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Almost 10,000 people have been evacuated after heavy rain caused major flooding in parts of Guangdong Province yesterday
As of 08 May, a total of 8,600 people have been affected with more than 2,800 requiring emergency resettlement.
Xinhua WMO reported 145.8 mm of rain in Guangzhou in 24 hours from 07 to 08 May which is more than the average total amount for May.
Most of the rain fell in a 6 hour period.
Other areas recorded up to 3 times the monthly average rainfall in 24 hours

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There are growing concerns about radioactive contamination in some north St. Louis County homes. And some say it came from the nuclear waste at the West Lake Landfill.
It's the latest development in a story 5 On Your Side has been following for months.
A law firm representing homeowners said experts have now tested five homes in the Spanish Village subdivision and all five have had elevated levels of some radioactive materials.
"Personally, I was not surprised but I was disappointed," said homeowner Robbin Dailey.
She and her husband Mike were the first in their neighborhood to have their home tested by independent scientists for radioactive material.
According to a lawsuit filed by the Daileys last November, "highly elevated levels" of Thorium were found in and around their home.
Attorneys said the signature of that material matches that of Thorium found in the landfill.
Now, according to attorneys, at least four more homes in the neighborhood tested by the same scientists showed similar levels of contamination.
Some had elevated levels of Polonium, Thorium, Lead and Radium allegedly associated with West Lake.
"I'm sorry the people are going to get that news, but it just would not be one house.
There's just no way that it would be one house," said Robbin.
"My heart goes out to them, it really does.
It's almost cruel," added Mike.
Following the Dailey's lawsuit, the Environmental Protection Agency, which oversees the West Lake Landfill, sent their own crews to test in the Spanish Village neighborhood. E.P.A. spokesman Ben Washburn told 5 On Your Side via email Monday: "EPA remains committed to evaluating all scientifically valid data regarding the Spanish Village neighborhood.
In November, after a Spanish Village family filed a lawsuit alleging radioactive contamination in their home, EPA requested the full laboratory report.
To date, the law firm has not provided the report to EPA for evaluation.
Out of an abundance of caution, EPA conducted a Pre-CERCLA screening at two homes in the Spanish Village neighborhood.
EPA is nearing completion on the final report and will make our conclusions available to the public. EPA's review of the preliminary results does not indicate a cause for concern or any need for immediate action in these two homes, and the final report will address how the agency reached its conclusions."
Five on Your Side also reached out to Republic Services, the landfill's owner, for comment.
Russ Knocke, Vice President of Communications and Public Affairs questioned the validity of the tests and said in a statement: "All of the neutral expert evaluations by EPA, CDC/ATSDR and MDHSS say the community is safe and there is nothing here that rebuts those findings."


West Lake story: An underground fire, radioactive waste, and governmental failure Robert Alvarez

On July 16, 1973, the first nuclear weapon was exploded at Alamogordo, New Mexico, a line of dump trucks containing the detritus from the uranium used to make plutonium for the test bomb showed up at the West Lake landfill in Bridgeton, Missouri.
Assuming the trucks were loaded with clean fill, the landfill superintendent waved them through without charging a dumping fee.
A truck driver said later that he and others used the black stuff in their home gardens.
By October several thousand shipments were illegally dumped at the landfill in north St. Louis County, in violation of federal standards; they contained an estimated 43,000 tons of radioactive uranium processing wastes and contaminated soil.
Now under the national news media spotlight, a landfill adjoined to the West Lake dump has experienced a growing underground fire for the past five years.
The fire is estimated to be about 1,000 feet from the radioactive material.
Consultants for Missouri Attorney General Kris Koster indicated in November 2015 that, in the worst case, the fire could reach the radioactive material in a matter of a few months.
An official for the Republic Corporation, which owns the landfill, contends the fire is moving away from the wastes.
If the fire reaches the radioactive wastes, the St. Louis County emergency plan warns, there is the “potential for radioactive fallout to be released in the smoke plume and spread throughout the region.”

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A shallow magnitude 6.0 - 109km ESE of Hirara, Japan is the 2nd major quake in 24 hours, it’s the 4th of May and is the 28th major quake of a so far record breaking incredible low count for 2017.

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[size=36]It can’t be possible, it’s reminiscent of a stock market crash, it’s unheard of in more than a hundred years, it’s a huge anomaly: Major quakes down by more than 50% in 2017[/size]

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• Impossible? It's a huge anomaly, major quakes have been on the increase by a whopping 400% since the 1900's, the first quarter figure of 25 mag 6 + quakes this year takes us all the way back to the the first half of last century when just 12 major quakes were reported in the first four months of 1949...
  
• There has never been a drop like this at anytime during the last 117 years!
  
• If this trend continues throughout this year then 2017 would end the year on a total of around 72 major quakes, (based on the first four month average total of 6 per month)
  
• A total of 72 major would be easily the lowest total for one year since the first half of last century when just 41 were recorded in one year according to data from USGS..
  

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It can’t be possible, it’s reminiscent of a stock market crash, it’s unheard of in more than a hundred years, it’s a huge anomaly and it shouldn’t be happening but it is!
It will come as a major shock to some people but incredibly major quakes in in the first quarter of this year, 2017 is the lowest amount since the first half of last century with just 25 major quakes recorded since January 1^st 2017.
Incredibly we have to go all the way back to 1949 when just 12 were reported in the first four months of that year!

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Click on graph to enlarge, graph Gary Walton

There has never been a drop off like this at any time during the last 117 years!
If this trend continues throughout this year than 2017 would end the year on a total of around 72 major quakes, (based on the first four month average total of 6 per month)
A total of 72 major would be easily the lowest total for one year since the first half of last century when just 41 in 1949 were recorded in one year according to data from USGS...
To put this figure into perspective 73 major quakes were recorded in just one month in March 2011
It is a huge anomaly, I can’t even begin to explain it but I will be keeping an eye on the rest of the year, so please stay in tune!
Gary.

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A mag 6.4 - 30km WSW of Tanaga Volcano, Alaska is the third major quake of May and all of them have happened in Alaska.
No tsunami Warning, Advisory, Watch, or Threat from this quake
Tanaga is a 5,924-foot (1,806 m) stratovolcano in the Aleutian Range of the U.S. state of Alaska. There have been three known eruptions since 1763. The most recent was in 1914 and produced lava flows.

It is the 27th major quake of a so far record breaking incredible low count for 2017
A cluster of 136 aftershocks mag 2.5 or higher in the Saint Elias Mountains have been recorded since a magnitude 6.3 and a magnitude 6.2 struck Skagway Alaska last week.
Yesterday Iceland was described as a ticking time-bomb as a 4.5 magnitude earthquake originated in the domain of an active volcano Hekla.

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Hundreds of thousands of dead fish washed up in Keansburg and Hazlet.
Workers cleaned up many of the tiny peanut bunker trapped at Lentze Marina using vacuum trucks provided by the Hazlet Department of Public Works.
State environmental officials are trying to determine what is causing a large amount of dead fish to wash up in the Navesink River.
The dead fish started appearing late last week, particularly in the waters off Marine Park in Red Bank, a popular spot for pedestrians as well as boaters.
The number of dead fish began multiplying this week, to the point that they were visible from almost every spot along the bulkhead at the park.
They also surrounded several boats.
While doing routine algae sampling of the river at the park, staff from the Monmouth County Health Department noted stressed and dying mehanden, said Larry Hajna, a spokesman for the state Department of Environmental Protection.


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By Josphister Lengarpatei For Citizen Digital
Livestock farmers in Samburu County are counting losses after an estimated 18,000 heads of livestock were swept by flash floods following a heavy downpour in the county.
Livelihoods are now under threat in an area that has suffered the blunt of drought that has left hundreds of livestock dead due to starvation.
Speaking to Citizen Digital on phone, area Member of Parliament, Alois Lentoimanga said that the most affected areas by floods are Nyiro, Ndoto, Elbarta, Nachola, Angata and Baawaa wards where households have also been swept away by the floods.
Lentoimanga is now appealing to the government and the Kenya Red Cross to intervene, describing the situation as dire.
According to Joseph Lekaato, a resident of Bendera village in Samburu North Sub County, this is the worst loss that has never been experienced in the region.
“We have lost millions of shillings after our cattle, camels, goats, sheep and donkeys died of hunger and now rainfall,” Lekaato said. The affected residents are now calling upon county and national governments to increase relief food distribution in the region.
Lenadongor said relief food and elderly money that is being received in the village is not enough to satisfy the affected community urging well wishers and government to visit the area.
According to the Metrological Department, the months of May and June will be defined by heavy rainfall over several parts of the country.
High intensity is also expected over highlands west, central highlands, areas around Mt. Kenya and the Coastal region.

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