Earthquakes
EMSC Western Turkey
Apr 27 23:43 PM
2.4 6.0 MAP
EMSC Western Turkey
Apr 27 23:38 PM
2.5 5.0 MAP
EMSC Dodecanese Islands, Greece
Apr 27 23:08 PM
2.5 8.0 MAP
EMSC Western Turkey
Apr 27 22:56 PM
3.5 9.0 MAP
USGS Andreanof Islands, Aleutian Islands, Alaska
Apr 27 22:55 PM
2.7 41.8 MAP
EMSC Prince Edward Islands Region
Apr 27 21:51 PM
4.9 20.0 MAP
GEOFON Prince Edward Islands Region
Apr 27 21:51 PM
4.8 10.0 MAP
USGS Prince Edward Islands Region
Apr 27 21:51 PM
4.9 10.0 MAP
EMSC Cochabamba, Bolivia
Apr 27 21:36 PM
4.0 42.0 MAP
USGS Cochabamba, Bolivia
Apr 27 21:36 PM
4.0 42.3 MAP
EMSC Azores Islands Region
Apr 27 21:32 PM
3.0 15.0 MAP
EMSC Southern Greece
Apr 27 21:20 PM
2.6 5.0 MAP
EMSC Taiwan
Apr 27 21:08 PM
4.2 7.0 MAP
GEOFON Off West Coast Of Northern Sumatra
Apr 27 20:15 PM
4.3 10.0 MAP
USGS Central California
Apr 27 20:11 PM
2.6 4.7 MAP
EMSC Greece
Apr 27 19:44 PM
2.5 5.0 MAP
USGS New Britain Region, Papua New Guinea
Apr 27 19:22 PM
4.9 58.2 MAP
EMSC New Britain Region, P.n.g.
Apr 27 19:22 PM
4.9 58.0 MAP
EMSC Western Turkey
Apr 27 19:17 PM
2.8 5.0 MAP
EMSC Dodecanese Islands, Greece
Apr 27 18:42 PM
2.5 5.0 MAP
USGS Libertador General Bernardo O’higgins, Chile
Apr 27 18:34 PM
4.7 50.2 MAP
EMSC Libertador O’higgins, Chile
Apr 27 18:34 PM
4.7 50.0 MAP
EMSC Western Turkey
Apr 27 18:18 PM
2.7 5.0 MAP
GEOFON Central Chile
Apr 27 17:58 PM
4.6 53.0 MAP
EMSC Maule, Chile
Apr 27 17:58 PM
4.6 51.0 MAP
USGS Maule, Chile
Apr 27 17:58 PM
4.7 41.6 MAP
EMSC Eastern Turkey
Apr 27 17:36 PM
2.4 12.0 MAP
EMSC Greece
Apr 27 16:44 PM
2.8 10.0 MAP
USGS Vancouver Island, Canada Region
Apr 27 16:22 PM
4.0 5.0 MAP
EMSC Vancouver Island, Canada Region
Apr 27 16:22 PM
4.0 5.0 MAP
EMSC Western Turkey
Apr 27 16:02 PM
2.6 5.0 MAP
USGS Vanuatu
Apr 27 15:22 PM
4.5 71.5 MAP
EMSC Vanuatu
Apr 27 15:22 PM
4.7 60.0 MAP
GEOFON Vanuatu Islands
Apr 27 15:22 PM
4.8 10.0 MAP
USGS Taiwan
Apr 27 14:48 PM
4.4 46.9 MAP
GEOFON Taiwan
Apr 27 14:48 PM
4.3 20.0 MAP
EMSC Taiwan
Apr 27 14:48 PM
4.4 43.0 MAP
USGS Central California
Apr 27 14:47 PM
2.6 20.1 MAP
EMSC Eastern Turkey
Apr 27 14:24 PM
2.4 13.0 MAP
EMSC Western Turkey
Apr 27 14:13 PM
3.2 12.0 MAP
USGS Puerto Rico
Apr 27 13:38 PM
2.8 8.0 MAP
EMSC Western Turkey
Apr 27 13:35 PM
3.0 7.0 MAP
EMSC Western Iran
Apr 27 13:27 PM
3.5 4.0 MAP
EMSC Western Turkey
Apr 27 13:15 PM
2.5 5.0 MAP
EMSC Turkey-syria Border Region
Apr 27 13:11 PM
2.8 5.0 MAP
EMSC Greece
Apr 27 13:05 PM
2.7 5.0 MAP
EMSC Western Turkey
Apr 27 12:53 PM
2.7 5.0 MAP
GEOFON Vancouver Island, Canada Region
Apr 27 12:52 PM
4.2 10.0 MAP
USGS Vancouver Island, Canada Region
Apr 27 12:52 PM
4.4 10.0 MAP
EMSC Vancouver Island, Canada Region
Apr 27 12:52 PM
4.4 10.0 MAP
EMSC Eastern Turkey
Apr 27 12:46 PM
3.6 7.0 MAP
EMSC Eastern Turkey
Apr 27 12:37 PM
2.5 5.0 MAP
USGS Central Alaska
Apr 27 12:36 PM
3.1 118.6 MAP
EMSC Greece
Apr 27 12:34 PM
2.6 9.0 MAP
EMSC Crete, Greece
Apr 27 12:30 PM
2.9 19.0 MAP
EMSC Aegean Sea
Apr 27 12:28 PM
2.9 11.0 MAP
EMSC Eastern Turkey
Apr 27 12:18 PM
3.0 7.0 MAP
USGS Dominican Republic Region
Apr 27 12:00 PM
2.8 84.8 MAP
EMSC Near The Coast Of Western Turkey
Apr 27 11:47 AM
2.9 15.0 MAP
EMSC Near The Coast Of Western Turkey
Apr 27 11:19 AM
3.6 10.0 MAP
EMSC Western Turkey
Apr 27 11:08 AM
2.5 7.0 MAP
EMSC Near The Coast Of Western Turkey
Apr 27 10:49 AM
3.6 8.0 MAP
EMSC Eastern Turkey
Apr 27 10:43 AM
2.5 8.0 MAP
EMSC Germany
Apr 27 10:33 AM
2.6 2.0 MAP
GEOFON Germany
Apr 27 10:33 AM
2.5 1.0 MAP
USGS Tajikistan
Apr 27 10:32 AM
4.6 49.2 MAP
EMSC Tajikistan
Apr 27 10:32 AM
4.6 50.0 MAP
GEONET Manawatu , New Zealand
Apr 27 10:32 AM
3.0 33.0 MAP
USGS Sulawesi, Indonesia
Apr 27 10:29 AM
5.1 55.4 MAP
EMSC Sulawesi, Indonesia
Apr 27 10:29 AM
5.1 15.0 MAP
GEOFON Sulawesi, Indonesia
Apr 27 10:29 AM
5.1 10.0 MAP
EMSC Central Turkey
Apr 27 10:24 AM
3.0 7.0 MAP
EMSC Western Turkey
Apr 27 10:19 AM
2.6 5.0 MAP
EMSC Western Turkey
Apr 27 10:04 AM
2.5 5.0 MAP
USGS Kenai Peninsula, Alaska
Apr 27 09:46 AM
3.4 25.8 MAP
USGS Southern Alaska
Apr 27 09:39 AM
3.3 121.6 MAP
EMSC Western Turkey
Apr 27 09:16 AM
3.1 17.0 MAP
EMSC Western Turkey
Apr 27 09:14 AM
3.0 2.0 MAP
EMSC Northern Xinjiang, China
Apr 27 09:01 AM
4.2 10.0 MAP
EMSC Luzon, Philippines
Apr 27 08:59 AM
4.5 42.0 MAP
USGS Luzon, Philippines
Apr 27 08:59 AM
4.5 42.1 MAP
EMSC Albania
Apr 27 08:52 AM
2.5 25.0 MAP
EMSC Western Turkey
Apr 27 08:52 AM
2.5 6.0 MAP
EMSC Western Turkey
Apr 27 08:49 AM
3.0 7.0 MAP
EMSC Offshore Northern California
Apr 27 08:38 AM
4.1 6.0 MAP
USGS Offshore Northern California
Apr 27 08:38 AM
3.8 13.0 MAP
EMSC Southern Greece
Apr 27 08:01 AM
3.0 16.0 MAP
EMSC Western Turkey
Apr 27 07:50 AM
2.7 5.0 MAP
EMSC Near N Coast Of New Guinea, Png.
Apr 27 07:49 AM
4.3 123.0 MAP
USGS Near The North Coast Of New Guinea, Papua
Apr 27 07:49 AM
4.3 123.1 MAP
EMSC Western Turkey
Apr 27 07:49 AM
2.6 5.0 MAP
EMSC Western Turkey
Apr 27 07:39 AM
2.7 6.0 MAP
EMSC Western Turkey
Apr 27 07:15 AM
3.1 6.0 MAP
EMSC Western Turkey
Apr 27 07:11 AM
2.9 3.0 MAP
EMSC Off East Coast Of Honshu, Japan
Apr 27 06:48 AM
4.6 30.0 MAP
USGS Off The East Coast Of Honshu, Japan
Apr 27 06:48 AM
4.6 29.3 MAP
GEOFON Off East Coast Of Honshu, Japan
Apr 27 06:48 AM
4.6 15.0 MAP
EMSC Western Turkey
Apr 27 06:46 AM
2.5 6.0 MAP
EMSC Eastern Turkey
Apr 27 06:28 AM
2.9 2.0 MAP
EMSC Western Turkey
Apr 27 06:07 AM
2.6 5.0 MAP
EMSC Hindu Kush Region, Afghanistan
Apr 27 05:49 AM
4.5 219.0 MAP
GEOFON Afghanistan-tajikistan Border Region
Apr 27 05:49 AM
5.0 221.0 MAP
USGS Hindu Kush Region, Afghanistan
Apr 27 05:49 AM
4.5 224.5 MAP
USGS Virgin Islands Region
Apr 27 05:39 AM
3.1 49.0 MAP
EMSC Near East Coast Of Honshu, Japan
Apr 27 05:37 AM
5.0 27.0 MAP
GEOFON Near East Coast Of Honshu, Japan
Apr 27 05:37 AM
5.1 20.0 MAP
USGS Off The East Coast Of Honshu, Japan
Apr 27 05:37 AM
4.9 33.9 MAP
EMSC Central Turkey
Apr 27 05:36 AM
2.6 5.0 MAP
EMSC Kuril Islands
Apr 27 05:17 AM
4.2 157.0 MAP
EMSC Western Turkey
Apr 27 05:11 AM
3.0 7.0 MAP
EMSC Western Turkey
Apr 27 04:45 AM
2.5 5.0 MAP
EMSC Greece
Apr 27 04:42 AM
2.5 10.0 MAP
EMSC Southwestern Siberia, Russia
Apr 27 04:37 AM
4.2 10.0 MAP
EMSC Western Turkey
Apr 27 04:33 AM
2.9 2.0 MAP
EMSC Western Turkey
Apr 27 04:06 AM
2.4 5.0 MAP
EMSC Western Turkey
Apr 27 03:58 AM
2.7 3.0 MAP
EMSC Eastern Turkey
Apr 27 03:51 AM
3.2 4.0 MAP
EMSC Greece
Apr 27 03:37 AM
3.0 11.0 MAP
EMSC Eastern Turkey
Apr 27 03:32 AM
3.2 7.0 MAP
EMSC Western Turkey
Apr 27 03:10 AM
2.5 4.0 MAP
EMSC Western Turkey
Apr 27 03:01 AM
2.8 12.0 MAP
EMSC Greece
Apr 27 02:55 AM
2.5 6.0 MAP
EMSC Western Turkey
Apr 27 02:54 AM
3.4 19.0 MAP
USGS Western Montana
Apr 27 02:38 AM
2.6 9.7 MAP
USGS Central Alaska
Apr 27 01:46 AM
3.1 107.8 MAP
EMSC North Indian Ocean
Apr 27 01:41 AM
4.8 60.0 MAP
USGS North Indian Ocean
Apr 27 01:40 AM
4.8 15.6 MAP
GEOFON North Indian Ocean
Apr 27 01:40 AM
5.1 10.0 MAP
EMSC Western Turkey
Apr 27 01:38 AM
2.9 36.0 MAP
EMSC Cyprus Region
Apr 27 01:27 AM
3.1 1.0 MAP
EMSC Western Turkey
Apr 27 01:26 AM
3.0 5.0 MAP
EMSC Western Turkey
Apr 27 01:21 AM
2.6 5.0 MAP
EMSC Western Turkey
Apr 27 01:18 AM
2.5 5.0 MAP
EMSC Western Turkey
Apr 27 01:01 AM
2.5 5.0 MAP
EMSC Northern Italy
Apr 27 00:59 AM
2.6 9.0 MAP
GEONET West Coast
Apr 27 00:58 AM
3.9 5.0 MAP
USGS Mona Passage, Dominican Republic
Apr 27 00:50 AM
3.0 86.0 MAP
USGS Kodiak Island Region, Alaska
Apr 27 00:36 AM
2.6 101.1 MAP
EMSC Ionian Sea
Apr 27 00:35 AM
2.6 6.0 MAP
EMSC Near The Coast Of Western Turkey
Apr 27 00:22 AM
3.4 8.0 MAP
EMSC Western Turkey
Apr 27 00:02 AM
2.5 5.0 MAP
sources: USGS – EMSC – GFZ – GEONET
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Volcanic Activity
Nyamuragira volcano (DR Congo): new lava lake forming in summit crater ?
Nyamuragira volcano in the DR Congo might be forming a new lava lake in its summit caldera.
The volcano’s last eruption from the Kimanura fissure NE of the summit caldera seems to have ended by now. Until early to mid March, a lava lake was observed in the eastern vent and a strong heat source could be detected on satellite imagery, but has now disappeared.
Seismic explosion signals from a source under the summit were noted on 24 February from the summit crater and overflights showed increased degassing from the central pit, which contained a lava lake until 1940. This activity increased in April and a strong SO2 odor from this area suggests the presence of near-surface magma. Scientists and the park rangers are speculating about the possibility that a new lava lake in the summit crater might be about to form.
| 15 | 28.04.2012 | Volcano Activity | Mexico | State of Puebla, [Popocatepetl Volcano] |  |
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Popocatépetl volcanic activity
Published on Apr 27, 2012 by Demotix
The Popocatepetl volcano in Mexico has presented 12 low-intensity exhalations, which were accompanied by emissions of water vapor, gas and only on three occasions moderate amounts of ash.
VIDEO: View of Popocatepetl volcano with fumes and gas being released.
Video by Odette Cid, http://www.demotix.com/users/cid-autant.
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Extreme Temperatures/ Weather
| 27.04.2012 | Forest / Wild Fire | USA | State of Texas, [Kountze Region] |  |
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High Wind Warning
GREAT FALLS MT
Gale Warning
LOS ANGELES/OXNARD CA POINT ARENA TO POINT CONCEPTION POINT CONCEPTION TO GUADALUPE ISLAND
Freeze Warning
BUFFALO NY CLEVELAND OH BALTIMORE MD/WASHINGTON DC MOUNT HOLLY NJ BURLINGTON VT STATE COLLEGE PA CHARLESTON WV BINGHAMTON NY NEW YORK NY ALBANY NY TAUNTON MA PITTSBURGH PA DETROIT/PONTIAC MI GRAND RAPIDSMI GRAND JUNCTION CO
Hard Freeze Warning
SALT LAKE CITY UT
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Storms, Flooding
India - Cyclone ravages 40 Tinsukia villages, 3 killed.
A severe cyclone accompanied by heavy hailstorm that reaped through the Tinsukia district in the late afternoon Wednesday claimed three lives, besides causing heavy damage to property. More than 40 villages under Kakopathar, Pengeree and Dhola police stations have faced the fury of the cyclone. At Majbari village of Kakopathar, a big tree fell over a nine-year-old girl killing her instantly. There are reports of injuries to several other people in the areas affected by the cyclone. The cyclone played havoc in the entire areas destroying hundreds of residential houses, animal sheds, granaries, schools and other government buildings. There are reports of heavy losses of livestock and wild animals in the cyclone. The National Highways 37 and 52 have been blocked by uprooted trees for several hours. The power supply and telecommunication system have also been disrupted in the cyclone-affected areas of the district, which are yet to be fully repaired. The exact amount of losses in the cyclone is yet to be assessed. The storm destroyed hundreds of houses, demolished a hospital and a church, besides uprooting trees and disrupting power supply in the two districts. The storm accompanied by rains lasted for about 30 minutes, leaving a trail of destruction in most parts of the two districts with Doomdooma circle in Tinsukia being among the worst hit. A few names of affected villages and tea estates are Talap, Dangri, Tezipathar, Katorbasti, Borali, Maithong, Laina, Khobang, Dhola, Haikhati, Ghutung Gaon, Kherbari, Samguri, Kakopathar, Dirak in Tinsukia district. In Laina tea estate alone, some 91 houses were demolished, its hospital roof blown away and a church pulled down. Road communication was severely disrupted in several areas with uprooted trees and electric poles blocking highways and other roads. Government officials failed to give estimate of the total number of displaced people, affected villages and tea estates since the assessment was being carried out. Around 3,000 people are believed to have been rendered homeless. Most parts of the district plunged into darkness since midnight and the powert supply has not yet been restored.
| 26.04.2012 | Flash Flood | MultiCountries | [Haiti and Dominican Republic] |  |
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Flash Flood in Haiti on Wednesday, 11 April, 2012 at 03:06 (03:06 AM) UTC. EDIS CODE: FF-20120411-34839-HTI. – The United Nations says that flooding from two …
SANTO DOMINGO.- The Emergency Operations Center (COE) issued flash flood and mudslide warnings to four provinces and alerts to 13 others, as a frontal system will bring downpours ant thunderstorms to many parts of the country.
The COE declared Montecristi, Puerto Plata, Santiago and Maria Trinidad Sanchez provinces under warnings, and issued alerts for Valverde, Samaná, Santiago Rodriguez, Espaillat, Dajabón and Hermanas Mirabal.
It said Monseñor Noel, La Vega, Duarte, Monte Plata, Hato Mayor, San Pedro and El Seibo provinces should also be on the lookout for flash floods.
| 27.04.2012 | Tornado | USA | State of Colorado, [Prowers, Kiowa and Bent counties] | |
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7 Homes, Hog Farm Destroyed in Colorado Tornadoes
At least seven homes and a hog farm were destroyed early Friday after authorities said rare nighttime tornadoes ripped through sparsely populated counties on the southeastern Colorado plains.
State officials say no deaths have been reported, only minor injuries from the twisters reported in Prowers, Kiowa and Bent counties. Preliminary findings indicate five tornadoes touched down.
Officials in the Prowers County city of Lamar said deputies and state troopers spotted a fast and large tornado south of town that ripped through homes.
One home in Bent County and two in Prowers County were destroyed, said state emergency management division spokeswoman Micki Trost. In Kiowa County, four homes and a former church building were damaged or destroyed, said Chris Sorensen of the county sheriff’s office.
The damage included one home in Chivington, in Kiowa County, that was totaled after the five people sleeping inside escaped, owner Therisa Brown said. She added there was no warning before her home was demolished.
“We woke up to the roof getting ripped off,” Brown said. “We went to the living room, and we lifted a wall off of a friend who was staying with us. That’s when the tornado circled back, and it hit the house again. We barely made it into the bathroom.”
Most of Colombia’s 32 regions are suffering from flooding.
The country has seen widespread flooding in recent years, with some 3.6 million people, about 8% of the population, affected. 2012 seems set to continue this pattern. Army engineers have been busy evacuating people and livestock from disaster zones, working on roads, combating landslides, building emergency bridges and delivering aid. They were recently summoned to try to block off a burst river bank in one municipality of the capital Bogota. In the flood plains around the Chicu River, it was easy to spot the engineering problems. There are huge potholes in the streets, infrastructure was placed on delicate and unstable wetland. This is Bogota’s main problem. The capital lies at an altitude of 2,600m (8,530ft), and is criss-crossed by countless rivers that are constantly at risk of overflowing. Indeed Colombia as a whole, with its varied topography ranging from huge flood plains and savannahs to volcanic regions and the Andes, is more at risk than most from natural disasters. Repair work is often a race against time before more rains come. People dependent on farming this land are among those who are suffering most. On 24 April, the President enacted a law aimed at improving natural disaster response and prevention at both national and local level. More than 60,000 people were affected so far this year and the rains are forecast to continue until June.
Winter Storm Warning
BILLINGS MT GREAT FALLS MT
Flood Warning
MISSOULA MT BOISE ID SPOKANE, WA NORTH PLATTE NE LAKE CHARLES LA POCATELLO ID
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Radiation/Biological Hazard
| 1 | 19.04.2012 | Biological Hazard | China | Ningxia Autonomous region, [Touying township] | |
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| 27.04.2012 | Biological Hazard | Kazakhstan | [Statewide] | |
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Chinese health workers cull chickens after an outbreak of the H5N1 bird flu virus …
Agricultural authorities in northwest China have culled about 95,000 chickens after an outbreak of the H5N1 bird flu virus, state press reported Wednesday.
The outbreak in Touying township of the Ningxia region was discovered on Friday last week after over 23,000 chickens began showing symptoms, Xinhua news agency said, citing the Ministry of Agriculture.
The ministry said the “epidemic is now under control”, the report said, while work teams have been sent to the area to step up prevention measures.
China is considered one of the nations most at risk of bird flu epidemics because it has the world’s biggest poultry population and many chickens in rural areas are kept close to humans.
In January, a man in southwest China’s Guizhou province died after contracting the bird flu virus, the second such fatality reported in China this year, health authorities said.
| 1 | 28.04.2012 | Nuclear Event | USA | State of California, [Diablo Canyon Nuclear Power Plant] | |
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Diablo Canyon nuclear plant in California knocked offline by jellyfish-like creatures called salp
Diablo Canyon Power Plant / AP
This photo provided by the Diablo Canyon Power Plant on Friday shows salp, a gelatinous sea creature, at a nuclear reactor intake structure.
In Japan, it was a monstrous earthquake and tsunami that brought down the Fukushima nuclear plant. In California, it’s a tiny, jellyfish-like sea creature called salp that’s causing problems at the Diablo Canyon atomic plant.
An invasion of salp has prompted Pacific Gas and Electric Co. to temporarily shut down a nuclear reactor at Diablo Canyon, in Avila Beach, San Luisa Obispo County, on the central California coast.
A giant swarm of the transluscent barrel-shaped organisms this week clogged intake screens that are used to keep marine life out of the seawater that is used as a coolant for the nuclear plant.
On Wednesday, PG&E officials reduced power output at the Unit 2 reactor, then decided to shut it down altogether “until conditions improve at the intake structure.” The plant’s other reactor, Unit 1, had already been shut down earlier in the week for a planned refueling and maintenance outage.
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Solar Activity
2MIN News Apr27: Solar Activity, GeoMagnetics, World Update
Published on Apr 27, 2012 by Suspicious0bservers
http://arabnews.com/saudiarabia/article618616.ece
http://phys.org/news/2012-04-hole-climate-eastern-states.html
http://www.space.com/15449-astronauts-leaving-space-station-expedition30.html
http://www.businessweek.com/ap/2012-04/D9UCT1C82.htm
http://ibnlive.in.com/generalnewsfeed/news/sp-downgrades-indias-credit-outloo…
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/story/2012/04/26/toronto-ontario-defici…
http://spaceweather.com/
http://rsd.gsfc.nasa.gov/goes/
http://www.haarp.alaska.edu/haarp/data.html
http://sdo.gsfc.nasa.gov/data/
http://umtof.umd.edu/pm/
http://sohodata.nascom.nasa.gov/cgi-bin/soho_movie_theater
http://www.ips.gov.au/HF_Systems/6/5
http://solarimg.org/artis/
http://www.swpc.noaa.gov/wsa-enlil/cme-based/
http://hisz.rsoe.hu/alertmap/index2.php
http://ccmc.gsfc.nasa.gov/cgi-bin/SWMF_RealTime_browse.cgi
http://grb.sonoma.edu/
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Epidemic/Pandemic
| 3 | 24.04.2012 | Epidemic Hazard | Vietnam | Province of Quang Ngai, [Son Ky Commune] | |
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| 27.04.2012 | Epidemic | Ukraine | Multiple areas, [Western part of the country] | |
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| 27.04.2012 | Epidemic Hazard | USA | State of Wisconsin, Milwaukee | |
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Euro 2012: Ukraine advises visiting supporters to get measles jabs
• Measles outbreak hit western areas of Ukraine in March
• ‘Epidemic expected to accelerate and spread’
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Reuters
- guardian.co.uk, Wednesday 18 April 2012 09.48 EDT
- Article history
Ukraine – which hosts the European Championship in June together with Poland – has urged fans to get vaccinated against measles before visiting, the Kiev Post newspaper reported on Wednesday.
“If you plan to come to Ukraine, please get vaccinated at home,” the newspaper quoted Oleksandr Kravchuk, deputy head of the state sanitary and epidemiological service, as saying. “The situation with measles is unfavourable in our country.”
The European Centre of Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC), a European Union agency in charge of fighting infectious diseases, reported a measles outbreak in the former Soviet republic last month with more than 5,000 cases registered.
The outbreak was concentrated in the west of the country bordering on Hungary, Poland and Slovakia.
“The epidemic is expected to accelerate and spread geographically during the peak transmission season for measles from February to June,” ECDC said.
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Wildlife
Dolphins are Mysteriously Dying Around the World
By Eddie Sage on 27 April 2012
Since January, dead dolphins have washed ashore in Peru, the death toll reaching a staggering 877. Scientists are still trying to explain the bizarre deaths, and their best prediction at the moment is that its due to a virus outbreak or acoustic trauma.
Environmental authorities are investigating the deaths of more than 800 dolphins that have washed up on the northern coast of Peru this year.
The dolphins may have died from an outbreak of Morbillivirus or Brucella bacteria, said Peruvian Deputy Environment Minister Gabriel Quijandria, according to Peru’s state-run Andina news agency. Speaking to CNN, he said he expects test results to be ready within the week.
“Right now, the most probable hypothesis is that it’s a virus outbreak,” he said.
Quijandria said Thursday that 877 dolphins have washed up in a 220-kilometer (137-mile) area from Punta Aguja to Lambayeque, in the north of the country.
More than 80% of those dolphins were found in an advanced state of decomposition, making it difficult to study their deaths, according to Andina.
Earlier last week, the Peruvian government put together a panel from different ministries to analyze a report by the Peruvian Sea Institute (IMARPE). Officials have been able to conclude that the dolphins’ deaths were not due to lack of food, interaction with fisheries, poisoning with pesticides, biotoxin poisoning or contamination by heavy metals.
“When you have something this large, my gut would tell me that there’s something traumatic that happened,” Sue Rocca, a marine biologist with the Whale and Dolphin Conservation Society, told CNN. She floated a number of number of possibilities as to what could have killed the animals, including acoustic trauma, but concluded that investigators just don’t know yet. “More investigation needs to be done,” she said.
More then 200 Dolphins have beached themselves on Manila Bay, Philippians
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Articles of Interest
| 27.04.2012 | Terror Attack | Ukraine | Dnipropetrovska Oblast, Dnepropetrovsk |  |
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Ukraine Terrorist Attacks
Published on Apr 27, 2012 by baynetna
We have it confirmed officially that four explosions happened in the Ukraine’s third largest city of Dnepropetrovsk in the east of the country. Twenty-seven people have received injuries, no people passed away so far as we understand. Twenty-five of them have been hospitalized, nine of them are children and some of them are in a very severe condition with very severe wounds. Now, the authorities are still trying to determine what exactly happened, but we do know that four self-made explosive devices went off with about a 20-minute difference each.
All were put in trash bins at tramway stops. Interesting that all those tram stops were on the very same tramway line in the central part of Dnepropetrovsk. Now panic is gripping the city, with people staying in their offices too afraid to go home fearing that more blasts could happen. The public transport has been suspended in the central part of the city, and mobile phones do not work, probably because authorities are afraid of more blasts and that’s why they are jamming all the cell phone connections.
Also, the Internet is just literally flooded with panic-driven messages that as many as 10 explosions have in fact happened in the city, but this has not been yet confirmed by the authorities. We for now know only of four explosions in the city of Dnepropetrovsk. But we are certainly waiting for any more developments from the eastern Ukrainian city.
Certainly, the authorities have already launched an investigation on terrorist attack, but nobody has yet claimed any responsibility for these actions and such things are in fact untypical for Ukraine. These things could be called irregularity, because Ukraine is not known for terrorist attacks on its soil. But investigators are saying that this is most likely a terrorist attack, because, as I’ve said, all of the four explosive devices were self-made and the fact that they went off with a particular time difference certainly adds to the theory that this was an orchestrated terrorist attack on Ukraine’s third largest city. Now, certainly while we are waiting for more information and explanation on who is behind this attack, already this attack has some serious implications, especially given that in just about 40 days Ukraine will have the Euro 2012 football championship starting here. And certainly with such string of explosions in its third largest city with a population over one million people puts serious concerns about the security during the football tournament and could in fact jeopardize the whole football championship. We have to wait and see what the authorities have to say, and whether they would be able to find those responsible for this attack in Dnepropetrovsk.
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