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USGS: Earthquake Magnitude 6.4 - South of Sidorukun, Indonesia


USGS
Mon, 03 Sep 2012 14:04 UTC
Indon Quake_030912
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Event Time
2012-09-03 18:23:04 UTC

2012-09-04 02:23:04 UTC+08:00 at epicenter

Nearby Cities
244km (152mi) S of Sidorukun, Indonesia
264km (164mi) S of Muncar, Indonesia
266km (165mi) S of Gambiran Satu, Indonesia
267km (166mi) S of Srono, Indonesia
924km (574mi) SE of Jakarta, Indonesia
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Bizarro Earth

Beverly Hills Earthquake of 3.3 Felt Across Los Angeles

Ken Schwencke
LA Times
Mon, 03 Sep 2012 09:27 UTC
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An earthquake early Monday centered in Beverly Hills was upgraded from to 3.2 to 3.3. and was felt around Los Angeles, according to the U.S. Geological Survey.

The temblor occurred at 3:26 a.m.

According to the USGS, the epicenter was one mile from West Hollywood, two miles from Century City and eight miles from Los Angeles Civic Center.

The USGS "Do You Feel It" site said the quake was most strongly felt on the Westside but also in the South Bay, downtown L.A. area and the San Fernando Valley.

In the past 10 days, there has been one earthquake magnitude 3.0 and greater centered nearby.
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Attention

Indonesia's Anak Krakatau Volcanic Activity Increases to Almost 90 Eruptions Daily


Jakarta globe
Mon, 03 Sep 2012 00:00 UTC
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© Reuters Anak Krakatau in the Sunda Strait, 130 kilometers west of Jakarta, was created by the same tectonic forces that led to the 1883 Krakatoa eruption that killed tens of thousands of people.
Bandarlampung - Volcanic ash from the increasingly active Anak Krakatau has reached a number of areas in Lampung, prompting officials on Monday to issue a warning for local residents and tourists.

"The ash was carried by wind from the southeast to the south, reaching Bandarlampung," Nurhuda, who heads the observation and information section of the Meteorology, Climatology and Geophysics Agency (BMKG) in Lampung, said according to state news agency Antara.

Nurhuda said the ash fell over several subdistricts in Bandarlampung, about 130 kilometers away from Anak Krakatau.

"It is rather unusual for the dust to be this thick," said Juniardi, a resident of Bandarlampung who complained that the falling dust was also hampering visibility.

Officials warned that the ask posed health hazards and asked local residents to wear masks when going outdoors or driving motorcycles.
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Igloo

Ice Age Looming? Sun Still Slumping

Anthony Watts
Watts Up With That?
Mon, 03 Sep 2012 00:00 UTC
The latest solar cycle update graphs have been released by the NOAA SWPC today, and the anemic cycle 24 continues:
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The current count isn't keeping up with the prediction line in red. Not only is the sunspot count low, so is the 10.7cm radio flux and the Ap magnetic index:
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Arrow Down

Philippines Gold Rush: 7 Dead in Mining Landslide


Manilla Bulletin Publishing Corporation
Mon, 03 Sep 2012 07:21 UTC
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Scene of a landslides at another gold-rush village in southern Philippines earlier this year.
At least seven people are believed to have been killed after a landslide struck a gold-rush mountain community in the southern Philippines.

Three days of heavy rains spawned the landslide on Thursday, which covered makeshift mining tunnels in a mountain area in Mindanao, said Mati City Mayor Michelle Rabat.

She said a village chief in the isolated area told her by telephone that seven bodies had been recovered from the tunnels and the miners were digging to find more people believed buried.

Other miners who descended from the mountains gave similar accounts, Rabat told AFP.
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Sinkhole threatens to swallow mobile home in Polk County, Florida

Cheryl Glassford
cfnews13.com
Sun, 02 Sep 2012 07:18 UTC
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A Polk County family may be forced out of their home after a sinkhole opened up and is threatening to swallow their home.
A Polk County family may be forced out of their home after a sinkhole opened up and began threatening to swallow the structure.

The 22-foot wide, 17-foot deep sinkhole has made the mobile home unsafe to live in and already swallowed part of their sidewalk.

The couple who lives there is waiting to find out if filling the hole will save the home.

If filling the hole doesn't help, the homeowners will have to move out for good. They said the home is too old and would likely fall apart if they moved it.

The Red Cross was paying for the couple to stay in a hotel, but their assistance ran out Saturday and they have nowhere to go.
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Cloud Lightning

Hurricane Isaac spawns Illinois tornadoes


Disaster News Network
Sun, 02 Sep 2012 06:18 UTC
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Heavy rainfall in Springfield, Illinois
Much of New Orleans was still without power Saturday, the handiwork of Hurricane Isaac, the remnants of which triggered tornadoes in Illinois, officials said.

New Orleans Mayor Mitch Landrieu said cleanup of trees and debris was under way in the storm-stricken city, but the lack of power was frustrating.

"Like everyone else, my patience is wearing thin," he said. "This is more than an inconvenience; it continues to be dangerous for everybody."

The (New Orleans) Times-Picayune reported the electric utility Entergy Corp. said only about 40 percent of New Orleanians had power, while the lights were on for about 46 percent of the people in Jefferson Parish about four days after Isaac hit.

The U.S. Department of Energy said more than 15,000 electricity workers from more than 24 states were assessing the damage and working to restore power.
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Igloo

Probably No Summer in Svalbard This Year

Robert Felix
Ice Age Now
Sun, 02 Sep 2012 21:04 UTC
Svalbard Champagne Glass
© Ole Magnus RappSvalbard Champagne Glass.
There will probably be no summer in Svalbard this year, writes Ole Magnus Rapp for Norway's Aftenposten.Each year, ice and snow form a great champagne glass with fine stems on the west side of Mount Opera. And each year the champagne glass collapses due to warm weather, a sign for residents that summer has arrived.

Normally the champagne glass collapses around the end of July, but so far nothing has happened.Now locals wonder if summer will come to Svalbard at all.Last year's collapse took place on the 29th of July. But as of today, the last day of August, the stem is still in one piece.

This has not happened in at least 40 years.

The local newspaper Svalbardposten records the date each year when the stem breaks and conducts a contest where readers can predict when it will happen.

Maybe the stem has not broken before, says editor Birger Amundsen, but certainly not since I first came to Svalbard in 1973.

Amundsen still believes the stem will break and he bets on a beautiful autumn in the north.

By the way, Svalbard is where the global seed vault is located. Won't do anyone much good if it's buried beneath the ice, will it?

Source: Aftenposten
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Blackbox

16 whales die off Scotland coast


BBC
Sun, 02 Sep 2012 19:12 UTC
A total of 16 whales have died after being stranded on the east coast of Scotland. Ten others were refloated after being kept alive by vets from British Divers and Marine Life Rescue. The incident between Anstruther and Pittenweem in Fife involved pilot whales, each of them approximately 20ft (6m) long. The whales that survived will be monitored for the next 24 hours to see if they re-beach.

Forth coastguard were alerted to the incident at about 07:00 BST on Sunday. Three of the whales that died were calves. The incident drew a large number of bystanders to the scene, prompting the coastguard to urge the public to stay away to allow rescue teams to carry out their duties.

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Blackbox

US experts probe beaching that killed 17 whales


PhysOrg
Sun, 02 Sep 2012 19:08 UTC
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US scientists are to investigate what led 22 whales to beach themselves in Florida—killing 17 of them—one of three such incidents in North America over the weekend.
The dead whales will be "dispersed at different labs across Florida for necropsy," or animal autopsies, Blair Mase, regional stranding coordinator for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, told AFP on Sunday. Only five of the 22 pilot whales survived after beaching themselves Saturday morning at Avalon Beach State Park, on the east coast of Florida, despite efforts by volunteers and experts to save the group. So far, it is unclear why the whales swam ashore. Mase said experts would collect data to try to find out why the whales stranded themselves.

The survivors, four juveniles and one calf, are "stable" and "swimming on their own," Mase said. They are currently at the Harbor Branch Oceanographic Institute and will likely be transported later to SeaWorld in Orlando. However, two other groups of whales swam onto beaches in North America - one in Cape Cod on Saturday and another in Canada on Sunday - an occurrence that Mase said merited further investigation.
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