FIRE-EARTH V-E Alert: DCM5

• All Groups

[Issued by FIRE-EARTH Science Team.]

• Details are available from FIRE-EARTH PULSARS.

 

FIRE-EARTH E-E Alerts: 000511

• All Groups
  

• Details available from FIRE-EARTH PULSARS.

 

FIRE-EARTH Report: Turkey 13

• CJ
• OCT
• TML

“Sinjar on brink of major conflict between PKK, Turkey” —Observers

[Prepared by an affiliated team of political scientists.]

• Reports Turkey 01 – 13 available from FIRE-EARTH PULSARS.

Background:

The Kurdistan Workers’ Party liberated Sinjar from ISIL terrorists, but now they face an  existential threat from the largest terrorist organization in the region –the Turkish military.

FIRE-EARTH Alert: BWTL

• All Groups

• Details are available from FIRE-EARTH PULSARS.

 

Deadly Earthquake Strikes Xinjiang, NW China

Deadly earthquake destroys homes, displaces thousands in China

A 5.5-magnitude earthquake struck [37.58N, 75.25E; depth of 8.0 km] Kuzigun Village in Taxkorgan County, northwest China’s Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, May 11, 2017 at 5:58 a.m. Thursday (21:00 UTC, Wednesday), said the China Earthquake Networks Center, official Xinhua News reported.

“So far, the quake has left lives of more than 12,000 people affected. A total of 9,200 people have been relocated to safe places. In Quzgun Village, 820 heads of livestock were injured or killed and 1,520 homes collapsed.”

“The average altitude within 5-km around the epicenter is 4,347 meters. The population within a radius of 20 km and 50 km from the epicenter is estimated at 580 and 6,200 respectively.”

Seismicity Intensifying in SGSSI

SGSSI- EO512

M 6.5 strikes Visokoi Island, South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands (SGSSI)

This earthquake did not generate a destructive tsunami.

Earthquake Details:

Magnitude: 6.5mww
Location: 56.408°S, 25.764°W  [94km ENE of Visokoi Island, South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands]
Depth: 10.0 km
2017-05-10 23:23:36 (UTC)

ELM: USGS -16 Earthquakes on the Map. April 12 – May 11

Shocks Larger than M4.7

M5.4
93km ENE of Visokoi Island, South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands
2017-05-11 01:16:58 (UTC)
10.0 km

M5.6
95km ENE of Visokoi Island, South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands
2017-05-11 01:09:42 (UTC)
10.0 km

M6.5
94km ENE of Visokoi Island, South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands
2017-05-10 23:23:36 (UTC)
10.0 km

M5.0
87km NW of Visokoi Island, South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands
2017-05-10 22:08:27 (UTC)
95.1 km

M4.9
207km NW of Visokoi Island, South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands
2017-05-08 09:01:19 (UTC)
10.0 km

M5.8
Scotia Sea
2017-05-06 00:16:09 (UTC)
10.0 km

M5.3
80km NNE of Visokoi Island, South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands
2017-05-03 17:24:54 (UTC)
35.0 km

M5.0
98km SSW of Bristol Island, South Sandwich Islands
2017-05-03 05:09:52 (UTC)
122.4 km

M5.1
210km WNW of Visokoi Island, South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands
2017-04-27 13:35:20 (UTC)
32.9 km

M4.7
64km ESE of Bristol Island, South Sandwich Islands
2017-04-19 23:53:35 (UTC)
10.0 km

M4.9
165km ENE of Visokoi Island, South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands
2017-04-19 15:42:25 (UTC)
10.0 km

M4.9
East of the South Sandwich Islands
2017-04-17 14:33:01 (UTC)
10.0 km

M4.7
60km SE of Bristol Island, South Sandwich Islands
2017-04-14 02:32:41 (UTC)
70.5 km