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Is the Massive Puerto Rico Trench Awakening?

Zen Gardner
Beforeitsnews.com
Tue, 28 Jun 2011 06:58 UTC
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© Unknown
"What Puerto Rico Trench?" Exactly.

The arrows in the map above show the direction the underlying Caribbean tectonic plates are moving, with the resultant build-up of pressure releasing into a myrid of earthquakes in the region over the years. Puerto Rico is the smaller green island in the middle, with the Dominican Republic the larger island to the left. The string of other Caribbean islands is buried under the earthquake markers that flow down the page to the lower right.

You can see the Puerto Rico Trench wraps around the entire zone.

A few little known facts came to the fore as I was researching this area after spotting the recent increase in seismic activity in the Caribbean region.
  1. The Puerto Rico Trench is the biggest and deepest such trench in the entire Atlantic ocean.
  2. This trench is capable of producing 8.0 earthquakes and above.
  3. The risk of a major quake, underwater landslide and mega tsunami are as great as that of the Seattle area. In fact, one recent risk assessment put it at 35 to 55%!
  4. The zone hasn't ruptured in over 200 years and that has geologists seriously concerned.
In other words, something major will happen. No one knows when, but it will happen, as it has in the past there.

Add that to the fact that 35 million people live in surrounding low lying areas and you have a monumental disaster just waiting to happen.
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Cloud Lightning

Climate changes to spur floods in Russia - Emergencies Ministry


RIA Novosti
Tue, 28 Jun 2011 05:26 UTC
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© RIA Novosti. Albina Olisajeva
Climate changes to spur floods in Russia - Emergencies Ministry
The number of flood disasters Russia will suffer over the next five years is likely to be much higher than the average owing to global climate changes, Vladislav Bolov, head of the Emergencies Ministry's Antistkhiya Center said on Tuesday.

"Amid the expected rise in maximum water storage in the snowpack, the intensity of spring floods on the rivers of the Arkhangelsk region, Komi Republic, Yenisei and Lena river basins and the Ural territories will increase," Bolov said.
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Nuke

Radioactive strontium detected on seabed near Fukushima


RIA Novosti
Tue, 28 Jun 2011 05:24 UTC
Radioactive strontium has been found on the seabed near the crippled Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant, Kyodo reported on Tuesday.

Tokyo Electric Power Company said strontium-89 and -90 was discovered in the seabed soil about 3 kilometers off the coast, some 20 kilometers north and south of the nuclear complex.

Between 10 and 44 becquerels per kilogram of strontium-90 were detected, which has a half-life of 29 years.

Shigeharu Kato, a member of the Nuclear Safety Commission, said further examination was needed to determine if or how the substances can accumulate in marine life, the NHK news agency reported.
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Bizarro Earth

Canada: Downpour Leaves 18-metre Sinkhole in Ontario Highway

Zev Singer
The Ottawa Citizen
Mon, 27 Jun 2011 00:07 UTC
Sinkhole_1
© Mike Carroccetto / The Ottawa Citizen
This sinkhole is located on Hwy. 148 between Luskville and Quyon near Ch. Parker. A detour is in place.
A section of Highway 148 near Luskville, Ontario, is now a canyon 18 metres deep, a victim of Friday's heavy rains.

Remarkably, the family living next to the giant gap owns a construction company with expertise in exactly the type of work that will be needed to fix the road.

Not only does James Nugent, of R.H. Nugent Construction, have 35 years of experience in the field, he has the heavy machinery parked only a few hundred meters from the caved-in road.

"We were called in right off the bat," he said. "There's nothing signed, but we probably will be proceeding with the work under an emergency situation. They want a company that can start right away."

Nugent said the large pipe that ran under that stretch of the highway seems to have been blocked at the intake. The torrents of water late last week stressed the situation causing the pipe to buckle and the ground above the pipe became waterlogged and gave way.
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Phoenix

US: Wildfire shuts Los Alamos lab, forces evacuations in New Mexico

Susan Montoya Bryan
Associated Press
Mon, 27 Jun 2011 15:33 UTC
wildfire
© AP/Luis Sánchez Saturno/The New Mexican
Smoke fills the sky from a wildfire in New Mexico about 12 miles southwest of Los Alamos, on June 26, 2011. A fast-moving wildfire has broken out in New Mexico and forced officials at the Los Alamos National Laboratory to close the site Monday as residents nearby evacuate their homes.
Thousands of residents calmly fled Monday from the mesa-top town that's home to the Los Alamos nuclear laboratory, ahead of an approaching wildfire that sent up towering plumes of smoke, rained down ash and sparked a spot fire on lab property where scientists 50 years ago conducted underground tests of radioactive explosives.

Los Alamos National Laboratory officials said that the spot fire was soon contained and no contamination was released. They also assured that radioactive materials stored in various spots elsewhere on the sprawling lab were safe from flames.

The wildfire, which began Sunday, had destroyed 30 structures south and west of Los Alamos by early Monday and forced the closure of the lab while stirring memories of a devastating blaze in May 2000 that destroyed hundreds of homes and buildings.

"The hair on the back of your neck goes up," Los Alamos County fire chief Doug Tucker said of first seeing the fire in the Santa Fe National Forest on Sunday. "I saw that plume and I thought, 'Oh my God here we go again.'"
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Bizarro Earth

Scientists Say California Mega-Quake Imminent

Becky Kellogg
The Weather Channel
Mon, 27 Jun 2011 12:57 UTC
San Andreas Fault
© The Weather Channel
The San Andreas fault is highlighted in red. It strikes through the heart of Southern California, including the Salton Sea.

Like a steaming kettle with the top on, pressure is building beneath the surface of California that could unleash a monster earthquake at any time. That's according to a new study from the Scripps Institute of Oceanography.

Geologists say Southern California is long overdue for a huge earthquake that could unleash widespread damage.

It all comes down to the Salton Sea, which lies to the east of San Diego. The Salton Sea lies directly on the San Andreas Fault and covers more than 350 square miles.

A big earthquake has hit the lake bed about every 180 years. But when officials started damming the Colorado River to reduce floods downstream (including in the Salton Sea), the moderate earthquakes stopped for the Salton.
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Phoenix

US: Wildfire threatens Los Alamos National-Security Research Facility


CNN
Mon, 27 Jun 2011 14:44 UTC
The Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico will be closed Monday as fire crews battle a wildfire raging nearby, a statement on the facility's website said.


"All laboratory facilities will be closed for all activities and nonessential employees are directed to remain off site," the statement said. "Employees are considered nonessential and should not report to work unless specifically directed by their line managers."

A spokesman for the New Mexico State Forestry Division, however, told CNN the order to evacuate Los Alamos was voluntary, and stressed that there is no immediate threat to the facility.
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Bizarro Earth

US: Groups Begin Planning for Flood Aftermath of Tree Die-Offs

Karen Herzog
The Bismarck Tribune
Sat, 25 Jun 2011 05:30 UTC
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© Tom Stromme/Tribune Bismarck city
forester Jackson Bird says homeowners should aerate trees to allow the roots to breathe in areas where there is high ground water.
The evergreens will be first, yellowing needles signaling a dying tree.

The cottonwoods and box elders will hang on a bit longer, but they, too, will start to drop their leaves as the lack of oxygen begins to starve them.

People along the Missouri River have been focused for the last month on the immediate needs of sandbagging, evacuating, finding places to live, stripping their homes, plugging drains, monitoring pumps.

But as the summer goes on and the waters stay high, public groups must start planning for the time when the water recedes and leaves behind it acres and miles of dead vegetation and thousands upon thousands of dead and dying trees all along the river.

The tree-kill problem is going to be gigantic, said ElRoy Haadem, the Burleigh County NDSU extension agent.

Haadem said he has been asked by people who wonder what will happen to the tree-lined river that Bismarck-Mandan is accustomed to seeing.
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Umbrella

East China coast braces for tropical storm Meari


Xinhua
Sun, 26 Jun 2011 14:33 UTC
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© Xinhua/Yu Qibo
High billows strike on the seashore of a park in Weihai, east China's Shandong Province, June 26, 2011. Strong winds and heavy rains are forecast to hit China's eastern coast as tropical storm Meari is moving northwest from the southern Yellow Sea waters, according to a statement issued by the nation's meteorological authority Sunday. The tropical storm Meari will shave off the eastern coasts of Shandong Peninsula or may make a landfall around the region between Sunday afternoon and evening, said the National Meteorological Center (NMC) of China Meteorological Administration in the statement.
East China coastal regions are bracing for strong gales and heavy rains as tropical storm Meari moves closer for landing.

Thousands of people have been evacuated amid storm-triggered floodings, authorities said Sunday.

The tropical storm is expected to make a landing near the city of Donggang, northeast Liaoning Province, or areas to the north of Democratic People's Republic of Korea at Monday dawn, the National Meteorological Center said in its latest bulletin.

The storm was projected at the Yellow Sea, about 35 kilometers southeast off the coast of eastern Shandong Province, at 5 p.m. Sunday, according to the bulletin. The storm is moving north at 20 to 25 kilometers per hour, packing sustained gusts of 23 meters per second near its center.

Strong winds and heavy rain are forecast near the coasts of Shandong, Liaoning and the province of Jilin. The strength of the storm will be reduced after landing, the meteorological authorities said.

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© Xinhua/Li Ziheng
Taxi drives on the roads covered with rain water in Qingdao, east China's Shandong Province, June 26, 2011. Strong winds and heavy rains are forecast to hit China's eastern coast as tropical storm Meari is moving northwest from the southern Yellow Sea waters, according to a statement issued by the nation's meteorological authority Sunday. The tropical storm Meari will shave off the eastern coasts of Shandong Peninsula or may make a landfall around the region between Sunday afternoon and evening, said the National Meteorological Center (NMC) of China Meteorological Administration in the statement.
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Cloud Lightning

US: The Nation's Weather - June 25, 2011


NECN
Sat, 25 Jun 2011 03:29 UTC
The main weather feature in the country on Sunday will continue to be a storm that will roll through the western Plains and into the Tennessee Valley. Behind this, another storm will move through the Plains. All of this activity will translate to more thunderstorms with associated rain in the Mississippi Valley and Tennessee Valley. In the Plains, expect more rain in the Dakotas, potentially bad news for the flooded town of Minot, N.D. This excess rain will add water to the already raging Souris River. There is a slight chance of severe weather in the Middle Mississippi Valley and the Dakotas, meaning large hail and strong winds are possible. No strong tornades are anticipated from either of the aforementioned storms.

The Southern Plains will not receive any rain on Sunday, prolonging a devastating drought that has spread from Arizona through Louisiana.

In the West, a high pressure system will remain dominant for one more day before an unseasonably strong storm from the Pacific Ocean begins to weak the high pressure system to begin the workweek. Warm inland temperatures will give way to cool and cloudy conditions closer to the coast in California, while typical warm desert temperatures are expected in the Southwest.
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