Magnitude 5+ Earthquakes – Global
6.0 Earthquake hits Coquimbo, Chile.
5.9 Earthquake hits the Andreanof Islands in the Aleutian Islands.
5.4 Earthquake hits the Gulf of Thailand.
5.3 Earthquake hits Coquimbo, Chile.
5.2 Earthquake hits the South China Sea.
5.1 Earthquake hits off the coast of El Salvador.
Tropical Storms – Roundup of Tropical Storms:
Hurricane Joaquin is located about 420 mi…675 km NNE of Bermuda and about 750 mi…1210 km SW of Cape Race Newfoundland with maximum sustained winds…85 mph…140 km/h. Present movement…NE or 50 degrees at 17 mph…28 km/h.
Typhoon 23w (Choi-Wan), located approximately 514 nm east of Iwo To, and is tracking northwestward at 08 knots.
Tropical Storm Oho is located about 350 mi…565 km SSE of Hilo Hawaii and about 545 mi…880 km se of Honolulu Hawaii with maximum sustained winds…70 mph…110 km/h. Present movement…ENE or 60 degrees at 7 mph…11 km/h.
Invest 91L is an area of disturbed weather in the North Atlantic that has the potential for tropical development.
Invest 99C is an area of disturbed weather in the Central Pacific that has the potential for tropical development.
NewsBytes:
Guatemala – Update – Rescue workers using shovels and pickaxes recovered more bodies from the rubble of a collapsed hillside on the outskirts of Guatemala City as an official said the death toll had risen to 69 with another 350 people believed missing. The landslide occurred late Thursday following heavy rains in the town of El Cambray.
Antibiotic-resistant ‘superbug’ threatens US cities
A relatively new antibiotic-resistant bacterium called CRE is making inroads in some major American cities, U.S. health officials report.
Surveillance of seven U.S. metropolitan areas found higher-than-expected levels of CRE in Atlanta, Baltimore and New York City, according to the U.S. Centres for Disease Control and Prevention; while lower-than-expected levels were found in Albuquerque, Denver and Portland, Oregon, while the Minneapolis rate was what the agency anticipated.
But CDC researchers were dismayed that they found active cases of CRE infection in every city they examined, said senior author Dr Alexander Kallen, a CDC medical officer.
About 9 percent of people died due to their infection from CRE, the researchers found. But some estimates have held that as many as 50 percent of CRE infections contribute to death if they lead to a bloodstream infection.
Roundup of Global Volcanic Activity
Karymsky (Kamchatka): Several ash plumes have been reported from the volcano over the past days by Tokyo VAAC. Karymsky has intermittent strombolian to vulcanian-type explosions from its summit crater.
Dukono (Halmahera): A volcanic ash plume extending 120 km to the NE was spotted this morning by VAAC Darwin.
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