Wednesday, November 7, 2012

7.5 Quake hits off Guatemala coast, felt as far away as Mexico - A strong earthquake off the coast of Guatemala on Wednesday shook buildings in Guatemala City and San Salvador and was felt as far away as Mexico City, but there were no immediate reports of damage or injuries.
The magnitude 7.5 earthquake struck off the Central American nation's Pacific coastline, 28 miles southwest of Champerico, Guatemala, near the border with Mexico. The epicenter was 25 miles below the surface. In Guatemala City, people were evacuating homes in parts of the capital, and firefighters and rescue workers were on alert. Office workers were also evacuating buildings in Mexico City.

**There are two primary choices in life:
to accept conditions as they exist,
or accept the responsibility for changing them.**
Dr. Denis Waitley


LARGEST QUAKES -
Live Seismograms - Worldwide (update every 30 minutes)

This morning -
5.6 OFFSHORE GUATEMALA
7.4 OFFSHORE GUATEMALA
5.2 CENTRAL EAST PACIFIC RISE
5.4 NORTHWESTERN IRAN

Yesterday -
11/6/12 -
5.5 MINAHASA, SULAWESI, INDONESIA
5.6 MINAHASA, SULAWESI, INDONESIA
5.5 SOUTHEAST OF EASTER ISLAND
5.7 CARLSBERG RIDGE

11/5/12 -
5.0 KEPULAUAN SANGIHE, INDONESIA
5.6 OFF EAST COAST OF HONSHU, JAPAN
5.2 MOLUCCA SEA
5.2 SOUTHWEST INDIAN RIDGE

Geologists find U.S. East Coast quakes travel farther than those that strike the West Coast. Scientists also found the quake that caused more than $200 million in damage-triggered landslides at distances four times farther and over an area 20 times larger than research from previous quakes has shown.

TROPICAL STORMS -
No current tropical storms.

SEVERE RAIN STORMS, FLOODING, LANDSLIDES -

Sandy-battered areas prepare for new storm - Residents of New York and New Jersey who were flooded out by Superstorm Sandy waited with dread today and heard warnings to evacuate for the second time in two weeks as another, weaker storm spun toward them.

SPACE WEATHER -

SO THIS IS SOLAR MAXIMUM -- Forecasters have long expected the Solar Max of 2013 to be THE WEAKEST OF THE SPACE AGE. It might be EVEN WEAKER than they thought. The sun is underperforming. Sunspot numbers are notoriously variable, so the actual counts could rapidly rise to meet or exceed the predicted curve. For now, however, the face of the sun is devoid of large sunspots, and there have been no strong flares in more than a week. The threshold of Solar Maximum looks a lot like Solar Minimum. (graph )

HEALTH THREATS -

Meningitis outbreak toll rises as complications surface - Fifteen more infections and one more death have been reported in a multistate fungal meningitis outbreak and reports are starting to surface about serious complications in some patients.

RECALLS & ALERTS