Magnitude 5+ Earthquakes – Global
5.8 earthquake hits Vanuatu.
5.6 earthquake hits Tonga.
5.1 earthquake hits Santiago del Estero, Argentina.
5.0 earthquake hits south of Alaska.
5.0 earthquake hit off the coast of Oregon.
5.0 earthquake hits Kepulauan Tanimbar, Indonesia.
Magnitude 5+ Earthquakes – Global
7.2 earthquake hits the Solomon Islands.
Two 6.0 earthquakes hit the Solomon Islands.
5.6 earthquake hits the Bougainville region, Papua New Gunea.
5.6 earthquake hits the Fox Islands in the Aleutian Islands.
5.3 earthquake hits the Azores.
5.3 earthquake hits the Solomon Islands.
5.2 earthquake hits off the coast of Oregon, USA.
5.2 earthquake hits neat the east coast of Kamchatka.
Two 5.1 earthquakes hit the Solomon Islands.
5.1 earthquake hits Vanuatu.
5.0 earthquake hits the Banda Sea.
5.0 earthquake hits south of Fiji.
5.0 earthquake hits near the east coast of Kamchatka.
Wildfires – Oregon, California, USA
With the Cedar Creek Fire now spanning more than 110,000 acres, local residents are being warned evacuation levels may be moved back up depending on the blaze’s activity. The wildfire, which sits 15 miles east of Oakridge, has grown nearly 20,000 acres since Thursday and is currently burning 110,361 acres as of Saturday morning. Containment remains at 0%.
Meanwhile the mosquito Fire in California has grown to 71 292 acres with 21% containment. 78 structures have been destroyed.
Wildfires – Oregon, USA
The Cedar Creek Fire that started August 1 in west-central Oregon was already very large at 27,512 acres on the morning of Thursday September 8. But as a result of dry, windy weather on the following two days when a mapping aircraft was over the fire at 10 p.m. Saturday it had more than tripled in size to 85,900 acres. That night the blaze was about 5 miles northeast of Oakridge.
Wildfires – Oregon, Northern California, USA (update)
The Rum Creek Fire – Size: 11,696 acres (Containment: 1%)
Six Rivers Lightning Complex – Size: 32,600 acres (Containment: 54%)
McKinney Fire – Size: 60,138 acres (Containment: 99%)
Wildfires – Mongolia
A total of 97 forest and steppe fires have been recorded across Mongolia since the beginning of this year, destroying 1,051,907 hectares of forest and grassland, the country’s National Emergency Management Agency said Sunday. The number of registered wildfires is up around 73 percent compared with the same period last year.
Wildfires – Idaho, USA
The Four Corners Fire 24 air miles south of McCall, Idaho grew by about 1,000 acres to more than 10 000 acres Saturday as winds gusting up to 33 mph from a cold front caused more intense burning. The blaze is near the southeast side of Lake Cascade.
Wildfires – Oregon, USA
Rum Creek Fire in remote southwest Oregon continued its rapid spread through a rural area and destroyed several structures, after forcing evacuations and prompting the state to take command of efforts to contain the blaze. The fire has burned almost 15 square miles which is more than double the 7 square miles reported Saturday. A house and two mining structures were destroyed.
Wildfires – Oregon, USA
A wildfire burning in rural Josephine County triggered evacuation alerts early Saturday morning. The Rum Creek Fire grew from about 1,200 acres Friday night to over 4,700 acres in a matter of hours. It’s burning near the unincorporated communities of Galice and Rand, about 20 miles northwest of Grants Pass. The fire was started by lightning on Aug. 17 and killed Logan Taylor, a 25-year-old firefighter, after he was struck by a tree the next day.
Wildfires – Nevada, USA
A fast-moving wildfire erupted in Humboldt County, Nevada on Friday afternoon, north of Black Rock Desert. The Cherry Gulch Fire started on Alta Peak late Friday and quickly exploded across the bone-dry landscape. The fire has burned 10,000 acres as of Saturday morning.
Magnitude 5+ Earthquakes – Global
5.3 earthquake hits off the coast of Oregon, USA.
5.3 earthquake hits the Bonin Islands off Japan.
5.2 earthquake hits Luzon in the Philippines.
5.0 earthquake hits the Volcano Islands off Japan.
5.0 earthquake hits the western Indian-Antarctic ridge.
Magnitude 5+ Earthquakes – Global
5.4 earthquake hits off the coast of Oregon.
5.3 earthquake hits New Britain, Papua New Guinea.
5.1 earthquake hits off the coast of Oregon.
Magnitude 5+ Earthquakes – Global
6.0 earthquake hits the Ryukyu Islands of Japan.
Two 5.3 earthquakes hit off the coast of Oregon.
5.3 earthquake hits the Banda Sea.
5.2 earthquake hits off the coast of Oregon.
5.1 earthquake hits central Mongolia.
Two 5.1 earthquakes hit off the coast of Oregon.
5.1 earthquake hits the central east Pacific rise.
5.0 earthquake hits the South Sandwich Islands.
More than 55 earthquakes have struck off the Oregon coast, but the swarm is not likely to trigger any danger to those on land.
Magnitude 5+ Earthquakes – Global
Two 5.7 earthquakes hit the South Sandwich Islands.
Four 5.5 earthquakes hit off the coast of Oregon.
5.4 earthquake hits the Banda Sea.
5.4 earthquake hits the Gulf of Paris, Venezuela.
Two 5.3 earthquakes hit off the coast of Oregon.
Three 5.2 earthquakes hit off the coast of Oregon.
5.2 earthquake hits the Kermedec islands.
5.2 earthquake hits near the east coast of Honshu, Japan.
Two 5.1 earthquakes hit off the coast of Oregon.
5.1 earthquake hits the Gulf of Paris, Venezuela.
Two 5.0 earthquakes hit off the coast of Oregon.
5.0 earthquake hits offshore Chiapas, Mexico.
5.0 earthquake hits Vanuatu.
5.0 earthquake hits New Ireland, Papua New Guinea.
5.0 earthquake hits near the east coast of Honshu, Japan.
Wildfires – USA
The country’s largest wildfire has burned 401,601 acres in Fremont-Winema National Forest, which is about 15 miles northwest of Beatty, Oregon. More than 2,000 personnel have worked since July 6 to contain the wildfire, which is when officials say it was first ignited by lightning and natural causes. As of Saturday, 42% of the Bootleg Fire was contained.
The quickly-spreading Dixie Fire near Feather River Canyon in Butte County, California, has burned 181,289 acres and is only 19% contained. The cause of the wildfire, ignited on July 13, is under investigation and more than 4,000 personnel are working to contain it.
The Snake River Complex Fire in Idaho has burned 107,679 acres and was 74% contained as of Saturday. It is burning about 20 miles south of Lewiston, Idaho. Lightning ignited the fire on July 7, and although spot fires have sprung up daily outside of its control lines, the fire has grown slowly and is being contained by the 208 personnel assigned to its mitigation.
The Lick Creek (Dry Gulch) Fire has burned 80,392 acres across areas in Oregon and Washington State. Its perimeter has been contained by 75%.
Lightning ignited the Tamarack Fire on July 4 approximately 16 miles south of Gardnerville, Nevada. As of Saturday, 65,152 acres have burned and it is was 4% contained. More than 1,000 personnel are fighting the fire.
Wildfires – Oregon, USA
Thursday afternoon reports said the Bootleg Fire remained roughly 399,359 acres and 38% contained, making it the third-largest wildfire and second-largest forest fire to burn in Oregon since 1900. Meanwhile nine firefighters assigned to the blaze tested positive for COVID-19.
Wildfires – Oregon, USA
The Bootleg Fire, has grown to over 227 000 acres. The fire has drawn firefighters from all corners of the state and has put thousands of Klamath County households under evacuation. While temperatures around Western Oregon and Western Washington have fallen back between 80 and 90 degrees Fahrenheit in most places, southern Oregon is seeing triple-digit temperatures for an extended period.
Wildfires – Siberia
The city of Yakutsk, capital of Russia’s northeastern Yakutia region, has long been known as the coldest city on Earth. In winter, temperatures plummet to -40C, and it’s the only city to be built on permafrost. In July, temperatures are usually around 20C. But this year, record-breaking summer temperatures saw the mercury hit 35C in Yakutsk – in a heatwave that has fuelled wildfires in Siberia’s coniferous taiga forests.
Unlike wildfires that burn at lower latitudes, such as in California, which are often started by humans, Arctic wildfires are mostly started by lightning strikes. They are normally left to burn out unless they threaten human settlements. But Russian army planes have been sent to fight the fires that have raged across 800,000 hectares of forest in recent weeks.
Russia has the biggest area of tree cover in the world – at 882 million hectares. But it lost an area larger than Switzerland each year between 2011 and 2013 – mostly due to fires.
Wildfires – Oregon/California, USA
The Bootleg Fire, the largest wildfire currently burning in the U.S., has now torched more than 150 000 acres and has stymied firefighters with erratic winds and extremely dangerous fire behavior. Some of the evacuations were triggered by a second, smaller fire called the Log Fire to the northeast of the main blaze that expanded to nearly 5,000 acres (2,023 hectares) in the past 24 hours. The main fire has destroyed 21 homes in an area north of the Oregon-California border that’s been gripped by extreme drought. It was 7% contained as of Thursday.
The Dixie Fire was tiny when it began on Tuesday, but by Thursday morning it had burned 3.5 square miles (9 square kilometers) of brush and timber near the Feather River Canyon area of Butte County northeast of Paradise. It also moved into national forest land in neighboring Plumas County.
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