Super Typhoon Utor
We are now moving into the thick of hurricane/typhoon/tropical cyclone season. The image here is a NASA MODIS satellite photo of super typhoon Utor that struck the Philippines today, monday August 12, 2013.
While it had been a Category 4 storm, with peak winds of 130 knots (150 mph or 240 km/hr), it weakened as it passed over the Philippine islands.
At this writing, 1 person is known dead, 23 were missing, and hundreds were evacuated.
Utor has now weakened to a Category 2 storm, and is currently passing over the south China sea.
Utor was the strongest storm to hit the Philippines so far this year.
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Steven Ward is a Research Geophysicist at the Institute of Geophysics and Planetary Physics, UC Santa Cruz. He specializes in the quantification and simulation of natural hazards. Read Steve's blog.
John Rundle is a Distinguished Professor of Physics and Geology at UC Davis and the Executive Director of the APEC Collaboration for Earthquake Simulations. He chaired the Board of Advisors for the Southern California Earthquake Center from 1994 to 1996. Read John's blog.
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