Earth Changes
A large sinkhole that resembles something out of a Hollywood movie has closed a section of Bayview Avenue to traffic.
It happened overnight on Thursday after a water main break. Bayview Avenue just north of Steeles Avenue is closed between Proctor Avenue and Laureleaf Road as crews work to fix the buckled pavement.
In some sections, the crack is as wide as a traffic lane.
CBC's Lorenda Reddekopp was at the scene and said York Regional police officers were describing the nine-metre deep sinkhole as "something out of Jurassic Park."
A German tourist watched the two 250ft trees fall to the ground at the Trail of 100 Giants in California and captured the amazing moments and the crushing sound on video.
The trees lay the length of a football pitch and their diameter of their torn roots and base was 20ft.
A tornado uprooted trees and tore the roof of a stable as it swept past the village of Inkberrow in the mid-afternoon.
Amazingly, the fierce winds threw the stable roof 20metres through the air before it came to rest stuck in the branches of a nearby tree.
Other trees were left broken in half at the Knowle Fields Barn Farm complex.
The latest aftershock came at 2:44 a.m. and was a 2.7-magnitude quake, according to the USGS website .
The epicenter of the initial quake was about 6 miles north of Prague, 7 miles east-southeast of Sparks, 9 miles west-northwest of Paden or roughly 20 miles northeast of Oklahoma City. The first aftershock happened in the same area, according to the United States National Weather Service office in Norman, which posted this message to Facebook at about 3 a.m.
Needles at the U.S. Geological Survey jumped again on Thursday morning, when a 2.3 magnitude aftershock rattled Louisa County.
Geological Survey staffers said in a lecture this week they've actually recorded over 600 aftershocks following the August 23 quake.
Staff geologist and Mineral, Virginia resident Mark Carter lectured on the Virginia quake's aftershocks on November 2 in Fairfax. The lecture was also shared via the USGS twitter feed.
The geologist said that in central Virginia, seismic activity is "somewhat regular." However, the strength of the August 23 quake had not been seen in a century, and the damage has been unprecedented.
"It was a miracle that there were no casualties given the damage we found," he wrote.
Saturday, November 05, 2011 at 07:13:57 UTC
Saturday, November 05, 2011 at 04:13:57 AM at epicenter
Time of Earthquake in other Time Zones
Location 23.529°S, 70.400°W
Depth 27.3 km (17.0 miles)
Region ANTOFAGASTA, CHILE
Distances 22 km (13 miles) NNE of Antofagasta, Antofagasta, Chile
154 km (95 miles) S of Tocopilla, Antofagasta, Chile
177 km (109 miles) SW of Calama, Antofagasta, Chile
1106 km (687 miles) N of SANTIAGO, Region Metropolitana, Chile
Saturday, November 05, 2011 at 01:49:19 UTC
Saturday, November 05, 2011 at 12:49:19 PM at epicenter
Time of Earthquake in other Time Zones
Location 18.293°S, 168.309°E
Depth 39.5 km (24.5 miles)
Region VANUATU
Distances
61 km (37 miles) S of PORT-VILA, Efate, Vanuatu
172 km (106 miles) NW of Isangel, Tanna, Vanuatu
328 km (203 miles) SSE of Luganville, Espiritu Santo, Vanuatu
1869 km (1161 miles) ENE of BRISBANE, Queensland, Australia
The iceberg started out as a surface crack in the sheet of ice, which is located in front of the Pine Island Glacier (PIG) in the Antarctic region.
The rift, which was first noticed in October, runs for almost 20 miles from end to end and is thought to be 200ft deep.
With the crack widening every day, the iceberg will be formed - or 'calved' as it is scientifically known - when it breaks away from the floating ice mass.
This is expected to take place at the end of the year or in early 2012.
Luca Cari, spokesman for Genoa's fire department, told Italy's Sky TG24 that six people were confirmed dead and one person was missing.
Two of the dead were reported to be children.
Meanwhile, on Thursday, the direction of Civil Protection Plan for Volcanic Risk said Border seismic events correspond to the stage of La Restinga underwater eruption, which began on 10 October. Specifically, there have been twelve new earthquakes that have had an intensity of 2 to 3 degrees as reported by sources of IGN Canarias 7 newspaper. On Thursday, officials of the Civil Protection Plan for Volcanic Risk assured the public that the latest seismic events, which have intensified in recent days, corresponds to the scene of the submarine eruption of La Restinga, which began on 10 October.












