November quakes >5.8

2007-11-29 19:00__14.95N__61.22W__141___7.4__MARTINIQUE REGION, WINDWARD ISL.
2007-11-29 03:26__36.88S__97.62W___10___6.3__WEST CHILE RISE

2007-11-27 11:50__11.03S_162.21E___ 40___7.1__SOLOMON ISLANDS
2007-11-27 04:27__16.15N_119.97E___ 64___5.9__LUZON, PHILIPPINES

2007-11-26 13:51__37.37N_141.54E___ 30___5.8__NEAR EAST COAST OF HONSHU, JAPAN

2007-11-25 19:53___8.06S_118.62E___40___6.8__SUMBAWA REGION, INDONESIA
2007-11-25 17:41___2.27S_100.43E___ 40___5.9__KEP. MENTAWAI REGION, INDONESIA
2007-11-25 16:02___8.28S_118.41E___ 40___6.7__SUMBAWA REGION, INDONESIA
2007-11-25 02:52___2.79S_101.19E___ 74___6.1__SOUTHERN SUMATRA, INDONESIA

2007-11-23 01:26___4.73S_151.87E__ 190___5.9__NEW BRITAIN REGION, P.N.G.

2007-11-22 23:02___4.79N__95.12E___ 40___6.0__NORTHERN SUMATRA, INDONESIA
2007-11-22 08:48___5.89S_147.06E__ 100___6.7__EASTERN NEW GUINEA REG., P.N.G.

2007-11-20 17:55__22.73S__70.40W___40___6.1__OFFSHORE ANTOFAGASTA, CHILE
2007-11-20 15:28__29.73S_178.03W___60___5.9__KERMADEC ISLANDS, NEW ZEALAND
2007-11-20 12:52___6.89S_155.67E___ 51___6.0__BOUGAINVILLE REGION, P.N.G.

2007-11-19 00:52__21.07S_178.73W__533___6.6__FIJI ISLANDS

2007-11-18 05:40__22.60S__66.14W__190___6.0__JUJUY PROVINCE, ARGENTINA

2007-11-16 03:12___2.25S__77.96W__129___6.7__PERU-ECUADOR BORDER REGION

2007-11-15 17:18__22.58S_175.10W___13___6.5__TONGA ISLANDS
2007-11-15 15:05__22.88S__70.12W___33___6.9__ANTOFAGASTA, CHILE
2007-11-15 15:03__22.74S__70.44W___37___6.3__OFFSHORE ANTOFAGASTA, CHILE

2007-11-14 15:40__22.17S__69.97W___40___7.8__ANTOFAGASTA, CHILE
2007-11-14 04:29___1.54N_127.04E__ 118___5.9__HALMAHERA, INDONESIA

2007-11-12 00:25__10.49N_146.04E___ 10___6.2__EAST CAROLINE ISLANDS, MICRONESIA

2007-11-10 23:42___0.43S__99.04E___ 10___5.9__SOUTHERN SUMATRA, INDONESIA
2007-11-10 23:19___3.27S_100.50E___ 35___6.2__SOUTHERN SUMATRA, INDONESIA
2007-11-10 01:13__52.12S_159.50E___ 30___6.5__MACQUARIE ISLAND REGION

2007-11-04 20:35__67.09S_111.52E____ 2___5.9__ANTARCTICA

2007-11-02 22:31__55.52S_128.73W___33___6.1__PACIFIC-ANTARCTIC RIDGE

7.3 quake in Martinique

2007-11-29 19:00:18__14.95N_61.23W__153km__ 7.3__MARTINIQUE REGION, WINDWARD ISL.

3 small quakes in English Channel

2007-11-29__11:11:01__50.12N__0.93E__2km__3.1__ENGLISH CHANNEL

2007-11-28__14:46:08__50.12N__0.92E__2km__2.9__ENGLISH CHANNEL

2007-11-28__08:09:09__50.13N__0.89E__5km__2.8__ENGLISH CHANNEL

Extreme high tidal around the globe

FREAK TIDAL SURGE CAUSES HAVOC IN INDONESIA AND ELSEWHERE

INDONESIA
Global warming is partly to blame for flooding in Jakarta that has forced thousands of evacuations and cut off a highway to the international airport, Indonesia's environment minister said Tuesday.
Authorities pumped out some of the water, which was 23 feet (7 meters) deep in the worst hit areas and washed more than a mile (1.6 kilometers) inland Monday, said Iskandar, an official at Jakarta's flood crisis center. At least 2,200 houses were inundated, some with chest-deep water.

VIETNAM
High tides on the Sai Gon River in the last two days caused 38 sections of dike to collapse, flooding many houses in Thu Duc, Binh Thanh and Cu Chi districts. High tides on the rivers of Tuy An Song Cau in the south central province of Phu Yen caused 50 houses to collapse and sank 11 fishing vessels. Local authorities in the districts were continuing to evacuate people living in high-risk areas. The two-way lanes across Ca Pass have been blocked by huge rocks that had fallen on the road.

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Ocean swallows town in Atafona, Brasil

The Brazilian town of Atafona, is being swallowed by the ocean as rising temperatures speed up erosion.Researchers say a total of 183 buildings have been destroyed and the Marine lighthouse moved twice in the past 30 years.

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Essex on flood alert after freak high tide

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The Essex coast was on flood alert Sunday night after a FREAK TIDE engulfed a popular waterfront, completely swamping a number of cars. The surge happened at Brightlingsea at around noon when a spring tide led to the sea rising over the town's hard and as far up as the Waterside fish and chip restaurant.

Tides trigger tremors deep inside the Earth

A new mystery faces scientists who study stresses that trigger earthquakes both large or small: Even the rise and fall of the ocean's tides are strong enough to trigger pulses of underground tremors that periodically send seismic faults slowly slipping beneath the northwest coast, quake researchers have found.

The scientists, led by a young researcher who will soon join the U.S. Geological Survey in Menlo Park, came upon their puzzling discovery after installing highly sensitive seismic detectors on the Olympic Peninsula in Washington and across Vancouver Island in British Columbia. Readings from the detectors revealed that twice a day when it's high tide, the strength of the faint tremors increases, and twice a day at low tide, those underground tremors grow fainter.

And because it's the moon's gravity, as well as the sun's, that causes the tides to rise and fall, those heavenly bodies are, in fact, exerting their legendary influence from afar to alter seismic activity deep beneath the Earth's surface.

But no one knows how or why gravity should reach into the Earth's deep interior, conceded geophysicist Justin Rubenstein, whose work and that of his colleagues appeared in Thursday's online version of the journal Science Express.

Tremors are like tiny earthquakes, but they can never be felt on the surface. Seismologists have long known that when volcanoes are about to erupt, the Earth shudders in tremors along cracks deep beneath the volcanic mountains as the molten magma rises.

But six years ago, Berkeley seismologists performing in-depth earthquake analysis along the San Andreas Fault near quake-prone Parkfield in southern Monterey County recorded episodes of similar faint tremors far beneath the Earth's surface.

Cruise ship goes down off Antarctica

BUENOS AIRES, Argentina - A Canadian cruise ship struck submerged ice off Antarctica and began sinking, but all 154 passengers and crew, Americans and Britons among them, took to lifeboats and were plucked to safety by a passing cruise ship.

The Chilean navy said the entire MS Explorer finally slipped beneath the waves Friday evening, about 20 hours after the predawn accident near Antarctica's South Shetland Islands.

No injuries were reported although passengers reportedly endured subfreezing temperatures for several hours as they waited in bobbing lifeboats for a Norwegian liner that took them to a Chilean military base in the region.

Hailstorm triggers cluster bomb blasts

A HAILSTORM has caused hundreds of cluster bombs to explode in south Lebanon, the National News Agency said.
The cluster bombs were dropped by Israel during its war with Hezbollah guerrillas last year.
The hailstones, as big as walnuts, fell in a number of valleys in south Lebanon, the agency said.
When cluster bombs burst, they spread bomblets over the ground and vegetation.
Air- or ground-launched, the bombs often fail to explode on impact.
Cluster bombs have killed 30 people since the war. Dozens more have been wounded.

Heavy rain in Lisbon - 19th November

Em casa de um amigo durante o pico da carga de água que assolou Lisboa na noite de 19 de Novembro.

Large object behind Holmes

It looks like a bow wave ... Really strange!

Cyclone toll reaches 1,100 in Bangladesh

DHAKA, Bangladesh - A cyclone that slammed into the coast with 150 mph winds killed at least 1,100 people, isolating remote towns and villages swamped by a storm surge or hemmed in by piles of debris, aid workers and a Bangladeshi news agency said Friday.

Tropical Cyclone Sidr roared across the country's southwestern coast late Thursday with driving rain and high waves, leveling thousands of flimsy huts and forcing the evacuation of 650,000 villagers, officials said.

The United News of Bangladesh news agency said reporters deployed across the devastated region made their own count in each affected district and reached a toll of 1,100.

The government, which earlier put the death toll at 242, has acknowledged its trouble keeping count — with power and phone lines down in most remote areas — and said it expected the official number to rise significantly.

World’s Largest Supercollider Could Destroy the Universe

The Cernier Company or CERN, the world’s largest physics research firm, is currently in the process of building what would be the world’s largest working supercollider. Known as “Large Hadron Collider,” or LHC, the device is 27 kilometers (16.7 miles) long and resides in a tunnel approximately 100 meters beneath the Franco-Swiss border, just outside of Geneva.

By accelerating protons toward each other at 99.999999% the speed of light the LHC can recreate conditions similar to those that resulted from the Big Bang, ultimately alighting a great deal about the particles and forces that comprise our Universe. A press release from CERN better illuminates their intent for the project.

LHC functions by accelerating two counter-rotating beams of protons toward each other at high speeds. By cooling magnets to near absolute zero (-273 degrees celcius) with an enormous cryogenics system, the LHC can move particles toward each other at speeds only one millionth of a percent away from the speed of light.

And while Physicists have the logistics of the LHC well in hand ideas about its outcome are strictly theoretical. According to one scenario tiny black holes could be produced which hopefully would decay into what is known as Hawking radiation (the tinier the black hole, the faster it evaporates). If these black holes fail to decay, however, the consequences could be disasterous. CERN software developer Ran Livneh has expressed some concerns about the project.

Despite these theoretical discrepencies the LHC project will continue as scheduled toward its launch in 2007. Mankind has never progressed itself due to fear of the unknown. Although the results of the Large Hadron Collider could potentially be disasterous, the intellectual consequences of not conducting the experiment could be equally so.

MILLIONS TO EVACUATE AS CYCLONE SLAMS INTO BANGLADESH

DHAKA, Bangladesh (AP) -- A powerful cyclone slammed into Bangladesh on Thursday night, tearing down flimsy houses, toppling trees and power poles, and forcing hundreds of thousands to flee their homes in the low-lying nation.

Tropical Cyclone Sidr swept in from the Bay of Bengal packing winds of 149 mph (240 kilometers per hour), buffeting southwestern coastal areas within a 155-mile radius of its eye with heavy rain and storm surges predicted to reach 20 feet high.
Sidr's eye crossed the Khulna-Barisal coast near the Sundarbans mangrove forests around 9:30 p.m. (11:30 a.m. ET), the Bangladesh Meteorological Department said. It was centered over the Baleshwar River in Barguna district.
In the coastal districts of Bagerhat, Barisal and Bhola, residents said the storm flattened thousands of flimsy straw and mud huts, and uprooted trees and electric poles.
"We sitting out the storm by candlelight," resident Bishnu Prashad said by phone from Bagerhat.
At least 620,000 people had moved into official shelters and 3.2 million people were expected to be evacuated in all, said Ali Imam Majumder, a senior government official in Dhaka.
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No casualties were immediately reported, but rescue teams were on standby, forest official Mozharul Islam said in Khulna.
Communications with remote forest areas and offshore islands were temporarily cut off.
"We have taken all precautions," Majumder said.

Bangladesh a low-lying delta nation, is prone to seasonal cyclones and floods that cause huge losses of life and property. The coastal area bordering eastern India is famous for the mangrove forests of the Sundarbans, a world heritage site that is home to rare Royal Bengal Tigers.
The Meteorological Department had put the country's three major maritime ports -- Chittagong, Mongla and Cox's Bazar -- on the highest level of alert.
Ferry service and flights were halted across the coastal region.
Ships were warned to return to shore. Volunteers helped evacuate villagers to cyclone shelters, built of concrete on raised pilings. Some took refuge in "mud forts" built along the coast to resist tidal surges.
Schools, mosques and other public buildings were also turned into makeshift shelters.

Many of the fishing boats in the region's coastal waters put down anchor at nearby shoals and islets that dot the South Asian country's shoreline.
The sea resort of Cox's Bazar was deserted after Wednesday's warning. Dozens of tourists were stranded in the offshore coral atoll of St. Martins as rough seas forced cruise boats and ships to stay ashore.