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Rick Price
July 11, 2014 10 AM
Highland
2 Fire Final Update
NEWS FROM THE FIRELINE: Crews finished mop up operations around 8:00 pm last night. At approximately 6:30 AM this morning a small grass fire was reported in the area of the Highland 2 fire just east of Bridgeport, WA. Two strike teams that were preparing to demobilize responded and assisted Douglas Co FD 3 in extinguishing the fire. Crews stayed on scene and completed mop up by 10:00 AM.
The Highland fire started at 9:30 AM, July 9. The fire was approved for state mobilization, which allowed for additional resources to be deployed from around the state. The Spokane County Incident Management Team assumed command at 7:00 PM, July 9. Thanks to the great work of local agencies the fire was knocked down and did not damage any structures. Local firefighters also responded to a small fire on State Route 174 that was quickly contained at approximately 37 acres.
CONTAINMENT: 100%
SIZE: 492 acres (acreage revised due to more accurate mapping)
LOCATION: Approximately 6 miles East of Bridgeport, WA & 6.5 miles East of Leahy Rd. On State Route 174.
VEGETATION TYPE AND TERRAIN: Sage and Heavy Grass in moderate terrain.
WEATHER: Temp 97 degrees, 12% humidity with northwest winds 5-10 MPH .
PERSONNEL: 73
RESOURCES: Spokane County Incident Management Team A, 2 Strike Teams consisting of 5 engines and one water tender and 1 - 20 person hand crew.
AGENCIES & COOPERATORS INVOLVED: Douglas County Fire District 3, Douglas County Sheriff’s Office, American Red Cross, and Washington State Patrol Fire Mobilization.
OTHER INFORMATION: All road closures and evacuations have been canceled. The Spokane County Incident Management Team A would like to thank everyone for their support of the firefighters that responded to the incident.
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'Sonic Boom' Earthquake Shatters Expectations
By Becky Oskin, Senior Writer | July 10, 2014 Okhotsk earthquake
Pin It The locations of two super-deep earthquakes offshore of Kamchatka in 2013.
Credit: Scripps Institution of Oceanography
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One of the world's deepest earthquakes was also a rare supersonic quake, upending ideas about where these unusual earthquakes strike.
Only six supersonic (or supershear) earthquakes have ever been identified, all in the last 15 years. Until now, they all showed similar features, occurring relatively near the Earth's surface and on the same kind of fault. But last year, a remarkably super-fast and super-deep earthquake hit below Russia's Kamchatka Peninsula, breaking the pattern.
"This was very surprising," said Zhongwen Zhan, lead author of the study, published today (July 10) in the journal Science. "It's not only deep, it's supershear, and it's also quite small."
The weird earthquake struck May 24, 2013, about 398 miles (642 kilometers) beneath the Sea of Okhotsk offshore of the Kamchatka Peninsula. The magnitude-6.7 quake was an aftershock to the largest deep earthquake on record, a magnitude 8.3 that also hit May 24. [Image Gallery: This Millennium's Destructive Earthquakes]
The shaking provided the first sign that this was a strange quake. Earthquakes of similar size, such as the 1994 Northridge quake in Los Angeles, shimmy for seven to eight seconds. But this magnitude-6.7 temblor lasted for just two seconds.
After dredging up all the available seismic recordings, Zhan and his co-authors realized the earthquake was extremely short because it was extremely fast.
An earthquake occurs when two sides of a fault rip apart, opening up like a zipper. Faults can slide side-by-side or up-and-down, or a combination of both directions. The event unleashes waves of seismic energy. Certain types of waves called shear waves usually travel faster than the rupture unzips, but in supershear earthquakes, the rupture catches the shear waves.
When the rupturing fault moves faster than the shear waves, the waves of energy pile up like the Mach cone surrounding a jet flying faster than the speed of sound, creating a phenomenon akin to a seismic sonic boom.
The Okhotsk quake's rupture speed clocked in at a zippy 5 miles per second (8 km/s), said Zhan, a seismologist at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography in La Jolla, California. Regular earthquakes, at shallower depths, break loose at about 2.2 miles per second (3.5 km/s), he said.
'U' is for unique
Until now, seismologists had never documented a super-fast earthquake at such extreme depths. Nor have they seen supershear earthquakes on this kind of fault.
Previously, the super-fast quakes were on strike-slip faults, where two slabs of the Earth slide past each other with no up-and-down motion. But the Okhotsk earthquake was in a subduction zone, where a fault thrusts one of Earth's tectonic plates down below another plate.
Okhotsk earthquake
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EARTH & SUN DIGEST of 2014/07/03
Solar Flares: two M Class Solar Flares on 7/8,9, with an M6 on 7/8
Kp of >3: none
Earthquakes 6M+: one daily 6/3-8, in Vanuatu, Mexico, Northern Sumatra, New Britain, and Kermadec Island Regions
Note: California/Nevada past week total of earthquakes reached 1300, including one 4M.
Deep Quakes >300 km: four in Fiji region, and one in Banda Sea, all with 5M earthquakes.
Volcanic Ash Eruptions >8 km: none
Reference Web Sites
California/Nevada Earthquake Map
http://www.data.scec.org/recenteqs/
Daily Geomagnetic Data
http://www.swpc.noaa.gov/ftpdir/latest/DGD.txt
Daily Solar Data
http://www.swpc.noaa.gov/ftpdir/latest/DSD.txt
http://www.spaceweather.com
Volcanic ash eruptions of 8+ km
http://www.volcano.si.edu/reports_weekly.cfm
http://www.bom.gov.au/products/Volc_ash_recent.shtml
http://www.emsc-csem.org/Earthquake/ (Tap on mag>4 to limit entries)
http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/map/
Fort Bragg, California
MOON PROJECTIONS
from Stephen on PINPOINT
Far Point (apogee), Near Point (perigee) and milestones between
http://www.fourmilab.ch/earthview/pacalc.html
Event Day & Time UTC
June 2014
Solstice 21 10:51
North Limit26 08:31
New Moon 27 08:11
Apogee 30 19:11
July 2014
Equator NS 03 21:49
Aphelion 04 00:??
Mid AP 05 15:14
Max AP 08 01:29 for 11 min
South Limit10 17:31
Full Moon 12 11:27
Perigee 13 08:28
Equator SN 16 18:29
Mid PA 18 06:25
Max PA 18 13:44 for 18 min
North Limit23 15:31
New Moon 26 22:43
Apogee 28 03:28
Equator NS 31 05:25
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