Hurricane Sandy, Earthquake Off Canada, Typhoon in Vietnam: ALL AT THE SAME TIME

Furacão nos EUA - Terremoto no Canadá - Tufão no Vietnam

Acontecendo Esta Madrugada, 29 de Outubro de 2012: 

Hurricane Sandy Expected to Hit 8 American States Tonight

WASHINGTON: President Barack Obama warned Americans on Sunday to take Hurricane Sandy "very seriously" as authorities prepared a virtual shutdown of the Eastern Seaboard due to the impending mega-storm. More than 5,000 flights out of East Coast hubs were cancelled and ground transport was due to grind to a halt on Monday as non-essential government staff were told not to show up for work and public schools were closed. "My first message is to all people across the Eastern Seaboard, mid-Atlantic going north. You need to take this very seriously," Obama said, urging everyone in the vast region to heed the instructions of their local authorities. The president, who spoke after being briefed at the headquarters of the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), cautioned that Sandy was a slow-moving storm that certain areas would take a long time to recover from. Residents of the densely-populated East Coast, home to 50 million Americans, stocked up on emergency provisions like batteries and water as forecasters warned of widespread damage, mass power outages and disastrous flooding. After laying waste to parts of the Caribbean, where it claimed 66 lives, most of them in Cuba and Haiti, Hurricane Sandy was predicted to come crashing ashore in New Jersey and Delaware late Monday and early Tuesday. New York state authorities ordered evacuations for hundreds of thousands of people in low-lying areas, including 375,000 people in New York City alone. Forecasters warned that New York Harbor and the Long Island Sound could see seawater surges of up to 11 feet (3.35 meters) above normal levels. "This is a serious and dangerous storm," New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg told a news conference after state Governor Andrew Cuomo ordered subway, buses and commuter trains to close down from Sunday night. Amtrak, which operates trains and buses up and down the coast, said all services would be suspended on Monday. Forecasters warned that the massive storm was far larger and more dangerous than last year's devastating Hurricane Irene that claimed 47 lives and caused an estimated $15 billion in damage. It was the sheer size of Hurricane Sandy that was so alarming, and the fact that it was expected to collide with a cold front moving south from Canada just as it makes landfall. "Sandy will be more like a large nor'easter on steroids," warned Alex Sosnowski, a senior meteorologist for Accuweather.com. The storm, currently packing hurricane force winds upwards of 75 miles per hour (120 kilometres per hour), was about 530 miles (850 kilometres) south of New York at 2100 GMT Sunday, the National Hurricane Centre said. Winds stretched out more than 500 miles (800 kilometres) from the storm's centre, meaning everywhere from South Carolina to southern Canada was due to be affected and heavy rains and snow were expected as far inland as Ohio. "The system is so large that I would say millions of people are at least in areas that have some chance of experiencing either flash flooding or river flooding," National Hurricane Centre director Rick Knabb warned. Nine days out from election day, the hurricane also threw the US presidential contest into disarray, with Obama and Republican challenger Mitt Romney cancelling events and preparing for the unexpected fallout. Romney cancelled appearances in Virginia to head for Ohio before the hurricane's arrival, while Obama moved up his planned departure to Florida in order to be back in Washington before the storm made landfall. Residents from Washington DC to New York to Boston queued for bottles of water, bread, fresh foods, batteries in long lines that stretched out the doors of some supermarkets. Television images from North Carolina's Outer Banks, a chain of low lying islands, showed wild surf and torrential rain already hitting the coast. Flooding had also reached parts of southern Virginia. One Chesapeake Bay-area resident posted a photo on Facebook showing waters lapping well up onto the slide of her backyard swingset. The photo was taken well before high tide, Petra Holden told AFP, saying when the tide comes in, "its actually going to get a lot worse, because its a full moon." Current projections showed the storm making landfall early Tuesday on the Delaware or New Jersey coast, then bending north and inland as it merges with the cold front descending from Canada. Weather experts say that the collision of Sandy with the cold front could create a super-charged storm bringing floods, high winds and even heavy snow across a swath of eastern states and as far inland as Ohio. Public schools were to be closed for millions of students Monday in districts from Washington through Boston. Governors declared states of emergency in Connecticut, Maryland, Massachusetts, New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Virginia, the US capital Washington and parts of North Carolina.

 Earthquake Off Canada Sparks Tsunami Alert in Hawaii...

Thousands of people in Hawaii have been ordered to leave their homes after a tsunami was triggered by an earthquake off the coast of Canada. Initial warnings have now been downgraded but residents and tourists are still being advised to stay on higher ground until an all-clear is given. The 7.7 magnitude earthquake hit off the west coast of Canada, around 96 miles (155km) south of Masset in the Haida Gwaii region, at just after 8pm local time. The US Geological Survey said the earthquake was followed by a 5.8 magnitude aftershock several minutes later. An estimated 100,000 to 150,000 people who live in Hawaii's coastal zones were urged to move to higher ground after a tsunami warning was issued. This was later downgraded to an advisory and video footage of the island of Oahu showed relatively small waves rolling towards the shore. Lenore Lawrence, a resident of Queen Charlotte City on the Haida Gwaii, said the quake was "definitely scary". She said the shaking lasted more than a minute and that several things had fallen off her mantlepiece. Residents in parts of British Columbia were also evacuated but the province seemed to escape the biggest quake in Canada since 1949 largely unscathed. Lucy Jones, a USGS seismologist, said: "This isn't that big of an earthquake on tsunami scales. The really big tsunamis are usually up in the high 8s and 9s." Tremors were felt across a wide area in British Columbia, both on its Pacific islands and on the mainland. "It looks like the damage and the risk are at a very low level. We're certainly grateful," said Shirley Bond, British Columbia's minister responsible for emergency management. Officials downgraded a tsunami warning to an advisory for southern Alaska and British Columbia. They also issued an advisory for areas of northern California and southern Oregon. The first wave of the small tsunami, about four inches, hit the southeast Alaska coastal community of Craig.

Typhoon Son-Tinh Struck Vietnam at About 18:00 GMT on 28 October.

One day ago...

All eyes have been on Hurricane Sandy in the Americas, meanwhile Typhoon Son-Tinh lashes Asia with winds and flooding. At least 24 people are now known to have died as a result of Tropical Storm Son-Tinh in the Philippines. Six others still remain missing. Son-Tinh has battered more than 30 provinces in the central, eastern and southern Philippines. In the process, many areas suffered prolonged power outages. 

Government sources revealed that 11 people died as result of drowning and landslides. The other 13 victims were carried away by flash floods, hit by falling trees and flying debris or were electrocuted. More than 15,000 have been displaced by the storm and are still sheltering in government evacuation centres. Food and other forms of aid were given to a further 40,000 people who were able to remain in their own homes. Son-Tinh has since crossed the South China Sea and is now passing to the south of Hainan. It still packs winds of 140 kph with gusts approaching 170 kph. The storm is expected to make landfall just to the south of Hanoi around 0600GMT on Sunday October 28. Thereafter it will weaken rapidly in terms of the winds, but flooding rains are very likely. Much of northern Vietnam will be affected by the system. Some areas could see over 200mm of rain over the next 36 to 48 hours. Widespread disruption does seem to be inevitable.

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