gains the confidence of others.**
Hasidic Proverb
LARGEST QUAKES -
Live Seismograms - Worldwide (update every 30 minutes)
This morning -
5.0 TONGA
5.4 PANAY, PHILIPPINES
Cluster of moderate quakes in the DODECANESE ISLANDS, GREECE continues.
Yesterday -
11/13/12 -
5.4 TONGA
5.0 FIJI REGION
5.2 NORTHERN MID-ATLANTIC RIDGE
5.3 QUEEN CHARLOTTE ISLANDS REGION
6.0 OFF COAST OF AISEN, CHILE
5.0 TARAPACA, CHILE
5.1 OFF COAST OF ECUADOR
11/12/12 -
6.3 GULF OF ALASKA
5.3 TONGA REGION
5.7 SOUTH OF FIJI ISLANDS
5.6 IZU ISLANDS, JAPAN REGION
5.1 OFF COAST OF AISEN, CHILE
5.2 OFF COAST OF AISEN, CHILE
5.4 SOUTH OF FIJI ISLANDS
5.0 SANTA CRUZ ISLANDS
6.4 quake in Gulf of Alaska is felt widely, but no damage reported. The earthquake struck underneath the Gulf of Alaska on Monday morning, making it the area's STRONGEST EARTHQUAKE IN MORE THAN A QUARTER OF A CENTURY. The earthquake was not directly related to the magnitude 7.7 quake that struck off the west coast of Canada last month, although the two are in same plate boundary system. The quake struck about 150 miles south of Cape Yakataga.
VOLCANOES -
Volcano Webcams
Alaska's Cleveland Volcano under 'watch' after weekend ash spurt. Mount Cleveland – otherwise known as Cleveland Volcano – makes up a large part of a remote and uninhabited island in the east-central Aleutian Island chain.
Britain looking to volcanoes to power homes within a decade - The British government is looking into a proposal to have geothermal energy piped to Britain through the world's longest seabed power cable from Icelandic volcanoes.
Japan - Smoke from last Mt. Fuji eruption reached 23 km. New research into the 1707 eruption of Mount Fuji, the most recent in the mountain's history, has produced troubling results, indicating probable disaster if present-day Japan suffered a similar eruption.
TROPICAL STORMS -
No tropical storms.
Haiti faces 2013 food shortage after Hurricane Sandy - Hurricane Sandy destroyed several areas of the capital, Port au Prince. The UN in Haiti says 1.5 million people remain at risk of not having proper access to food in 2013 due to the destruction caused by Hurricane Sandy and other natural disasters. The situation has been made worse by a drought earlier this year.
At least 54 people died as Hurricane Sandy hit the impoverished Caribbean nation two weeks ago. The country is still struggling to recover from a devastating earthquake in January 2010. During the spring and summer of this year, rural households in northern parts of Haiti were badly hit by drought. Then, Tropical Storm Isaac caused extensive damage in August. Two months of heavy rain followed before Haiti was hit by Hurricane Sandy on 23 October.
An estimated 21,000 people were left homeless by the hurricane, which also destroyed at least 70% of crops of yam, corn and banana in the south of the country. Many areas remain isolated. It has continued to rain heavily in most of Haiti since the hurricane. Floods in the country's second biggest city, Cap-Haitien, left at least 20 people dead last week. The Haitian government and the WFP have now appealed for an extra $39m (£24m) to continue distributing food, to rehabilitate agricultural land and for flood control.
Ten days after tropical storm Sandy struck, over 730,000 people still lacked electricity in New York and New Jersey and nearly 150,000 in New York City. Nearly 50,000 families wee without housing; hundreds of thousands waited in the cold for water and food.
Past experience shows a two-week wait is far from unusual. Some say the government-run utility should have seen it coming. It was recently criticized in a withering state report for lax preparation ahead of last year's Tropical Storm Irene and for the 25-year-old computer system used to pinpoint outages.
SEVERE RAIN STORMS, FLOODING, LANDSLIDES -
Indonesia - Cyclone damages more than 100 houses in Jepara. A cyclone damaged more than 100 houses in two hamlets, Welahan and Paren, in Mayong district, Jepara, Central Java, on Monday, no casualties were reported. “The cyclone came with heavy rain and tore down my house."
HEALTH THREATS -
Study hints at link between flu in pregnancy and infant autism - An epidemiologic study from Denmark has raised the possibility that influenza and fever during pregnancy increase the risk of autism in infants, but the findings are far from conclusive.
RECALLS & ALERTS
