Earth Watch Report – Sunday July 15th,2012

Earthquakes

RSOE EDIS

Date/Time (UTC)	Magnitude	Area	Country	State/Prov./Gov.	Location	Risk			Source	Details
15.07.2012 03:55:30	2.0	North America	United States	Alaska	Nikiski				USGS-RSOE
15.07.2012 03:40:39	3.4	North America	United States	Alaska	Happy Valley				USGS-RSOE
15.07.2012 03:45:28	4.3	North America	United States	Alaska	Unalaska				USGS-RSOE
15.07.2012 03:10:35	2.0	North America	United States	Alaska	Valdez				USGS-RSOE
15.07.2012 02:05:36	2.0	North America	United States	Alaska	Y				USGS-RSOE
15.07.2012 01:45:52	2.5	North America	United States	Montana	West Yellowstone				USGS-RSOE
15.07.2012 01:30:21	3.2	Europe	Poland	Lower Silesian Voivodeship	Bystrzyca				EMSC
15.07.2012 01:30:45	2.1	Europe	Italy	Sicily	Saponara Villafranca				EMSC
15.07.2012 01:31:04	2.7	Europe	Spain	Canary Islands	La Restinga				EMSC
15.07.2012 01:06:00	4.8	South America	Chile	Maule	Linares				USGS-RSOE
15.07.2012 01:31:23	4.8	South-America	Chile	Maule	Linares				EMSC
15.07.2012 01:31:40	2.8	Europe	Italy	Lombardy	Ospitaletto				EMSC
15.07.2012 00:30:34	2.6	Middle America	Mexico	Baja California	Alberto Oviedo Mota				USGS-RSOE
15.07.2012 00:25:25	3.0	South-America	Argentina	San Juan	Calingasta				EMSC
14.07.2012 23:05:36	2.4	North America	United States	Alaska	Manley Hot Springs				USGS-RSOE
14.07.2012 22:25:26	2.1	Asia	Turkey	Van	Yuvacik				EMSC
14.07.2012 23:25:19	4.9	Pacific Ocean – West	Philippines	Central Luzon	San Nicolas				EMSC
14.07.2012 22:35:32	4.9	Pacific Ocean – West	Philippines	Central Luzon	San Nicolas				USGS-RSOE
14.07.2012 22:25:44	5.5	Asia	India	Manipur	Phek				EMSC
14.07.2012 22:10:43	5.6	Asia	India	Manipur	Phek				USGS-RSOE
14.07.2012 22:26:02	4.5	Atlantic Ocean – North	Greenland		Ittoqqortoormiit				EMSC
14.07.2012 22:26:23	3.4	Europe	Spain	Canary Islands	La Restinga				EMSC
14.07.2012 22:26:44	2.8	South-America	Chile	Antofagasta	Tocopilla				EMSC
14.07.2012 22:27:05	4.6	Indian Ocean	Mauritius		Cargados Carajos				EMSC
14.07.2012 21:23:41	2.1	North America	United States	California	Pollock Pines				USGS-RSOE
14.07.2012 21:20:29	5.1	Europe	Russia		Kuril’sk				EMSC
14.07.2012 21:40:40	4.8	Asia	Russia		Kuril’sk				USGS-RSOE
14.07.2012 21:24:23	2.2	North America	United States	California	Maricopa				USGS-RSOE
14.07.2012 21:25:01	2.4	North America	United States	California	Tahoma				USGS-RSOE
14.07.2012 21:20:50	2.0	Europe	Italy	Lombardy	Ospitaletto				EMSC
14.07.2012 21:21:09	2.9	South-America	Bolivia	Potosí	Villa Alota				EMSC
14.07.2012 21:21:29	2.7	Asia	Turkey	Van	Toyga				EMSC
14.07.2012 21:26:01	5.0	Asia	Russia		Kuril’sk				USGS-RSOE
14.07.2012 21:21:47	5.2	Europe	Russia		Kuril’sk				EMSC
14.07.2012 21:26:23	2.9	Caribbean	British Virgin Islands		Road Town				USGS-RSOE
14.07.2012 21:22:07	2.2	Europe	Italy	Friuli Venezia Giulia	Prato Carnico				EMSC
14.07.2012 21:22:27	2.5	Asia	Turkey	Van	Toyga				EMSC
14.07.2012 21:27:02	2.9	Caribbean	British Virgin Islands		Road Town				USGS-RSOE
14.07.2012 21:22:45	3.4	South-America	Chile	Antofagasta	Calama				EMSC
14.07.2012 21:40:57	3.1	Caribbean	British Virgin Islands		Road Town				USGS-RSOE
14.07.2012 18:45:39	2.1	North America	United States	California	Darwin				USGS-RSOE
14.07.2012 18:15:42	3.0	North America	United States	Alaska	Lake Minchumina				USGS-RSOE
14.07.2012 19:00:28	2.4	Asia	Turkey	Mu?la	OEluedeniz				EMSC
14.07.2012 19:00:48	3.1	Europe	Greece	Peloponnese	Asopos				EMSC
14.07.2012 17:40:37	2.7	Middle America	Mexico	Baja California	Maneadero				USGS-RSOE
14.07.2012 17:55:25	2.6	Asia	Turkey	??rnak	Yogurtcular				EMSC
14.07.2012 17:20:40	2.0	North America	United States	California	Pearsonville				USGS-RSOE
14.07.2012 17:55:44	2.4	Asia	Turkey	Mu?la	Yatagan				EMSC
14.07.2012 17:56:02	2.5	Europe	Greece	Central Macedonia	Sarti				EMSC
14.07.2012 17:56:22	2.4	Europe	Italy	Emilia-Romagna	San Prospero				EMSC

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Bulgaria New Tremor Aftershock of May Strong Quake – Expert

Photo by the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences

The relatively strong tremor that threw into panic people in Bulgaria’s capital Sofia and nearby Pernik is an aftershock of the 5.8-magnitude quake at the end of May, according to experts.

“What we experienced on Saturday is an aftershock of the earthquake of May 22 this year and has the same epicenter,” Professor Nikolay Miloshev, director of the National Institute of Geography, Geophysics and Geodesy, Sofia, explained.

In his words it is not unusual that today’s earthquake is related to the May tremor because it was very strong and even then seismologists predicted aftershocks may continue for months.

Saturday’s earthquake was estimated as 4.5 on the Richter scale by the European Mediterranean Seismological Centre and as 4.2 on the Richter scale by the Geophysical Institute at the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences (BAS).

The jolt struck at 3.52 p.m. and was felt in Pernik, Sofia, Samokov, Montana and Plovdiv.

The quake occurred at a depth of 10 km and was epicentered 7 km southeast of Pernik and 19 kilometers west of Sofia, very near to the epicenter of the 5.8-magnitude jolt which hit the region in the small hours of May 22.

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Extreme Temperatures/ Weather / Drought

 

 

Dry Conditions Continue, Drought Forecast To Deepen

KIWA Radio.com

Sheldon, Iowa — The dry conditions continue. But the past year has been a roller coaster into and out of drought.

We started 2011 wet, but by the end of the year, it was quite dry, and we were concerned about spring planting. We were in what the US Drought monitor calls “severe drought”. But by the time it was time to plant, we were pretty close to where we should be in the moisture profile, and the forecast was for improvement. Now it looks like the pendulum may be swinging back the other way.

The latest information from the US Drought Monitor indicates that our area is in moderate drought. The forecast isn’t any better news. The US Seasonal drought outlook for northwest Iowa is that development of greater drought is likely.

Much of the Corn Belt continues to experience increasing dryness and drought, with departure from normal precip over the past 30 days on the order of 3 to 5 inches below normal across central and eastern Iowa and much of Illinois and Indiana.

So the good news (if you can look at it that way) is that we’re not alone, it’s dry everywhere. In fact, over a thousand counties in 26 states are being named natural-disaster areas, the biggest such declaration ever by the U.S. Department of Agriculture. It covers a third of farmers nationwide, and makes them eligible for low-interest loans.

The data cutoff for Drought Monitor maps is Tuesday at 7 a.m. Eastern Standard Time. The maps, which are based on analysis of the data, are released each Thursday at 8:30 a.m. Eastern Time.

 

14.07.2012

Forest / Wild Fire

USA

State of Wyoming, [Yellowstone National Park]

Forest / Wild Fire in USA on Saturday, 14 July, 2012 at 13:57 (01:57 PM) UTC.

Description

Firefighters aided by aircraft immediately attacked the first lightning-caused fire in Yellowstone National Park this season, but a park spokesman said Friday there’s been no talk of suppressing every blaze. “Our bottom line has always been if we believe that there is a threat to people and property, our goal is to protect people and property,” spokesman Al Nash said. “But not every fire in Yellowstone poses a threat.” The fire was reported Thursday near the park’s northern border in northwest Wyoming. Initially reported at 5 acres, the fire grew to 29 acres by Friday afternoon.

Gale Warning

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EUREKA CA
CAPE FLATTERY TO CAPE LOOKOUT
POINT ST GEORGE TO POINT ARENA
MEDFORD OR

Red Flag Warning

FIRE WEATHER MESSAGE

ABERDEEN SD
SPOKANE WA
PENDLETON OR
RAPID CITY SD
BOISE ID

Fire Weather Watch

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Storms / Flooding / Landslides

Severe Thunderstorm Watch

BOISE ID
NORMAN OK

Active tropical storm system(s)
Name of storm system	Location	Formed	Last update	Last category	Course	Wind Speed	Gust	Wave	Source	Details
Fabio (06E)	Pacific Ocean – East	12.07.2012	14.07.2012	Hurricane I.	285 °	148 km/h	185 km/h	5.79 m	NHC

Tropical Storm data

Share: Share on facebook Share on twitter Share on email Share on print More Sharing Services 1 Storm name: Fabio (06E) Area: Pacific Ocean – East Start up location: N 13° 36.000, W 106° 24.000 Start up: 12th July 2012 Status: 01st January 1970 Track long: 432.66 km Top category.: Report by: JTWC Useful links: Saffir–Simpson Hurricane Scale FEMA – How To Prepare for a Hurricane Effects of a Hurricane USA – National Hurricane Center

Past track Date Time Position Speed km/h Wind km/h Gust km/h Category Course Wave Pressure Source 13th Jul 2012 05:07:51 N 13° 54.000, W 109° 0.000 17 93 111 Tropical Storm 280 16 998 MB JTWC Current position Date Time Position Speed km/h Wind km/h Gust km/h Category Course Wave feet Pressure Source 14th Jul 2012 15:07:57 N 16° 0.000, W 113° 24.000 17 148 185 Hurricane I. 285 ° 19 982 MB JTWC Forecast track Date Time Position Category Wind km/h Gust km/h Source 16th Jul 2012 00:00:00 N 17° 24.000, W 118° 30.000 Tropical Storm 111 139 JTWC 17th Jul 2012 00:00:00 N 19° 30.000, W 120° 30.000 Tropical Storm 74 93 JTWC 18th Jul 2012 00:00:00 N 21° 48.000, W 121° 18.000 Tropical Depression 56 74 JTWC 19th Jul 2012 00:00:00 N 23° 30.000, W 121° 30.000 Tropical Depression 46 65 JTWC

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Torretial Rains Kill More Than 20 in China

Torretial Rains Kill More Than 20 in China

© REUTERS/ China Daily

BEIJING,  (RIA Novosti)

Torrential rains have killed more than 20 people in China and destroyed about one million homes, local media reported on Saturday.

Heavy rains have been battering a number of Chinese provinces for several weeks, triggering mudslides and flooding.

Eleven people were killed in the southern province of Guangdong and ten in the central province of Hubei, where more than 2 million people were affected by the disaster.

The damage caused by the rain has exceeded $156 million.

 

 

Sharp increase in rainfall allays drought fears

* Monsoon covers entire country four days ahead of usual date

* Deficit from June 1-July 11 narrows to 22 percent (Adds details, quotes, background)

By Ratnajyoti Dutta

NEW DELHI, July 12 (Reuters) – India’s monsoon rains were above average in the past week for the first time in the current season, the weather office said, as the downpours resumed after a worrying fortnight-long pause over the central part of the country.

The annual rains are crucial for farm output and economic growth as about 55 percent of the South Asian nation’s arable land is rain-fed. The farm sector accounts for about 15 percent of a nearly $2-trillion economy, Asia’s third-biggest.

Rains were 1 percent above average for the week ended July 11, a sharp improvement from 49 percent below average in the previous week – allaying fears of a drought, which would hit output of food crops in the major consumer and producer.

Rapid progress of monsoon rains over the grain bowl of northwest India helped cover the entire country four days ahead of the usual date of July 15 although weather officials have cautioned it could remain weak until next week.

“The monsoon scenario is not as bad as has been painted,” Food Minister K.V. Thomas told Reuters.

Farm Minister Sharad Pawar had already said on Wednesday the rains had improved, speeding the sowing of major summer crops such as rice and cotton.

Rains had been 30 percent below average from June 1 to July 4 and now that deficit has narrowed to 22 percent below average.

Weather officials said the monsoon rains would be above average over the hilly regions of the north and northeast over the next three days, helping to fill reservoirs, but would decrease over northern states such as Punjab and Haryana in the grain bowl of India early next week.

CROP SCENE

The revival of rains over central India increased the pace of soybean planting, which is now almost 80 percent complete in Madhya Pradesh, the main producing state for the oilseed, an industry official said.

“Rains are needed even in the next week to complete the sowing operations,” said Rajesh Agrawal, spokesman for the Soybean Processors’ Association of India said.

Soybean is the main oilseed crop for India, the world’s biggest importer of cooking oils and also a major supplier of soymeal to nations such as Iran, South Korea, Vietnam, Japan, and Thailand.

By July 6, soybean had been planted in 1.9 million hectares, more than the normal area, according to preliminary farm ministry data. A further update will be issued on Friday.

Thomas said the planting scenario for rice and cane was also “good.” India also has huge stockpiles of rice after three years of bumper harvests. By July 1, government rice stocks were 30.7 million tonnes, much higher than the 9.8 million tonnes targeted for the quarter to end-September.

But concerns remain for cereals in some rain-fed areas of the western state of Maharashtra and southern Karnataka. Cereals had been planted on 2.19 million hectares by July 6 compared with normal acreage of 5.66 million hectares.

 

Flash Flood Warning

 

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FLAGSTAFF AZ

Flash Flood Watch

FLAGSTAFF AZ
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14.07.2012

Flash Flood

Japan

MultiProvinces, [Provinces of Kumamoto and Oita]

Flash Flood in Japan on Thursday, 12 July, 2012 at 11:46 (11:46 AM) UTC.

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Updated:	Saturday, 14 July, 2012 at 18:52 UTC
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Severe flooding in Japan has forced the evacuation of some 400,000 people today. The country’s meteorological agency today warned that more landslides and flooding is expected to hit the deluged island of Kyushu, where severe weather has killed up to 20 people in the last several days. Rain pounded the southern island today, with over four inches of water coming down per hour, according to the weather unit, said SAPA news agency. At least nine people have gone missing. Weather officials said that over 30 inches of rain hit the southern city of Aso in the last three days. Hundreds of thousands of people on the island and the surrounding southern provinces have been advised to leave the region or go to storm shelters. The nation has deployed self-defense units to the area to assist with recovery efforts.

Flood Warning

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5-mile-long landslide in Alaska national park; warming eyed as possible culprit

FlyDrake.com via Glacier Bay National Park

Rock and debris from a landslide lie along five miles of what had been an ice-white glacier inside Glacier Bay National Park.

By Miguel Llanos, msnbc.com

A massive landslide sent tons of rock and debris tumbling more than five miles down a glacier in Alaska, the National Park Service reported in an event that could be yet another sign of a warming world.

Located in a remote area of Glacier Bay National Park, the slide was so big it registered on earthquake monitors as a magnitude 3.4 event.

Officials noticed the monitor blip on June 11 but it wasn’t until July 2 that a pilot passing over the site took photos that showed just how large it was, Glacier Bay National Park announced on its Facebook page.

“It’s certainly the largest that we’re aware of” inside the park, Glacier Bay ecologist Lewis Sharman told msnbc.com.

Larger landslides have happened over geologic time, Marten Geertsema, a natural hazards researcher for the Forest Service in nearby British Columbia, told msnbc.com, but it definitely was “one of the longest runout landslides on a glacier in Alaska and Canada in recent times.”

Moreover, the force was enormous, Geertsema said. No one was present, but had anyone been there they probably “would be blown over by the air blast,” he told the Associated Press.

Officials ruled out an earthquake as the trigger that caused part of the nearly 12,000-foot Lituya Mountain to give way, smothering the ice-white Johns Hopkins Glacier with dark rock and debris over an area a half-mile wide and 5.5 miles long.

Drake Olson / FlyDrake.com via AP

The landslide is viewed from above the Johns Hopkins Glacier.

One possibility is that thawing permafrost, which is ground that stays frozen for two more our years, caused the slide.

“We are seeing an increase in rock slides in mountain areas throughout the world because of permafrost degradation,” said Geertsema.

“I don’t know whether permafrost degradation played a role here, but we can be almost certain that permafrost exists on Lituya Mountain,” said Geertsema, who reviewed aerial photos of the mountain and slide area. “Certainly this type of event could happen from permafrost degradation.”

Many areas of mountain permafrost have been thawing in recent decades as temperatures warm, and some experts are becoming convinced that thawing is a factor in the frequency of rock slides, Geertsema said, pointing to data by Swiss scientists studying the Alps.

Marten Geertsema and Drake Olson

The section of rock and ice that slid off Lituya Mountain is seen here. Marten Geertsema estimates it was 200 meters, or about 600 feet, wide.

“It plays an important role,” Geertsema said of climate change. “I think we have been underestimating the role it might play.”

Sharman, the park ecologist, echoed that sentiment, saying he’s heard from experts that “they would not be surprised” to see more such landslides inside the national park if temperatures continue to warm.

“Certainly we are seeing an increase in large landslides over the past decades,” Geertsema said, citing his 2006 study that found between 1973 and 2003 the average in northern British Columbia increased from 1.3 large landslides per year to 2.3.

Moreover, he said, most of the slides in northern British Columbia are happening in the warmest years.

Landslides like this one can also be triggered by other factors, Geertsema added, such as a combination of large snowpack and a cold spring that results in a delayed and then rapid melt.

The slide itself was miles from areas used by park visitors, most of whom see Glacier Bay by cruise ship.

“You can’t see it from a boat or the bay. You’ve got to be up flying. And it’s not on a typical flying route,” park service spokesman John Quinley told Reuters. “It would have been pretty horrific if you’d been camped on the glacier.”

And it won’t reach the bay for a long time.

The frozen ground that covers the top of the world has been thawing rapidly over the last three decades. But there is cause for concern beyond the far north, because the carbon released from thawing permafrost could raise global temeratures even higher. NBC’s Anne Thompson reports for “Changing Planet,” produced by NBC Learn in partnership with the National Science Foundation.

“The landslide is approximately 12-14 miles up the glacier,” the park said on its Facebook page, and the glacier itself moves material towards the bay only about 10-15 feet a day. “So this debris may not reach the face of the glacier for many years,” it added.

Officials are currently trying to estimate the volume of material that fell in the slide.

In 1958, a nearby landslide, this one above Lituya Bay and triggered by a 7.7 earthquake, created a wave hundreds of feet high that washed 1,720 feet up a narrow inlet. Two people on a fishing boat vanished and three others on land were killed.

One fishing vessel was able to ride out the wave, Geertsema noted.

“They looked below them and they could see the tops of the Sitka spruce trees way below,” he said. “The other boat disappeared.”

Last month’s slide covered more land area than the 1958 incident, but even so it probably won’t go down as the biggest one by volume in North America.

“We do not know the volume of the recent landslide on the Johns Hopkins Glacier yet, but it is unlikely to break the volume record,” Rex Baum, a U.S. Geological Survey expert, told msnbc.com.

What is the record? That, said Baum, would be the 2.8 cubic kilometer rock slide avalanche from the May 18, 1980, eruption of Mount St. Helens in Washington state.

 

 

Search resumes for 4 missing in B.C. landslide

Unstable search area remains hazardous for rescue workers

CBC News

B.C. landslide rescue3:25

The search for four people assumed caught in Thursday’s landslide in southeastern B.C. resumed Friday afternoon and was to continue until dark, and then resume at first light Saturday morning, officials say.

More landslides earlier Friday had delayed the ground search for a father, his two adult daughters and a German woman believed to be trapped by a landslide that roared down a mountainside in southeastern B.C.

RCMP said there had been further slides in the area, and because of that searchers had to wait for geotechnicians to assess the safety of the terrain before they went in.

Bill Macpherson, spokesman for the Central Kootenay Regional District, said engineers gave the go-ahead, although there was no certainty the danger had passed.

“In spite of ongoing debris movement and continued slope instability, the search of the landslide at Johnsons Landing has resumed this afternoon at approximately14:15 hours [PT],” Macpherson said in a statement Friday afternoon.

About 40 rescue workers are now in Johnsons Landing, with 13 on top of the debris pile at any one time, trying to burrow in strategically to locate possible survivors, Vancouver Fire Department spokesman Les Sziklai told CBC News on Friday night. The department has a number of personnel assisting at the landslide scene, Sziklai said.

The earlier search delay had frustrated family members and local residents.

“It’s taken them a long time to get in there. In the old days we would’ve just gone in by ourselves, and it may have been dangerous, but this place is full of independent people,” said resident Susan Grimble.

The girls’ mother, Lynn Migdal, who is in Florida, told CBC News that Diana Webber, 22, and Rachel Webber, 17, and her ex-husband, Valentine Webber, were about to sit down for breakfast moments before the slide hit.

Now she believes they are trapped under the debris that destroyed the home.

“There is three people buried deep down in my house right now and there is not one rescue person on the property. Something fast has to be done,” Lynn Migdal said just after 7 a.m. PT.

Three homes in the small community of Johnsons Landing, located just north of Kaslo on the east side of Kootenay Lake, were hit by the landslide on Thursday.

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Three homes were damaged by the landslide on Thursday. (Bob Keating/CBC)

Aerial reconnaissance of the site was conducted by 10 a.m., but ground crews were not allowed in to search the site because of stability concerns, according to Macpherson.

“My family has been buried under the ground since 11 o’clock yesterday. I know that the conditions were not good enough. They had to evacuate, but I was promised that by 4:30 yesterday afternoon, as soon as there was light, that there would be dogs and people digging,” said Migdal.

Diana Webber, 22, is believed to have been in a home hit by the landslide. (Facebook)

“All we need is some shovels to dig out my 17-year-old daughter, my 22-year-old daughter and my ex-husband.”

The other missing person is believed to be Petra Frehse, a German woman who has been a part-time resident of the area for several years.

RCMP Cpl. Dan Moskaluk said multiple helicopters, two search-dog teams, underwater recovery divers, a landslide expert and a geotechnician were dispatched to the scene in the tiny community of Johnsons Landing to help in the search and recovery effort.

The efforts were called off Thursday evening because the area was deemed too volatile to search in the dark.

Rachel Webber, 17, is also believed to have been in the house struck by the landslide. (Facebook)

“I think everybody is realistic that the odds of survivability for the individuals that were in the direct path [of the landslide] …are not that great,” said Moskaluk.

“So realistically, we are looking at possibly a recovery operation. But again, we never lose hope.”

Four members of Vancouver’s Heavy Urban Search and Rescue team arrived to help with the search on Thursday night, and more arrived on Friday morning.

 

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Epidemic Hazards / Diseases

‘Unknown disease’ kills 60 children in Cambodia – Could vaccines have been the cause?

By Ethan A. Huff,
(NaturalNews) Dozens of young children in Cambodia have died in recent months of what health authorities are claiming is some kind of mystery disease. But based on the nature of the afflicted children’s symptoms prior to their deaths, it seems a likely possibility that they may have been victims of vaccine injuries, and that the disease explanation is the media’s attempt to cover up the truth. According to Dr. Nima Asgari, a public health specialist at the United Nations (UN) body in Cambodia, as many as 60 children have died in Cambodia since April, all after experiencing similar symptoms. Prior to their deaths, many of the children had reportedly been suffering high fever, severe chest disease symptoms, and/or signs of neurological damage, symptoms which are all strangely associated with vaccine injury.

The so-called “disease,” which authorities insisted from the beginning they could not identify, has actually afflicted 61 children thus far, only one of which obviously survived. But all the children who were admitted to hospitals in both Phnom Penh, Cambodia’s largest and capital city, and a popular tourist area known as Siem Reap, were seven years of age or younger at their times of death.

The World Health Organization (WHO) says it is worried about the fact that the “condition” leads to a very high mortality rate in such a short period of time. But at the same time, the international body claims the disease is not contagious, as neither hospital staff nor nearby patients that have come into contact with the now-deceased children have developed similar symptoms.

Mysterious deaths wreak of deliberate experimentation on humans via vaccines

Since the mystery condition does not appear to be contagious in any way, and only seems to occur in young children of vaccine age, it is not that far of a stretch to hypothesize that vaccines may have something to do with these mysterious deaths. It would not be the first time, after all, that vaccine experimentation has led to the unusually rapid spread of “disease” in just a few weeks or months.

The AIDS epidemic, for instance, appears to have been triggered by a vaccine campaign for smallpox in Africa back in the late 1970s. (http://www.infowars.com) According to some reports, the 13-year campaign launched by WHO to vaccinate Africans living in Central Africa was directly responsible for inducing HIV and AIDS, which quickly spread around the world. (http://www.bibliotecapleyades.net)

Interestingly, Cambodia has recently launched its own vaccination campaigns, including one for measles that began back in 2011. (http://news.xinhuanet.com/english2010/health/2011-02/10/c_13725980.htm) But neither health authorities nor the mainstream media have even entertained the thought that vaccines might the cause of the mystery deaths.

Some official reports are now blaming the deaths of Enterovirus Type 71 (EV71), also known as “hand, foot and mouth disease.” (http://news.blogs.cnn.com) But this explanation does not make any sense, as EV71 is highly contagious, while the “mystery condition” does not appear to be contagious.

Sources for this article include:

http://news.yahoo.com

http://www.cambodiaschildren.org

 

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Solar Activity

2MIN News July 14, 2012: Geomagnetic Storms Coming, Earthquake Watch

Published on Jul 14, 2012 by Suspicious0bservers

TODAYS LINKS
Dead Penguns: http://phys.org/news/2012-07-penguins-dead-brazil-beaches.html
Britain Rain Record: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/topics/weather/9398090/Britain-on-course-for-wette…
Corn Drought: http://www.inquisitr.com/275084/usda-declares-biggest-disaster-in-agencys-his…

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
(2005 NE21)	15th July 2012	0 day(s)	0.1555	60.5	140 m – 320 m	10.77 km/s	38772 km/h
(2003 KU2)	15th July 2012	0 day(s)	0.1034	40.2	770 m – 1.7 km	17.12 km/s	61632 km/h
(2007 TN74)	16th July 2012	1 day(s)	0.1718	66.9	20 m – 45 m	7.36 km/s	26496 km/h
(2007 DD)	16th July 2012	1 day(s)	0.1101	42.8	19 m – 42 m	6.47 km/s	23292 km/h
(2006 BC8)	16th July 2012	1 day(s)	0.1584	61.6	25 m – 56 m	17.71 km/s	63756 km/h
144411 (2004 EW9)	16th July 2012	1 day(s)	0.1202	46.8	1.3 km – 2.9 km	10.90 km/s	39240 km/h
(2012 BV26)	18th July 2012	3 day(s)	0.1759	68.4	94 m – 210 m	10.88 km/s	39168 km/h
(2010 OB101)	19th July 2012	4 day(s)	0.1196	46.6	200 m – 450 m	13.34 km/s	48024 km/h
(2008 OX1)	20th July 2012	5 day(s)	0.1873	72.9	130 m – 300 m	15.35 km/s	55260 km/h
(2010 GK65)	21st July 2012	6 day(s)	0.1696	66.0	34 m – 75 m	17.80 km/s	64080 km/h
(2011 OJ45)	21st July 2012	6 day(s)	0.1367	53.2	18 m – 39 m	3.79 km/s	13644 km/h
153958 (2002 AM31)	22nd July 2012	7 day(s)	0.0351	13.7	630 m – 1.4 km	9.55 km/s	34380 km/h
(2011 CA7)	23rd July 2012	8 day(s)	0.1492	58.1	2.3 m – 5.1 m	5.43 km/s	19548 km/h
(2012 BB124)	24th July 2012	9 day(s)	0.1610	62.7	170 m – 380 m	8.78 km/s	31608 km/h
(2009 PC)	28th July 2012	13 day(s)	0.1772	68.9	61 m – 140 m	7.34 km/s	26424 km/h
217013 (2001 AA50)	31st July 2012	16 day(s)	0.1355	52.7	580 m – 1.3 km	22.15 km/s	79740 km/h
(2012 DS30)	02nd August 2012	18 day(s)	0.1224	47.6	18 m – 39 m	5.39 km/s	19404 km/h
(2000 RN77)	03rd August 2012	19 day(s)	0.1955	76.1	410 m – 920 m	9.87 km/s	35532 km/h
(2004 SB56)	04th August 2012	20 day(s)	0.1393	54.2	380 m – 840 m	13.72 km/s	49392 km/h
(2000 SD8)	04th August 2012	20 day(s)	0.1675	65.2	180 m – 400 m	5.82 km/s	20952 km/h
(2006 EC)	06th August 2012	22 day(s)	0.0932	36.3	13 m – 28 m	6.13 km/s	22068 km/h
(2006 MV1)	07th August 2012	23 day(s)	0.0612	23.8	12 m – 28 m	4.79 km/s	17244 km/h
(2005 RK3)	08th August 2012	24 day(s)	0.1843	71.7	52 m – 120 m	8.27 km/s	29772 km/h
(2009 BW2)	09th August 2012	25 day(s)	0.0337	13.1	25 m – 56 m	5.27 km/s	18972 km/h
277475 (2005 WK4)	09th August 2012	25 day(s)	0.1283	49.9	260 m – 580 m	6.18 km/s	22248 km/h
(2004 SC56)	09th August 2012	25 day(s)	0.0811	31.6	74 m – 170 m	10.57 km/s	38052 km/h
(2008 AF4)	10th August 2012	26 day(s)	0.1936	75.3	310 m – 690 m	16.05 km/s	57780 km/h
37655 Illapa	12th August 2012	28 day(s)	0.0951	37.0	770 m – 1.7 km	28.73 km/s	103428 km/h
1 AU = ~150 million kilometers,1 LD = Lunar Distance = ~384,000 kilometers Source: NASA-NEO

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Mysterious Blood Rain

Strange Red Rain Falls in India (13th July 2012)

Weird red rain in India panics people . . . ‘blood red’ rain falls

• mysterious red rain

• Why are people panicking as their courtyards fill with “mysterious blood red rain“?
• Did Nostradamus and others predict “rain like blood”?
• Has this happened before?
• What causes the red color in the mysterious rain?
• Is it caused by an unidentified life form?
• Could dust from a meteor affect an area more than a decade later?
• Is all this just coincidence?

On Thursday, July 5, 2012, around 6:50 p.m. local time, a mysterious red rain shower fell for about 15 minutes in Kannur, Kerala, India. Locales within a one kilometer area in the Indian state of Kerala experienced this phenomenon, as it filled courtyards with blood red rain and stained people’s clothes pink.

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Biological Hazards / Wildlife

14.07.2012

Biological Hazard

Brazil

Multiple areas, [Sao Paulo state coastal area]

Biological Hazard in Brazil on Saturday, 14 July, 2012 at 13:59 (01:59 PM) UTC.

Description
Wildlife experts are concerned and investigating after 512 Magellanic penguins washed up dead across 65 miles of the Brazilian coast, reports the Merco Press. Further worrying veterinarians is that the birds were all apparently in good health, well fed, and free from oil stains. Magellanic penguins are migratory, moving from southern Argentina to Sao Paolo at this time of year. It’s not a great time for penguins in general, with the population of a major colony in Antarctica plummeting 36% since 1991.
Biohazard name:	Mass. Die-off (Magellanic penguins)
Biohazard level:	0/4 —
Biohazard desc.:	This does not included biological hazard category.
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Brazil biologists investigate penguin deaths

The annual migration takes some penguins as far north as Rio de Janeiro

Brazilian biologists are investigating the deaths of more than 500 penguins found washed up on the beaches of Rio Grande do Sul state.

Autopsies are being conducted on some of the birds to determine the cause of death.

Researchers said the penguins appeared to have been well-fed, with no apparent injuries and no oil on their bodies.

Similar incidents in the past have been blamed on shifting ocean currents and colder temperatures.

Magellanic Penguins migrate to southern Brazil from Patagonia every year during the southern winter.

Last week dozens of young penguins were rescued from beaches in Rio de Janeiro after straying far beyond their normal range.

The birds delighted beach-goers, but scientists said their health was suffering in the tropical waters.

Brazil’s environment agency is preparing to fly those penguins back to the south.

Hot weather in southeastern Iowa results in death of nearly 58,000 fish

By Special to the Daily News

A section of the Des Moines River with a history of hot weather related fish kills was home to one of the longest in the state’s history with nearly 58,000 dead fish in more than 42 stream miles with a value exceeding $10.1 million.

Dead fish were found in the Des Moines River from the dam in Eldon to the Farmington Bridge on Iowa Highway 2.

This section of the Des Moines River has had sizable fish kills over the years, including 2006 and in 2008, during summer flows of 300 to 500 CFS and high water temperature.

The DNR also investigated fish kills in the Iowa River between the Hawkeye Wildlife Area and the Iowa Highway 965 bridge in Johnson County and in the main lake at Lake Odessa in Louisa County.

The section of the Iowa River has periodically experienced hot weather fish kills in the past.

Paul Sleeper, fisheries biologist at Lake Macbride, said water from the shallow Hawkeye Wildlife area with low oxygen levels and temperatures in the 90s flowed under the Iowa Highway 965 and I-380 bridges where most of the dead fish were found. Sleeper said they counted 95 walleyes at the upper end of the Coralville Reservoir, along with six channel catfish and a few common carp on Monday.

“It looks like they had been dead for several days,” Sleeper said.

At Lake Odessa, 96 percent of the 19,000 fish killed were gizzard shad that are susceptible to changes in water temperature. Chad Dolan, fisheries biologist at the DNR’s Lake Darling office, said they suspect the kill happened Saturday night after the high air temperatures. The water temperature was in the low to mid 90s.

 

Hot Weather Causes Fish Kills In Southeast Iowa

KIWA Radio.com

A section of the Des Moines River with a history of hot weather related fish kills was home to one of the longest in the state’s history with nearly 58,000 dead fish in more than 42 stream miles with a value exceeding $10.1 million.

Dead fish were found in the Des Moines River from the dam in Eldon to the Farmington Bridge on Hwy. 2.

The majority of fish killed, 37,159, were shovelnose sturgeon, with a value $116.20 per pound, according to American Fisheries Society guidelines for monetary value in fish kills. The sturgeon averaged more than two pounds each with a value of $9,865,241.85.

The investigation began around 10:30 a.m., July 7, when Lacey-Keosauqua State Park manager Justin Pedretti reported seeing “lots” of dead fish in the river to Mark Flammang, fisheries biologist for the Iowa Department of Natural Resources.

Flammang and fisheries aide Wes Alexander were joined by Jon Ryk and Paul Brant from the DNR’s Washington field office on the river at Eldon and for the next 11 hours they collected water samples, conducted fish counts, and took water temperature readings working their way downstream to Farmington.

“We didn’t find low levels of dissolved oxygen or high levels of ammonia which is usually indicative of some sort of spill so it comes down to water temperature,” said Flammang. “You just don’t see rivers at 97 degrees and it was 97 degrees at every site that we sampled. I’ve never seen water at that temperature in Iowa.”

The effects of high water temperature on fish were likely compounded by stream flows that had fallen from 5,000 cubic feet per second before July 4, to 1,200 CFS on July 7.

In addition to shovelnose sturgeon, Flammang found more than 12,000 channel catfish, nearly 1,900 walleye, more than 1,100 flathead catfish, 1,500 freshwater drum, 750 carpsuckers, 370 white bass, 45 shorthead redhorse and 25 goldeye.

“It looks like a lot of fish, but I don’t expect this fish kill to have a noticeable impact on the fish population in this stretch of the river. The shovelnose sturgeon is something we’re concerned about, but the river has shown time and time again that it can recover,” Flammang said.

This section of the Des Moines River has had sizable fish kills over the years, including 2006 and in 2008, during summer flows of 300 to 500 CFS and high water temperature.

The DNR also investigated fish kills in the Iowa River between the Hawkeye Wildlife Area and the Hwy. 965 Bridge in Johnson County, and in the main lake at Lake Odessa in Louisa County.

The section of the Iowa River has periodically experienced hot weather fish kills in the past.

Paul Sleeper, fisheries biologist at Lake Macbride, said water from the shallow Hawkeye Wildlife area with low oxygen levels and temperatures in the 90s flowed under the Hwy. 965 and I-380 bridges were most of the dead fish were found. Sleeper said they counted 95 walleyes at the upper end of the Coralville Reservoir, along with six channel catfish and a few common carp on Monday.

“It looks like they had been dead for several days,” Sleeper said.

At Lake Odessa, 96 percent of the 19,000 fish killed were gizzard shad that are susceptible to changes in water temperature. Chad Dolan, fisheries biologist at the DNR’s Lake Darling office, said they suspect the kill happened Saturday night after the high air temperatures. The water temperature was in the low to mid 90s.

Other species killed were bluegills, crappies, freshwater drum, northern pike, largemouth bass, yellow bass, common carp, channel catfish, goldfish and brown bullhead. Dolan said live fish were seen in the areas of the fish kill and anglers were catching fish during the Sunday

While elevated water temperature is likely the cause of these fish kills, the DNR will be submitting water samples for analysis to see if other factors were responsible. If the public sees dead or stressed fish, they are encouraged to contact the DNR at 515-281-8694.

 

 

14.07.2012

Biological Hazard

Australia

State of Western Australia, [North of Lancelin ]

Biological Hazard in Australia on Saturday, 14 July, 2012 at 13:50 (01:50 PM) UTC.

Description
A friend of the surfer who was killed in a shark attack north of Lancelin this morning is believed to have witnessed the attack. Police have revealed the victim is a 24-year-old Perth man but have not yet released his name. He is the fifth person to die from a shark attack in Western Australia since September last year. Water Police and the Department of Fisheries are now searching for the man’s body. The attack happened about 4 km south of Wedge Island about 9am. Tony Cappelluti from the Fisheries Department said the victim was with a friend when attacked by what was believed to be a great white shark. “The two people were in the water surfing or waiting for a wave when the victim was attacked by a shark,” he said. It is believed that the two men were about 40 or 50 metres off the beach at the time of attack. Mr Cappelluti said two other surfers, one on a jet ski and the other being towed came over to help when they saw a commotion in the water. He said the man’s friend and the others surfers were not in a position to help and went back to shore and contacted the police. “No body has been recovered but from eyewitness accounts we presume he has been killed.” A man who said he had been the person on the jet ski nearby told ABC that he tried to retrieve the man who had been attacked from the water. “I was towing my mate on the back of the jet ski and in front of us I just saw a guy get attacked by a shark and I just took my mate straight to the shore and went straight out and there was just blood everywhere and a massive, massive white shark circling the body,” he said. “I reached to grab the body and the shark came at me on the jet ski and tried to knock me off and I did another loop and when I came to get back to the body the shark took it.” Mr Cappelluti said the attack had taken place near a very remote section of the beach and he was not sure if anyone was on the beach at the time. He said the victim’s friend was believed to be “very distressed.” Shire of Dandaragan president Shane Love said the thoughts of the community were with the victim’s family and friends. “I think anytime this sort of thing happens it’s a shock to coastal communities who love to go in the water and enjoy it, it’s very sad,” he said. Mr Love said while there were not many people who lived in the shacks at Wedge Island, which is about 160km north of Perth, the wider community of people who visited regularly was much larger. Police from Jurien Bay are attending the incident and the beach where the incident took place is currently closed. Lancelin local, Michael Balcombe who has been fishing in the area for about 45 years said he often saw big sharks in the area including tiger sharks and bronze whalers. “You always see sharks if you’re fishing around here,” he said. Mr Balcombe said considering the attack took place 4 km south of Wedge Island, it may have been at a popular surfing area called Didi Bay. Today’s attack is the second fatal shark attack in Western Australia this year.
Biohazard name:	Shark attack (Fatal)
Biohazard level:	0/4 —
Biohazard desc.:	This does not included biological hazard category.
Symptoms:
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14.07.2012

Biological Hazard

USA

State of Texas, McAllen

Biological Hazard in USA on Saturday, 14 July, 2012 at 04:02 (04:02 AM) UTC.

Description
A swarm of bees attacked several people Friday evening, sending five to the hospital for treatment. The bee attack took place about 6:30 p.m. Friday on the 4100 block of North 10th Street, where a construction crew was repairing the roof of a strip mall, said McAllen Fire Capt. Rene Del Bosque. Customers were ordered to stay inside the various buildings, including Hop Tung Vietnamese Chinese Restaurant and the Lucky 13 tattoo parlor. Employees at other stores looked out from their windows as firefighters worked to remove the bees, but were also stung in the process. Those not inside businesses were kept away by McAllen police and firefighters. Those who had been stung were moved across the street to North Cross Shopping Center, where first responders treated those who had been stung. About 7:45 p.m., firefighters wearing bee suits removed the beehive and cleared the area. “At first I saw some of the guys swatting in the air and didn’t know what was going on but then as they got close I saw the bees,” said Andy Wynn, one of the roofers who dropped to the ground and covered himself in insulation material in an effort to stay safe from the bees. “I was concerned that some of the guys might jump off the roof to get away from the bees … it was about 5 or 10 at a time but they came at you and tried to get in your ears or your nose.” Wynn said he’d never been attacked by bees in his eight years as a roofer.
Biohazard name:	Bees attack
Biohazard level:	0/4 —
Biohazard desc.:	This does not included biological hazard category.
Symptoms:
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Articles of Interest

Power outages leave National Grid customers in the dark

by Katie Corrado

A fire at a National Grid substation in Liverpool on Friday morning sparked outages in several local communities.  / Bill Ali

SALINA — Thousands of National Grid customers were in the dark during a major power outage on Friday. The outage had the greatest affect on customers in Syracuse and Salina, and was sparked by a fire at a National Grid substation in Liverpool. The substation caught fire around 12:30am on Friday.

A National Grid spokesperson says the fire is believed to be specifically caused by bushlings, which allow energey to pass between pieces of equipment and are a vital component of substations.

National Grid has asked thousands of customers to conserve power while they are re-routing those serviced by the substation to other grids. To minimize strain on grids, customers are asked to unplug unnecessary electronics and turn up the temperatures on air conditioners to 70-72 degrees.

Those asked to conserve seem willing to comply, despite the 90 degree temperatures. “It’s hot, yeah, but there’s other ways we can keep cool,” said Salina National Grid customer Daniel Zaborskiy. “Like instead of using A/C, we can use a fan, for instance.”

Some affected by the outages are upset with National Grid. “They should provide a service and we should have confidence and know that they’re going to deliver that service to us, like they want their money on time at all times,” said Syracuse customer Taj Bey.

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