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Unexpected and extremely loud bang rocks awake residents of Sydney, Australia

Benedict Brook
news.au.com
Wed, 24 May 2017 23:07 UTC

Nervous Sydneysiders thought the worst when they were rocked awake in the early hours by a mystery — and extremely loud — bang.

Steph, from Sydney's lower North Shore told news.com.au "I genuinely thought the Harbour Bridge had blown up it was so loud. The apartment building shook and the blinds fell down in our lounge room. My sister lives a block away and texted me to ask if I'd heard an explosion too."

People on Twitter were equally nervous. "Heard a massive explosion from Sydney Harbour. What is going on?" one Tweet, reflective of many, said. "What the hell was that sound over Sydney?" said another. "Wtf was that? It sounded like an explosion right next to me.

Others wondered if it could have been a plane crash or, in the wake of Monday's attack in Manchester, an altogether more sinister event.

ABC News TV presenter Juanita Phillips even took to twitter to tell Sydney she'd driven down to the Harbour Bridge, "with the intention of helping the injured".

Sinkhole causes road closure in Bakersfield, California

23ABC News Bakersfield
Tue, 23 May 2017 10:52 UTC

A sinkhole on Highway 223 near Edison Road was reported Monday morning around 9 a.m.

The sinkhole caused a closure in the area.

Cold Butt at Crater Lake, Oregon

Robert W. Felix
Ice Age Now
Wed, 24 May 2017 14:08 UTC

Last week I posted an article about the eruption of Oregon's Mount Mazama some 7,700 years ago that formed Crater Lake. What I didn't mention is that I was visiting the area at the time. This is what it it looked like on May 18, 2017. Brrrr!

After visiting the Mt. Shasta area to photograph Whitney Glacier (which is growing, by the way), I decided to drive north to Bend, Oregon. According to the map, it looked like I could easily drive along the west side of Crater Lake.

Oops. Maybe not.

As I got closer and closer to the lake, the snowbanks got higher and higher. Can you even see the automobile in this photo?

Los Angeles' climate has been stable for 50,000 years

Anthony Watts
Watts up With That?
Wed, 24 May 2017 21:47 UTC

From the American Museum of Natural History and the "no ice ages here" department:

Fossil beetles suggest that LA climate has been relatively stable for 50,000 years

New radiocarbon dating of La Brea Tar Pits beetles indicates that Southern California's Paleoclimate was very similar to today

Research based on more than 180 fossil insects preserved in the La Brea Tar Pits of Los Angeles indicate that the climate in what is now southern California has been relatively stable over the past 50,000 years.

The La Brea Tar Pits, which form one of the world's richest Ice Age fossil sites, is famous for specimens of saber-toothed cats, mammoths, and giant sloths, but their insect collection is even larger and offers a relatively untapped treasure trove of information. The new study, published today in the journal Quaternary Science Reviews, is based on an analysis of seven species of beetles and offers the most robust environmental analysis for southern California to date.

"Despite La Brea's significance as one of North America's premier Late Pleistocene fossil localities, there remain large gaps in our understanding of its ecological history," said lead author Anna Holden, a graduate student at the American Museum of Natural History's Richard Gilder Graduate School and a research associate at the La Brea Tar Pits and Museum. "Recent advances are now allowing us to reconstruct the region's paleoenvironment by analyzing a vast and previously under-studied collection from the tar pits: insects."

Comment: "Smoking gun" on Ice Ages revisited

Lightning strikes kill 3 in Sunamganj, Bangladesh

en.prothom-alo.com
Thu, 25 May 2017 19:44 UTC

Three people were killed by separate incidents of lightning strikes in Dowarabazar and Chhatak upazilas of Sunamganj on Wednesday.

The deceased were identified as Sadik Ali, 36, son of Mafiz Ali of Mannargaon village in Dowarabazar upazila; Milon Miah, 18, son of Shamsuddin of Madhabpur village in Bishwanath upazila of Sylhet and M Akmal Hossain, 25, son of Nur Miah of the same village in Bishwanath upazila.

Police said Sadik died on the spot as a thunderbolt hit him while he was catching fish at a haor in Mannargaon village during a storm in the morning.

Another lightning strike hit Milon and Akmal while catching fish in the Surma river beside Nurullahpur village in Chhatak upazila in the morning, leaving them dead on the spot, said officer-in-charge of Chhatak police station Ashraful Islam.

Shallow 5.8 magnitude earthquake off Unalaska, Alaska

Earthquake Track
Wed, 24 May 2017 19:23 UTC

5.8 magnitude earthquake 163 km from Unalaska, Alaska, United States

USGS page: M 5.8 - 161km ESE of Nikolski, Alaska
USGS status: Reviewed by a seismologist
Reports from the public: 1 person

2017-05-24 16:36:01 UTC 5.8 magnitude, 11 km depth

The Ottoman empire and Ming dynasty fell during a Mini Ice Age; are we next?

Adapt 2030
You Tube
Wed, 24 May 2017 18:49 UTC

A depiction of the Ottoman Empire and its dependencies in 1566

The fall of the Ottoman Empire, Inca Empire and Ming Dynasty all collapsed during the early 1600's due to a grand solar minimum influencing the societies of the day. The mini ice age brought about crop shortages, famines, nomadic raiders, so the question for our modern society with the onset of the new grand solar minimum beginning now, how will our modern society fair? After all each of the above listed dynasties and empires were at the apex of technology and trade during their times as well.

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Rare red-billed tropicbird turns up in Gulf Breeze, Florida

Troy Moon
Pensacola News Journal
Tue, 23 May 2017 16:44 UTC

Red billed tropicbird

Big-time birder Bob Duncan was in a remote jungle camp in the Amazon basin region of Ecuador when he got the alert — even some of the most remote areas have Wi-Fi — that a white-tailed tropical bird had been spotted in Gulf Breeze.

That's a pretty rare bird, but not rare enough for Duncan, 82, to abandon the jungle trek that he was on with his wife, Lucy.

Good thing he didn't find out until he got home to Gulf Breeze that the bird had been misidentified and was actually an even more rare bird for the area — the red-billed tropicbird. Otherwise, Duncan might have caught the next plane home.

Huge waterspout filmed off St Agnes, UK

Hannah Maltwood
Cornwall Live
Wed, 24 May 2017 16:31 UTC

Huge waterspout spotted off St Agnes coast

An amazing video taken from St Agnes Head on Cornwall's north coast has captured the rare sight of what is believed to be a whirling waterspout, spiralling down from the clouds to the sea.

The striking phenomena was spotted by avid wildlife watcher Ian Boreham from Newquay who was out enjoying a walk along the cliff tops when he saw the tornado looking formation heading towards the coast.

Mr Boreham said that he had seen similar sights in the past, but admitted that it was "quite impressive".

Explosion at Rincón de la Vieja Volcano spews vapor, gases into the air

L. Arias
Tico Times
Tue, 28 Mar 2017 20:24 UTC

Rincón de la Vieja Volcano

Rincón de la Vieja Volcano recorded a strong explosion of hot water, vapor, gases and mud that, according to the Volcanological and Seismological Observatory of Costa Rica (OVSICORI), began at around 10:12 a.m. on Tuesday.

Expelled materials were visible on the north slope of the volcano, located some 270 kilometers (167 miles) northwest of San José in the province of Guanacaste.

Residents of the nearby community of Upala reported hearing a loud sound during the explosion, similar to that of a jet turbine. Mud and other materials from the volcano also fell on the Penjamo River and changed the water color, OVSICORI report stated.

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Earth Changes

Unexpected and extremely loud bang rocks awake residents of Sydney, Australia

Sinkhole causes road closure in Bakersfield, California

Cold Butt at Crater Lake, Oregon

Los Angeles' climate has been stable for 50,000 years

Lightning strikes kill 3 in Sunamganj, Bangladesh

Shallow 5.8 magnitude earthquake off Unalaska, Alaska

The Ottoman empire and Ming dynasty fell during a Mini Ice Age; are we next?

Rare red-billed tropicbird turns up in Gulf Breeze, Florida

Huge waterspout filmed off St Agnes, UK

Explosion at Rincón de la Vieja Volcano spews vapor, gases into the air

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