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200 Meter-long Crack Opens in Chile

The authorities were unable to explain the causes of the fissure in the ground measuring about 200 meters.

Fear, disbelief and surprise are some of the expressions of the neighbors in the south east of the city who see a large crack was created in front of their homes. The issue has concerned neighbors, who called on the authorities to go to the site and verify field causes strange phenomenon.

Until the area became ONEMI staff, Sernageomin, Aguas del Altiplano and the police, who cordoned off the affected site, located in a vacant lot of 1.700m2 Tucapel dividing populations VII and Villa Primavera, road frontage Ignacio Vergara (Spring) and William Source (Tucapel VII).

Franz was Schmauck, regional director of ONEMI, who said he is still working to determine the causes of the fact that last night was only a small area, and today dawned older residents said, with 170 meters and a width that reaches 10 cm. It is expected that the next few hours of awareness of the technical report to confirm the cause, however there is talk of a possible leak of water that would have caused the softening of the soil saline.

Chile Fissure_1
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Kuril Islands - Earthquake Magnitude 6.3

Kuril Quake_040811
© USGS
Earthquake Location
Date-Time:
Thursday, August 04, 2011 at 13:51:36 UTC

Friday, August 05, 2011 at 01:51:36 AM at epicenter

Time of Earthquake in other Time Zones

Location:
48.784°N, 154.835°E

Depth:
49 km (30.4 miles)

Region:
KURIL ISLANDS

Distances:
230 km (142 miles) SSW of Severo-Kuril'sk, Kuril Islands, Russia

542 km (336 miles) SSW of Petropavlovsk-Kamchatskiy, Russia

659 km (409 miles) NE of Kuril'sk, Kuril Islands

1907 km (1184 miles) NE of TOKYO, Japan

Nuke

Canada: Japan's Fukushima Catastrophe Brings Big Radiation Spikes to B.C.

Gordon Edwards, president of the Canadian Coalition for Nuclear Responsibility
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Gordon Edwards, president of the Canadian Coalition for Nuclear Responsibility, says that while radiation coming from Fukushima will lead to higher cancer rates in Canadian, the risk posed to individuals is very small.
After Japan's Fukushima catastrophe, Canadian government officials reassured jittery Canadians that the radioactive plume billowing from the destroyed nuclear reactors posed zero health risks in this country.

In fact, there was reason to worry. Health Canada detected massive amounts of radioactive material from Fukushima in Canadian air in March and April at monitoring stations across the country.

The level of radioactive iodine spiked above the federal maximum allowed limit in the air at four of the five sites where Health Canada monitors levels of specific radioisotopes.

On March 18, seven days after an earthquake and tsunami triggered eventual nuclear meltdowns at the Fukushima Daiichi plant in Japan, the first radioactive material wafted over the Victoria suburb of Sidney on Vancouver Island.

Attention

US: Storms Cause Sinkhole in Major Intersection of Ellsworth, Maine

The Maine Department of Transportation is going to use an underground camera to help determine what caused an 8-foot by 10-foot sinkhole to form in a U.S. Route 1 intersection in Ellsworth before making a permanent fix.

Department of Transportation crews filled the hole with gravel early Tuesday after the hole formed following a Monday night storm.

Department of Transportation spokesman Mark Latti says an old, underground drainage system was undermined during the storm. The hole was filled with 10 yards of gravel.

Latti tells the Bangor Daily News officials will make a more permanent repair, but they want to diagnose the problem properly first. So they're going to use an underground camera to investigate the drainage system.

Source: The Associated Press

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US: Volcano Watchers Raise Alert Status for Mount Cleveland

Mt Cleveland
© Anchorage Daily News
Signs of lava at Mount Cleveland prompted volcanologists to raise their alert level Tuesday afternoon for the Aleutian Islands volcano.

The Alaska Volcano Observatory reports "heightened or escalated unrest" and the possibility of an eruption at the 5,676-foot volcano, according to the observatory's website.

Cleveland Volcano comprises the western half of Chuginidak Island, which sits about 115 miles west of Dutch Harbor and 950 miles southwest of Anchorage.

Satellite data and visual observations in late July revealed a lava dome about 140 feet in diameter growing in the volcano's crater, said volcanologist Chris Waythomas. The dome grew another 10 feet or so between Tuesday and Wednesday, according to the observatory.

"Sometimes lava domes like that can be explosive and lead to ash production," Waythomas said.

The volcano observatory raised the advisory status from "advisory" to "watch" and the aviation warning level from yellow to orange.

Arrow Up

Iraq Hit By Extreme Weather As Temperature Reaches 52 Degrees Celsius

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Iraq Hit By Extreme Weather As Temperature Reaches 52 Degrees Celsius
Extreme weather in Iraq where temperatures reached 52 degrees Celsius (125.6 degrees Fahrenheit) on early Tuesday afternoon, forecasters said.

With a humidity of five percent and winds with a speed of about 9 kilometres (2.6 miles) per hour, temperatures reached 52 degrees Celsius (125.6 degrees Fahrenheit) at Ali Air Base near the city of Nasiriyah in Dhi Qar Governorate. The record temperature was recorded at around 1 p.m. local time.

Others parts of Iraq also experienced extreme heat on Tuesday, including in Al Diwaniyah where forecasters said the temperature could still reach 53 degrees Celsius (127.4 degrees Fahrenheit) later in the day. In Baghdad, the country's capital, temperatures reached 51 degrees Celsius (123.8 degrees Fahrenheit).

Arrow Down

US: 'It was horrifying'! New Yorkers describe seeing baseball-sized hailstones fall in freak storm

Some thought it as 'horrifying', others labelled it 'unbelievable' and one man even described feeling a shock wave from a sonic boom.

But this was not the end of the world - rather a freak outbreak of hailstones that centred over the Queens area of New York City.

Some of the hailstones were as big as baseballs and smashed car windows, punctured outdoor furniture and sent people scurrying inside.

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© ABC
Baseball sized: A freak outbreak of hailstones centred over the Queens area of New York City on Monday night and scared local residents
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© ABC
Impact: Cars had their wind-shields s masked by the base-ball sized hail which followed a heatwave in New York
However the strange weather was good news for vehicle repair shops, which were experiencing overwhelming demand.

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Double Rainbow, Now With Lightning!

Lightning & Rainbow
© dcstormchaser / YouTube.
Lightning struck seemingly in front of a double rainbow in suburban Washington, D.C., yesterday (Aug. 1). All the action was caught on video.

The rare moment happened as thunderstorms moved through the region early Monday morning, reported the Washington Post's Capital Weather Gang blog. The storms hit Fairfax, Va., bringing little rain, but creating a double rainbow as the sunlight poked through the clouds. Lightning appears to cut through the bows in the video.


Cloud Lightning

US: Tornado in South Florida

An EF1 tornado touched down in Tamarac, Florida. Several buildings suffered roof damage, broken windows, and shutters torn off.

The funnel formation:


Comment: While not highly dramatic footage, weather changes are progressing.


Nuke

US: Radioactive Fish Sample Found in Vermont

Connecticut River
© Jason R. Henske/Associated Press/File
Two youngsters went fishing in the Connecticut River across from the Vermont Yankee nuclear plant.

Montpelier - Vermont health officials said yesterday that a radioactive substance had been found in a fish sample taken from the Connecticut River 9 miles upstream from the Vermont Yankee nuclear plant.

The substance, strontium 90, is a byproduct of nuclear fission that has been linked to cancer and leukemia.

William Irwin, the state's chief radiological health officer, said that the sample was unusual in that the strontium 90 was found in the fleshy, edible portion of the smallmouth bass sample. Irwin said the substance more often turns up in fish bones. Nine of 13 bone, head, and scale samples checked also turned up strontium 90, he said.

"It is to be expected to find strontium 90 in the bone, head, etcetera, because strontium is in the same chemical group as calcium,'' Irwin said. "It is not as likely to be found in muscle tissue, yet the literature does describe results where they have found strontium 90 in the edible portion of fish. It's just not as likely.''

Irwin said the Health Department would do further investigation to see if more evidence could be gleaned tying the radioactivity to the Vermont Yankee plant. He said the finding could have been related to background levels in the environment resulting from above-ground atomic bomb testing in the 1960s and '70s or from the Chernobyl accident in 1986.