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Deadly earthquakes hit south-west China

Friday 7 September 2012 06.41 EDT

At least 43 people dead and 20,000 homes damaged in Yunnan and Guizhou provinces after series of quakes

People rush out of buildings in Yiliang county, Yunnan, the worst-hit area in the Chinese earthquakes. Photograph: Peng Hong/ Peng Hong/Xinhua Press/Corbis

A series of earthquakes hit south-west China on Friday, killing at least 43 people and damaging 20,000 homes, the government said.

The quakes, which ranged in magnitude from 4.8 to 5.6, struck agricultural areas of Yunnan and Guizhou provinces. A spokesman for the Yunnan seismological bureau, Zhang Junwei, said the deaths occurred in Yiliang county, and that another 150 people were hurt.

A statement on the bureau's website said more than 100,000 people had been evacuated from their homes in Yunnan. The state-run China Central Television showed several hundred people crowded into a school athletic field in Yiliang's county seat. A black cloud of dust rose over the horizon, apparently from a landslide in a nearby valley.

The official Xinhua news agency said the provincial government had sent work teams to the quake-hit area and the civil affairs department was sending thousands of tents, blankets and coats. It said no casualties had been reported in Guizhou, but homes had been damaged or destroyed there.

As the number of dead climbed throughout the day, state media reported that Premier Wen Jiabao would travel to the area, as he has often done when disasters strike Chinese regions.
President Hu Jintao called for disaster relief to be dispatched to the area while attending the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation forum in the Russian city of Vladivostok.

Buildings in rural areas in China are often poorly constructed. In 2008, a severe earthquake in Sichuan province, just north of Yunnan, killed nearly 90,000 people, with many of the deaths blamed on poorly built buildings including schools.

The US Geological Survey said the magnitude 5.6 quake hit at a depth of 6.1 miles. Shallower earthquakes often cause more damage than deeper ones.

Monday 25 June 2012 04.03 EDT

Magnitude-5.7 earthquake hits south-west China

At least four people killed and more than 100 injured in quake near border of Yunnan and Sichuan provinces

Firemen clean up debris at a factory damaged by the earthquake in Ninglang county.

Photograph: China Daily/Reuters

An earthquake toppled houses in a mountainous part of south-west China, killing four people and injuring at least 100, state media have said.

Sunday's magnitude-5.7 quake was centred near the border of Yunnan and Sichuan provinces, where many of the Yi ethnic minority live, the official Xinhua News Agency reported on Monday.

It said the casualties occurred in Yunnan's Ninglang county and Sichuan's Yanyuan county, where many houses collapsed.

Rescue officials were sending tents, quilts and clothes to the affected area.

The US Geological Survey measured the quake at magnitude 5.5.

A magnitude-5.8 quake in Yunnan in March last year killed 25 people and damaged thousands of homes. The area is about 2,340km (1,450 miles) south-west of Beijing.

China's worst earthquake in recent years struck Sichuan province in May 2008 and registered magnitude 7.9. It left nearly 90,000 people dead or missing.

Earthquake Magnitude 6.1 - WNW of Nabire, Indonesia

JAKARTA, Indonesia -- A moderately strong earthquake has hit eastern Indonesia, causing panic among residents, but there were no immediate reports of damage or injuries. No tsunami warning was issued.

The U.S. Geological Survey says the 6.1-magnitude quake struck Saturday evening off the eastern province of Papua. It says it was fairly shallow, just 14 kilometers (9 miles) beneath the sea, which often causes more shaking than deeper quakes.

Witnesses said shocked residents and hotel guests in Nabire town ran outside screaming.

Indonesia's meteorology and geophysics agency said there was no danger of a tsunami.

Indonesia has frequent earthquakes because of its location on the Pacific "Ring of Fire," an arc of volcanoes and fault lines encircling the Pacific Basin.

Sat, 08 Sep 2012 21:50 CDT

Event Time

1. 2012-09-08 10:51:43 UTC

2. 2012-09-08 19:51:43 UTC+09:00 at epicenter

Nearby Cities

1. 48km (30mi) WNW of Nabire, Indonesia

2. 279km (173mi) SSE of Manokwari, Indonesia

3. 377km (234mi) NE of Tual, Indonesia

4. 496km (308mi) ESE of Sorong, Indonesia

5. 1126km (700mi) NNE of Darwin, Australia

Deaths as storm sweeps mobile home into Oklahoma ravine

NBC News
Sat, 08 Sep 2012 03:42 CDT

Storm clouds roll in over Busch Stadium as the St. Louis Cardinals prepare to take on the Milwaukee Brewers in a baseball game on Friday night.

Powerful storms rumbled across parts of the Midwest and the southern Plains late Friday evening, leaving a total of four people dead.

The storms left damaged homes, downed trees and thousands of power outages in their wake as they swept across Oklahoma, weather.com reported.

Two adults and an infant were found dead inside their destroyed mobile home after it was blown into a ravine in Nowata County, according to Doug Sonenburg, undersheriff of Nowata County.

The storms sent high winds through much of northeastern Oklahoma late Friday, causing road closures and evacuations in some areas.

Public Service Company of Oklahoma reported 17,790 customers without power, and at least 2,885 Oklahoma Gas and Electric customers were without electricity.

Tornado Strikes Beachfront Neighborhood in New York City

Karen Matthews
Google
Sat, 08 Sep 2012 00:00 CDT

This photo shows a storm cloud over the Breezy Point area of Queens section of New York, on Saturday, Sept. 8, 2012.

A tornado, once exceedingly rare in New York, swept out of the sea and hit a beachfront neighborhood in New York City on Saturday, hurling debris in the air, knocking out power and startling residents who once thought of twisters as a Midwestern phenomenon.

Firefighters were still assessing the damage, but no serious injuries were reported and the area affected by the storm appeared small.

Videos taken by bystanders showed a funnel cloud sucking up water, then sand, and then small pieces of buildings, as it moved through the Breezy Point section of the Rockaway peninsula in Queens.

Residents had advance notice. The National Weather Service had issued a tornado warning for Queens and Brooklyn at around 10:40 a.m. The storm took people by surprise anyway when it struck about 30 minutes later.

"I was showing videos of tornadoes to my 4-year-old on my phone, and two minutes later, it hit," said neighborhood resident Peter Maloney. "Just like they always say, it sounded like a train."

In the storm's wake, the community of seaside bungalows was littered with broken flower pots, knocked-down fences and smashed windows.

I (UnScene Tomorrow) am also a New Yorker who lived there for 40 years and I have to tell you that in all my years there, only once was a report of a small earthquake and nobody even so much as felt it and if they did, it was lighter than the EL (Elevated) train going by; a sound and trembling were had all grown accustomed to. As far as a tornado in New York, never! Hurricanes while I was there? Never! Our planet is changing. Mither nature seems to be regurgitating, fighting back for all the damages we have done to her.

And I say that, we are all in this together; at least,

That's The Way I C IT!

Sunday, September 9, 2012

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