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New York - The cleanup in Canarsie will resume tomorrow after a second, much stronger tornado touched down and created a two-block swath of destruction here in this corner of Brooklyn.
And what's got people in Canarsie really amazed about this twister is how it destroyed one house and left the houses right next door undamaged.
The winds were clocked at 110 mph in Brooklyn, compared to another twister in Breezy Point, Queens, which had 70 mph winds. Both tornados were about 150 feet wide.
"This is Brooklyn, who ever thought there'd be a tornado," Zorina Khan told PIX 11's Magee Hickey.
Mrs. Kahn showed me her daughter's house on Avenue N where the entire roof had been ripped off. The tornado also dislodged a chunk of concrete that just missed a sleeping baby by inches.
"It was a huge piece, maybe 50 or 60 pounds and the baby was so close to it," Mrs. Kahn said. "But the baby is fine, thank God."
The findings are helping scientists to understand more about the inner workings of the volcano which had its last major explosive eruption 3,600 years ago, burying the islands of Santorini under metres of pumice. However, it still does not provide an answer to the biggest question of all: 'when will the volcano next erupt?' A report of the research appears in this week's Nature Geoscience. In January 2011, a series of small earthquakes began beneath the islands of Santorini. Most were so small they could only be detected with sensitive seismometers but it was the first sign of activity beneath the volcano to be detected for 25 years.
Song Tranh 2 dam
While attending a ceremony to see recruits off, many officials of Bac Tra My district heard big explosions in the earth and fell tremors. "After the explosion, the ground shook and my car was also shaken," said Ms. Dung, a district official. Mr. Tran Van Anh in Phuoc Hiep commune, Phuoc Son district, where is very close to Song Tranh 2 hydro-power plant, said: "At 7.20am, when I was drinking tea with my neighbors, an underground blast exploded. After that the ground shook strongly. We had to run out of the house immediately."
In Hiep Duc and Nam Tra My districts, hundreds of people fled from their houses because of underground blasts and tremors in the early morning. The Geo-physic Institute verified that four quakes occurred near the Song Tranh 2 plant in the morning of September 6. The strongest tremor is 3.4 Richter and its epicenter was in Phuoc Hiep commune, which is very close to Song Tranh 2.
According to the institute's statistics, up to 58 tremors were recorded around Song Tranh 2 plant over the last year. From September 3-6, up to 12 quakes occurred. The strongest tremor was 4.2 Richter. Tremors may come from the Tra Bong or Hung Nhuong-Ta Vi faults, around 3km from Song Tranh 2 dam.
© William OlsonElk on the grass in Packwood, Washington. A mysterious hoof disease is spreading through herds in southwest Washington
It began with a few isolated cases and is now common in herds across the region, from Vancouver to the foothills of Mount St. Helens. Hunters first spotted elk limping near Longview Washington in the 1990s. They reported the animals' hooves were deformed or missing.
Darren Sparks can see the diseased elk in his backyard in Kelso.
"You'll see, usually, half the herd have hoof rot," he says.
"They won't survive the winter. They can't get around as good and you'll see their hindquarters, start getting skinnier and skinnier."Kristin Mansfield, a veterinarian with the Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife, says the disease hasn't caused a decline in Washington's elk population yet, but it may if it continues to spread to new herds.
"To me, the biggest concern is how quickly it has spread and how severe it is in the animals."Mansfield says the disease doesn't match any other reports of elk maladies in the United States. Forms of hoof rot do appear occasionally in Wyoming's populations of elk that congregate around feeding sites. Mansfield says those reports of hoof disease are limited to winter and to a few individual animals.
Halifax - The Canadian Hurricane Centre says the likelihood of tropical storm Leslie's centre making landfall in Newfoundland is quite high.
But Chris Fogarty, the centre's manager, says it's difficult to predict where the storm will land because its circulation is about 800 kilometres in diameter.
Fogarty says the storm's effects will be far-reaching and winds could gust up to 100 km/h when it hits on Tuesday.
He says Nova Scotia, P.E.I. and Newfoundland could see 100 to 150 millimetres of rain over about 36 hours.
The centre says the small Category 2 hurricane Michael will likely be pushed northward out of the area by Leslie.
Fogarty says Leslie is expected to reach hurricane status sometime today or Monday, but he could not say if it will maintain that status for its arrival in Atlantic Canada.
Source: The Canadian Press
But Chris Fogarty, the centre's manager, says it's difficult to predict where the storm will land because its circulation is about 800 kilometres in diameter.
Fogarty says the storm's effects will be far-reaching and winds could gust up to 100 km/h when it hits on Tuesday.
He says Nova Scotia, P.E.I. and Newfoundland could see 100 to 150 millimetres of rain over about 36 hours.
The centre says the small Category 2 hurricane Michael will likely be pushed northward out of the area by Leslie.
Fogarty says Leslie is expected to reach hurricane status sometime today or Monday, but he could not say if it will maintain that status for its arrival in Atlantic Canada.
Source: The Canadian Press
© Reuters/Jason LeeA man runs past a huge stone and damaged houses in Luozehe town, after two earthquakes hit Yiliang, Yunnan province September 9, 2012.
Shallow 5.6 magnitude quakes struck an impoverished, mountainous part of the country with poor infrastructure and communications on Friday and the death toll could rise as news trickles in from cut-off areas, the Xinhua news agency said.
The quakes cut off electricity and triggered landslides that blocked roads, hampering rescue efforts. Adding to rescuers' difficulties was rain which forecasters said was expected for the next three days.
"I was extremely scared when it started to shake. After it shook the first, second and third times, it was moving and I was extremely scared," said 56-year-old Zhou Weiping, a resident of the township of Guohui in Yiliang county, near the epicenter.
"We panicked and quickly ran out," she said
State television showed crumbled walls and roads strewn with rubble and rocks. The broadcaster put the death toll at 89 earlier in the day, but later revised it to "at least 80", in line with the official Xinhua news agency's tally.
More than 800 people were injured, Xinhua said.
© USGS
- 2012-09-09 05:39:20 UTC
- 2012-09-09 15:39:20 UTC+10:00 at epicenter
- 145km (90mi) SSW of Severo-Kuril'sk, Russia
- 438km (272mi) SSW of Vilyuchinsk, Russia
- 457km (284mi) SSW of Petropavlovsk-Kamchatskiy, Russia
- 462km (287mi) SSW of Yelizovo, Russia
- 1997km (1241mi) NE of Tokyo, Japan
© USGS
- 2012-09-08 10:51:43 UTC
- 2012-09-08 19:51:43 UTC+09:00 at epicenter
- 48km (30mi) WNW of Nabire, Indonesia
- 279km (173mi) SSE of Manokwari, Indonesia
- 377km (234mi) NE of Tual, Indonesia
- 496km (308mi) ESE of Sorong, Indonesia
- 1126km (700mi) NNE of Darwin, Australia
© The Associated Press/Joey MureThis photo shows a storm cloud over the Breezy Point area of Queens section of New York, on Saturday, Sept. 8, 2012.
Firefighters were still assessing the damage, but no serious injuries were reported and the area affected by the storm appeared small.
Videos taken by bystanders showed a funnel cloud sucking up water, then sand, and then small pieces of buildings, as it moved through the Breezy Point section of the Rockaway peninsula in Queens.
Residents had advance notice. The National Weather Service had issued a tornado warning for Queens and Brooklyn at around 10:40 a.m. The storm took people by surprise anyway when it struck about 30 minutes later.
"I was showing videos of tornadoes to my 4-year-old on my phone, and two minutes later, it hit," said neighborhood resident Peter Maloney. "Just like they always say, it sounded like a train."
In the storm's wake, the community of seaside bungalows was littered with broken flower pots, knocked-down fences and smashed windows.
Comment: It's the second mysterious disease to affect elk population around the world recently:
Swedish experts baffled by 'mystery' elk illness