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Avalanche kills 2 women in Pakistan

At least two women were killed as avalanche hit them at Shudmela Darga
At least two women were killed as avalanche hit them at Shudmela Darga
At least two women were killed as avalanche hit them at Shudmela Darga area in Kurram agency here on Tuesday. According to details, the two ill-fated women were swept away by avalanche amid heavy rainstorm when they were bringing mud for construction of their house from nearby mountains.

Meanwhile, heavy rains and hailstorm wrecked havoc in the area, damaging standing crops of wheat and orchards besides badly affecting the routine life of the residents. The areas which were worst affected include Jaladar, Umar kot, Gosarr, Sumair besides other localities.

An Intermittent rain accompanied by gushing winds with lightning and thunder has been continuing for the last night.

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Terrifying moment woman is swept off mountainside by massive landslide in Peru (VIDEO)

In the footage, hundreds of people are gathered on a mountain road after earlier landslides made it hard to cross
In the footage, hundreds of people are gathered on a mountain road after earlier landslides made it hard to cross
Videos of a woman being swept away by a landslide on a mountain pass are being widely circulated after new footage suggests that she invited it on.

Santusa Nina Huallpa was swept over the side of a mountain by a forceful landslide in Huancarani, Paucartambo Province, in the southern highlands of Peru.

The 36-year-old's death was seen by several onlookers, with her remains later found buried under earth and stones by National Police in the community of Huayllatambo.

A new video taken by an eyewitness several yards away from where Huallpa was standing shows that she was aware of the onrushing landslip and seemingly beckoned it on.


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Powerful tornado hits Caserta, southern Italy (VIDEOS)

Tornado in Caserta, Italy
© EPACaserta tornado: Chaos as powerful storm strikes Italy injuring several people
A tornado has left eight people injured, one seriously, in southern Italy close to the city of Caserta, north of Naples.

The whirlwind on Monday night also caused severe damage across several nearby towns, uprooting trees and knocking over business and road signs and lamp posts.

The tornado swept across the Caserta area for around half an hour from 7 pm, with wind speeds reaching 220 km/h.

A lorry parked at a service station was upturned by the strong winds, while six parked caravans were also thrown through the air, obstructing part of the nearby A1 motorway. Authorities closed off the affected part of the road to traffic for several hours.

The worst hit areas were San Nicola la Strada, where all eight injuries were reported, as well as San Marco Evangelista, Marcianise, and San Tammaro, the Ansa newswire reported.


Comment: Some other tornado events so far this year include: Other rare or unseasonal tornadoes have formed around the planet in recent times including countries such as South Africa, Turkey, Netherlands, Mexico, United States, Russia and China.

Study: Tornado outbreaks are increasing - but scientists don't understand why. A coauthor of this paper states "What's pushing this rise in extreme outbreaks is far from obvious in the present state of climate science."

Recently other climate scientists were saying hurricane Harvey "should serve as a warning", as they continue to push the man-made climate change/global warming lie. They are not considering the importance of atmospheric dust loading and the winning Electric Universe model in their research. Such information and much more, are explained in the book Earth Changes and the Human Cosmic Connection by Pierre Lescaudron and Laura Knight-Jadczyk.
The accumulation of cometary dust in the Earth's atmosphere plays an important role in the increase of tornadoes, cyclones, hurricanes and their associated rainfalls, snowfalls and lightning. To understand this mechanism we must first take into account the electric nature of hurricanes, tornadoes and cyclones, which are actually manifestations of the same electric phenomenon at different scales or levels of power.
Increasing cometary and volcanic dust loading of the atmosphere (one indicator is the intensification of noctilucent clouds we are witnessing) is accentuating electric charge build-up, whereby we can expect to observe more extreme weather and planetary upheaval as well as awesome light shows and other related mysterious phenomena.


Bizarro Earth

When mountains awaken: A history of US non-volcano eruptions

volcanoes great smoky mountains


Please Note: This list is a companion list to the
Cascade Range Historical Newspaper Clippings, and features "non-volcano eruptions".

Pigeon mountain georgia volcano news clipping

June 20, 1857

Pigeon Mountain volcano, Georgia
The New York Times, June 20, 1857

A Volcano in Georgia.
A writer in the Sentinel states that a volcano has lately made its appearance in Pigeon mountain, about ten miles from Augusta. On the 24th, ult., the mountain was violently agitated, and the citizens in the vicinity were aroused and terribly frightened by the commotion. When observing the mountain they were more than ever terrified, for a brilliant light was plainly seen issuing from the summit. The atmosphere soon became strongly impregnated with a disagreeable sulphuric odor. On the following day a thick torrent of smoke and ashes ascended from where this light was previously seen. No blaze has yet been seen to issue from the crater. It had continued up to the 29th ultimo about as above described, emitting smoke and ashes without intermission. The crater is thought to be about 100 yards in diameter. No one has yet ventured near enough to ascertain anything of its general depth.

Several springs in the vicinity have totally disappeared. Many of the citizens are very much alarmed, and some even are moving out of the valley, through anticipation and fear of a violent eruption. The writer states that the principle of a volcano has for many years been germinating in Pigeon mountain. About ten miles south from where the present appeared, is the crater of an extinguished volcano, which appears to have been in an active state at no very distant period.

Every appearance goes to vindicate the conjecture that it has been in a state of eruption within less than five hundred years. Several persons of credit have stated that in the Winter of '48 or '49, the earth in the vicinity was in a remarkabley warm state. Others have avowed to have seen smoke with a sulphuric smell issue from a very remarkable cavity which is found in the neighborhood of the place.

-- Newspaper Source found at: The New York Times Archives, 2008

Blue Planet

Flashback High-resolution map reveals the Gulf of Mexico's strange geology

high-resolution map floor of the Gulf of Mexico
A new high-resolution map of the floor of the Gulf of Mexico.

Data gathered by oil exploration companies was combined to create the highest resolution map ever made of the area.


The floor of the Gulf of Mexico is one of the most geologically interesting stretches of the Earth's surface. The gulf's peculiar history gave rise to a landscape riddled with domes, pockmarks, canyons, faults, and channels - all revealed in more detail than ever before by a new 1.4 billion-pixel map.

This striking view of the ocean floor off the coasts of Louisiana and Texas was created by a government agency you've likely never heard of called the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM). The bureau's job is to manage exploration and development of the country's offshore mineral and energy resources. Consequently it has access to all the survey data that private companies collect.

The exploration companies use 3-D seismic imaging to map areas of the Gulf they are interested in. This involves towing high-powered underwater air guns behind a ship. When the guns fire, they create sound waves that travel down and are reflected back up by the sea floor. Lines of underwater microphones pulled along the surface behind the ship record how long it takes the reflected waves to reach them, data that can then be translated into topography.

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Mysterious mass bird death in Penticton, British Columbia

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Like an ominous scene from a Hitchcock film, a flock of dead birds littering the road left a Castanet reader seeking answers.

On Saturday March 10, Naramata-area resident Mary found traffic on Naramata Road not far from La Frenz Winery suddenly slowing to a crawl. She soon discovered why.

"There were what seemed like hundreds of birds dead on the road and around it," Mary said.

She identified the birds as starlings, an invasive species in the Okanagan, and snapped a photo. Her daughter then sent the picture to Castanet in the hope that an explanation could be found.


Wolf

Teenager mauled to death and woman fighting for life after savage attacks by pack of stray dogs near Moscow

The attack occurred at around midnight
© Anna Liesowska / east2west newsThe attack occurred at around midnight
Oleg Shushunov, 18, was set upon by a pack of eight ferocious dogs while he walked to a friend's house, hours before 24-year-old Kristina Rostova was savagely attacked in the same area of Moscow

A Russian teen was savaged to death by a pack of stray dogs hours before a mother-of-one was left fighting for her life following a separate attack on the same street.

Oleg Shushunov, 18, died from blood loss after being set upon by at least eight ferocious dogs at around midnight as he was walked to a friend's house in the village of Kursakovo.

Mr Shushunov, who was about to become a father, was bitten dozens of times by the strays with a graphic picture showing his savaged body lying in the snow and his clothes ripped to shreds.

The horrific attack took place four hours before 24-year-old Kristina Rostova was mauled by a pack of stray dogs in the same village, in the Moscow region, 52 miles west of the city.

Snowflake Cold

The Beginning & End of the Modern Warm Period

Al Gore movie flop global cooling
© YouTube/Adapt 2030 (screen capture)
This recent post discussed the end of the Modern Warm Period and the year that global cooling began. That post was inspired by a comment to a post on WUWT six to eight years ago to the effect that climate is controlled by the Sun's magnetic flux - no need to worry about much else. The comment seemed to come from a warmer scientist - they are well funded, have plenty of time on their hands, some are smart and idle curiosity would get a few looking into what controls climate. The results would not be published of course. To paraphrase Mussolini, everything within the narrative, nothing outside the narrative, nothing against the narrative. If the Sun's magnetic flux controls climate, you don't have to worry about what goes on under the hood - the effect of EUV on the NAO, the GCR flux, the F10.7 flux, any other flux apart from the magnetic flux.

Seismograph

Analysis shows Mexico City earthquake was a rare 'bending' quake - and it could happen again

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© Nacho Doce/Reuters AuthorsThe epicenter of Mexico's lethal September 2017 earthquake was less than 65 miles outside the nation's capital.
Six months have passed since a magnitude 7.1 earthquake struck Mexico City, toppling 40 buildings and killing over 300, but the memory remains fresh. Condemned structures dot many neighborhoods, their facades crumbling. And after an earthquake 225 miles away in Oaxaca state shook the capital city again on Feb. 16, 2018, the city mayor said hospitals treated dozens of people for panic attacks.

Seismologists, too, are still studying the Sept. 19 earthquake, trying to better understand what's happening underneath Mexico City. Our new paper in Geophysical Research Letters brings critical findings to light.

Since the damaging quake, we have been analyzing data from the national network of seismological sensors, as well as high-quality GPS stations around the country. Together, these instruments measure shaking across Mexico. We wanted to know what caused this magnitude 7.1 earthquake and whether a future shock could strike even closer to this city of 20 million.

Here's what we learned.

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Flashback Thousands of underwater volcanoes discovered in new seafloor map

Seafloor map
© Live Science/Scripps Institution of OceanographyThe seafloor map revealed 15,000 new seamounts.
A new topographic map of Earth's mysterious ocean floor reveals thousands of towering volcanoes, hidden gashes where supercontinents ripped apart and other never-before-seen features once veiled by miles of water and thick sediment.

The topography of Earth's seafloor is as corrugated and bumpy as a book set in Braille. By reading these peaks and ridges, scientists can chronicle the birth of new ocean crust and the past wanderings of Earth's continents.

However, even though the seafloor carries the pivotal clues to plate tectonics, the dry surface of Mars has been detailed more clearly than the ocean's watery depths.

The new map, released today (Oct. 2) in the journal Science, promises to fill in some of the blanks. Compared with the previous map, from 1997, the resolution is twice as accurate overall and four times as better in coastal areas and the Arctic, said lead study author David Sandwell, a marine geophysicist at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography in La Jolla, California.