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George Washington"s Long Island Spy Ring

Earthquake creates new island off Gwadar coastline

Tribune – by Mohammad Zafar

A powerful 7.7-magnitude earthquake hit southwestern Pakistan on Tuesday, killing at least 45 people in Balochistan, besides creating a new island off the Gwadar coastline in its wake, Express News reported.

Tremors were felt as far as the Indian capital New Delhi.

The quake struck at 4:29 pm local time (1129 GMT) around 100 kilometres (60 miles) southwest of the city of Khuzdar in Balochistan province, at a depth of 15 kilometres.  

The United States Geological Survey (USGS) measured the earthquake at magnitude 7.7, recording its duration as eight seconds.

On the Gwadar coastline, the quake created a small island about half a mile into the sea near an area called ‘Jhanda’, according to Express News.

The newly appearing island is said to have a mountainous terrain rising up to a hundred feet. A large crowd was seen gathering at the site to see the new island.

The area of the epicentre is sparsely populated, but the USGS issued a red alert for the quake, which left aftershocks of up to 5.9 magnitude, according to the meteorological department.

A senior Pakistani meteorologist, Muhammad Riaz, told Dunya TV station it was a “major” earthquake and “heavy destruction” was likely.

Minor tremors were felt as far away as New Delhi, while office workers in the city of Ahmedabad near the border with Pakistan ran out of buildings and into the street.

Mumtaz Baluch, senior local administration official in Awaran district, 350 kilometres southwest of Quetta, told AFP: “There are reports of houses being collapsed in the district due to earthquake.”

“We have dispatched our teams to the affected area to ascertain the losses.”

In April a 7.8-magnitude quake centred in southeast Iran, close to the border with Baluchistan, killed 41 people and affected more than 12,000 on the Pakistan side of the border.

People working in offices Karachi rushed out of their building and sat on the footpaths along the roads or stood away from the buildings.

“My work table jerked a bit and again and I impulsively rushed outside,” Noor Jabeen, a 28-year woman working for an insurance company said while breathing heavily.

“It was not so intense but it was terrible,” said Owais Khan, who works for a provincial government office.

“Whenever I feel jolts it reminds me of the 2005 earthquake in Kashmir,” said Amjad Ali, 45, IT official standing on the road said.

http://tribune.com.pk/story/608602/earthquake-strikes-pakistan/

Earthquake creates new island off Gwadar coastline

Alaskan island area hit by big quake, aftershocks

This 2010 photo released by the State of Alaska Division of Community & Regional Affairs shows neighborhood housing in Adak, Alaska. Officials say a magnitude 7.0 earthquake has rocked Alaska’s Aleutian Islands, Friday, Aug. 30, 2013, with a jet-like rumble that shook homes and sent residents scrambling for cover. There are no immediate reports of damage or injuries from the major temblor at 8:25 a.m. Friday, local time. It was followed by multiple aftershocks, including one measuring magnitude 4.5. (AP Photo/State of Alaska Division of Community & Regional Affairs)

This 2010 photo released by the State of Alaska Division of Community & Regional Affairs shows neighborhood housing in Adak, Alaska. Officials say a magnitude 7.0 earthquake has rocked Alaska’s Aleutian Islands, Friday, Aug. 30, 2013, with a jet-like rumble that shook homes and sent residents scrambling for cover. There are no immediate reports of damage or injuries from the major temblor at 8:25 a.m. Friday, local time. It was followed by multiple aftershocks, including one measuring magnitude 4.5. (AP Photo/State of Alaska Division of Community & Regional Affairs)

This July 19, 2004 photo released by the Alaska Volcano Observatory/U.S. Geological Survey shows the village of Atka on Atka Island, Alaska. Officials say a magnitude 7.0 earthquake has rocked Alaska’s Aleutian Islands with a jet-like rumble that shook homes and sent residents scrambling for cover. There are no immediate reports of damage or injuries from the major temblor at 8:25 a.m. Friday, local time. It was followed by multiple aftershocks, including one measuring magnitude 4.5. (AP Photo/Alaska Volcano Observatory/U.S. Geological Survey, Robert McGimsey)

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ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — Several aftershocks rattled a remote Aleutian Island region off Alaska in the hours after a major 7.0 temblor struck with a jet-like rumble that shook homes and sent residents scrambling for cover.

At least three dozen aftershocks, including one reaching magnitude 6.1 in strength, struck after the major quake Friday, according to the U.S. Geological Survey.

“I heard it coming,” said Kathleen Nevzoroff, who was sitting at her computer in the tiny Aleutians village of Adak when the 7.0 temblor struck at 8:25 a.m. local time, getting stronger and stronger. “I ran to my doors and opened them and my chimes were all ringing.”

There were no reports of damage or injuries from the earthquake, which occurred in a seismically active region. It was strongly felt in Atka, an Aleut community of 64 people, and the larger Aleutian town of Adak, where 320 people live.

The earthquake and the aftershocks didn’t trigger any tsunami warnings, but Michael Burgy with the West Coast and Alaska Tsunami Warning Center in Palmer, Alaska, said the center is monitoring for potential tsunamis caused by landslides, either on land or under water.

The Alaska Earthquake Information Center said the primary earthquake was centered 67 miles southwest of Adak, about 1,200 miles southwest of Anchorage. Shaking lasted up to one minute.

The 6.1 aftershock struck in the same general area at 10:39 p.m. Friday. Police and town officials in Adak didn’t immediately answer telephone calls for comment Friday night.

“We do expect aftershocks to occur in the next few days,” USGS geophysicist Jessica Turner said. She said there had been a least 30 so far measuring at least magnitude 2.5.

She said the USGS hasn’t had any reports of damage from the quakes, but added that the major one and some larger aftershocks have been felt.

The 7.0 quake occurred offshore in the subduction zone where plates of the Earth’s crust grind and dive. By contrast, California’s most famous fault line, the San Andreas, is a strike-slip fault. Quakes along strike-slip faults tend to move horizontally.

In Adak, city clerk Debra Sharrah was upstairs in her two-story townhome getting ready for work when she heard a noise.

“I thought it was my dog running up the stairs,” she said. “It kept making noise and then it got louder. So then all of a sudden the rumbling started.”

The four-plex of townhomes was shaking and swaying as Sharrah and her dog, Pico, dashed out the door. It seemed like the building moved for a long time, but the only thing disturbed in her home was a stepstool that fell over.

“Nothing fell off my walls, and the wine glasses didn’t go out of the hutch or anything,” said Sharrah, who moved to the island community from Montana’s Glacier National Park area almost two years ago.

In Atka, Nevzoroff manages the village store and expected to find goods had flown off the shelves. But nothing was amiss.

“Everything seems to be okay,” she said.

The communities are located in a sparsely populated region and both played roles in World War II.

Atka residents were displaced during the war, relocating to Southeast Alaska so the U.S. government could demolish the village to prevent the Japanese from seizing it as they had other Aleutian communities. After the war, the U.S. Navy rebuilt the community and residents returned. Today, the community is a cluster of solidly built utilitarian buildings scattered over rolling hills that turned emerald green in warmer months.

Adak, 110 miles to the west, had been home to U.S. military installations that allowed forces to wage a successful offense against the Japanese after they seized the Aleutian Islands of Kiska and Attu. After the war. Adak was transformed into a Naval air station that served as a submarine surveillance center during the Cold War. Later, the facilities were acquired by the Aleut Corp. — a regional native corporation — in a federal land-transfer agreement. It became a city in 2001 and today retains its military appearance.

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Associated Press writer Alicia Chang in Los Angeles contributed to this report.

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Of Bison, Birth Control And An Island Off Southern Calif.

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A lone bison rests on Santa Catalina Island. A wild herd of bison has been roaming the island since the 1920s, and at one time numbering more than 600.

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A lone bison rests on Santa Catalina Island. A wild herd of bison has been roaming the island since the 1920s, and at one time numbering more than 600.

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In an open-aired Jeep, it’s a bone-jarring ride into Santa Catalina Island’s vast interior. The dirt road winds and climbs, twists and turns, climbing 2,000 feet up.

From there, the deep blue of the Pacific Ocean comes back into view, and if you squint, you can see downtown Los Angeles 30 miles off on the horizon.

Some days, you can also see wild bison.

“This is a really common place to see a bison, you’ll see them in groups, and then solitary males, very frequently in this stretch of road,” says John Mack, chief conservation officer for the private Catalina Island Conservancy, which manages most of the land here.

As if on cue, a couple minutes later, a lone male bison comes into view, standing stoically atop a ridge of a hill blanketed with scrub oak trees.

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A scientist administers the PZP birth control vaccine to a bison on Santa Catalina Island. The island is the first place contraception is being used on bison in the wild.

Julie King /Catalina Island Conservancy

A scientist administers the PZP birth control vaccine to a bison on Santa Catalina Island. The island is the first place contraception is being used on bison in the wild.

Julie King /Catalina Island Conservancy

“It’s, well, an interesting thing to see,” says biologist Julie King from the backseat.

King is in charge of managing the 150 wild bison roaming the island. They’re by no means native. Fourteen of the animals were brought here in 1924 by a Hollywood crew for a film shoot. The movie never got made, and the bison were never returned to the wild.

“Logistically, probably, it was too difficult, and I’m guessing they thought bison were a lot like cattle, that you could turn them loose and herd them fairly easily,” King says.

You can’t. They jump fences. Or plow right through them. And with no natural predators, their population exploded. At one point in the 1980s, there were more than 600 here. That’s when the conservancy sprang into action. There was some hunting. But mostly they paid to ship excess bison, by barge, over to the mainland, and eventually tribes in South Dakota.

But lately, King and her team have discovered a new, cheaper solution: contraception.

Each spring, she and her small team set out into Catalina’s backcountry on foot, armed with dart guns and a birth control vaccine called porcine zona pellucida, or PZP.

“You have to be careful, because they will charge,” says King, who adds she’s had that happen on more than one occasion after successfully hitting a female cow with the PZP-filled dart.

But she says the risk is worth it, because the contraception program is yielding some impressive early results. Since it began three years ago, the conservancy has managed to bring the herd down to 150 animals; the number they consider sustainable.

No more shipping, no more hunting and no more culling.

That’s starting to get people’s attention in places where bison are a problem, like Yellowstone National Park.

“The problem is reproduction, you can remove animals ’til the cows come home and you haven’t solved the problem,” says Jay Kirkpatrick, director of the Science and Conservation Center at Zoo Montana.

Kirkpatrick says all eyes are on the work that’s being done with bison on Catalina Island. He hopes the early successes will bolster support for a similar solution in Yellowstone. The herd there is also too big for the park, and right now bison that roam outside and onto land grazed by cattle are sometimes shot.

Kirkpatrick says the PZP vaccine has been successful on female bison in zoos for twenty years. The privately owned Catalina Island is the first place contraception is being used on bison in the wild.

Even though bison aren’t supposed to be on Catalina Island, biologist Julie King says removing the animals all together is off the table.

They’re big business. Each summer, thousands of tourists climb into those Jeeps for a day trip into the interior.

“So many people come here because it’s closer than going to South Dakota or to Montana to see bison,” King says.

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