Recent Natural Disasters List November 16, 2011

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Recent Earthquakes

•  Magnitude 5.1 moderate earthquake (@15.8 km depth) south Western Sakha, Russia with epicenter located 124 km N Artyk (pop 612). It will be faintly felt being very far from the populated area. 678 km NW Magadan (pop 95,282)
  22:05 UTC (local time Thursday, November 17, 2011 at 09:05:54 AM at epicenter )
• Magnitude 4.4 earthquake (@ 30 km depth) offshore Guatemala with epicenter located 67 km (42 miles) SSW from Suchiate, Chiapas, Mexico & 227 km (141 miles) WSW from GUATEMALA CITY, Guatemala. The tremor is faintly felt.
  16:24 UTC (local time Wednesday, November 16, 2011 at 10:24:14 AM @ epicenter)
• Magnitude 4.6 moderate earthquake( @52km depth) near the coast of Central Peru with epicenter located 27 km (16 miles) SSW of Chincha Alta, Peru & 65 km (40 miles) NW of Ica, Peru. It will be faintly felt.
  14:02 PM UTC (local time Wednesday, November 16, 2011 at 09:02:14 AM  @ epicenter)
• Magnitude 4.4 light earthquake (@28.4 km depth) in Kodiak Island region, Alaska with epicenter located 21 km (13 miles) NNE from Larsen Bay, AK. Weakly felt at Kodaik Island.
  11:15 AM UTC (local time Wednesday, November 16, 2011 at 02:15:19 AM @ epicenter)
• Magnitude 5.5 light earthquake (Max. MMI IV) in Tonga with epicenter located 128 km (79 miles) NNE of Neiafu, Tonga. People of Neiafu, Tonga (4,000) will experience weak shaking.
  01:43 UTC (local time Wednesday, November 16, 2011 at 03:43:48 PM @ epicenter )
• Magnitude 5.3 earthquakes Off the East Coast Of Honshu, Japan with epicenter located 182 km SE Kisarazu, Japan (pop 122,524) and 227 km (141 miles) SE of TOKYO, Japan. Very Common in this area. It will be faintly felt.
  00:43 UTC (local time Wednesday, November 16, 2011 at 09:43:58 AM @ epicenter)

Recent Cyclones

• Sean-11 with active storm having current maximum sustained wind speed 17 m/s. Green Alert for Bermuda.
  Disaster Note: Tropical storm Sean 11 has affected 66 thousand people with winds above 39mph.In addition, few people are living in coastal areas below 5m and can therefore be affected by storm surge.

Recent Floods

• Thailand Flood
  Click for detail update report On Thailand Flood 2011

Recent Volcanoes 

La Restinga

• Volcanic Eruption On Hierro Canary Islands located in Spain. During 2-8 November, 364 seismic events were recorded at depths of 16-23 km. During 4-5 November authorities evacuated about 80 residents from areas in Frontera due to landslide risks. Hierro contains the greatest concentration of young vents in the Canary Islands. Two days earlier, the toxic gases get mixed in the air. Indeed we showed video of that to you.
  UPDATE
  Residents of the fishing village of La Restinga on El Hierro island are allowed already to return home. The scientist have said that they now don't expect an imminent eruption from a nearby underwater volcano. Though today too, many earthquake tremors were recorded in Canary Island.The strongest was of magnitude 3.2.
  M 3.2 @ 20 km Depth (05:09 UTC)> Felt by people of Northern El Hierro.
  M 2.7 @ 19 km Depth (06:44 UTC)
  M 2.7 @ 17 km Depth (12:20 UTC)
  UPDATE: 3:53 UTC
  Another minor M 2.5 earthquake in Canary Islands, Spain region with epicenter located exactly at the same place(@ 03:38 UTC)
  UPDATE: 2:05 UTC
  Minor earthquake (@16km depth) with magnitude 2.8 hit Canary Islands Spain region today too at 01:47 local time. The epicenter was located 80 km SW Valle gran rey (pop 4,983)
  Disaster Note: Canary Islands in Spain are among the most popular tourist spots in the whole world.

By Virunga National Park showing Nyamulagira Volcano eruption

• Volcanic Eruption On Nyamuragira Democratic Republic of Congo. It is the Africa's most active volcano. Eruption still continues here in Nyamuragira. Yesterday, we showed the video of eruption in Nyamuragira which shows it be still active.However, The city of Goma, near the volcano, remains unaffected.
  UPDATEThe lava on Mount Nyamulagira in Congo is spewing up to 300 metres high.Meanwhile Virunga Park, best known for its endangered mountain gorillas, is now inviting tourists to go on overnight treks to see a volcano spurting fountains of lava some 300 meters into the air.
  

Recent Natural Disasters Page
This page contains the Daily list of all Recent  Major Natural Disasters around the world. The major Natural Disasters are linked to definite page containing update report on that major disaster.
The Recent earthquakes, Volcanoes , Floods, Cyclone and other natural disasters and natural hazards are listed in this page under "Recent Natural Disasters"
The disaster data are collected from different sources like USGS, EMSC, GDACS..

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