Category Archives: International

First deaths caused by Fracking Quake!: Pacific Ring of Fire 16-22 February 2020

Incomplete list of links to seismic/natural disaster reports from around the Pacific Ring of Fire, days 16 to 22 of Gregorian February 2020.

AUSTRALIA:  ‘Tsunami-like’ floods destroy bushfire recovery efforts

3.4 quake

CHINA: New data says 2019 Sichuan quake that killed two people was caused by hydraulic fracturing (fracking) 

4.3 quake hits Taiwan

COLOMBIA:  4.5 quake Guican

 4.3 quake north of Aratoca

ECUADOR: ‘Throat of Fire’ Volcano Shows Early Signs of Collapse

Another quake near border with Peru

INDONESIA: Meet the Sulfur Miners Risking Their Lives Inside a Volcano

magnitude 5.4 hit Melonguane in North Sulawesi Province 

5.5 Banda Sea quake

Islands are already sinking?

JAPAN: 4.5 quake Chiba Prefecture

Sendai City now using drones for future tsunami evacuations

U.S. ‘experts’ study post-tsunami ecosystem

Investigation into why a floating solar power panel farm was destroyed by a typhoon (supposedly it was supposed to be able to survive typhoons)

Inventor hopes to save environment by using sawdust in concrete

MEXICO: 5.0 quake state of Guerrero

NEW ZEALAND: White Island volcano elevated seismic unrest continues

PAPUA NEW GUINEA: 4.7 quake north of Taron

PERU: 4.4 quake near Mollendo

PHILIPPINES: Mindanao hit be several mag-5-quakes in one day

UNITED STATES:  Alaska; Federal taxpayers give Port of Alaska U.S.$20-million for modernization, on top of the $25-million received in November 2019.  The port was damaged during the 2018 quake, it is a major terminal for the oil industry.

Arizona; History shows southwestern state is on shaky ground

California; 4.3 quake 

Taxpayer funded quake retrofit grants re-opened, after all these decades there’s still an estimated 1.2-million homes that cannot withstand The Big One

3.5 quake

Hawaii; Lava Tube now open to public

Scientists spent a lot of time and money figuring out what Hawaiian ash came from which Hawaiian volcano, apparently there are major differences

Oregon; 4.5 quake off-shore

The local government struggles of prepping for the Cascadia Event

Wyoming; Yellowstone expected to feel impacts of coronavirus

Environmental assessment calls for moving a major Yellowstone bridge

Pacific Ring of Fire 09-15 February 2020: TRASH MOUNTAINS!

Going Viral, 19-22 February 2020: PRO-VACCINE GOVERNMENT ADMITS 700% INFECTION RATE CAUSED BY FAILED VACCINE!!!

U.S. Navy ADMITS HI-TECH MILITARY GEAR DEFEATED BY MOTHER EARTH’S TINY SEA CREATURES!

Trash Mountains!: pACIFIC rING OF fIRE 9-15 fEBRUARY 2020

Incomplete list of links to seismic/natural disaster reports from around the Pacific Ring of Fire, days 09 to 15 of Gregorian February 2020.

AUSTRALIA:  Muswellbrook quake?

Dozens of people report Port Stephens quake but scientists say it didn’t happen

4.3 quake off Pibara coast

CANADA: Frost Quakes making themselves heard

Insurance Brokers Association of Canada uses fun looking video game style gfxs to promote natural disaster insurance 

CHINA:  2 quakes over magnitude 5 hit eastern Taiwan

4.8 quake hits Taiwan

Taiwan’s Orchid Island being criticized for failing to clean-up 547-metric tons of trash 

INDONESIA:   Mount Merapi, one of the world’s most active volcanoes, erupted again

generates more than three-million-tons of trash a year, half of which ends up in the rivers and ocean.

JAPAN:  More than 11-million yen found thrown in trash

Plastic fashion mannequin maker admits that it throws away 2-thousand mannequins per year, many ending up in the ocean, but now promises to explore making mannequins out of paper

MEXICO: Again, Popocatépetl erupts, releasing lava and ash

Native ‘volcano’ rabbits now threatened by hoards of volcano tourists

PAPUA NEW GUINEA:  6.2 magnitude earthquake struck the East New Britain province

PERU:  5.0 quake south of Acari

Huaynaputina volcano pushes mud flow down local creek

moderate explosions from Sabancaya volcano

Ubinas volcano creates mud flows

PHILIPPINES:  More proof you can’t rely on the government; Taal volcano relief organization radically increases the amount of still needed donated supplies needed for survivors because the government of Philippines is overwhelmed with existing/ongoing public health emergencies such as measles, polio, Minidao earthquake, typhoon Kammuri recovery, typhoon Phanfone recovery, and now the new COVID-19 pandemic!

RUSSIA:  6.9 quake Kuril Islands

UNITED STATES:

California; Another proof of government failure, despite paying city trash collection fees, residents have now become unpaid volunteer ‘Street stewards’ in an effort to clean up San Diego 

Hawaii; Native plant can survive volcanoes but not invasive species

Oregon;  Volcanology at the University of Oregon

Washington;  once again, ‘experts’ warn Seattle of The Really Big One

The annual federal government budget does not fund a request to raise the height of a dam in Washington state to stop ongoing debris flow from the Mount Saint Helens eruption.

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Wyoming; Scientist Claims Yellowstone Supervolcano Could Erupt Next Week

 

Pacific Ring of Fire, 01-08 February 2020: “THERE IS NO OFF SEASON FOR US”

Climate Change 09-15 February 2020: CAPITALISM KILLS RECYCLING?

Capitalism kills Recycling?: Climate Change 09-15 February 2020

Incomplete list of links to news articles concerning climate change events during the days of 09 to 15 of the Gregorian month of February 2020.

Climate change will expand farming opportunities

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Trash bag investors expect increase in demand for trash bags, blame India and China

Trash truck investors expect skyrocketing demand for trash trucks due to growing global waste caused more people moving to metro areas.

GREECE:  a ‘protection plan’ for possible volcano eruption in Santorini

ICELAND: Twin bomb cyclones to merge into one of strongest-ever storms hammering Iceland 

IRAN:  4.4 quake

SOUTH AFRICA:  Higher Antarctic Temperatures Bad News for South Africa

SWITZERLAND: Researchers say 3-thousand meter drill hole for thermal energy factory did not create earthquakes

TURKEY:  Bovine survivors of Elazığ earthquake find new home

UNITED KINGDOM:  hurricane-force winds, ‘life-threatening’ floods

UNITED STATES: Official 2020 flood prediction for Mississippi River is bad, just like last year’s prediction

Arkansas, Louisiana and Texas are rated as the worst states for recycling

Major recycling company jacks up fees to taxpayer funded municipalities, will invest in solar power, blames it on fee increases by taxpayer owned landfills and finicky capitalist commodity markets

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At Egg Harbor Township, state militia (National Guard) conducted natural disaster response training that included weapons of mass destruction (chemical, biological, radiological, or nuclear) 11FEB2020.
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While public officials complain about the costs and supposed lack of manpower for recycling programs, an 11 years old girl started her own recycling program
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Climate Change 01-08 February 2020: “GLOBAL SYSTEMIC COLLAPSE”

Going Viral 14-15 February 2020:  VACCINE FAIL AS 14-THOUSAND IN THE U.S. DIE, INFECTIONS SKYROCKET!

“There is no off season for us”: Pacific Ring of Fire, 01-08 February 2020

Incomplete list of links to seismic/natural disaster reports from around the Pacific Ring of Fire, days 01 to 08 of Gregorian February 2020.

JAPAN:  volcano erupts with pyroclastic flow

 Taiwan Red Cross (TRC) paid for 463 housing units for the areas heavily-hit by the strong March 2011 earthquake and tsunami. 

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MEXICO: Seismic signs may foretell the birth of a new volcano in Michoacán

Earthquake resistant 3D printed houses?

NEW ZEALAND: 5.5 quake

 Scientist warn of increasing pressure on ‘monster’ fault line

Whales unable to eat began after 2016 earthquake

PAPUA NEW GUINEA:  6.2 QUAKE

PERU:  5.1 quake

3.8 quake Peru-Ecuador border

PHILIPPINES: 6.0 quake Mindanao

CAMP2Ex (Cloud, Aerosol and Monsoon Processes Philippines Experiment) is a partnership with NASA, NRL, the Manila Observatory, the Philippine Atmospheric, Geophysical and Astronomical Services Administration (PAGASA), and various academic organizations. Researchers on the campaign seek to collect data to answer three key questions; – Do aerosol particles influence weather and precipitation in tropical environments?
– Do these influences feed back into the aerosol lifecycle?
– How do the aerosol and cloud influence the radiation energy of the region?

The more than 2-thousand people involved in CAMP2Ex are now collating the data they collected in 2019, and prepping for their 2020 mission.

RUSSIA:  Klyuchevsky volcano explosions and ash plumes

UNITED STATES: The Latest Atmospheric River (aka Pineapple Express) to Bring Flooding, Landslides 

The U.S. Air Force hurricane hunters have been flying through the Pineapple Express (one of the famous ‘atmospheric rivers’ that brings warm humid air to North America during Winter): “There is no off season for us, after the Hurricane season is done we roll into the Winter Storm season and part of that is providing support for atmospheric rivers off the West Coast. ARs [atmospheric river] are flowing columns of water vapor that produce vast amounts of precipitation when they make landfall. The heavy amounts of precipitation can turn into extreme rainfall and snow, which then can cause flooding and mudslides.”-Lieutenant Colonel Ryan Rickert, 53rd Weather Reconnaissance Squadron

Alaska;  Construction industry becoming addicted to disaster rebuilding?

seismic activity decreasing?

California; communities suing oil companies over climate change

Hawaii; 4.2 quake

Oregon;  4.7 quake

 Portland teen starts business to get people prepared for Cascadia

Utah; Super volcano discovered, bigger than Yellowstone!

Washington;  Green River moves into flood phase 4

VANUATU:  4.7 quake

Pacific Ring of Fire, 26-31 January 2020: “THAT CASCADIAN EVENT’S GOING TO HAPPEN!”

Climate Change, 01-08 February 2020: “GLOBAL SYSTEMIC COLLAPSE”

“global systemic collapse”: Climate Change, 01-08 February 2020

Incomplete list of links to news articles concerning climate change events during the days of 01 to 08 of the Gregorian month of February 2020.

Some scientists blame extreme temperature changes for the decline of the wooly bumblebee

Ocean currents getting faster, due to faster winds

Thawing permafrost will speed warming

ARGENTINA: Hottest day ever?

AUSTRALIA:  Charcoal and beef usually means BBQ, but something from 3-hundred BC might reduce methane produced by feeding cattle; Biochar

Despite regulations supposedly limiting industry pollution, it’s revealed the government actually approved increased industrial emissions!

BRAZIL: Discovered; the lumber industry is so aggressive it’s now cutting down trees during the rainy season!

CANADA: Quake strikes Atlantic coast

FRANCE: Cities are filling with trash

GREECE: 4.7 quake

INDIA:  5.1 quake

ISRAEL:  Earthquake near Haifa

ITALY:  Old solar panels meant to be recycled were instead shipped to parts of the Middle East and Africa

KOSOVO: European Union spends U.S.$83-million for filters to fight air pollution coming from electricity factory

SERBIA:  Considered Europe’s most polluted country

SOUTH AFRICA: Shrubs can stop climate change?

UNITED KINGDOM: British taxpayers funding African fossil fuel projects worth U.S.$750-million

UNITED STATES:

 So much for environment saving wind turbines, it’s estimated that this year alone at least 8-thousand wind turbine blades will be thrown into municipal trash dumps!   What’s more, the blades are supposed to last 20 years but most are thrown away after only ten!  They can’t be recycled!

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Kentucky; 
The final ‘shell’ emplacement had been delayed by unusually high water levels, but now that water levels have dropped the U.S.$1.22-billion Kentucky Lock Addition Project can continue.  Ten ‘shells’ were needed to build the new lock addition in dry conditions.  Reports say that since December 2019 the level of the Tennessee River was over-topping the nine shells already in place, each shell is 31-feet/9-meters high.
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U.S. Army Corps of Engineers spending at least U.S.$16-million to repair a breach in the Buffalo North Breakwater, which was caused by the Halloween Night Storm last year.
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Altus Air Force Base is experimenting with a new cheaper way to clean-up its ground water, called a ‘bio-wall’ (‘bioreactors’ filled with locally sourced micro-organisms): “The purpose of the bio wall is to degrade the manmade contaminates currently found in the groundwater and break them down into naturally found elements. The bio walls act like a big water filter that is 30 feet underground. As the water flows through the wall, we are purifying it from the potentially harmful chemicals that were put in the ground a long time ago.”-Mary Bitney, Altus AFB Remedial Project Manager
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Puerto Rico; 5.0 earthquake 
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Tennessee;  2.7 quake
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Virginia;  U.S. Army Corps of Engineers awarded a U.S.$23.7-million contract to Florida based contractor to rebuild the eroded beach at NASA’s Wallops Island Flight Facility on Virginia’s Eastern Shore, including construction of breakwaters using 1.3-million cubic yards of sand.
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Climate Change, 26-31 January 2020: OCEANS SINK AS THE LANDS FLOOD

“that Cascadian event’s going to happen!”: Pacific Ring of Fire, 26-31 January 2020

Incomplete list of links to seismic/natural disaster reports from around the Pacific Ring of Fire, days 26 to 31 of Gregorian January 2020.
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AUSTRALIA: Ancient volcano now home to giant fluorescent slugs

COSTA RICA: Rincón de la Vieja erupts

JAPAN: Nishino-shima has been erupting since December

5.2 quake near east coast of Honshu

5.4 quake near Okinawa

5.4 quake hits Hokkaido

MEXICO: 5.1-magnitude earthquake triggers evacuations in Acapulco

El Popo erupts, again

NEW ZEALAND:  Upper-plate earthquakes caused uplift 

PERU: scientists created a ‘cloud curtain’ in tropical forests to mimic the future

4.7 quake, 31JAN2020

PHILIPPINES: Magnitude 4.9 quake rocks Davao del Sur

RUSSIA:  Magnitude 5.2 earthquake hits Kuril Islands

4.7 earthquake – off the east coast of the Kamchatka Peninsula

UNITED STATES:

Alaska; 3.1 quake, 31JAN2020

California;  Tropical ‘Pineapple Express’ getting boost from Arctic ice 

3.3 quake, 31JAN2020

Warm Water ‘Blob’ Led to Fatal Whale Entanglements

Hawaii;  3.7 quake, 29JAN2020

Utah National Guard joined Hawaii National Guard in a disaster drill that included a contamination event, and the ‘transfer of authority’ to a much larger responding unit:

Montana;  Quake near Helena

Oregon;  State government Cascadia Playbook revealed, Bend-Redmond area to be emergency response HQ: “Our operating assumption is most of the infrastructure we rely on today will not be accessible to us if you’re in the Valley or on the Coast following a Cascadia earthquake.”-Andrew Phelps, Oregon Office of Emergency Management

“….. that Cascadian event’s going to happen!”Fred LeLacheur,  Redmond Airport Engineer

Oregon governor demands U.S.$13-million for disaster prep programs

Oregon Coast Community College gives free Cascadia Event classes!

Washington;  4.5 quake, 31JAN2020 

Army Corps of Engineers scrambles to prep for major flooding, again

Wyoming; Earthquakes In And Around Yellowstone: How Often Do They Occur?

Yellowstone eruption to create Super Weather?

For past decade Yellowstone area averaged 4.7 quakes per day!

VIETNAM:  Volatile temp changes destroying crops

(from 2013: GLOBAL WARMING or ICE AGE? TROPICAL VIETNAM DROPS TO 25 FAHRENHEIT!!!)

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PACIFIC RING OF FIRE, 19-25 JANUARY 2020

Climate Change, 26-31 January 2020: OCEANS SINK AS THE LANDS FLOOD

Oceans sink as the Lands flood: Climate Change, 26-31 January 2020

Incomplete list of links to news articles concerning climate change events during the days of 26 to 31 of the Gregorian month of January 2020.

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Having fewer children touted as the answer

Some insects and some animals are breeding like mad, some are good some are bad

Good crop insects are dying at rapid pace

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NATO members Canada, France, Italy, Lithuania and the United States are testing energy saving tech at this year’s Smart Energy Training and Assessment Camp.  It includes LED lighting, energy metering, atmospheric water generation, and various sizes of portable solar arrays.

ALBANIA: 4.3 quake, 31JAN2020

AUSTRALIA: Canberra declares state of emergency

BRAZIL:  Exploding canals, imploding malls

More than 30-thousand homeless due to flooding

ICELAND: Alert level raised for expanding volcano

INDONESIA: More flooding, more deaths

ITALY: Vehicle ban goes into effect on Sunday

ROMANIA: 5.2-magnitude earthquake

SENEGAL: Has already lost one town to ocean rise

SWITZERLAND:  Warming rivers means less fish to eat?

TURKEY:  4.0 quake, 31JAN2020

UNITED KINGDOM:  Flood victims say new flood plan will make things worse

UNITED STATES: Wine making will end if a new climate adaptable grape cannot be found 

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Illinois;  FEMA grants city additional U.S.$2.3-million to buyout flood prone residential properties (for some reason this news article refers to the grants as an ‘award’, as if the city won a contest)
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North Carolina; 2.3 quake
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Oregon; Utility company pays for climate change education in Portland grade schools (it should be noted that the same utility company announced in November 2019 that it will shutdown its remaining five customer service centers in Spring)
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Puerto Rico; 

Puerto Rico Air National Guard photo by Master Sergeant Caycee Watson, 30JAN2020.

Puerto Rico Air National Guard personnel with the 156th Medical Group, inspect toilets and hand washing facilities at  an earthquake response ‘base camp’ in Guayanilla, 30JAN2020.
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West Virginia; FEMA grants one county U.S.$131-million to rebuild flooded schools (for some reason this news article refers to the grant as an ‘award’, as if the county won a contest)
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CLIMATE CHANGE, 12-18 JANUARY 2020: OPERATION SUDDEN RESPONSE

Going Viral, 30-31 January 2020: “I’M THE ONLY ONE LEFT”

Pacific Ring of Fire, 19-25 January 2020

Incomplete list of links to seismic/natural disaster reports from around the Pacific Ring of Fire, days 19 to 25 of Gregorian January 2020.

 

ARGENTINA: 4.8 quake

5.5 quake

CANADA:  4.5-magnitude earthquake strikes off Vancouver Island

FIJI: 4.3 quake, 24 January

JAPAN:  new Nankai trough quake tsunami predictions

Animals are thriving in nuke disaster area

Diet considers an extra 4.47 trillion yen (U.S.$40.8-billion) for disaster recovery efforts

MEXICO:  Yet another quake hits Oaxaca

NEW ZEALAND:  5.4 quake northwest of Wellington

RUSSIA: 5.6 earthquake – Near East Coast of Kamchatka

UNITED STATES:

Alaska; 6.1 quake Andreanof Islands 

6.2 Magnitude earthquake felt in Adak

 U.S. Coast Guard investigating reason why a group of S-O-S radio towers are now in a communications ‘dead-zone’

Arizona; Mesa settles lawsuit from massive 2014 flooding; homeowners receive $1.6M payout

California; Quake and aftershock near Barstow

Pacific Gas & Electric opens new Vacaville Emergency Response Center

Folsom Dam Raise Project groundbreaking, at the Folsom Point Boat Launch near Dike 8, 21JAN2020.  In a U.S. Army Corps of Engineers directed project the Folsom Dam is going to be raised as part of a plan to both increase water storage and prevent future flooding.
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Hawaii; Minor earthquake – Honaunau-napoopoo

Idaho;  3.4 quake Soda Springs area

Oregon; Could you survive for two weeks if ‘The Big One’ hits?

Utah; Small earthquake hits Box Elder County

Washington;  All of Lewis County Now Included in Flood Watch

King County’s Flood Warning Center shutdown, this report doesn’t give a clear reason why but says Flood Warning employees will still be monitoring the ongoing flooding.

Property owners in Island County hit with surprise U.S.$50 flood insurance surcharge, blamed on FEMA

Washington National Guard’s Homeland Response Force toured the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s (NOAA) Western Regional Center in Seattle: “The information provided by these resources is critical to anticipating weather’s effects on hazardous material incidents and our response operations during an incident.”-Sergeant First Class James Peters

Washington National Guard also showed-off its disaster response communications equipment, along with AT&T’s First Net.

PACIFIC RING OF FIRE, 12-18 JANUARY 2020: “THE FIRE BREATHING DRAGON OF CLOUDS.”

CLIMATE CHANGE, 19-25 JANUARY 2020:  OPERATION SUDDEN RESPONSE

Operation Sudden Response: Climate Change, 19-25 January 2020

Incomplete list of links to news articles concerning climate change events during the days of 19 to 25 of the Gregorian month of January 2020.

“People are tired of hearing about climate problems. We need solutions, especially farmers whose families, livestock and livelihoods depend on them.”-Oluyede Ajayi, Technical Center for Agricultural and Rural Co-operation

 

 

France And Germany Miss EU Climate Plan Deadline

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AUSTRALIA: Bushfires, ash rain, dust storms and flash floods: two weeks of apocalypse

BRAZIL:   Brazil Listed Among Climate Change Culprits

CANADA:  Taxpayers funding CAD$20-million climate change think tank

CHINA:  China Suspends Tours Abroad as Xi Jinping Warns of ‘Grave Situation’ from new virus

  the world’s largest greenhouse gas emission emitter

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ETHIOPIA: Ethiopia, Sudan, and Egypt are moving towards resolving disputes in order to build the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam.

FRANCE: New killer virus from China arrives

GERMANY:  Youth lawsuit challenges newest climate law

 15 personnel heading to operations with U.S. Africa Command (USAfriCom) went through humanitarian aid training at Kelley Barracks/Helenen-Kaserne: “We provide training to units like AfriCom to prepare them for when they might be called to provide humanitarian assistance to help the allies and partners that are within their area of operations as opposed to other military operations which are their main mission.”-Jenny Caruso, Humanitarian Assistance Response Training manager

GREENLAND:  For more proof climate change is a constant, scientists now say the demise of Viking colonies, in the Gregorian 15th Century, was the result of depleted resources and volatile prices, exacerbated by climate change.

Climate change resulting in skyrocketing cod fish:  “The Cod is coming back to Greenland strong.”-Bo Lings, fishing boat owner

HAITI: Scientists warn the next quake will be worse than the 2010 quake

ISRAEL:  UBQ Materials is an Israeli company which has developed a process to convert unsorted household waste into a plastic substitute, Germany’s Diamler agrees to test the household waste plastic in new cars. 

IVORY COAST:  How climate change has altered cocoa farming

SPAIN: Storm Gloria claims 12 lives in Spain, four missing

 Sea foam floods streets during deadly storm

TAJIKASTAN: 5.5 quake, 23JAN2020

TURKEY:  NEW earthquake hits already quake-devastated E. Turkish province

At Least 4 Killed, Buildings Collapse in Strong Earthquake

UGANDA:  Reforestation project considered a success, as forest employees live off revenues from Carbon Credits

UNITED KINGDOM:  Tremor shakes homes on Teesside

Taunton’s £6m flood defense plan approved

UNITED STATES:  Is climate change making it easier to get syrup from the rare Pacific Northwest Big Leaf Maple?  Production is on the rise.

As Climate Risks Worsen, U.S. Government Flood Buyouts Fail 

Residents of Minnesota urged to get flood insurance after warning of massive flood from National Weather Service

Pennsylvania lumber mill shutdown due to three years in a row of flood damage

  It was revealed that the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers held a training session on how to deal with a “hypothetical scenario” with Youghiogheny River Lake, in Pennsylvania.

More flooding predicted for Iowa 

Puerto Rico’s Air National Guard’s (PRANG) 156th Mission Support Group are the ‘gateway’ for all U.S. military support entering the territory for quake relief.  The above pic shows PRANG  personnel explaining the Joint Reception, Staging, Onward Movement and Integration process at Muñiz Air National Guard Base.

Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) conducted ‘door-to-door’ wellness checks in Yauco, Puerto Rico, 19JAN2020.

More than 1-thousand-3-hundred military personnel supporting quake relief in Puerto Rico

Guayanilla, Puerto Rico, 19JAN2020.

Volunteer veterinarians from the Clinica Veterenaria tend to earthquake survivors’ pets, Guayanilla, Puerto Rico, 19JAN2020.

 Rescued pets from earthquake-ravaged Puerto Rico end up at East Coast shelters

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In Mississippi, loud booms hear, authorities say it’s not an earthquake

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2.7 quake in Pecos County, Texas, 24JAN2020

Exercise ‘Sudden Response’, involving military units located at Killeen, Austin and Fort Hood, Texas.  The exercise preps military responders for equipment deployment, life-saving operations and web-based command and control.
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CLIMATE CHANGE, 12-18 JANUARY 2020: “ON SCALE WE’VE NOT SEEN BEFORE”

U.S. taxpayers to rescue “donated” C-130

24 January 2020 / 21:35 UTC-07 Tango 06 (05 Bahman 1398/29 Jumada l-Ula 1441/01 Ding-Chou 4718)

U.S. Air Force photo by Staff Sergeant Sarah Brice, 14JAN2020.

“The U.S. commitment to this partnership is stronger than ever, and I look forward to building upon it in the days ahead.”-Michael Raynor, U.S. Ambassador to Ethiopia, during the June 2018 C-130E hand-over, he obviously didn’t realize the Ethiopians couldn’t handle the U.S. taxpayer funded ‘gift’

Poorly thought-out hand-over of donated C-130E, June 2018.

A year-and-a-half ago the U.S. government “donated” a C-130 Hercules to the struggling Ethiopian air force, and without much forethought, it turns out, as it was discovered that the Ethiopian military personnel lacked the knowledge to maintain or operate the transport.

USAF photo by Staff Sergeant Sarah Brice, 14JAN2020.

In January 2020, U.S. military officials realized the Ethiopians needed help with their U.S. taxpayer funded gift, so the U.S. Air Force’s 818th Mobility Support Advisory Squadron (MSAS) went in.

U.S. Air Force maintenance personnel check-out the landing gear on the donated C-130E. USAF photo by Staff Sergeant Sarah Brice, 14JAN2020.

Explainer video, 23JAN2020:

So far the old C-130E has completed taxi runs, hopefully will be flying soon.

Between 1998 and 2014, Ethiopia got two C-130Bs, and a C-130E.  The above pic is of tail #1562 seen wasting away.  The other B model and the E model are listed as active, which is hard to believe since Ethiopia had so much trouble maintaining the C-130E donated in June 2018.

In the cockpit, USAF photo by Staff Sergeant Sarah Brice, 14JAN2020.

In the cargo bay, USAF photo by Staff Sergeant Sarah Brice, 14JAN2020.

The intent of the donation of the C-130E was to help Ethiopia conduct ‘peacekeeping’ missions in Africa.

Taxpayer rip-offs: U.S. TAXPAYERS DELIVER MD-530F CAYUSE WARRIOR TO KENYA

BARE METAL: C-130 PAINT PREP, OR THE EMPEROR GETS SOME NEW CLOTHES