Incomplete list of links to seismic/natural disaster reports from around the Pacific Ring of Fire, days 01 to 07 of Gregorian March 2020.
It’s all about money as Earthquake Insurance Market analysts predict rapid sales growth thru-2025!
AUSTRALIA: bans travel from Korea over virus
CHINA: enlists A-I to speed up monitoring and prediction of earthquakes
INDONESIA: airport shutdown after Java volcano erupts
JAPAN: Ceremony marking 9 yrs since quake-tsunami canceled amid virus fears
Video of U.S.-Japan Tomodachi Rescue Exercise (which took place at the end of February):
KOREA: Releases 221 Foreigners From Coronavirus Quarantine
U.S. Air Force 51st Aerospace Medicine Squadron updates its CoViD-19 map, 04MAR2020, Osan Air Base. (CoViD-19=CoronaVirus Disease 2019)
MEXICO: 5.6 quake shakes U.S. border towns
THAILAND: Can you survive the jungle? Video not for the weak:
UNITED STATES: Cascadia Subduction Zone; Silent earthquakes are tied to changes in fluid deep below
Alaska; After two months of activity, Pavlof Volcano has been downgraded to a ‘normal’ alert level.
California; San Diego faces critical earthquake danger from fault long believed to be inactive
Utah; 3.1 quake Box Elder County
Wyoming; USGS (U.S. Geological Survey) recorded 222 earthquakes in the Yellowstone area
Pacific Ring of Fire, 23-29 February 2020: “HOSTILE WEATHER CONDITIONS”
Climate Change, 01-07 March 2020: TREES ARE MAXED OUT!
USN SeaBees build ‘environmental enclosures’ at Marine Corps Air Station Iwakuni, the enclosures are meant to provide people with a place to shelter from sudden “hostile weather conditions”. The project began in October 2019 and is still ongoing.
Thai health inspectors check arriving U.S. military personnel for signs of CoViD-19 (CoronaVirus Disease 2019), 24FEB2020.
Tennessee Air National Guard Master Sergeant operates a 1-thousand-kilowatt-hour generator for a water treatment facility after the deadly tornado strikes of 02-03MAR2020.
In Laurel, Mississippi, members of the non-profit rescue group Team Rubicon take advantage of National Guard exercise Patriot South, to conduct hurricane rescue training, 05MAR2020.
South Carolina National Guard checks out emergency satellite communications equipment from FirstNet during Patriot South-20, held in Mississippi.
Over the Atlantic Ocean the U.S. Navy (USN) is paying close attention to the Saharan Air Layer (SAL). The SAL can move 14-million-metric-tons (tonnes) of dust from Africa to the Caribbean every year, and with climate change it’s expected to get worse! The USN has joined with NOAA, NASA, and the National Weather Service to establish a ‘baseline’ in order to study health affects of the massive dust transfer and to create an early warning system for people in and around the Caribbean area.
The USN recently concluded data collection for their study of Monsoon Intra-Seasonal Oscillations (MISO) in the Indian Ocean. Researchers from University of Notre Dame, U.S. Army Research Laboratory, and National Aquatic Research and Resources Agency in Sri Lanka, also took part. The purpose is to better predict rapidly changing weather patterns affecting the Arabian Sea, Bay of Bengal, and South China Sea.
On 24 February, NATO forces conducted a bomb search in a smoke filled house during the extreme cold weather training event known as Exercise Cold Response.
Also during Exercise Cold Response, NATO personnel conducted an ice dive, 25 February, to train for port damage repair, and hydrographic surveying in an extreme cold weather/ice environment.
U.S. Army Corps of Engineers began taking snowpack samples in North Dakota, Wisconsin and Minnesota. Measuring snowpack allows officials to estimate the amount of water runoff/flooding when the snow melts.
The US Army Corps of Engineers plans to increase releases from Gavins Point Dam in order to “…provide the greatest amount of flood risk reduction across the basin.” The dam affects areas of Nebraska and South Dakota.
New Hampshire Army National Guard flew to Alaska to take part in an extreme cold weather contamination training event. Note the Corona(virus) beer bottles.
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers announced that after years of upgrades to the Center Hill Lake Dam the lake is soon to return to ‘normal’ operations, and will allow the Nashville District to handle additional water flows into the reservoir.
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.
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
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.
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