Earth Changes
2013-04-21 03:22:16 UTC
2013-04-21 12:22:16 UTC+09:00 at epicenter
Location
29.915°N 138.926°E depth=424.1km (263.5mi)
Nearby Cities
360km (224mi) SSW of Hachijo-jima, Japan
506km (314mi) SE of Shingu, Japan
523km (325mi) S of Oyama, Japan
526km (327mi) S of Shimoda, Japan
644km (400mi) S of Tokyo, Japan
Technical Details

Bicycles sit in floodwater outside an apartment building April 19, 2013 in Des Plaines, Illinois.
Illinois, Missouri, Michigan, Indiana, Iowa and Wisconsin all experienced flooding as heavy rainfalls hit the region Wednesday - posing a sharp contrast to the drought which months prior endangered commercial barge traffic on the Mississippi River.
On Friday, barge shipping was halted on parts of the Illinois and Mississippi Rivers as flooding prompted the US Army Corps of Engineers to close several locks until at least the middle of next week.
Seven Mississippi River locks were closed in total between Thursday evening and Friday morning as water topped dams.
The problem is set to intensify, as crests on the rivers are expected to be reached on Sunday at the earliest in more northern areas and several days later further south.
River levels are expected to exceed flood stage by 12 feet (4 meters) in some parts of Missouri and Illinois, running the risk of inundation, mass displacement of residents, and untold property damage.
Wildlife biologists and volunteers spent Monday and Tuesday gathering 12,800 water birds, carrying the 7,828 surviving birds by pickup trucks to ponds in the region.
The birds were migrating back to the Great Salt Lake for the summer, but apparently became disoriented by snow and fog and mistook wet roads and parking lots for water. Built for water, with legs far to the back of their bodies, they can lift off from the ground only with great difficulty.
An estimated 100 birds were taken to rehabilitation facilities, Dugway spokeswoman Paula Thomas said.
Biologists working under a permit from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service were burning and burying the birds that died or were so seriously injured they had to be euthanized.
The quake was felt by residents in neighboring provinces and in the provincial capital of Chengdu, causing many people to rush out of buildings, according to accounts on China's Twitter-like Sina Weibo microblogging service. State media said 156 people had been confirmed dead with more than 5,500 injured. President Xi Jinping and Premier Li Keqiang said all efforts must be put into rescuing victims to limit the death toll. After arriving at the disaster zone by helicopter, Li directed earthquake relief efforts from a plaza in Longmen Township in Lushan, Xinhua said. Li asked that a road be opened to Baoxing County, one of the most affected by the earthquake, and that rescuers "act quickly" in their efforts, Xinhua quoted Li as saying. "The current most urgent issue is grasping the first 24 hours since the quake's occurrence, the golden time for saving lives," Xinhua news agency quoted Li as saying earlier. Xinhua said 6,000 troops were heading to the area to help with rescue efforts.
2013-04-20 13:12:51 UTC
2013-04-20 23:12:51 UTC+10:00 at epicenter
Location
50.140°N 157.225°E depth=20.2km (12.5mi)
Nearby Cities
98km (61mi) SE of Severo-Kuril'sk, Russia
321km (199mi) SSW of Vilyuchinsk, Russia
337km (209mi) SSW of Petropavlovsk-Kamchatskiy, Russia
348km (216mi) SSW of Yelizovo, Russia
2140km (1330mi) NE of Tokyo, JapanTechnical Details
2013-04-20 00:02:47 UTC
2013-04-20 08:02:47 UTC+08:00 at epicenter
Location
30.284°N 102.956°E depth=12.3km (7.6mi)
Nearby Cities
50km (31mi) WSW of Linqiong, China
99km (62mi) ENE of Kangding, China
111km (69mi) NW of Leshan, China
114km (71mi) WSW of Chengdu, China
1065km (662mi) NNW of Ha Noi, Vietnam
Technical Details
It's always a good idea to keep an eye out for animals such as deer and moose along Saskatchewan highways.
At this time of year the animals are hungry after a long winter of deep snow, and the winter has been longer and harsher than usual this year.
With the snow starting to melt, deer are finding some grass in ditches along the roads.
That is leading to carnage, according to many reports on social media. Drivers say they have spotted unusually high numbers of dead deer in ditches along Saskatchewan's highways.
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2013-04-19 19:58:38 UTC
2013-04-20 06:58:38 UTC+11:00 at epicenter
Location
49.968°N 157.626°E depth=1.0km (0.6mi)
Nearby Cities
132km (82mi) SE of Severo-Kuril'sk, Russia
334km (208mi) S of Vilyuchinsk, Russia
349km (217mi) SSW of Petropavlovsk-Kamchatskiy, Russia
362km (225mi) S of Yelizovo, Russia
2148km (1335mi) NE of Tokyo, Japan
Technical Details

A large sinkhole in the 9600 block of South Houston swallowed three cars following strong overnight storms.
The 57-year-old nurse was heading to work in Glenview and had just walked out of her son's home in the 9600 block of South Houston about 5:20 a.m. Thursday when she saw a silver truck whose driver appeared to be having trouble steering.
And then she saw the truck sink into the road, swallowed by a sinkhole that had grown to a 30-foot diameter by early morning.
"I see the car going inside. I say, 'Wait a minute. What's going on?'" she said.
Soon after, the sinkhole swallowed her brother's car, too.
Frantic, Giwa wanted to move her Charger, now on the edge of the sinkhole, but firefighters wouldn't let her.
"I wanted to back up my own car. They say, 'You can't do that. The third one is going in at any time,'" she said.
"Then it went fast. Boom."










Comment: This is not the first mysterious or odd event to have happened in recent years at the Dugway proving grounds.
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