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Typhoon warning: Vietnam evacuates 600,000 in fear of Haiyan devastation

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By: RT.com, 11/10/2013

A soldier assists a young girl as villagers are evacuated to a safe place by a military truck in preparation for the arrival of the super typhoon Haiyan in the central province of Quang Nam on November 9, 2013.(AFP Photo / STR)

As super-typhoon Haiyan has left some 10,000 dead in the Philippines, over 600,000 people have been evacuated as it approaches Vietnam. “Those who do not move voluntarily will be forced” to move, Vietnam’s flood and storm control department said. Vietnam is preparing its defenses after the storm annihilated the Philippines over the weekend, leaving thousands dead and a trail of devastation through Tacloban, the capital of Leyte province.

 

Haiyan destroyed 70 percent to 80 percent of the area as it ripped through the province Friday, police chief superintendent Elmer Soria told Reuters. Aid workers are only now beginning to gain access to affected areas. The appropriate measures are being taken in Vietnam before the typhoon strikes. “We have evacuated more than 174,000 households, which is equivalent to more than 600,000 people,” the storm department said Sunday.

 

Fireball confirmed as debris from Taurid comet, scientists say

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By Ari Bloomekatz  November 8, 2013  LA Times

The source of the large fireball that streaked over Southern California on Wednesday has been traced to debris from the Comet Encke, local researchers and scientists said Friday.

The fireball, which according to the American Meteor Society could be seen Wednesday night as far away as Utah, Arizona and Nevada, was tied to long-lasting meteor streams from the annual South Taurids meteor shower.

Scientists on Friday said the Comet Encke, debris from which causes the Taurids, completes its orbit of the sun roughly every three years, the shortest of any known comet, according to NASA.

Witnesses who reported seeing the fireball to the American Meteor Society described it as "awesome" and "not the average shooting star."

"I was a little startled but awed by it," Rachel V. from Long Beach posted on the society's website.

~ Space Weather Update~ Another X Class Flare Wind Speed 558

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AURORA WATCH: NOAA forecasters estimate a 40% of polar geomagnetic storms on Nov. 10th as a stream of solar wind buffets Earth's magnetic field. High-latitude sky watchers should be alert for auroras. Solar flare alerts: text, voice.

YET ANOTHER X-FLARE: As predicted, sunspot AR1890 has unleashed another strong flare, an X1-class explosion on Nov. 10th at 05:14 UT. NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory recorded a bright flash of extreme ultraviolet radiation from the blast site:

Plants Exhibit The Same Senses As Humans And See, Touch, Smell, Hear and Even Taste

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Prevent Disease, By: Daniel Chamovitz, 11/08/2013

Plants have scientifically been show to draw alternative sources of energy from other plants. Plants influence each other in many ways and they communicate through “nanomechanical oscillations” vibrations on the tiniest atomic or molecular scale or as close as you can get to telepathic communication. However, their sense and communication are measureable in very much the ways as are humans.

 

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Philippines estimates at least 10,000 died from super typhoon

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RT.com - 10 November 2013

Thousands of homes lie destroyed near the fishport after super Typhoon Haiyan battered Tacloban city, central Philippines November 10, 2013. (Reuters / Romeo Ranoco)

Thousands of homes lie destroyed near the fishport after super Typhoon Haiyan battered Tacloban city, central Philippines November 10, 2013. (Reuters / Romeo Ranoco)

An estimated 10,000 people might have been killed in the central Philippine province of Leyte alone, which was almost completely destroyed by the powerful typhoon Haiyan, local authorities said.

The typhoon has devastated up to 80 percent of the Leyte province area as it ripped through the Philippines, Chief Superintendent Elmer Soria told Reuters.

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Earthquake Report for 11/09/2013

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By: USGS

www.earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/

29 earthquakes

 

    2.9 2km SE of Big Lake, Alaska 2013-11-09 16:12:47 UTC-05:00 32.6 km

    2.6 8km ESE of East Foothills, California 2013-11-09 15:42:57 UTC-05:00 5.9 km

    3.1 18km NW of Glennallen, Alaska 2013-11-09 14:56:10 UTC-05:00 7.9 km

    3.0 4km S of Springtown, Texas 2013-11-09 14:54:31 UTC-05:00 5.0 km

Jonglei Hardest Hit by South Sudan Floods

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Voanews.com by Anthony Mogga - 9 November 2013

Jonglei, South Sudan

BOR — Tens of thousands of people in South Sudan have been affected by flooding, more than a quarter of them in Jonglei state, United Nations officials said in a report released this week.

The U.N. Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) said 223,474 people in eight of South Sudan's 10 states have been impacted by floods caused by heavy rains. More than 63,000 of those affected were in Jonglei state, OCHA said.

Other states hit by flooding were Central Equatoria, Lakes, Northern and Western Bahr el Ghazal, Unity, Upper Nile and Warrap.

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Super Typhoon Haiyan Finishes Pounding the Philippines, Headed for Vietnam

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Wunderground.com by Dr. Jeff Masters - 9 November 2013

Figure 1. Super Typhoon Haiyan approaching the Philippines, as seen by the Japan Meteorological Agency's MTSAT at 0630Z on November 7, 2013. At the time, Haiyan had maximum sustained winds of 175 mph. Image credit: NOAA Environmental Visualization Laboratory.

'Massive destruction' as typhoon flattens Philippine city, kills at least 100

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Reuters by Bobby Ranoco - 9 November 2013

Helicopters hover over the damaged area after super Typhoon Haiyan battered Tacloban city, central Philippines, November 9, 2013. REUTERS-Romeo Ranoco

Helicopters hover over the damaged area after super Typhoon Haiyan battered Tacloban city, central Philippines, November 9, 2013.Credit: Reuters/Romeo Ranoco

(Reuters) - One of the strongest typhoons ever to make landfall churned through the Philippine archipelago in a straight line from east to west and devastated central provinces, killing at least 100 people in a surge of flood water, officials said on Saturday.

The death toll from Typhoon Haiyan is expected to rise sharply as rescue workers reach areas cut off by the fast-moving storm, whose circumference eclipsed the whole country and which late on Saturday was heading for Vietnam.

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