The Big Wobble - horrible

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An impressive mag 5.8  has struck near Lincoln, Montana, it comes just 2 and a half weeks after a cluster of over 450 minor to middle size quakes hit near by Yellowstone Supervolcano, with the largest being a mag 4.5.
USGS claim 'No region summary available for this location,' meaning no quakes have ever been reported in this area of Montana.
There is a low likelihood of casualties and damage but the real concern is where the quake occurred.
Nine aftershocks have been recorded in the area with the largest being a mag 4.9.
Power in outages in Lincoln have been reported.

Yellowstone Supervolcano is hit with a second cluster of quakes: Number jumps to more than 450 in the last 7 days biggest being mag 4.5

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• With an estimated 834 million dead trees an out of control wildfire in Colorado could cause unprecedented damage to humans and wildlife alike.
  

• Nearly one in every 14 standing trees in Colorado forests is dead
  
• That's a tree casualty increase of almost 30 percent in the last seven years
  

A rapidly growing wildfire has lead to mandatory evacuations near the town of Breckenridge, Colorado as crews gather to battle the blaze.
The Peak 2 fire ignited late on Wednesday morning and quickly spread to more than 70 acres in just hours.
The cause of the fire is still unknown.
The Peak Seven development near Breckenridge is under a mandatory evacuation order, which includes 463 homes, according to the Town of Breckenridge Facebook page.
People in Breckenridge, Gold Hill and Silver Shekel have also been asked to prepare for possible evacuation if the fire continues to grow.
"Air resources have been working the fire, as well as a load of smokejumpers and a hotshot crew," Inciweb said.
Additional resources have also been ordered to help contain the blaze.
Conditions will remain very warm in the Colorado Rockies through the weekend with the chance of thunderstorms each afternoon, AccuWeather Senior Meteorologist Frank Strait said.
"While thunderstorms will produce downpours in some areas each day, lightning from the storms can spark new wildfires in areas that remain dry," Strait said.
Winds from these thunderstorms can also effect the fire until crews are able to fully contain it.

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Astonishing facts! Nearly 1,000 million trees in Colarado dead: Nearly one in every 14 standing trees! A casualty rate of 30% in the last 7 years

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• "It is an abnormal situation with serious danger looming."
  
• Soldiers and rescuers scrambled to evacuate hundreds of thousands of people out of the path of landslides and torrents of muddy water. 
  
• About 2.2 times the amount of rain that falls in a normal July
  
• The rain in Japan comes on the heels of a storm system that caused severe flooding across southern China that killed 56 people 
  
• Meteorologists warned of worse to come
  

At least 15 people are missing on Thursday (July 6) and 400,000 have been forced from their homes after huge floods swept away houses in southern Japan, tearing up roads as they surged through villages, government officials and media said.
Meteorologists warned of worse to come as soldiers and rescuers scrambled to evacuate hundreds of thousands of people out of the path of landslides and torrents of muddy water.
"We are seeing heavy rains unlike anything experienced before," a Japan Meteorological Agency official told reporters.
"It is an abnormal situation with serious danger looming."
The weather agency issued warnings for landslides and overflowing rivers over wide swathes of Kyushu, the southernmost of Japan's four main islands.
Heavy rains will likely continue in the region through Friday, the agency said.
Parts of Fukuoka prefecture on the southwestern island of Kyushu were hit by 774 mm of rain in nine hours on Wednesday, about 2.2 times the amount of rain that falls in a normal July, NHK national television said.
Some 7,500 rescuers, including police, firefighters and soldiers from Japan's Self Defence Forces, were mobilised to help with evacuations and search for the missing.
Forty helicopters were on standby until the weather improved.
"There are many reports of people whose safety cannot be confirmed, things like 'a child was swept away by the river' and 'my house was swept away and I can't get in touch with my parents'," chief Cabinet secretary Yoshihide Suga told an emergency early morning news conference.
"We will keep in close contact with the disaster-hit areas and work with all our energy to save lives and ascertain the extent of the damage," he said.
Fukuoka and Oita prefectures, both largely rural areas, were the worst-hit by the rain, which was caused by a low pressure area on the Pacific Ocean that fed warm, moist air into Japan's seasonal rainy front.
Residents spent a worried night at evacuation centres set up at schools and government buildings on high ground amid reports of landslides and flooded roads.
"It wasn't just the rain, there was thunder and lightning too.
I couldn't see anything ahead of me," one woman at an evacuation centre told NHK.
A schoolboy sitting with his family told NHK: "I haven't heard from some of my friends, and I'm really worried."
There were no immediate reports of major transportation problems, but television footage showed a railway line left broken and twisted by floodwaters.
The same area was pounded by heavy rain earlier this week from Tropical Storm Nanmadol, which has since passed out to sea.
The rain in Japan comes on the heels of a storm system that caused severe flooding across southern China that killed 56 people and cost almost US$4 billion (S$5.52 billion) in damage.

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Heavy downpour of the last four days has caused flash flood in parts of Cox's Bazar, especially in Chakaria and Sadar upazilas, marooning around 500,000 people as thousands of homes have been submerged.
Most of the inter-district roads have already gone under water that came after the overflow of the upstreams of the Bakkhali and Matamuhuri rivers.
It is also reported that most of the rural roads, culverts and embankments got damaged in the flood. People living in the low-lying areas are left the worst victims due to the flood situation.
Local public representatives fear that the crisis would deepen further if the incessant rainfall continues for a few more days.
There are also reports of Pekua, Ramu, Ukhia and Teknaf upazilas being flooded.
Shrimp enclosures owners said they have incurred huge losses as their enclosures washed away in the flood.
Traffic through the Cox's Bazar road came to a halt due to the situation.
But, the recently opened marine drive is being used as an alternative route from the tourist city to Ukhia and Teknaf upazilas.
The local Met office recorded 197 millimetres of rainfall in 24 hours until 3pm on Wednesday, forecasting that the heavy shower may continue.
Chakaria Upzaila Parishad Chairman Md Zafar Alam said Matamuhuri River lost its navigability due to indiscriminate pollution, leading to the situation.
"As the river is not dredged for quite some time now, it overflowed after the ongoing heavy shower, causing flooding.
Hundreds of houses have been inundated with road communication getting damaged heavily, leaving 300,000 people of the upazila marooned," he said.
Blaming Water Development Board officials and contractors for the flood, Chakaria Municipality Mayor Alamgir Chowdhury said: "Due to their negligence in putting concrete blocks and sandbags at the embankments, the flood occurred."
In the Sadar upazila, at least 2 lakh people were marooned.
Cox's Bazar Water Development Board Executive Engineer Md Sabibur Rahman said they were yet to ascertain how much damage has been occurred in the embankments since the flood situation was worsening.
With the water-level of the Matamuhuri kept rising, most of the residents of Chakaria and Pekua upazilas are in great danger of being heavily affected," he feared.
When contacted, Cox's Bazar Development Authority Chairman Lt Col MD Forkan Ahmad said the possibility of landslide is also soaring.
Meanwhile, Cox's Bazar Deputy Commissioner Mohammad Ali Hossain said they are all prepared to face the natural disaster.
"We have already ordered all the Union Parishad chairmen to gear up their activities in this regard," he said.
Interestingly, there was no update about measures regarding relief for and rehabilitation of the affected people.

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