- A magnitude 6.9 - 283km S of Ndoi Island, Fiji is the second major quake of today and the 5th of February and was expected
- Large trawlers are being blamed for the alarming increase of dolphin deaths in the UK and Ireland: 5 fold increase since 2010
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A magnitude 6.9 - 283km S of Ndoi Island, Fiji is the second major quake of today and the 5th of February and was expected Posted: 24 Feb 2017 11:02 AM PST There is No Tsunami Warning, Advisory, Watch, or Threat in effect. A magnitude 6.9 - 283km S of Ndoi Island, Fiji, almost 400 km deep is the second major quake of the day after a magnitude 6.1 struck Zambia this morning. It is the 5th major quake of February and the 12th of 2017. Today's quakes have come as no surprise and was predicted a couple of days ago, see below. Meanwhile as the massive coronal hole turns away from Earth, yet another is turning to face Earth meaning we could still expect more major quakes and volcanic activity in the coming days. Earth is inside a stream of solar wind bombarding the magnetosphere at a speed of 643.4 km/sec flowing from the indicated coronal hole. Credit: NASA/SDO. Home The Wire |
Large trawlers are being blamed for the alarming increase of dolphin deaths in the UK and Ireland: 5 fold increase since 2010 Posted: 24 Feb 2017 08:38 AM PST A MARINE wildlife expert from Brixham has described the killing of dolphins in South West waters as a 'massacre' – with over 100 found dead in just eight weeks. A total of 106 dolphins and porpoises have washed up on Cornwall's beaches and in the nets of fishing boats in just eight weeks, according to Cornwall Wildlife Trust. The toll for the whole of last year was 205 while in the two previous years the numbers had been under 100. Large trawlers are being blamed for the alarming increase – with French boats said to be the worst offenders as they work in pairs. It is understood they are competing with dolphins for fish such as mackerel, herring, bass and sprats and experts say they are wiping out entire family groups. The mammals get caught up in the nets used by trawlermen and are suffocated when held under the water. Lindy Hingley, founder of Brixham Sea Watch, said: "It's murder. It's a massacre. "It takes 20 minutes for them to die, and it's an appalling death." Reports the Express and Echo. Dolphin and whale deaths rise fivefold with 56 mammals washing up on beaches Fifty-six dolphins and whales have washed up on beaches in Ireland so far this year making 2017 the worst on record for such strandings. The number of deaths is a fivefold increase on the same period in 2010. They have prompted an unprecedented meeting this week between experts from state marine and wildlife agencies and fishing and trawler organisations to discover what is killing so many of the species. Pollution, trawler nets, disease, natural causes and inclement weather are all possible causes for the demise of the marine mammals whose beached bodies are being discovered almost every other day on some part of the coastline. Former taoiseach Charlie Haughey famously made Ireland the first whale and dolphin sanctuary in Europe in 1991 during his last term in office but this decade has seen more than 1,000 of the creatures stranding, reports the Irish Examiner. Home Page The Wire |
Smoke billowing' from Japan nuclear plant — Fire reported near reactors: TEPCO unaware of cause of smoke Posted: 24 Feb 2017 07:46 AM PST Smoke emerged at a service building of the Kashiwazaki-Kariwa nuclear power plant in Niigata Prefecture on Thursday but it quickly dissipated after a firefighting effort by workers, its operator said. Tokyo Electric Power Company Holdings Inc. said there was no radiation leak in the incident. The utility has not identified the cause of the incident. The plant operator confirmed smoke coming out around 3:25 p.m. from a locker room inside the service building, located near the plant's reactors 6 and 7. The building is not a radiation controlled area, according to the company. The two reactors on the Sea of Japan coast are being screened by the Nuclear Regulation Authority as Tepco is seeking to resume their operation after they were halted following the 2011 nuclear meltdowns at its Fukushima No. 1 power plant. TEPCO unaware of cause of smoke at Niigata nuclear plant in latest blunder – Tokyo Electric Power Company Holdings Inc. (TEPCO) on Thursday said that it had detected smoke billowing from a service room near two reactors at its Kashiwazaki-Kariwa nuclear power plant in Niigata Prefecture, located on the west coast of Honshu island. TEPCO said that there was no radiation leak as a result of the possible fire which occurred close to its Sea of Japan-facing reactors, although the utility has yet to comment on the cause of the fire. The plant operator said that it noticed smoke billowing out of a locker room inside the service building near its No. 6 and No. 7 reactors at the facility… Home Page The Wire |
The highly pathogenic H5N6 bird flu virus which has killed people in China recently is confirmed in South Korea: 62,000 birds to be culled Posted: 24 Feb 2017 07:00 AM PST Click on RSOE Alert map to enlarge, red squares indicate humans infected South Korea has confirmed the country's first outbreaks of the highly pathogenic H5N6 bird flu virus and has ramped up quarantine measures in response, agriculture ministry officials said on Friday. The outbreaks occurred at two poultry farms in the central and southern parts of the country after the ministry reported last week that the H5N6 strain of the virus had been found in the faeces of migratory birds. Cases of human infection from the H5N6 virus have previously been reported in places including China and Hong Kong, with the virus killing six people in China since April 2014, according to data from the South Korean ministry. South Korea's ministry said just over 62,000 birds had been culled to prevent the spread of the virus and that it had a issued a "movement control order" within a radius of 10 kilometers (6.2 miles) around the farms. There are no indications the virus has spread more widely, a ministry official said. Home Page The Wire |
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