The volcanoes are strung across several thousand kilometres of ocean floor and are moving westward on the Pacific tectonic plate at up to 6cm per year.

BBC: Undersea mountains march into the abyss

Felix is centered about 30 miles northwest of Granada and is moving westward at about 18 miles per hour, the NHC said in its 5 a.m. advisory.

CNN: The CNN Wire: Saturday, September 1

The fast-moving wildfire about 90 miles east of Los Angeles broke out just after noon and was moving westward through largely undeveloped foothills of the San Bernardino Mountains, but it was dangerously close to subdivisions to the south, in Banning.

NPR: Wind-Fueled Wildfire Erupts East Of Los Angeles

The time between Danielle and Sandy was the longest interval in the record between westward-moving storms north of Hatteras.

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