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WeatherSunday, July 7th, 2013

5-minute Earth and space weather news for July 7, 2013:
- Two identical Asiana Airlines Boeing 777’s experienced problems in landing within five minutes of one another. You probably know about the crash at San Francisco International Airport, which occurred at 19:53 UTC. Just five minutes earlier, at 19:48 UTC, an identical jetliner had a fire break out and barely landed in time to avoid major problems at the Athens International Airport in Greece. It was the same airline [Asiana] and same model jet [B777 ER200]. Could the cause be related to a magnetic disturbance that peaked at around the same time?
- Mexico is experiencing hurricanes, earthquakes, and volcanic activity. The Popocatepetl volcano was active again last night.
- Flooding in India
- 6.1 earthquake in Indonesia.
- Global weather update
- Solar flaring is quiet