Russian Quake Leaves Western U.S. Jittery Nov 26, 2008
3 and struck the Sea of Okhotsk 195 miles west of Petropavlovsk-Kamchatskiy, on Russia's Kamchatka Peninsula, the U.S. Geological Survey said. It was centered at a depth of about 300 miles. (Fox News)
Earthquake hits off Russia's Far East coast Nov 24, 2008
The earthquake struck at a depth of just over 300 km beneath the Sea of Okhotsk at 9. 05 p.m. (9:05 a.m. GMT) between the Kamchatka peninsula and the Pacific Coast island of Sakhalin, the site of major oil and natural gas deposits. (International Herald Tribune -- Health)
* Russia shows muscle with missiles Oct 14, 2008
Russian navy spokesman Igor Dygalo confirmed the test-launches from submarines in the Sea of Okhotsk north of Japan and the Barents Sea northeast of Norway. The missiles hit right on target, he said. (Taipei Times, Taiwan)
Russia tests missiles Oct 13, 2008
One missile was test-fired from a submarine in the Sea of Okhotsk north of Japan, another from a submarine in the Barents Sea east of Norway and a third from Plesetsk in northwest Russia, the reports said. The first flew thousands of kilometres west and successfully hit a target in northwest Russia while the other two flew a similar distance east and hit targets on the Kamchatka peninsula, the reports said. (iAfrica.com)
Russia test-fires missiles in large-scale drill00004000 Oct 13, 2008
The nuclear-powered missile submarine Zelenograd of the Pacific Fleet fired a ballistic missile from the Sea of Okhotsk near the Pacific, which hit a target in the Chizha testing ground in northern Russia, Interfax cited naval spokesman Igor Dygalo as saying. Yekaterinburg of the Northern Fleet, also a nuclear-powered missile submarine, launched another intercontinental missile from the Arctic Barents Sea, which also hit a designated target in the Far East. (Xinhuanet, China)
Russia to launch rockets in the North Pacific Sep 13, 2008
RIA Novosti news agency reported an unidentified official saying missile launches will be carried out in the Sea of Okhotsk and the Bering Sea and will hit targets on the Kamchatka Peninsula in eastern Russia. A press officer for the Governor of Kamchatka told RIA Novosti that authorities had been forewarned and would inform the local population "in due course". (Sydney Morning Herald -- World)
Vanishing Arctic Ice May Hurt Japan's Wildlife, Tourism Aug 14, 2008
Free-floating pieces of ice that form each winter in the Sea of Okhotsk travel about 620 miles (1,000 kilometers) to Hokkaido's Shiretoko Peninsula ... Over the ten years leading up to 2007, the amount of sea ice forming in the Sea of Okhotsk shrank by 3. (National Geographic)
PHOTOS: Arctic Ice Loss in Japan Hits Tourism, Wildlife Aug 14, 2008
These free-floating pieces of ice, which annually travel about 620 miles (1,000 kilometers) from the Sea of Okhotsk, are the world's southernmost Arctic sea ice. In recent years the amount of drift ice reaching Shiretoko has decreased noticeably, raising fears global warming will affect the local ecosystem and endanger winter tourism. (National Geographic)
Icebreaker Xuelong sails into Arctic Aug 3, 2008
The icebreaker set off on July 11 from Shanghai and reached the Arctic Circle after a three-week journey through the Sea of Japan, the Sea of Okhotsk, the Bering Sea and the Bering strait. Members of China's third scientific Arctic expedition celebrate their entrance into the Arctic region August 2, 2008. (Xinhuanet, China)
Workin’ it out Jul 19, 2008
It also took us to places we will likely never actually visit, the Sea of Okhotsk and within the walls of a prison, for example. We met cowboys, educators, entrepreneurs, politicians, life givers, life savers and a bona-fide, right-off-the-Wheaties box American hero. (Port Lavaca Wave, TX)
Right whales wronged Apr 11, 2008
Conservationists estimate that there are fewer than 100 of the whales surviving off the US coast, with perhaps a few hundred more in the Sea of Okhotsk ... That should have referred to the Sea of Okhotsk. (Nature News Service)
Airline will link Russian Far East with Anchorage Apr 8, 2008
He added that the more direct route to Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk, a Russian island north of Japan in the Sea of Okhotsk, is faster and will offer service to Vladivostok, Tokyo and Hanoi. Vladivostok Avia also offers flights to Korea and between and Vladivostok, Moscow, St. Petersburg, Krasnodar, Irkutsk, Yakutsk, Abakan, Ekaterinburg and Novosibirsk. (Anchorage Daily News)
Russian rescues hundreds trapped on ice floe Mar 9, 2008
The rescue operation at Mordvinov Bay in the Sea of Okhotsk involved two helicopters and dozens of rescue boats, Olga Shekhovtseva, a spokeswoman for the regional branch of Russia's Emergency Situations Ministry, said by telephone. All 755 stranded fishermen were rescued, she said. (USA Today -- News)
Typhoon Fitow Kills Two; Weakens Over Northern Japan (Update1) Sep 9, 2007
The storm still carries heavy rain and wind gusting to 82 kilometers per hour (50 miles per hour) as it moves toward the Sea of Okhotsk at 25 kilometers an hour, the agency said. As much as 150 millimeters (6 inches) of rain may fall along Pacific Ocean coastal areas by midnight local time, triggering flash floods in some areas, the agency said. (Bloomberg)
Data confirm scientists fears of sea ice loss Sep 7, 2007
There was less confidence for winter ice, but the models also predict a sea ice loss of more than 40 percent for the Bering Sea off Alaskas west coast, the Sea of Okhotsk east of Siberia and the Barents Sea north of Norway. The research paper by Overland and Muyin Wang, a NOAA meteorologist, will be published Saturday in Geophysical Research Letters, a publication of the American Geophysical Union. (MSNBC -- Environment)
Scientists Project Huge Loss of Sea Ice Sep 7, 2007
There was less confidence for winter ice, but the models also predict a sea ice loss of more for the Bering Sea off Alaska's west coast, the Sea of Okhotsk east of Siberia and the Barents Sea north of Norway. A 40 percent loss of summer sea ice off Alaska in the Beaufort Sea could have profound effects on marine mammals dependent on the sea ice such as polar bears, now under consideration by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service for "threatened" status under the Endangered Species Act because of... (Forbes)
Kamchatka Volcano Blows Its Top Jul 6, 2007
These explosions created a 1,360-mile-long band of ash, stretching from the Sea of Okhotsk to the Aleutian Islands, clogging well-used air routes with volcanic ash that prove deadly for aircraft. "It's best for us to keep an eye on Klyuchevskoy," said Ken Dean, a professor of geology specializing in remote sensing with the Geophysical Institute and the Alaska Volcano Observatory. (Science Daily)
The end of the wilderness Jun 22, 2007
Out in the Sea of Okhotsk, a slate-grey expanse of frozen water that stretches from Kamchatka's western coast to the gulag town of Magadan, the crabs have all but gone ... The Sea of Okhotsk is a short drive away through a green and watery landscape that smells of rotting fish. (Guardian Unlimited -- World)
NSA Keeps Up with Tech Changes Jun 5, 2007
Referring to this earlier version of the cable bug, which the United States used to listen in on Soviet communications during the Cold War in an operation called "Ivy Bells," Bamford said, "They put this big thing underwater and used induction from copper cable. They would program it to listen for the most important channel. One good one they listened to was on Soviet missile testing. NSA did that by having the sub sail into the Northern part of the Sea of Okhotsk . They'd look at the shore,... (eWeek)
Mudslide Destroys Russian Geyser Valley - Report Jun 4, 2007
Kamchatka, a 1,250 km (780-mile) long peninsula between the Pacific Ocean and the Sea of Okhotsk, is one of five places in the world where geysers -- springs ejecting hot water and steam into the air -- can be found. There were about 90 geysers in the valley. (Planet Ark, United States)
U.S. to study protection for Alaska loon May 31, 2007
Birds that breed in Alaska spend winters off the coast of Russia and face drowning in fishing nets, plus threats from petroleum development in the Sea of Okhotsk, Cummings said. Yellow-billed loons do not recover easily from population declines, are susceptible to disturbance and may be vulnerable to habitat loss, according to the Fish and Wildlife Service. (MSNBC -- Environment)
Chinese, Russian oil giants sign agreement on Sakhalin project Mar 30, 2007
The Venin shelf in the Sea of Okhotsk covers an area of 5,300 square km, with six promising sites having been uncovered. Rosneft and Sinopec signed an agreement on Aug. 30, 2005, on interim financing, and investment in the project amounted to 69. (People's Daily Online, China)
* Feature: Japan's fishermen and ice: victims of global warming Mar 26, 2007
Every year the Amur, Siberia's longest river, dumps tonnes of ice into the Sea of Okhotsk, creating the world's largest ice drift which, depending on the winds, bastes Japan's Abashiri port in late January or early February ... When the Sea of Okhotsk takes in the waters of the Amur, it is replenished with an enormous number of nutrients, such as iron, which in turn feed into the Pacific Ocean and beyond, said Wakatsuchi ... "The Sea of Okhotsk and the Pacific Ocean will be deprived of their... (Taipei Times, Taiwan -- World)
India Eyes Maximum in Sakhalin-3 Feb 14, 2007
Sakhalin-3 oil and gas project provides for developing Kirinskoe, Veninskoe, Vostochno-Odoptinskoe and Ayashskoe hydrocarbon fields in the Sea of Okhotsk with the aggregate oil reserves estimated at above 800 million tons. The total gas reserves are said to exceed 900 billion cu meters. (Ocnus.net)
Anglers saved in Far East ice drama Feb 4, 2007
Boats and helicopters were used to reach the stranded anglers off Sakhalin island in the Sea of Okhotsk. Dozens had earlier refused to be rescued without their equipment and catches, officials said. (BBC News -- Asia-Pacific)
Hundreds of fishermen rescued from ice floes off Russian Far East Feb 3, 2007
The ice floes broke away from the coast near Cape Svobodny in the Sea of Okhotsk, off the island of Sakhalin. The rescue personnel brought 442 people back to shore, including women and children. (International Herald Tribune -- Business)
8.3 MAG QUAKE OFF N JAPAN... Jan 13, 2007
(Kyodo) _ A tsunami warning has been issued for the eastern part of Japan's northern main island of Hokkaido facing the Pacific Coast and Sea of Okhotsk, the Japan Meteorological Agency said Saturday. A tidal wave as high as 1 meter is forecast, according to the agency. (The Drudge Report)
