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Aid officials are beginning to say that over a hundredthousand people probably died in Sunday’s Indian Oceantsunamis, but there are few animal corpses being found.Apparently the animals had forewarning of the oncoming wave,and sought higher ground before it struck.

Sri Lanka’s Yala National Park was partially inundated bythe fast-moving waves, and yet the elephants, buffalo anddeer that inhabit the park areas that were flooded areunharmed. In fact, overflights have failed to turn up asingle large animal corpse.
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In an eerie reprise ofthe ComingGlobal Superstorm andthe DayAfter Tomorrow, the Los Angeles area has experienced one ofits worst storms of the past hundred years. The storm, whichincluded a verified tornado in Van Nuys that took the roofsoff of houses and uprooted trees, flooded the city withupwards of five inches of rain. Downtown Los Angeles has notrecorded a rainfall this heavy in the past fifty years.

At least 500,000 people in the area were without power atvarious times during the storm, and parts of the cityremained without electricity or were experiencing rollingblackouts on Thursday.
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China’s earthquake prone Yunnan Province was struck by atotal of 47 earthquakes on Sunday. Reports from the arearemain sketchy, but one person has been confirmed killed and23 injured.

The quakes struck over a 17 hour period from Sunday and intoMonday. A number of the quakes exceeded 5.0 on the RichterScale.

In August, Yunnan was struck by a quake that left 125,000homeless, reportedly killed 4 and injured 600. This area ofChina is known for frequent earthquakes, but an almostcontinuous series of quakes concentrated in such a shortperiod is highly unusual.
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In August, Unknowncountry.com published a story about thedanger that an unstable volcano in the Canary Islands posedfor the United States, Canada, much of the European AtlanticCoast and the Caribbean.

Now scientist Bill McGuire of the Benfield Grieg HazardReswearch Center has told reporters that the danger posed bythe Cumbre Vieja volcano is serious. The volcano eruptsfrequently, and at some point a large part of its flank,which extends into the ocean, will collapse. It could happenin a year or a thousand years, but the problem is that noeffort is being made to monitor the volcano and thus, if thecollapse took place, there might be no warning at all untilwaves up to a hundred feet high began striking land.
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