MAGNITUDE 4.9 OFFSHORE TARAPACA, CHILE

http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eventpage/us20003ju2#general_summary

Subject To Change

Depth: 16 km

Distances: 81km (50mi) WNW of Iquique, Chile
184km (114mi) SSW of Arica, Chile
235km (146mi) SSW of Tacna, Peru
237km (147mi) NNW of Tocopilla, Chile
488km (303mi) SW of La Paz, Bolivia

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MAGNITUDE 5.0 OFFSHORE TARAPACA, CHILE

http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eventpage/us20003jtk#general_summary

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Depth: 12 km

Distances: 78km (48mi) WNW of Iquique, Chile
187km (116mi) SSW of Arica, Chile
233km (145mi) NNW of Tocopilla, Chile
238km (148mi) SSW of Tacna, Peru
490km (304mi) SW of La Paz, Bolivia

Pyroclastic flow, ash plume 3-4 km high at Sinabung volcano in Sumatra, Indonesia

Ash plume from a pyroclastic flow at Sinabung this morning (photo: Dedi Vernandho Ginting / facebook)

A moderately large pyroclastic flow occurred this morning (08:22 local time) at the volcano. The associated ash plume rose to 18,000 ft (5.4 km) altitude. 

 

During the past months, Sinabung has continued to slowly extrude viscous lava that accumulates at its top in form of a dome with lobes on the upper slopes. When parts of these unstable features collapse, they generate such avalanches. Overall, activity at the volcano has been gradually decreasing recently.

Courtesy of volcanodiscovery.com

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Apocalyptic flooding kills at least 9 in Utah, USA

Nine people have been confirmed dead and four others are still missing after two vehicles were swept away during flash flooding in a small polygamous Utah town.

 

Three women and 13 children were in an SUV and a van on their way to watch the floods in the community of Hildale on Monday evening when a wall of water and debris swept them several hundred yards downstream.

 

Emergency crews said on Tuesday they had recovered nine bodies, including two which turned up in Arizona just over the border downstream.

A woman photographs a 50-ft deep gorge created by the Hildale flash floods

One of the bodies, of a child roughly 10 years old, was found five miles from the vehicles.

 

Emergency crews are still looking for an adult and three children.

 

Three people survived the tragedy.

The floods were triggered by heavy rain in canyons north of the towns

The victims appear to be from different families, reports the Salt Lake City Tribune.

 

Assistant Fire Chief Kevin Barlow said the deluge “obviously caught these people off guard”.

 

“Witnesses say they were backing out of it, trying to get away from it and it still swept them in.”

 

Brian McInerney, a National Weather Service hydrologist in Salt Lake City, said the torrent had been a “100-year event”.

Onlookers watch construction crews removing the flood debris

The search was temporarily called off on Monday night as treacherous conditions continued to affect Hildale and its sister town of Colorado City, Arizona.

 

The floods were triggered by heavy rain in canyons north of the towns, funnelling waves of water through the streets of the town.

 

Utah Governor Gary Herbert said he was “heartbroken” by the tragedy and promised all state resources would be directed to the recovery effort.

 

Hildale, which is 315 miles south of Salt Lake City, is home to 7,700 people and is the base of a polygamous sect run by Warren Jeffs.

 

Jeffs, 59, the former president of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, was jailed for life in 2011 for two counts of sexual assault on a child.

Courtesy of Sky News

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MEGA DIP SPIKES ON THE WEAK MAGNETOSPHERE @ APPROX 20:45, 21:30 HRS UTC

**VERY URGENT**

  MEGA DIP SPIKES ON THE WEAK MAGNETOSPHERE @ APPROX 20:45, 21:30 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 4.4 TAIWAN

http://www.emsc-csem.org/Earthquake/earthquake.php?id=459452

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Depth: 18 km

Distances: 90 km S of Taipei, Taiwan / pop: 7,871,900 / local time: 04:43:58.7 2015-09-16
40 km NE of Hualian, Taiwan / pop: 350,468 / local time: 04:43:58.7 2015-09-16

MAGNITUDE 4.1 TAIWAN

http://www.emsc-csem.org/Earthquake/earthquake.php?id=459446

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Depth: 20 km

Distances: 91 km S of Taipei, Taiwan / pop: 7,871,900 / local time: 03:43:32.9 2015-09-16
39 km NE of Hualian, Taiwan / pop: 350,468 / local time: 03:43:32.9 2015-09-16

MAGNITUDE 4.3 TAIWAN

http://www.emsc-csem.org/Earthquake/earthquake.php?id=459441

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Depth: 18 km

Distances: 92 km S of Taipei, Taiwan / pop: 7,871,900 / local time: 03:40:31.5 2015-09-16
39 km NE of Hualian, Taiwan / pop: 350,468 / local time: 03:40:31.5 2015-09-16

MAGNITUDE 5.3 TAIWAN

http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eventpage/us20003jrf#general_summary

Subject To Change

Depth: 22 km

Distances: 36km (22mi) NE of Hualian, Taiwan
39km (24mi) S of Su’ao, Taiwan
57km (35mi) S of Yilan, Taiwan
89km (55mi) SE of Daxi, Taiwan
813km (505mi) ENE of Hong Kong, Hong Kong

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