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People in north Donegal were left shaken, but hopefully not too stirred, last night when an earthquake tremor hit the region. Tom Blake, a geophysicist at the Dublin School for Advanced Studies confirmed that a 2.2 magnitude tremor struck north Donegal at 1.04 am. The tremor was recorded at a seismic monitoring station in Inishowen.
The station was set up and is operated in association with LYIT and North West Electronics. The tremor was also recorded at St. Columba's National School and St. Egney's Desertegney, where equipment has been in place for some time. According to the Donegal Weather Channel, hundreds of people felt the tremor right across north Donegal, areas affected included Letterkenny, Buncrana, Kilmacrennan, Raphoe, Ramelton, Carrigard and Downings.
Dozens of people are feared to have been buried in a massive landslide in the Southern Highlands of Papua New Guinea. According to VOA, at least 40 bodies have been pulled from the debris and as many as 20 others are feared missing.
The landslide struck at 7am AEDT yesterday near the Nogoli base for a ExxonMobil-led liquefied natural gas plant site, northwest of Port Moresby. One local said three villages had been covered while another report said only a handful of homes were lost. Radio Australia reported dozens of people were feared buried, quoting a Tari resident as saying about 40 people were missing.
The landslide struck at 7am AEDT yesterday near the Nogoli base for a ExxonMobil-led liquefied natural gas plant site, northwest of Port Moresby. One local said three villages had been covered while another report said only a handful of homes were lost. Radio Australia reported dozens of people were feared buried, quoting a Tari resident as saying about 40 people were missing.
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Wednesday, January 25, 2012 at 00:46:00 UTC
Tuesday, January 24, 2012 at 03:46:00 PM at epicenter
Time of Earthquake in other Time Zones
Location:
52.809°N, 167.095°W
Depth:
39.4 km (24.5 miles)
Region:
FOX ISLANDS, ALEUTIAN ISLANDS, ALASKA
Distances:
119 km (73 miles) E of Nikolski, Alaska
127 km (78 miles) SSW of Dutch Harbor, Alaska
1395 km (866 miles) SW of Anchorage, Alaska
2121 km (1317 miles) W of WHITEHORSE, Yukon Territory, Canada
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About 4,200 people have been evacuated from their homes on the New South Wales far north coast, after the same weather system that drenched Queensland moved south.
Ten flood warnings are in place for rivers in the state's north-east, where up to 550 millimetres of rain has fallen in some areas over three days.
People have been evacuated from parts of Chinderah, Fingal Head, South Murwillumbah, Condong and Tumbulgum.
Ten flood warnings are in place for rivers in the state's north-east, where up to 550 millimetres of rain has fallen in some areas over three days.
People have been evacuated from parts of Chinderah, Fingal Head, South Murwillumbah, Condong and Tumbulgum.
The U.S. Southwest isn't particularly known for its seismic activity, but the Rio Grande Rift, a series of faults and basins that runs from central Colorado south through New Mexico, is alive and stretching, new research shows.
Scientists had suspected the rift might be dead, but measurements of its movement varied widely and were riddled with uncertainties. Now, thanks to state-of-the-art GPS technology, geophysicists have found the rift is indeed extending - just very slowly.
And of course, anytime a large chunk of the Earth's crust moves, the issue of earthquakes arises.
Scientists had suspected the rift might be dead, but measurements of its movement varied widely and were riddled with uncertainties. Now, thanks to state-of-the-art GPS technology, geophysicists have found the rift is indeed extending - just very slowly.
And of course, anytime a large chunk of the Earth's crust moves, the issue of earthquakes arises.
© NASAThe city of Las Cruces is located within the Rio Grande Rift, a large geological feature that extends from Colorado southwards into Mexico. The Rio Grande Rift is marked by a series of depressions (known as graben) punctuated with uplifted mountains. The grabens form when blocks of the Earth’s crust sink as geologic forces pull the crust apart along fault lines. Sinking in one place is often accompanied by uplift along boundaries of the grabens—the striking Organ Mountains to the east of Las Cruces are one such uplifted fault block.
UK scientists have detected a huge dome of fresh water that is developing in the western Arctic Ocean.
The bulge is some 8,000 cubic km in size and has risen by about 15cm since 2002.
The team thinks it may be the result of strong winds whipping up a great clockwise current in the northern polar region called the Beaufort Gyre.
This would force the water together, raising sea surface height, the group tells the journal Nature Geoscience.
"In the western Arctic, the Beaufort Gyre is driven by a permanent anti-cyclonic wind circulation. It drives the water, forcing it to pile up in the centre of gyre, and this domes the sea surface," explained lead author Dr Katharine Giles from the Centre for Polar Observation and Modelling (CPOM) at University College London.
© ABC NewsLow oxygen levels have killed 5,000 fish in the Swan River
About 5,000 dead fish were discovered between the Middle Swan Bridge and the Ellen Brook in the upper reaches of the river.
Swan River Trust spokesman Mark Cugley says recent rain and hot weather have decreased oxygen levels in the waterway and that particular area is outside the reach of the river's oxygenation plants.
© USGSEarthquake Location
Tuesday, January 24, 2012 at 00:52:06 UTC
Tuesday, January 24, 2012 at 12:52:06 PM at epicenter
Time of Earthquake in other Time Zones
Location
24.959°S, 178.611°E
Depth
582.8 km (362.2 miles)
Region
SOUTH OF THE FIJI ISLANDS
Distances
543 km (337 miles) SE of Ceva-i-Ra, Fiji
551 km (342 miles) SSW of Ndoi Island, Fiji
756 km (469 miles) S of SUVA, Viti Levu, Fiji
1370 km (851 miles) NNE of Auckland, New Zealand
Comment: In other words, it rained a lot in Perth.