Earthquakes

 

RSOE EDIS

Date/Time (UTC)	Magnitude	Area	Country	State/Prov./Gov.	Location	Risk			Source	Details
23.06.2012 09:20:34	2.6	North America	United States	Nevada	Incline Village				USGS-RSOE
23.06.2012 09:20:59	2.1	Middle America	Mexico	Estado de Baja California	Las Catitas				USGS-RSOE
23.06.2012 09:00:48	4.0	Pacific Ocean	New Zealand	Woodville County	Darfield				GEONET
23.06.2012 07:50:38	2.1	North America	United States	California	Iceland				USGS-RSOE
23.06.2012 09:10:46	2.6	North America	United States	Texas	Egan				USGS-RSOE
23.06.2012 07:40:58	2.4	North America	United States	California	Muir				USGS-RSOE
23.06.2012 07:00:34	2.6	North America	United States	Utah	Commonwealth Square Condominium				USGS-RSOE
23.06.2012 06:55:33	5.9	Indonesian archipelago	Indonesia		Keudeampontuan				USGS-RSOE
23.06.2012 06:20:33	2.4	North America	United States	Alaska	Happy Valley				USGS-RSOE
23.06.2012 06:00:34	4.2	North America	United States	California	Iceland				USGS-RSOE
23.06.2012 05:50:31	4.5	Indonesian archipelago	Indonesia	Propinsi Maluku	Lautong				USGS-RSOE
23.06.2012 05:20:46	2.4	North America	United States	Alaska	Kanatak				USGS-RSOE
23.06.2012 05:06:03	3.1	North America	United States	Utah	Bloomington Hills				USGS-RSOE
23.06.2012 04:25:37	2.3	North America	United States	California	Scissors Crossing				USGS-RSOE
23.06.2012 03:45:29	2.0	North America	United States	California	Imperial				USGS-RSOE
23.06.2012 03:40:31	4.7	Atlantic Ocean	Saint Helena		Wild Cattle Pound				USGS-RSOE
23.06.2012 01:45:53	2.9	Caribbean	Dominican Republic	Provincia de La Altagracia	Tres Hermanos				USGS-RSOE
22.06.2012 23:30:30	2.2	North America	Canada	British Columbia	Princeton				USGS-RSOE
22.06.2012 23:55:38	3.5	Caribbean	Puerto Rico		Vinet				USGS-RSOE
22.06.2012 23:15:32	2.3	North America	United States	California	Imperial				USGS-RSOE
22.06.2012 23:10:44	2.3	North America	United States	California	Imperial				USGS-RSOE
22.06.2012 23:11:04	2.3	North America	United States	California	Imperial				USGS-RSOE
22.06.2012 23:11:26	2.0	North America	United States	California	Imperial				USGS-RSOE
22.06.2012 23:15:52	2.2	North America	United States	Oregon	Bradwood				USGS-RSOE
22.06.2012 22:15:41	2.2	North America	United States	California	Iceland				USGS-RSOE
22.06.2012 21:40:33	2.1	North America	United States	California	Linnie				USGS-RSOE
22.06.2012 21:55:43	4.7	Asia	Japan	Tokyo-to	Oki				USGS-RSOE
22.06.2012 18:30:39	2.4	North America	United States	California	Mercuryville				USGS-RSOE
22.06.2012 17:20:35	2.9	North America	United States	California	Ribbonwood				USGS-RSOE
22.06.2012 19:40:38	2.3	North America	United States	Alaska	Happy Valley				USGS-RSOE
22.06.2012 16:25:33	2.1	North America	United States	Hawaii	Volcano				USGS-RSOE
22.06.2012 15:25:43	2.4	North America	United States	Washington	Ballow				USGS-RSOE
23.06.2012 00:11:09	2.7	Pacific Ocean	New Zealand	Woodville County	New Brighton				GEONET
22.06.2012 15:11:15	4.0	Pacific Ocean	New Zealand	Woodville County	New Brighton				GEONET
22.06.2012 14:50:41	4.8	Pacific Ocean	New Zealand	Woodville County	Horoera				USGS-RSOE
22.06.2012 14:35:39	4.9	Pacific Ocean	New Zealand	Woodville County	Horoera				USGS-RSOE
22.06.2012 19:50:32	2.7	Caribbean	British Virgin Islands		The Settlement				USGS-RSOE
22.06.2012 14:00:38	2.3	Caribbean	Puerto Rico		Tosquero (historical)				USGS-RSOE
22.06.2012 12:05:52	3.8	Australia	Australia	State of New South Wales	Narrallen				USGS-RSOE
22.06.2012 10:20:35	5.1	Asia	Japan	Iwate-ken	Aneyoshi				USGS-RSOE
22.06.2012 09:55:47	4.7	North America	United States	Alaska	McCord				USGS-RSOE
22.06.2012 10:05:44	5.0	North America	United States	Alaska	McCord				USGS-RSOE
22.06.2012 12:00:33	3.7	Caribbean	Dominican Republic	Provincia de La Altagracia	La Zanja				USGS-RSOE
22.06.2012 22:31:02	2.2	North America	United States	Utah	Ticaboo				USGS-RSOE
22.06.2012 19:30:47	2.2	North America	United States	Alaska	Happy Valley				USGS-RSOE

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(RTTNews) – A powerful earthquake of 6.0 magnitude struck in the Pacific Ocean off Australia’s remote and sparsely-populated Macquarie Island on Friday, according to the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS).

The USGS reported that the quake struck at a shallow depth of 6.2 miles at about 3:30 p.m. local time, with its epicenter located some 14 miles northwest of Macquarie Island.

There were no immediate reports of casualities or damages, and the Pacific Tsunami Warning Center is yet to respond to the tremor.

Macquarie Island is located in the southwest corner of the Pacific Ocean, about half-way between New Zealand and Antarctica. Politically, it is part of Tasmania, Australia, since 1900 and became a Tasmanian State Reserve in 1978. In 1997 it became a World Heritage Site.

The island is home to the entire Royal Penguin population on earth during their annual nesting season. Ecologically, the remote island is part of the Antipodes Subantarctic Islands tundra ecoregion.

Since 1948, the Australian Antarctic Division (AAD) has maintained a permanent base on the island. The population of the base, the island’s only human inhabitants, usually varies from 20 to 40 people over the year.

by RTT Staff Writer

 

 

Information from the USGS:

4.2 Ml – NEVADA
Preliminary Earthquake Report
Magnitude4.2 Ml
Date-Time
23 Jun 2012 03:51:56 UTC
22 Jun 2012 20:51:56 near epicenter
22 Jun 2012 19:51:56 standard time in your timezone
Location39.323N 119.979W
Depth11 km
Distances
9 km (6 miles) NNW (344 degrees) of Incline Village-Crystal Bay, NV
10 km (6 miles) NE (35 degrees) of Tahoe Vista, CA
10 km (6 miles) NNE (23 degrees) of Kings Beach, CA
26 km (16 miles) SSW (211 degrees) of Reno, NV
155 km (96 miles) NE (56 degrees) of Sacramento, CA

5.9-magnitude quake hits N. Sumatra, Indonesia — USGS English.news.cn   2012-06-23 13:48:24             JAKARTA, June 23 (Xinhua) — An earthquake measuring 5.9 jolted northern Sumatra, Indonesia at 0434 GMT on Saturday, the U.S. Geological Survey said. The epicenter, with a depth of 97.40 km, was initially determined to be at 2.9635 degrees north latitude and 97.9111 degrees east longitude.

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Extreme Temperatures/ Weather

SALT LAKE CITY — Thousands of homes were evacuated from two small Utah communities on Friday as high winds whipped up a brush fire triggered by target shooters and pushed the flames toward houses and a nearby explosives factory.

The so-called Dump fire erupted Thursday in the Kiowa Valley near a landfill for Saratoga Springs, a town of 18,000 on the west shore of Utah Lake, about 35 miles south of Salt Lake City.

Nearly 9,000 people had been evacuated, Utah County Sheriff’s Sgt. Spencer Cannon told The Deseret News.

The blaze initially scorched about 750 acres of cheat grass, sage and pinyon juniper south and west of town, but by Friday, a combination of strong winds and rising heat shifted the fire’s direction and sparked rapid growth, Bureau of Land Management spokeswoman Teresa Rigby said.

By Friday evening, the blaze had grown to more than 4,000 acres. Rigby said fire crews had cut containment lines around 20 percent of the blaze, but that number slipped as flames spread.

About 100 firefighters were working the blaze on Friday, with more teams expected, Rigby said. Air support was being provided by one air tanker and one helicopter. A red-flag warning for high wildfire hazards was posted across Utah, and Rigby said authorities are expecting winds of more than 20 mph by afternoon.

Sheriff’s deputies with bullhorns rolled through Saratoga Springs neighborhoods ordering the first evacuations at about 10 a.m., after flames had burned to within half a mile of homes. By midday, evacuations were expanded to include a portion of nearby Eagle Mountain, just east of Saratoga Springs.

Homeowner and commercial photographer Renee Keith said she and her husband decided the fire had burned “too close for comfort” and began packing before authorities ordered them out. Keith said she packed her children’s baby books, the computer hard drives, one bag of clothes and camera equipment.

“I was kind of nervous, especially when we were packing the car,” Keith told Reuters. “Ash was falling on us as we were pulling away.”

The Keiths said their biggest concern was for a nearby plant that makes explosives for the construction and mining industries. The fire was reportedly burning within one mile of the factory, but authorities said the flames appeared to have burned around it.

It was not clear Friday how long authorities would keep residents away, Rigby said.

In neighboring Colorado, fire managers on Friday reported making progress against a 100-square-mile fire burning west of Fort Collins, near the Wyoming border, after two days of cooler temperatures, calmer winds and higher humidity.

Officials there said containment of the fire, which ranks as the most destructive on record in Colorado, had increased to 60 percent.

But a return of triple-digit temperatures and gusty winds in the forecast posed a renewed challenge to firefighters battling the lightning-caused blaze, fire commander Bill Hahnenberg said.

The fire has been blamed for one casualty so far, a 62-year-old grandmother whose remains were found last week in the cabin where she lived alone.

Reuters contributed to this report.

Forest / Wild Fire in USA on Friday, 22 June, 2012 at 18:05 (06:05 PM) UTC.

Description

A massive, out of control wildfire on Lake Mountain prompted evacuations Friday morning and was bearing down on an explosives factory. “It’s close enough to where we’re really worried,” BLM spokeswoman Cami Lee said of the explosives plant. An evacuation of the Benches subdivision in Saratoga Springs has now begun. Officials have begun notifying residents door to door and through reverse 911 telephone calls. The evacuation area is everything south of Pony Express Parkway, east of Smith Ranch Road and east to Redwood Road. The affected subdivisions in Eagle Mountain include Kiowa Valley, Eagle Top, Fremont Springs and SilverLake. Highway 68 also was closed south of 400 North in Saratoga Springs. A shelter is being set up at West Lake High School. Just after 11 a.m. the temperature was already 90 degrees and the wind was blowing at 15 mph with gust up to 19 mph. Authorities were scrambling around 10 a.m. to notify residents of at least 250 homes in Saratoga Springs and Eagle Mountain that they needed to leave the area. Bureau of Land Management spokeswoman Teresa Rigby said that a change in wind was driving the Dump Fire east and it had come within a quarter of a mile of a neighborhood. The thick brown smoke was filling the air over much of northern Utah County and drifting east over the valley. An air tanker was flying overhead, visible only occasionally before it disappeared into the smoke. In Saratoga Springs the city’s water department has shut off irrigation wast er to all location where culinary water is being used for irrigation, according to the city’s Facebook page, so water tanks can fill and provide water and water pressure if the fire reaches homes. The city also is asking residents to turn off their irrigation systems this weekend. According to the BLM, the fire was being fought Friday morning by four hand crews, various fire engines, and a handful of helicopters. Additional hand crews were en route.

22.06.2012

Forest / Wild Fire

USA

State of Utah, Saratoga Springs

Red Flag Warning

FIRE WEATHER MESSAGE

PUEBLO CO
RIVERTON WY
SALT LAKE CITY UT
CHEYENNE WY
LAS VEGAS NV
ELKO NV
GRAND JUNCTION CO
FLAGSTAFF AZ
DENVER CO
FAIRBANKS AK
POCATELLO ID

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Storms, Flooding

NASA sees tropical trouble brewing in southern Gulf of Mexico

 

This visible image of System 96L was captured by NOAA’s GOES-13 satellite on June 22 at 1601 UTC (12:01 p.m. EDT). The image was created at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md., by the NASA GOES Project Credit: NASA GOES Project

Imagery from NOAA’s GOES-13 satellite has shown some towering thunderstorms within the low pressure area called System 96L, located in the southern Gulf of Mexico. NASA continues to create the imagery from the GOES satellite and NASA satellites are also monitoring the developing low. If it does organize further and become a tropical storm over the weekend, it would be named “Debby.”

Its quite likely that the fourth tropical cyclone of the North Atlantic Hurricane Season is brewing in the southern Gulf of Mexico, more specifically, in the Yucatan Channel. The Yucatan Channel lies between Mexico’s Yucatan Peninsula and western Cuba.

Tropical depressions seem have have a habit of forming on weekends, and this low appears to be following that habit. On Friday, June 22 at 0900 UTC (5 a.m. EDT), System 96L was located near 22.5 North and 89.5 West, near the north coast of the Yucatan Peninsula.

The GOES-13 satellite continually monitors the eastern U.S. and provides updated visible and infrared imagery. An image from June 22 at 1601 UTC (12:01 p.m. EDT) shows a large low pressure area near the Yucatan’s northern coast with disorganized showers and thunderstorms. In the image, some of the thunderstorms near the center of the low appear to be higher than the surrounding clouds,which indicates they are higher and stronger.

The National Hurricane Center (NHC) noted that atmospheric pressure on the surface continues to fall, indicating that the low pressure area is intensifying. Forecasters at NHC give System 96L a 70 percent chance of becoming the fourth tropical depression of the Atlantic Hurricane season, sometime over the weekend.

Meanwhile, System 96L is expected to move slowly northward into the Gulf of Mexico this weekend (June 23-24). The NHC notes “Interests along the entire United States Gulf Coast should monitor the progress of this disturbance through the weekend. Heavy rains and localized flooding are possible across the Yucatan peninsula, western Cuba, and southern Florida through Saturday.”

Provided by NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center

Flood Warning

PENDLETON OR
DULUTH MN
TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN MN
LAKE CHARLES LA

Flood Advisory

TOPEKA KS
JUNEAU AK

Coastal Flood Advisory

BROWNSVILLE TX
NEW ORLEANS LA

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Epidemic Hazards / Diseases

Today

Epidemic Hazard

USA

State of Virginia, Fairfax [George Mason University]

Epidemic Hazard in USA on Saturday, 23 June, 2012 at 04:33 (04:33 AM) UTC.

Description
Health officials are investigating the cause of a mystery sickness bug which claimed more than 40 victims in one night. Dozens of students at George Mason University, Washington, were taken ill with food poisoning and flu-like symptoms on Wednesday night and Thursday morning. Those with reported sickness are said to be from a group of 80 international students aged between 15 and 22, who were at the school to attend the Congressional Awards Foundation Program. An unknown number of students were taken to the George Washington University Hospital after being taken ill, while more students developed similar symptoms just hours later. The students called 911, before another seven pupils were transported to a nearby hospital. Officials are still investigating what caused the illness, but say more than 40 students have so far been affected. Fairfax County health officials say the outbreak may have been viral gastroenteritis, which causes vomiting and diarrhea. A member of Fairfax County Fire and EMS told NBC: ‘Originally they thought it might be related to the heat and dehydration, but they started to show more of a stomach-type virus or illness.’ NBC reported that the virus was spread person to person by touching the infected surface areas. Health officials are now said to be working with the university to clean the area sick students may have infected.
Biohazard name:	Unidentified illness
Biohazard level:	1/4 Low
Biohazard desc.:	Bacteria and viruses including Bacillus subtilis, canine hepatitis, Escherichia coli, varicella (chicken pox), as well as some cell cultures and non-infectious bacteria. At this level precautions against the biohazardous materials in question are minimal, most likely involving gloves and some sort of facial protection. Usually, contaminated materials are left in open (but separately indicated) waste receptacles. Decontamination procedures for this level are similar in most respects to modern precautions against everyday viruses (i.e.: washing one’s hands with anti-bacterial soap, washing all exposed surfaces of the lab with disinfectants, etc). In a lab environment, all materials used for cell and/or bacteria cultures are decontaminated via autoclave.
Symptoms:	flu-like symptoms, possible viral gastroenteritis
Status:	suspected

22.06.2012

Epidemic Hazard

India

State of Gujarat, Ahmedabad

Epidemic Hazard in India on Friday, 22 June, 2012 at 18:03 (06:03 PM) UTC.

Description
A local hospital is on alert as a resident doctor died of the dreaded Crimean-Congo Hemorrhagic Fever (Congo fever) here today. Dr Smiral Patel of V S Hospital, who contracted the virus while treating a patient with unknown hemorrhagic viral fever, today died at a private hospital. “We started screening all ward boys, nursing staff and resident doctors as soon as we received the positive report of the blood sample of Dr Patel from the National Institute of Virology, Pune,” said Dr Pankaj Patel, the superintendent of the Municipal Corporation-run V S Hospital. On Wednesday, while Dr Smiral Patel was treating a patient, a splash of patient`s blood landed on his face. Next day he complained of high-grade fever, severe headache, and metallic taste in his mouth. He was immediately rushed here. But today he passed away,” said Dr Atul Patel, senior consultant at Sterling Hospital, where Dr Smiral was undergoing treatment. Authorities at the V S Hospital have started checking up everybody who was in the team with Dr Smiral, and given preventive medicines to his colleagues, who had taken him to the private hospital and stayed with him. Last year, a woman, Amina Momin of Sanand town near Ahmedabad, had died of Congo Fever.
Biohazard name:	Crimean-Congo Hemorrhagic Fever
Biohazard level:	3/4 Hight
Biohazard desc.:	Bacteria and viruses that can cause severe to fatal disease in humans, but for which vaccines or other treatments exist, such as anthrax, West Nile virus, Venezuelan equine encephalitis, SARS virus, variola virus (smallpox), tuberculosis, typhus, Rift Valley fever, Rocky Mountain spotted fever, yellow fever, and malaria. Among parasites Plasmodium falciparum, which causes Malaria, and Trypanosoma cruzi, which causes trypanosomiasis, also come under this level.
Symptoms:
Status:	confirmed

US journal prints controversial bird flu research

Terra Daily
by Staff Writers
Washington (AFP) June 21, 2012

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Solar Activity

2MIN News June 22, 2012: Coronal Hole Coming, Tropical Development

Published on Jun 22, 2012 by Suspicious0bservers

AMAZING: http://www.universetoday.com/95920/a-gamma-ray-burst-as-music/

TODAYS LINKS
Antarctic 15M years ago: http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2012/06/120620-green-antarctica-trees…
Antarctic 2.8M years ago: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/06/120621151506.htm
Mars Water: http://phys.org/news/2012-06-extensive-mars-interior.html
Carbon Emission: http://www.nasa.gov/centers/jpl/news/earth20120621.html
Agenda 21: http://www.un.org/esa/dsd/agenda21/
China Goes NWO: http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/china/2012-06/22/c_131669027.htm
Moody Rate Cuts: http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/06/22/us-financial-moodys-downgrades-idUS…
Taliban Attack: http://en.rian.ru/world/20120622/174180317.html

REPEAT LINKS
Spaceweather: http://spaceweather.com/ [Look on the left at the X-ray Flux and Solar Wind Speed/Density]

HAARP: http://www.haarp.alaska.edu/haarp/data.html [Click online data, and have a little fun]

SDO: http://sdo.gsfc.nasa.gov/data/ [Place to find Solar Images and Videos - as seen from earth]

SOHO: http://sohodata.nascom.nasa.gov/cgi-bin/soho_movie_theater [SOHO; Lasco and EIT - as seen from earth]

Stereo: http://stereo.gsfc.nasa.gov/cgi-bin/images [Stereo; Cor, EUVI, HI - as seen from the side]

SunAEON:http://www.sunaeon.com/#/solarsystem/ [Just click it... trust me]

SOLARIMG: http://solarimg.org/artis/ [All purpose data viewing site]

iSWA: http://iswa.gsfc.nasa.gov/iswa/iSWA.html [Free Application; for advanced sun watchers]

NOAA ENLIL SPIRAL: http://www.swpc.noaa.gov/wsa-enlil/cme-based/ [CME Evolution]

RSOE: http://hisz.rsoe.hu/alertmap/index2.php [That cool alert map I use]

JAPAN Radiation Map: http://jciv.iidj.net/map/

LISS: http://earthquake.usgs.gov/monitoring/operations/heliplots_gsn.php

Gamma Ray Bursts: http://grb.sonoma.edu/ [Really? You can't figure out what this one is for?]

BARTOL Cosmic Rays: http://neutronm.bartol.udel.edu//spaceweather/welcome.html [Top left box, look for BIG blue circles]

TORCON: http://www.weather.com/news/tornado-torcon-index [Tornado Forecast for the day]

GOES Weather: http://rsd.gsfc.nasa.gov/goes/ [Clouds over America]

INTELLICAST: http://www.intellicast.com/ [Weather site used by many youtubers]

NASA News: http://science.nasa.gov/science-news/science-at-nasa/

PHYSORG: http://phys.org/ [GREAT News Site!]

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Space

Earth approaching objects (objects that are known in the next 30 days)
Object Name	Apporach Date	Left	AU Distance	LD Distance	Estimated Diameter*	Relative Velocity
(2011 AH5)	25th June 2012	2 day(s)	0.1670	65.0	17 m – 39 m	5.84 km/s	21024 km/h
(2012 FA14)	25th June 2012	2 day(s)	0.0322	12.5	75 m – 170 m	5.28 km/s	19008 km/h
(2004 YG1)	25th June 2012	2 day(s)	0.0890	34.7	140 m – 310 m	11.34 km/s	40824 km/h
(2010 AF3)	25th June 2012	2 day(s)	0.1190	46.3	16 m – 36 m	6.54 km/s	23544 km/h
(2008 YT30)	26th June 2012	3 day(s)	0.0715	27.8	370 m – 820 m	10.70 km/s	38520 km/h
(2010 NY65)	27th June 2012	4 day(s)	0.1023	39.8	120 m – 270 m	15.09 km/s	54324 km/h
(2008 WM64)	28th June 2012	5 day(s)	0.1449	56.4	200 m – 440 m	17.31 km/s	62316 km/h
(2010 CD55)	28th June 2012	5 day(s)	0.1975	76.8	64 m – 140 m	6.33 km/s	22788 km/h
(2004 CL)	30th June 2012	7 day(s)	0.1113	43.3	220 m – 480 m	20.75 km/s	74700 km/h
(2008 YQ2)	03rd July 2012	10 day(s)	0.1057	41.1	29 m – 65 m	15.60 km/s	56160 km/h
(2005 QQ30)	06th July 2012	13 day(s)	0.1765	68.7	280 m – 620 m	13.13 km/s	47268 km/h
(2011 YJ28)	06th July 2012	13 day(s)	0.1383	53.8	150 m – 330 m	14.19 km/s	51084 km/h
276392 (2002 XH4)	07th July 2012	14 day(s)	0.1851	72.0	370 m – 840 m	7.76 km/s	27936 km/h
(2003 MK4)	08th July 2012	15 day(s)	0.1673	65.1	180 m – 410 m	14.35 km/s	51660 km/h
(1999 NW2)	08th July 2012	15 day(s)	0.0853	33.2	62 m – 140 m	6.66 km/s	23976 km/h
189P/NEAT	09th July 2012	16 day(s)	0.1720	66.9	n/a	12.47 km/s	44892 km/h
(2000 JB6)	10th July 2012	17 day(s)	0.1780	69.3	490 m – 1.1 km	6.42 km/s	23112 km/h
(2010 MJ1)	10th July 2012	17 day(s)	0.1533	59.7	52 m – 120 m	10.35 km/s	37260 km/h
(2008 NP3)	12th July 2012	19 day(s)	0.1572	61.2	57 m – 130 m	6.08 km/s	21888 km/h
(2006 BV39)	12th July 2012	19 day(s)	0.1132	44.1	4.2 m – 9.5 m	11.11 km/s	39996 km/h
(2005 NE21)	15th July 2012	22 day(s)	0.1555	60.5	140 m – 320 m	10.77 km/s	38772 km/h
(2003 KU2)	15th July 2012	22 day(s)	0.1034	40.2	770 m – 1.7 km	17.12 km/s	61632 km/h
(2007 TN74)	16th July 2012	23 day(s)	0.1718	66.9	20 m – 45 m	7.36 km/s	26496 km/h
(2007 DD)	16th July 2012	23 day(s)	0.1101	42.8	19 m – 42 m	6.47 km/s	23292 km/h
(2006 BC8)	16th July 2012	23 day(s)	0.1584	61.6	25 m – 56 m	17.71 km/s	63756 km/h
144411 (2004 EW9)	16th July 2012	23 day(s)	0.1202	46.8	1.3 km – 2.9 km	10.90 km/s	39240 km/h
(2012 BV26)	18th July 2012	25 day(s)	0.1759	68.4	94 m – 210 m	10.88 km/s	39168 km/h
(2010 OB101)	19th July 2012	26 day(s)	0.1196	46.6	200 m – 450 m	13.34 km/s	48024 km/h
(2008 OX1)	20th July 2012	27 day(s)	0.1873	72.9	130 m – 300 m	15.35 km/s	55260 km/h
(2010 GK65)	21st July 2012	28 day(s)	0.1696	66.0	34 m – 75 m	17.80 km/s	64080 km/h
(2011 OJ45)	21st July 2012	28 day(s)	0.1367	53.2	18 m – 39 m	3.79 km/s	13644 km/h
153958 (2002 AM31)	22nd July 2012	29 day(s)	0.0351	13.7	630 m – 1.4 km	9.55 km/s	34380 km/h
1 AU = ~150 million kilometers,1 LD = Lunar Distance = ~384,000 kilometers Source: NASA-NEO

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Biological Hazard / Wildlife

Today

Biological Hazard

USA

State of Hawaii, [Maui]

Biological Hazard in USA on Saturday, 23 June, 2012 at 04:36 (04:36 AM) UTC.

Description
Wetland biologists and others involved in managing lands with associated wetlands have been notified by the Department of Land and Natural Resources’ Division of Forestry and Wildlife (DOFAW) of a recent avian botulism outbreak affecting waterbirds on Maui. In just over a week, 67 birds have been found dead at Kanaha Pond Wildlife Sanctuary in Kahului including Hawaiian Stilt, Hawaiian Coot, and Hawaiian Ducks of adult and juvenile stages. The paralytic disease has killed adult birds on their nests, also causing the eggs to be lost. Because botulinum toxin can be produced in most wetlands, and transported to new wetlands by dead or dying waterfowl, landowners and managers, both public and private, are being asked to frequently survey their wetlands for sick and/or dead birds, remove any dead or dying birds from the wetland, and contact local DOFAW biologists for guidance. Earlier this year a botulism outbreak in Hanalei, Kauai resulted in over 300 sick and dead birds being collected by USFWS refuge staff. Additionally, numerous other botulism fatalities have also been reported at wetlands throughout the state. Botulism is a paralytic condition brought on by the consumption of a naturally occurring toxin produced by the bacterium Clostridium botulinum. It is an intoxication rather than an infectious disease. Botulism, type C is commonly found in Hawaiian soils and is NOT dangerous to humans. Particular environmental conditions in wetlands will sometimes allow this bacterium to produce botulinum toxin; the toxin is then accumulated in aquatic invertebrates. It is consumption of these toxic invertebrates by waterfowl that leads to mortality. In Hawai‘i, birds commonly affected include waterfowl frequenting wetlands such as our endangered Hawaiian coots, Hawaiian ducks, Laysan ducks, Hawaiian moorhen, Hawaiian stilts, Black-crowned night- herons, and various migratory waterfowl and shorebirds. The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) National Wildlife Health Center Honolulu Field Station (NWHC-HFS) has been working closely with the US Fish and Wildlife Service and the State of Hawaii DLNR to investigate and confirm botulism as a cause of waterfowl mortality in Hanalei and Kahului. The NWHC-HFS provides technical assistance to federal, state, municipal, and non-governmental organizations on wildlife health related matters in Hawai‘i and the Pacific. “Part of our role is to determine the cause of death during unusual wildlife mortality events involving native and endangered species and provide management recommendations to address and mitigate such mortalities” said Dr. Thierry Work, Wildlife Disease Specialist for the USGS National Wildlife Health Center Honolulu Field Station. “For this particular event, our team first conducts necropsies of freshly dead birds here in Honolulu and then sends samples to the National Wildlife Health Center in Madison Wisconsin for confirmation of botulism.”
Biohazard name:	Avian botulism
Biohazard level:	1/4 Low
Biohazard desc.:	Bacteria and viruses including Bacillus subtilis, canine hepatitis, Escherichia coli, varicella (chicken pox), as well as some cell cultures and non-infectious bacteria. At this level precautions against the biohazardous materials in question are minimal, most likely involving gloves and some sort of facial protection. Usually, contaminated materials are left in open (but separately indicated) waste receptacles. Decontamination procedures for this level are similar in most respects to modern precautions against everyday viruses (i.e.: washing one’s hands with anti-bacterial soap, washing all exposed surfaces of the lab with disinfectants, etc). In a lab environment, all materials used for cell and/or bacteria cultures are decontaminated via autoclave.
Symptoms:
Status:	confirmed

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