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tropical storm alex

Tropical Storm Alex formed in the western Caribbean Saturday, and forecasters said it was unclear if it would hit the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico.

Reports of maximum sustained winds of about 40 mph from Tropical Storm Alex has been a cause of concern if the storm will disrupt BP cleanup efforts of the massive oil spill that has been gushing since the Deepwater Horizon
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The 40 mph winds could force at-sea workers to abandon their oil collection efforts for as long as two weeks, McClatchy Newspapers reports Read more…

earthquake in michigan

Earthquake in Michigan occurred as an effect of another earthquake originated from Canada. The Grand Rapids have felt tremors as well as other east side parts of the state.
Some of the emails have also been received by the press from far areas like Rochester Hills and Livonia in which people are claiming that they felt the earthquake as well. Most of the people claim that the earthquake shook the area for around 10 seconds.

In Southern Kent County, one of the Foremost Insurance Headquarters’ employees Alan Aho told the press that earthquake that hit the area yesterday was felt by most of the employees and they immediately stood up from their seats. Read more…

earthquake canada

TORONTO — A magnitude-5.0 earthquake struck at the Ontario-Quebec border region of Canada on Wednesday, the U.S. Geological Survey said, and homes and businesses were shaken from Canada’s capital in Ottawa on south to an arc of U.S. states.

Other states that reported feeling tremors were Indiana, Michigan, Ohio, Pennsylvania, West Virginia, Vermont, New Hampshire, New Jersey and New York.
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ottawa earthquake

Canada Earthquake 2010: Toronto, Ottawa Report Ground Shaking
A Canada earthquake shook Toronto and Ottawa at approximately 1:45 p.m. Eastern Time today, June 23, 2010. The USGS reports the quake had a magnitude of 5.0.

The quake was also felt by some as far away as Boston, Cleveland and Chicago. Read more…

earthquake los angeles

A 3.6 Magnitude Earthquake Shakes Los Angeles
A 3.6 magnitude earthquake was felt in south Los Angeles and areas of downtown at 2:17 a.m. on Monday morning. According to the US Geological Survey website, the location of the small earthquake was Santa Monica Bay, five miles away from Manhattan Beach and Hermosa Beach.

A small undersea earthquake struck just the shores of Los Angeles early this morning. It was widely felt in the West Los Angeles area. The U.S. Geological survey registered the 3.6-magnitude temblor at 2:17 a.m. PDT Monday. It was centered about four miles west of Redondo Beach at a depth of 8 miles.
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millbury ohio

MILLBURY, Ohio — Police chief in Ohio says 2 more have died in Midwest storms
There were severe weather conditions today in Millbury Ohio, and also parts of Illinois and Michigan after tornadoes and thunderstorms swept across the Midwest overnight. Sadly 7 people have now been reported dead, with more people hospitalized with injuries.

The storms swept across the region devastating homes and also damaging a highschool gym where graduation was to be held on Sunday. A police station was also damaged. Read more…

phet

Cyclone Phet killed 12 people and left one missing in Oman before barrelling towards Pakistan, the head of Oman’s civil defence force said on Saturday.

Nine Omanis and three expatriates were killed by the storm, General Malek al-Muammari told Omani state television.

He said that one of the three dead expatriates was from Bangladesh and a second was from Pakistan, while the nationality of the third was unknown.

An earlier statement on the official ONA news agency had said that victims included six people, among them a civil defence member, who were swept away by flood waters caused by rainfall from the cyclone.

Authorities said Phet had weakened in intensity on Friday before heading at wind speeds of up to 120 kilometres (75 miles) an hour towards Pakistan, where some 60,000 people have been evacuated from the south coast to safer areas.

The situation in Oman appeared to be returning to normal on Saturday. An AFP correspondent said that the rain had stopped and skies were relatively clear over Muscat and in most of the affected areas on Oman’s eastern coast. Read more…

cyclone phet

Tropical Cyclone Phet threatens the Indian and Pakistani coastlines
Tropical cyclone 03A has intensified quickly in the last 24 hours, and as a result, the storm has been renamed Tropical Storm Phet. Phet is located in the Arabian Sea, Northern Indian Ocean, and is threatening the Indian and Pakistani coastlines, NASA satellite imagery has claimed.

NASA’s Aqua satellite flew over Tropical Storm Phet on June 1 at 9:11 UTC (5:11 EDT) and captured an infrared image of the cloud top temperatures. The image indicated large areas of high, cold cloud tops, as cold as -63 degrees Fahrenheit, indicating strong convection.

At 1500 UTC (11 a.m. EDT) on June 1, Tropical Storm Phet had maximum sustained winds near 55 knots (62 mph) with higher gusts. Phet was located about 550 miles south-southwest of Karachi, Pakistan, near 16.8 North and 62.2 East. Phet is moving to the northwest near 6 knots (7 mph).

Current landmasses threatened by Phet include: India (Gujarat), Pakistan (Sindh and Balochistan).

Phet is forecast to continue strengthening and turn northeast later this week. The Joint Typhoon Warning Center forecasts landfall by the end of the week in the border area between India and Pakistan. Read more…