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11/15/2018 4:58:07 PM
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Thousands evacuated after floods following days of heavy rain in Argentina

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Days of severe weather, including heavy rain and flash flooding, has left around 3,000 people evacuated in Argentina, most of them from parts of the capital Buenos Aires.

The heavy rain began on 09 November, 2018. According to WMO figures, Sauce Viejo city in the province of Santa Fe recorded 196mm of rain in 24 hours to 12 November. Reconquista, also in Santa Fe, recorded 169 mm of rain in 24 hours the following day.

Servicio Meteorológico Nacional (SMN) in Argentina said that this November has already been one of the wettest on record.

According to national news agency Télam, 1,561 people have been evacuated in La Matanza, a district (partido) in Greater Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires Province. In addition, 100 people were evacuated in Arrecifes, 37 in Quilmes, 10 in Marcos Paz, 80 in Cañuelas, 8 in Saladillo, 14 in Trenque Lauquen.






In Santa Fe Province, around 300 people have been evacuated after flooding in Catamarca. Some flooding was also reported in the cities of Diamante and Paraná in Entre Rios. Télam said that around 400 homes have been flooded in Paraná.
Around 750 people were evacuated in Clorinda in the province of Formosa, after flooding from the Paraguay River. The city is close to the border with Paraguay where flooding from the Paraguay river displaced over 10,000 people in late October.

In Córdoba, authorities have opened the flood gates of the San Roque dam, which has caused flooding in down stream areas including Villa Carlos Paz. Local media said the water reached 7 metres in some areas.

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Comment: To keep track of the ever increasing number of severe and frequently record-breaking flooding episodes (including associated landslides) across the planet, please visit our pages dedicated to this topic here.

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11/15/2018 6:12:24 PM
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New study finds hundreds of indigenous women have been murdered or disappeared in recent years

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Hundreds of Native American women have been murdered or have gone missing over the years, and their fate remains a mystery as authorities are appallingly lax in keeping track of such crime victims, according to a new study.

Of the 5,712 American Indian and Alaska Native girls and women reported missing in 2016, only 116 of those were logged in the Department of Justice's federal missing persons database, NamUs, and the real number of missing women is likely to be even higher due to underreporting, racial misclassification and a lack of coordination between tribal and state authorities.

Murder is the third-leading cause of death among indigenous women, according to the Centers for Disease Control, which also found violence on reservations occurs at ten times the national average. While this figure understandably gets a lot of attention, authorities lack similar numbers for American Indians and Alaskan Natives living in cities - which is almost three quarters of them. Seattle's Urban Indian Health Institute (UIHI)'s report is an attempt to fill that knowledge gap, and their findings suggest urban violence against indigenous women is massively underreported.

There was no clear pattern to the cases UIHI found, with victims as young as infants and as old as 83. In less than a hundred of the 506 cases studied, researchers were able to establish a link to overarching issues like sexual assault, domestic violence, prostitution and police brutality, much less identify the victim's relationship to the perpetrator. The rest remain a mystery.

Law enforcement departments were reluctant to turn over information on Native American victims, and many did not respond to repeated requests; much of what researchers did receive was incomplete or wrong. Alaska State Troopers allegedly refused to provide data because the large volume of Native female homicides made dredging up all the records "too burdensome" for their staff. Perhaps most troublingly, 153 of the cases UIHI studied simply do not exist in law enforcement records. To attempt to fill the gaps, researchers combed media coverage, social media, and other government databases, in addition to interviewing communities.


Comment: The lack of interest by law enforcement to keep track and investigate missing and murdered Native American women is reminiscent of the behavior of National State Park authorities to keep track of how many people go missing in state parks. That is covered in David Paulides' Missing 411 series of books. See:

Underreporting of crimes against indigenous women is a chronic problem in the US. While they are 2.5 times more likely to be raped or assaulted than their non-Native counterparts, another UIHI report released earlier this year revealed only 20 percent of indigenous victims reported their assaults. Given that US attorneys decline to prosecute almost half of cases that occur on tribal lands, victims' reluctance to step forward is understandable - that same report found only 8 percent of reports to police led to the perpetrator's conviction.



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11/15/2018 6:46:54 PM

Deadly European supervolcano could be rumbling towards a colossal eruption – study

An ancient Italian supervolcano that hasn’t erupted in 500 years may be starting a stage of activity that could lead to a colossal eruption, spelling potential disaster for communities lying in its path.

Campi Flegrei may have entered a new magma cycle, according to newly released findings that suggest the feature’s “subvolcanic plumbing system” is commencing “a new build-up phase.” The researchers warn this could give rise “at some undetermined point in the future," to "a large volume eruption.”

A large volcanic area west of Naples which has 24 volcanic craters, Campi Fieri, has “produced two cataclysmic caldera-forming eruptions and numerous smaller eruptive events over the past 60,000 years,” according to the new paper. Calderas are vacant spaces left after rock explosions during eruptions.

A team of scientists examined 23 of Campi Flegeri’s past eruptions and created a computer model to simulate these eruptions. The last eruption, which took place in 1538, lasted for eight days and was so powerful it created Monte Nuovo. Worryingly, this was a fairly tame eruption by Camp Flegeri’s standards.

The two biggest events were the Campanian Ignimbrite eruption, which occured 39,000 years ago and spewed ash for an awesome 3.7 million square kilometers, and the Neapolitan Yellow Tuff (NYT) eruption which happened around 15,000 years ago.

After conducting chemical analysis on the rocks, minerals and glass samples from these eruptions, the scientists determined Campi Flegrei’s magma conditions could be entering a phase of pressure build up, which tends to happen before eruptions.

They discovered the same kind of magma that was found leading up to the Monte Nuovo, Campanian Ignimbrite and Neapolitan Yellow Tuff eruptions – a water-saturated magma high in CO2.

With Campi Flegrei surrounded by some 1.5 million people, even a small eruption could have devastating consequences.

However, there’s no reason for anyone in the vicinity to panic just yet – the study’s findings do not mean a massive eruption is impending. These conditions can actually hold for a long time without escalating, and while it is possible that a massive eruption could occur, it shouldn’t happen in the near future.


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11/16/2018 11:30:51 AM

Caravan Reaches Border as Hundreds Begin Effort to Enter US, Troops and Border Agents Prepared to Block 'Illegals'

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Hundreds of asylum seekers have finished their nearly month-long trek through Central America and are now arriving at the southern border of the United States.

Mexican authorities said a group of 357 Central Americans traveling in the caravan arrived in Tijuana Tuesday, and another group of 398 arrived Wednesday. Thousands more are arriving Thursday and in the coming days.

Hundreds of them have arrived by bus, flooding the city's crowded shelters.

Some of them immediately went to a stretch of border fence with the United States to celebrate, scaling the fence chanting, "Yes, we could!"

Mexican authorities said they offered to take the migrants to shelters immediately, but they initially refused. Mexico also has offered asylum to them, but many have refused that as well, instead hoping to gain access to the United States.

Border Patrol agents with machine guns are guarding the US side of the border. They're being assisted by 5,800 active duty US troops as well.

An additional 2,100 National Guard troops have also been providing border support since April.

Defense Secretary Jim Mattis is defending President Trump's decision to use active duty US troops on the border, saying it provides good training for them.

"The eyes of the world right now - certainly all of the Americans - are on you," Mattis told the soldiers. "We're here because of the number of illegals who say they are going to illegally try to cross into our country."

Mattis says the military's border mission fits an historical pattern dating to early in the 20th century. He compares it to a 1916 deployment to counter the cross-border raids by Mexican revolutionary Gen. Francisco "Pancho" Villa.



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11/16/2018 6:10:13 PM

Volcano warning: Campi Flegrei near Naples may be gearing up for eruption, warn experts

A MASSIVE underground volcano in southern Italy could be heading towards a catastrophic eruption would would have disastrous consequences for the city of Naples, and the 1.5 million people who live there, a new study has shown.


A MASSIVE underground volcano in southern Italy could be heading towards a catastrophic eruption would would have disastrous consequences for the city of Naples, and the 1.5 million people who live there, a new study has shown. A team led by Francesca Forni from the Institute of Geochemistry and Petrology in Switzerland has been studying 23 previous eruptions at the Campi Flegrei caldera, concluding the magma reservoir underneath the area, which they described as "one of the most hazardous regions on Earth" may be building up in advance of a massive explosion. Their research, published in the journal Science Advances involved detailed analysis of rocks, minerals and glass samples from each of the eruptions in an effort to detect changes in magmatic temperature and water content throughout the region’s eruptive history.

The region was the scene of two huge eruptions - the Campanian Ignimbrite (CI) eruption of 39,000 years ago and the Neapolitan Yellow Tuff (NYT) eruption which happened 15,000 years ago - plus many smaller events.

The most recent was the eruption of Monte Nuovo in 1538.

Ms Forni and her colleagues concluded the Monteo Nuovo eruption was charaterised by "highly differentiated magmas" similar to those which fed the CI and NYT eruptions - suggesting a new phase was now underway.

Their report said: “Home to more than 1.5 million people, the Campi Flegrei caldera represents one of the most hazardous regions on Earth, and its magmatic history has been the focus of a number of studies.

Campi Flegrei: Experts have issued a warning over the volcano (Image: GETTY)


"We suggest that this eruption is an expression of a state shift in magma storage conditions, whereby substantial amounts of volatiles start to exsolve in the shallow reservoir.

“The presence of an exsolved gas phase has fundamental consequences for the physical properties of the reservoir and may indicate that a large magma body is currently accumulating underneath Campi Flegrei.

"After the Monte Nuovo eruption, the Campi Flegrei caldera has entered a new phase of quiescence accompanied by several episodes of ground deformation.

"Three major periods of unrest characterised by shallow seismicity and an increase in hydrothermal degassing have been recorded since the 1950s, thus increasing concern for a potential reawakening.

Campi Flegrei: The supervolcano is near Naples in Italy (Image: GETTY)

We propose that the subvolcanic plumbing system at Campi Flegrei is currently entering a new build-up phase, potentially culminating, at some undetermined point in the future, in a large volume eruption

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"Transfer of magmatic fluids from the main reservoir located at a depth of 7 to 8 km to the shallow hydrothermal system has been indicated as the possible cause for the recent unrest.

The high CO2 content of fumarolic gases is compatible with the typical compositions of recharge magmas at Campi Flegrei.

"We suggest that this behaviour is consistent with the presence of water-saturated conditions in the upper crustal phonolitic reservoir, which facilitates the accommodation of volatile-rich recharge magmas without leading to an eruption, promoting reservoir growth.

"Hence, we propose that the subvolcanic plumbing system at Campi Flegrei is currently entering a new build-up phase, potentially culminating, at some undetermined point in the future, in a large volume eruption."

Campi Flegrei: Scientists say the supervolcano has entered a new phase (Image: GETTY)

Ms Forni told the New York Times the presence of two calderas - CI and NYT - suggested Campi Flegrei had completed at least one cycle, adding: "We are potentially at the start of a new cycle."

She said it was impossible to predict when another eruption would occur, explaining: “The best we can do for now is to see how the system behaved in the past.”

Ms Forni's study is the second in 18 months to warn about a possible future eruption.

In May 2017, a team of British and Italian researchers undertook a study of three periods of unrest in the Campi caldera, which are mostly underwater and consists of 24 craters.

As a result, they concluded the situation was “evolving towards conditions more favourable to eruption”.

However, like Ms Forni's team, they were unable to offer any time frame.

Naples is the regional capital of the Campania region of Italy and the third-largest municipality in the country after Rome and Milan.


(express.co.uk)


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