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7 dead, 45 injured as 5.6 earthquake hits 60km from Iran's Bushehr nuclear plant


RT
Fri, 29 Nov 2013 04:27 UTC
Bushehr main nuclear reactor
© Reuters / Raheb Homavandi
Bushehr main nuclear reactor
A powerful earthquake has hit Iran, killing seven and injuring a further 45, IRNA state news agency reported. The disaster's epicenter was in an area 62km north east of Bushehr, according to the USGS, where Iran has its only nuclear power plant.

The head of Iran's Crisis Management organization, Hassan Qadami, confirmed the initial 30 casualties to IRNA. However, Bushehr's Governor, Fereydoon Hasanvand, updated the figure to 45 on Thursday night. He added that 'total calm' had settled in the area.

Fars news agency placed the death toll higher, at eight, adding that helicopters would be posted to the area on Friday to assess the extent of the damage.

"There were some houses and electricity poles damaged. Rescue teams have been dispatched," local governor Alireza Khorani told Fars before full news of the wounded emerged.

Tremors were registered at a depth of 16.4 kilometers and some 14 kilometers from the nearest city of Borazjan in Bushehr Province.

While USGS measured the quake at 5.6, the local Seismological Center of Tehran University's Geophysics Institute has said that the earthquake measured 5.7 on the Richter scale.
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Signs of Change in November, 2013

HawkkeyDavis Channel
YouTube
Wed, 27 Nov 2013 17:02 UTC
Image

The Philippines looked like it had been hit by a tsunami once Super-typhoon Haiyan roared through
Major flooding and landslides in India, a massive earthquake off Japan, a ferocious storm thrashing northern Europe, more mass animal die-offs, flash-flooding in Texas taking rivers to their highest levels in 100 years, canals turning red in The Netherlands, meteor fireballs seen the world over, a devastating super-typhoon wiping out parts of the Philippines, a deadly cyclone in Somalia, sinkholes swallowing more homes in Florida, a "second-season outbreak" of deadly tornadoes in the U.S. Midwest... just another month of strange and extreme weather and celestial events on a planet that's rockin' and rollin'.

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Cow Skull

Staggering concessions by Austria's national weather service: "Natural factors substantial... models inadequate"!

P. Gosselin
No Tricks Zone
Wed, 27 Nov 2013 12:02 UTC
A November 11, 2013 press release by Austria's national weather service, the Zentralanstalt für Meteorologie und Geodynamik (ZAMG), somehow got by me. And not surprisingly it was completely ignored by the German-language mainstream media. It's titled: "Slower temperature increase: climate models under scrutiny".

In the introduction the ZAMG writes:
If one compares the temperature development of the last 15 years to the simulations from the new climate model generation, then one sees a substantial deviation between reality and model: the so-called temperature hiatus."
Air temperature is the preferred parameter that experts use to gauge climate change. On the hiatus the ZAMG writes, "In the last 15 years there has been a clear weakening in the global temperature rise; only 3 of 114 climate model simulations account for it (Figure 1)."

Global temperature 1986-2010
© IPCC 2013
Figure 1: Change in global near-surface temperature relative to the 1986–2005 period from observation data (black) and model simulations (coloured)
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Bizarro Earth

Earthquake magnitude 7.0 strikes near Falkland Islands


TheHindu.com
Mon, 25 Nov 2013 10:50 UTC
Earthquake South Atlantic Ocean
© USGS
A magnitude-7.0 earthquake has struck in the South Atlantic, southeast of the disputed Falkland Islands, according to the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS).

It says the quake struck at 2-27 a.m. on Monday (0627 GMT), about 195 miles southeast of the Falklands' capital, Stanley, and 545 miles east of Ushuaia, Argentina. The depth was a shallow 6.2 miles.

The Falklands are a British territory that is claimed by Argentina.

The USGS says the quake followed four others that all measured more than 5.0, over a two-hour period leading up to the big quake. It says such quakes are uncommon in the region. Only 15 quakes of more than magnitude 5.0 had been measured in the region in the previous 40 years.
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Bizarro Earth

USGS: Magnitude 7.0 - South Atlantic Ocean


US Geological Survey
Mon, 25 Nov 2013 04:55 UTC
Earthquake South Atlantic Ocean
© USGS
Event Time
2013-11-25 06:27:33 UTC
2013-11-25 02:27:33 UTC-04:00 at epicenter

Location
53.881°S 54.882°W depth=10.0km (6.2mi)

Nearby Cities
314km (195mi) SE of Stanley, Falkland Islands
877km (545mi) E of Ushuaia, Argentina
998km (620mi) ESE of Rio Gallegos, Argentina
1031km (641mi) SE of Puerto Deseado, Argentina
314km (195mi) SE of Stanley, Falkland Islands

Technical details

Additional commentary

The November 25, 2013 M7.0 earthquake (06:27:33 UTC) southwest of the Falkland Islands in the South Atlantic Ocean occurred as the result of strike slip faulting, on either a left-lateral fault striking ENE-WSW, or a right-lateral structure striking NNW-SSE. The location of the earthquake, near the ENE-WSW trending plate boundary between the South America and Scotia tectonic plates, suggests it is likely associated with left-lateral faulting along this margin. At the location of this earthquake, the Scotia plate moves ENE with respect to South America at a rate of approximately 9.5 mm/yr.

The November 25, 06:27:33 earthquake was the largest of 5 M5+ events that occurred in a similar area over an approximate 2-hour period, including a M5.6 earthquake 24 seconds prior to the M7.0 mainshock. Though this region experiences moderate-sized earthquakes relatively frequently - 15 M5+ events have occurred within 250 km of the November 25 earthquake over the past 40 years - large events are fairly uncommon. The largest nearby earthquake over the same time period was a M6.6 event in September 1993, 210 km to the east of the November 25 earthquake.
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Bizarro Earth

USGS: Earthquake Magnitude 5.6 - South Atlantic Ocean


US Geological Survey
Mon, 25 Nov 2013 00:57 UTC
S.Atlantic Ocean_251113
© USGS
Event Time
2013-11-25 06:27:09 UTC
2013-11-25 02:27:09 UTC-04:00 at epicenter

Location
53.987°S 54.923°W depth=15.1km (9.4mi)

Nearby Cities
321km (199mi) SE of Stanley, Falkland Islands
872km (542mi) E of Ushuaia, Argentina
997km (620mi) ESE of Rio Gallegos, Argentina
1036km (644mi) SE of Puerto Deseado, Argentina
321km (199mi) SE of Stanley, Falkland Islands

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Info

USGS: Magnitude 6.5 - Fiji region


USGS
Sat, 23 Nov 2013 06:04 UTC
Earthquake Fiji region
© USGS
Event Time
2013-11-23 07:48:32 UTC
2013-11-22 19:48:32 UTC-12:00 at epicenter
2013-11-23 08:48:32 UTC+01:00 system time

Location
17.097°S 176.562°W depth=377.1km (234.3mi)

Nearby Cities
322km (200mi) WNW of Neiafu, Tonga
438km (272mi) E of Lambasa, Fiji
469km (291mi) NNW of Nuku'alofa, Tonga
542km (337mi) ENE of Suva, Fiji
628km (390mi) SW of Apia, Samoa

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Bizarro Earth

Highest-magnitude earthquake in area since 1886 rocks Athens County, Ohio

Will Drabold
Ohiou.edu
Thu, 21 Nov 2013 10:23 UTC
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Athens County shook Wednesday afternoon in a way it hasn't since the 19th century. A 3.5 magnitude earthquake, strong enough to be felt, with an epicenter slightly east of Nelsonville, was recorded at 1:01 p.m. Wednesday, according to the Ohio Department of Natural Resources. The earthquake was the strongest to hit Athens since a quake of similar magnitude rocked the county in 1886, scientists said.

There were no reports of damage, though both ODNR and the Athens County Emergency Management Agency received dozens of calls about the quake. "(Southeast Ohio) is not really a seismically active area," said Tim Leftwich, a seismologist at ODNR. "It's not noted to be an earthquake prone area of the state."

Calls from as far as Charleston, W.Va. were reporting shaking, Leftwich said. Though the county is hundreds of miles from the nearest tectonic plate boundary - in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean - a small fault line runs through the northern part of Athens County, said Doug Green, a geophysicist at Ohio University who studies earthquakes.

"It's consistent, the location of the earthquake (and) the approximate depth are consistent with a structural weak point in the Earth's crust," Green said. The U.S. Geological Survey placed the quake's depth at 7.9 km - too deep to be triggered by a fracking injection well, said Green, who is currently studying drilling's effects on seismic activity.
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Bizarro Earth

USGS: Earthquake Magnitude 6.3 - 110km NNE of Tobelo, Indonesia


USGS
Tue, 19 Nov 2013 09:01 UTC
Earthquake Tobelo
© USGS
Event Time
2013-11-19 13:32:54 UTC
2013-11-19 22:32:54 UTC+09:00 at epicenter

Location
2.647°N 128.402°E depth=63.6km (39.5mi)

Nearby Cities
110km (68mi) NNE of Tobelo, Indonesia
232km (144mi) NNE of Ternate, Indonesia
236km (147mi) NNE of Kota Ternate, Indonesia
382km (237mi) ENE of Bitung, Indonesia
850km (528mi) SW of Koror Town, Palau

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Bizarro Earth

5.7 magnitude earthquake hits Japan amid Fukushima fuel rod removal


CommonDreams.org
Mon, 18 Nov 2013 15:26 UTC
A strong earthquake has struck Japan's coast south of the Fukushima nuclear plant currently undergoing a dangerous removal of highly radioactive Unit 4 fuel rods, according to online reports.
Image
© USGS
An image from the U.S. Geological Survey shows the approximate location of the earthquake.
The U.S. Geological Survey reports that a 5.7 magnitude earthquake has struck Japan 25 kilometers southeast of Toba, releasing the following tweet:
Strong earthquake, NEAR S. COAST OF HONSHU, JAPAN, Nov-18 19:10 UTC, 0 #quake tweets/min, http://t.co/jAAXkTfU5k
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