By: USGS

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24 earthquakes

    2.9 6km SW of Volcano, Hawaii 2013-12-13 15:02:38 UTC-05:00 3.1 km

    3.8 102km S of Kodiak Station, Alaska 2013-12-13 11:45:28 UTC-05:00 4.0 km

    3.6 101km S of Kodiak Station, Alaska 2013-12-13 11:25:48 UTC-05:00 1.0 km

    3.3 39km ESE of Redoubt Volcano, Alaska 2013-12-13 08:03:21 UTC-05:00 83.4 km

    4.2 20km W of La Cruz, Costa Rica 2013-12-13 07:47:38 UTC-05:00 69.0 km

    4.4 42km N of Putre, Chile 2013-12-13 04:47:56 UTC-05:00 143.2 km

    3.5 95km N of Larsen Bay, Alaska 2013-12-13 03:30:28 UTC-05:00 73.5 km

    4.1 24km NNW of Lost Hills, California 2013-12-13 02:49:57 UTC-05:00 22.1 km

    4.6 68km SE of Buldir Island, Alaska 2013-12-13 01:45:46 UTC-05:00 41.4 km

ABC, By Chrissy Arthur, 12/12/2013

The weather bureau says it is looking likely that some western Queensland centres will look back on 2013 as being the driest on record. Cameron Hinze from the Mount Isa bureau says with only a few weeks to go until the end of the year, there are areas lagging way behind in rainfall totals for the year. He says Mount Isa city has had only 61 millimetres of rain for the year - 100mm behind 1970. "So I can't really see that happening before the end of the year, so I think we can pretty much say this is the driest year on record for Mount Isa," he said.

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By: Weather.com, 12/13/2013

A stalled area of low pressure in the upper atmosphere that brought snow to parts of Israel and Syria in recent days has now reportedly delivered a rare coating of snow to portions of northern Egypt on Friday. The photos below gathered from Twitter show the snow in northern Egypt, including some from near the Cairo area. Given its desert climate, precipitation of any kind is a rarity in Cairo. The city averages less than an inch of rain each year.

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By: USGS

http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/map/

29 earthquakes

    3.6 99km NE of Punta Cana, Dominican Republic 2013-12-12 13:10:12 UTC-05:00 10.0 km

    4.4 93km W of El Aguilar, Argentina 2013-12-12 11:35:47 UTC-05:00 212.1 km

    4.0 41km SSE of Jarm, Afghanistan 2013-12-12 11:17:52 UTC-05:00 149.0 km

    2.7 44km S of Tanaga Volcano, Alaska 2013-12-12 09:08:56 UTC-05:00 31.0 km

    2.8 22km SSE of Bodfish, California 2013-12-12 08:40:18 UTC-05:00 11.0 km

    2.6 42km SSW of Cantwell, Alaska 2013-12-12 08:32:56 UTC-05:00 88.2 km

    4.4 50km W of Puerto Madero, Mexico 2013-12-12 08:30:09 UTC-05:00 60.8 km

    4.7 183km ENE of Dolinsk, Russia 2013-12-12 08:10:17 UTC-05:00 13.8 km

By: Redorbit.com, 12/10/2013

Tropical Cyclone Madi is headed for a landfall in southeastern India, and NASA and the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency’s TRMM satellite found that rainfall was heaviest north of the storm’s center. The Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission satellite known as TRMM captured data on Tropical Cyclone Madi’s rainfall on Dec. 8 at 1144 UTC/6:44 a.m. EST. TRMM saw the bulk of the storm’s rainfall was occurring north of the center of circulation and falling at a rate of 1 inch/30 mm per hour with isolated areas of 2 inches/50 mm.

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