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QUITO, Ecuador (Reuters) - Former Ecuador President Lucio Gutierrez, ousted by Congress in April, was arrested minutes after returning to the country on Friday for refusing to recognize President Alfredo Palacio as his successor. "They have detained him," Gutierrez spokesman Fidel Araujo told Reuters. Ecuador's Congress fired Gutierrez six months ago for meddling in the Supreme Court. Promoting his book, "The Coup," in which he outlines his case against those who threw him out of...
BEIJING (Reuters) - The death toll from Typhoon Longwang in China climbed to 15 people and dozens of military students were still missing, media reported on Tuesday. In the central province of Hubei authorities evacuated about 24,000 people from along the banks of a tributary of the Yangtze River, in what the official Xinhua news agency said was the worst flooding since 1981. Xinhua said 730,000 people in all had been evacuated to protect them from the 19th typhoon to hit China this...
BEIJING (Reuters) - Authorities have evacuated about 13,000 people from a flood hit region of central China along the banks of a tributary of the Yangtze River, the official Xinhua news agency said. More heavy rain is expected to fall in the next two days in the province of Hubei and the local government is on alert for further flooding along the Hanjiang River, Xinhua said in an overnight report seen on Tuesday. "The flood is still under control though it seems still severe," Cai...
TAIPEI (Reuters) - Typhoon Longwang headed for China after swirling through Taiwan on Sunday, injuring at least 34 people. As the storm approached, more than 200,000 people were evacuated from boats to land in China's eastern province of Fujian, state media said. Most of those injured in Taiwan suffered cuts from broken glass, while strong winds lifted roofs off four homes and a university dormitory in the east coast mountain city of Hualien, disaster response officials at Taiwan's...
TOKYO (Reuters) - A typhoon, packing winds of up to 144 kph (90 mph), was approaching Japan and expected to dump heavy rain in the Tokyo area on Sunday, the Meteorological Agency said on Saturday. Typhoon Saola was about 380 km (240 miles) south of Hachijo island in the Pacific Ocean, or about 900 km (560 miles) south of Tokyo, at noon on Saturday, the agency said. The storm was moving north toward Japan's main island of Honshu at 10 kph (5.3 mph), it said. Agency officials said the...
TOKYO -- Typhoon Nabi faded into a tropical storm and headed out to sea on Wednesday after killing at least 17 people in southwestern Japan.Nine people were missing and 126 were injured after Nabi drenched parts of Japan's third-biggest island with more than 1,000 mm (40 inches) of rain, triggering floods and landslides, NHK television said.Four people were also missing in South Korea.Television pictures showed rescue workers and military personnel hunting for survivors in wrecked houses in...
By Isabel Reynolds TOKYO (Reuters) - Typhoon Nabi faded into a tropical storm and headed out to sea on Wednesday after killing at least 11 people on southern Japan's main island of Kyushu. Twelve people were missing and 91 were injured as Nabi drenched parts of Japan's third-biggest island with more than 1,000 mm (40 inches) of rain, triggering floods and landslides, authorities said. Four people were also missing in South Korea. Television pictures showed rescue workers and military...
TOKYO (Reuters) - Typhoon Nabi faded into a tropical storm and headed into the Sea of Japan on Wednesday after killing at least nine people on the southern Japanese island of Kyushu. Thirteen people were missing and at least 80 were injured as Nabi drenched parts of Japan's third biggest island with more than 1,000 mm (40 inches) of rain, triggering floods and landslides, authorities said. One person was also missing in South Korea. Television pictures showed rescue workers and military...
TOKYO (Reuters) - A powerful typhoon churned northwest toward Japan on Sunday, and though weakening somewhat it still threatened Japan's southernmost main island with high winds and heavy rains. On Friday Typhoon Nabi -- Korean for "butterfly" -- had been a Category Five storm, technically the same strength as Hurricane Katrina, which devastated New Orleans. But according to the Web site of the Tropical Storm Risk group at University College London, www.tropicalstormrisk.com, Nabi had...
BEIJING (Reuters) - China's eastern province of Zhejiang is bracing for more storms triggered by typhoon Nabi after another tropical storm battered the area and killed at least 56 people, state media said on Sunday. Strong winds and rainstorms, fueled by typhoon Nabi churning toward Japan on Sunday, were expected to ravage coastal areas of northern and central Zhejiang early this week, prompting local authorities to urge efforts to minimize the damage. The impact from Typhoon Nabi --...
Latest Pacific ocean Reference Libraries
The Pacific Rim is a reference to places around the edge of Pacific Ocean. The term Pacific Basin includes the Pacific Rim and the islands within the Pacific Ocean. It roughly overlaps with the geologic Pacific Ring of Fire. These countries are generally considered to be a part of the Pacific Rim, since they lie along the Pacific Ocean: North/East Asia Russia, Japan, North Korea, South Korea, China, Hong Kong, Macau, Taiwan, Southeast Asia, Philippines, Vietnam, Cambodia, Thailand,...
North America is a continent completely within the Northern Hemisphere and almost completely within the Western Hemisphere. It’s also considered a northern subcontinent of the Americas. It’s bordered to the north by the Arctic Ocean, to the west and south by the Pacific Ocean, to the southeast by South America and the Caribbean Sea, and to the east by the Atlantic Ocean. This continent covers an area of approximately 9,540,000 sq miles, about 4.8 percent of the plants surface or about...
Honolulu, located in the Pacific Ocean, has a mostly marine time climate and has a pretty consistent temperature average from month to month. This is a look at the La-Nina impacts on the local area. January 2012: For the month of January it is typical to see average high temps in the 80’s while overnight lows drop into the 70’s. During the La-Nina event January temps were normal 71% of the month at the, with above temps 23% of the month and 6% of the month found the temps dropping...
If you look in the photo above you can see the line of Cumulus clouds that appear in the background. These clouds were created by daytime heating and also an unstable atmosphere. The moisture for these clouds was rising from the Pacific Ocean. The darker cloud is the stronger of the cumulus clouds meaning that the majority of the moisture is being absorbed by that cloud. The clouds around this one are also starting to get more moisture from the ocean to build. Above the cumulus clouds you...
The Giant Tube Worm (Riftia pachyptila) is a species of marine invertebrate related to tube worms and commonly found in the intertidal and pelagic zones. This species lives from a mile to several miles deep underwater, on the floor of the Pacific Ocean near black smokers, where it is able to tolerate extremely high hydrogen sulfide levels. The common name “giant tube worm” is also applied to the largest living species of shipworm, Kuphus polythalamia. Despite given the name...
