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Canada: Earthquake Magnitude 4.1 - St. Lawrence Valley Region - Quebec


US Geological Survey
Fri, 23 Jul 2010 15:11 UTC
Image
© USGS
Date-Time:
Friday, July 23, 2010 at 17:24:21 UTC

Friday, July 23, 2010 at 01:24:21 PM at epicenter

Time of Earthquake in other Time Zones

Location:
46.501°N, 71.621°W

Depth:
18 km (11.2 miles) set by location program

Region:
ST. LAWRENCE VALLEY REG., QUEBEC, CANADA

Distances:
45 km (30 miles) SW of QUEBEC, Quebec, Canada

55 km (35 miles) NNW of Thetford Mines, Quebec, Canada

75 km (45 miles) ENE of Trois-Rivieres, Quebec, Canada

120 km (75 miles) N of Sherbrooke, Quebec, Canada
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Bizarro Earth

In the Past 11 Days, 556 Dead Baby Penguins, Sea Birds, Dolphins and Giant Sea Turtles Have Washed Up on the Beaches of Brazil -Video

Mariano Castillo
CNN
Thu, 22 Jul 2010 12:03 UTC
Dead penguin
© Aqurio De Perube
Unusually cold seas may have displaced the penguins' food sources, scientists say.

Biologists suspect that unusually cold waters off the coast of Brazil were responsible for the deaths of more than 550 penguins that washed up on shore in the past 10 days.

Since July 11, about 556 dead penguins have appeared on beaches, Thiago do Nascimento, a biologist at the Peruibe Aquarium, told CNN.

At the beach of Praia Grande alone, on the Sao Paulo coast, more than 170 penguins have washed up on shore since Friday, according to the local government.
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Cloud Lightning

Video: July 3, 2009 tornado cluster near Salina, Kansas, USA

TornadoVideosdotnet
YouTube
Wed, 07 Jul 2010 16:37 UTC
On July 3, 2009, Chad Cowan chased a cluster of severe storms through central Kansas. After encountering wind damage caused by earlier cells, he finally documented a brief tornado from I-70 between Salina and Abilene. You can follow Chad's chases LIVE at TornadoVideos.net!

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Cloud Lightning

Twister strikes western Puerto Rico, at least 4 injured

Jackie Castillo
CNN
Sat, 17 Jul 2010 16:34 UTC
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Cloud Lightning

Lightning and flooding shatter another Irish summer

Shane Hickey & Brendan Farrelly
Irish Independent
Thu, 22 Jul 2010 14:17 UTC
Image
© Collins Photo Agency
Staff sweep up glass after a window fell off the H&M store near St Stephen's Green in Dublin.
A pane of glass from a department store window crashed to the ground during a burst of freak weather in Dublin city centre yesterday.

Severe downpours of rain along with thunder and lightning hit areas around the country yesterday evening in an unexpected spate of severe conditions.

In one incident, Dublin Fire Brigade shut off part of a busy pedestrian thoroughfare in the capital after a pane of glass crashed to the ground from a department store.

Part of the area immediately around the H&M store beside St Stephen's Green shopping centre was closed off as staff members cleaned up the shattered glass, which is believed to have come from the third floor of the building. However, nobody was injured.

Comment: Funnel Cloud captured on Forth Mountain, just outside Wexford Town on the 22nd of July 2010 at 14:51 GMT



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Better Earth

Shock as Ice Block Smashes Through English Roof


UK Independent
Thu, 22 Jul 2010 14:15 UTC
Image
© Solent News
Vince Foote stands next to the damaged ceiling
A couple had a shock after a huge block of ice crashed through their roof as they slept.

Flat-owner Vince Foote and his wife were asleep when the ice, believed to have fallen from an aircraft, smashed a 2ft hole just before 2am.

Tiles and debris were scattered 30ft due to the impact at Summerdale Court in Chichester, West Sussex, officials at West Sussex Fire and Rescue Service said.

Mr Foote said: "I thought at first it was thunder and I got up to investigate. I tried to open the spare bedroom door and it wouldn't move.

"When I forced it open, I couldn't believe what I was seeing. There was an enormous hole in both the roof and bedroom ceiling and there were great chunks of ice everywhere.
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Bizarro Earth

Jordan River too polluted for baptisms


Terra Daily / Agence France-Presse
Thu, 22 Jul 2010 13:11 UTC
Image
© Unknown
An environmental group on Wednesday called for a halt to baptisms in the Jordan River where tradition holds that Jesus was baptised, saying the waters there were dangerously polluted.

"Friends of the Earth Middle East call on regional authorities to halt baptism in the lower Jordan River until water quality standards for tourism activities there are met," said a statement from the group.

The group issued the call following media reports that Israel's health ministry had urged the tourism ministry to stop people bathing in the river, saying it posed a health risk.

In recent years the flow of the river has slowed to a dirty trickle as fresh water running into the river has been replaced with sewage.

"Sadly, the lower Jordan River has long suffered from severe mismanagement with the diversion of 98 percent of its fresh water by Israel, Syria and Jordan and the discharge of untreated sewage, agricultural run-off, saline water and fish pond effluent in its place," the statement said.
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Bizarro Earth

China floods deadliest in 10 years, conditions set to worsen


Terra Daily / Agence-France Presse
Wed, 21 Jul 2010 12:52 UTC
Image
© Unknown
Flooding has plagued 75% of the country
Flooding in China that has killed more than 700 people this year is the deadliest in a decade and looks set to worsen as the country gets deeper into typhoon season, the government warned Wednesday.

But officials, in the first high-level press briefing on weeks of deadly flooding plaguing much of the country's southern half, said a disaster on the scale of historic 1998 flooding on the Yangtze River would likely be averted.

A total of 701 people have died so far this year in flooding that has also left 347 people missing, Liu Ning, head of the country's flood control authority and vice minister of water resources, told reporters.

He said the annual rainy season would continue at least through August, and that more downpours were expected, further straining reservoirs and other water control projects, especially as the East Asian typhoon season has just begun.
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Better Earth

Expedition To Mid-Cayman Rise Identifies Unusual Variety Of Deep Sea Vents


Terra Daily / SPX
Thu, 22 Jul 2010 11:57 UTC
Image
© Yale University
Deep sea hydrothermal vents.
The first expedition to search for deep-sea hydrothermal vents along the Mid-Cayman Rise has turned up three distinct types of hydrothermal venting, reports an interdisciplinary team led by Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) in this week's Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

The work was conducted as part of a NASA-funded effort to search extreme environments for geologic, biologic, and chemical clues to the origins and evolution of life. Hydrothermal activity occurs on spreading centers all around the world.

However, the diversity of the newly discovered vent types, their geologic settings and their relative geographic isolation make the Mid-Cayman Rise a unique environment in the world's ocean.

"This was probably the highest risk expedition I have ever undertaken," said chief scientist Chris German, a WHOI geochemist who has pioneered the use of autonomous underwater vehicles (AUVs) to search for hydrothermal vent sites.
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Igloo

"Cold snap" claims dozen of lives in parts of Latin America - Snow Covered Beaches


Agence France-Presse
Thu, 22 Jul 2010 11:51 UTC
Image
© AFP
The snow covers a beach in Mar del Plata, Argentina, 400km south Buenos Aires on July 15, 2010. An unusual cold spell lashes the Southern Cone (Argentina, Chile, Paraguay and Uruguay) with temperatures next to 0°C.
A cold snap across a swathe of Latin America has left dozens dead across several countries, as the region shivers through its winter season.

In Argentina, 33 people died as polar air sent temperatures down to around minus 14 Celsius (seven degrees Fahrenheit) in the center of the country.

Many of the victims of the chilly weather in Argentina were homeless people who died on the streets of the capital city Buenos Aires.

In Paraguay, the Health Ministry reported nine people died of hypothermia and another three were killed after inhaling toxic fumes from coal-burning ovens.

The Rural Association of Paraguay estimated that 1,000 cattle died in the freezing temperatures, particularly in the north of the country, while the country's meteorological authorities warned cold weather and rain were expected to continue for the rest of the week.
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