An 4.5 magnitude earthquake trembled Baja California, Mexico at 11:34 am this Sunday, February 20, 2011. The place of the earthquake was at 32.178°N, 115.159°W at the intensity of 16.8 miles.

The nearby most important city to the earthquake was 8 miles away at Guadalupe Victoria, Baja California, Mexico. There weren’t several reports established to the US Geological Survey of people sensation the earthquake.

There has been another latest earthquake activity close at hand. On Friday, February 18, 2011 at 9:47:35 am there was a 5.1 magnitude earthquake. This earthquake was positioned at 32.047°N, 115.062°W with an intensity of 9.3 miles. The bordering city was Guadalupe Victoria, Baja California, Mexico which was 17 miles far away from the center of the earthquake.

Hurricane Tomas pushed northward from Haiti on Saturday, leaving villagers to mop up, evacuees to return to their tents and most everyone relieved that the country did not suffer what could have been its first big disaster since the January earthquake.

The storm’s western track caused widespread floods, wind damage along the far edge of Haiti’s coast and is blamed for the deaths of at least eight people. It was a serious blow, but far better than had been feared in a nation where storms have been known to kill thousands, and more than 1 million quake survivors were living under tarps and tents. "It really didn’t dump a lot of rain on us, so we got very lucky," said Steve McAndrew, Haiti earthquake relief coordinator for the American Red Cross .

The South China Sea and the Sulu Sea are side-by-side in the Western Pacific Ocean basin, and where they are separated by the Philippine island of Palawan, that’s where the newest tropical depression was sitting.

On Dec. 12 at 541 UTC (12:31 a.m. EST), the Atmospheric Infrared Sounder (AIRS) instrument that flies aboard NASA’s Aqua satellite captured an infrared image of Tropical Depression 19W’s clouds, which were centered over Palawan. Palawan is an island province of the Philippines located in the Mimaropa region that stretches from southwest to northeast. Palawan lies between the South China Sea to its west and the Sulu Sea to its east, and Tropical Depression 19W’s center was directly over Palawan at the time, and over both seas. AIRS data showed the thunderstorms in the center of Tropical Depression 19W’s were as cold as or colder than -63 Fahrenheit, indicating strong storms.

Tropical Depression 19W (TD 19W) formed on Sunday, December 12 in the morning hours (UTC) and is headed west-northwest toward Vietnam. At time it formed, it was about 325 miles east of Ho Chi Minh, Vietnam. Today, December 13, at 0900 UTC (4 a.m. EST), TD 19W’s maximum sustained winds had weakened to 20 knots (23 mph). It was about 225 nautical miles east of Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, near 10.3 North latitude and 110.1 East longitude. It was moving west-northwest at 5 mph.

An unarmed man was shot by a New Orleans police general during the hectic aftermath of hurricane Katrina and then covered up the crime; a government officer reported a federal court on Monday during the final arguments.

The victim, Henry Glover was fired to death in the Algiers section of New Orleans on September 2, 2005. His charred remains were identified in a burned-car near the Mississippi River .

Ex-Officer David Warren is alleged with the firing and faces life in prison if crooked.

Hurricanes can constitute serious threats the safety and well-being of coastal areas susceptible to the effects of meteorological disturbances. For residents of coastal areas where hurricanes can be a threatening reality, being well appraised of hurricane facts can be an effective tool for maximizing efforts to avoid the threatening effects of hurricanes and assuring themselves of safety. As yet the gathering of hurricane facts by scientists involved in studying them as meteorological phenomena has not produced many preventive methods for actively decreasing the power and intensity of a hurricane event. A useful hurricane fact is more likely to provide some indication as how to respond to the potential threat posed by the imminent landfall of a storm, and also possibly some contextual understanding of the ramifications of living in an area that might be unusually vulnerable to the arrival of hurricanes. One hurricane fact that can give a sense of the degree of the threat posed by a storm as contrasted with the limitations of the effects it can have. Hurricane facts related to the dissipation of these phenomena are thus useful tools for the residents of coastal areas.

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Hurricane season 2010 is already one for the record books, tying for third most active with 19 named storms. Three weeks remain in the official season and a disorganized disturbance is drifting in the Caribbean about where Tomas was two weeks ago.

In other words, as National Hurricane Center spokesman Dennis Feltgen put it, “Don’t raid the hurricane supplies yet. It’s not over until it’s over.”

But with the days, and chances, dwindling until the season ends on Nov. 30, South Florida is close to once again dodging a hail of tropical bullets — along with the entire United States mainland .

So far, there have been a dozen hurricanes and not one has made landfall in the U.S. — a streak of good fortune not seen in more than 100 years, according to Adam Lea, a hurricane researcher at University College London.

The center of Hurricane Tomas was moving through the Windward Passage. The Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) instrument aboard NASA’s Terra satellite captured a visible image of Hurricane Tomas at 15:30 UTC (11:30 a.m. EDT), just before it started moving through the Windward Passage.

Located in the Caribbean Sea, the Windward Passage is a strait located between eastern Cuba and the northwest of Haiti.

In satellite imagery, Tomas’ convection (rapidly rising air that forms the thunderstorms that power the tropical cyclone) was described by the National Hurricane Center as "looking a little ragged" hinting that they are weaker and possibly more disorganized, due to the interaction with the mountains of Hispaniola.

Bands of strong thunderstorms are wrapping around the center of Tropical Storm Anggrek in the Southern Indian Ocean, according to satellite imagery. NASA’s Aqua satellite captured an infrared look at those strong thunderstorms .

NASA’s Aqua satellite passed over Anggrek on Nov. 3 at 07:05 UTC and the Atmospheric Infrared Sounder (AIRS) instrument onboard captured an infrared image of the cold thunderstorms within the system. The image showed that strong, high thunderstorm cloud tops tightly circled the storm’s center. There was also strong convection along the southern edge of the low-level center of circulation.

At 0900 UTC (5 a.m. EDT), Tropical Storm Anggrek’s maximum sustained winds were near 50 knots (57 mph) with higher gusts. It was about 140 nautical miles south of the Cocos Islands near 14.6 South and 96.9 East. It was moving southwest near 7 mph and is expected to continue moving in that direction.

Anggrek is in an area of moderate vertical wind shear (winds that can weaken and tear apart a tropical cyclone). By the weekend, Anggrek is forecast to steadily weaken and dissipate as it encounters cooler waters and stronger wind shear.

The first tropical cyclone of the Southern Indian Ocean is running into wind shear and is expected to dissipate in the next day or two as a NASA satellite showed rainfall in the system is weakening.

The Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission (TRMM) satellite, managed by NASA and the Japanese Space Agency flew over Tropical Depression 01S (TD01S) and captured the storm’s waning rainfall rates on Oct. 28 at 0045 UTC (Oct. 27 at 8:45 p.m. EDT). The rainfall appeared to be mostly on the southern side of the storm, although the storm’s northeastern quadrant was not visible from TRMM’s orbit. The heaviest rainfall appeared to be around .78 inches per hour. TRMM data also showed the highest thunderstorms in TD01Swere near 7 kilometers high and falling. Cloud tops that keep lowering are a strong indication that the strength of convection is waning within the storm.

At 0900 UTC on Oct. 28, Tropical Depression 01S had maximum sustained winds near 29 mph. It was located about 650 nm east-southeast of Diego Garcia, near 13.5 South latitude and 81.3 East longitude. TD01S is moving westward near 16 mph.

Animated multispectral imagery shows the convection decreased and most of the convection is now moves to the southwest of the depression’s center. TD01S’s center is now exposed to outside winds, which could weaken it further. TD01S is moving into an area with stronger wind shear, which will further weaken the tropical cyclone .

The Pacific Northwest should brace for a colder and wetter than average winter, while most of the South and Southeast will be warmer and drier than average through February 2011, according to the annual Winter Outlook released today by NOAA’s Climate Prediction Center. A moderate to strong La Niña will be the dominant climate factor influencing weather across most of the U.S. this winter.

La Niña is associated with cooler than normal water temperatures in the Equatorial Pacific Ocean, unlike El Niño which is associated with warmer than normal water temperatures. Both of these climate phenomena, which typically occur every 2-5 years, influence weather patterns throughout the world and often lead to extreme weather events.

Last winter’s El Niño contributed to record-breaking rain and snowfall leading to severe flooding in some parts of the country, with record heat and drought in other parts of the country. Although La Niña is the opposite of El Niño, it also has the potential to bring weather extremes to parts of the nation.