July 30, 2012 by desertrose
Earthquakes
RSOE EDIS
| Date/Time (UTC) | Magnitude | Area | Country | State/Prov./Gov. | Location | Risk | Source | Details | ||
| 30.07.2012 07:55:26 | 2.1 | North America | United States | California | Soledad |  |
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| 30.07.2012 07:50:28 | 2.1 | North America | United States | California | Pearsonville |  |
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| 30.07.2012 07:45:25 | 4.8 | South America | Ecuador | Santa Elena | Santa Elena | |
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| 30.07.2012 08:00:21 | 4.8 | South-America | Ecuador | Santa Elena | Santa Elena | |
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| 30.07.2012 07:15:32 | 2.0 | North America | United States | Alaska | Nelchina | |
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| 30.07.2012 07:00:28 | 2.7 | Europe | Greece | North Aegean | Agios Dimitrios | |
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| 30.07.2012 06:35:27 | 2.4 | North America | United States | Alaska | Cantwell | |
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| 30.07.2012 06:25:36 | 2.4 | North America | United States | California | Cantua Creek | |
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| 30.07.2012 06:25:58 | 2.4 | North America | United States | Alaska | Cantwell | |
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| 30.07.2012 06:00:23 | 4.9 | Europe | Spain | Galicia | Mugia | |
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| 30.07.2012 07:00:52 | 2.1 | Asia | Turkey | Kütahya | Saphane | |
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| 30.07.2012 07:01:15 | 2.2 | Europe | Greece | North Aegean | Agios Dimitrios | |
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| 30.07.2012 04:57:50 | 3.2 | North America | United States | Alaska | Pedro Bay | |
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| 30.07.2012 06:00:46 | 2.5 | South-America | Chile | Antofagasta | Tocopilla | |
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| 30.07.2012 06:01:07 | 2.3 | Asia | Turkey | Tekirda? | Marmaraereglisi | |
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| 30.07.2012 04:56:07 | 2.9 | South-America | Peru | Tacna | Sobraya | |
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| 30.07.2012 06:01:34 | 2.7 | Europe | Greece | North Aegean | Agios Ilias | |
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| 30.07.2012 04:00:49 | 3.5 | North America | United States | Hawaii | Kapaau | |
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| 30.07.2012 04:01:11 | 2.7 | North America | United States | Hawaii | Hawaiian Beaches | |
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| 30.07.2012 04:01:33 | 4.4 | South America | Chile | Antofagasta | Calama | |
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| 30.07.2012 04:56:52 | 4.4 | South-America | Chile | Antofagasta | Calama | |
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| 30.07.2012 07:01:39 | 4.5 | Europe | Russia | Sakhalin | Severo-Kuril’sk | |
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| 30.07.2012 06:01:56 | 2.4 | Asia | Turkey | Karabük | Gozyeri | |
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| 30.07.2012 03:55:20 | 3.1 | Europe | Poland | Silesian Voivodeship | Bazanowice | |
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| 30.07.2012 02:55:42 | 2.3 | North America | United States | Hawaii | Pahala | |
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| 30.07.2012 02:50:31 | 2.8 | North America | United States | Hawaii | Pahala | |
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| 30.07.2012 05:15:45 | 2.8 | North America | United States | Alaska | Adak | |
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| 30.07.2012 06:02:18 | 3.2 | Europe | Greece | South Aegean | Lakkion | |
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| 30.07.2012 06:03:03 | 3.6 | Caribbean | Dominican Republic | El Seíbo | Santa Cruz de El Seibo | |
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| 30.07.2012 02:55:20 | 2.0 | Europe | Italy | Apulia | San Nicola | |
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| 30.07.2012 06:02:40 | 2.5 | Asia | Turkey | Van | Yuvacik | |
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| 30.07.2012 01:55:25 | 4.4 | Middle-America | Mexico | Oaxaca | Santiago Jamiltepec | |
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| 30.07.2012 01:56:22 | 4.4 | Middle America | Mexico | Oaxaca | Santiago Jamiltepec | |
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| 30.07.2012 00:55:22 | 2.0 | Europe | Italy | Apulia | Celle San Vito | |
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| 30.07.2012 00:55:46 | 2.7 | Asia | Turkey | Van | Toyga | |
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| 30.07.2012 00:25:52 | 5.4 | Asia | Japan | Iwate | Kamaishi | |
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| 30.07.2012 00:56:07 | 5.4 | Asia | Japan | Iwate | Kamaishi | |
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| 30.07.2012 00:56:29 | 2.4 | Europe | Italy | Emilia-Romagna | San Prospero | |
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| 29.07.2012 23:45:49 | 2.6 | North America | United States | Alaska | Pedro Bay | |
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| 29.07.2012 23:40:31 | 2.1 | North America | United States | California | Cobb | |
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| 30.07.2012 01:15:29 | 2.3 | North America | Canada | British Columbia | Princeton | |
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| 30.07.2012 00:56:47 | 2.2 | Asia | Turkey | Erzurum | Horasan | |
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| 29.07.2012 22:10:32 | 2.1 | North America | United States | California | Rancho Palos Verdes | |
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| 29.07.2012 22:05:27 | 4.8 | Pacific Ocean | Northern Mariana Islands | Northern Islands Municipality | Agrihan Village | |
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| 29.07.2012 22:45:26 | 4.8 | Pacific Ocean – East | Northern Mariana Islands | Northern Islands Municipality | Agrihan Village | |
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| 29.07.2012 22:45:51 | 2.4 | Europe | Italy | Emilia-Romagna | San Prospero | |
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| 29.07.2012 21:45:19 | 2.6 | Europe | France | Franche-Comté | Orbagna | |
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| 29.07.2012 20:45:26 | 2.7 | Asia | Turkey | ?zmir | Menemen | |
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| 29.07.2012 20:45:50 | 3.4 | Asia | Turkey | Adana | Bahce | |
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| 29.07.2012 21:30:36 | 2.5 | North America | United States | South Carolina | Wallace | |
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Powerful earthquake off Mexico, Guatemala
(AFP) – 15 hours agoTUXTLA GUTIERREZ, Mexico — A 6.0-magnitude earthquake struck off Mexico’s Pacific coast close to the Guatemalan border on Sunday, but there were no immediate reports of damage or casualties.
The quake occurred at 6:22 am (1222 GMT) at a depth of 35 kilometers (21 miles), and was located 28 kilometers (17 miles) south-southwest of Suchiate, Mexico, the US Geological Survey said.
“The quake was felt across most of the Soconusco region,” civil protection official Luis Manuel Garcia told AFP. “We have no reports of damage for the moment.”
The Pacific Tsunami Warning Center did not issue a report on the quake.
A powerful 7.4-magnitude earthquake rocked southwest Mexico on March 20, killing two people, injuring 13 others and damaging thousands of homes.
That earthquake — with its epicenter south of the Pacific resort of Acapulco — was the most powerful to hit the country since one in 1985, which destroyed entire neighborhoods of the capital and killed thousands of people.
An earthquake in a maze
Pasadena CA (SPX)
 The earthquake ruptured along multiple faults. Dotted lines indicate interpreted fault planes. Colored arrows indicate the direction of rupture. Credit: Caltech/Meng et al. |
The powerful magnitude-8.6 earthquake that shook Sumatra on April 11,
2012, was a seismic standout for many reasons, not the least of which
is that it was larger than scientists thought an earthquake of its type
could ever be.
Now, researchers from the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) report on their findings from the first high-resolution observations of the underwater temblor, they point out that the earthquake was also unusually complex-rupturing along multiple faults that lie at nearly right angles to one another, as though racing through a maze.
The new details provide fresh insights into the possibility of ruptures involving multiple faults occurring elsewhere-something that could be important for earthquake-hazard assessment along California’s San Andreas fault, which itself is made up of many different segments and is intersected by a number of other faults at right angles.
“Our results indicate that the earthquake rupture followed an exceptionally tortuous path, breaking multiple segments of a previously unrecognized network of perpendicular faults,” says Jean-Paul Ampuero, an assistant professor of seismology at Caltech and one of the authors of the report, which appears online today in Science Express.
“This earthquake provided a rare opportunity to investigate the physics of such extreme events and to probe the mechanical properties of Earth’s materials deep beneath the oceans.”
Most mega-earthquakes occur at the boundaries between tectonic plates, as one plate sinks beneath another. The 2012 Sumatra earthquake is the largest earthquake ever documented that occurred away from such a boundary-a so-called intraplate quake. It is also the largest that has taken place on a strike-slip fault-the type of fault where the land on either side is pushing horizontally past the other.
The earthquake happened far offshore, beneath the Indian Ocean, where there are no geophysical monitoring sensors in place. Therefore, the researchers used ground-motion recordings gathered by networks of sensors in Europe and Japan, and an advanced source-imaging technique developed in Caltech’s Seismological Laboratory as well as the Tectonics Observatory to piece together a picture of the earthquake’s rupture process.
Lingsen Meng, the paper’s lead author and a graduate student in Ampuero’s group, explains that technique by comparing it with how, when standing in a room with your eyes closed, you can often still sense when someone speaking is walking across the room. “That’s because your ears measure the delays between arriving sounds,” Meng says.
“Our technique uses a similar idea. We measure the delays between different seismic sensors that are recording the seismic movements at set locations.” Researchers can then use that information to determine the location of a rupture at different times during an earthquake. Recent developments of the method are akin to tracking multiple moving speakers in a cocktail party.
Using this technique, the researchers determined that the three-minute-long Sumatra earthquake involved at least three different fault planes, with a rupture propagating in both directions, jumping to a perpendicular fault plane, and then branching to another.
“Based on our previous understanding, you wouldn’t predict that the rupture would take these bends, which were almost right angles,” says Victor Tsai, an assistant professor of geophysics at Caltech and a coauthor on the new paper.
The team also determined that the rupture reached unusual depths for this type of earthquake-diving as deep as 60 kilometers in places and delving beneath the Earth’s crust into the upper mantle.
This is surprising given that, at such depths, pressure and temperature increase, making the rock more ductile and less apt to fail. It has therefore been thought that if a stress were applied to such rocks, they would not react as abruptly as more brittle materials in the crust would. However, given the maze-like rupture pattern of the earthquake, the researchers believe another mechanism might be in play.
“One possible explanation for the complicated rupture is there might have been reduced friction as a result of interactions between water and the deep oceanic rocks,” says Tsai. “And,” he says, “if there wasn’t much friction on these faults, then it’s possible that they would slip this way under certain stress conditions.”
Adding to the list of the quake’s surprising qualities, the researchers pinpointed the rupture to a region of the seafloor where seismologists had previously considered such large earthquakes unlikely based on the geometry of identified faults.
When they compared the location they had determined using source-imaging with high-resolution sonar data of the topography of the seafloor, the team found that the earthquake did not involve what they call “the usual suspect faults.”
“This part of the oceanic plate has fracture zones and other structures inherited from when the seafloor formed here, over 50 million years ago,” says Joann Stock, professor of geology at Caltech and another coauthor on the paper. “However, surprisingly, this earthquake just ruptured across these features, as if the older structure didn’t matter at all.”
Meng emphasizes that it is important to learn such details from previous earthquakes in order to improve earthquake-hazard assessment. After all, he says, “If other earthquake ruptures are able to go this deep or to connect as many fault segments as this earthquake did, they might also be very large and cause significant damage.”
Along with Meng, Ampuero, Tsai, and Stock, additional Caltech coauthors on the paper, “An earthquake in a maze: compressional rupture branching during the April 11 2012 M8.6 Sumatra earthquake,” are postdoctoral scholar Zacharie Duputel and graduate student Yingdi Luo. The work was supported by the National Science Foundation, the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation, and the Southern California Earthquake Center, which is funded by the National Science Foundation and the United States Geological Survey.
Related LinksNow, researchers from the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) report on their findings from the first high-resolution observations of the underwater temblor, they point out that the earthquake was also unusually complex-rupturing along multiple faults that lie at nearly right angles to one another, as though racing through a maze.
The new details provide fresh insights into the possibility of ruptures involving multiple faults occurring elsewhere-something that could be important for earthquake-hazard assessment along California’s San Andreas fault, which itself is made up of many different segments and is intersected by a number of other faults at right angles.
“Our results indicate that the earthquake rupture followed an exceptionally tortuous path, breaking multiple segments of a previously unrecognized network of perpendicular faults,” says Jean-Paul Ampuero, an assistant professor of seismology at Caltech and one of the authors of the report, which appears online today in Science Express.
“This earthquake provided a rare opportunity to investigate the physics of such extreme events and to probe the mechanical properties of Earth’s materials deep beneath the oceans.”
Most mega-earthquakes occur at the boundaries between tectonic plates, as one plate sinks beneath another. The 2012 Sumatra earthquake is the largest earthquake ever documented that occurred away from such a boundary-a so-called intraplate quake. It is also the largest that has taken place on a strike-slip fault-the type of fault where the land on either side is pushing horizontally past the other.
The earthquake happened far offshore, beneath the Indian Ocean, where there are no geophysical monitoring sensors in place. Therefore, the researchers used ground-motion recordings gathered by networks of sensors in Europe and Japan, and an advanced source-imaging technique developed in Caltech’s Seismological Laboratory as well as the Tectonics Observatory to piece together a picture of the earthquake’s rupture process.
Lingsen Meng, the paper’s lead author and a graduate student in Ampuero’s group, explains that technique by comparing it with how, when standing in a room with your eyes closed, you can often still sense when someone speaking is walking across the room. “That’s because your ears measure the delays between arriving sounds,” Meng says.
“Our technique uses a similar idea. We measure the delays between different seismic sensors that are recording the seismic movements at set locations.” Researchers can then use that information to determine the location of a rupture at different times during an earthquake. Recent developments of the method are akin to tracking multiple moving speakers in a cocktail party.
Using this technique, the researchers determined that the three-minute-long Sumatra earthquake involved at least three different fault planes, with a rupture propagating in both directions, jumping to a perpendicular fault plane, and then branching to another.
“Based on our previous understanding, you wouldn’t predict that the rupture would take these bends, which were almost right angles,” says Victor Tsai, an assistant professor of geophysics at Caltech and a coauthor on the new paper.
The team also determined that the rupture reached unusual depths for this type of earthquake-diving as deep as 60 kilometers in places and delving beneath the Earth’s crust into the upper mantle.
This is surprising given that, at such depths, pressure and temperature increase, making the rock more ductile and less apt to fail. It has therefore been thought that if a stress were applied to such rocks, they would not react as abruptly as more brittle materials in the crust would. However, given the maze-like rupture pattern of the earthquake, the researchers believe another mechanism might be in play.
“One possible explanation for the complicated rupture is there might have been reduced friction as a result of interactions between water and the deep oceanic rocks,” says Tsai. “And,” he says, “if there wasn’t much friction on these faults, then it’s possible that they would slip this way under certain stress conditions.”
Adding to the list of the quake’s surprising qualities, the researchers pinpointed the rupture to a region of the seafloor where seismologists had previously considered such large earthquakes unlikely based on the geometry of identified faults.
When they compared the location they had determined using source-imaging with high-resolution sonar data of the topography of the seafloor, the team found that the earthquake did not involve what they call “the usual suspect faults.”
“This part of the oceanic plate has fracture zones and other structures inherited from when the seafloor formed here, over 50 million years ago,” says Joann Stock, professor of geology at Caltech and another coauthor on the paper. “However, surprisingly, this earthquake just ruptured across these features, as if the older structure didn’t matter at all.”
Meng emphasizes that it is important to learn such details from previous earthquakes in order to improve earthquake-hazard assessment. After all, he says, “If other earthquake ruptures are able to go this deep or to connect as many fault segments as this earthquake did, they might also be very large and cause significant damage.”
Along with Meng, Ampuero, Tsai, and Stock, additional Caltech coauthors on the paper, “An earthquake in a maze: compressional rupture branching during the April 11 2012 M8.6 Sumatra earthquake,” are postdoctoral scholar Zacharie Duputel and graduate student Yingdi Luo. The work was supported by the National Science Foundation, the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation, and the Southern California Earthquake Center, which is funded by the National Science Foundation and the United States Geological Survey.
California Institute of Technology
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| 29.07.2012 | Heat Wave | Japan | [Statewide] |  |
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Heat Wave in Japan on Wednesday, 25 July, 2012 at 03:36 (03:36 AM) UTC.
| Description | |
| The number of people taken to hospitals by ambulance due
to heatstroke in the week through Sunday more than doubled from the
preceding week to 5,467, preliminary data showed Tuesday. The figure, up
from 2,622 in the week to July 15, hit the highest for a single week
this summer, according to the data released by the Fire and Disaster
Management Agency. Deaths caused by heatstroke increased to 13 from five
in the preceding week. Tokyo and Saitama Prefecture had the most
victims, with ambulances called for 388 people each. They were followed
by 382 in Aichi Prefecture and 372 in Osaka Prefecture. People aged 65
or older accounted for 45.9 percent of the total. Since the agency
started this year’s survey on May 28, 11,116 people were taken to
hospitals as of Sunday. Twenty-three people have died. The rise in
heatstroke cases reflects the smothering heat wave, with temperatures of
35 degrees or higher observed in many places for the four days from
July 16, agency officials said. In Tatebayashi, Gunma Prefecture, the
mercury shot up to 37.6 on July 16 and to 39.2 the following day,
according to the Meteorological Agency. |
| 29.07.2012 | Extreme Weather | Austria | Lower Austria, Poechlarn |  |
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Extreme Weather in Austria on Sunday, 29 July, 2012 at 16:39 (04:39 PM) UTC.
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| Austrian authorities say a man has died and several
other people were injured after a tree limb crashed into tents at a
festival during a storm. The security department in Lower Austria
province said Sunday that a 50-year-old local resident died in a
hospital after the accident in Poechlarn, west of Vienna. The incident
happened late Saturday afternoon when a storm and heavy winds hit the
town during a medieval-themed festival in a park. Authorities say the
limb of an old tree crashed into tents that organizers had set up below
it. Thirteen people were injured, including the man who later died.
Firefighters had to use power saws to free people from the tents. |
| 29.07.2012 | Forest / Wild Fire | Russia [Asia] | Siberia, [Krasnoyarsk Krai, Tomsk Region, Tuva, Khakassia and Irkutsk Region] |  |
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Forest / Wild Fire in Russia [Asia] on Saturday, 28 July, 2012 at 12:07 (12:07 PM) UTC.
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| Firefighters in Russia’s Siberia had extinguished 45 forest fires covering 522 hectares of forest in the past 24 hours, but 131 wildfires were still burning on the area of almost 15,000 hectares, the regional forestry department said Friday. A total of 29 wildfires covering an area of more than 5,000 hectares were localized, and 14,948 hectares of forest continued to burn in the Krasnoyarsk Krai, Tomsk Region, Tuva, Khakassia and Irkutsk Region. Some 3,000 people, 412 units of fire-fighting equipment and 24 aircrafts have been mobilized to fight the blazes, which are believed to be caused by hot and dry weather in the region where the temperature reaches 35 degrees. Reports said the wildfires posed no threat to populated areas or industry. |
| Today | Forest / Wild Fire | USA | State of Oklahoma, [Pottawatomie County] | |
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Forest / Wild Fire in USA on Monday, 30 July, 2012 at 04:58 (04:58 AM) UTC.
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| Wildfires burned across the state Sunday, with one blaze threatening about100 homes in Pottawatomie County. The fire, which started Sunday afternoon about two miles northwest of Earlsboro, was encroaching upon structures, and a mandatory evacuation order was put into effect, state emergency management spokeswoman Keli Cain said. The Pottawatomie County sheriff’s office said about 30 homes were evacuated in the town about 50 miles east of Oklahoma City. By 9:30 p.m., people were allowed to return to their homes and some firefighters were being allowed to leave the scene, Pottawatomie County Sheriff Mike Booth said. “The fire is contained, but not out,” Booth said. There were no reports of injuries or homes lost to the fire on Sunday. The fire had scorched across about 1,300 acres before being contained, Cain said. Firefighting resources were brought in from Cleveland County, and an Oklahoma National Guard helicopter made water drops, she said. |
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| Saola (10W) | Pacific Ocean | 28.07.2012 | 30.07.2012 | Tropical Storm | 345 ° | 102 km/h | 130 km/h | 4.27 m | JTWC | |
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Tropical Storm | Philippines | Multiple Regions, [Northern and central provinces] | |
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Tropical Storm in Philippines on Monday, 30 July, 2012 at 04:57 (04:57 AM) UTC.
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| One person has died in flooding caused by tropical storm
Saola in the central Philippines. Torrential rain brought on by the
storm and the south-west monsoon have caused more flooding and
landslides in the central and northern Philippines. Landslides have been
reported in the mountainous Cordillera region while flood waters have
swamped communities in the capital Manila and several nearby provinces.
Hundreds of families have been evacuated, with rain on Sunday night
causing three major dams to spill over. In the country’s northern and
central provinces, five ships have run aground with rescue operations
ongoing to bring passengers ashore. Over the weekend, rain blanketed
most of the Philippines, forcing the cancellation of at least 13
domestic flights. Tropical storm Saola is now moving northwest towards
China. |
| Today | Flood | Costa Rica | Multiple areas, [Central and eastern regions] | |
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Flood in Costa Rica on Monday, 30 July, 2012 at 03:00 (03:00 AM) UTC.
| Description | |
| Heavy rains in central and eastern Costa Rica have
triggered floods that have forced evacuations and may be responsible for
at least one death, relief workers said Sunday. Four people are
missing, down from eight earlier, according to Freddy Roman, a spokesman
for the local Red Cross. The government has declared a “yellow alert”
in various parts of Cartago, a central province where one person was
reported dead, said Roman. The person was rescued after a landslide, but
died on the way to the hospital from injuries and heart failure, he
said. A yellow alert is also in effect for parts of Limon, an eastern
province. More than 1,500 people have taken refuge at shelters and
others are waiting to be rescued, according to the Red Cross. “We have
reports of people trapped in their houses that have been flooded by
overflow from the Chirripo River, also of several communities that are
isolated in other parts of Limon,” said Guillermo Arroyo, director of
operations of the Costa Rican Red Cross. Heavy rain is typical this time
of year in Costa Rica, where the rainy season runs roughly from
May-November. |
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Epidemic Hazards / Diseases
| 30.07.2012 | Epidemic Hazard | Uganda | Western Uganda, [Kibaale District] |  |
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Epidemic Hazard in Uganda on Thursday, 26 July, 2012 at 15:57 (03:57 PM) UTC.
Back| Updated: | Monday, 30 July, 2012 at 04:48 UTC |
| Description | |
| Ugandan authorities did not initially detect an Ebola
outbreak because patients weren’t showing typical symptoms of the lethal
virus, the nation’s health minister reported on Sunday. Patients had
fevers and were vomiting, but did not show other typical symptoms like
hemorrhaging, Health Minister Dr. Christine Ondoa said. A team made up
of personnel from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the
Ugandan health ministry and the World Health Organization early Monday
were in Kibaale, a district in the midwestern part of the landlocked
central African nation, WHO said in a statement. Medecins Sans
Frontieres, also known as Doctors Without Borders, also is involved in
setting up an “isolation center” at Kibaale’s hospital. National health
authorities say the outbreak has infected at least 20 people, of whom 14
have died. Nine of the deaths were from a single household in the
village of Nyanswiga, according to WHO. A medic who was treating victims
is among the dead, Ondoa said. Officials are trying to determine the
extent of the outbreak, CDC spokesman Tom Skinner said Sunday. The
Atlanta-based organization was sending about five people to join a group
of CDC staffers who are permanently based in Uganda, according to the
spokesman.”These outbreaks have a tendency to stamp themselves out, if
you will, if we can get in and … stop the chain of transmission,” he
said. Ondoa described the Ebola-Sudan strain detected as “mild” compared
to other types of Ebola, noting that victims’ lives can be saved with
intervention. The cases have emerged in Kibaale, where a national task
force had been mobilized in an effort to combat the outbreak. As of
early Monday in Uganda, two people with the virus remained hospitalized
in stable condition, said WHO. One was a 38-year-old woman who’d
attended to her sister, the medic who died, and another was a
30-year-old woman who participated in the burial of one of the other
victims. The Ebola virus is considered a highly infectious disease
spread through direct contact with bodily fluids, with symptoms that
include fever, vomiting, diarrhea, abdominal pain, headache,
measles-like rash, red eyes and at times bleeding from body openings.
Health officials urged the public to report suspected cases and avoid
contact with anyone who has contracted the virus and to disinfect the
bedding and clothing of an infected person by using protective gloves
and masks. Officials also advised against eating dead animals,
especially monkeys, and to avoid public gatherings in the affected
district. Given these precautions, WHO said in its statement that it
would not recommend any travel restrictions to Uganda because of the
Ebola outbreak. |
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| Today | Epidemic Hazard | India | State of Punjab, Dasuya | |
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Epidemic Hazard in India on Monday, 30 July, 2012 at 02:56 (02:56 AM) UTC.
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| The number of gastro entritis cases has gone up to 132 at Dasuya in Punjab where spread of cholera and gastro enteritis cases was reported in some districts. Out of these, 86 have been discharged after treatment, a senior medical officer said today. Yesterday, the number of gastro patients admitted to the civil hospital at Dasuya was 117. Meanwhile, three serious patients were referred to Punjab Institute of Medical Sciences, Jalandhar, Dr Naresh Kansra, senior medical officer (SMO) of the Dasuya Civil Hospital said today. An increase in the number of gastro patients has been witnessed at Dasuya in the past few days. Director family welfare Punjab Karnjit Singh and state surveillance officer Deepak Bhatia inspected the areas of Dasuya town affected by gastroenteritis and also went to the hospital to meet the patients. Over 4000 chlorine tablets were distributed among the people of the area. | |
| Biohazard name: | Cholera and gastroenteritis diseases |
| Biohazard level: | 2/4 Medium |
| Biohazard desc.: | Bacteria and viruses that cause only mild disease to humans, or are difficult to contract via aerosol in a lab setting, such as hepatitis A, B, and C, influenza A, Lyme disease, salmonella, mumps, measles, scrapie, dengue fever, and HIV. “Routine diagnostic work with clinical specimens can be done safely at Biosafety Level 2, using Biosafety Level 2 practices and procedures. Research work (including co-cultivation, virus replication studies, or manipulations involving concentrated virus) can be done in a BSL-2 (P2) facility, using BSL-3 practices and procedures. Virus production activities, including virus concentrations, require a BSL-3 (P3) facility and use of BSL-3 practices and procedures”, see Recommended Biosafety Levels for Infectious Agents. |
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| Status: | confirmed |
| 29.07.2012 | Epidemic | India | State of Orissa, [Balikuda block] | |
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Epidemic in India on Sunday, 29 July, 2012 at 16:37 (04:37 PM) UTC.
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| At least three people were killed including a girl child and about 70 residents have been affected following cholera broke out in Dobhala village under Borekina Panchayat in Balikuda block past one week, reports said that most of the victims are undergoing treatment in headquarters hospital here and Borekina, Balikuda PHCs. Sources said that the deceased’s have been identified as Nari Sethy [70], Kailash Barik [45] and Ankita Barik a five year old girl child of Sudhansu Barik and affected victims shifted to headquarters hospital for treatment on Saturday night have been named as Betani Sethy, Anju Barik, Rangalata Barik, Nandei Sethy and Bebina Barik, meanwhile hospital sources said that their conditions are fast curing and would be discharged soon. Report said that this coastal village has population of about 700 numbers, and one week ago few people had complained suffering stomach ailments and dehydration and the illness turned to cholera when Nari Sethy a septuagenarian died in home on Wednesday night, soon after numbers of cholera affected people had grown inside village and till date about 5 to 7 people are going to be affected daily shifting to hospital for treatment. Ironically the nearby Borekina PHC suffers without any doctor past six years, one retired doctor has posted on contractual and a pharmacist are catering medical service at hospital as consequence victims have opted either moving Balikuda PHC or headquarters hospital for treatment after cholera broke out in village. The district headquarters hospital sources said after information reached a medical team comprising doctors, pharmacists and health staff have sent to village to study the situation and our medical team preliminary investigation indicates that due to using contaminated water the villagers have been affected, and we are taking all health related measures at village, informed Bijaya Sahoo, chief district medical officer. | |
| Biohazard name: | Cholera Outbreak |
| Biohazard level: | 0/4 — |
| Biohazard desc.: | This does not included biological hazard category. |
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| Status: | confirmed |
| 29.07.2012 | Epidemic Hazard | Pakistan | Province of Northwest Territories, Mohmand | |
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Epidemic Hazard in Pakistan on Sunday, 29 July, 2012 at 08:14 (08:14 AM) UTC.
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| Locals claim an outbreak of measles in Ambar tehsil of Mohmand Agency has killed six children. Officials confirmed the death of two of the children, but said they died because of an unconfirmed disease. Local Qari Ali Gul told The Express Tribune on Saturday that the disease has struck the areas of Gumbati, Shaji Kor, Soor Tangi, Bakhmal Shah, Musa Kor and Khairo Kor, and has affected a large number of tribesmen. Another local, Mushtaq Khan, said that affected children were taken to Khar Hospital in Bajaur Agency. They said that the residents informed the agency surgeon to send inoculation teams to control the spread of the disease. They also urged the government to send mobile vaccination teams and said the situation may become uncontrollable if prompt action was not taken. An Expanded Programme on Immunisation Mohmand Agency Officer, Dr Shabeer, denied the spread of the disease and the cause of the deaths. “Two deaths have been reported in Ambar and Utmanzai but by an unknown disease, we cannot confirm they were caused by measles,” he said. He added that the areas further away lack qualified doctors and people depend on unqualified doctors.“The scarcity of proper health facilities worsens the situation in these circumstances,” he said. He claimed the Federally Administered Tribal Areas (Fata) child heath project had worked in three community health centres, one in Daravo, one in Had Kor and one in Shati Meena. Ambar is a tehsil of the agency bordering Bajaur Agency. The area lacks basic amenities regularly, and has only one high and middle school with most residents going to schools in Charsadda. In June, 211 children with symptoms of measles were brought to the Lady Reading Hospital (LRH) Peshawar from different areas of K-P and Fata. Hospital data revealed that a total of 989 cases of measles were brought to the LRH over the past six months, of which 884 were discharged and 44 had died. Nine patients left the hospital against doctors’ advice. A study conducted by Dr Majid Khan and Dr Tariq Anwar at LRH from November 1, 2011, to May 22 this year, revealed that the measles outbreak in K-P and Fata was a result of poor vaccination campaigns, military conflict, migration and malnutrition in the area. Talking to The Express Tribune, Dr Khan explained that measles was an infectious viral disease that could easily spread through migrating people, especially if they have a weak immunity due to inadequate food intake. He said the hospital has received children as young as four months suffering from measles. Khan explained that children younger than nine months usually do not get measles as they have antibodies transmitted from their mothers during pregnancy. This shows that the mothers did not receive proper nutrition. Measles is highly contagious and spread by a virus that is easily prevented by proper immunisation but can be fatal. It caused nearly 140,000 deaths worldwide in 2010, according to the World Health Organisation – 95% in low income countries with poor health infrastructure. | |
| Biohazard name: | Measles (fatal) |
| Biohazard level: | 2/4 Medium |
| Biohazard desc.: | Bacteria and viruses that cause only mild disease to humans, or are difficult to contract via aerosol in a lab setting, such as hepatitis A, B, and C, influenza A, Lyme disease, salmonella, mumps, measles, scrapie, dengue fever, and HIV. “Routine diagnostic work with clinical specimens can be done safely at Biosafety Level 2, using Biosafety Level 2 practices and procedures. Research work (including co-cultivation, virus replication studies, or manipulations involving concentrated virus) can be done in a BSL-2 (P2) facility, using BSL-3 practices and procedures. Virus production activities, including virus concentrations, require a BSL-3 (P3) facility and use of BSL-3 practices and procedures”, see Recommended Biosafety Levels for Infectious Agents. |
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| Status: | confirmed |
Solar Activity
2MIN News July 29, 2012
Published on Jul 29, 2012 by Suspicious0bservers
EARTHQUAKE WATCH: http://youtu.be/SMiHsOYwdCsREPEAT 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]
NOAA Bouys: http://www.ndbc.noaa.gov/
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!]
US Drought Area Triples in 1 Week
Published on Jul 28, 2012 by MrCometwatch
Solar Update. Links @ http://www.mrcometwatch.com
http://phys.org/news/2012-07-extreme-drought-zones-triple-size.html http://worldnews.nbcnews.com/_news/2012/07/24/12927340-ice-melt-found-across-…
http://phys.org/news/2012-07-extreme-drought-zones-triple-size.html http://worldnews.nbcnews.com/_news/2012/07/24/12927340-ice-melt-found-across-…
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Space
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| Object Name | Apporach Date | Left | AU Distance | LD Distance | Estimated Diameter* | Relative Velocity | |||
| 217013 (2001 AA50) | 31st July 2012 | 1 day(s) | 0.1355 | 52.7 | 580 m – 1.3 km | 22.15 km/s | 79740 km/h | ||
| (2012 DS30) | 02nd August 2012 | 3 day(s) | 0.1224 | 47.6 | 18 m – 39 m | 5.39 km/s | 19404 km/h | ||
| (2000 RN77) | 03rd August 2012 | 4 day(s) | 0.1955 | 76.1 | 410 m – 920 m | 9.87 km/s | 35532 km/h | ||
| (2004 SB56) | 04th August 2012 | 5 day(s) | 0.1393 | 54.2 | 380 m – 840 m | 13.72 km/s | 49392 km/h | ||
| (2000 SD8) | 04th August 2012 | 5 day(s) | 0.1675 | 65.2 | 180 m – 400 m | 5.82 km/s | 20952 km/h | ||
| (2006 EC) | 06th August 2012 | 7 day(s) | 0.0932 | 36.3 | 13 m – 28 m | 6.13 km/s | 22068 km/h | ||
| (2006 MV1) | 07th August 2012 | 8 day(s) | 0.0612 | 23.8 | 12 m – 28 m | 4.79 km/s | 17244 km/h | ||
| (2005 RK3) | 08th August 2012 | 9 day(s) | 0.1843 | 71.7 | 52 m – 120 m | 8.27 km/s | 29772 km/h | ||
| (2009 BW2) | 09th August 2012 | 10 day(s) | 0.0337 | 13.1 | 25 m – 56 m | 5.27 km/s | 18972 km/h | ||
| 277475 (2005 WK4) | 09th August 2012 | 10 day(s) | 0.1283 | 49.9 | 260 m – 580 m | 6.18 km/s | 22248 km/h | ||
| (2004 SC56) | 09th August 2012 | 10 day(s) | 0.0811 | 31.6 | 74 m – 170 m | 10.57 km/s | 38052 km/h | ||
| (2008 AF4) | 10th August 2012 | 11 day(s) | 0.1936 | 75.3 | 310 m – 690 m | 16.05 km/s | 57780 km/h | ||
| 37655 Illapa | 12th August 2012 | 13 day(s) | 0.0951 | 37.0 | 770 m – 1.7 km | 28.73 km/s | 103428 km/h | ||
| (2012 HS15) | 14th August 2012 | 15 day(s) | 0.1803 | 70.2 | 220 m – 490 m | 11.54 km/s | 41544 km/h | ||
| 4581 Asclepius | 16th August 2012 | 17 day(s) | 0.1079 | 42.0 | 220 m – 490 m | 13.48 km/s | 48528 km/h | ||
| (2008 TC4) | 18th August 2012 | 19 day(s) | 0.1937 | 75.4 | 140 m – 300 m | 17.34 km/s | 62424 km/h | ||
| (2006 CV) | 20th August 2012 | 21 day(s) | 0.1744 | 67.9 | 290 m – 640 m | 13.24 km/s | 47664 km/h | ||
| (2012 EC) | 20th August 2012 | 21 day(s) | 0.0815 | 31.7 | 56 m – 130 m | 5.57 km/s | 20052 km/h | ||
| 162421 (2000 ET70) | 21st August 2012 | 22 day(s) | 0.1503 | 58.5 | 640 m – 1.4 km | 12.92 km/s | 46512 km/h | ||
| (2007 WU3) | 21st August 2012 | 22 day(s) | 0.1954 | 76.0 | 56 m – 120 m | 5.25 km/s | 18900 km/h | ||
| (2012 BB14) | 24th August 2012 | 25 day(s) | 0.1234 | 48.0 | 27 m – 60 m | 2.58 km/s | 9288 km/h | ||
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Biological Hazards / Wildlife
Biological Hazard in Philippines on Monday, 30 July, 2012 at 04:51 (04:51 AM) UTC.
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| Lunchtime Sunday at the Ateneo de Davao University (ADDU) turned bad after at least 100 students had to be rushed to area hospitals after suffering a nasty bout of food poisoning. According to an Ateneo de Davao University press statement Sunday: “A number of students, staff and administrators were rushed to the hospital a few hours after lunch after they complained of upset stomach with bouts of vomiting. Administrators and staff were dispatched to assist students in the hospitals. Some of the students were confined, majority were sent home after they were checked by doctors and administered the appropriate medications.” The Philippine news source, Interaksyon reports Sunday, the students were attending the student leaders gathering – called Sui Generis – with ADDU President Fr. Joel Tabora. The gathering of students ate lunch at the school around 12:30 pm. The menu included chicken adobo, pancit, fish , rice and buco salad. A couple of hours later, students starting getting sick, showing food poisoning symptoms such as nausea and vomiting. Chair of the student council Samahan, Mureene Ann Villamor told Interaksyon reporters that the chicken adobo “smelled terrible.” On the Facebook page of the student paper, Atenews, there are several posts about the outbreak including a photo of the implicated food, chicken adobo (or adobong manok ) by photographer Caycee Coronel. Students were taken to Davao Doctors Hospital and San Pedro Hospital or treatment. The etiologic agent of the outbreak has yet to be determined. | |||
| Biohazard name: | Mass. Food Poisoning | ||
| Biohazard level: | 2/4 Medium | ||
| Biohazard desc.: | Bacteria and viruses that cause only mild disease to humans, or are difficult to contract via aerosol in a lab setting, such as hepatitis A, B, and C, influenza A, Lyme disease, salmonella, mumps, measles, scrapie, dengue fever, and HIV. “Routine diagnostic work with clinical specimens can be done safely at Biosafety Level 2, using Biosafety Level 2 practices and procedures. Research work (including co-cultivation, virus replication studies, or manipulations involving concentrated virus) can be done in a BSL-2 (P2) facility, using BSL-3 practices and procedures. Virus production activities, including virus concentrations, require a BSL-3 (P3) facility and use of BSL-3 practices and procedures”, see Recommended Biosafety Levels for Infectious Agents. | ||
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| Status: | confirmed | ||
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Articles of Interest
| Today | Power Outage | India | Multiple areas, [Delhi, Uttar Pradesh, Punjab, Haryana, Rajasthan, Himachal Pradesh and Jammu and Kashmir] |  |
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Power Outage in India on Monday, 30 July, 2012 at 03:26 (03:26 AM) UTC.
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| Seven states in North India have been facing a long power cut since late Sunday night. Due to a massive breakdown in the northern grid, the main power source for the affected states, there has been a massive power outage. The affected states are Delhi, Uttar Pradesh, Punjab, Haryana, Rajasthan, Himachal Pradesh and Jammu and Kashmir. There is no power in Delhi and its neighbouring states since 2 am reports IBN-Live. According to the report, Power Minister Sushil Kumar Shinde said that it’ll take another one and a half hour’s time to restore power. “My officers are on the spot. The fault is found near Agra. It will be corrected in one and a half hour time,” he said. Thousands of commuters in the Delhi Metro will face a harrowing time on Monday morning as services of all the lines of the Metro have been disrupted due to tripping of power supply. Train services on the 190-km Metro network connecting length and breath of the national capital were affected due to The Northern Grid failure also caused power cuts in large parts of Delhi. “Metro service will not be available today (Monday) till the supply is restored as it is a major Northern Grid power failure,” a Delhi Metro official said. The Delhi Metro normally operates over 2,700 trips a day, covering about 70,000 km and carrying around 1.8 million passengers on week days. |
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