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Researchers say Seattle, Vancouver and Portland are at risk of a megaquake

Ellie Zolfagharifard
Daily Mail, UK
Mon, 02 Nov 2015 14:46 UTC
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Seattle, Portland and Vancouver are at risk of being hit by a megaquake, scientists have warned. Pictured is the Juan de Fuca and Gorda plates offshore of the Pacific Northwest. The plate moves eastward from the midocean ridge and spreading center on the plate's western edge to the trench on the eastern margin
Seattle, Portland and Vancouver are at risk of being hit by a megaquake, scientists have warned.

Researchers believe a killer quake along Cascadi - a fault line which runs from Cape Mendocino, California, to Vancouver Island - is 72 years overdue.

The 'Big One' will hit when Juan de Fuca, a 700-mile chunk of the Pacific Ocean, slides under Canada and America.

Now, scientists have a better idea of how this will happen after creating the first ever detailed map of the mantle under the tectonic plate.

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British heatwave: Hottest ever start to November since records began

Nathan Rao & Levi Winchester
The Express, UK
Mon, 02 Nov 2015 09:01 UTC
Unseasonably warm November weather in UK
© GettyUnseasonably warm November weather has delayed the arrival of winter this year

There may only be seven weeks to go until Christmas, but that did not stop Britons flocking to the beach as the country saw the hottest start to November since records began.

There was no need for extra layers yesterday as pictures from across Britain showed dozens of people sunbathing in balmy spring-like weather on Brighton beach.

Across the country the mercury touched 72.3F (22.4C) in Ceredigion, Mid Wales, beating the previous record of 71.1F (21.7C) set in Prestatyn, north Wales, in 1946.

It is the highest November temperature recorded by the Met Office since it began collecting data in 1910.

In Wales thousands of day trippers heading to the mountains and coast with youngsters playing on the sands.

One of the warmest Halloweens on record saw thermometers hit 67F on Saturday in Hampton, south-west London.

Comment: Unseasonal record breaking high temperatures have also been reported over Eastern U.S. and elsewhere in Europe

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Shark bites woman 'to the bone' off Brevard County beach, Florida; 25th local attack this year

Tim Stelloh
nbcnews.com
Mon, 02 Nov 2015 13:33 UTC
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© NBC News ChannelParamedics treat an unidentified woman who was severely bitten by a shark Sunday in Cocoa Beach, Florida.
A woman wading through waist-deep water just off Florida's Atlantic coast was bitten "to the bone" Sunday afternoon, a witness and authorities told NBC News.

Brevard County Ocean Rescue Chief Jeff Scabarozi said the 28-year-old woman was close to shore in Cocoa Beach, near Cape Canaveral, when a shark bit her ankle about 3 p.m. ET. NBC station WESH of Orlando identified the woman as a tourist and described the injury as a 6- to 7-inch gash on her leg.

The witness, who was about 100 feet away, never saw the shark — "only jellyfish," she said. Beachgoers helped the woman out of the water, and she was transported to a hospital.

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November heatwave over Eastern US and Europe, records broken...again

Bob Henson
Weather Underground
Tue, 03 Nov 2015 11:25 UTC
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Britons are enjoying near-summer temperatures in November
Sunday and Monday have felt more like midsummer than mid-autumn across most of Florida. In Tallahassee, Sunday's high temperature of 88°F and low of 75°F both tied for the warmest ever recorded there in November, and the day's average of 81.5°F handily beat the November record of 80.5°F set on 11/11/82 (records extend back to 1892).
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Sudden 'microburst' causes damage near Rome, New York State

Amy Neff Roth
Utica Observer Dispatch
Mon, 02 Nov 2015 20:22 UTC
microburst damage at Lake Delta
The blue, blue sky suddenly turned jet black, a crazy wind kicked up and something hit her house hard, said an eyewitness to Sunday's microburst near Lake Delta.

A huge trampoline from her neighbor's backyard had crashed into her house and landed on the roof around 1:30 p.m., said Regina Kekis, who lives on the Town of Rome side of Townline Road. "That wind was ferocious. It came out of nowhere. It was here maybe a minute and a half and it was gone," she said.

Kekis questioned officials' assessment that the damage from what the National Weather Service called a microburst was minor. Her house's siding now has a big gash in it and she can see at least 10 big trees along the road that were pulled up by the roots, she said. Her neighbor's shed was flattened and other area homes were damaged, too, she said.
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Bizarro Earth

Indonesia volcano erupts forcing Bali flight cancellations


Jakarta Globe
Tue, 03 Nov 2015 04:44 UTC
Volcanic ash clouds
Volcanic ash clouds have again disrupted the plans of Bali holidaymakers
Disaster mitigation authorities in West Nusa Tenggara have raised the status of Indonesia's second highest active volcano to "alert" as it continues to spew ash, prompting an Australian airline to cancel all flights to and from Denpasar airport today.

Mount Barujari, Mount Rinjani's cone and a result of eruptions of the main volcano in 1994 and 1995, erupted on Sunday sending hot clouds and debris up to around 10,000 feet, Azhar, chief of the West Nusa Tenggara Disaster Mitigation Agency, said on Tuesday.

Although the status remains at alert, Azhar said, the agency had prepared a number of evacuation scenarios for some 40,000 residents living near the 3,726-meter volcano located in the North Lombok district.

"We will evacuate them immediately to the safest areas in North Lombok, East Lombok and West Lombok," said Azhar as quoted by news portal Okezone.com on Tuesday.

The volcanic activity has prompted Virgin Australia to cancel all of Tuesday's flights to and from Indonesia's most popular tourist destination island of Bali — neighboring Lombok.
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Up to a foot of snow forecast for California's Sierra Nevada as storm moves in

Veronica Rocha and Brittny Mejia
Los Angeles Times
Mon, 02 Nov 2015 22:35 UTC
LA clouds
© Brian van der Brug / Los Angeles TimesLow clouds drift over the Los Angeles Basin and downtown in Los Angeles.
The Sierra Nevada could get up to a foot of snow Monday as a wet storm moves across California's drought-stricken mountains and valleys, bringing rain and cold temperatures.

Described as the first significant storm of the season, snow began accumulating overnight in the northern Sierra Nevada, dusting the parched mountains with about nine inches of powder, said Eric Kurth, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service in Sacramento.

The snowstorm caused unexpected chaos on U.S. 50 and Interstate 80 in El Dorado County, where drivers were required to use tire chains on the slick roads.
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Severe storms, huge hailstones, 'tornado', batter south eastern Australia


RT
Sun, 01 Nov 2015 21:43 UTC
Australia storm damage
© StrathmertonStandard / Facebook
Storms so severe hit Australia this weekend that the disaster line stretched all the way from Queensland to Gippsland, something unseen in years. The internet was flooded with accounts of sunny weather turning into destructive greyness.

The aftermath of the multiple storms left a trail of havoc from Queensland, through New South Wales and on to Victoria, emergency services said. As of early Sunday morning, Victoria was still under siege.

According to ABC, citing the Victorian State Emergency Service (SES), the New South Wales-Victorian border saw trees uprooted and houses badly damaged.

"It's rare to see a storm line stretch that far. It can happen, you need a very active low pressure trough to extend right through that distance."

Comment: Additional coverage of the storm from The Today Show - 9news.com.au



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Rare and deadly: Cyclone Chapala expected to bring catastrophic flooding to Yemen


Al Jazeera
Mon, 02 Nov 2015 21:19 UTC
Cyclone Chapala
© EPAA Nasa photo of Cyclone Chapala moving towards Yemen, followed less than a week later by Cyclone Megh - an unprecedented double whammy!
At least two people killed as rare storm, Cyclone Chapala, destroys homes and forces evacuations on Socotra island.

The first ever cyclone (hurricane) to make landfall on the Arabian peninsula has already started wreaking havoc in Yemeni waters, killing at least three people and injuring about 100 on the island of Socotra as it tracks steadily towards the country's coastline.

Cyclone Chapala, which has formed in the Arabian Sea, destroyed more than 100 homes on the island on Sunday, as it also uprooted trees and sank fishing boats, sources told Al Jazeera.

The US Joint Typhoon Warning Centre (JTWC) reports that Chapala is expected to make landfall at about 06:00 GMT on Tuesday morning.

The JTWC reported that the storm system was tracking a path that would take it close to the Yemeni port city of Mukalla, which has a population of about 300,000 people.

"The cyclone is the equivalent of a category 3 hurricane, with sustained winds of 195 km/h, gusting 240 km/h," Al Jazeera's meteorologist Steff Gaulter explained.
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5.2 earthquake shakes Peshawar, Pakistan


dunyanews.tv
Mon, 02 Nov 2015 19:39 UTC
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The epicenter of the earthquake was Koh-e-Suleman
The earthquake of 5.2 magnitude on Richter scale on Monday jolted several districts of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa including Peshawar and adjacent areas, Dunya News reported.

The earthquake jolts sparked panic among the locals who evacuated the buildings while reciting prayers. As per the Metrological center, today's jolts were of 5.2 magnitude while the US Geological Survey recorded it at 4.9.

The epicenter of the earthquake was Koh-e-Suleman.
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