{"id":18439,"date":"2009-10-13T08:03:23","date_gmt":"2009-10-13T13:03:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/?p=18439"},"modified":"2011-05-16T13:44:41","modified_gmt":"2011-05-16T18:44:41","slug":"world-weather-mudslides-compound-earthquake-woes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/daily-astrology\/world-weather-mudslides-compound-earthquake-woes\/","title":{"rendered":"World Weather: Mudslides Compound Earthquake Woes"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Indonesian island of Sumatra, devastated by a powerful earthquake Sept. 30, was dealt further blows in the following days as huge mudslides ripped through some areas. According to The New York Times<\/a>, as many as 600 people were buried by landslides after the earthquake, taking the estimated death toll well past the 1,100 previously reported.<\/p>\n

On Thursday, Typhoon Melor continued its creep northward through Japan’s minor islands, heading for the main land masses and threatening heavy rains and high winds. The Tokai region was expected to receive more than 15 inches of rain Thursday, prompting Toyota to shut down its manufacturing plants in the area around the city of Nagoya<\/a>, Japan’s third-largest city.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, in India a week of flooding has left more than 250 people dead in the states of Andhra Pradesh and Karnataka, located in the country’s southern region. More than 2 million people fled their homes during the inundation, MSNBC reports<\/a>.<\/p>\n

And Southern California was on the good side of a cold snap this week, as temperatures dipped 10 to 15 degrees below normal \u0412\u00a0and winds died down — all boons to firefighters who were working to contain the 7,100-acre Sheep Fire that had been raging through the mountains, timber, and chaparral — not to mention communities — in the San Bernardino National Forest.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Indonesian island of Sumatra, devastated by a powerful earthquake Sept. 30, was dealt further blows in the following days as huge mudslides ripped through some areas. According to The New York Times, as many as 600 people were buried by landslides after the earthquake, taking the estimated death toll well past the 1,100 previously … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"generate_page_header":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18439"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18439"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18439\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18439"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18439"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18439"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}