When an area is flooded, there is other damage in addition to just that from the water alone. The high, and sometimes forceful, water brings with it mud, fuel oil, contamination and other toxins. Officials estimate that 120 sewer and treatment facilities have been
After an interval of ten days of relative quiet, a new eruptive episode took place at New paroxysmal Crater South-East (New CSE) Etna in the morning of September 8, 2011. This is the 13th episode since the beginning of paroxysmal; the previous episode had occurred on
A strong earthquake with initial magnitude 6.7, later downgraded at 6.4, was registered 140 km (86 miles) SSE of Port Hardy, British Columbia, Canada. USGS registered depth of 23 km (14.3 miles).USGS expects a strong shaking for only 2,000 people and a moderate shaking
A polar geomagnetic storm (Kp=5) is in progress following the impact of a CME around 1100 UT on Sept. 9th. This could be the first of several hits from a series of CMEs expected to reach Earth during the weekend. High-latitude sky watchers should be alert for auroras
The city of San Diego water system has lost power, causing two sewage pumps stations to spill raw sewage.1.9 million gallons of raw sewage spilled into Los Penasquitos Lagoon according to Mark McPherson, the county’s chief of land and water quality. Officials shut
On Sept 8th around 2300 UT, the SOHO and STEREO spacecraft detected a significant CME emerging from the farside of the sun. Earth is not in the line of fire, but the planet Mercury is. Analysts at the Goddard Space Weather Lab estimate that the cloud will reach the
SDO/AIA 304 2011/09/08 00:57:46SDO/AIA 304 2011/09/08 01:29:57There are few more interesting images recorded by LASCO2 and LASCO3 (Large Angle Spectrometric Coronagraphs).C2 images show t
A strong M-Class flare registering M6.7 took place at 15:46 UTC around active Sunspot 1283. Stay tuned for any further updates. (SolarHam)On Sept. 8th at 1546 UT, sunspot 1283 unleashed an M6-class solar flare. This continues the active region’s 3-day trend of
Heads up! That’s the word from NASA on Sept. 7 given the impending re-entry of a 6.5-ton satellite through Earth’s atmosphere. The huge Upper Atmosphere Research Satellite (UARS) is expected to re-enter Earth’s atmosphere in an uncontrolled fall in late September or
From AZ Central and LATimes comes informtion about a large swath of San Diego County that lost power Thursday afternoon as officials investigated the cause of the outage. Residents reported power being out across the city of San Diego as well as suburbs such as
