, fearing a repeat of Saturday’s mayhem. Saturday’s downpour, which the local weather bureau described as the “heaviest in 61 years,” killed at least 37 people — some were drowned in private cars. Many office workers were allowed to go home early Wednesday for safety considerations, and city authorities bombarded mobile phone subscribers with text message warnings of an imminent downpour. The much expected rain, however, did not fall in Beijing. The capital was still overcast Thursday, as the central weather bureau has forecast rain in seven northern China provinces and municipalities, including Beijing, over the coming three days.

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Summer Storms to Create New Ozone Holes as Earth Warms?

More storms may trigger ozone depletion in populated areas far from the Poles.

A thunderstorm, evening star, and crescent moon collide on a hilltop.

A thunderstorm rumbles through Kansas (file picture).

Photograph by Joel Sartore, National Geographic

John Roach

for National Geographic News

Summer storms may create new holes in our protective ozone layer as Earth heats up—bringing increased solar ultraviolet radiation to densely populated areas, a new study says.

What’s more, if more sunlight reaches Earth, skin cancer could become the new marquee risk of global warming.

As the planet warms, some studies have suggested summer storms may become more frequent and intense. This would send more water vapor—a potent greenhouse gas—into the stratosphere, the middle layer of Earth’s atmosphere, which sits between 9 and 22 miles (14 and 35 kilometers) above Earth’s surface.

In a recent series of research flights over the United States, Harvard University atmospheric chemist James Anderson and colleagues found that summer storms often loft water vapor into the stratosphere.

“It was an unequivocal observation,” he said. “We had a number of flights, and this was an abiding feature” of the storms.

Under the right conditions, this water vapor could trigger chemical reactions that deplete the ozone layer, which prevents harmful ultraviolet rays from reaching Earth’s surface, the study says.

Even small reductions in the ozone layer can make people more susceptible to skin cancer and eye damage, experts say.

(See “Whatever Happened to the Ozone Hole?”)

Ozone-Attacking Conditions Occur in U.S.?

The finding concerned Anderson, whose research in the 1980s and ’90s played a pivotal role in establishing the Montreal Protocol. The international treaty phased out the production of ozone-depleting chemicals called chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs), which were found in a variety of products, including hairsprays and refrigerators.

CFCs produce a form of chlorine that degrades ozone particles in the stratosphere, most signifcantly over the Arctic and Antarctic.

Subsequent studies in the Arctic and in the laboratory revealed that both temperature and water vapor concentrations are crucial in a chemical reaction that makes chlorine attack ozone.

Now, the new observations over the United States suggest summer storms create the same combination of temperature and water vapor conditions at mid-latitudes. (Interactive Map: Global Warming Effects.)

“We essentially have the chemistry that’s present in the Arctic that is clearly very potent for destroying ozone,” Anderson said.

The findings, published today in the journal Science, calculate ozone loss at a rate between 4 and 6 percent per day in water vapor-rich areas of the stratosphere. The effect could persist for several weeks after a storm, he added.

What worries Anderson most is where and when this phenomenon appears to occur.

“It is not ozone loss in Antarctica and the Arctic under winter conditions. It is an attack on the ozone layer in the summer over populated regions of the Northern Hemisphere,” he said.

(See “Rocket Launches Damage Ozone Layer, Study Says.”)

Ozone Loss Not Yet Confirmed

Simone Tilmes, an atmospheric chemist at the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Boulder, Colorado, views the new findings with caution.

Research does indicate that more water vapor in the stratosphere will lead to greater ozone loss under the right conditions, said Tilmes, who was not involved with the current research.

But the study found no direct evidence of a simultaneous observation of water vapor and the presence of destructive chlorine, she said.

“This raises attention,” she said, emphasizing that more research is needed to determine if such ozone depletion will occur.

Study leader Anderson and colleagues acknowledged that they haven’t yet measured the ozone-destroying chlorine in the North American stratosphere.

However, he noted that, though chlorofluorocarbons are no longer released into the atmosphere, the compounds already there can persist for decades.

Cancer Risk May Spur People to Action

If there’s a silver lining to the research, it’s that the results could have a tangible impact on people’s behavior, Anderson said.

Unlike with the “out of sight, out of mind” nature of melting glaciers and carbon dioxide and methane emissions, he said, “most people know that skin cancer is highly prevalent and increasing its frequency.”

If the new findings are confirmed, people may see a direct link between climate change and their health.

That, he said, “might spur them to “step up and take responsibility for what is actually occurring.”

Flash Flood Warning

WILMINGTON OH
CHARLESTON WV

Flood Warning

CHARLESTON WV
PITTSBURGH PA
TAMPA BAY AREA - RUSKIN FL

Flood Advisory

CORPUS CHRISTI TX

Today

Tornado

USA

State of New York, Elmira

Tornado in USA on Friday, 27 July, 2012 at 03:21 (03:21 AM) UTC.

Description

A possible tornado touched down in Elmira, N.Y., late Thursday, damaging buildings, toppling trees and bringing down power lines. The authorities said some people were trapped in their cars when the storm struck around 4 p.m. There were no reports of serious injuries. Emergency officials in Chemung County said there was “significant damage” in Elmira. The National Weather Service said that there were unconfirmed reports that a tornado had touched down. Severe weather moved across Ohio and Pennsylvania on Thursday afternoon, and into New York and New England, bringing heavy rain and in some cases, strong winds and hail. In the New York metropolitan area, weather officials said that the storm moved in shortly after 7 p.m. The hardest hit areas were northwest of the city in Westchester County and in parts of Connecticut, where there were multiple reports of downed trees and power lines. The highest measured wind gusts in the area were 60 miles per hour, near the Tappan Zee Bridge, officials said. Around 8 p.m., wind gusts of up to 54 miles per hour were reported at Kennedy International Airport, weather officials said. Hundreds of flights were delayed because of the storm. Amtrak also reported delays. Late Thursday, tens of thousands of people in New York, New Jersey and Connecticut were without power.

Today

Landslide

Vietnam

MultiProvinces, [Provinces of Tuyen Quang and Ha Giang]

Landslide in Vietnam on Friday, 27 July, 2012 at 03:39 (03:39 AM) UTC.

Description

Disaster officials and state media in Vietnam say landslides and flash floods triggered by Typhoon Vicente have killed seven people, including three in a single family, and left three others missing. Official Lai Thanh Huyen of Tuyen Quang province in northern Vietnam said Friday that landslides following heavy rains buried a 28-year-old woman, her five-year-old daughter and four-month-old son early Thursday while they were sleeping in their home. The Tuoi Tre newspaper reported that landslides killed four people in the neighboring province of Ha Giang. It says flash floods have left three other people missing elsewhere in the region. Vicente injured dozens and grounded planes in Hong Kong earlier in the week.

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Epidemic Hazards / Diseases

Today

Epidemic

Malaysia

State of Sarawak, [Bintulu Region]

Epidemic in Malaysia on Friday, 27 July, 2012 at 03:17 (03:17 AM) UTC.

Description
Minister of Local Government and Community Development Dato Sri Wong Soon Koh yesterday confirmed that there is a cholera outbreak in Bintulu. Speaking to reporters after a briefing by officers from the state Health Department at his office here yesterday, he said the department detected the outbreak on July 14 after a case was confirmed positive with Vibrio Cholerae. “Since July 14, the state Health Department declared there is an outbreak detected in Bintulu. Since then, the state Health Department initiated its investigation to trace all the suspected symptomatic cases. Anyone coming down with diarrhoea and vomiting will be investigated to check whether it is cholera or not,” he added. Based on investigation by the department, the outbreak was believed to have started when three groups of regatta participants from Rumah Gawan, Kampung Jepak and Kampung Hilir in Sebauh, Bintulu used water from Kemena River to wash plates, fish and their hands. “The bacteria from the river had contaminated the food and the hands of the people during the regatta and then continuously spread from person to person and contaminated food and drinks. Now the state Health Department is also suspecting that it is spread from Ramadan Bazaar due to contaminated food and drinks,” he added. He noted that as of yesterday, the department had received 140 cases – 33 positive for cholera, 55 negative and 52 cases still pending result. The youngest patient was one year 11 months old while the oldest was 84 years old. The department also detected nine cases with Vibrio Cholerae but without any symptom. As of yesterday, 177 people had been screened for signs and symptoms of acute gastroenteritis and were given doxycycline, an antibiotic.On the outbreak, Wong said it was still spreading in Bintulu with 11 localities declared positive for cholera; Rumah Panjang Gawan at Sungai Sebauh, Kampung Jepak, Kampung Sebauh Hilir in Sebauh, Rumah Usah in Sungai Segan, Setinggan Mozako, Kampung Assyikirin, Kampung Sinong in Jalan Masjid, Setinggan Hock Peng Tanjung Kidurong, Batu 10, Jalan Bintulu/Miri, Kampung Baru and Kirana Palm Oil/Brightwood Quarters, Kemena Industrial Estate. “The state Health Department will continue to take all samples from Sungai Kemena and its tributaries as well as food sampling from Ramadan Bazaar and houses. Besides that, the state Health Department will intensify diarrhoea and vomiting surveillance in all health facilities in Bintulu and issue cholera alert to all government, private health facilities in the state whereby when there is increase in number of admission, the state Health Department will investigate whether it is cholera or not,” he said. Wong said attention would also be given to all food handlers in the Ramadan Bazaar in Bintulu to ensure that they meet the department’s health standards, which also requires them to go for cholera screening. “Once they are cleared from the disease, they will be issued health cards and they must bring the health cards with them when they operate the stalls. If they refuse to go for screening, they will be asked to close down their stalls,” he added. For the convenience of the public, a screening centre is opened at the old Bintulu health clinic from 8am to 10pm every day. The department is also using Bintulu Hospital for isolation of severe cases while mild cases and asymptomatic cases would be treated at the national service camp in Samalaju in Bintulu. Wong appealed to the public to give their fullest cooperation to the department to ensure that the outbreak could be contained.
Biohazard name:	Vibrio Cholera Outbreak
Biohazard level:	2/4 Medium
Biohazard desc.:	Bacteria and viruses that cause only mild disease to humans, or are difficult to contract via aerosol in a lab setting, such as hepatitis A, B, and C, influenza A, Lyme disease, salmonella, mumps, measles, scrapie, dengue fever, and HIV. “Routine diagnostic work with clinical specimens can be done safely at Biosafety Level 2, using Biosafety Level 2 practices and procedures. Research work (including co-cultivation, virus replication studies, or manipulations involving concentrated virus) can be done in a BSL-2 (P2) facility, using BSL-3 practices and procedures. Virus production activities, including virus concentrations, require a BSL-3 (P3) facility and use of BSL-3 practices and procedures”, see Recommended Biosafety Levels for Infectious Agents.
Symptoms:
Status:	confirmed

26.07.2012

Epidemic Hazard

Uganda

Western Uganda, [Kibaale District]

Epidemic Hazard in Uganda on Thursday, 26 July, 2012 at 15:57 (03:57 PM) UTC.

Description
Sixteen people are reported dead in Uganda from a mystery illness. The Uganda publication UG Pulse reports that a strange illness, cause unknown, is spreading in the Kibaale district in western Uganda. The District Health Officer, Dr. Dan Kyamanwa, stated that 11 of the deaths were from the same family in the Nyamarunda Sub County. A twelfth death was a health officer. There are also reports of the illness appearing in the clinical officer who treated the family from Nyamarunda and a driver who transported the deceased. Kyamanwa says that symptoms of the illness include high fever, vomiting, diarrhea and systems failure. Death occurs within four to seven days.The Ugandan government is reportedly sending a team of experts to investigate the outbreak.
Biohazard name:	Unidentified fatal disease
Biohazard level:	4/4 Hazardous
Biohazard desc.:	Viruses and bacteria that cause severe to fatal disease in humans, and for which vaccines or other treatments are not available, such as Bolivian and Argentine hemorrhagic fevers, H5N1(bird flu), Dengue hemorrhagic fever, Marburg virus, Ebola virus, hantaviruses, Lassa fever, Crimean-Congo hemorrhagic fever, and other hemorrhagic or unidentified diseases. When dealing with biological hazards at this level the use of a Hazmat suit and a self-contained oxygen supply is mandatory. The entrance and exit of a Level Four biolab will contain multiple showers, a vacuum room, an ultraviolet light room, autonomous detection system, and other safety precautions designed to destroy all traces of the biohazard. Multiple airlocks are employed and are electronically secured to prevent both doors opening at the same time. All air and water service going to and coming from a Biosafety Level 4 (P4) lab will undergo similar decontamination procedures to eliminate the possibility of an accidental release.
Symptoms:
Status:	suspected

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Solar Activity

2MIN News July 26, 2012

Published on Jul 26, 2012 by Suspicious0bservers

EARTHQUAKE WATCH: http://youtu.be/SMiHsOYwdCs

TODAY’S LINKS
Nuclear Expansion: http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/07/26/us-nuclear-uranium-report-idUSBRE86…
Antarctic Ice Rift: http://phys.org/news/2012-07-hidden-rift-valley-beneath-west.html
Fracking Study Fraud: http://news.sciencemag.org/scienceinsider/2012/07/update-university-of-texas-…
Crazy Weather Images: http://www.weather.com/news/landsat-earth-images-20120725

REPEAT LINKS
Spaceweather: http://spaceweather.com/ [Look on the left at the X-ray Flux and Solar Wind Speed/Density]

HAARP: http://www.haarp.alaska.edu/haarp/data.html [Click online data, and have a little fun]

SDO: http://sdo.gsfc.nasa.gov/data/ [Place to find Solar Images and Videos – as seen from earth]

SOHO: http://sohodata.nascom.nasa.gov/cgi-bin/soho_movie_theater [SOHO; Lasco and EIT – as seen from earth]

Stereo: http://stereo.gsfc.nasa.gov/cgi-bin/images [Stereo; Cor, EUVI, HI – as seen from the side]

SunAEON:http://www.sunaeon.com/#/solarsystem/ [Just click it… trust me]

SOLARIMG: http://solarimg.org/artis/ [All purpose data viewing site]

iSWA: http://iswa.gsfc.nasa.gov/iswa/iSWA.html [Free Application; for advanced sun watchers]

NOAA ENLIL SPIRAL: http://www.swpc.noaa.gov/wsa-enlil/cme-based/ [CME Evolution]

NOAA Bouys: http://www.ndbc.noaa.gov/

RSOE: http://hisz.rsoe.hu/alertmap/index2.php [That cool alert map I use]

JAPAN Radiation Map: http://jciv.iidj.net/map/

LISS: http://earthquake.usgs.gov/monitoring/operations/heliplots_gsn.php

Gamma Ray Bursts: http://grb.sonoma.edu/ [Really? You can’t figure out what this one is for?]

BARTOL Cosmic Rays: http://neutronm.bartol.udel.edu//spaceweather/welcome.html [Top left box, look for BIG blue circles]

TORCON: http://www.weather.com/news/tornado-torcon-index [Tornado Forecast for the day]

GOES Weather: http://rsd.gsfc.nasa.gov/goes/ [Clouds over America]

INTELLICAST: http://www.intellicast.com/ [Weather site used by many youtubers]

NASA News: http://science.nasa.gov/science-news/science-at-nasa/

PHYSORG: http://phys.org/ [GREAT News Site!]

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Space

Earth approaching objects (objects that are known in the next 30 days)

Object Name

Apporach Date

Left

AU Distance

LD Distance

Estimated Diameter*

Relative Velocity

(2009 PC)

28th July 2012

1 day(s)

0.1772

68.9

61 m – 140 m

7.34 km/s

26424 km/h

217013 (2001 AA50)

31st July 2012

4 day(s)

0.1355

52.7

580 m – 1.3 km

22.15 km/s

79740 km/h

(2012 DS30)

02nd August 2012

6 day(s)

0.1224

47.6

18 m – 39 m

5.39 km/s

19404 km/h

(2000 RN77)

03rd August 2012

7 day(s)

0.1955

76.1

410 m – 920 m

9.87 km/s

35532 km/h

(2004 SB56)

04th August 2012

8 day(s)

0.1393

54.2

380 m – 840 m

13.72 km/s

49392 km/h

(2000 SD8)

04th August 2012

8 day(s)

0.1675

65.2

180 m – 400 m

5.82 km/s

20952 km/h

(2006 EC)

06th August 2012

10 day(s)

0.0932

36.3

13 m – 28 m

6.13 km/s

22068 km/h

(2006 MV1)

07th August 2012

11 day(s)

0.0612

23.8

12 m – 28 m

4.79 km/s

17244 km/h

(2005 RK3)

08th August 2012

12 day(s)

0.1843

71.7

52 m – 120 m

8.27 km/s

29772 km/h

(2009 BW2)

09th August 2012

13 day(s)

0.0337

13.1

25 m – 56 m

5.27 km/s

18972 km/h

277475 (2005 WK4)

09th August 2012

13 day(s)

0.1283

49.9

260 m – 580 m

6.18 km/s

22248 km/h

(2004 SC56)

09th August 2012

13 day(s)

0.0811

31.6

74 m – 170 m

10.57 km/s

38052 km/h

(2008 AF4)

10th August 2012

14 day(s)

0.1936

75.3

310 m – 690 m

16.05 km/s

57780 km/h

37655 Illapa

12th August 2012

16 day(s)

0.0951

37.0

770 m – 1.7 km

28.73 km/s

103428 km/h

(2012 HS15)

14th August 2012

18 day(s)

0.1803

70.2

220 m – 490 m

11.54 km/s

41544 km/h

4581 Asclepius

16th August 2012

20 day(s)

0.1079

42.0

220 m – 490 m

13.48 km/s

48528 km/h

(2008 TC4)

18th August 2012

22 day(s)

0.1937

75.4

140 m – 300 m

17.34 km/s

62424 km/h

(2006 CV)

20th August 2012

24 day(s)

0.1744

67.9

290 m – 640 m

13.24 km/s

47664 km/h

(2012 EC)

20th August 2012

24 day(s)

0.0815

31.7

56 m – 130 m

5.57 km/s

20052 km/h

162421 (2000 ET70)

21st August 2012

25 day(s)

0.1503

58.5

640 m – 1.4 km

12.92 km/s

46512 km/h

(2007 WU3)

21st August 2012

25 day(s)

0.1954

76.0

56 m – 120 m

5.25 km/s

18900 km/h

(2012 BB14)

24th August 2012

28 day(s)

0.1234

48.0

27 m – 60 m

2.58 km/s

9288 km/h

1 AU = ~150 million kilometers,1 LD = Lunar Distance = ~384,000 kilometers

Source: NASA-NEO

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Rogue Waves

Today

Giant Wave Impact

India

State of Goa, [About 200 metres of Benaulim coastal area]

Giant Wave Impact in India on Friday, 27 July, 2012 at 03:15 (03:15 AM) UTC.

Description

Lifeguard services provided by the department of tourism were called upon to carry out a multiple rescue operation on Thursday at Benaulim after a fishing boat with 12 crew members ventured out to the sea and capsized. The incident report stated that lifeguards were continuously observing the boat that had left at 7.20am when they saw it suddenly capsize when it was hit by a huge wave about 200m from the shore. Nine crew members were secured by the lifeguards on jet-ski boats and brought to shore while three managed to swim to safety. No injuries were reported. But as two victims Santan Fernandes and Menino Fernandes had shallow breathing, they were shifted to Hospicio hospital, Margao.

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Description
They may seem like furry little friends, those little squirrels, as they skitter through the forests, but researches have discovered otherwise. A bacterium known to cause ‘Q-Fever’ in humans has been detected in a high percentage rodents in Algonquin Park. A team of Laurentian University biology researchers, led by Canada Research Chair Dr. Albrecht Schulte-Hostedde have found evidence of the spread of the zoonotic bacterium Coxiella bernetii in wildlife in the park and say their findings suggest that some visitors to the park could be at risk of infection. According to a Laurentian University press release the bacterium was “detected in six out of seven species of wild rodents tested within the boundaries of Algonquin Park, including red squirrels, flying squirrels and deer mice. It was also found in flying squirrels in the Peterborough area, indicating that the bacteria may be widespread among these animal populations in Ontario.” The bacterium is a cause of Query fever, also known as Q-Fever, in humans.According to the Ontario Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Rural Affairs (OMAFRA) website, “Human Q fever is primarily an occupational disease of farmers, abattoir workers, veterinarians, and laboratory workers.” The disease is a flu-like illness that often remains undiagnosed. In a minority of cases it can cause a clinical atypical pneumonia or hepatitis. If the disease becomes chronic, endocarditis and chronic hepatitis can develop. Chronic Q fever can be fatal, and is more likely to develop in immuno-compromised individuals and pregnant women. The OMAFRA website states, “In Ontario, Q-fever has occasionally been diagnosed as a cause of abortion in sheep and goats. Reported human cases have been associated with exposure to abortions in sheep and goats, and drinking unpasteurised goat’s milk.” “It can be transmitted reasonably easily among wildlife,” he said. “The suggestion is that people can get it from, like the Hantavirus, inhaling feces. Let’s say you have a cottage or a camp and sweep the corners. Any fecal material will dry and aerosolize, it goes up in the air and you inhale some of it.” In 2007, an outbreak in the Netherlands resulted in the infection of more than 2,000 people.Thousands of goats were culled. “There is a lot of interest in Europe now on how this pathogen is transmitted in the natural environment,” said Schulte-Hostedde. He says there is a hypothesis that ticks may be a cause of the spread of this pathogen. Schulte-Hostedde says he has spoken intensively to an Algonquin Park biologist who has indicted there have been no reports of people becoming ill with Q-Fever. “In terms of mortality I don’t think it’s going to kill anybody. There are no huge numbers of people reporting being ill,” he said. “We put the press release out not to alarm people but so that the public health authorities know that this bug is out there.” He says this might be quite large spread, and there are different strains of the infection, some that may be more dangerous than others. “We don’t know anything about the strain that we found versus what might be found on farms,” he said. He says after discussions with Public Health Ontario and the Public Health Agency of Canada, they are aware that it is out there and it is reportable at some levels. “They are aware that it happens on farms but there is no real work that is being done on Coxiella bernetii in the natural environment,” he said. “My point with the whole thing… it is just providing an awareness that there is a microbrobe that can make you sick so you should take some precautions.” Schulte-Hostedde says he is in the process of returning to his initial studies and a zoonotics expert at the University of Guelph is hoping to attain OMAFRA funding to study this bacterium in a natural environment because there are still many questions to be answered, including whether this is being transferred from farm to the natural environment or vice versa; and whether the strains are the same. “It has an interesting history because it has been the subject of weaponization research in the United States,” he said. “That’s part of the sexy thing about this thing. It actually can infect people relatively easily, which is part of the history of human relationships with this bacteria.” He says in order to get the real story beyond the initial findings and the hundreds of animals tested, there is much more work to be done.
Biohazard name:	Q Fever (squirrels)
Biohazard level:	3/4 Hight
Biohazard desc.:	Bacteria and viruses that can cause severe to fatal disease in humans, but for which vaccines or other treatments exist, such as anthrax, West Nile virus, Venezuelan equine encephalitis, SARS virus, variola virus (smallpox), tuberculosis, typhus, Rift Valley fever, Rocky Mountain spotted fever, yellow fever, and malaria. Among parasites Plasmodium falciparum, which causes Malaria, and Trypanosoma cruzi, which causes trypanosomiasis, also come under this level.
Symptoms:
Status:	confirmed

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Articles of Interest

Today

Power Outage

USA

State of New York, [Sullivan County]

Power Outage in USA on Friday, 27 July, 2012 at 03:11 (03:11 AM) UTC.

Description

Gov. Andrew Cuomo is meeting with utility officials and state regulators as a wave of severe storms cross the state. The National Weather Service gave Cuomo a pre-emptive warning about the possibility that severe thunderstorms and tornadoes. Cuomo says he will meet Thursday with the leadership of Con Edison, the New York Power Authority, and the state Public Service Commission to make sure the New York City area is prepared. About 10,000 utility customers in western New York and Sullivan County northwest of New York City have lost power as New Yorkers are being warned of the possibility of severe weather. The power losses Thursday morning came as thunderstorms move eastward across the state. Most of the outages are in the Rochester area and in Cattaraugus County, south of Buffalo.

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Earth Watch Report – Wednesday July 25th, 2012

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July 25, 2012

Earthquakes

RSOE EDIS

Date/Time (UTC)	Magnitude	Area	Country	State/Prov./Gov.	Location	Risk	Source	Details
25.07.2012 06:30:35	2.1	North America	United States	Washington	May Creek		USGS-RSOE
25.07.2012 06:30:58	2.3	North America	United States	Alaska	Y		USGS-RSOE
25.07.2012 06:15:37	3.0	North America	United States	California	Cobb		USGS-RSOE
25.07.2012 06:20:21	3.0	South-America	Chile	Valparaíso	Los Andes		EMSC
25.07.2012 05:16:25	2.0	North America	United States	California	Cobb		USGS-RSOE
25.07.2012 06:20:45	3.1	Asia	Turkey	Siirt	Uzyum		EMSC
25.07.2012 04:55:53	2.8	North America	United States	Alaska	Sunrise		USGS-RSOE
25.07.2012 05:15:19	3.0	Europe	Czech Republic		Kanovice		EMSC
25.07.2012 06:21:06	3.1	Asia	Turkey	Van	Yuvacik		EMSC
25.07.2012 05:15:55	2.4	South-America	Chile	Valparaíso	La Ligua		EMSC
25.07.2012 04:15:25	2.2	Europe	Poland	Lower Silesian Voivodeship	Patnow		EMSC
25.07.2012 04:10:30	2.3	North America	United States	Alaska	Nanwalek		USGS-RSOE
25.07.2012 04:15:48	3.5	Asia	Turkey	Van	Yuvacik		EMSC
25.07.2012 04:16:09	2.9	South-America	Bolivia	Potosí	Villa Alota		EMSC
25.07.2012 04:16:33	2.2	Asia	Turkey	?zmir	Urla		EMSC
25.07.2012 06:21:25	2.7	Asia	Turkey	Van	Toyga		EMSC
25.07.2012 04:16:54	2.3	Asia	Turkey	Van	Toyga		EMSC
25.07.2012 03:10:21	2.7	Europe	Greece	Central Greece	Neon Monastirion		EMSC
25.07.2012 02:45:27	2.0	North America	United States	Nevada	Black Rock City		USGS-RSOE
25.07.2012 04:17:15	2.0	Asia	Turkey	Kütahya	Saphane		EMSC
25.07.2012 02:40:49	6.6	Indonesian archipelago	Indonesia	Aceh	Sinabang		USGS-RSOE
25.07.2012 03:10:47	5.9	Indonesian Archipelago	Indonesia	Aceh	Sinabang		EMSC
25.07.2012 03:11:08	2.1	Europe	France	Centre	Levroux		EMSC
25.07.2012 04:40:35	2.3	Caribbean	Puerto Rico	Juana Diaz	Potala Pastillo		USGS-RSOE
25.07.2012 04:17:36	2.4	Asia	Turkey	Van	Yuvacik		EMSC
25.07.2012 03:11:28	2.1	Asia	Turkey	Bal?kesir	Susurluk		EMSC
25.07.2012 03:11:49	2.5	Asia	Turkey	Van	Toyga		EMSC
25.07.2012 01:55:24	2.0	North America	United States	Alaska	Happy Valley		USGS-RSOE
25.07.2012 01:40:39	2.0	North America	United States	Alaska	Four Mile Road		USGS-RSOE
25.07.2012 02:05:25	2.2	Asia	Turkey	Van	Toyga		EMSC
25.07.2012 02:05:46	2.4	Asia	Turkey	Mu?la	Ula		EMSC
25.07.2012 02:06:07	4.0	South-America	Chile	Antofagasta	San Pedro de Atacama		EMSC
25.07.2012 02:06:29	2.6	Asia	Turkey	Van	Toyga		EMSC
25.07.2012 02:06:55	4.4	Asia	Turkey	Van	Yuvacik		EMSC
25.07.2012 01:25:27	4.5	Asia	Turkey	Van	Yuvacik		USGS-RSOE
25.07.2012 00:55:28	2.8	North America	United States	California	Ferndale		USGS-RSOE
25.07.2012 00:55:58	2.1	North America	United States	California	Cobb		USGS-RSOE
25.07.2012 01:00:27	2.9	Europe	Greece	South Aegean	Adamas		EMSC
25.07.2012 02:07:15	2.2	Asia	Turkey	Mu?la	Datca		EMSC
25.07.2012 00:45:29	2.0	North America	United States	Alaska	Lake Minchumina		USGS-RSOE
25.07.2012 00:35:44	2.7	North America	United States	Alaska	Valdez		USGS-RSOE
25.07.2012 02:07:36	2.4	Asia	Turkey	Mu?la	Sarigerme		EMSC
25.07.2012 01:00:47	3.9	South-America	Chile	Antofagasta	San Pedro de Atacama		EMSC
25.07.2012 02:07:58	3.5	South-America	Chile	Antofagasta	San Pedro de Atacama		EMSC
25.07.2012 00:00:26	2.3	Europe	Poland	Silesian Voivodeship	Zbytkow		EMSC
25.07.2012 02:08:20	2.4	Asia	Turkey	Amasya	Dedekoy		EMSC
24.07.2012 23:35:27	2.0	North America	United States	Alaska	Point MacKenzie		USGS-RSOE
25.07.2012 00:00:46	4.7	Europe	Russia	Kamtsjatka	Kamenskoye		EMSC
25.07.2012 00:50:59	4.8	Asia	Russia	Kamtsjatka	Tilichiki		USGS-RSOE
25.07.2012 00:01:06	3.1	Europe	Greece	Central Greece	Zarakes		EMSC

Date/Time (UTC)	Message	Location	Magnitude	Depth	Status	Details
25.07.2012 00:34 AM	Tsunami Information Bulletin	Off W Coast Of Northern Sumatra	6.6	0 km

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Tsunami Information Bulletin in Off W Coast Of Northern Sumatra, Indian Ocean

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WEIO23 PHEB 250034
TIBIOX

TSUNAMI BULLETIN NUMBER 001
PACIFIC TSUNAMI WARNING CENTER/NOAA/NWS
ISSUED AT 0034Z 25 JUL 2012

THIS BULLETIN IS FOR ALL AREAS OF THE INDIAN OCEAN.

... TSUNAMI INFORMATION BULLETIN ...

THIS MESSAGE IS FOR INFORMATION ONLY.

THIS BULLETIN IS ISSUED AS ADVICE TO GOVERNMENT AGENCIES.  ONLY
NATIONAL AND LOCAL GOVERNMENT AGENCIES HAVE THE AUTHORITY TO MAKE
DECISIONS REGARDING THE OFFICIAL STATE OF ALERT IN THEIR AREA AND
ANY ACTIONS TO BE TAKEN IN RESPONSE.

AN EARTHQUAKE HAS OCCURRED WITH THESE PRELIMINARY PARAMETERS

 ORIGIN TIME -  0028Z 25 JUL 2012
 COORDINATES -   2.5 NORTH   95.8 EAST
 LOCATION    -  OFF W COAST OF NORTHERN SUMATRA
 MAGNITUDE   -  6.6

EVALUATION

 A DESTRUCTIVE WIDESPREAD TSUNAMI THREAT DOES NOT EXIST BASED ON
 HISTORICAL EARTHQUAKE AND TSUNAMI DATA.

 HOWEVER - THERE IS A VERY SMALL POSSIBILITY OF A LOCAL TSUNAMI
 THAT COULD AFFECT COASTS LOCATED USUALLY NO MORE THAN A HUNDRED
 KILOMETERS FROM THE EARTHQUAKE EPICENTER. AUTHORITIES IN THE
 REGION NEAR THE EPICENTER SHOULD BE MADE AWARE OF THIS
 POSSIBILITY.

THIS WILL BE THE ONLY BULLETIN ISSUED BY THE PACIFIC TSUNAMI
WARNING CENTER FOR THIS EVENT UNLESS ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
BECOMES AVAILABLE.

THE JAPAN METEOROLOGICAL AGENCY MAY ISSUE ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
FOR THIS EVENT. IN THE CASE OF CONFLICTING INFORMATION...THE
MORE CONSERVATIVE INFORMATION SHOULD BE USED FOR SAFETY.

No damage, tsunami after 6.6 quake hits off Indonesia’s Sumatra

JAKARTA

(Reuters) – A strong earthquake with a magnitude of 6.6 struck off northern Sumatra in Indonesia on Wednesday, the U.S. Geological Survey said, but authorities said there was little chance of a tsunami.

The quake was felt by residents on the island of Simeulue off Sumatra’s northwest coast but there were no immediate reports of damage or injuries.

“The quake has no tsunami potential,” said Sutopo Purwo Nugroho, a spokesman for the National Disaster Mitigation Agency. “Some people ran away from their houses. We don’t have any house damage.”

The Hawaii-based Pacific Tsunami Warning Center said there was no threat of a widespread, destructive tsunami after the quake, about 330 km (205 miles) southeast of Indonesia’s Banda Aceh. It said there was a “very small possibility” of a local tsunami. (Reporting by Olivia Rondonuwu; Writing by Paul Tait; Editing by Michael Perry)

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Volcanic Activity

Tongariro volcano (New Zealand): seismic swarm, a possible precursor to new activity

BY: T

Tongariro volcano is showing signs of a possible awakening. On 13 July 2012, an increase in small (<M2.5) earthquakes was detected. The quakes were clustered at depths of 2-7 km under the area between Emerald crater and Te Mari crater. More than 20 earthquakes were recorded until 20 July, when the seismic activity peaked and prompted GeoNet to raise the alert level from 0 to 1. Compared to a background average of 2 quakes per year, the swarm is significant and could indicate magma movements. Seismic activity dropped on 21 July with only 1 quake since then, but preliminary measurements show an increase in volcanic gas emission. NZ Scientist started to increase their monitoring at the volcano.

New Mechanism Observes Activity of Caldera in Santorini

By Spyros Kouvoussis The new seismic-detecting mechanism that observes the activity of the volcano in Santorini, Caldera, was finally placed at the bottom of the sea. The scientific community now says it will be ready to warn authorities in case there is any alarming activity. The new mechanism is the cutting edge of technology of its kind.

The procedure to place the mechanism at the bottom of the sea took ten days and the team of scientists of the project hailed from Greece, France and Spain. The mechanism is placed in the north part of Caldera, where the deepest spot is 389m. The mechanism was set up with the use of two special ships owned by the Greek Center of Sea Research. The mechanism is equipped with instruments that can assess the structure of the bottom of the sea and measure its temperature. That way scientists can have a better look at the volcano’s activity.

Dimitris Sakellariou, the head of the program, said that the first signs show that the volcano has very limited activity. He also pointed out that although the program should have started a long time ago, there is a high risk that due to the economic crisis its survival will be an issue.

Source: (in.gr)

Santorini, Santorini caldera, volcano

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Extreme Temperatures/ Weather /Drought

Today

Heat Wave

Japan

[Statewide]

Description

Gov. Chris Gregoire on Monday proclaimed a state of emergency for 16 Washington counties hit by a series of recent storms. Most of the counties are in the eastern half of the state. One death in northeast Washington’s Ferry County is considered storm-related, the governor said. A series of storms that started July 13 have caused power outages, fuel shortages and road closures that threaten some at-risk populations, Gregoire said. High winds, severe thunderstorms and extreme rainfall have damaged homes, businesses and public buildings. The proclamation directs state agencies to “do everything reasonably possible” to help affected communities recover. After a fierce thunder and rain storm last Friday, Ferry County and the Colville Tribes asked for state assistance. The small community of Keller on the Colville Reservation was pummeled by the storm, with downed trees blocking roads, crushing power lines and damaging houses. KHQ-TV reports the Keller Community Center has been functioning as the town’s hub.

“Everyone comes here. This is the place to be,” said volunteer Corrie Johnson. The community center has been offering meals and shelter to those who need it. Winds in northeast Washington hit 66 mph during Friday’s storm, National Weather Service meteorologist John Livingston told the Spokesman-Review. Forest Service officials in the Republic Ranger District said the storm winds toppled numerous trees, blocking trails and roads. “It was horrendous, chaotic,” Christine Bonney, the Republic Police Department’s administrative assistant, told the newspaper. “There were fields of trees lying flat, like the wind ironed them down.” In the Okanogan County community of Omak in north-central Washington, crews were still cleaning up Monday after rain from Friday’s storm flooded about five blocks of downtown streets. At one point, water was knee-deep in the downtown area, the Wenatchee World reported. Several highways in the county were closed temporarily due to downed trees and rain-caused mudslides, Sheriff Frank Rogers said. Grant County also saw pounding hail and isolated flooding.

Counties included in the proclamation include: Adams, Benton, Chelan, Douglas, Ferry, Franklin, Garfield, Grant, Jefferson, Kitsap, Kittitas, Klickitat, Okanogan, Pend Oreille, Walla Walla and Yakima.

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Storms / Flooding

24.07.2012

Tropical Storm

China

Hong Kong Special Administrative Regions, Hong Kong

Tropical Storm in China on Tuesday, 24 July, 2012 at 13:06 (01:06 PM) UTC.

Description

Fifty people were injured and trees ripped from the ground as Typhoon Vicente lashed Hong Kong, packing winds in excess of 140 kilometres per hour. Authorities raised the typhoon warning to the most severe level of 10 for the first time since 1999 just after midnight, as Typhoon Vicente roared to within 100km of Hong Kong but it was eventually downgraded to eight. “In the past few hours, Vicente intensified rapidly into a severe typhoon and moved in a more northerly direction, edging closer to Hong Kong,” the Hong Kong Observatory said in a statement following the 10 warning. More than 200 trees fell and pieces of buildings were seen crashing into downtown streets as commuters made their way home from work on Monday evening. Ferry, bus and train services were suspended or ran at reduced capacity, the port was closed and 15 passenger flights to the regional aviation hub were cancelled. More than 210 flights were delayed. The Hong Kong stock exchange delayed the opening of trading on Tuesday until authorities gave the all-clear that it was safe to go to work.

School classes and hospital outpatient clinics were suspended until further notice. Flooding was reported in two areas. Fifteen people were hospitalised out of 50 who sought medical treatment, officials said. Almost 250 people sought refuge in storm shelters. Local media reported that more than 100 commuters stayed in the Tai Wai underground train station overnight, unable to get home after services were suspended. The 10 warning was downgraded to eight early on Tuesday morning as the storm passed to the west and weakened over the southern Chinese coast, but authorities warned residents to remain vigilant. “Although Vicente is moving gradually away from Hong Kong and started to weaken, gale force winds are still prevailing over parts of the territory with occasional storm force winds offshore and on high ground and frequent heavy squally showers,” the Observatory said. “Members of the public are advised not to relax their precautions.”

Severe typhoon hits Hong Kong

Tropical cyclone warning raised to its highest level, grounding flights and disrupting businesses across financial hub.

Storm surges and sea wave warnings have been heightened, with winds of up to 100 kph expected [AFP]

A severe typhoon has hit Hong Kong, disrupting business across the financial hub, with offices and the stock market to remain closed for at least part of the morning after the city raised its highest typhoon warning overnight.

Typhoon Vicente battered Hong Kong with gale-force winds and torrential rain, grounding flights and shutting port operations on Tuesday.

Authorities raised the No. 10 tropical cyclone signal for several hours overnight, making this one of the strongest
typhoons to hit the city in the past decade.

Al Jazeera’s Stephanie Scawen, reporting from Hong Kong, said “heavy rain is coming through” the financial hub, and is expected to last “probably for a few days”.

Highest warning level

Financial markets, schools, businesses and non-essential government services close when a No. 8 signal or above is
hoisted, posing a disruption to business in the capitalist hub and former British colony that returned to Chinese rule in 1997.

By 8am local time (00:00 GMT), the typhoon was veering away from the city and weakening, although the No. 8 signal is expected to remain in force until at least 10am (02:00 GMT), the Hong Kong Observatory said, which would force a closure of the stock market for the morning.

Hong Kong Observatory raised the No. 10 signal early on Tuesday as typhoon Vicente swept closer to Hong Kong [Reuters]

The market will be closed for the day if the No. 8 signal remains in place until noon (04:00 GMT), after it dropped three per cent on Monday.

Separately, China’s National Meteorological Centre issued an orange alert for Typhoon Vicente, the second highest warning level in China’s four-tier typhoon warning system, the official Xinhua news agency reported.

Strengthening gale-force winds overturned trees, churned up huge waves in Hong Kong’s Victoria Harbour and sent debris
flying, injuring some 30 people as Vicente hit the city and the western reaches of China’s Guangdong province.

Fifteen flights were cancelled and more than 200 delayed late on Monday, aviation authorities said, although Hong Kong’s
main carrier Cathay Pacific said it planned to resume some flights.

The Hong Kong Observatory raised the No. 10 signal early on Tuesday as typhoon Vicente swept much closer to Hong Kong than initially thought, making this the first time the highest typhoon signal had been raised since 1999.

More than 30,000 Chinese fishing boats were alerted to return to harbour, with 10,560 fishermen taking shelter ashore
in Guangdong, Chinese state media reported. Storm surges and sea wave warnings were heightened, with winds of up to 100 kph expected.

Source:

Al Jazeera And Agencies

Photos: Dust Storm Envelops Phoenix Area

weather.com Associated Press

weather.com

The sky turned orange in Scottsdale, Ariz. during the Haboob. iWitness/Mikelp82

PHOENIX — A dust storm, or haboob, enveloped the greater Phoenix area in a cloud of yellow-gray blowing dust on Saturday night.

(MORE: Origin of the word “haboob”)

National Weather Service meteorologist Charlotte Dewey said the storm was moving northwest and was first spotted between Eloy and Tucson.

The haboob covered cities in the metropolitan Phoenix area such as Scottsdale, Gilbert, Mesa, Apache Junction, Santan Valley, Chandler, Casa Grande and downtown Phoenix.

There were no official estimates of its size, but Dewey says spotters estimated it was around 2,000 feet tall. She says there were also reports of 35 mph wind gusts in the area, and a report of a 50 mph gust at Phoenix Sky Harbor Airport.

Above are photos of the event from The Associated Press and our iWitness Weather contributors.

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Radiation / Nuclear

24.07.2012

Nuclear Event

India

State of Rajasthan, Rawatbhata [Rajasthan Atomic Power Station, District of Chittorgarh]

Nuclear Event in India on Tuesday, 24 July, 2012 at 10:49 (10:49 AM) UTC.

Description

More than 40 workers at a nuclear power station in northern India have been exposed to tritium radiation in two separate leaks in the past five weeks. The first accident occurred on June 23 when 38 people were exposed during maintenance work on a coolant channel at the Rajasthan Atomic Power Station in Rawatbhata, senior plant manager Vinod Kumar said. Two of them received radiation doses equivalent to the annual permissible limit, he said, but all those involved have returned to work. In a second incident last Thursday, another four maintenance workers at the plant were exposed to tritium radiation while they were repairing a faulty seal on a pipe. India is on a nuclear power drive, with a host of plants based on Russian, Japanese, American and French technology under consideration or construction.

The country’s growing economy is currently heavily dependent on coal, getting less than 3% of its energy from its existing atomic plants, and the government hopes to raise the figure to 25% by 2050. But environmental watchdogs have expressed concerns about safety in India, where small-scale industrial accidents due to negligence or poor maintenance are commonplace and regulatory bodies are often under-staffed and under-funded. The director of the Rajasthan power station, C.P. Jamb, confirmed the second accident to AFP but said the radiation was within permissible limits and posed no health threat. “The workers were exposed to radiation from 10 to 25 per cent of the annual limit,” Jamb said. “Such minor leakages keep on happening but they cause no harm.” C.D. Rajput, director of the unit where the leak happened, also said the radiation exposure “was well under the limits and all the workers are working normally”. No explanation was immediately available as to why the first incident at the plant took a month to emerge.

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Epidemic Hazards / Diseases

25.07.2012

Epidemic

Democratic Republic of the Congo

Province of North Kivu, [Province-wide]

Epidemic in Democratic Republic of the Congo on Tuesday, 24 July, 2012 at 02:57 (02:57 AM) UTC.

Description
The security situation in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) province of North Kivu has been deteriorating for months because of armed conflict between various renegade soldier groups. The fighting has resulted in the displacement of approximately 250,000 people from the area fleeing the violence in search of safety. Health concerns have also risen in violence-ridden areas of the eastern DRC. According to a World Health Organization (WHO) Global Alert and Response (GAR) issued Monday, the DRC has reported a sharp increase in the number of cholera cases in the armed conflict area of North Kivu. For the three weeks spanning June 11 to July 1, 368 new cases of cholera were reported. Because of the lack of security in the area, there is a concern those stricken with cholera will have difficulty in accessing the health-care facilities and could increase the number of severe and fatal cases. The WHO also reports the fear of the cholera spilling over the borders into neighboring countries Burundi, Rwanda, South Sudan and Uganda. Médecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) and its partners blame the outbreak on a lack of potable drinking water. Patients are being treated with infusions and antibiotics as appropriate, at treatment centres. Interventions to control the epidemic that are being carried out include education and communication; management of cases; increased surveillance; hygiene and sanitation; and provision of safe drinking water.WHO is working to support national authorities in response to the cholera outbreak and the broader humanitarian emergency resulting from conflict and population displacement. Cholera is an acute bacterial intestinal disease characterized by sudden onset, profuse watery stools (given the appearance as rice water stools because of flecks of mucus in water) due to a very potent enterotoxin. The enterotoxin leads to an extreme loss of fluid and electrolytes in the production of diarrhea. It has been noted that an untreated patient can lose his bodyweight in fluids in hours resulting in shock and death. It is caused by the bacterium, Vibrio cholerae. Serogroups O1 and O139 are the types associated with the epidemiological characteristics of cholera (outbreaks). The bacteria are acquired through ingestion of contaminated water or food through a number of mechanisms. Water is usually contaminated by the feces of infected individuals. Drinking water can be contaminated at the source, during transport or during storage at home.Food can be contaminated by soiled hands, during preparation or while eating. Beverages and ice prepared with contaminated water and fruits and vegetables washed with this water are other examples. Some outbreaks are linked to raw or undercooked seafood. The incubation for cholera can be from a few hours to 5 days. As long as the stools are positive, the person is infective. Some patients may become carriers of the organism which can last for months. Cholera is diagnosed by growing the bacteria in culture. Treatment consists of replacement of fluids lost, intravenous replacement in severe cases. Doxycycline or tetracycline antibiotic therapy can shorten the course of severe disease. According to Wikipedia, North Kivu is a province bordering Lake Kivu in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo. Its capital is Goma. North Kivu borders the provinces of Orientale to the north and northwest, Maniema to the southwest, and South Kivu to the south. To the east, it borders the countries of Uganda and Rwanda.
Biohazard name:	Cholera Outbreak
Biohazard level:	2/4 Medium
Biohazard desc.:	Bacteria and viruses that cause only mild disease to humans, or are difficult to contract via aerosol in a lab setting, such as hepatitis A, B, and C, influenza A, Lyme disease, salmonella, mumps, measles, scrapie, dengue fever, and HIV. “Routine diagnostic work with clinical specimens can be done safely at Biosafety Level 2, using Biosafety Level 2 practices and procedures. Research work (including co-cultivation, virus replication studies, or manipulations involving concentrated virus) can be done in a BSL-2 (P2) facility, using BSL-3 practices and procedures. Virus production activities, including virus concentrations, require a BSL-3 (P3) facility and use of BSL-3 practices and procedures”, see Recommended Biosafety Levels for Infectious Agents.
Symptoms:
Status:	confirmed

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Solar Activity

2MIN News July 24, 2012: Spaceweather Ramp-Up

Published on Jul 24, 2012 by Suspicious0bservers

EARTHQUAKE WATCH: http://youtu.be/SMiHsOYwdCs

REPEAT LINKS
Spaceweather: http://spaceweather.com/ [Look on the left at the X-ray Flux and Solar Wind Speed/Density]

HAARP: http://www.haarp.alaska.edu/haarp/data.html [Click online data, and have a little fun]

SDO: http://sdo.gsfc.nasa.gov/data/ [Place to find Solar Images and Videos – as seen from earth]

SOHO: http://sohodata.nascom.nasa.gov/cgi-bin/soho_movie_theater [SOHO; Lasco and EIT – as seen from earth]

Stereo: http://stereo.gsfc.nasa.gov/cgi-bin/images [Stereo; Cor, EUVI, HI – as seen from the side]

SunAEON:http://www.sunaeon.com/#/solarsystem/ [Just click it… trust me]

SOLARIMG: http://solarimg.org/artis/ [All purpose data viewing site]

iSWA: http://iswa.gsfc.nasa.gov/iswa/iSWA.html [Free Application; for advanced sun watchers]

NOAA ENLIL SPIRAL: http://www.swpc.noaa.gov/wsa-enlil/cme-based/ [CME Evolution]

NOAA Bouys: http://www.ndbc.noaa.gov/

RSOE: http://hisz.rsoe.hu/alertmap/index2.php [That cool alert map I use]

JAPAN Radiation Map: http://jciv.iidj.net/map/

LISS: http://earthquake.usgs.gov/monitoring/operations/heliplots_gsn.php

Gamma Ray Bursts: http://grb.sonoma.edu/ [Really? You can’t figure out what this one is for?]

BARTOL Cosmic Rays: http://neutronm.bartol.udel.edu//spaceweather/welcome.html [Top left box, look for BIG blue circles]

TORCON: http://www.weather.com/news/tornado-torcon-index [Tornado Forecast for the day]

GOES Weather: http://rsd.gsfc.nasa.gov/goes/ [Clouds over America]

INTELLICAST: http://www.intellicast.com/ [Weather site used by many youtubers]

NASA News: http://science.nasa.gov/science-news/science-at-nasa/

PHYSORG: http://phys.org/ [GREAT News Site!]

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Space

Earth approaching objects (objects that are known in the next 30 days)

Object Name

Apporach Date

Left

AU Distance

LD Distance

Estimated Diameter*

Relative Velocity

(2009 PC)

28th July 2012

3 day(s)

0.1772

68.9

61 m – 140 m

7.34 km/s

26424 km/h

217013 (2001 AA50)

31st July 2012

6 day(s)

0.1355

52.7

580 m – 1.3 km

22.15 km/s

79740 km/h

(2012 DS30)

02nd August 2012

8 day(s)

0.1224

47.6

18 m – 39 m

5.39 km/s

19404 km/h

(2000 RN77)

03rd August 2012

9 day(s)

0.1955

76.1

410 m – 920 m

9.87 km/s

35532 km/h

(2004 SB56)

04th August 2012

10 day(s)

0.1393

54.2

380 m – 840 m

13.72 km/s

49392 km/h

(2000 SD8)

04th August 2012

10 day(s)

0.1675

65.2

180 m – 400 m

5.82 km/s

20952 km/h

(2006 EC)

06th August 2012

12 day(s)

0.0932

36.3

13 m – 28 m

6.13 km/s

22068 km/h

(2006 MV1)

07th August 2012

13 day(s)

0.0612

23.8

12 m – 28 m

4.79 km/s

17244 km/h

(2005 RK3)

08th August 2012

14 day(s)

0.1843

71.7

52 m – 120 m

8.27 km/s

29772 km/h

(2009 BW2)

09th August 2012

15 day(s)

0.0337

13.1

25 m – 56 m

5.27 km/s

18972 km/h

277475 (2005 WK4)

09th August 2012

15 day(s)

0.1283

49.9

260 m – 580 m

6.18 km/s

22248 km/h

(2004 SC56)

09th August 2012

15 day(s)

0.0811

31.6

74 m – 170 m

10.57 km/s

38052 km/h

(2008 AF4)

10th August 2012

16 day(s)

0.1936

75.3

310 m – 690 m

16.05 km/s

57780 km/h

37655 Illapa

12th August 2012

18 day(s)

0.0951

37.0

770 m – 1.7 km

28.73 km/s

103428 km/h

(2012 HS15)

14th August 2012

20 day(s)

0.1803

70.2

220 m – 490 m

11.54 km/s

41544 km/h

4581 Asclepius

16th August 2012

22 day(s)

0.1079

42.0

220 m – 490 m

13.48 km/s

48528 km/h

(2008 TC4)

18th August 2012

24 day(s)

0.1937

75.4

140 m – 300 m

17.34 km/s

62424 km/h

(2006 CV)

20th August 2012

26 day(s)

0.1744

67.9

290 m – 640 m

13.24 km/s

47664 km/h

(2012 EC)

20th August 2012

26 day(s)

0.0815

31.7

56 m – 130 m

5.57 km/s

20052 km/h

162421 (2000 ET70)

21st August 2012

27 day(s)

0.1503

58.5

640 m – 1.4 km

12.92 km/s

46512 km/h

(2007 WU3)

21st August 2012

27 day(s)

0.1954

76.0

56 m – 120 m

5.25 km/s

18900 km/h

1 AU = ~150 million kilometers,1 LD = Lunar Distance = ~384,000 kilometers

Source: NASA-NEO

SAO Astronomers Focus Their Attention
On Accretion Around Young Star TW Hydrae

MessageToEagle.com – TW Hydrae is a star between 5-10 million years old, and only 176 light-years away, in the direction of the constellation of Hydrae (the Water Snake), is in the final stage of formation.

It’s surrounded by a disc of dust and gas that may condense to form a complete set of planets. TW Hydrae has passed out of its infancy but is not yet mature.

Astronomers are trying to understand the processes at work in stars at this stage in their lives because, for example, during this period planets might be developing from disks around the stars.

The nature of the star’s corona, the very hot (over a million degrees centigrade) extended gaseous outer atmosphere, is one such process. TW Hydrae provides a valuable example for two reasons:

It is relatively close by and therefore bright, and it is rotating with its pole pointed nearly directly towards Earth, enabling scientists to view the star’s polar region nearly face on.

Like other young stars of its size and age, TW Hydrae emits strong X-rays and lines of ionized hydrogen. These are thought to result from shocks generated as material flows onto the stellar surface, and from magnetically heated gas in the corona.

Like other young stars of its size and age, TW Hydrae emits strong X-rays and astronomers investigate why, and how might they effect the star’s proto-planetary disk?

TW Hydrae

The star system TW Hydrae, shown here in an artist’s conception, possesses a protoplanetary disk holding vast numbers of pebble-sized rocky chunks. Those pebbles eventually should grow to become full-sized planets. Credit: Bill Saxton (NRAO/AUI/NSF)
Several mechanisms have been proposed, including coronal magnetic field activity similar to that on the sun, accretion onto the stellar surface that might also contribute to winds and flares, and shocks from jets that develop.

Each mechanism has associated with it hot gas with characteristic temperatures and densities.

A schematic diagram of the surface of TW Hydrae, illustrating where strong X-ray emission might arise. Accreting material can produce winds and shocks at the stellar photosphere; some parameters are specified. Credit: N. Brickhouse, et al, 2010
Recently, SAO astronomers Andrea Dupree, Nancy Brickhouse, Steve Cranmer, Juan Luna, and Evan Schneider, along with colleagues, also observed TW Hya with the Chandra X-ray Observatory, with complementary and simultaneous measurements from a suite of other telescopes.

They continuously monitored the star over about seventeen days, during which time they observed both periodic and flaring events on the star.

Click on image to enlargeAn artist’s conception of an icy, planet-forming disk around the young star TW Hydrae. Astronomers have used the Herschel Space Observatory to detect copious amounts of water ice in this source. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech
Their results show that the star has both a hot solar-like corona and an accretion shock at relatively high densities and small volumes.

Interestingly, the shocked gas heats a larger volume of the stellar atmosphere up to 2 million degrees, much hotter than the 10,000 degree hot spots previously known from optical and ultraviolet spectra.

The new results are able to explain many of the earlier puzzles associated with X-ray emission, help to identify how winds can be produced in these stars, and suggest that the magnetic processes at work in this star are by no means unique but may be ubiquitous in other young stars of similar mass.

The scientists, in a astronomical first, were able to track an accretion flare spectroscopically, providing direct information on how the excitation of the gas evolves during these events.

The team successfully modeled the emission as arising in a sequence: A shock develops from accreting material and then flows down into a turbulent region, heating the star’s photosphere. This ultimately leads to coronal heating and the development of stellar winds.

MessageToEagle.com

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Description

Firefighters have evacuated some homes in Laconia, N.H., after responding to a situation at an electronics company involving hazardous materials. Firefighters were called to ABC Fabricators after 5 a.m. Tuesday. It was not immediately clear what the problem was. A man who identified himself as the manager said there was a minor chemical spill involving nitric acid, but that it was being treated and cleaned. He said it was under control.
The company makes circuit boards.

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Articles of Interest

24.07.2012

Power Outage

USA

State of Illinois, Chicago

Power Outage in USA on Tuesday, 24 July, 2012 at 15:23 (03:23 PM) UTC.

Description
Storms rushed through the Chicago area Tuesday morning, leaving at least 183,000 Commonwealth Edison customers without power. Strong to severe thunderstorms moved from the northwest after 6 a.m., bringing heavy rain and damaging winds in excess of 60 mph across a good portion of the metro area. One woman who lives in Chinatown said her house shook in the forceful wind, and on the 2500 block of South Hillock on Chicago’s Southwest Side, a tree toppled onto a home. The Chicago Fire Department confirmed no injuries were reported from the fallen tree. Tree damage and flooding were reported across the area. The 4900 block of North Lawndale Avenue in Chicago was reportedly blocked by fallen trees and branches covered cars. A severe storm warning was in effect until 6:30 a.m. as storm moved through Lake, DuPage, DeKalb, Kane and Kendall counties. A severe thunderstorm watch expired in the Chicago area and Northwest Indiana at 9 a.m. The National Weather Service reported it tracked a line of thunderstorms capable of winds in excess of 70 mph just before 6 a.m. extending from Kildeer to St. Charles. Cloudy skies will replace showers through the afternoon with high temperatures in the mid- to upper-80s. But this isn’t the last of the rain aimed at the area. NBC Chicago meteorologist Andy Avalos is tracking a slight risk for isolated, possible strong to severe thunderstorms for the rest of the day. Mild but muggy conditions return Tuesday night along with another chance of scattered, possibly severe storms Wednesday morning. After clouds break early, near-record heat moves back in as afternoon highs could range from 95 to 100 degrees with heat index readings jumping to 100-108. Yet another chance of storms threatens throughout Thursday, a welcomed sight for Illinois famers and gardeners alike. High temperatures become more comfortable in the mid-80s as a cold front begins to move through.

Amazing Alien Landscape On Earth: Stunning Images Of Arctic Circle Reveal
Bizarre White Tendrils Emerge From The Ground

MessageToEagle.com – There are a number of amazing alien landscapes on Earth and here is one of them!

These stunning images of the Arctic Circle reveal an entire landscape that is transformed into an otherworldly planet.

It looks like a scene taken straight from a science fiction movie.

What are these bizarre white tendrils emerging from the ground?

These images were taken by photographer and an environmental engineering student from Monza, Italy, Niccolo Bonfadini who spent nine days camping alone in the frozen world, which is around 77 square kilometres.The tendrils you see, are frost-covered trees which are located close to the Arctic Circle, where temperatures can drop as low as -40C.

In the dramatic sub-zero conditions, the snow and frost become so thick that everything is covered in a thick blanket.

“I was blown away by the otherworldly landscape, everything was white as far as the eye could see. Everything was frozen.

This is not an alien planet. This is the Arctic Circle! Image credit: Niccolo Bonfadini / Solent News

It was incredible to see how ice would form on top of every free surface. Even my snow shoes and fuel bottles would be covered in ice if I left them outside my tent during the night, said Mr Bonfadini.

Mr Bonfadini sustained himself on powdered freeze-dried food during his trek and slept in his tent.

Trees are covered under the snow. Image credit: Niccolo Bonfadini / Solent News

He said: “I loved what I was doing. I love to go deep into nature alone, to feel the majesty and beauty of Nature. It is absolutely what makes me happiest.

What made the trip harder than average was the fact that I was completely alone, I only met three people during my nine days.

But I prefer it like that, I don’t like crowds.”

Bizarre tendrils emerge from the ground… Image credit: Niccolo Bonfadini / Solent News

Many people who have seen these images have difficult to understand the shapes are actually trees covered with snow.

Mr Bonfadini said: “Some thought they were volcanic eruptions and clouds. To me they seemed to be alive like frozen people.

Every tree was different from the others, they had weird forms, some had snow covered branches that looked like arms.

With such a surreal landscape, it is easy to see how many tales and legends about trolls and other creatures could have been born.”

Snow and frost become so thick the entire landscape is transformed into an otherworldly planet. Image credit: Niccolo Bonfadini / Solent News

He added: “Both the landscape and the sky were white, there were no shades during the day. It was like being in a completely white room and it was even difficult for the eyes to focus.

Sometimes I couldn’t even notice when the path was starting to go downhill because everything looked flat.”

Despite his young age, Mr Bonfadini has photographed wildlife all over the world.

Here the temperatures can drop as low as -40C. Image credit: Niccolo Bonfadini / Solent News

He said: ‘My favourite subjects are the northern countries. I feel a sense of wonder while surrounded by desolate frozen landscapes.

I feel small and vulnerable among the power of Nature. During those moments I really feel alive. Photography motivates me to get out into Nature more often, experiencing conditions and places that I wouldn’t probably have witnessed otherwise.”

Planet Earth is truly amazing!

@ MessageToEagle.com

Unusual Flatworm With 60 Eyes – First Ever Discovered!

MessageToEagle.com – Two eyes can be enough to sometimes give you the feeling you are being watched, but how would you feel if 60 eyes starred at you?

An entirely new kind of species has been discovered in grassland near Cambridge, UK.

The unique animal has 60 eyes, all crammed into a body just 12mm long. It is one of the most unusual animals ever discovered.

This little creature is a worm found by Brian Eversham, chief executive of the Wildlife Trust for Bedfordshire, Cambridgeshire and Northamptonshire.

New record for the UK. A flatworm with as many as 60 eyes. Photo credit Brian Eversham.

Brian Eversham said, “I was taking wildlife pictures one Sunday morning and turned over a log to reveal this rather cute flatworm.It is likely to be a close relative of a species found in Northern Ireland called Kontikia andersoni.

Britain is one of the best countries for documenting wildlife so it’s quite unusual to find a species here which has not been seen before.”

Leading biology expert Dr Hugh Jones believes the flatworm is of antipodean descent but may carry out DNA testing to determine its exact ancestry.

Dr Jones has only seen one specimen of the species in the Netherlands in April this year before Mr Eversham’s discovery. It is thought the flatworm could have originated from New Zealand or Australia.

Photo credit Brian Eversham.

Brian Eversham said “New Zealand seems to be the centre of diversity for land flatworms worldwide, and its climate is very similar to Britain.

Whereas there are millions of undescribed species in the tropics and other poorly-known parts of the world, Britain is the best-documented place on the planet.

It’s quite unusual to find a species here which has not been seen before.”

The animal kingdom is full of surprises!

@ MessageToEagle.com

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