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Tuesday, 2 April 2024, 1950 PDT The whole island of Taiwan suffered the effects of a Magnitude 7.4 earthquake about three hours ago (0758 local Taiwan time on Wednesday, 3 April). The quake’s epicenter was 18km SSW of Hualien City (eastern Taiwan) at...
by FoggyDew
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on Tue Apr 02, 2024 at 07:59 PM PDT
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An earthquake fault that is ready to go is like a coiled spring – all that is needed is the pressure of a handshake… Bill McGuire, Emeritus Professor of Earth Sciences at UCL Earth Sciences — Volcanology, volcanic risk, volcanic hazards, volcano...
by Pakalolo
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on Wed Feb 08, 2023 at 09:07 AM PST
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The latest resurgence of the Omicron Tsunami continues to gather strength, and while the US remains in the forefront as usual, a number of other nations are now nipping on our heels — at least in terms of new cases. Most disturbing so far is Japan,...
by Irontortoise
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on Thu Jul 21, 2022 at 07:43 PM PDT
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Looks like my overly optimistic assessment of last week’s numbers is now officially in the dumpster as the world has seen the worst looking trends this week since the early days of Omicron more than half a year ago. The global weekly caseload grew by...
by Irontortoise
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on Thu Jul 14, 2022 at 09:40 PM PDT
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It’s been less than two months since Omicron began its meteoric rise in the US, and now the weekly caseload of new infections has already receded back to a level lower than from which it sprang. Nearly every State and Province continues to move...
by Irontortoise
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on Sat Feb 19, 2022 at 06:02 PM PST
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Despite the upswing in new Covid-19 cases in much of Southeast Asia and a few other areas like Russia, and South Korea, the world as a whole continues to move sharply lower in its total weekly caseload of new infections — now down 40% from the peak...
by Irontortoise
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on Thu Feb 17, 2022 at 10:15 PM PST
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It looks like Omicron has now burned through most of the susceptible population that did not take adequate social distancing measures (particularly rigorous N-95 or KN-95 mask usage while indoors with other people) and is rapidly running out of new...
by Irontortoise
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on Sat Feb 12, 2022 at 08:34 PM PST
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So last week we saw the largest week-to-week decline in new Codid-19 cases ever — more than 1.35 million fewer than were recorded the week prior for an enormous 26% decline. And this week we completely blew those stats out of the water with an even...
by Irontortoise
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on Sat Feb 05, 2022 at 05:05 PM PST
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Evidence continues to accumulate this week that the ongoing Omicron Tsunami may finally be starting to recede, with new cases down by more than 1.6 million from the peak reached last week — though this appears to be driven primarily by the dramatic...
by Irontortoise
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on Thu Feb 03, 2022 at 09:44 PM PST
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Despite the worst weekly death toll in nearly a year, the peak in new cases observed last week has definitively been confirmed this week with the largest single-week drop yet seen — from over 5.2 million last week to under 3.9 million this week! This...
by Irontortoise
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on Sat Jan 29, 2022 at 06:37 PM PST
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Even as new Covid-19 cases worldwide continue to look like they are at or very near the top of this current Omicron Tsunami, the global weekly death toll has suddenly shifted into overdrive with its largest weekly increase in many months, and pushing...
by Irontortoise
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on Thu Jan 27, 2022 at 09:12 PM PST
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Despite the largest weekly death toll for nearly a year in both the US and Canada this week, it looks like we’ve finally passed the peak in new infections — with a modest 8% drop in the US from last week’s numbers, and a much more substantial 30%...
by Irontortoise
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on Sat Jan 22, 2022 at 08:10 PM PST
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Despite setting yet another weekly caseload record of nearly 22 million new infections this week, it’s increasingly looking like the Omicron Tsunami has now reached its global peak and should start receding soon — even if a number of major players that...
by Irontortoise
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on Thu Jan 20, 2022 at 08:20 PM PST
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The Daily Bucket is a nature refuge. We amicably discuss animals, weather, climate, soil, plants, waters and note life’s patterns. We invite you to note what you are seeing around you in your own part of the world, and to share your observations in the...
by OceanDiver
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on Thu Jan 20, 2022 at 07:00 AM PST
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Yet another record-breaking week in the seemingly never-ending Covid-19 pandemic, but this week there are now some signs that the current Omicron Tsunami may finally be nearing its high-water mark. In Canada the weekly caseload of new infections...
by Irontortoise
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on Sat Jan 15, 2022 at 08:07 PM PST
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The Pacific archipelago of Tonga has just experienced a dangerous tsunami after an underground volcano erupted. Residents were warned to swiftly flee to higher ground as waves swirled around homes and other buildings. They were pelted with ash and...
by Pakalolo
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on Sat Jan 15, 2022 at 05:59 AM PST
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So last week we saw Omicron nearly double the global weekly caseload of new Covid-19 cases by piling up an additional 5.87 million on top of the previous week’s record-setting 7.38 million, with some two dozen nations setting their own individual...
by Irontortoise
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on Thu Jan 13, 2022 at 09:21 PM PST
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Holy expletive! I’m running out of anti-superlatives to describe just how extreme our current situation is with the Omicron Tsunami now bearing down on us in full flood stage. To try and put this all into some sort of perspective, consider that in the...
by Irontortoise
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on Sat Jan 08, 2022 at 08:59 PM PST
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Last week I was incredulous that the Omicron tsunami had managed to explode the global weekly caseload of new Covid-19 infections by nearly 50% and 2.4 million cases over the previous week’s already near-record level. But this week Omicron really upped...
by Irontortoise
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on Thu Jan 06, 2022 at 08:05 PM PST
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Last week both the US and Canada rode the rising Omicron Tsunami to unprecedented heights, with over a dozen different states and provinces setting new all-time weekly caseload records. But incredibly, that proved to be just a prelude to the truly...
by Irontortoise
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on Sat Jan 01, 2022 at 08:17 PM PST
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