Live Update: Hurriquake Hilary (with latest footage in West Coast and potential disaster in Gulf of Mexico)
Live Update: Hurriquake Hilary (with latest footage in West Coast and potential disaster in Gulf of Mexico)
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Reno Nevada 3.08pm
5.2 magnitude earthquake followed by at least 2 aftershocks (3.1 and 3.6) hits north of Los Angeles while they also go through Hurricane Hilary.
The epicenter of the quake was in Ojai, between Santa Barbara and Ventura, and it occurred along the Sisar fault, USGS data showed.
There were no immediate reports of damage, the Ventura County Sheriff said in a social media post.
Shaking was felt throughout Los Angeles and surrounding communities, according to a USGS tool that allows residents to self-report their experience. About 50 miles away in Valencia, the quake felt like a slow roll, lasting about 20 seconds. Residents reported a slow-rolling effect in the Hollywood area, as well.
At least two aftershocks — measuring 3.1 and 3.6 — followed the initial quake.
At least 9 million people were under flash-flood warnings.
If you felt the Ojai earthquake, share your experience at:
https://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eventpage/ci39645386/dyfi/intensity
the data can be used to better understand seismic waves in southern Calfiornia.
(assume map/prediction map, for 2am Los Angeles or 5am DC)
List Hotline so far:
Palm Springs (hotline 760-327-1441)
Cathedral City (760-770-0303)
Indio (760-775-3730)
Dodger Stadium (1000 Vin Scully Ave, Los Angeles, CA 90012) trapped by flood.
Hilary is the first tropic storm to hit Southern California in 84 years. It's not just California watching the tropics, there's an area to watch near the Bahamas that will move into the Gulf of Mexico. Tropical development can happen fast in the Gulf this time of year so keep a close eye on this one. At very least we could see beneficial rain in Texas.
Not only first ever storm hit Southern California in last 84 years, Hurricane Hilary (has entered California) is first tropical storm to move over state since Nora in 1997.
It has peak winds of 50 mph but "catastrophic" flooding remains the hazard of greatest concern.
1997 Nora: Hurricane Nora was the first tropical cyclone to enter the Continental United States from the Pacific Ocean since Hurricane Lester in 1992. Nora was the fourteenth named tropical cyclone and the seventh hurricane of the 1997 Pacific hurricane season.
Hurricane Nora impacted the majority of Mexico's Pacific-facing coast, as well as parts of the Southwestern United States, including California, Arizona, Utah and New Mexico.
Overall the system was responsible for two deaths in Mexico and either three or four fatalities in the United States, as well as at least $150 million in damages.
Highest winds of Nora (1997): 130 mph (215 km/h)
Alberto M. Carvalho MedM, superintendent of the Los Angeles Unified School District: LAUSD campuses will be closed tomorrow. Tropical Storm Hilary will peak overnight, leaving no time to inspect schools before classes begin Monday. He said the bus fleet cannot safely operate in high wind speeds.
Los Angeles Mayor Karen Ruth Bass says the city has opened the most emergency shelters for unhoused people since early 2020. Again, tells people to call 311 for downed lines, flooding and traffic issues during the storm.
Chief LA Fire Department Kristin Crowley says they are experienced an elevated number of calls. No reports of injuries or significant damage yet. Swift water rescue teams searched 2 cars found in LA river and then spotted someone in the river. The person was rescued. So far about 5,000 customers without power according to DWP - mostly in Boyle Heights and Hollywood.
Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors Janice Kay Hahn says there has been non-stop preparation and “all hands on deck” response. She signed an emergency declaration for LA County today. People should stay out of the ocean for the next 72 hours. People in LA County (not city) should call 211. Hahn also said the main concern with Catalina Island is flooding at the power plant that could cause a major outage. She said most residents have chosen to stay. The last boat left this afternoon.
National Weather Service says Los Angeles is expected to experience the peak of the storm's rainfall between now and 9 p.m. Showers are expected through the night into Monday, with showers tapering off during the day.
Flash Flood Warning until 8:30 p.m. (with massive debris):
Coachella Valley
Desert Hot Springs
Palm Springs
Cathedral City
Rancho Mirage
Palm Desert
(Palm Spring, around 6pm local time)
It’s been frustrating to realise the human & economic toll of ultra-extreme weather events related to climate change, & yet have it not part of the political conversation.
A deeply dysfunctional political system - a reason for global concern.
Thousand lakes across globally (not only Indonesia) to its lowest level.
July 2023 as Hottest Month on record ever since 1880.
More than 36 million acres of land in Canada has burned in wildfires, and hundred thousand acres in Tenerife Spain, in Northern Greece, in Lahaina Hawaii).
Big flood in Pakistan and China.
Now Hurricane Hilary, again, first tropical storm to hit Southern California in 84 years.
Deadly floodwaters inundated streets across Mexico’s arid Baja California on Sunday as Tropical Storm Hilary moved ashore carrying torrential rain into Southern California, and concerns mounted that flash floods could strike in places as far north as Idaho that rarely get such heavy rain. The city of Palm Springs declared a local emergency due to the storm. Multiple roads in the city are flooded.
Hilary made landfall along the Mexican coast in a sparsely populated area about 150 miles south of Ensenada, on a path to hit mudslide-prone Tijuana Sunday evening, threatening the improvised homes that cling to hillsides just south of the U.S. border.
In Salton City storm water has forced a gas station to stop pumping fuel due to flooding. Road conditions have started to worsen, with some roads closed altogether. Third gas station between Salton city and Meccca that has been shut off due to flooding. Lots of people trying to get gas and finding pump not working.
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SPANISH
Durante la Sexta Sesión de Protección Civil la mañana de este domingo se anunció que se solicitará la declaratoria de desastre para el municipio de Mulegé, en Baja California Sur.
Ese municipio ya se encuentra en declaratoria de emergencia, durante la sesión se propuso a Oscar Zepeda Ramos, director general de la Coordinación Nacional de Protección Civil (CNPC) por propuesta del Gobernador del Estado, Víctor Castro Cosío, la declaratoria de desastre la cual fue votada y aprobada por unanimidad por los miembros del Consejo Estatal de Protección Civil.
Durante los siguientes dos días las autoridades se darán a la tarea de realizar la valoración de los daños en infraestructura carretera, daños en postes de energía eléctrica, transformadores muros de contención que provocó corridas en el arroyo San Pablo y en un hecho sin precedentes en el puerto pesquero de La Bocana se inundó con olas de 7 a 10 metros.
El Gobernador, Víctor Manuel Castro Cosío, anunció que derivado de los daños en la zona norte del estado realizará un recorrido por el municipio de Mulegé arribando a Santa Rosalía y junto con la alcaldesa de ese municipio, Edith Aguilar Villavicencio, iniciará un recorrido de evaluación de daños para posteriormente dirigirse por a la zona Pacífico Norte con el fin de realizar un recuento de los daños en puertos pesqueros.
Referente a la corrida de agua en Santa Rosalía, Castro Cosío, explicó que fue la ruptura del muro de contención lo que provocó en el lapso de una hora la corrida del arroyo San Pablo lo cual hace muchos años no ocurría, por lo que continúa la corrida de agua y se espera que en una horas baja el nivel de este arroyo, asimismo otro de los arroyos que representa riesgo es el arroyo de Santa Águeda y San Luquitas.
La Presidenta municipal de Mulegé, Edith Aguilar Villavicencio, destacó cortes y un socavón en la carretera transpeninsular, dio a conocer los daños materiales en las cooperativas por inundaciones en los puertos de La Bocana, Punta Abreojos y Bahía tortugas.
En el municipio de Comondú, la alcaldesa Iliana Talamantes Higuera dio a conocer que se habilitaron tres refugios en los cuales estuvieron albergados 82 personas, en cuanto a los daños dio a conocer que existe suspensión del suministro de agua potable en Ciudad Constitución y en algunas zonas de energía eléctrica
En Los Cabos, Narciso Agúndez Gomez, Director de la asociación Portuaria Integral (API) mencionó que la obra del Boulevard Tamaral sufrió daños menores y algunas fallas en pozos de agua, en cuanto a los albergues, dio a conocer que se albergaron 82 personas 62 en Cabo San Lucas y 20 en San José del Cabo, y que por el momento Los Cabos está abierto a la navegación mayor y cerrada a la navegación menor.
En Loreto, la alcaldesa Paola Cota Davis, dio a conocer que el aeropuerto de Loreto reactivó sus actividades a las 8 de la mañana de este día pero el puerto permanece cerrado a la navegación, hubo caída de cinco postes de energía eléctrica, un incendio de la bomba de agua de San Juan Londó y daño en la carretera rumbo a la Heroica Mulegé, en esa localidad se resguardaron 14 personas en albergue.
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