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Magnitude 5.4 Earthquake - Leyte, Philippines


US Geological Survey
Fri, 30 Jan 2009 03:05 UTC
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Date-Time

* Thursday, January 29, 2009 at 22:43:51 UTC

* Friday, January 30, 2009 at 06:43:51 AM at epicenter

Location 10.896°N, 124.806°E

Depth 60 km (37.3 miles)

Distances 45 km (30 miles) SSW of Tacloban, Leyte, Philippines

100 km (65 miles) W of Guiuan, Samar, Philippines

115 km (75 miles) NE of Cebu, Cebu, Philippines

585 km (365 miles) SE of MANILA, Philippines
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Bizarro Earth

Magnitude 5.6 Earthquake - Acre, Brazil


US Geological Survey
Fri, 30 Jan 2009 03:00 UTC
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Date-Time

* Thursday, January 29, 2009 at 22:28:06 UTC

* Thursday, January 29, 2009 at 05:28:06 PM at epicenter

Location 8.111°S, 71.284°W

Depth 612.7 km (380.7 miles)

Distances 155 km (95 miles) ESE of Cruzeiro do Sul, Acre, Brazil

360 km (225 miles) E of Pucallpa, Peru

435 km (270 miles) WNW of Rio Branco, Acre, Brazil

2685 km (1660 miles) WNW of BRASILIA, Distrito Federal, Brazil
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Bizarro Earth

US: Quake registered in Wright's Corner, New York


Lockport Union-Sun & Journal
Fri, 30 Jan 2009 02:54 UTC
Wrights Corners was the epicenter of a feeble earthquake on Monday at 1:55 a.m. The quake registered 2.1 on the Modified Mercalli Scale according to U.S. Geological Survey service.

The location was 43.255 north latitude and 78.723 west longitude. That's 2 miles from Newfane, 6 miles from Olcott, 6 miles from Lockport and 25 miles from Buffalo.

A feeble quake is felt only by a few people at best, especially on the upper floors of buildings. Delicately suspended objects may swing.
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Bizarro Earth

US: Quake hits near Williamsburg, Kentucky

Valarie Honeycutt Spears
The State
Fri, 30 Jan 2009 02:50 UTC
A minor earthquake occurred at 6:20 a.m. Tuesday near Williamsburg, according to the University of Kentucky's Kentucky Geological Survey Web site.

The magnitude 3.1 earthquake centered 16 miles underground. According to the U.S. Geological Survey, earthquakes classified as minor occur between the magnitude of 3 and 3.9 on the Richter scale.

A 911 dispatcher in Williamsburg said no damage or injuries had been reported by Wednesday.
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Better Earth

Earthquake Hits Northwest Trinidad

Claudia Liburd
SKNVibes
Thu, 29 Jan 2009 19:28 UTC
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Residents of the Northwestern areas of Trinidad were shaken out of their daily routines yesterday (Jan. 28) when an earthquake struck in the afternoon at about 1:30.

According to the University of the West Indies (UWI) Seismic Unit, the preliminary location of the quake was 11.30°N, 61.48°W. The earthquake's focal depth was recorded at 23km with a magnitude of 3.6.

While local media reported no structural damage, the effects of the earthquake were felt in Diego Martin, Champs Fleurs, St. Augustine, Tunapuna, Port-of-Spain, Woodbrook and Morvant.
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Bizarro Earth

Caterpillar plague strikes west Africa

Debora MacKenzie
New Scientist
Thu, 29 Jan 2009 18:24 UTC
A throng of crop-eating caterpillars is threatening food supplies across west Africa, and could prove hard to control with pesticides. The crawling menace has appeared in northern Liberia, where hundreds of millions of the black larvae are devouring plants, fouling wells with their faeces and even driving farmers from fields.

They are now crossing into neighbouring Guinea, and the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) warns that in two to three weeks they will turn into moths that can fly hundreds of kilometres and could spread across west Africa, worsening food shortages in the region.

"The species is so far unknown," FAO entomologist Winfred Hammond told New Scientist from Accra in Ghana, where Liberian specimens were being flown for analysis.
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Better Earth

4.2 Quake Shakes Isles Off California coast


The Associated Press
Thu, 29 Jan 2009 17:47 UTC
A small earthquake near the Channel Islands off the California coast early Thursday was felt by many in Catalina Island's main city of Avalon, but there were no apparent damages or injuries.

The magnitude-4.2 earthquake shook in the Pacific Ocean at 12:41 a.m. about 40 miles south of Avalon and 60 miles off the coast of San Diego, said seismologist Randy Baldwin of the U.S. Geological Survey.
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Better Earth

Earthquake Hits Andaman Islands


Indopia
Thu, 29 Jan 2009 15:44 UTC
A moderate earthquake struck northern parts of Andaman islands early this morning, Met Department said.

The tremor measuring 5.4 on the Richter Scale was felt at 02:00 hrs (IST) at latitude 13.7 degree north and longitude 92.9 degree east, the Met department said.
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Cloud Lightning

Woman Freezes to Death in Remote Montana Cabin


The Associated Press
Thu, 29 Jan 2009 17:33 UTC
A couple from Oklahoma that moved to Montana's rugged mountains for a cheap place to live apparently got caught off guard by a snowstorm, with the woman freezing to death in their remote cabin.

Her common-law husband, suffering from hypothermia and starving, was found propped up against her body, with an array of weapons spread in a half circle in front of him, authorities said.
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Butterfly

New Species of Babbler Bird Discovered in China

Michael Casey
PhysOrg/The Assicated Press
Thu, 29 Jan 2009 14:56 UTC
Bab Bird
© AP Photo/Birdtour Asia, James Eaton, HOA Nonggang babbler is seen in southwestern China's Guangxi in December 2008. A new species of the fist-sized, babbler bird has been found in network of underground caves in China, raising the prospect the country could become a hot spot for other new discoveries, a conservation group said Thursday, Jan. 29, 2009.
A new species of the fist-sized babbler bird has been found in a network of underground caves in southwestern China, raising the prospect the country could become a hot spot for other new discoveries, a conservation group said Thursday.

Ornithologists Zhou Fang and Jiang Aiwu first spotted the dark brown bird with white specks on its chest in 2005 and have since confirmed its identity as an undescribed species. They named it the Nonggang babbler, or Stachyris nonggangensis, for the region in China where it was found.

A formal description was published last year in The Auk, which is the quarterly journal of the Virginia-based American Ornithologists' Union.

"This is exciting evidence that there could be many more interesting discoveries awaiting ornithologists in China," said Birdlife International's Nigel Collar, which announced the discovery.
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