Hurricane Sandy Update

Here is the five day forecast of the storm. It has already hit land and has caused millions of damage and taken many lives. President Obama has already cancelled presidential stops to return to Washington to help with FEMA. He declared this storm is now considered a national disaster.
























There are currently eight million people on the east coast that are without power. There is also substantial flooding in New York and New Jersey.

This storm is a great example of how the swiss cheese method because now that the hurricane is moving in land it is pulling cold air from the north down. It is continuing in land and heading towards the great lakes. This storm has now picked up snow, and has been changing the weather conditions in these areas. This storm is considered the perfect storm because of this oncoming cold front, the moon cycle making the tide higher and the already strong hurricane.

In Queens, over 50 homes were destroyed by a fire storm caused by this storm. Here is the aftermath of the damage.

Hurricane Sandy

This storm has just strengthened to a category 2 hurricane. This is to be considered a setting for a perfect storm. The full moon will have an effect on the tide raising the water level to almost a foot higher. This storm is also dependent on the incoming low pressure jet stream moving to the east. It might either push the hurricane away or suck it into land. Recently it just went through Cuba and severely damaged the area overnight. Bellow is a a hurricane warning to those who are in danger and the other shows the track of the hurricane in terms of time.



Underneath you can see the predicted path of the storm. The large grouping of lines in the middle show the best possibility of the storm. It is unsure if it is going to head towards land due to the large low pressure current moving from west to east.

7.3 Earthquake in San Agustine, Columbia

On September 30th at 4:31 a magnitude 7.1 in Columbia. This earthquake occurred as a result of faulting deep within the subducting Nazca slab. The earthquake ruptured a fault in the interior of the inclined subduction zone that dips to the east-southeast beneath South America, having begun its decent into the mantle at the South America trench offshore of Colombia and Ecuador. 

The event resulted from stresses generated by the slow distortion of the sub ducting plate as it descends through the mantle, rather than on the thrust interface that constitutes the boundary between the Nazca and overlying South America plates; the latter is active only near the Earth's surface, while the sub ducting Nazca plate generates intraplate earthquakes to depths of 200 km or more in this region. At the latitude of this event, the Nazca plate moves east-northeast with respect to the South America plate at a rate of approximately 60 mm/yr. (USGS)

These maps show the intensity as well as severity of the earthquake. They give helpful information such as surrounding earthquakes, intensity, depth and exact coordinate of the epicenter.