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Tremors felt in Moscow as 8.2 quake rattles Russia's Sakhalin region


RT.com
Fri, 24 May 2013 06:39 UTC
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Muscovites fled their offices after feeling the tremors that followed an earthquake in the Okhotsk Sea, thousands of kilometers away.
Tremors have been felt all across Russia and in Europe, following a major 8.2 earthquake in the Sakhalin region

Panicking Muscovites began calling security services, and some decided to leave their homes.

The residents informed security services of vibration and tremors that caused furniture and kitchen utensils to move.

The magnitude of the tremors felt in Moscow was no higher than 1 on the Richter scale, the Agency of Hydrometeorological and Environmental monitoring indicated.
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Bizarro Earth

Aftershocks shake Northern California after 5.7 earthquake

Robert J. Lopez
Los Angeles Times
Thu, 23 May 2013 22:03 UTC
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More than a dozen aftershocks were reported Thursday night following a 5.7 earthquake about 150 miles northeast of Sacramento, officials said.

The initial quake hit about 8:47 p.m.; its epicenter was about 27 miles southwest of Susanville and seven miles west northwest of Greenville, according to the U.S. Geological Survey.

People on Twitter told The Times they felt that quake in Sacramento and Lodi, as well as South Reno and on the northwest shore of Lake Tahoe.

Police officials in Susanville and Sacramento said that the quake set off a number of home and car alarms and rattled windows but that there were no immediate reports of damage.

"We got a bunch of alarm calls and a bunch of barking dogs," dispatcher Taylor Richards of the Sacramento Police Department told The Times. "It was a good solid feel here."

Within minutes of the quake, more than 7,000 people reported feeling it on the USGS website.A man in Chico told The Times he felt a slow roll that lasted about 30 seconds.The aftershocks' magnitude ranged up to 3.5, according to the U.S. Geological Survey.

"House shook pretty hard," one man near Truckee told The Times.
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Bizarro Earth

USGS: Earthquake Magnitude 8.3 - Sea of Okhotsk


US Geological Survey
Fri, 24 May 2013 01:22 UTC
Okhotsk Quake_240513
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Event Time
2013-05-24 05:44:49 UTC
2013-05-24 15:44:49 UTC+10:00 at epicenter


Location
54.870°N 153.334°E depth=601.8km (373.9mi)

Nearby Cities
359km (223mi) WSW of Esso, Russia
379km (235mi) WNW of Yelizovo, Russia
396km (246mi) NW of Vilyuchinsk, Russia
403km (250mi) WNW of Petropavlovsk-Kamchatskiy, Russia
2375km (1476mi) NNE of Tokyo, Japan

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Bizarro Earth

USGS: Earthquake Magnitude 6.6 - NW of Nuku'alofa, Tonga


US Geological Survey
Thu, 23 May 2013 16:56 UTC
Tonga Quake2_230513
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Event Time
2013-05-23 21:07:40 UTC
2013-05-23 09:07:40 UTC-12:00 at epicente

Location
20.561°S 175.730°W depth=103.2km (64.2mi)

Nearby Cities
84km (52mi) NW of Nuku'alofa, Tonga
668km (415mi) ESE of Suva, Fiji
690km (429mi) SE of Lambasa, Fiji
782km (486mi) ESE of Nadi, Fiji
855km (531mi) SSW of Apia, Samoa

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Bizarro Earth

Unusual number of earthquakes in Arkansas reported since Monday


OzarksFirst.com
Thu, 23 May 2013 16:21 UTC
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An unusual number of earthquakes have been reported in Central Arkansas since Monday. More than a dozen have been reported across Morrilton, Strawberry, and Choctaw.

James Newsom felt the quake. At the time, he didn't know what shook his home."I said what in the world was that," said Newsom.

Scientists say a 3.5 earthquake hit the area. The U.S. Geological Survey says there have been 16 earthquakes, which is a high number.

"It was just boom. It was so quick and shook my windows and made that explosion ya know," said Newsom.

Each quake lasted less than ten seconds.

"Even though we don't have reports of damage or anything or injuries, it's still a pretty good shake," said Scott Ausbrooks of the U.S. Geological Survey.
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Cloud Precipitation

Oklahoma tornadoes: Flash floods hit the greater Oklahoma City metro area

Emma Riley Sutton
Examiner.com
Thu, 23 May 2013 16:16 UTC
A severe, slow-moving storm has hit the Greater Oklahoma City Metro Area. Several roads are closed and more are expected to be closed. According to a May 23 report by KWTV Channel 9 News in Oklahoma City, roads in both Oklahoma City and Norman have been closed.

According to live reports by KWTV Channel 9 News, cars are currently stuck in water on the streets of Mustang. Mustang is southwest of Oklahoma City and northwest of Moore. Those live reports are also showing streets flooding in Bethany, which is northwest of Oklahoma City and Moore.

View slideshow: Flash Flooding

Moore, which is between Oklahoma City and Norman, is also being hit with the storm. Moore is the city that was struck by the EF5 tornado on Monday. Recovery and relief efforts in Moore are being severely hindered, if not completely stopped, due to this latest storm.
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Bug

US: Grasshopper plague takes a turn for the worse

Ed Merriman
Baker City Herald
Wed, 09 Jul 2008 20:07 UTC


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Grasshoppers have invaded Baker Valley.

Oregon - A grasshopper plague spawned in drought-parched rangeland where the voracious insects laid their eggs last summer, is spreading to wheat, hay and potato fields, where crop damage could be devastating.

"The USDA's threshold for economic damage is eight grasshoppers per square yard. In some heavily infested areas, we've had counts of 100 to 120, and possibly up to 140 grasshoppers per square yard," said Cory Parsons, Oregon State University Extension agent for Baker County.
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Bizarro Earth

USGS: Earthquake Magnitude 7.4 - SW of Vaini, Tonga


US Geological Survey
Thu, 23 May 2013 12:56 UTC
Tonga Quake_230513
© USGS
Event Time
2013-05-23 17:19:04 UTC
2013-05-23 05:19:04 UTC-12:00 at epicenter

Location
23.025°S 177.109°W depth=171.4km (106.5mi)

Nearby Cities
282km (175mi) SW of Vaini, Tonga
287km (178mi) SW of Nuku'alofa, Tonga
712km (442mi) SE of Suva, Fiji
812km (505mi) SE of Nadi, Fiji
818km (508mi) SSE of Lambasa, Fiji

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Bug

Amazing stomach-turning pictures of 'termite apocalypse' which spread overnight through Southern U.S.


The Daily Mail, UK
Thu, 23 May 2013 12:39 UTC
New Orleans was struck by tens of thousands of swarming Formosan termites on Wednesday night causing hundreds of thousands of people's skin to crawl.Resembling something out of a creepy disaster movie, the termites made for any car headlights, streetlights or lit homes they could find in residential or commercial areas.

Usually the termites swarm like clockwork at the beginning of May, but with cooler temperatures in the New Orleans area combined with drier air the termite outbreak was delayed until last night's warmer conditions.
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From Violet to the Bywater and Covington to Algiers, reports of termite swarms across the the New Orleans metro area on Wednesday
Formosan termites are not native to the United States and were introduced from the Far East in packing crates and other wood products during World War Two.Massive infestations in and around New Orleans have become endemic along Lake Pontchartrain and at the naval shipyard in Algiers.
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Frog

US study: Number of frogs, toads declining at alarming rate

Bruce Finley
The Denver Post
Wed, 22 May 2013 12:21 UTC
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© USGS
A Sierra Nevada yellow-legged frog (Rana scans the landscape in Yosemite National Park.

Frogs, toads and other amphibians are vanishing so fast nationwide that if the decline continues at the same rate, they'll be gone from half their current habitats in 20 years, a federal study has found.

U.S. Geological Survey officials on Wednesday unveiled the study, done over a decade, on 48 species at 34 sites from California to Colorado high-country to Florida swamps.

Federal scientists found that the declines are more widespread and severe than previously thought and that amphibian populations are disappearing at an overall rate of 3.7 percent each year.

Even species inside federally-protected areas, including Rocky Mountain National Park, are disappearing.

"Even in what we consider pristine areas, we are seeing amphibian decline," said Fort Collins-based USGS biologist Erin Muths, who helped conduct the study. "If anything is doing poorly in an area we think is protected, that says something about our level of protection and about what may be happening outside those areas."

Boreal toads, chorus frogs, wood frogs and salamanders were among the amphibians studied in Colorado.
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