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Grizzly bear attacks 2 hunters near Fort Nelson, Canada

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© Canadian PressA mother grizzly attacked two sheep hunters south of Fort Nelson, B.C. on Sunday.
Two injured hunters spent the night on a remote mountainside in the B.C. Peace Region after being mauled by a mother grizzly bear with two cubs on Sunday.

The men had been hunting sheep south of Fort Nelson and were packing out the meat and head of their kill when they heard the bear, said Insp. Mark West of the B.C. Conservation Officer Service.

"[The] hunter hears a crack in bush, and a short — a very, very short distance away — is a sow grizzly bear accompanied by two cubs," he said.

The sow attacked one man, then the other intervened and she turned on him as well, said West. The second hunter fired a couple of shots, but officers don't know if the mother grizzly was hit.

The men have injuries to their heads and necks, said West. Their conditions have been described as serious and critical.

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SOTT Focus: SOTT Earth Changes Summary - August 2015: Extreme Weather, Planetary Upheaval, Meteor Fireballs


Comment: Please note that due to planetary/climate chaos increasing month by month, we are now inundated with video footage and must therefore be selective about which events to include. Going forward, please consider these video summaries mere snapshots of the global picture. Considering that these 'localized' events, multiplied many times over, are occurring simultaneously all over the planet, the scale of destruction and impact on people's lives becomes almost unimaginable.


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August 2015 saw apocalyptic deluges of rain and hail inundating cities from China to the US, intense electrical storms frying power grids and damaging infrastructure, and unusually powerful storms destroying crops and inundating vast areas of inhabited regions.

The most memorable event of the month was the series of massive explosions at Tianjin port in northeastern China. Although it's assumed that human error was to blame, the unusual scale of the event suggests that something 'out-of-the-ordinary' was involved. With 'Earth opening up' in so many ways - enormous sinkholes, multiple volcanic eruptions, increased seismic activity, pockets of gas exploding on beaches, geysers of methane and steam erupting on golf courses and in streets - we strongly suspect the Tianjin event was 'more of the same', only BIGGER.

Last month, meteor fireballs turned night into day in Scandinavia, the UK, the US, Chile, and the Caribbean. Sinkholes swallowed people and streets in China, and portions of highways in the UK and US. Wildfires raged across southern Siberia. Hailstorms added two more passenger aircraft to their hit-list. Italy saw cars swept down streets in 'biblical' deluges, while three typhoons lined up in the Pacific for the first time in recorded history.

The exponential increase in all phenomena - volcanic eruptions, earthquakes, meteors, sinkholes, floods, lightning strikes, exploding transformers and chemical plants - is well illustrated by US wildfire statistics. There are only 6 other years when more than 8 million acres burned in the US - 2012, 2011, 2007, 2006, 2005, and 2004. As of September 1st, 2015 is set to beat the record set of 9.8 million acres consumed in 2006...

These were the signs of the times in August 2015...


Cloud Precipitation

Torrential rainfall causes flash floods in southern Spain, washing away trucks and cars

flooding in Adra, Spain
© gaesca / YouTube

Heavy torrential rains and massive flooding have turned the streets of a Spanish town into fast-flowing rivers that literary washed away cars and even large trucks, a YouTube video shows.

The small town of Adra, in the Almeria province of southern Spain, has been the worst affected by the rains. Its streets have been turned into fast-flowing currents of water that swept away cars and trucks.


Cloud Precipitation

Flooding hits central Sweden

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© Nerikes Allehanda
Heavy rainfall in central Sweden on Sunday has seen train and road traffic grinding to a halt and over 100 homes evacuated.

Weather agency SMHI issued 13 class-1 warnings for wet and windy weather on Sunday as storms spread eastwards across the country.

Stockholm county was specifically singled out, with the agency noting that it and several nearby counties could expect up to 50 mm of rainfall on Sunday.

The morning saw over 100 homes evacuated in Hallsberg, near Örebro in central Sweden, with emergency services noting that water levels inside some people's houses had reached "around a metre" in depth.

Pictures in Swedish media have shown people travelling down residential roads in canoes, or wading waist deep.

Train traffic between Hallsberg and Laxå ground to a halt too, leaving rail and road traffic between Gothenburg and Stockholm delayed.

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A dormant New Zealand geyser erupts for the first time in 36 years

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© BEN FRASERHOT: Papakura Geyser at Te Whakarewarewa Valley has started shooting water up to 4m in the air.
One of the most famous geysers in Te Whakarewarewa Valley has begun erupting in earnest, after 18 months of "bubbling".

Te Puia chief executive Tim Cossar said Papakura Geyser had continued to "bubble away" for the past 18 months - after lying dormant since 1979 - but entered a new phase of activity late this week, with constant eruptions shooting water up to 4m in the air.

"This is a hugely exciting development for Te Whakarewarewa Valley, our manuhiri [visitors] and our people - many of whom are the latest of several generations to live and work here.

"We keep a close eye on our various geothermal features to monitor any changes, and to see her suddenly start erupting is extremely exciting. We don't know how long she will continue to perform for us, but it's certainly fantastic to see it now."

GNS Science volcano information specialist Brad Scott said he was ecstatic about Papakura's new life, which was attributed to the bore closure programme in the late 1980s.

Comment: Last month a bore erupted in the Rotorua city centre.


Umbrella

Video of waterspout near Panama City Beach, Florida

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© Meg Baumgardner
Reader-contributed video from Stormy Knight, appropriately enough, of a waterspout in Panama City Beach on Sept. 6 just after noon.


Sun

Sun halo captured over Bejing, China

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A ring or circle of light around the sun or moon is called a halo by scientists. Ice crystals in the atmosphere create halos by refracting and reflecting light.
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Waterspout spotted off the coast in Boyton Beach, Florida

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© WPTV
Chopper 5 spotted a well-defined waterspout off the coast of Boynton Beach just before 7 a.m. on Labor Day.

Umbrella

Rare waterspout forms over Lake Zurich, Switzerland

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© John AppenzellerThe waterspout formed over Lake Zurich on Saturday morning.
People looking out onto Lake Zurich on Saturday morning witnessed a rare natural spectacle as a waterspout resembling a tornado formed on the lake.

Unlike real tornados, however, waterspouts can form in weak winds, said Swiss weather office SRF Meteo, which reported the sighting.

At the time the waterspout was seen, winds in the area were between ten and 23 kilometres an hour.

This natural phenomenon forms when layers of instable cold air make contact with a body of warm water, said SRF Meteo.


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Deep magnitude 6.1 earthquake registered south of Fiji Islands

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© USGS
A very deep earthquake registered as M6.1 by Geoscience Australia hit south of Fiji islands at 08:46 UTC on September 7, 2015. The agency is reporting depth of 573 km (356 miles). USGS is reporting M5.3 at a depth of 547.3 km (340.1 miles).

According to the USGS, epicenter was located 451 km (280 miles) SSW of Ndoi Island, Fiji and 673 km (418 miles) WSW of Nuku'alofa, Tonga.

27 minutes later, at 09:13 UTC, both agencies registered another strong earthquake - M6.0 (Geoscience Australia) / M6.4 (USGS) - about 190 km (118 miles) SSE of L'Esperance Rock, New Zealand.
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© USGS