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Tsunami hits New Zealand after massive quake
by Reuters
Sunday, 13 November 2016 14:07 GMT
Seismologist says tidal surge of up to one metre has been recorded in North Canterbury region of the New Zealand's South Island
* USGS says quake magnitude revised to 7.8
* NZ authorities warn of risk of destructive waves
* East coast residents urged to seek higher ground
* Hotels, apartment buildings evacuated in Wellington (Adds details of damage, including to power and phone networks)
By Charlotte Greenfield
WELLINGTON, Nov 14 (Reuters) - An earthquake with a magnitude of 7.8 struck central New Zealand just after midnight, the U.S. Geological Survey said, causing widespread damage and generating a tsunami.
New Zealand's Ministry of Civil Defence and Emergency Management warned of the risk of destructive waves along the country's entire east coast and urged residents in low-lying areas to evacuate and seek higher ground.
Waves of up to two metres (6 feet) could be possible for up to two hours, it said.
Anna Kaiser, a seismologist at GNS Science said a tidal signal or surge of up to one metre (3 feet) had been recorded in North Canterbury region of the South Island.
"That's reasonably significant so people should take this seriously," she told Radio New Zealand.
New Zealand's Geonet revised up its estimated magnitude of the quake to 7.5, from 6.6 earlier.
USGS said the quake was centred 91 km (57 miles) north-northeast of Christchurch, the biggest city on New Zealand's South Island.
A 6.3 quake there in February 2011 killed 185 people and caused widespread damage.
The tremor was felt throughout most of New Zealand. Some injuries had been reported but there no immediate reports of deaths.
"The whole house rolled like a serpent and some things smashed, the power went out," a woman, who gave her name as Elizabeth, told Radio New Zealand from her home in Takaka, near the top of the South Island.
Chris Hill, a fire officer in Cheviot, a coastal town near the quake's epicentre, said officials had gone door to door evacuating residents.
"Everyone seems OK here," he told RNZ. "There's a lot of debris in houses, but at this stage it doesn't look like anything too bad has happened."
Residents in Wellington said glass had fallen from buildings into the streets and hotels and apartment buildings had been evacuated.
Richard Maclean, a spokesman for the Wellington City Council, said residents had been evacuating the city's southern coastal suburbs due to the tsunami threat and there had been reports of structural damage to several buildings.
"We've got reports of broken water pipes and lots and lots of things off desks and shelves," he told RNZ.
Several roads around the South Island had been closed and damage to power and phone networks was reported.
A series of aftershocks were recorded around the country, some as strong as 6.1 magnitude.
Pictures shared on social media showed buckled roads, smashed glass and goods toppled from shelves in shops in Wellington and the upper South Island. (Additional reporting by Colin Packham, Byron Kaye, Jane Wardell in Sydney; Writing by Lincoln Feast; Editing by Neil Fullick)
http://news.trust.org/item/20161113113702-re5f9
The USGS says a preliminary magnitude 7.4 earthquake strikes near Amberley, New Zealand.
There were no immediate reports of injuries or damage.
22 and old Jack Frost this am in Central Pa
Over 2 and half inches of Rain since last night
Hurricane Nicole could make Hurricane Matthew even more deadly
By John Boyd
Updated 7:25 am, Friday, October 7, 2016
A second hurricane named Nicole has reached Category 2 status with sustained windspeeds of 100 mph just east of Hurricane Matthew as of Friday, Oct. 7, 2016. Outer bands of the two storms were already touching as of Friday morning, however the National Hurricane Center had put the two storms on an even closer path by early next week when the two storms could either merge or bounce off one another in the Atlantic, sending either hurling back toward the East Coast. Matthew as of Friday, Oct. 7, 2016. Outer bands of the two storms were already touching as of Friday morning, however the National Hurricane Center had put the two storms on an even closer path by early next week when the two storms could either merge or bounce off one another in the Atlantic, sending either hurling back toward the East Coast. IMAGE 1 OF 88 A second hurricane named Nicole has reached Category 2 status with sustained windspeeds of 100 mph just east of Hurricane Matthew as of Friday, Oct. 7, 2016. Outer bands of the two storms were already touching as of Friday morning, however the National Hurricane Center had put the two storms on an even closer path by early next week when the two storms could either merge or bounce off one another in the Atlantic, sending either hurling back toward the East Coast.
With at least 300 dead already in Haiti and millions of residents evacuated along America's Atlantic Coast, there's no doubt that Hurricane Matthew will be one of the most devastating hurricanes in recent memory.
However, what could make Hurricane Matthew even more deadly and unpredictable is a second major storm - Hurricane Nicole - building momentum in the Atlantic.
Just as Matthew prepared to make landfall on Florida's eastern coast Friday, the National Hurricane Center upgraded Nicole's status to a Category 2 hurricane with maximum sustained winds of 100 mph.
Nicole was far off the coast of the Atlantic, tracking north on a trajectory that had the storm slipping uneventfully between the U.S. to the west and the Bahamas to the east.
At least "uneventfully" were there not mega-storm Matthew nearby.
NOAA projections as of Friday morning placed the two storms coming dangerously close to one another by early next week once Matthew finally departed the East Coast.
Were Hurricanes Matthew and Nicole to collide, the results could only be guessed: whichever of the two storms were larger at that point could absorb the other, or if similar size, the two storms could "dance" off one another, the Palm Beach Post reports, sending the storms in an unusual directions – including back toward the United States.
That result is purely speculative.
For now, the East Coast has enough to worry about with Hurricane Matthew alone.
Death toll in Haiti rises to 572, local officials tell Reuters, as aid slowly arrives into regions battered by Hurricane Matthew.
http://www.foxnews.com/world/2016/10/07/more-than-500-reported-dead-as-haiti-starts-long-cleanup-after-hurricane-matthew.html
Nicole is now a Category 2 hurricane to follow Matthew
Death toll from Hurricane Matthew rises to 65 in Haiti, local officials tell Reuters, as the Category 3 storm roars toward the US.
http://www.foxnews.com/us/2016/10/06/millions-urged-to-flee-deadly-strengthening-hurricane-matthew.html
I've got to get off my butt and get better prepared.
Give you an example of how I got another wake up call in a different way and how society has changed also.
Wife and I went on a trip through part of Montana, Idaho, and back into Washington back home.
So at work day before we left I called the Wife and asked her to make sure and pack our map book.
Long ago I had bought a really nice map book of all the states.
We've moved things around in our home quite a bit over the years as the kids have left and not going out of this state completely forgot where that book was as I know my way pretty good in this state.
So Wife calls me says can't find it and I said no big deal we be alright we got our phones.
That wasn't correct. LOL!
Turns out T-mobile for miles and miles in Montana had no connection at all so there I was driving on memory of how we had planned our trip.
Finally I said you know lets just buy a map this is crazy we make wrong turn we be in trouble.
That is the other wake up call as far as society has got so dependent on their phones to find a map it took me 5 stops.
I was amazed to go into stores and hear no we don't carry maps anymore.
Took 3 gas stations before we found one.
And then it was $5.00 for one state map. LOL!
This is what happens when we don't prepare. GRRRRRRRRRRRRRR!!!
Learned a lesson.
milk > coffee > bread ~empty
Mighty Hurricane Matthew has shrugged off its encounter with a landfall on the southwestern tip of Haiti between 7 - 9 am Tuesday morning, and remains an extremely dangerous Category 4 storm with 140 mph winds
WILL we have another deep Snow come Oct 19th like we did several yr ago
48 out this am @ the foot of the mountain in Central Pa
Magnitude 7.1 earthquake strikes roughly 100 miles off the coast of Gisborne, New Zealand, US Geological Survey reports.
Complete coverage on FoxNews.com.
http://www.foxnews.com/world/2016/09/01/magnitude-7-1-earthquake-strikes-off-new-zealand.html
According to this bulletin, MoT experts have identified an Atlantic Ocean
“disturbance”, known as Invest 99L, that is being “severely and
abnormally” affected by what is called the South Atlantic Anomaly (SAA)
that stretches across most of South America to
the Southern part of Africa.
Trump should stay clear of Invest 99L -
The South Atlantic Anomaly, this bulletin explains, is an area where
the Earth's inner Van Allen radiation belt comes closest to the Earth's
surface dipping down to an altitude of 200 kilometers (120 mi), but
over this past year has become “erratically intense”—which coincides
with The European Space Agency (ESA) reporting in June (2016) that our
Earth’s magnetic field is weakening at an alarming rate for reasons
scientists have yet to explain.
The extreme and alarming danger posed to Invest 99L by the South
Atlantic Anomaly, this bulletin notes, is that when these two “forces”
meet/merge, for any amount of time, the growth of this storm will
“become explosive” and reach into the ionosphere (the edge of space)
due to the inability of the upper reaches of our atmosphere to freeze
this storms water and inhibit its growth—and as detailed in Doctor-
Scientist Blanca Mendoza’s, of the Instituto de Geofisica Universidad
Nacional Autonoma de Mexico, groundbreaking research paper titled
The Effects of Space Weather on Hurricane Activity.
Catastrophic “super-storms” like Invest 99L is feared to become with
its merging with the South Atlantic Anomaly, this bulletin continues,
begin their life cycle in the African Sahara Desert where rapidly
changing temperatures cause powerful winds, and that then cross the
Atlantic Ocean, sometimes gaining in strength and becoming what are
called hurricanes.
The 666 haarp will NOT -
but the 888 haarp with Trump would be able to stop it -
ex.
Louisiana got an osama 666 haarp nwo weather - Orders Ships Away From American Waters, Warns “Storm Of Century” Likely To Strike -
By: Sorcha Faal, and as reported to her Western Subscribers
Warning/10 Days Until Impact -
over 3.7 inches so far for the month August here @ the foot of the Mt Nittany
Parts of Louisiana get an entire Seattle winter season of rain in 48 hours
by Scott SistekSunday, August 14th 2016
http://komonews.com/weather/scotts-weather-blog/parts-of-louisiana-get-an-entire-seattle-winter-seasons-of-rain-in-48-hours
Over 2 & half inches last night when the thunder storm came through
would love to have some excel
I will give you ours. Nothing but relentless rain last couple weeks.
Light rain all day yesterday and all night
trying to snow this Sunday the 15th of May
CLIMATE ENGINEERING WEATHER WARFARE, AND THE COLLAPSE OF 888
CIVILIZATION -
Suspicious HAARP Signatures Over Canadian Wildfire Area! Radar Evidence of HAARP Rings -
Friday, May 6, 2016 10:24
Wicked snowstorm delays hundreds of flights, 420 rally in Denver
KING 8:39 PM. PDT April 16, 2016
DENVER — A heavy spring snowstorm canceled more than 800 flights Saturday as the Denver metro area braced for more than a foot of snow.
Airlines canceled 852 flights at Denver International Airport as of Saturday morning. That represents about 71% of scheduled flights for the day.
United Airlines canceled all its inbound and outbound flights at the airport Saturday. The airline is offering change-fee waivers for travelers who choose to rebook through April 20. Refunds are available for customers who choose not to travel.
Most of the airlines are planning to operate a full schedule on Sunday, airport officials said.
The storm also forced the postponement of Saturday's unofficial "420" festival, which annually draws thousands of marijuana enthusiasts and vendors to Denver. Organizers said the rally at Civic Center Park will be rescheduled.
Denver police confirmed the information via Twitter Saturday afternoon.
The storm system is expected to pummel parts of the Rockies and High Plains. The National Weather Service issued storm warnings Saturday for Colorado and parts of Utah and Wyoming.
The storm will bring heavy rains and potential flooding from Nebraska to Texas, according to the National Weather Service.
12 this am and very Windy again and some snow
WEATHER LINKS & DISCUSSION
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THE PERFECT STORM:
http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/oa/satellite/satelliteseye/cyclones/pfctstorm91/pfctstorm.html
WEATHER SITES:
http://moe.met.fsu.edu/cyclonephase/ukm/fcst/archive/06082800/7.html
http://www.weather.com/
http://www.nws.noaa.gov/
http://www.stormtrack.org/
http://home.accuweather.com/index.asp?partner=accuweather
http://www.noaa.gov/
http://www.theweathernetwork.com/ (CANADA)
http://www.wunderground.com/
http://www.esdim.noaa.gov/weather_page.html
http://cirrus.sprl.umich.edu/wxnet/
http://www.intellicast.com/
http://members.aol.com/Accustiver/wxworld_sites.html
http://earthquake.usgs.gov/recenteqsww/Quakes/quakes_all.html
http://www.almanac.com/
MY FAVORITE SITES:
http://www.globalsecurity.org/eye/pic-2005.htm
http://vortex.plymouth.edu/usheat.gif
http://www.wunderground.com/satellite/vis/1k/US.html
http://www.srh.noaa.gov/ridge/ffc.shtml
http://www.iww.is/art/shs/pages/thumbs.html
http://www.skeetobiteweather.com/index.asp
http://www.noaanews.noaa.gov/stories2005/s2540.htm
**This picture was taken up the street from me >>>
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SUPER STORM of 1993
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