Tropical Cyclone STAN: Red Alert Issued in WA

Destructive winds, storm surges, flooding threaten towns as cyclone approaches Western Australia

Tropical Cyclone STAN threatens northwest Pilbara region in Western Australia (WA) with potentially destructive wind gusts and heavy rain when the system makes landfall early on Sunday morning.

• The storm, currently a category 2 system, is forecast to intensify to category three cyclone before landfall.

• Red alert has been issued for coastal communities between Port Hedland and Wallal, including Pardoo, Eighty Mile and Wallal.

•  Storm surges may pose additional threats of damaging waves and dangerous flooding due to the tide, said Australia’s Bureau of Meteorology (BOM).

• For the latest updates visit the BOM website

 

Powerful Quake Jump-Starting the Kamchatka Fire Engine

M7.2 earthquakes strikes Kamchatka Peninsula

Centered at 54.03ºN, 158.54°E the event occurred at a depth of 158km, EMSC reported.

Aftershock
At least two significant aftershocks have occurred, as of posting.

EQ Details
Magnitude: 7.2Mw
Location 54.03ºN, 158.54°E (Kamchatka Peninsula, Russia)
Depth: 158km
Date time: 2016-01-30 03:25:09.7UTC
Distances:

• 94km N of Yelizovo, Russia [ pop: 40,692]
• 110km N of Petropavlovsk-Kamchatskiy, Russia [pop: 187,282]
• 1,751km NE of Sapporo, Japan [pop: 1,883,027]

Source: The European-Mediterranean Seismological Center (EMSC)