Live pass Aug 11 2026 — THE FORTNIGHT THE GROUND HIT BACK: Colombia M7.4 (240+ dead), Kumamoto M7.1, Oregon's worst fire year ever, Austria's hottest day ever, >25,000 EU heat deaths — and Cuba's grid failed nationwide TWICE in a week

In fourteen days: a M7.4 earthquake struck western Colombia Aug 10 - at least 224 dead (multi-wire confirmed; latest reports 240 dead, 1,246 injured, ~3,864 unaccounted, toll still rising; Cali 95, Pereira 72; national emergency, seven airports suspended); a M7.1 quake hit Kumamoto, Japan Jul 28-29 (Shindo 7, tsunami advisory, ~300,000 told to evacuate, 13 dead); Oregon set its ALL-TIME state wildfire record (~2.01M acres by Aug 3, prior record 1.93M in 2024, two months of season left) while Spokane lost ~700-900 structures to fires with an arson arrest; Europe entered its fifth heatwave of the summer - Vienna hit 41C, the hottest temperature in Austrian history; two firefighting helicopters collided near Athens killing both crews; reporting Aug 10 put 2026 European heat deaths ABOVE 25,000; Copernicus logged the joint-2nd-warmest July on record with the HIGHEST July extra-polar ocean surface temperature ever measured (20.96C); Typhoon Dolphin forced >1M evacuations in Zhejiang; Philippine floods killed >=13 across 33 provinces; Pakistan's monsoon toll reached 126; a tourist plane crashed at the Nazca Lines Aug 1 killing all 13 aboard (Reuters/AP/BBC). And Cuba's national grid collapsed TWICE within hours Aug 2-4 - the sixth nationwide blackout of 2026, three in July alone, ~10M people dark, amid the war-driven fuel squeeze (CNN/NBC/AP). ENGINE RECORDS: the climate-forcing/BAU2 compound-event thread extends across every axis but one - counter-datum recorded in-text: NOAA maintains a BELOW-normal Atlantic hurricane forecast on El Nino (fewest storms since 2014 if realized). Cuba is the grid_collision arc's far end-state, now observed at national scale; new node carries it.