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(MAPLETON, IA) It's been more than 2 weeks since a tornado ripped through the town of Mapleton, Iowa.

The massive clean up effort continues today, and the town is pulling through, thanks, in no small part, to a strong community.

All the streets in town are clear, but clean up continues and there's still a lot to do.

"It just boggles your mind, the amount of cleanup that there is yet to do," says Colleen Sulsberger, an In-Kind Donation Coordinator in Mapleton.

After an EF-3 tornado tore through Mapleton on April 9, the clean up effort is still well underway, and what's been done is much to the credit of a massive amount of volunteers.

"It's overwhelming. We're all moved to tears by the outpouring of support and help from people," says Sulsberger.

Students have been a driving force behind community rehabilitation, the young group has logged more than 15,000 volunteer hours so far.

The effort is piling up, there's an estimated 200 tons of storm debris west of town, with more still on the ground.

Most of the debris is from houses that are red tagged and uninhabitable, nearly 200 former homes have been marked.

"Homeless people, people that need housing, is no longer a face on the TV in some big city, these are families now that they know, that we're trying to find housing for," says Sulsberger.

It's a community that came face to face with disaster, and is pulling through; rebuilding and growing stronger.

"God brings good things from tragedy, brings people together, and that's, it's just great to live in the Midwest when something like this happens," says Sulsberger.

Donations are still needed, officials say the best ideas right now are gift cards and monetary donations.

The government pitching in to help with the cleanup.

Governor Terry Branstad launched an individual disaster assistance grant program, Monday.

The program covers Monona, Buena Vista, Pocahontas and Sac counties.

It provides up to $5,000 for households that qualify, the money is aimed to help residents get jump started on the road to recovery.

Residents can go to the Department of Human Services web site to get more information on the program.

http://www.dhs.state.ia.us/

This story was reported by Jacob Heller. You can contact him at: jheller@kmeg.com

Tornado Tears Apart Joplin, Scores Are Dead

A massive tornado that tore a 6-mile path across southwestern Missouri killed at least 116 people as it slammed into the city of Joplin, ripping into a hospital, crushing cars and splintering homes. (May 23)

Earthquakes list May 22, 2011

Last update: May 23, 2011 at 7:46 am by By Armand Vervaeck 1 Comment

M 5.7      2011/05/22 16:42     Depth 137.7 km      MINDORO, PHILIPPINES
May 23, 2011 at 12:42:23 AM at epicenter
UPDATE 17:15 UTC : Felt reports are indicating a max. MMI of IV (light shaking), even close to the epicenter
UPDATE 17:10 UTC : EMSC reports 6.3 @ 200 km, GFZ 5.4 @ 180 km, Phivolcs : 5.8 @ 117 km
Max. Phivolcs Intensity IV = Ilijan (Batangas); Abra de Ilog (Oriental Mindoro)
Very strong but deep and harmless earthquake below the Verde Island Passage, Philippines.
Verde Island Passage is a channel in between Luzon and Mindoro.
Close to Lipa City and Batangas City. Due to the depth of the hypocneter, it will not make a lot of difference if people are experiencing this earthquake close to or far away from the epicenter.
The earthquake will be felt as a weak shaking by millions of Luzon people, including Manila.
35 km (22 miles) WSW (244°) from Batangas, Luzon, Philippines
114 km (71 miles) SSW (192°) from MANILA, Philippines
Satellite map of the greater epicenter area

M 4.8      2011/05/22 11:20     Depth 15.0 km      OFFSHORE LIBERTADOR O’HIGGINS, CHILE
07:20:00 AM at epicenter
Moderate February 27 2010 aftershock 40 km out of the Navidad coast.
76 km (47 miles) WSW of San Antonio, Valparaiso, Chile
Satellite map of the greater epicenter area

M 4.9      2011/05/22 10:52     Depth 27.2 km      SOUTHERN XINJIANG, CHINA
06:52:05 PM at epicenter
A moderate earthquake at a similar place of the May 13 earthquake (4.8 @ 26.9).  Approx. 50 km fromBaichengxian.
195 km (121 miles) ENE of Aksu, Xinjiang, China
Satellite map of the greater epicenter area

M 4.6      2011/05/22 07:21     Depth 10.1 km      OFF THE COAST OF OREGON
May 21, 2011 at 11:21:37 PM at epicenter
Moderate ridge earthquake at a safe distance out of the Oregon Coast. This area has multiple moderate to strong earthquakes since many months. The scars on the ocean surface (see linked satellite picture) are showing very well the stressed Ocean bottom.
229 km (142 miles) W of Coos Bay, Oregon
Satellite map of the greater epicenter area

M 5.0      2011/05/22 01:34     Depth 10.2 km     TAIWAN
09:34:13 AM at epicenter
Moderate shallow earthquake approx. 25 km out of the Chongde Station coast
23 km (14 miles) NE of Hualien, Taiwan and 53 km (32 miles) S of Su’ao, Taiwan
Satellite map of the greater epicenter area

Ridge earthquakes in the Oceans (separating tectonic plates)
M 4.6      2011/05/22 07:21     Depth 10.1 km      OFF THE COAST OF OREGON

Summary of very deep, deep moderate or weak quakes only faintly felt by people
M 4.8      2011/05/22 19:29     Depth 60.9 km      ANDREANOF ISLANDS, ALEUTIAN IS., ALASKA
M 5.3      2011/05/22 19:07     Depth 167.1 km      MINDANAO, PHILIPPINES
M 4.8      2011/05/22 17:15     Depth 71.7 km     OFFSHORE GUATEMALA
M 4.8      2011/05/22 00:59     Depth 180.0 km      KEPULAUAN BABAR, INDONESIA

Japan, Honshu : aftershocks of M4.5 or greater
M 4.9      2011/05/22 21:39     Depth 43.8 km      NEAR THE EAST COAST OF HONSHU, JAPAN
M 5.5      2011/05/22 14:46     Depth 29.3 km      OFF THE EAST COAST OF HONSHU, JAPAN
M 4.7      2011/05/22 11:06     Depth 26.6 km      OFF THE EAST COAST OF HONSHU, JAPAN
M 4.6      2011/05/22 09:41     Depth 29.6 km      OFF THE EAST COAST OF HONSHU, JAPAN
M 4.6      2011/05/22 04:45     Depth 33.1 km      OFF THE EAST COAST OF HONSHU, JAPAN
M 4.5      2011/05/22 04:04     Depth 33.3 km      OFF THE EAST COAST OF HONSHU, JAPAN

Vanuatu, New Caledonia, Loyalty Islands : aftershocks of M4.5 or greater
M 5.0      2011/05/22 20:58     Depth 10.0 km      VANUATU

Earthquakes occurred yesterday (UTC time), but today local time

M 6.1      2011/05/21 21:17     Depth 19.8 km     KERMADEC ISLANDS, NEW ZEALAND
May 22 – 09:17:00 AM at epicenter
A very strong shallow earthquake on top of the subduction zone in an unpopulated island area (only a few islands are manned with scientific teams).
Not powerful enough to generate a tsunami
172 km (107 miles) S (189°) from Raoul Island, Kermadec Islands
Satellite map of the greater epicenter area

Useful information to read this daily earthquake list
This earthquake list covers important earthquakes in the world.
If a more detailed page is present, the earthquake line will be linked to the detailed page.
For your comfort, we will provide in most cases Google Satellite Map links to give you an idea where the earthquake struck, which terrain it happened and if villages or cities are located in the immediate vicinity. The reference for the time zone is UTC (Coordinated Universal Time, also called GMT)
The page is regularly updated to add new earthquakes.
green color = NOT dangerous for damage or injuries
orange color = MODERATE risk for damage or injuries
red color = CONSIDERABLE risk for damage or injuries

QuakeSOS+ and QuakeSOS free are iPhone applications developed by Armand Vervaeck, the founder of Earthquake Report. The Application simplifies immediate group communication to friends and family members (with your exact GPS location) and is feeding the users with Earthquake Report news. The 0.99 US$ QuakeSOS+ version will support the activities of SOS Earthquakes.

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@OnlyQuakeNews : Get all the headlines of our earthquake-report.com articles + regular updates on ongoing events
@QuakeSOS : earthquake-report.com news + automatic earthquake notifications of USGS earthquakes of M 4.0 or higher with emphasis to earthquakes in the America’s and the Pacific Ocean sphere (4 and up) and a lot of the rest of the world (5 and up). This account was created for our QuakeSOS and QuakeSOS+ iPhone applications
@ShakingEarth : earthquake-report.com news + automatic earthquake notifications of EMSC earthquakes of M 4.0 or higher with emphasis to earthquakes in European and Asian / Middle East sphere (4 and up) and a lot of the rest of the world (5 and up). This account was originally created to stimulate our Facebook account
@QuakeMaps : earthquake-report.com news with mapping notifications of ALL earthquakes M 3.0 and higher from all over the world via EMSC and USGS. This account was created for our http://www.quake-maps.com website

Americas Deadly tornadoes of May 2011

May 21 – 23

Main articles: May 2011 tornado outbreak and 2011 Joplin tornado

EF0	EF1	EF2	EF3	EF4	EF5
4	3	0	1	1	0

On May 21, a small system of thunderstorms began to develop in Brown County, Kansas. At the same time, another system formed to the southeast of Emporia, Kansas. The Brown county system developed into a tornado over Shawnee County, Kansas and touched down over Topeka, Kansas for several seconds causing minor damage nearby. Meanwhile the Emporia system continued to move to the northeast, where an EF3 tornado heavily damaged the town of Reading, Kansas. One person was killed there, several others were injured and at least 20 houses were destroyed.^[57] After hitting Topeka it hit several towns including Oskaloosa, Kansas, doing extensive damage to that community. Several other tornadoes touched down in the region that evening.^[58]

A moderate risk of severe weather was issued for much of the Midwest south to Oklahoma for May 22. The first tornadic supercell that day developed in the mid-afternoon hours over the western Twin Cities with a swath of damage, especially in and around Minneapolis, Minnesota.^[59] An intense tornado also tracked towards Harmony, Minnesota that afternoon and a tornado emergency was issued. Late that afternoon, at about 5:15 pm CDT (2215 UTC), a very large and intense multiple-vortex tornado resulted in catastrophic damage in Joplin, Missouri. Many houses and businesses were flattened and some even were blown away in Joplin, the main hospital was heavily damaged and many people were reported to have been trapped in destroyed houses. The Weather Channel video showed entire communities flattened. Early reports suggest there were at least 116 fatalities.^[60]

[edit]See also

• List of tornadoes and tornado outbreaks
  • List of F5 and EF5 tornadoes
  • List of North American tornadoes and tornado outbreaks
  • List of tornadoes striking downtown areas
• Fujita scale
• Enhanced Fujita scale

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