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Attention

4.0 magnitude earthquake felt across Southern California

John Plessel
Daily News
Fri, 26 Jan 2018 14:02 UTC
Earthquake seismograph
A 4.0-magnitude earthquake struck an area of the Santa Ana Mountains straddling Riverside and Orange counties early Thursday, Jan. 25, the U.S. Geological Survey reported.

The temblor hit at 2:09 a.m. at a depth of around 6 miles, with the epicenter described as 10 miles south, southeast of Corona in Riverside County and 8 miles northeast of Trabuco Canyon in Orange County, according to a report by the Southern California Seismic Network, a cooperative project of Caltech and the U.S. Geological Survey to monitor quakes in Southern California.

There were no immediate reports of damages, but hundreds of tweets flooded Twitter after the quake, with people in San Diego, Riverside, San Bernardino, Los Angeles and Orange counties saying they felt it or it shook them awake.

Comment: Also see: Two shallow earthquakes above magnitude 5.0 strike off California coast

Later on Thursday, a 2.9 quake hit San Jose, bringing the Bay Area total to 7 in a week.

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Snowflake

Alpine resorts buried in the snow (PHOTOS)

Patrick Thorne
inthesnow.com
Fri, 26 Jan 2018 13:22 UTC
snow
As the skies clear following one of the snowiest Januaries on record in the Alps, great images are appearing of vehicles, buildings and other structures buried in the snow.

There are various claims that, after three winters with little snowfall at the start, this is the snowiest start to a season for 20, 30 or 40 years - one resort is comparing this with the winter of 1948.

Here are some of the best images we've seen:
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Attention

North Atlantic right whale discovered dead off Virginia coast, 1st in 2018

Alexander Quon
Global News
Thu, 25 Jan 2018 12:43 UTC
At least 18 North Atlantic right whales have now died in Canadian and U.S. last year and this winter.
© Center for Coastal Studies/NOAAAt least 18 North Atlantic right whales have now died in Canadian and U.S. last year and this winter.
Another North Atlantic right whale has been found dead, the first to be recorded in 2018 and the 18th since last year.

The whale was reportedly found off the coast of Virginia on Jan. 22.

Jennifer Goebel, a spokesperson for the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), confirmed the information to Global News on Thursday.

According to NOAA, the remains of the whale appeared to be wrapped in a fishing line.

Based on past experience with entangled whales the NOAA believe the whale was alive and swimming when it encountered the line.
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Attention

17-feet great white shark found dead on the east coast of Luzon Island, Philippines

M G Martin
Philippines Lifestyle News
Wed, 24 Jan 2018 12:15 UTC
17-feet shark
17-feet shark
Fishermen have been warned to take care after a huge Great White Shark washed up off the east coast of Luzon Island.

The 17-feet-long monster was reported in the town of Dipaculao, in Aurora province, today (Wednesday, January 24).

The species is a rare visitor to the warm seas of the Philippines, with only four sightings on record. Nonetheless, it is a protected species by law.

Eddie Fabrigas Rebueno, of the Dipaculao Municipal Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Office, said the find was reported to his office at 6.30am this morning.

He said the shark, a female, did not show any sign of serious injury apart from some bruising on her snout and some missing teeth.
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Cloud Precipitation

France's wettest winter since 1959: Paris flooding worsens as Seine rises towards 6 meters (VIDEOS)

Kristina Pydynowski
AccuWeather
Fri, 26 Jan 2018 02:24 UTC
seine flooding 2018
The Seine River in Paris is expected to rise farther out of its banks through this weekend despite northeastern France catching a break from heavy rain.

The flooding has already inundated roads, railways and walking paths in Paris along the river, according to The Local.

The river is projected to challenge the levels recorded during the June 2016 flooding, during which the Louvre Museum was closed for four days as workers evacuated 35,000 pieces of art.

Comment: All over the world we're seeing an incredible increase in flooding with these articles below being just some of the stories that have happened in the last few months: And if we look back in history we can find a clue: Massive flooding in Europe during the Little Ice Age

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Seismograph

Two shallow earthquakes above magnitude 5.0 strike off California coast

Amy Graff & Greg Keraghosian
SFGate
Thu, 25 Jan 2018 19:45 UTC
California earthquakes
© USGS
Two earthquakes, registering magnitudes of 5.8 and 5.0, struck within an hour of each other off the coast off California's Humboldt County on Tuesday morning, according to the U.S. Geological Survey.

The quakes were well beneath the ocean and there were no initial reports of damage or injury. The NOAA reported that no tsunami was expected from the quakes.

The two morning earthquakes struck two days after a magnitude 7.9 quake in the Gulf of Alaska, which resulted in a tsunami watch that was later canceled.

The 5.8 earthquake struck at 8:39 a.m. about 115 miles west of Eureka, Calif., at a depth of 5 kilometers. The closest quake to shore came at 9:24 a.m. and had a magnitude of 5.0, according to the USGS. That one had a depth of 4 kilometers and was about 112 miles west of Ferndale.

"Historically this is a very active area, " said Keith Knudsen, deputy director of the Earthquake Science Center at the USGS. He said the quakes occurred at "the boundary between two plates that are moving relatively fast, past each other and we call this area the Mendocino Triple Junction, which implies there are three plates, and there are, but these particular quakes occurred in a boundary between two plates."

Comment: Over the past seven days, California has experienced 15 earthquakes of magnitude 2.5 or greater up and down the state, including the two that hit off the coast in the Pacific Ocean. The California coast is part of the "Ring of Fire," an area where there are an abnormal number of underwater volcanoes. Made up of the Pacific coastline of the U.S., Asia and the Pacific Islands, this area is prone to earthquakes. There has been an uptick in seismic and volcanic activity in this region recently. See also: String of earthquakes and volcanic eruptions hits Ring of Fire - at least five events in two days
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Question

Strange sounds heard in the skies of Kuala Lampur, Malaysia

Jathniel Tong
YouTube
Sat, 20 Jan 2018 22:11 UTC
Strange sounds in Kuala Lampur
© YouTube/Jathniel Tong
Weird strange sound from sky. One hour, keeps on and off. It's so loud.

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Snowflake

Storm dumps foot of snow in northern California - Heavenly Ski Resort receives 18 inches - More of the same to come (PHOTOS, VIDEOS)

Benjy Egel
The Sacramento Bee
Thu, 25 Jan 2018 19:14 UTC
Employees dig out Alpine Meadows on January 25, 2018 after receiving over a foot of snow.
© Courtesy Alpine MeadowsEmployees dig out Alpine Meadows on January 25, 2018 after receiving over a foot of snow.
Ski resorts such as Tahoe Donner, Sugar Bowl and Kirkwood all reported at least a foot of snow from the storm that began passing through Northern California on Wednesday morning, and up to an additional 12 inches is expected before conditions dry out Friday.

Heavenly Ski Resort reported 18 inches of snow as of 7:30 a.m. Thursday, driving its seven-day total up to 38 inches. But regional winds up to 60 mph forced Heavenly to shut six routes down Wednesday, per the resort's Twitter account, and made driving difficult in high elevations.

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Arctic bird species, seen for the first time in Romania


Romania-Insider.com
Tue, 23 Jan 2018 20:04 UTC
Yellow-Billed Loon
Yellow-Billed Loon
The yellow-billed loon (Gavia adamsii), an arctic bird species, was spotted on the country's Olt river, the Romanian Ornithological Society (SOR) announced. It is the first time the species is identified in Romania.

The bird was recognized by József Szabó, a founding member of SOR, who was in the area with a SOR team to undertake the winter count of the aquatic birds, which takes place at the beginning of the year. It was spotted close to the Ulmi locality, in southern Romania's Olt county.

The yellow-billed loon, also known as the white-billed diver, is a member of the loon or diver family. It breeds in the Arctic and winters mainly at sea along the coasts of the northern Pacific Ocean and northwestern Norway. It occasionally strays well south of its normal wintering range, and has been recorded as a vagrant in more than 22 countries. It is a specialist fish-eater, catching its prey underwater.

Some 1,000 such birds arrive in Europe yearly. It has been spotted also in Belgium, Austria, Belarus, Bulgaria, but never in Romania so far. The highest population, of some 20,000 birds, can be found in Canada.
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Snowflake Cold

Tokyo hit with lowest recorded temperature in 48 years

May Masangkay
Japan Times
Thu, 25 Jan 2018 17:17 UTC
tokyo snow
As cold air blanketed wide areas of the nation on Thursday morning, the mercury in central Tokyo fell to a low of minus 4 degrees Celsius, the capital's lowest figure in 48 years.

The bitter cold Wednesday - coming just days after the city's heaviest snowfall in four years - prompted the Meteorological Agency to issue a low temperature advisory for the 23 wards for the first time in over three decades. Shigeki Kawaguchi, an official of the agency's weather consultation center, said a similar warning was last issued in late January 1985.

An advisory of this kind is issued when water inside pipes might freeze or pipes might rupture - or when crops might be damaged - according to the agency.

Comment: Japan has been getting hit rather hard this winter. Tokyo recently just had the biggest snowfall in years, and the combination of snow and freezing cold has seen the most busiest day for ambulance calls in 80 years. Some global warming we have!

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