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Second earthquake hits 33 miles southeast of Hihifo, Tonga; magnitude 5.1


USGS
Sun, 18 Oct 2015 16:23 UTC
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© USGS
16.193°S 173.315°W depth=10.0 km (6.2 mi)
Time
  1. 2015-10-18 16:23:37 (UTC)
  2. 2015-10-18 12:23:37 (UTC-04:00) in your timezone
  3. Times in other timezones
Nearby Cities
  1. 53km (33mi) ESE of Hihifo, Tonga
  2. 309km (192mi) SSW of Apia, Samoa
  3. 346km (215mi) SW of Tafuna, American Samoa
  4. 351km (218mi) SW of Pago Pago, American Samoa
  5. 581km (361mi) NNE of Nuku'alofa, Tonga
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Comment: The first one occurred five minutes prior:

Magnitude 6.0 quake strikes 41 miles southeast of Hihifo,Tonga

Update: Two more have been reported since:
M4.8 - 47km ESE of Hihifo, Tonga
M5.1 - 38km ESE of Hihifo, Tonga

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Attention

Magnitude 6.0 quake strikes 41 miles southeast of Hihifo,Tonga


USGS
Sun, 18 Oct 2015 18:34 UTC
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© USGS
16.244°S 173.207°W depth=10.0 km (6.2 mi)
Time
  1. 2015-10-18 16:18:34 (UTC)
  2. 2015-10-18 12:18:34 (UTC-04:00) in your timezone
  3. Times in other timezones
Nearby Cities
  1. 66km (41mi) ESE of Hihifo, Tonga
  2. 308km (191mi) SSW of Apia, Samoa
  3. 340km (211mi) SW of Tafuna, American Samoa
  4. 345km (214mi) SW of Pago Pago, American Samoa
  5. 580km (360mi) NNE of Nuku'alofa, Tonga
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Wolf

London woman rushed to hospital with facial injuries from dog attack


Surrey Comet
Fri, 16 Oct 2015 16:28 UTC
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© Pontiacpro
A woman is being treated in hospital after being attacked by a dog in south-east London. The woman, in her 30s, was found with severe injuries to her face after the attack in Woolwich, said police. An air ambulance was called but not needed, and the woman was driven to hospital by ambulance. She is in a "serious but stable" condition, the Met Police said.

Officers were called by paramedics at around 4.30pm on Friday to Wilmount Street. Police seized the dog and took it to a nearby kennel. No arrests have been made. A London Ambulance Service spokeswoman said: "We were called at 4.25pm to reports of an incident on Wilmount Street, SE18. We sent an ambulance crew, a single responder in a car, an incident response officer and London's Air Ambulance. The first of our medics were on scene in seven minutes.

"We treated a woman in her 30s for facial injuries and stabilised her at the scene. She was taken to a major trauma centre as a priority by ground ambulance - escorted by the doctor from the air ambulance."
Residents said there were "police everywhere".

One man, who only wanted to give his surname, said he knew the woman who was attacked. Mr Bates said: "There was more police here today than during the riots. I know her and her son - she's got a little Jack Russell dog. I would be surprised if it was that little dog." He said the woman lived on Wilmount Street, adding : "She was outside of her own flat. The police were everywhere - you would have thought she had been shot."
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Hardhat

5.9 magnitude earthquake hits northwest Argentina

Maximiliano Rizzi
Reuters
Sat, 17 Oct 2015 18:56 UTC
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© USGS
A magnitude 5.9 earthquake struck northwest Argentina on Saturday, the U.S. Geological Survey reported, leaving at least one person dead, injuring several more and damaging homes, according to local media.

"Homes collapsed, families have been left with nothing, schools have been destroyed. We have one fatality, who was crushed," Hector Romero, mayor of El Galpon, some 160 km from the provincial capital of Salta, told a local radio station.

"Currently there is one woman dead and injured people are being treated at the local hospital," said Ernesto Flores, undersecretary with Salta's civil defense authority, according to state-run news agency Telam.

A doctor at a hospital in El Galpon told news agency DyN that five people were treated there for mild injuries.

Reuters could not independently confirm the number of injured with the civil defense authority.

Some 15 to 20 homes were destroyed in El Galpon, according to a photographer collaborating with Reuters.

The USGS, which originally measured the quake at 6.0, said the quake occurred 131 kms (81 miles) southeast of Salta.

Comment: Reported earthquakes in the past 30 days:



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Cow Skull

Massive dust storm rolls through Arizona; thousands without power


Sky News
Sat, 17 Oct 2015 01:23 UTC
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Thousands of homes are left without electricity after the dust storm hits, followed by lightning that struck two buildings

A massive dust storm has hit the US state of Arizona, leaving more than 4,500 homes without power.

The storm arrived in Maricopa County around 2pm on Friday local time, with high winds kicking up dust over the city of Phoenix.

Arizona's 3TV reported that the wins were so strong they bent goal posts on a football field in Tempe and a Special Olympics opening ceremony had to be cancelled.

Jerry Ferguson, who piloted the news company's helicopter during the storm, said what he saw was more dense than any other storm seen during the summer.

He said: "The storm is quite a large dust storm, both in height and breadth."

Thunderstorms were expected to follow the dust, with Phoenix's fire department saying lightning struck a two-storey apartment building, causing a small fire on the roof.

A second lightning strike hit a hotel across the road from the apartments, but there were no injuries reported from either strike.

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Attention

Incredibly venomous yellow-bellied sea snake spotted in California for the first time in 30 years

Melissa Pamer and Mary Beth McDade
KTLA
Sat, 17 Oct 2015 21:02 UTC
yellow bellied sea snake
An "exotic, incredibly venomous" sea snake has been spotted along the Southern California coast, and a local environmental group said the creature was brought to shore courtesy of El Niño.

At least one yellow-bellied sea snake, which lives its entire life in the ocean, was recently spotted on a beach in the Oxnard area.

The reptile typically lives in warmer tropical waters, and its appearance is probably a harbinger of El Niño, the cyclical weather phenomenon connected to warmer sea-surface temperatures in the Pacific Ocean, according to Santa Monica-based Heal the Bay

The snake sighting was highlighted the nonprofit environmental advocacy group in a blog post on Friday.

"The Yellow-bellied Sea Snake has some of the most poisonous venom in the world, and is a descendant from Asian cobras and Australian tiger snakes," stated the post by Heal the Bay's senior coastal policy manager, Dana Murray.
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Windsock

Funnel cloud, waterspout mix appears in Consiton, Ontario

Leeanna McLean
The Weather Network
Fri, 16 Oct 2015 10:14 UTC
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© Via twitter@Northern_Life
It was an active night of fall weather Thursday as thunderstorms prompted heavy downpours, hail and strong winds in several communities. But it was a funnel cloud that formed in Consiton, Ont., an area just outside of Sudbury, that sent people scrambling to post multiple photos and videos of the rare event.

In the video above, Stewart Hoskins captured the funnel cloud as it was forming around 2:30 p.m. "That's close to the ground actually. Look at this, look at these clouds going, just swirling around," Hoskins says in the video. "That little thing just trying to touchdown."

The storm hit Greater Sudbury Thursday afternoon. Hoskins told NorthernLife.ca the funnel cloud touched down on Walter Street in Coniston. "There were multiple trees snapped, shingles torn off of roofs and a huge trampoline that had been lifted and flung about 200 feet," he told the local newspaper.

Ontario Tornado Watch also shared a video of the cloud forming. Around 6 p.m. ET, radar picked up signs of a rotating storm heading towards Cornwall, Ontario. Rotation had weakened by 6:45 p.m., but the system continued to produce strong winds in the area. No tornado watches or warnings were issued.

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Bizarro Earth

Is the science settled on climate change? Not even close!

David Siegel
Medium.com
Fri, 16 Oct 2015 18:41 UTC
Global Warming
© Time.com
What is your position on the climate-change debate? What would it take to change your mind?

If the answer is It would take a ton of evidence to change my mind, because my understanding is that the science is settled, and we need to get going on this important issue, that's what I thought, too. This is my story.

More than thirty years ago, I became vegan because I believed it was healthier (it's not), and I've stayed vegan because I believe it's better for the environment (it is). I haven't owned a car in ten years. I love animals; I'll gladly fly halfway around the world to take photos of them in their natural habitats.

I'm a Democrat: I think governments play a key role in helping preserve our environment for the future in the most cost-effective way possible.

Over the years, I built a set of assumptions: that Al Gore was right about global warming, that he was the David going up against the industrial Goliath. In 1993, I even wrote a book about it.

Recently, a friend challenged those assumptions. At first, I was annoyed, because I thought the science really was settled. As I started to look at the data and read about climate science, I was surprised, then shocked.

As I learned more, I changed my mind. I now think there probably is no climate crisis and that the focus on CO2 takes funding and attention from critical environmental problems. I'll start by making ten short statements that should challenge your assumptions and then back them up with an essay.
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Bizarro Earth

Are 97% of scientists complete morons?


Real Science
Fri, 16 Oct 2015 18:30 UTC
Atmospheric CO2 has risen by 100 parts per million (one part per ten thousand) over the past century. That is equivalent to packing one extra person into this Bernie "everything will be free" Sanders rally.
Sanders Rally
© Real Science
Experts claim that this one molecule has heated the other 10,000 molecules up by more than one degree centigrade.

In order for one molecule to heat up 10,000 other molecules by 1°C, the effective temperature of that one molecule would have to be 10,000°C - about twice the temperature of the surface of the Sun.

Only a complete moron would believe something so ludicrous, which is why they say 97% of scientists agree on this utter nonsense.
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Windsock

Powerful Typhoon Koppu brings catastrophic flooding, damaging winds to Philippines; 12-24 inches of rain expected

Eric Leisters
Accuweather
Sat, 17 Oct 2015 07:19 UTC
Typhoon Koppu will put lives and property across Luzon Island of the Philippines in danger through early next week.
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Koppu developed into a typhoon early Friday morning local time and is currently approaching the northern Philippines. Disruptive wind shear had prevented Koppu from any significant strengthening through Thursday; however, Koppu will enter an area of low wind shear prior to making landfall in Luzon. This will allow for continued strengthening and result in Koppu becoming a very dangerous cyclone as it approaches and moves into Luzon this weekend.

"Rapid intensification is likely to occur right before Koppu reaches Luzon," stated AccuWeather Meteorologist Adam Douty. "Koppu will be the equivalent of a Category 4 hurricane by landfall."

Koppu will not only strengthen as it approaches the Philippines but will also slow down significantly. The combination of a powerful and slow-moving typhoon could spell a disastrous situation for residents and communities in its path, which will be northern Luzon Island in Koppu's case.

From this weekend into early next week, Koppu will crawl toward and into northern Luzon Island before eventually turning to the north. Koppu is expected to make landfall, but how quickly it turns north will determine the duration of life-threatening conditions for northern Luzon.
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© NOAA/Satellite
This animated GIF shows Koppu approaching the northern Philippines.
While damaging winds are a concern, the greatest threat will be life-threatening flooding from days of torrential rainfall.

"A total of 300 to 600 mm (12 to 24 inches) of rain is expected to be widespread," stated Douty. There will even be localized amounts upwards or in excess of 900 mm (36 inches). Such rain is sure to trigger severe and life-threatening flooding and mudslides.
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