By BETSY BLANEY
Associated Press Fri Apr 7, 3:49 AM ET AMARILLO, Texas - The parched Texas Panhandle apparently survived another wildfire scare, but forecasters predicted dangerous conditions in other parts of the state Friday.
Wildfires fueled by steady 40 mph winds scorched 27,000 acres Thursday and destroyed at least nine homes while forcing the evacuation of two small towns about 65 miles east of Amarillo. |
Cicero A. Estrella
Thursday, April 6, 2006 A 4.2-magnitude earthquake rolled through San Luis Obispo County on Thursday but didn't appear to cause significant damage.
The temblor occurred at 6:06 p.m. at a depth of 5.5 miles and was centered about 8 miles northeast of San Simeon and 12 miles north of Cambria, according to the U.S. Geological Survey. |
Chinaview
07/04/2006 |
Reuters
April 7, 2006 CANBERRA - A state of emergency was declared in parts of Australia's remote Northern Territory on Friday where floodwaters forced the evacuation of hundreds in the outback town of Katherine.
About a quarter of the town of about 2,000 people was inundated, with water lapping at the rooftops of some homes. "Due to the extent of flooding throughout the region, extraordinary measures are required in order to allow police and counter-disaster authorities to do their job as effectively as possible," Northern Territory Police Minister Paul Henderson told reporters. The emergency powers, in place for at least the next two days, allow authorities to force the evacuation of those in danger and to take over government and private resources. |
AP
April 7, 2006 MAMMOTH LAKES, Calif. - Three members of a ski patrol were killed when two plunged into a volcanic fissure at the Mammoth Mountain resort and the third fell trying to rescue them, a resort official said.
Four other would-be rescuers were hospitalized for exposure to carbon dioxide and were doing well late Thursday, said Rusty Gregory, chief executive officer of Mammoth Mountain Ski Area. |
By Eliott C. McLaughlin
CNN Friday, April 7, 2006 After a 2005 hurricane season that ravaged the Caribbean and the Atlantic and Gulf coasts, five storm names were retired Thursday -- but don't expect to see their jerseys in the rafters they left strewn across Cuba, Mexico, Texas, Florida, Mississippi and Louisiana.
It is a far more dubious distinction. "Unfortunately, you need a storm to hit and cause a considerable amount of destruction for it to be retired," said Chris Vaccaro, a spokesman with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. |
AFP
Apr 07, 2006 San Francisco - A computer-generated recreation of the seismic pounding taken by San Francisco during the devastating 1906 earthquake was launched online Thursday by the US Geological Survey.
Simulations of earth shaking and tectonic plate shifting were put on display along with images of the damage inflicted on the city by the historic temblor that struck one hundred years ago this month. |
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