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LARGEST QUAKES -
Live Seismograms - Worldwide
This morning -
None 5.0 or higher.
Yesterday, 7/27/13 -
5.0 KEP. TANIMBAR REGION, INDONESIA
5.4 GUAM REGION
5.4 OFF EAST COAST OF HONSHU, JAPAN
7/26/13 -
6.3 SOUTH SANDWICH ISLANDS REGION
5.2 SOUTH OF FIJI ISLANDS
5.0 VANCOUVER ISLAND, CANADA REGION
5.1 OFF EAST COAST OF KAMCHATKA
6.1 VANUATU
Philippines - Earthquake drill in Baguio school goes wrong. About 54 students of the Baguio City National High School were hurt after more than 600 third year students panicked during an earthquake drill conducted by the school Friday morning.
VOLCANOES -
Volcano Webcams
Russia - Ketoi volcano: thermal anomaly, yellow alert. SVERT raised the alert level on Saturday to yellow after a weak thermal anomaly was detected on satellite data at the summit of the volcano. No other details about possible activity are currently known. Ketoi volcano forms a 10 km wide island 19 km NE of Simushir Island across Diana Strait in the Kurile Islands. Last eruption was in 1960.
TROPICAL STORMS -
In the Atlantic Ocean -
Remnants of Dorian were located about 550 mi (890 km) E of the northern Leeward Islands. The last advisory on this system by the National Hurricane Center has been issued.
In the Eastern Pacific -
Tropical storm Flossie is located about 775 mi E of Hilo, Hawaii. A tropical storm watch has been issued for Hawaii and Maui counties. Heavy rainfall may begin as early as Monday morning over Hawaii County and Monday afternoon over Maui County. Tropical storm force winds are expected as early as Monday afternoon. Large surf will impact east facing shores possibly as early as Sunday afternoon with the largest surf expected on Monday. (maps)
Flossie weakens, still packs Tropical Storm potential for Hawaii - Tropical Storm Flossie, the sixth named storm of the Pacific hurricane season, was on a track to take it directly over Hawaii.
Philippines - Flash floods threaten as potential cyclone approaches. Residents of Bicol, Visayas and Mindanao were advised to brace for possible flash floods and landslides from a potential cyclone - a low-pressure area - that entered the Philippine area of responsibility early Friday.
SEVERE RAIN STORMS, FLOODING, LANDSLIDES -
China floods - At least 21 people have been killed and four reported missing in floods and mudslides that hit a Chinese province where at least 95 others died this week in twin earthquakes. Thunderstorms have loosened the terraced hillsides that were made unstable by the quake. About 123,000 people were affected by the quake, with 31,600 moved to temporary shelters.
North Carolina floods - A heavy rain system that left flooding in part of North Carolina moved through Orange County Saturday, where people are still cleaning up from flooding last month. Heavy rains have flooded homes and roads.
EXTREME COLD -
Illinois (video) - RECORD COLD HITS CHICAGO area. Chicago recorded the COLDEST HIGH TEMPERATURE EVER on July 27 with a high of only 65 degrees, and could see near record cold Saturday night.
Minnesota - RECORD COLD. Friday had a HIGHLY UNUSUAL July cut-off low, which pinwheeled east on Saturday. The coolest daytime maxes on Saturday were north/east of the Twin Cities - some mid-50s close to Duluth. Highs were milder farther west, nudging 70F over western counties farther away from the cut-off low, where the sun was out part of the day. Unusually cold? Yes. Unprecedented? Probably not. According to NOAA records the last time Minneapolis - St. Paul saw July temperatures as cool as 49F was 1997. Temperatures overnight will approach the record - 50 F set in 1981.
The north-south sweeps of the jet stream are HIGHLY UNUSUAL for late July, over North America and Europe. "What is unusual for this time year is the huge amplitude of the upper-level flow; over 3 sigma deviation from normal over North America." It felt like late September in late July. The buckling jet stream poured near-record chill into the USA, some of the coolest July temperatures in a decade from the Upper Midwest to the Great Lakes, the cool front weakening slightly by the time it reached New England.
European Heat Wave - Highs were forecast to SOAR TO RECORD LEVELS AGAIN Saturday from Italy and Austria into Germany and Poland, some mid to upper 90s possible as a huge ridge of high pressure expands northward. The same high-amplitude pattern affecting the USA and Canada also showing up on the other side of the pond.
UNUSUAL TORNADO on July 22 - National Weather Service Grand Forks Office reported on an unusual tornado earlier this week that struck between Mahnomen and Zerkel (Mahnomen County). This storm was UNUSUAL IN SEVERAL ASPECTS: firstly it struck between 1:50 AM and 2:30 AM on July 22nd (Monday), a VERY RARE TIME OF DAY for tornadoes in our region (less than 2 percent of all tornadoes occur at that time of day); second, wind speeds were estimated to range from 110-120 mph (EF-2 strength), UNUSUALLY STRONG for an overnight storm; thirdly, the storm path was nearly 18 miles in length (though intermittently on the ground), a relatively long storm path for an overnight storm. Thankfully this tornado did not cause any deaths or injuries, but it did damage a home, a number of farm structures, along with some farm equipment. It also caused a good deal of tree damage, especially around Roy Lake. This was the 6th confirmed tornado of the year so far in Minnesota." (charts and maps)
HEALTH THREATS -
Imported food safety - The FDA proposed two new rules to enhance the safety of imported foods, to positive reviews.
RECALLS & ALERTS
- Zip International Group LLC in New Jersey is recalling herring fillet in oil (FOSFOREL, ATLANTIKA) 400 gram in plastic packaging due to Listeria contamination.
- Gold Star Smoked Fish Corp. in New York is recalling Rybacka Wies Brand Herring Fillets In Oil ("Matjes Sledz w oleju") due to contamination with Listeria monocytogenes.
