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Afghanistan flash flood kills at least 30 villagers

Badakhshan province, far northeastern Afghanistan. MASSOUD HOSSAINI
© MASSOUD HOSSAINI
This Aug. 15, 2016 photo, shows an ariel view of the snow-capped Pamir mountains in the Wakhan district of Badakhshan province, far northeastern Afghanistan.
At least 30 Afghan villagers searching for gold in a riverbed perished on Sunday in a flash flood in northeastern Badakhshan province, provincial officials said.

Along with those killed, dozens were also injured as a landslide and flash flood engulfed the river in the morning in Kohistan district, an area about 68 miles, from Fayzabad, the capital of Badakhshan.

Nek Mohammad Nazari, the spokesman for the provincial governor, said the villagers had dug deep in the river, which had in the past been mined for gold, when they were caught in the flash flood. The casualty numbers could rise, he said.

Snowflake Cold

Thousands of hectares of crops affected by snow in Sonora, Mexico

crop snow
The heavy snowfall left by the fifth and sixth winter storms of the season, as well as the extreme cold, generated frost damage in thousands of crops throughout the state of Sonora.

The weather mainly affected the garlic and asparagus crops in the mountains and the north of the state; as well as vegetable and legume crops in the valleys of Yaqui and Mayo, south of Sonora.

So far, the presidents of the Associations of Farmer Unions of Sonora have not specified how many hectares were affected because the damage is still rising. In addition, according to official weather forecasts, the low temperatures will continue the following days and its possible there will be more snowfall.

Snowflake

Strong winds, heavy snowfall hit Turkey

Turkey's eastern province of Bitlis

Turkey's eastern province of Bitlis
Istanbul and the region of Thrace in Turkey's northwest were hit by heavy snowfall and strong wind which caused flight delays.

Turkish Airlines cancelled its Jan. 4 Salonika and Kosice international flights as well as many of its domestic flights taking off from Istanbul's Atatürk and Sabiha Gökçen airports due to the weather conditions.

Istanbul's higher areas, such as the district of Beylikdüzü, were hit by snowfall on Jan. 3 night along with strong winds.

Following warnings of harsher weather conditions by the Turkish State Meteorological Service, snowplows and salt trucks were waiting ready to intervene in the event of possible icing.


Snowflake

Snow storm hits 17 Iranian provinces

Seventeen provinces of Iran have been stricken by heavy snow storm over the past 24 hours, Rescue and Relief Organization head Morteza Salimi has said.

Seventeen provinces of Iran have been stricken by heavy snow storm over the past 24 hours, Rescue and Relief Organization head Morteza Salimi has said.
Snow swept across 17 provinces namely West Azarbaijan, Ardebil, Isfahan, Alborz, Tehran, Chaharmahal and Bakhtiari, North Khorasan, Fars, Semnan, Zanjan, Qazvin, Qom, Kordestan, Gilan, Lorestan, Mazandaran, and Markazi, Tasnim news agency quoted Salimi as saying on Friday.

Some 90 rescue teams comprising 320 rescue workers offered relief and rescue service, Salimi highlighted.

Meanwhile, some 4,100 who were stranded in the snow storm received relief services and 656 cars stuck in snow were released, he added.


Snowflake

Adapt 2030 Ice Age Report: Jet streams pinched - desert snows USA, beach snows Mediterranean

Texas desert snow
© YouTube/Adapt 2030 (screen capture)
With the intensification of the Grand Solar Minimum, jet streams are moving to new positions on the planet and breaking off into pockets of cold moving far south. In the USA S.W desert regions massive snows blanket cactus and in Europe heavy snows on the beaches of Italy and Greece along the Mediterranean.


Comment: David DuByne of Adapt 2030 recently had a two part discussion with Laura Knight-Jadczyk and Pierre Lescaudron, editors at SOTT.net and authors of Earth Changes and the Human Cosmic Connection: The Secret History of the World.

The news cycle is largely distraction from increasing food prices and societal changes as Earth shifts to a cooler climate. As the Eddy Grand Solar Minimum intensifies, a 400-year cycle in our Sun is affecting crop production, the economy and everyone on our planet. This is a timeline for what you can expect from now to 2030 as the frequency from our Sun changes.

See here for Part 1 and Part 2.

Review of Earth Changes and the Human-Cosmic Connection. The book is available to purchase here.

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Seismograph

Indonesia's Molucca islands stuck by M6.6 earthquake

Indonesia quake
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An earthquake with a revised magnitude of 6.6 has struck 174km north-northwest of the city of Ternate in Indonesia's Molucca islands, but there is thought to be no tsunami risk.

The quake hit early on Monday local time at a depth of 60.5km and was followed by aftershocks of a magnitude of 5.0 to 5.1, the US Geological Survey said.

Search and rescue agency official Samud Sergi said the quakes had not been felt in Ternate.

An emergency disaster agency spokesperson in Tohomon, North Sulawesi said they felt nothing in the area and had heard of no damage or casualties.

An earlier report from the USGS gave the magnitude of the quake at 7 and the depth at 10km.

The Pacific Tsunami Warning Centre said in a statement that, based on available data, there was no current tsunami threat from the event.

The devastated country has been struck by a number of natural disasters in recent months.

Snowflake Cold

Major winter storm slams central Italy - 6 feet of snow falls

Thick snow in Roccapia, Abruzzo,
© Fulvio Ferrante / Meteo AQ Caput Frigoris
Thick snow in Roccapia, Abruzzo, central Italy last night, January 4.
The region has been hit with more than six feet of snow.


Cloud Lightning

Lightning bolt kills 5 people from same family in Mozambique

lightning
Five people from the same family died on Thursday in the Mozambican province of Zambézia, victims of "atmospheric discharge", the Commander of the Police of the Republic of Mozambique in the district of Maganja da Costa, Vasco Mariano, said.

The incident, Mariano said, happened during the night when the family - a couple and three children - were sleeping.

The family lived in Massupa, in the province of Zambézia, in central Mozambique.

According to Mariano, who was cited on Friday by the Agency of Information of Mozambique (AIM), "a lot of rain" fell on Thursday, accompanied by thunders and strong winds.

Seismograph

6.1 magnitude earthquake hits southwest of Adak, Alaska

alaska quake
© KRON
A 6.1 magnitude earthquake has been reported southwest of the Tanaga Volcano in Alaska on Saturday morning.

Around 10:47 a.m. Pacific Time, the earthquake was reported about 33 miles south, southwest of the volcano.

According to the U.S. Geological Survey, the earthquake was 19.1 kilometers (11.8 miles) deep.

Adak, Alaska is the closest city reported at 80.5 miles east of where the quake struck.

There have been no reports that residents felt the quake.

Seismograph

Deep M6.8 earthquake shakes remote part of west Brazil

brazil quake jan 2019
A powerful earthquake has shaken northwestern Brazil near its border with Peru, affecting a remote part of the Amazon rainforest. There were no immediate reports of damages.

The U.S. Geological Survey said the magnitude-6.8 quake had an epicenter 55 miles (89 kilometers) west of Tarauaca, Brazil, and 204 miles (329 kms) east of Pucallpa, Peru. It hit at 2:25 p.m. local time and had a depth of 575 kilometers.

The Seismological Observatory of the University of Brasilia said on its website that it was a "deep, no risk earthquake" in the jungle state of Acre.

A powerful 7.1-magnitude quake hit the Peru-Brazil border in August.

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