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Best of the Web: Signs of change in the last week of September 2013

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The events around the world have been unprecedented over the last few weeks. Some of the most dramatic and unbelievable footage I've ever seen from events that took place in the past week or so. Please use these videos for awareness to these ongoing extremes that seem to be getting worse each week. Prepare for disasters in your area! You're no different than others that are already dealing with them and most were not ready...

In just a couple of weeks we saw a devastating typhoon hit Japan and China, a 'one-in-one-thousand-years' flood hit Colorado, record rainfall in Mexico, the Pacific Northwest, Brazil, and India, fireballs turning night into day over Canada and the US, a powerful tornado in Sao Paulo, a 7.7 earthquake in Pakistan that formed a new island in the ocean, followed just 4 days later by 7.2 in the same region, a 7.0 earthquake in Peru, a daytime fireball in Alabama...these are just some of the highlights from the last week of another crazy month on planet Earth!

Thanks for watching here and stay safe!


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USGS: Earthquake Magnitude 6.0 - Mariana Islands region

Mariana Quake_061013
© USGS
Event Time
2013-10-06 16:38:08 UTC
2013-10-07 01:38:08 UTC+09:00 at epicenter

Location
12.280°N 141.693°E depth=104.0km (64.6mi)

Nearby Cities
306km (190mi) NNE of Fais, Micronesia
360km (224mi) WSW of Tamuning-Tumon-Harmon Village, Guam
361km (224mi) WSW of Mangilao Village, Guam
367km (228mi) WSW of Dededo Village, Guam
357km (222mi) WSW of Hagatna, Guam

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USGS: Earthquake Magnitude 6.4 - 114km SE of Amsterdam Island

Amsterdam Island Quake_041013
© USGS
Event Time
2013-10-04 17:26:14 UTC
2013-10-04 22:26:14 UTC+05:00 at epicenter

Location
38.555°S 78.448°E depth=10.0km (6.2mi)

Nearby Cities
114km (71mi) SE of Amsterdam Island,
2543km (1580mi) SSE of Ile Rodrigues, Mauritius
2831km (1759mi) SE of Mahebourg, Mauritius
2833km (1760mi) SE of Plaine Magnien, Mauritius
2866km (1781mi) SE of Port Louis, Mauritius

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Intense earthquake swarm offshore North Iceland - 1, 000 quakes in 6 days

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An intense earthquake swarm has been going on offshore North Iceland, 10 km NW of Gjögurtá, since September 25, 2013. This morning, 2 earthquakes reaching magnitude 3 and 3.2 occurred at 06:14 and 07:41 UTC. Roughly 1 000 earthquakes have been recorded by Icelandic Meteorological Office in last 6 days (IMO).

The depths of the quakes vary from about 15 km depth (crust-mantle boundary) to near surface. The area is located on an active fault line related to rifting, and a possible cause of the earthquake swarm could be a magmatic intrusion at Tjörnes Fracture Zone volcano (VD).

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USGS: Earthquake Magnitude 6.7 - Sea of Okhotsk

Okhotsk Quake_011013
© USGS
Event Time
2013-10-01 03:38:21 UTC
2013-10-01 13:38:21 UTC+10:00 at epicenter

Location
53.166°N 152.742°E depth=565.8km (351.5mi)

Nearby Cities
317km (197mi) NW of Ozernovskiy, Russia
376km (234mi) W of Yelizovo, Russia
380km (236mi) W of Vilyuchinsk, Russia
395km (245mi) W of Petropavlovsk-Kamchatskiy, Russia
2194km (1363mi) NNE of Tokyo, Japan

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Pakistan's new mud volcano is spewing flammable gas

The latest addition to Pakistan's shoreline looks like a gigantic, steaming turd laid by a Kaiju. The mud volcano - which appeared suddenly last week after a 7.7 magnitude tremblor struck the region - has been belching toxic fumes that can be set alight.

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© NASA
The top image was taken by NASA's Advanced Land Imager (ALI) on NASA's Earth Observing-1 (EO-1) satellite. The image below comes via the National Institute of Oceanography. It shows a close-up of the landform, estimated to stretch 75 to 90 meters (250 to 300 feet) across and standing 15 to 20 meters (60 to 70 feet) above the water line.

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© NASA

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USGS: Earthquake Magnitude 6.7 - 81km NE of L'Esperance Rock, New Zealand

Earthquake L'Esperance 6.7
© USGS
Event Time
2013-09-29 17:55:54 UTC-12:00 at epicenter
2013-09-30 07:55:54 UTC+02:00 system time

Location

30.956°S 178.244°W depth=34.8km (21.6mi)

Nearby Cities

81km (50mi) NE of L'Esperance Rock, New Zealand
870km (541mi) NE of Whangarei, New Zealand
891km (554mi) NNE of Whakatane, New Zealand
906km (563mi) NE of Tauranga, New Zealand
1129km (702mi) SSW of Nuku'alofa, Tonga

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USGS: Earthquake Magnitude 6.8 - 96km NNE of Awaran, Pakistan

Awaran Quake_280913
© USGS
Event Time
2013-09-28 07:34:07 UTC
2013-09-28 12:34:07 UTC+05:00 at epicenter

Location
27.263°N 65.587°E depth=14.8km (9.2mi)

Nearby Cities
96km (60mi) NNE of Awaran, Pakistan
135km (84mi) NNW of Bela, Pakistan
147km (91mi) S of Kharan, Pakistan
151km (94mi) SSW of Surab, Pakistan
811km (504mi) ENE of Muscat, Oman

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USGS: Earthquake Magnitude 6.1 - 101km WSW of Puerto Madero, Mexico

Mexico Quake_260913
© USGS
Event Time
2013-09-26 06:46:04 UTC
2013-09-26 00:46:04 UTC-06:00 at epicenter

Location
14.479°N 93.332°W depth=10.4km (6.5mi)

Nearby Cities
101km (63mi) WSW of Puerto Madero, Mexico
115km (71mi) SSW of Mapastepec, Mexico
119km (74mi) SW of Huixtla, Mexico
120km (75mi) W of Suchiate, Mexico
304km (189mi) W of Guatemala City, Guatemala

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Pakistan's new quake island emits methane gas

New Island Pakistan
© PressTVPeople walk on an island that that rose from the sea just off Pakistan’s southern coast following Tuesday’s earthquake on September 25, 2013.
A new island that rose from the sea just off Pakistan's southern coast following Tuesday's earthquake is emitting methane gas.

The 7.7-magnitude quake, which killed at least 328 people, occurred on Tuesday at 4:29 p.m. local time (1129 GMT). Its epicenter was 20 kilometers below ground in the Awaran district of southwestern Balochistan province, which borders Iran.

The powerful quake caused the seabed to rise and create a new island about 600 meters off the South Asian country's Gwadar coastline in the Arabian Sea.

A man living near the coastline sent a text message to local journalist Bahram Baloch, saying "a hill has appeared outside my house."

"I stepped out, and was flabbergasted. I could see this grey, dome-shaped body in the distance, like a giant whale swimming near the surface. Hundreds of people had gathered to watch it in disbelief," the text message said.