Earthquakes

EMSC     Eastern Turkey
Apr 28 23:56 PM
2.7     5.0     MAP

EMSC     Near The Coast Of Western Turkey
Apr 28 23:55 PM
3.2     13.0     MAP

EMSC     Near The Coast Of Western Turkey
Apr 28 23:43 PM
3.2     12.0     MAP

EMSC     Near The Coast Of Western Turkey
Apr 28 23:38 PM
2.8     12.0     MAP

EMSC     Crete, Greece
Apr 28 23:24 PM
2.9     5.0     MAP

USGS     Baja California, Mexico
Apr 28 23:24 PM
3.1     4.0     MAP

USGS     Gulf Of Alaska
Apr 28 22:53 PM
3.7     60.6     MAP

EMSC     Dodecanese Islands, Greece
Apr 28 22:18 PM
3.2     10.0     MAP

EMSC     Albania
Apr 28 22:13 PM
2.7     10.0     MAP

USGS     Kenai Peninsula, Alaska
Apr 28 21:41 PM
2.6     31.4     MAP

EMSC     Eastern Mediterranean Sea
Apr 28 21:36 PM
2.5     5.0     MAP

EMSC     Baja California, Mexico
Apr 28 21:25 PM
4.1     0.0     MAP

USGS     Baja California, Mexico
Apr 28 21:25 PM
4.1     0.2     MAP

USGS     Southern Alaska
Apr 28 20:39 PM
2.6     91.9     MAP

EMSC     New Britain Region, P.n.g.
Apr 28 19:45 PM
4.9     51.0     MAP

USGS     New Britain Region, Papua New Guinea
Apr 28 19:45 PM
4.9     55.7     MAP

EMSC     Albania
Apr 28 19:33 PM
2.8     12.0     MAP

USGS     New Britain Region, Papua New Guinea
Apr 28 19:21 PM
5.7     48.3     MAP

EMSC     New Britain Region, P.n.g.
Apr 28 19:21 PM
5.3     40.0     MAP

GEOFON     New Britain Region, P.n.g.
Apr 28 19:21 PM
5.3     10.0     MAP

EMSC     Greece
Apr 28 19:14 PM
2.5     5.0     MAP

EMSC     Western Turkey
Apr 28 19:07 PM
3.0     7.0     MAP

USGS     Prince Edward Islands Region
Apr 28 19:06 PM
5.0     14.8     MAP

EMSC     Prince Edward Islands Region
Apr 28 19:06 PM
5.1     33.0     MAP

USGS     Northern California
Apr 28 19:06 PM
2.8     3.6     MAP

USGS     Kepulauan Mentawai Region, Indonesia
Apr 28 18:00 PM
5.3     31.0     MAP

EMSC     Kep. Mentawai Region, Indonesia
Apr 28 18:00 PM
5.4     30.0     MAP

GEOFON     Southern Sumatra, Indonesia
Apr 28 18:00 PM
5.1     10.0     MAP

EMSC     Albania
Apr 28 17:39 PM
2.9     8.0     MAP

EMSC     Romania
Apr 28 17:24 PM
2.6     89.0     MAP

USGS     Central California
Apr 28 17:14 PM
2.5     11.1     MAP

EMSC     Greenland Sea
Apr 28 17:11 PM
4.3     2.0     MAP

USGS     Greenland Sea
Apr 28 17:11 PM
4.3     9.9     MAP

GEOFON     Salta Province, Argentina
Apr 28 16:24 PM
4.8     189.0     MAP

USGS     Jujuy, Argentina
Apr 28 16:24 PM
4.4     187.6     MAP

EMSC     Salta, Argentina
Apr 28 16:24 PM
4.3     176.0     MAP

EMSC     Eastern Turkey
Apr 28 16:20 PM
2.9     4.0     MAP

EMSC     Spain
Apr 28 15:24 PM
3.1     2.0     MAP

USGS     Central California
Apr 28 15:11 PM
2.5     5.5     MAP

EMSC     Southern California
Apr 28 15:07 PM
4.1     10.0     MAP

USGS     Southern California
Apr 28 15:07 PM
3.8     13.5     MAP

EMSC     Albania
Apr 28 14:54 PM
2.8     26.0     MAP

USGS     Puerto Rico Region
Apr 28 14:33 PM
3.0     21.0     MAP

EMSC     Western Turkey
Apr 28 14:32 PM
2.5     5.0     MAP

EMSC     Southern Greece
Apr 28 14:27 PM
2.5     5.0     MAP

EMSC     Southern Greece
Apr 28 13:41 PM
2.8     5.0     MAP

EMSC     Near The Coast Of Western Turkey
Apr 28 13:26 PM
2.4     8.0     MAP

EMSC     Western Turkey
Apr 28 13:10 PM
2.5     5.0     MAP

EMSC     Western Turkey
Apr 28 11:53 AM
2.9     5.0     MAP

EMSC     Western Turkey
Apr 28 11:39 AM
3.3     5.0     MAP

EMSC     Greece
Apr 28 10:36 AM
2.5     12.0     MAP

USGS     Utah
Apr 28 10:19 AM
3.5     18.2     MAP

GEONET     Ne Of New Zealand
Apr 28 10:11 AM
5.3     310.0     MAP

USGS     Tonga     
Apr 28 10:08 AM     
6.7     129.4     MAP     

EMSC     Tonga
Apr 28 10:08 AM
6.6     100.0     MAP     

GEOFON     Tonga Islands     
Apr 28 10:08 AM     
6.6     153.0     MAP     

USGS     Tonga     
Apr 28 10:08 AM     
6.7     117.8     MAP     

USGS     Andreanof Islands, Aleutian Islands, Alaska
Apr 28 09:45 AM
3.0     30.4     MAP

EMSC     Southern Greece
Apr 28 09:13 AM
2.9     18.0     MAP

GEOFON     Timor Region
Apr 28 08:55 AM
4.9     10.0     MAP

EMSC     Timor Region, Indonesia
Apr 28 08:55 AM
4.9     10.0     MAP

EMSC     Eastern Turkey
Apr 28 07:06 AM
3.1     10.0     MAP

EMSC     Greece
Apr 28 06:28 AM
2.7     33.0     MAP

EMSC     Western Turkey
Apr 28 05:56 AM
3.1     7.0     MAP

GEOFON     Off West Coast Of Northern Sumatra
Apr 28 05:53 AM
4.4     10.0     MAP

USGS     Dominican Republic Region
Apr 28 05:48 AM
2.8     19.0     MAP

USGS     Southern California
Apr 28 05:36 AM
2.5     17.9     MAP

USGS     Fox Islands, Aleutian Islands, Alaska
Apr 28 05:08 AM
3.3     40.0     MAP

EMSC     Western Turkey
Apr 28 04:35 AM
3.2     7.0     MAP

EMSC     Dodecanese Islands, Greece
Apr 28 04:14 AM
2.7     60.0     MAP

EMSC     Western Turkey
Apr 28 03:49 AM
2.5     5.0     MAP

USGS     Vancouver Island, Canada Region
Apr 28 03:42 AM
4.5     15.5     MAP

EMSC     Vancouver Island, Canada Region
Apr 28 03:42 AM
4.5     16.0     MAP

EMSC     Eastern Turkey
Apr 28 03:17 AM
4.7     22.0     MAP

GEOFON     Turkey
Apr 28 03:17 AM
4.6     10.0     MAP

USGS     Eastern Turkey
Apr 28 03:17 AM
4.7     5.1     MAP

EMSC     Western Turkey
Apr 28 03:11 AM
2.4     5.0     MAP

EMSC     Eastern Turkey
Apr 28 03:09 AM
2.5     8.0     MAP

USGS     Oklahoma
Apr 28 02:14 AM
2.8     4.8     MAP

EMSC     Western Turkey
Apr 28 01:45 AM
2.7     6.0     MAP

EMSC     Western Turkey
Apr 28 01:26 AM
2.4     5.0     MAP

EMSC     Southern Italy
Apr 28 00:41 AM
2.4     15.0     MAP

EMSC     Iran-iraq Border Region
Apr 28 00:34 AM
3.9     5.0     MAP

EMSC     Greece
Apr 28 00:06 AM
2.4     1.0     MAP

Sources:       USGS – EMSC – GFZ – GEONET

Deep 6.7 magnitude earthquake hits Tonga trench in the Pacific

April 28, 2012 – TONGA, S. PACIFIC – A 6.7 magnitude earthquake struck the Tonga Trench at a depth of 129.4 km (80.4 miles). The earthquake was too deep to generate a tsunami. The epicenter of the undersea quake was 2266 km (1408 miles) NNE of Auckland, New Zealand. The Tonga Trench is a convergent plate boundary in the South Pacific. The trench lies at the northern end of the Kermadec-Tonga Subduction Zone, an active subduction zone where the Pacific Plate is being subducted below the Tonga Plate and the Indo-Australian Plate. The Tonga Trench extends north-northeast from the Kermadec Islands north of the North Island of New Zealand. The trench turns west north of the Tonga Plate and becomes a transform fault zone. The Tonga Trench is one of the most seismically and volcanically-active regions of the sea-floor on Earth. The planet’s crust is being violently devoured at a rate of more than 24 centimeters per year- the fastest of any region on the planet. –The Extinction Protocol

Three small earthquake have struck off Vancouver Island over the past week according to the U.S. Geological Service. (USGS)

Earthquakes Canada report

U.S. Geological Service earthquake reports

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4.1 earthquake jolts Southern California

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Volcanic Activity

Current Emergencies

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28.04.2012

Volcano Activity

Mexico

State of Puebla, [Popocatepetl Volcano]

Popocatépetl, the nearly 18,000 foot volcano that hovers like a sentinel on the southeastern fringe of Mexico’s capital, awakened again Sunday, punctuating an especially shaky seismic season. Popo, as the mountain is widely called, spewed at least seven exhalations overnight Saturday and through the day Sunday, sending vapor, smoke and gas billowing into the clear sky. The most serious occurred just after 9 a.m. Sunday, sending a vapor cloud a mile into the air. Mexico’s National Disaster Prevention Center issued a precautionary warning to residents, advising them to stay alert for a worsening situation and to keep at least seven miles away from the volcano’s crater. The service predicted continuing “moderate exhalations, some with ash, sporadic low to moderate explosions with likely burning fragments emitted close to the crater, and flaming magma within the crater visible at night.” Popo’s latest fuming comes amid a series of earthquakes striking southern and central Mexico in the past three weeks. Several 6 magnitude quakes struck Wednesday, but no damage. A midday 7.4 quake on March 20 damaged hundreds of buildings in Oaxaca and Guerrero states and sent hundreds of thousands of residents scrambling into Mexico City’s streets.

The volcano, whose full name means Smoking Mountain in the Nahuatl tongue of the Aztecs, is a fairly active volcano, with such exhalations occurring regularly. Events like Sunday’s serve to prevent more dangerous pressure from building inside the volcano, scientists say. Popo experienced similar moderate activity several times in 2011 and again at the beginning of this year. Though more than 40 miles from downtown Mexico City , Popo and its adjoining snow-capped sister mountain, Iztaccihuatl dominate the Valley of Mexico and the surrounding highlands, home to some 25 million people. Mexico City’s teeming working class suburbs now lick at the mountains’ base. The city of Puebla, home to 1 million people, stands a few dozen miles from the volcano eastern slopes. Aztec legend held that Popocatepetl was a warrior deeply in love with Izta, whose silhouette can resemble a sleeping woman from the right angles. Sent by her father to battle to prove his worth, Popo was falsely reported killed. Iztaccihuatl died grief-stricken. When he returned from battle, Popo hunched next to her body, bowed his head and died of heartbreak.

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Extreme Temperatures/ Weather

 Short Time Event(s)

Today

Forest / Wild Fire

Canada

Province of Manitoba, [Anola Region]

A grassfire raged out of control and burnt down a home in Anola Saturday. All three Springfield fire halls were on scene as the fire swept through a farm site, said Deputy Fire Commissioner Robert Pike. A home, barn and sheds all caught fire. Pike said the fire is now under control. Witnesses in the area said tankers were on scene at Highway 15 outside of Anola. The fire had been burning since about noon, according to a witness at the scene.

 Short Time Event(s)

Today

Extreme Weather

USA

State of Missouri, St. Louis

High winds swept through a beer tent where 200 people gathered after a Cardinals game Saturday, killing one and seriously injuring at least five others, authorities said.The owner of the bar where the tent was set up said firefighters told him that the patron who died was struck by lightning, but Deputy Fire Chief John Altmann and Public Safety Director Eddie Roth said they didn’t know what killed the man.At least 17 people were hospitalized, including five who were initially in critical condition but are now said to be in serious condition. Up to 100 people were treated at the scene, mostly for minor injuries such as cuts and bruises.Officials said straight-line winds whipped through the large tent outside Kilroy’s Sports Bar, near Busch Stadium. The crowd was celebrating after the Cardinals beat Milwaukee 7-3 earlier in the afternoon.Roth said winds of about 50 mph shattered aluminum poles that held up the tent, which was located south of the stadium. The force of the wind blew the tent onto an adjacent railroad bridge.”It was crazy, scary,” said Annie Randall, whose family owns Kilroy’s. “We’re just so sorry this happened.”Kilroy’s owner Art Randall described a short burst of a storm — perhaps five seconds, he said — with a massive wind that lifted the huge tent, threw it perhaps 100 feet into the air and sent the aluminum poles and most everything in the tent airborne.When he heard the boom, he initially thought a train had derailed into the tent.As the wind blew, a bolt of lightning crashed into the bar, Randall said. He said firefighters told him it was a lightning strike — not flying debris — that killed the man.”At some point in that five seconds, we were getting lightning strikes, and apparently one of our customers got hit by lightning right in the middle of the dance floor,” Randall said.The bar owner said he screamed for help and three customers ran over to administer CPR, but they couldn’t save the man.Randall said he looked around “and saw 50 bodies scattered everywhere.”The man who died appeared to be in his 50s, Roth said. His name has not been released.Roth said the tent had passed inspection and it didn’t appear there would be any violation, although the investigation is ongoing.Randall described a scene in which barstools, pedestals and a 100-pound bass amplifier were flying through the air. The disc jockey working the party was struck by the amp and knocked unconscious, the bar owner said, and people were scurrying to help one another.”My wife had people in the beer cooler — we had the beer cooler loaded with injuries,” Randall said. “It was a triage deal.”Kilroy’s is among several bars near Busch Stadium, and many bars set up tents for the excess business after Cardinals games. Crowds were also large because the St. Louis Blues were playing against the Los Angeles Kings Saturday night in the first game of the NHL’s Western Conference semifinals.The St. Louis area was under thunderstorm and tornado warnings several times Saturday. About two hours after the incident at Kilroy’s, tornado sirens blared throughout the city after a funnel cloud sighting. There were several reports of tree damage, power lines down and damage from hail that in some parts of the region reportedly was as big as tennis balls.

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Storms, Flooding

Severe Thunderstorm Warning

NORMAN OK
WICHITA KS

Winter Storm Warning

GREAT FALLS MT
BILLINGS MT
RIVERTON WY
GLASGOW MT

Tornado Watch

 NORMAN OK

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Radiation/Biological Hazard

 Short Time Event(s)

Today

Biological Hazard

Hungary

County of Fejer, Nagylók

 Short Time Event(s)

28.04.2012

Biological Hazard

Ghana

West District, Bawku

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Epidemics/Strange Illnesses

 Short Time Event(s)

Today

Epidemic

India

Rayagada, Salapash, Katraguda, Railighati [Kasipur]

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Climate Change

Study finds warming speeding up rainfall cycle

by Staff Writers
Sydney (AFP) April 27, 2012

Related Links
The Air We Breathe at TerraDaily.com

‘Himalayan glaciers not shrinking alarmingly’

Staff reporter
GUWAHATI, April 28 – The Himalayan glaciers are not shrinking at an alarming rate under the influence of the global warming syndrome. This was the assertion made by Dr Akhilesh Gupta, Advisor and Head of the Climate Change Programme of the Government of India (GoI). He was delivering the keynote address at a consultation workshop organized by the Assam Science Technology and Environment Council (ASTEC) in collaboration with the Assam Energy Development Agency (AEDA) here on Friday.

He maintained that there is a variation marked in the behavior of the region’s glaciers. Moreover, he said, though the rainfall regime in the North West Himalayan region has remained more or less the same, temperature is rising in this region under the influence of the global warming syndrome.

Preparations are on to set up a National Center for Himalayan Glaciology at Mussoorie. Even as a joint working group has been set up with Switzerland, efforts are also on for establishing bilateral cooperation with a few countries like Norway, United Kingdom etc, on capacity building in glaciology, Dr Gupta informed.

State level consultations have also been launched to develop human resources and also for capacity building program for the Himalayan region, he said.

Inaugurating the function, State’s Chief Conservator of Forests, Biodiversity and Climate Change, A K Johari asserted that there is no need to panic so far as the affects of climate change are concerned. However, there is the need to act to fight the phenomenon.

He maintained that the NE region as a whole has so far lost an area of 549 square kilometers of forest cover. At its individual level, the State has lost forest cover over 16 square kilometers of its area. Though it is still very green, it has faced the developments like loss of wetlands and ground water crisis, among others. The State is yet to adopt its draft action plan on climate change, as, the financial aspects concerning the twelfth, Five Year Plan are yet to be incorporated into it, he said.

The function was also addressed by ASTEC Director HC Dutta, Scientist F of the Union Department of Science and Technology Nisha Mendiratta and Head of the ASTEC Environment Division Jaideep Baruah, among others.

Scholars from the educational institutions and environmental and social activists took part in the interaction that followed the presentations. Dr Gupta, Mendiratta, Rajesh Kumar and Dr Anand Kamavisdar of the Union Department of Science and Technology and State Government officials took part in the interaction.

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Solar Activity

2MIN News Apr28: Earth News, Space weather

Published on Apr 28, 2012 by Suspicious0bservers

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