Chikungunya virus has mutated; many countries be on your guard

Emergency plans for possible eruption of the volcano Chaparrastique, El Salvador

Sectoral technical committees logistics, emergency services, shelters and evacuation plan remains on Monday activated by intense activity Chaparrastique volcano, in the department of San Miguel in El Salvador.

 

Secretary Vulnerability Affairs and Director General of Civil Protection, Antonio Jorge Melendez, said the colossus in the last 72 hours has remained very high levels of activity, without being accompanied by a strong degassing, which increases the danger.

 

Melendez urged members of the National Civil Protection System to maintain preparedness measures to meet the emergency and the general population, if they produce a requested erupción.También Media will attend the directions issued to that people have greater details.Rarely the last hours Chaparrastique issued pulses gases have reached a height of 300 meters above the crater.

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Dust storm, rain to hit twin cities during next 24 hours in Pakistan

The twin cities of Rawalpindi and Islamabad are expected to be hit by a dust storm and rain during the next 24 hours, the MET office said on Monday

The upper areas of the country including those in Punjab and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa will receive intermittent rain from Wednesday to Saturday.

 

Dust storms and rain are also expected in Hyderabad, Mirpur Khas and other areas of Sindh during the next two days breaking the stronghold of a severe heat wave.

 

Rain is also expected in Karachi on Wednesday or Thursday.

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Landslide kills 9 in Myanmar’s Tachileik, across Thailand

Persistent rains have caused a landslide in Tachileik town of Myanmar, killing at least nine people.

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Typhoon heads for the Philippines

Typhoon Rammasun is forecast to make landfall in the Philippines on Tuesday evening, according to a forecast from the Joint Typhoon Warning Center.

 

The storm should hit Luzon Island with winds of about 92 mph and gusts of 126 mph.

 

Damaging winds and flooding rainfall are expected across the north-central and northern Philippines as Rammasun moves across the island nation, AccuWeather meteorologist Eric Leister predicts.

 

At this point, landfall of the center of Rammasun looks likely to the north of the area devastated from Super Typhoon Haiyan, including the city of Tacloban, the Weather Channel forecasts.

 

Rammasun is Thai for the God of thunder, according to the Weather Channel.

 

The national weather agency in the Philippines, which has its own separate storm naming system, has named the storm Glenda.

 

Late in the week, Rammasun should bring flooding rains and damaging winds to southern China, with the greatest impacts likely in Hainan and western Guangdong provinces.

 

The typhoon is now the equivalent to a Category 1 hurricane, with sustained winds of 85 mph and gusts to 105 mph. Typhoons are the same type of storm as hurricanes. They are known collectively as tropical cyclones.

 

The Philippines are among the most tropical-cyclone-prone nations on Earth, according to the Weather Channel. Four typhoons made landfall in the Philippines in 2013, the most destructive of which was Super Typhoon Haiyan (Yolanda).

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Severe storm batters New Zealand & freezing cold conditions on the way

After a week of wild weather which battered the top of the North Island, it’s time to grab the winter woollies and wrap up warm.

A short cold snap is set to sweep the country this week, bringing a cooler but much more settled week.

Northland and Auckland residents, who are mopping up the damage caused by last week’s storms, will be able to breathe a sigh of relief, but it may be short lived, MetService said, as a new low pressure system could move in by the end of the week.

“We had that real mild northwesterly which brought all that wet weather but also some mild temperatures [last week], so we’re going to find it cooler as we go through this week,” said MetService meteorologist John Law.

A “southerly feed” would bring colder temperatures, with the mercury plummeting to below freezing in parts of the South Island, like Alexandra, while Dunedin would “struggle to get above 7C” by the end of the week, he said.

Road snow fall warnings have been issued for Lewis Pass and Porters Pass, which can expect to see between 1-2cm of snow above 500m.

Most of this week would feel cold and frosty, Mr Law said.

“But what we’re going to notice more than anything else is that generally this week is much, much more settled up north than we saw last week, but we’re going to find that, with a bit of a change of wind direction, the temperatures are cooler.”

However, it may only be a brief respite from the rain, he warned,

“It is only short lived. It won’t be with us for too long, but it is enough to bring some clear skies and some cold nights, perhaps see the return of some frosty and foggy ones. It will be on the cold side as we head through the next few nights.”

Some showers and rain may still linger over Northland today, but it wouldn’t be heavy. Eastern parts of the country may also see showers and cloudy conditions during the week.

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MASSIVE DIP SPIKES ON THE MAGNETOSPHERE @ APPROX 14:30 & 16:30 hrs UTC

**EXTREMELY URGENT**

  MASSIVE DIP SPIKES ON THE MAGNETOSPHERE @ APPROX 14:30 & 16:30 hrs UTC. FURTHER EARTHQUAKES, VOLCANO ACTIVITY & ADVERSE WEATHER PATTERNS WILL BE GREATLY INFLUENCED BY THE COSMIC RAYS STRIKING THE EARTH’S CORE

***BE ALERT***

MAGNITUDE 5.5 OFF COAST OF SOUTHERN PERU

http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eventpage/usb000rss6#summary

Subject To Change

Depth: 33 km

Distances: 162km (101mi) SSW of Camana, Peru
179km (111mi) SW of Mollendo, Peru
223km (139mi) W of Ilo, Peru
261km (162mi) SW of Arequipa, Peru
582km (362mi) WSW of La Paz, Bolivia

MAGNITUDE 6.3 MINDANAO, PHILIPPINES

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Subject To Change

Depth: 40 km

Distances: 181 km SE of Davao, Philippines / pop: 1,212,504 / local time: 16:00:01.3 2014-07-14
139 km S of Mati, Philippines / pop: 105,908 / local time: 16:00:01.3 2014-07-14
80 km SE of Pondaguitan, Philippines / pop: 2,143 / local time: 16:00:01.3 2014-07-14

MAGNITUDE 5.2 EASTER ISLAND REGION

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Subject To Change

Depth: 10 km

Distances: 487km (303mi) W of Hanga Roa, Chile
3752km (2331mi) ESE of Papao, French Polynesia
3756km (2334mi) ESE of Mahina, French Polynesia
3758km (2335mi) ESE of Paea, French Polynesia
1591km (989mi) E of Adamstown, Pitcairn