NEW MADRID AREA STILL SHAKING
MAG DATE LOCAL-TIME LAT LON DEPTH LOCATION
y/m/d h:m:s deg deg km
map 1.8 2009/10/06 08:17:33 36.482N 89.542W 6.8 12 km ( 7 mi) S of New Madrid, MO
map 1.6 2009/10/06 02:07:52 37.718N 78.005W 6.4 14 km ( 9 mi) ESE of Columbia, VA
Packing sustained winds of 130+ mph, Typhoon Melor continues its turn to the north as Japan prepares for a direct hit
October 6, 11:08 AM - 
Typhoon Melor is the equivalent of a Category 4 hurricane and is turning toward Japan.Stars and Stripes | 7th Fleet secures ships before Typhoon Melor
STRIPES' PACIFIC STORM TRACKER BLOG: Updates on Melor
Midnight Japan time Tuesday, Oct. 6: All indications remain the same, except Typhoon Melor's forecast track keeps inching further northwest of the Kanto Plain toward the mountains of Central Honshu known as the Japan Alps. Okinawa getting buffeted by 50-mph gusts and rain bands as I type this; that should end late Wednesday morning. Landfall still forecast by Joint Typhoon Warning Center for 9 a.m. Thursday over Nagoya, Aichi Prefecture more than 200 miles west-southwest of Tokyo, at which point it will still be packing 80-mph sustained winds and 100-mph gusts.
YOKOSUKA NAVAL BASE, Japan — Most of 7th Fleet’s ships and fighter jets have left their bases near Tokyo in advance of Typhoon Melor’s impending arrival, officials said Tuesday.
As of 5 p.m. Tuesday, forecasters predicted Typhoon Melor’s eye to veer about 160 miles west of the Kanto Plain, which includes bases from all four branches of the armed forces. Meteorologists still expected Wednesday and Thursday to come with heavy rains and winds gusting up to 75 mph over inland areas such as Naval Air Facility Atsugi, 30 miles southwest of Tokyo.
The storm’s eye was projected to come ashore at Hamamatsu, packing 98 mph sustained winds and 121 mph gusts, as of Tuesday evening.
“This (typhoon) is one where we felt it prudent to get the ships out to sea for safety,” 7th Fleet spokesman Cmdr. Jeff Davis said.
The USS Shiloh, USS Fitzgerald and USS Lassen each left Yokosuka — about 35 miles south of Tokyo — on Monday. The aircraft carrier USS George Washington, USS Cowpens, USS O’Kane and USS Mustin left Tuesday, he said.
Most of the ships were already scheduled to get under way shortly, Davis said. Only the USS Lassen will return to port following the storm.
The USS John S. McCain, USS Stethem and U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Assateague remained at Yokosuka on Tuesday, as did multiple destroyers on the Japanese side of the harbor.
The USNS Able, a contracted ship owned by the Military Sealift Command, moved from its less-protected berth in Yokohama over to Yokosuka.
Meanwhile, fighter jets based at Atsugi flew out to sea to land on the USS George Washington on Tuesday, said Atsugi base spokesman Tim McGough.
Helicopter Anti-Submarine Squadron Light 51’s helicopters and the base’s C-12 airplanes are being secured in hangars, he said.
The military bases surrounding Tokyo are likely to get six to 10 inches of rainfall, Lt. Allan Howard of Naval Aviation Forecast Detachment Atsugi said Tuesday. Howard expects the heaviest rain between 10 a.m. and 1 p.m. on Thursday.
Earlier this week, the storm’s eye appeared to be headed within about 30 miles of Yokosuka. Despite Melor’s turn to the west, the cool, dry air upstream of the storm will likely still mean high winds over the Kanto Plain, Howard said.
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Neb. woman accused of throwing dog at officer
LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) - Police said a woman will not face charges for throwing a dog at an officer during a domestic violence investigation. Police Capt. Davidsaver said officers were called to southeast Lincoln for a report of domestic violence late Monday. He said the woman was suspected of throwing a cell phone that hit her boyfriend in the face.Police said the woman was holding a small dog when officers arrived, and at some point, she threw the dog, named Flash, at an officer. Police said neither the dog nor the officer were injured.
The woman was arrested on suspicion of domestic assault.
HUMANITY CONTINUES TO RUN AMUCK
Biting pupil pried from Ohio teacher's arm...
French gay soccer team snubbed by Muslim team...
What do you do with a 749 pound shark?
748-pound shark caught off Fort Lauderdale coast...
NASA to bomb the Moon on Friday...
Details...
IMPACT...
War On the Rock!
Nasa figures conditions will be right to bomb the moon on Friday of this week. All of which seems terribly 'me-too'ish" since India has already figured out that there's water on the moon. With all the high powered surveillance technology we have to monitor civilians, why aren't we aiming some antennas and stealing the data from some other countries? Seem like a high payback approach to me...
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I don't suppose anyone has asked if there are alien bases on the backside of the moon, how they would take it?
POLITICS: TROOP BUILD-UP IN AFGHANISTAN MAY BE GAINING FAVOR... PUBLIC UNEASE...
GALLUP: OBAMA CLINGS TO 50% APPROVAL... MORE WAR...
Israel intercepts plane overflying nuclear reactor...
Police bring reinforcements to Jerusalem...
...tensions simmer
The Western banksters need a war to take the pressure off what is happening with their financial system - a banking system that can create US$ out of thin air and then charge taxpayers interest on magically appearing money - their own greed in selling quadrillions of dollars worth of fraudulent derivatives. Treasury bond sales upcoming and bank closures on Friday after market closings - will be ugly facts with the FDIC bankrupt and large sized banks looking more than sick! Well ... we are here for a ride on this planet and things will be getting anything but boring! Learning to live in a 3rd world economy will be just one of our challenges.
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Maybe what we need to make it even more interesting is a good alien invasion after NASA bombs the moon on Friday??
Have a good one and behave ... remember this is police state USA.
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