Natural Events that cause damage. :-( - Page 15

mlurp · #**141** (**permalink**) 08-31-2012, 12:13 PM

We should get some rain later today or by tonight from Isaac, which is welcomed. I am still praying for those in it's path in the gulf area. Yet this has happened so from one mess to another.

Quote:

Philippines Earthquake: Tsunami Alert Cancelled After 7.9-Magnitude Undersea Quake.

The Huffington Post Canada | Posted: 08/31/2012 9:36 am Updated: 08/31/2012 11:23 am

Follow:

2012 Earthquakes, 2012 Philippines Earthquake, Marlon Lagramado, Earthquake Philippines, Earthquakes 2012, Philippines Earthquake, Philippines Earthquake 2012, Philippines Tsunami, Philippines Tsunami Alert, Tsunami Alert Philippines, Tsunami Philippines, Canada News
.
The U.S. Geological Survey says a 7.9 magnitude undersea quake. ALAMY

The Philippines has been hit by a powerful earthquake, according to the Pacific Tsunami Warning Center.

The U.S. Geological Survey is reporting the 7.9-magnitude tremblor originated in the waters 106 km east of Samar Island, at a depth of 34.9 km.

Power outages have been reported across the country, while a house in the southern city of Cagayan de Oro has collapsed, killing a woman and injuring her son. There are no reports, so far, of widespread damages.

A tsunami alert was in effect for much of Friday evening covering the Philippines, Indonesia, Taiwan, Japan, Guam, the Northern Marianas and Papua New Guinea. It has since been cancelled.

But, according to the Pacific Tsunami Warning Centre's latest update, rising sea levels suggest the quake did spawn a tsunami.

People living along the eastern Samar coastline were advised to evacuate to high ground in case of the tsunami.

"My neighbours and I have evacuated," fisherman Marlon Lagramado told The Associated Press in a telephone interview from the coastal town of Guiwan in the Philippine province of Eastern Samar. "We are now on our way to the mountains."

Benito Ramos, a retired general who heads the country's disaster-response agency, took to the airwaves with a sobering message:

"Don't sleep, especially those in the eastern seaboard," he said.

Also near the bottom of the page are a few sets of pictures or video's. This is the one on the page right now.

Earthquake Hits Iran

1 of 9

Ruins of a house is seen after an earthquake in the city of Varzaqan in northwestern Iran, on Saturday, Aug. 11, 2012. A 6.2-magnitude earthquake hit the towns of Ahar, Haris and Varzaqan in East Azerbaijan province in northwestern Iran on Saturday, state TV said. Iran is located on seismic fault lines and is prone to earthquakes. It experiences at least one earthquake every day on average, although the vast majority are so small they go unnoticed. (AP Photo/Mehr News Agency, Hamed Nazari)

Philippines Earthquake: Tsunami Alert Cancelled After 7.9-Magnitude Undersea Quake

mlurp · #**142** (**permalink**) 09-05-2012, 12:17 PM

This hit Costa Rica with a major force worst than what hit Hati, at the site is a map outling the earthquake zones.

Quote:

.Powerful earthquake reported in Costa Rica

By DANICA COTO | Associated Press – 8 mins ago. 5 Sept. 2012 .......

The Atlantic Wire - Huge 7.9 Earthquake Hits Costa Rica

NOSARA, Costa Rica (AP) — A powerful, magnitude-7.6 earthquake shook Costa Rica and a wide swath of Central America on Wednesday, collapsing some houses, blocking highways and causing panic, but officials said there was only one reported death, from a heart attack.

The USGS said the 8:42 a.m. (10:42 a.m. EDT; 1442 GMT) quake struck about 38 miles (60 kilometers) from the town of Liberia. The magnitude initially was estimated at 7.9.

In the town of Hojancha a few miles (kilometers) from the epicenter, city official Kenia Campos said the quake knocked down some houses and landslides blocked several roads.

"So far, we don't have victims," she said. "People were really scared ... We have had moderate quakes but an earthquake (this strong) hadn't happened in more than 50 years."

One man died of a heart attack caused by fright, said Carlos Miranda, a Red Cross worker in the city of Liberia

A preliminary review revealed some structural damage near the epicenter, but no reports of direct deaths or injuries caused by the quake, said Douglas Salgado, a geographer with Costa Rica's National Commission of Risk Prevention and Emergency Attention. He said a tsunami alert had been called off for Costa Rica.

The review also uncovered a landslide on the main highway that connects the capital of San Jose to the Pacific coast city of Puntarenas, Salgado said. Hotels and other structures suffered cracks in walls and saw items knocked off shelves.

.............................................. CONTINUED ..............................................

Powerful earthquake reported in Costa Rica - Yahoo! News

129 Comments.

mlurp · #**143** (**permalink**) 09-07-2012, 12:49 PM

China takes a hit...

Quote:

.Quakes kill at least 64 in mountainous SW China

By CHRISTOPHER BODEEN | Associated Press – 1 hr 3 mins ago. 7 Sept. 2012 ..

Associated Press/Xinhua, Zhou Hongpeng - In this photo provided by China's Xinhua News Agency, damaged cars are seen in Luozehe town, Yiliang County, southwest China's Yunnan Province, Friday, Sept. 7, 2012. …more

EIJING (AP) — A series of earthquakes collapsed houses and triggered landslides Friday in a remote mountainous part of southwestern China where damage was preventing rescues and communications were disrupted. At least 64 deaths have been reported.

The quakes started with a 5.6-magnitude shock before 11:30 a.m. along the borders of Guizhou and Yunnan provinces, and another equally big quake struck shortly after noon followed by more than 60 aftershocks, Chinese and U.S. government seismologists said. Though of moderate strength, the quakes were shallow, which often causes more damage.

Hardest hit was Yiliang County, where all but one of the deaths occurred, according to the Yunnan provincial government's official website. Another 715 people in the county were injured, the sites said. Yiliang county's high population density, weak building construction, and propensity for landslides were blamed for the relatively high death toll.

China Central Television showed roads littered with rocks and boulders, and pillars of dust rising over hillcrests — signs of landslides. Footage showed a couple hundred people crowding into what looked like a school athletic field in Yiliang's county seat, a sizeable city spread along a river in a valley bottom.

With some roads impassable, rescuers had yet to reach some outlying villages and towns, the official Xinhua News Agency said.

Though quakes in the area occur frequently, buildings in rural areas and China's fast-growing smaller cities and towns are often constructed poorly. In 2008, a magnitude-7.9 quake that hit Sichuan province, just north of Yunnan, killed nearly 90,000 people, with many of the deaths blamed on poorly built structures, including schools.

............................................... CONTINUED ..............................................

Quakes kill at least 64 in mountainous SW China - Yahoo! News

mlurp · #**144** (**permalink**) 09-09-2012, 01:48 PM

I was once told by a friend in NYC that they don't get Tornados. Well they got some yesterday.

Quote:

.NYC cleans up from 2 twisters after Eastern storms

By ERIC TUCKER and KAREN MATTHEWS | Associated Press – 7 hrs ago.

................................. Posted 9 Sept. 2012 ..................................

NEW YORK (AP) — Damaging storms that spawned tornadoes in New York City, darkened tens of thousands of homes in the Washington, D.C., area and flooded New England streets turned a normal day of rest into a day of cleaning up for many East Coast residents on Sunday.

No serious injuries were reported when a twister hit a beachfront neighborhood Saturday on the edge of New York City and a second, stronger tornado followed moments later about 10 miles away. Residents got advance notice but still the storm took people by surprise.

"I was showing videos of tornadoes to my 4-year-old on my phone, and two minutes later, it hit," said Breezy Point neighborhood resident Peter Maloney. "Just like they always say, it sounded like a train."

The unsettled weather, part of a cold front that crossed over the Eastern Seaboard, toppled trees and power lines and damaged buildings as it passed through. Wind gusts reached 70 mph in some places.

Tornado-like funnel clouds were reported in Fairfax County, Va., and in Prince George's County, Md., but had not been confirmed by Saturday evening, meteorologist Andy Woodcock of the National Weather Service said.

One person suffered minor injuries during a partial stage collapse at the Rosslyn Jazz Festival in Arlington County, Va., and six people were evacuated from a Washington apartment building when a tree fell on it. Fairfax County officials reported three home cave-ins because of downed trees, a water rescue in the Potomac River and dozens of electrical wires down.

By Sunday morning, about 15,000 customers were without electricity in northern Virginia, according to Dominion Virginia Power. Pepco reported outages to more than 5,000 customers in the District of Columbia and Maryland's Prince George's and Montgomery counties. BGE reported about 1,500 outages, most in Prince George's and Anne Arundel counties.

In New York City, videos taken by bystanders showed a funnel sucking up water, then sand, and then small pieces of buildings as the first tornado moved through the Breezy Point section of the Rockaway peninsula in Queens.

At the Breezy Point Surf Club, it ripped the roofs off rows of cabanas, scattered deck chairs and left a heavy metal barbecue and propane tank sitting in the middle of a softball field, at least 100 yards from any home.

.............................................. CONTINUED ...............................................

NYC cleans up from 2 twisters after Eastern storms - Yahoo! News

359 comments.

mlurp · #**145** (**permalink**) 09-17-2012, 03:20 PM

Plenty move video's & groups of pictures at the site.

Quote:

Typhoon batters North, South Korea

A powerful typhoon lashed North and South Korea with strong wind and heavy rain Sept. 17, killing at least one person, leaving dozens of others homeless and cutting power to many homes and businesses in the South.

1 of 13 photos

Local resident Bae Yang-soon, 70, cries on the broken road after the area was hit by Typhoon Sanba in Yeosu, south of Seoul, South Korea, Monday, Sept. 17, 2012. (AP Photo/Yonhap, Hyung Min-soo)

Typhoon batters North, South Korea | Photo Gallery - Yahoo! News

mlurp · #**146** (**permalink**) 09-28-2012, 02:17 PM

Has any of you keep check on the earthquake link? As there are about 20+ ones a day. And we have this.

When can this country start to take care of itself?

Quote:

.Pakistan: Monsoon rains, flooding kill 422 people

By REBECCA SANTANA | Associated Press – 3 hrs ago. 28 Sept. 2012 ......

ISLAMABAD (AP) — Monsoon rains and flooding killed more than 400 people across Pakistan during the rainy season this year, authorities said Friday.

Pakistan suffers every year from flooding caused by massive monsoon rains that sweep across the country late in the summer and cause rivers and streams to overflow.

The National Disaster Management Authority said 422 people have been killed and nearly 3,000 have been injured during the season of heavy rains. About five million people have been affected by the resulting floods, according to statistics that were posted on the authority's website.

Sindh province in southeastern Pakistan was the hardest hit with 239 deaths.

An official with the authority, Maj. Iftikhar Ahmed, told The Associated Press that the rainfall this year was significantly less than in 2010, when catastrophic floods put one-fifth of the country under water and killed 1,985 people. Last year 443 people were killed in flood-related incidents.

Pakistan has in recent years struggled to cope with the chaos, caused by the rains and flooding around the country. Authorities have often relied on international help to provide those affected by the floods with food, water and housing.

UNICEF called on international donors to provide $15.4 million to help protect people affected by the flooding over the next three to six months. In a statement Friday, the UN agency said it has been helping with supplies of drinking water to people affected by floods in the provinces of Balochistan, Punjab and Sindh.
.................................................. . CONTINUED ..........................................

Pakistan: Monsoon rains, flooding kill 422 people - Yahoo! News

mlurp · #**147** (**permalink**) 10-06-2012, 02:48 PM

Asia & Asia Minor is taken a beating from the rain & storms.

Quote:

.China landslide kills 19, 18 of them students

Associated Press – Fri, Oct 5, 2012. 6 Oct. 2012 .......

BEIJING (AP) — All 18 elementary school students buried in a landslide were confirmed dead Friday, while one other person also died after a hillside collapsed and smothered part of a village in mountainous southwestern China.

The Tiantou Elementary School was buried Thursday when the hillside collapsed in Zhenhe, a village in Yunnan province, the Yiliang County government said on its website.

All 18 students who were buried in the school were confirmed dead, the government said. The official Xinhua News Agency said the body of a 19th victim was found Friday. It gave no details, but the county government said earlier that a person was missing from a house that had collapsed.

The government also said that a person injured in the landslide was hospitalized.

The landslide dammed a river, causing its water to pool 15 meters (45 feet) across and 7 meters (21 feet) deep around the buried area, hampering rescue efforts and forcing the evacuation of 800 other people, the government said. Rescue teams removed the blockage and the water was subsiding.

While officials have yet to give a cause for the landslide, that part of Yunnan province has been lashed by rain and is prone to earthquakes. A series of quakes last month left 81 people dead and devastated parts of Yiliang county, which are still recovering.

Thursday was a holiday across China, but the students who were killed had been attending school to make up for days missed after the quake, Yiliang officials said. Xinhua said their school was damaged in the quake and they were sent to Tiantou temporarily.

China landslide kills 19, 18 of them students - Yahoo! News

17 comments.

Asia News Headlines: http://news.yahoo.com/asia/

mlurp · #**148** (**permalink**) 10-15-2012, 12:43 PM

If these two hit us we might see both (depending on the course) coasts take a hit. And I know nothing about Rafael...

Quote:

Paul strengthens into a hurricane in the Pacific

Tropical Storm Rafael expected to intensify Monday afternoon

NBC News

updated 10/15/2012 7:15:59 AM ET

Tropical Storm Paul grew into a hurricane early Monday, and a tropical storm watch was issued for parts of Baja California, according to the National Hurricane Center.

The category 1 storm with wind speeds near 75 miles per hour, is moving north at 7 miles per hour and is expected to weaken by Tuesday. It was last located 530 miles from the southern tip of Baja California.
Hurricane Tracker
In the Atlantic, Tropical Storm Rafael could become a hurricane later Monday, but is not expected to impact the United States, the NHC said.

A tropical storm watch is in effect for Bermuda with high winds possible by Tuesday afternoon or evening.

Rafael is the 17th named storm of the Atlantic hurricane season.

Paul strengthens into hurricane in Pacific - Weather | NBC News

mlurp · #**149** (**permalink**) 10-15-2012, 12:47 PM

Sorry I forgot to bump this forward...

Magnitude 6.2 - NEAR THE SOUTH COAST OF HONSHU, JAPAN

Source: Latest Earthquakes in the World - Past 7 days

And then this map:

Latest Earthquakes in the World - Past 7 days

And take a look at this for more: latest earthquakes in japan - Bing

Also

to the readership and any member who adds to this thread...

BridgetRose · #**150** (**permalink**) 10-19-2012, 01:41 PM

Nothing like Cali but still might have rattled some china, shaken the bell towers on some picturesque Congregational Churchs or cracked some old headstones.

Maine earthquake rattles New England - San Jose Mercury News

PORTLAND, Maine -- The earthquake that rattled southern Maine was felt in New England states as far away as Connecticut, but caused no apparent damage or injuries.

Patrons of a pizza parlor near the epicenter of Tuesday's quake didn't know what was going on when the building started shaking, but it was enough to send all 20 of them hustling outside.

"It was loudest bang you ever heard in your life. We actually thought it was an explosion of some type," said Jessica Hill, owner of Waterboro House of Pizza. "The back door and door to the basement blew open," she said.

The U.S. Geological Survey said the 4.0 magnitude quake hit around 7:12 p.m. and its epicenter, about 3 miles west of Hollis Center, Maine, was about 3 miles deep. That location is about 20 miles west of Portland. The quake was first estimated to be 4.6 magnitude but was later downgraded.

In Saco, Sue Hadiaris said, "The whole house shook. ...It was very unnerving because you could feel the floor shaking. There was a queasy feeling."

Afterward, Hadiaris called her 15-year-old niece in Falmouth to make sure she was safe. "She said, 'We can cross that off our bucket list. We've lived through an earthquake,'" Hadiaris said.

Earthquakes are rare in New England but they're not unheard of.

The strongest earthquake recorded in Maine occurred in 1904 in the Eastport area, near the state's eastern border with Canada according to the Weston Observatory

at Boston College. It had an estimated magnitude of 5.7 to 5.9.

Tuesday's quake was the most powerful tremor in New England since Oct. 2, 2006, when a 4.2 magnitude quake struck Maine's Mount Desert Island, causing boulders to tumble onto Acadia National Park's Park Loop Road, said Weston Observatory Director John Ebel. The 2006 quake was one of a string of tremors and aftershocks that rocked Mount Desert Island over several months, but there's no evidence to suggest that there'll be an active sequence of aftershocks following the latest earthquake, Ebel said.

The Seabrook Station nuclear plant, about 63 miles away in New Hampshire, declared an unusual event -- the lowest of four emergency classifications -- but said it was not affected. The plant has been offline for refueling.

"There has been no impact at all to the plant from the earthquake and our refueling maintenance activities have not been affected," said Alan Griffith, spokesman for Next EnergyEra Seabrook Station.

Jim Van Dongen, public information officer for the New Hampshire Department of Safety said New Hampshire 911 got about 1,000 calls in the first hour after the quake, but they later dropped off. He said no major damage was reported.

Brief, but noticeable shaking was felt in downtown Boston and the surrounding area.

Edward Conti, who lives in a four-story apartment building in Cambridge, Mass., he was watching television when "it sounded like a car crash. Then there was another boom-boom. It was no small thing." Conti said there was no damage.

In Melrose, just north of Boston, Peter Ward said the shaking he felt seemed to last about four seconds. "It felt like a big gust of wind shaking the house. I don't want to overstate it, but the glass did rattle a little," he said.

Lynette Miller, a spokeswoman for the Maine Emergency Management Agency, said her dogs started barking several seconds before the quake on Tuesday. "It was several seconds of good shaking but nothing falling down," Miller said from her home in Readfield, about 60 miles north of Portland.

In Portland, Abbie Miller had just turned on the aging furnace in her house for the first time this season. "An hour later, things started shaking and it sounded almost like a train coming through. I thought my furnace was going to blow," she said.

East Coast quakes are rarely strong enough to be felt over a wide area. A quake of magnitude 5.8 on Aug. 23, 2011, was centered in Virginia and felt all along the coast, including in New York City and Boston. Experts say the region's geology can make the effects felt in an area up to 10 times larger than quakes of similar size on the West Coast.

------

Rathke reported from Montpelier, Vt. Associated Press reporter Sylvia Lee Wingfield contributed from Boston.

Thread Tools
Show Printable Version Email this Page
Display Modes
Linear Mode Switch to Hybrid Mode Switch to Threaded Mode

The Following User Says Thank You to BridgetRose For This Useful Post:
mlurp