**No updates the rest of this week due to my son's wedding! Happy days!**
LARGEST QUAKES so far today -
5.7 BOUGAINVILLE REGION, P.N.G.
5.3 SOUTHERN MID-ATLANTIC RIDGE
5.3 SOUTHERN IRAN
Yesterday, 7/29/2014 -
5.1 SOUTH OF FIJI ISLANDS
5.9 BISMARCK SEA
6.3 VERACRUZ, MEXICO
5.0 EASTERN SICHUAN, CHINA
5.0 SOUTH INDIAN OCEAN
5.3 ANDAMAN ISLANDS, INDIA REGION
5.4 OFFSHORE CHIAPAS, MEXICO
7/28/14 -
5.0 NEW GUINEA, PAPUA NEW GUINEA
5.6 NEW GUINEA, PAPUA NEW GUINEA
5.2 PALAU REGION
7/27/14 -
5.0 NEAR N COAST OF PAPUA, INDONESIA
5.1 SOUTH OF FIJI ISLANDS
5.5 NORTHERN MID-ATLANTIC RIDGE
7/26/14 -
5.0 SOUTHERN MID-ATLANTIC RIDGE
5.4 EAST OF SOUTH SANDWICH ISLANDS
5.1 KURIL ISLANDS
5.1 KURIL ISLANDS
TROPICAL STORMS -
* In the Eastern Pacific -
Tropical cyclone Genevieve is restrengthening in the central Pacific about 865 mi (1390 km) SE of Honolulu, Hawaii.
* In the Western Pacific -
Tropical storm Halong is located approximately 76 nm east of Andersen AFB, Guam. Halong is close to becoming a Category 1 typhoon, and is expected to pass within 50 miles of Guam near 12 UTC (8 am EDT) on Wednesday. Guam radar is showing that heavy rains from an outer spiral band of Halong have already arrived. Halong may be a long-range threat to Japan.
SEVERE RAIN STORMS, FLOODING, LANDSLIDES -
India - Dozens trapped by Indian landslide. At least 10 people are killed after a landslide buries more than 40 houses and leaves 160 people trapped under debris in a village in western India.
Arizona - An unusual amount of rain that ravaged parts of southern Arizona also knocked down 60 feet of the rebar-reinforced steel fence that divides the U.S. and Mexico.
The storms began Friday in Sonora, Mexico, and resumed Saturday night until Sunday morning, when debris from the Mexican side of the border traveled through a wash and piled up against the border fence. The fence, just west of the Nogales-Mariposa Port of Entry near Interstate 19, stood between 18 and 26 feet high and extended at least 7 feet underground.
Border agents were alerted not long after the wall fell. "Resources have been deployed to the area until the fence is repaired. Our technology assets such as cameras are also able to assist us. Contractors have assessed the damaged section of the fence and are developing a plan to initiate repairs."
The fence was built in 2011. It is constantly monitored by agents because smugglers and others who attempt to cross illegally routinely try to breach or knock down parts of it. "It had a lot of water behind it, and it just pushed the fence straight down. If you're fencing is tight enough to catch debris, it basically becomes a dam. It's not meant to withstand those loads of water."
said the fence appears to have floodgates, but they did not open. The debris and water that made its way through the fence also crept into a Nogales, Ariz., neighborhood, flooding houses and business with up to three feet of water. (photo)
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