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Greece flash floods: 4 dead, 1 missing after torrential rainfall

Ada Carr
weather.com
Wed, 07 Sep 2016 21:45 UTC
Greece flooding
© Instagram/Martha HayesAbandoned cars are piled into the sea after being washed away by torrential rainfall and flooding in Greece on Sept. 7, 2016.
At least four people have died and one is missing in Greece after flooding caused by heavy rains hit the southern and northern parts of the country Wednesday.

"The heavy rain was caused by a 'blocking' pattern in the upper atmosphere," said weather.com meteorologist Tom Moore. "An area of low pressure aloft is stuck over southern Italy as a large high-pressure ridge builds north of it. There has been a persistent flow of moisture around the low from the Mediterranean and Ionian Seas into Greece."

The fire service told the Associated Press that two women, ages 80 and 63, were found dead in their flooded basement homes in the city of Kalamata and its outskirts. A 90-year-old man was also found dead in the Kalamata area and the body of a 73-year-old man was found in a swollen stream bed near Sparta.

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Cloud Precipitation

Flood death toll rises to 213 in Bihar, India


The Indian Express
Wed, 07 Sep 2016 20:46 UTC
A man awaits relief material in flood-hit Pant Nagar area of Gaya on Wednesday.
A man awaits relief material in flood-hit Pant Nagar area of Gaya on Wednesday.
The toll in Bihar floods rose to 213 with eight fresh deaths being reported on Wednesday, September 7, although a majority of rivers are now flowing below the danger mark. The new casualties have been reported from Vaishali district on the other side of the Ganga from Patna, the state Disaster Management Department said in a statement here.

With this, the toll in Bihar floods including the earlier inundation in Kosi regions, triggered mainly by heavy rains in neighbouring Nepal, today climbed to 213 in the state.

A total of 86 animals have lost lives in the floods.

As per information available with Water Resources department, Punpun was flowing above danger level in Sripalpur, Kamlabalan in Jhanjharpur and Kosi in Baltara in Khagaria district. The other rivers including Ganga were flowing below danger mark, it added.



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Cloud Lightning

U.S. Lightning deaths highest in seven years

Kimberly Miller
Palm Beach Post
Wed, 07 Sep 2016 20:11 UTC
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The National Weather Service is reporting that nationwide lightning-related deaths are the highest they've been since 2009 following the death of a hiker on Tuesday.

A 71-year-old Texas man was struck and killed Tuesday afternoon while hiking on a trail in Manistee County, Mich., according to John Jensenius, a meteorologist and lightning expert with the National Weather Service.

The man's death brings the total of lightning strike-related deaths to 34, the most since 2009 when 34 people died total for the year. Based on the past 10 years, the average number of deaths through Sept. 6 is 28.

Seven Floridians, including two Palm Beach County residents, were killed this year. That's the highest of any state nationwide. Louisiana and New York are tied with four deaths each.
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Cloud Lightning

Lightning bolt kills 2 family members in Nepal


The Himalayan Times
Wed, 07 Sep 2016 20:03 UTC
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A woman and her son died after in a lightning strike incident in Siraha district on Wednesday.

The deceased have been identified as Jurmi Sada (40) of Bhawanipur, Dhangadhimai-2 of Siraha district and her 12-year-old son Suraj Sada.

In the incident, Suraj had died on the spot, while his mother Jurmi, succumbed to the injuries on the way to a hospital, said ASI Raj Kumar KC at the Area Police Office.

Meanwhile, bodies of the deceased have been sent to Ram Prasad Uma Memorial Hospital for postmortem.

Source: Rastriya Samachar Samiti
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Seismograph

Seismic activity recorded in Mýrdalsjökull Glacier, Iceland

Vala Hafstad
Iceland Review
Wed, 07 Sep 2016 19:48 UTC
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© Dimas Ardian, Getty Images
A tremor of magnitude 3.5 hit Mýrdalsjökull glacier just before 9 am today, mbl.is reports. A few aftershocks have registered since. The area is closely monitored around the clock by the Icelandic Met Office.

Close to 600 tremors were registered by the SIL monitoring network of the Icelandic Met Office last week.

A series of quakes began in Mýrdalsjökull glacier on August 29, the strongest of which measured 4.5 in the northern part of the caldera of Katla volcano. Those were the largest quakes in Katla since 1977.

The green star shows the location of today's tremor.
© Icelandic Met Office.The green star shows the location of today's tremor.
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Attention

Surfer thanks brother for saving his life after shark attack off Western Australia

David Baker
watoday.com.au
Tue, 06 Sep 2016 16:07 UTC
The board was left ripped following Mr Penman's close call with the shark.
© Fraser Penman/FacebookThe board was left ripped following Mr Penman's close call with the shark.
A surfer who came face-to-face with a suspected great white shark has praised his brother for saving his life following an attack in Western Australia's South West on Monday.

Fraser Penman, from Perth, was knocked off his board by the beast while out at popular surfing spot Injidup beach in Yallingup, the same stretch of coastline where 25-year-old Matthias Bache went missing after cliff diving in March.

And following his close encounter, he took to Facebook to confirm he was unharmed, thanks to his younger brother Logan Penman.

"Encountered my first and last Shark attack today down at Carparks Injis!" He wrote.

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Three earthquakes recorded in Grant County, Oklahoma

Matthew Nuttle
news9.com
Tue, 06 Sep 2016 15:22 UTC
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Three earthquakes were recorded in Grant County, Oklahoma, Tuesday afternoon.

A 3.9 magnitude was recorded at 12:48 p.m, 11 miles northwest of the town of Medford, Okla. at a depth of approximately 3.3 miles. The USGS originally rated this earthquake 4.1 in magnitude. It was later downgraded to a 3.9.

A minute later, at 12:49 p.m., a 3.7 magnitude earthquake struck 12 miles northwest of Medford at a depth of about 7.5 miles.

At 1:33 p.m. another 3.5 magnitude earthquake was recorded 12 miles northwest of Medford. It was about two and a half miles deep.

Comment: See also: 5.6 magnitude earthquake, strongest in state history, rattles Oklahoma early Saturday

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Tokyo rocked by 4.9 magnitude earthquake


cnbc.com
Wed, 07 Sep 2016 15:11 UTC
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An earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 4.9 shook buildings in Tokyo on Wednesday, but no tsunami warning was issued and there were no immediate reports of damage or injuries.

Earthquakes are common in Japan, one of the world's most seismically active areas. Japan accounts for about 20 percent of the world's earthquakes of magnitude 6 or greater.

On March 11, 2011, Japan's northeast coast was struck by a magnitude 9 earthquake and a massive tsunami, triggering the Fukushima nuclear disaster.

Source: Reuters
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Attention

Man killed by shark in New Caledonia


The Independent (Ireland)
Tue, 06 Sep 2016 14:57 UTC
Shark attacks
A man in Australia has died after he was bitten by a shark while he was kite-surfing in New Caledonia, Australia.

The attack is the second in the area in just six months.

"The man in his 50s was kitesurfing inside the reef at Koumac," said Nicolas Renaud, head of the archipelago's marine rescue co-ordination centre. "He fell and was bitten."

The man, who has not yet been identified, was from Fremantle in Australia and was out with several other people on a catamaran when the attack happened.

"He suffered a deep bite to the thigh from a big shark. We don't know for the moment what species it was," said Mr Renaud.

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Bizarro Earth

Klyuchevskoy volcano in Russia's Far East spews ash cloud up to 11 km


TASS
Wed, 07 Sep 2016 10:22 UTC
Geophysicists have assigned the red danger level to the eruption

Klyuchevskoy volcano
© Igor Vainstein/TASS
The Klyuchevskoy volcano in Russia's Far East has spewed ash twice today, the local department of Russian Academy of Sciences' Geophysical Survey said on Wednesday.

"The volcano spewed ash for the first time at 8am local time (11pm Moscow time) for eight kilometers in the air, for the second time - at 08:23am local time (11:23pm Moscow time) for 11 kilometers in the air. Volcanic plume is moving eastward, its height is unknown," a spokesman for the Geophysical Survey said.

The volcano currently continues to spew ash. Geophysicists have assigned the red danger level to the eruption. The volcano is being monitored round-the-clock with seismic stations and cameras. The Russian Emergencies Ministry said there is no threat of ash falls in local settlements.

The Klyuchevskoy volcano has been erupting since April. Four lava flows are running down its slopes, and lava is constantly fountaining in its crater. The volcano is located on the territory of the Ust-Kamchatsky district. The nearest settlement is Klyuchi, it is located in 30 kilometers from the volcano's foot.

Comment: See also: Klyuchevskoy volcano in Russia's Far East spews ash cloud up to 7.5 km

Update:

"Klyuchevskoy has erupted ash to a height of 7.5 kilometers above sea level. The ash plume has spread 734 kilometers west and northwest of the volcano," the spokesman said.

An 'orange' aviation alert code has been assigned to the volcano, second after the highest - red code, warning about the hazard eruptions may pose to aircraft flying on local and international routes.

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