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Indonesia - Earthquake Magnitude 6.2 - Sulawesi

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© USGSEarthquake Location
Date-Time:
Sunday, April 24, 2011 at 23:07:51 UTC

Monday, April 25, 2011 at 07:07:51 AM at epicenter

Time of Earthquake in other Time Zones

Location:
4.593°S, 122.808°E

Depth:
9.4 km (5.8 miles)

Region:
SULAWESI, INDONESIA

Distances:
75 km (46 miles) SSE of Kendari, Sulawesi, Indonesia

99 km (61 miles) NNE of Baubau, Sulawesi, Indonesia

534 km (331 miles) NW of DILI, Timor-Leste

1240 km (770 miles) NW of DARWIN, Northern Territory, Australia

Bizarro Earth

Orange Volcanic Alert on Kamchatka

Kamchatka volcano
© Flickr.com/robnunn/cc-by-ncKamchatka volcano.
The Shiveluch volcano has spewed a new plume of ash 7.5 km above the Russian Kamchatka Peninsula. The ash cloud sprawled 143 km to the northwest.

The authorities announced the orange alert level warning aircrafts about volcanic dust and gases in the air. At present, there is no risk to human health.

Shiveluch, is one of Kamchatka's largest volcanoes. It rises more than 3.200 meters above sea level.

Info

US: Preliminary magnitude-3.1 quake rumbles in Arkansas

The U.S. Geological Survey has recorded a preliminary magnitude-3.1 earthquake near Greenbrier in central Arkansas.

The quake was recorded at 7:20 a.m. Saturday three miles northeast of Greenbrier - about 35 miles north of Little Rock. Greenbrier police say there weren't any reports of injuries or damage. A magnitude-2.2 quake was recorded in the same area 20 minutes later.

Seismologists have recorded some 1,000 quakes in the region since September - including a magnitude 4.7 in February that was the strongest earthquake recorded in Arkansas in 35 years.

The latest quakes come after two natural gas exploration companies - Oklahoma City-based Chesapeake Energy Corp. and Clarita Operating LLC - agreed this week to keep two nearby injection wells shutdown as researchers study whether the operations are linked to the quakes.

Source: The Associated Press

Attention

US, California: 3.6 Earthquake Shakes East County

Quake Centered Near Vallecito, About 16 Miles East-Southeast Of Julian

A magnitude 3.6 earthquake shook eastern San Diego County on Saturday, according to automated seismographs and computers operated by the U.S. Geological Survey.

The quake was centered near the village of Vallecito, about 16 miles east-southeast of Julian, or about 50 miles east-northeast of downtown San Diego. It hit at 1:49 p.m.

The quake was in a seismically-active valley along the Great Southern Overland Stage Route Of 1849, a bit northwest of the cluster of thousands of aftershocks from last year's magnitude 7.2 Mexicali earthquake.

Sun

Britain on course for hottest Easter since records began

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© M&YThousands spent the day on Brighton beach
Britain is on course for the hottest Easter since records began in 1960 and the warmest April in more than a century.

Millions of holidaymakers flocked to beaches across the country to make the most of the unseasonably warm weather.

But forecasters warned the glorious sunshine will be short-lived as temperatures look set to drop gradually throughout the week, starting on Sunday.

Some parts of the country were even hit by torrential downpours on Saturday afternoon.

In Sheffield, South Yorkshire, some roads became impassable as hailstorms fell and flood water formed several inches deep.

Parts of Kent, London, east Wales, the East Midlands, and Yorkshire were also hit by heavy rain.

Forecasters said the outlook for the royal wedding on Friday remained uncertain but there could well be brief downpours in London during the day.

Cloud Lightning

St. Louis airport may reopen Sunday after tornado; cities damaged

Workers at the St. Louis airport, ravaged by a powerful tornado that smashed windows and rocked airplanes parked at gates, scrambled to have it ready to resume flight operations Sunday, officials said.

The tornado was part of a storm that slashed through metropolitan St. Louis Friday evening, damaging hundreds of homes and closing the airport.

When the tornado hit Bridgeton it had an EF4 rating, indicating it had winds of 166 to 200 miles per hour, according to the National Weather Service. As of 3 p.m. Saturday, survey teams had not reached the airport, which is near Bridgeton, and made an official assessment of the tornado's strength there.

When the tornado hit Bridgeton it had an EF3 rating, indicating it had winds of 136 to 165 miles per hour and is considered severe, according to the National Weather Service. The reading at the airport, which is near Bridgeton, may be different.

Umbrella

Rains continue to lash Bangalore

Heavy rains lashed the city for the second successive day today, inundating low lying areas, uprooting trees in some regions and causing traffic jam on all the main roads.

Incessant rains have uprooted trees in some areas while some low lying areas including Ejipura, parts of Mysore road and Goripalya have been inundated. There has also been water logging in areas including Sriramapuram and Okalipuram, officials of Bruhat Bangalore Mahanagara Palike told PTI.

Better Earth

Earth Will Recover Faster from Global Warming Show Prehistoric Evidence

A team of scientists has analysed evidence from a prehistoric event and came to the conclusion that the Earth may be able to recover from rising carbon dioxide emissions faster than previously thought.

The study led by a Purdue University team showed that when faced with high levels of atmospheric carbon dioxide and rising temperatures 56 million years ago, the Earth increased its ability to pull carbon from the air.

This led to a recovery that was quicker than anticipated by many models of the carbon cycle - though still on the order of tens of thousands of years, Gabriel Bowen, the associate professor of earth and atmospheric sciences, who led the study, said.

"We found that more than half of the added carbon dioxide was pulled from the atmosphere within 30,000 to 40,000 years, which is one-third of the time span previously thought," Bowen, who also is a member of the Purdue Climate Change Research Center, said.

"We still don't know exactly where this carbon went, but the evidence suggests it was a much more dynamic response than traditional models represent," he explained.

Cloud Lightning

12 Tornadoes Confirmed In Central Ohio


Cloud Lightning

US: 'Mothership' supercell cloud seen over Mississippi State University on Wednesday

Severe thunderstorms are hitting the Mississippi area hard, with large hail and damaging winds being reported.
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Ryan Hoke of MSU sends this picture on Twitter of what looks like something out of a sci-fi movie. We didn't know what it was so we asked our meteorologist.

"What you are seeing is referred to as the mothership, the mesocyclone of the rotating base and mid levels of a thunderstorms", Senior Meteorologist Kevin Martin said. "Today was excellent for those, but only isolated tornadoes would pop. Sometimes the most pretty storms do not produce tornadoes!"