[nh-announce] 27 September 2017 -- Natural Hazards Updates

The following sections have been updated in the past 1 day.
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-- SEVERE STORMS (1 updated event, 1 new image) --

HURRICANE MARIA
Evolving from category 1 to category 5 in less than 18 hours, Hurricane
Maria brought destruction to several Caribbean islands.

  * Puerto Rico Landscape Ravaged by Hurricane Maria
  (Image from Sep 26, 2017; Posted Sep 28, 2017)

https://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/NaturalHazards/view.php?id=91030&src=nha


-- WATER COLOR (1 updated event, 1 new image) --

ALGAE BLOOM IN LAKE ERIE
From July through September 2017,  a large bloom of phytoplankton has been
coloring western Lake Erie.

  * Lake Erie Abloom
  (Image from Sep 26, 2017; Posted Sep 27, 2017)

https://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/NaturalHazards/view.php?id=91038&src=nha


-- SEA AND LAKE ICE (1 updated event, 1 new image) --

GROWING RIFT ON PINE ISLAND GLACIER
As the summer of 2017 came to an end, a rift grew on Antarctica's Pine
Island Glacier.

  * Rift on Pine Island Glacier
  (Image from Sep 21, 2017; Posted Sep 26, 2017)

https://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/NaturalHazards/view.php?id=91022&src=nha




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