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Earthquake Measuring at Least 6.5 Mw Strikes Oaxaca, Mexico
The quake, epicentered at 16.530°N, 97.708°W, struck about 120km WSW of Oaxaca City, Oaxaca, Mexico, at depth of 10km on Wednesday, June 30, 2010 at 07:22:27 UTC.
The earthquake struck about 100 km WNW of the epicenter of a magnitude 8.0 quake which struck the region on June 17, 1928.
This quake has the potential to trigger one or more eruptions at volcanoes in the region.
The shock may well prove to be detrimental to oil and gas drilling activities in the Gulf of Mexico.
As of posting, there was no report of damage or casualties, but the Moderators believe some structural damage may have occurred locally close to the epicenter, and will post further information on Fire Earth Disaster pages.
10-degree Map Centered at 15°N,100°W
Earthquake Location Map. Source: USGS/EHP. Enhanced by Fire-Earth.
Fire-Earth Quake Forecast
The Blog Moderators expect more earthquakes, and related disasters, in the 2nd half of 2010 than occurred in the 1st half of this year.
Earthquake Details:
Magnitude 6.5
Date-Tim: Wednesday, June 30, 2010 at 07:22:27 UT
Location: 16.530°N, 97.708°W
Depth: 10 km (6.2 miles)
Region: OAXACA, MEXICO
Distances
120 km (75 miles) WSW of Oaxaca, Oaxaca, Mexico
145 km (90 miles) S of Huajuapan de Leon, Oaxaca, Mexico
160 km (100 miles) NW of Puerto Angel, Oaxaca, Mexico
355 km (220 miles) SSE of MEXICO CITY, D.F., Mexico
Location Uncertainty: horizontal +/- 7.6 km (4.7 miles)
Mississippi Barrier Islands and Gulf Coast Satellite Images
Petit Bois Island is 10 km (6 miles) long and is is one of 7 barrier islands included in the Gulf Islands National Seashore. “As of June 27, 2010, the entire gulf-facing beachfront of several barrier islands in eastern Mississippi (offshore of Pascagoula) had received a designation of at least “lightly oiled” by the interagency Shoreline Cleanup Assessment Team that is responding to the disaster in the Gulf of Mexico. A few small stretches of Petit Bois Island had been labeled heavily or moderately oiled.” Image acquired by ALI on NASA’s EO-1 satellite on June 26, 2010. Source: NASA E/O. Click image to enlarge. Download large image (3 MB, JPEG)
Original Caption: Soldiers rush to the site of a landslide in Guanling County of southwest China’s Guizhou Province, on June 28, 2010. Some 107 people from 38 families were buried and trapped by a rainstorm-triggered landslide Monday afternoon in southwest China’s Guizhou Province, local authorities said. (Xinhua/Ou Dongqu). Image may be subject to copyright.
At least 107 people were buried by a landslide in southwest China’s Guizhou Province on Monday, Chinese officials said, Xinhua reported.
The landslide which was triggered by torrential rain and flooding “occurred at 2:30 p.m. in Dazhai Village, Gangwu Township of Guanling County, said a spokesman for the government of Anshun City, which administers Guanling.”
Rescue work was suspended because relentless rain which has been pummeling the area since late Sunday, officials were reported as saying.
Oil Slick Continues to Spread Like Malignant Cancer
Large patches of thick oil washes ashore in Mississippi for the first time: Report
Gulf of Mexico Oil Disaster. Oil from BP’s leaking Macondo oil well I seen spreading in this natural-color acquired by MODIS on NASA’s Terra on June 25, 2010. Source: NASA. Click image to enlarge. Download large image (883 KB, JPEG)
Oil from BP’s leaking Macondo well has washed ashore at Ocean Springs beaches, about 15 km (9 miles) east of Biloxi, Mississippi, and at another beach close to an inland marsh, reports say.
“We cannot clean up or catch the oil until BP gets here. They have all of our people,” said Earl Etheridge, a spokesman for Mississippi’s Department of Environmental Quality, Reuters reported.
Sanitized images and writeup are available at the following sites:
TS ALEX the First Named Storm of the Atlantic Hurricane Season 2010 Nears the Coast of Belize
Northern Guatemala and the Yucatan Peninsula experiencing heavy rainfall.
Alex – Visible/Infrared satellite image – Source: CIMSS. Click image to enlarge
Alex poses a potential threat to the Gulf of Mexico cleanup operation, though the risk is seen as minimal at this stage.
GOES East Hurricane Sector Infrared Image. Click image to update.
U.S. Coast Guard Admiral Thad (FAT) Allen was quoted as saying BP may be forced to suspend oil containment operations, “if a storm with gale-force winds were expected within five days at the leak site.” Reuters reported.
“We understand it’s moving westerly at this time and does not threaten the site,” said Allen, adding however, “we all know that the weather is unpredictable.”
Shell Oil Co has announced that it would also evacuate 300 non-essential employees from its Gulf of Mexico offshore operations as a precaution, the report said.
ALEX Projected Path: Various Dynamical Models Forecasts. Source: CIMSS. Click image to enlarge
Meanwhile, the state of Louisiana filed a motion with the U.S. Appeals Court for the Fifth Circuit on Saturday opposing the DOI’s request to stay a ruling from the federal judge who overturned a six-month ban on new deepwater drilling in the Gulf, Reuters reported.
TS ALEX: Summary of Details at 00:01 UTC, Sunday 27 June 2010
LOCATION: 17.4N 88.1W
Distances
About 25km (15 miles) SE of Belize City
About 125km (75miles) south of Chetumal, Mexico
Max. Sustained Winds 100km/hr (65 MPH)
Currently Moving W (280 degrees) at 19km/hr (12 MPH)
Powerful Earthquake Measuring Up To 7.2Mw Strikes Solomon Islands
The offshore quake struck about 55 km (35 miles) WSW of Kira Kira, on Makira Island, San Cristobal, Solomon Isl., and 210 km southeast of the capital Honiara, Guadalcanal, Solomon Islands, the US Geological Survey EHP said.
The quake epicentered at 10.636°S, 161.443°E and struck at a depth of about 35 kilometres, at 05:30 UTC, and was said to be one of the strongest earthquakes to strike Honiara in more than a decade.
Panicked residents in the capital, fearing a tsunami, were seen fleeing to higher grounds, reports said.
1. As BP stock plunges to a 14-year Low, UK PM fears the firm’s “destruction”
“It is also in all our long-term interests that there is some clarity, some finality, to all of this, so that we don’t at the same time see the destruction of a company that is important for all our interests,” UK PM David Cameron told Canadian broadcaster CBC.
2. Gulf braces for storm, halt to oil containment
“Federal officials Friday say a tropical storm or hurricane in the Gulf of Mexico could shut down spill-containment operations at BP’s leaking oil well for two weeks, a report said.
3. Govt asks appeals court to keep deepwater drilling ban
“Captain William Allen-Kruse was found dead with a gun on board his boat by fellow workers. Coroner Stan Vinson told US media that witnesses believe Mr Kruse, who had been a charter boat fisherman for 20 years, had been distraught at the spill.”
Virgin Islands, El Salvador, Dominican Republic Hit by Tropical Wave
A tropical wave moving across the Caribbean has caused extensive flooding in Virgin Islands, El Salvador and Dominican Republic.
In the Dominican Republic, where there was at least one storm-related death, the authorities were forced to evacuate at least 3,000 people, local reports say.
The so called ”Tropical Disturbance 10,’ which is currently located between Jamaica and the tip of Honduras, and is moving westward at about 20km/hr (13 mph), has been producing strong showers with thunderstorms, and choppy sea condition with waves of up to 2.5m (7 feet).
There is a high probability (60%) this system could become a tropical cyclone in the next 48 hours, NWS said.
GOES EAST – IR Satellite Image (AVNCOLOR Enhancement). Click image to update.
Sea Surface Temperature (SST) Atlantic and East Pacific Oceans
New study links 1 in 5 deaths in Bangladesh to arsenic in the drinking water
Increased mortality is linked to chronic diseases with a 70 percent increased mortality risk among those with the highest level of exposure
Between 33 and 77 million people in Bangladesh have been exposed to arsenic in the drinking water—a catastrophe that the World Health Organization has called “the largest mass poisoning in history.” A new study published in the current issue of the medical journal The Lancet provides the most complete and detailed picture to date of the high mortality rates associated with this exposure, which began with the widespread installation of tube wells throughout the country 30 years ago—a measure intended to control water-bourne diseases.
Among the surprising findings of the study, conducted by a team of researchers at Columbia University’s Mailman School of Public Health, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, and the University of Chicago, and led by Dr. Joseph Graziano are these:
One in five deaths in Bangladesh (population: 125 million) is associated with exposure to water from wells with arsenic concentrations greater than 10 micrograms per liter.
Arsenic exposure was associated with increased mortality due to heart disease and other chronic diseases in addition to the more familiar medical consequences of arsenic exposure: skin lesions, cancers of the skin, bladder and lung.
An increase of nearly 70 percent in all-cause mortality was found among those exposed to the highest concentration of arsenic in water (150 to 864 micrograms/liter). But researchers found a dose-related effect that included increased mortality even at relatively low levels of exposure, including the Bangladesh safety standard (50 micrograms/liter) and the WHO recommended standard (10 micrograms/liter).
The study draws its results from a carefully designed, prospective, longitudinal study involving 12,000 people in Bangladesh who were tracked for over a decade. To gather data for the Health Effects of Arsenic Longitudinal Study (HEALS), researchers traversed the tropical landscape over wooden bridges to interview each of the 12,000 participants and take urine samples every two years. Lifestyle and health data were tracked, allowing researchers to control for factors such as smoking, blood pressure and body-mass index. In addition, nearly 6,000 wells were tested to establish the arsenic concentration of the water source for each participant.
In an accompanying commentary in the same issue of The Lancet, Margaret P. Karagas of Dartmouth Medical School, describes the study design as “a substantial advance over previous ecological studies.”
The mass poisoning in Bangladesh was a result of well-intentioned efforts on the part of aid and development agencies in the 1970s, which built 10 million tube wells in an attempt to reduce water-bourne diseases such as cholera and dysentery, according to Dr. Graziano, professor of Environmental Health Sciences at the Mailman School. While the new wells reduced exposure to the microbes causing such diseases, they yielded water contamined with arsenic, which occurs naturally in the region. Arsenic can be avoided, however, by digging deeper wells—an approach that is already yielding safer drinking water for roughly 100,000 people. The Columbia Mailman School team has been at the forefront of this effort.
“The need for a global response is apparent because the situation goes far beyond the Bangladesh borders,” says Dr. Graziano. “Arsenic in ground water is affecting 140 million people across many countries and especially in South Asia. “There needs to be a concerted effort to bring safe to millions of people. Investment has not been commensurate with the magnitude of the problem.”
Shocking video, filmed in River Ridge, near New Orleans shows visible sheen gathering in the puddles after a recent rainfall in the area. The filmmaker says the residue is “thick,” “foamy,” and “smells like the oil.”
Undersea remote control vehicle (RCV) damages the ruptured wellhead’s “vent system”
Oil gushed unhindered from BP’s ruptured wellhead after an undersea RVC collided with a makeshift vent system placed above the wellhead to capture some of the crude from the world’s deadliest oil spill. [Watch this space.]
Methane gas is up to 1 million times higher than the normal level near the Gulf of Mexico oil spill: U.S. Researchers
Such incredibly high levels of methane could deplete oxygen and create a larger than usual dead zone in Gulf of Mexico.
An oceanography professor at Texas A&M University, who spent ten days researching the water quality near the BP Plc oil spill in the gulf, says methane gas levels in some areas close to the spill source are “astonishingly high,” a report said.
“There is an incredible amount of methane in there,” Kessler said, noting that his team of 12 researchers has found concentrations of methane that were 100,000 times higher than normal within an 8 km (5-mile) radius of BP’s ruptured wellhead.
“We saw them approach a million times above background concentrations” in some areas, Kessler said.
“At some locations, we saw depletions of up to 30 percent of oxygen based on its natural concentration in the waters. At other places, we saw no depletion of oxygen in the waters. We need to determine why that is,” he added.
The oxygen depletion are still above a critical level, he said, but the oil still leaking into the Gulf, at about 60,000 barrels per day.
“What is it going to look like two months down the road, six months down the road, two years down the road?”
The researchers believe measuring the methane level could provide a more accurate estimate of the rate of oil spill, and are hoping to have their own estimate soon.
“Give us about a week and we should have some preliminary numbers on that,” he said.
Self-interest Prevents Sound Decision by Corrupt Judge
U.S. District Judge Martin Feldman has issued an barring the enforcement of the six-month moratorium on deepwater drilling
The corrupt federal judge reported owning stock in numerous companies involved in the offshore oil industry including Transocean, owners of the doomed Deepwater Horizon drilling rig that was on lease to BP.
Judicial Watch has posted Feldman’s 2008 financial disclosure form online [pdf file], which shows the Ronald Reagan-appointed judge owned stock in six companies, including Transocean, that are involved in the offshore-drilling.
According to the report, Judge Feldman holds stocks or notes in Transocean, Hercules Offshore, ATP Oil and Gas, Ocean Energy, Inc., and Parker Drilling, all of which companies provide offshore drilling services and operate offshore rigs in the Gulf of Mexico.
“If some drilling equipment parts are flawed, is it rational to say all are?” he asked. “Are all airplanes a danger because one was? All oil tankers like Exxon Valdez? All trains? All mines? That sort of thinking seems heavy-handed, and rather overbearing.” The corrupt judge said.
The judge elaborated that the blanket ban on deepwater offshore drilling “seems to assume that because one rig failed and although no one yet fully knows why, all companies and rigs drilling new wells over 500 feet also universally present an imminent danger.”
“An invalid agency decision to suspend drilling of wells in the depths over 500ft simply cannot justify the immeasurable effect on the plaintiffs, the local economy, the Gulf region and the critical present-day aspect of the availability of domestic energy in this country,” Feldman added.
He didn’t comment on the facts that:
1. Deepwater drilling is a comparatively new way of extracting oil
2. All that it takes to kill an entire region if one out-of-control oil well
The suit was filed by Hornbeck Offshore Services LLC and was joined by at least than a dozen other companies involved in offshore drilling operations to lift the drilling ban imposed by the U.S. Department of Interior.
“Oil found in deep waters is needed because the world will need 45% more energy by the year 2030, BP’s chief of staff, Steve Westwell, earlier told the World National Oil Companies Congress,” a report said.
What’s left of this world would be a better place without corrupt judges and government officials.
The dastardly judge is well protected
COINCIDENTALLY, the Blog Moderators were unable to find any photo of the dastardly judge on Internet.[Readers will note why he’s so well protected!]
Apocalyptic floods, massive landslides in NE Brazil kill at least 31 people, with hundreds more missing and leave tens of thousands homeless
At least 31 people are dead and more than 1,000 others are missing after 3 days of heavy rain in north-eastern Brazil triggered deadly floods, and caused massive landslides, reports quoting officials say.
The town of Quebrangulo in the state of Alagoas is almost entirely submerged, forcing tens of thousands of panic-stricken residents to flee to higher ground, as up to 2,000 km of roads are washed away, hampering rescue efforts and delivery of aid.
Images of the Day:
Images are framegrabs from an AP news video posted on Youtube.
… If Its Corporate-Friendly Judges Didn’t Side with Big Business?
US Supreme Court Overturns Ban on Monsanto GM Seed
The US Supreme Court has ruled that Monsanto can sell genetically modified seeds without having to worry about safety tests.
The ban on Monsanto GM seed was imposed by a lower court which had previously ruled that the sale of the modified alfalfa seeds may NOT proceed until an environmental impact study had been carried out.
Monsanto’s Roundupweedkiller has caused an explosion of resistant “superweeds” infesting millions of hectares (acres) of land in the United States.
However, the Supreme Court’s “Magnificent Seven,” that’s 7 of the nine Justices most accommodating to corporate interests than public safety, decided that the ruling was unconstitutional, and reversed the decision.
Alfalfa is the fourth most valuable crop grown in the U.S., the world’s largest producer of the grass-like plant used as animal feeds, and the Monsanto modification is meant to make the seed resistant to the company’s own brand of weedkiller—killing two birds, as it were, with one Monsanto stone!
Environmentalists are worried about the real risk of cross-pollination between the Monsanto’s genetically modified plants and crops grown nearby, as well as the danger of polluting the ground water as a result of the overuse of the company’s weedkiller Roundup, which could also result in rapid growth of resistant “superweeds.”
Monsanto claims its products are no danger [sic] to the environment and any claims against them are “bad science fiction with no support on the record.”
At least 10 resistant “superweeds” in more than 22 states are infesting millions of acres, a report said.
Oil Slick in the Gulf of Mexico Grows Like Malignant Cancer
Oil Cancer Growing in the Gulf of Mexico. Heavier concentrations of the oil spreads as gray tentacles as seen in this photo-like image acquired by (MODIS) on NASA’s Terra satellite on June 19, 2010. “The location of the leaking well is marked with a white dot. North of the well, a spot of black may be smoke” rising from controlled fires. Source: NASA E/O. Click image to enlarge. Download large image (10 MB, JPEG).
Gulf of Mexico: Alive, a Major liability; dead, a valuable asset for the oil industry!
Gulf of Mexico is now a major liability for not just BP, partners in crime and the oil industry at large. However, this situation can be turned around, if the Gulf were to die. It would become a major asset but for the oil industry. It’s worth more to them dead than alive.
What to do?
Instruct the least ethical lawyers in the country and reverse the moratorium on deep water oil and gas exploration in the Gulf.
Nature Didn’t Train Fish to Thrive, Even Swim in Oil!
Poggy fish lie dead stuck in oil in Bay Jimmy near Port Sulpher, Louisiana June 20, 2010. REUTERS/Sean Gardner. Image may be subject to copyright. For more images click link below
Nature’s Response to China’s Violent Assault on Ecosystems?
About 2 percent of China’s population have so far been impacted by torrential rain, flooding and landslides
Hundreds, possibly thousands of people have been killed, and many are missing in southern China after days of apocalyptic rain, violent flooding and massive landslides.
At least 100,000 homes have been destroyed or damaged, with millions of hectares (acres) of crops spoiled by the deadly deluge.
Nanping City deluged by torrential rains. Original Caption: Photo taken on June 20, 2010 shows the waterlogging Nanping City, southeast China’s Fujian Province. Caused by continual torrential rains since June 18, rivers continued to swell in Nanping City, leaving 24 dead and 28 lost so far. (Xinhua/Wang Shanglin). Image may be subject to copyright.
Plane carrying several Australian mining executives has gone missing flying from Cameroon to Republic of Congo
Ken Talbot, a coal mining billionaire, is among the missing in central Africa after his chartered plane vanished. Photograph: Dave Hunt/EPA. Source. Image may be subject to copyright.
The mining magnate Ken Talbot, one of Australia’s richest men, was among a group of nine mining executives whose plane vanished flying from Cameroon to Republic of Congo.
The charted plane set off from the Yaounde, Cameroon capital, to inspect iron ore projects in Yangadou, a remote area in Congo.
Talbot became embroiled in a controversy when the Queensland Crime and Misconduct Commission charged him with corruption for making payments of about A$360,000 to a Queensland state MP, Gordon Nuttall.
Nuttall was jailed for 7 years in 2009, and Ken Talbot was due to appear in court in August charged with making corrupt payments.
Hurricane CELIA and Tropical Depression BLAS Wandering in the East Pacific
Hurricane CELIA and Projected Path. IR-WV Difference Satellite image. Source: CIMSS. Click image to enlarge.
Tropical Depression BLAS and Projected Path. IR-WV Difference Satellite image. Source: CIMSS. Click image to enlarge.
This image of Tropical Storms [now a tropical depression] Blas and Celia [now a hurricane,] was acquired by MODIS on NASA’s Terra satellite in a single overpass on June 19, 2010. Source: NASA. Click image to enlarge.
The ‘Black Death’ Entered the Gulf of Mexico through Deepwater Horizon Wellhead
Oil leaking from BP’s Deepwater Horizon operation seen in varying shades of gray covering a vast portion of the Gulf of Mexico. MODIS on NASA’s Terra satellite took this image on June 18, 2010. Source: NASA E/O. Click image to enlarge. Download large image (845 KB, JPEG)
But the 1st Outbreak of ‘Black Death’ in England Lasted only 1 Year
Plaque erected in Weymouth marking the arrival of the ‘Black Death’ [plague] in England in 1348.
Earthquake Location Map. Source: USGS/EHP. Enhanced by Fire-Earth.
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