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Woman killed by crocodile while taking part in a Hindu river bathing ceremony in Uttar Pradesh, India

Jay Akbar
Daily Mail
Thu, 08 Jun 2017 19:28 UTC
Gharial

Gharial
A young Indian woman was killed by a crocodile in front of her family while taking part in a bathing ceremony in India's Uttar Pradesh state.

The woman, known only as Neeraj, was washing herself on the banks of a river in the National Chambal Sanctuary when the beast attacked her.

Her terrified family raised an alarm but the crocodile had vanished into the water with her body within minutes.

Officers and divers are now trying to recover the girl's body, the Times of India reported.

The family said the girl was taking a dip as part of a ritual on the spiritual day of Ekadashi, when Hindus abstain from certain food during daylight hours.

It is claimed the crocodile may have attacked her because it is their nesting season when females are more aggressive.

'Crocodiles lay eggs in this season,' Anil Patel, a local forest officer, told the Times of India.
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Cloud Lightning

Brilliant blue 'arc flash' filmed crackling along power lines in Dayton, Ohio during storm

Amanda Kooser
CNET
Wed, 07 Jun 2017 09:23 UTC
Arc flash in Ohio
© Via YouTube/Scott Beale
It looks unreal. A video posted on Tuesday shows a crackling fireball traveling along a utility line in Dayton, Ohio. The footage comes from Laughing Squid founder Scott Beale's brother Chip Beale. The scene was "a recent hailstorm with insane winds." We can forgive the vertical video because the action is so frightening and fascinating.

There's the sound of lightning cracking, followed by a blue fireball traveling behind some trees.

The video may depict an electrical event known as an "arc flash." GE Industrial Solutions describes this:
An arc flash event can expel large amounts of deadly energy. The arc causes an ionization of the air, and arc flash temperatures can reach as high as 35,000 degrees Fahrenheit. This is hotter than the surface of the sun.
This sort of traveling fireball is rarely caught on camera, but a similar incident happened in Montreal during a 2013 windstorm. LiveScience traced the cause of the dramatic Montreal event to an arc flash.

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Seismograph

Shallow 5.3 magnitude earthquake recorded near Kīlauea volcano, Hawaii


Las Vegas Review-Journal
Thu, 08 Jun 2017 19:11 UTC
Hawaii
© Hawaii Volcano Observatory
A 5.3-magnitude earthquake shook the Big Island of Hawaii on Thursday, near the Kilauea Volcano, the U.S. Geological Survey said.

There were no immediate reports of injuries or substantial damage from the quake and the Pacific Tsunami Warning Center said no tsunami was expected to result.

According to the USGS, the temblor rattled the Big Island at 7:01 a.m. local time (1601 GMT) at a depth of 8 kilometers (4.9 miles).

Comment: Earthquake Magnitude 5.3 - 18km SE of Volcano, Hawaii

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Flashlight

Car plunges into sinkhole on busy road in Brazil

Simon Holmes
Daily Mail, UK
Thu, 08 Jun 2017 19:08 UTC
Sinkhole in Brazil
This is the moment a 4X4 is nearly consumed by a giant sinkhole in the middle of a road.

A crowd gathers around the stricken vehicle which lay front first into the ground as its alarm whirls in the background.

Around 20 seconds into the clip the car falls further into the ground and nearly tilts at a 90 degree angle, facing into the dark core of the planet.

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Bizarro Earth

Earthquake Magnitude 5.3 - 18km SE of Volcano, Hawaii


US Geological Survey
Thu, 08 Jun 2017 18:58 UTC
volcano HI map
© USGS
Magnitude: 5.3

Location: 19.335°N 155.119°W

Depth: 8.0 km

Origin Date/Time: 2017-06-08 17:01:19.390 UTC
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Bizarro Earth

Widening earth crack spreads to 5 km in Manipur, India


E-Pao.net
Thu, 08 Jun 2017 01:02 UTC
Manipur earth crack

Kangpokpi earth crack spreads to 5 Kms
The earth crack at Kalikhola area in Kangpokpi district has already affected a stretch of 5 Km radius approximately with the fissure widening every passing hour while the more than 250 victims sheltered at the temporary relief camp are facing water and power shortage apart from other numerous difficulties.

While the earth fissure at Kalikhola area has widened today one house near the PMGSY road collapsed this morning while more paddy fields and huge trees have caved in and more land have slid down.

Two huge water bodies have been formed near Kalikhola village today while one electric post was also badly damaged.

The origin of the earth fissure is below J Songtun village and it slid down towards Kalikhola village developing larger fissure in the areas and has expanded to a radius of 5 Km approximately now.

The PMGSY road connecting IT road and Kalapahar via Makuli has also slid down about 300 metres from the original site.

All water pipelines have been badly damaged.

Comment: A science professor claims that the phenomenon is an effect of massive landslide triggered by heavy rainfall in the deforested hill slopes which are laden with thick soil cover.

Some other signs of earth 'opening up' in recent times include:

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Snowflake

More snow for the Rockies and Cascades

Robert W. Felix
Ice Age Now
Thu, 08 Jun 2017 14:25 UTC
rocky montain snow
Six or more inches (15 cm) of snow are possible this weekend across the highest elevations of the Washington and Oregon Cascades.

Several inches of snow could also hit higher parts of Idaho, western Montana, western Wyoming, northeast Utah, and northern Colorado into Tuesday, according to the Weather Channel.

With temperatures running 10 to 20 degrees colder than average at times, snow levels are forecast to fall to between 5,000 and 6,500 feet.

Where's all that vaunted global warming?!!

Thanks to Dean Koehler, Craig Adkins and Gordon Broussard for this link

Comment: And Summer is just a few weeks away:
Ski resorts open on six continents as snow falls or remains on slopes worldwide
California's endless winter: 8 feet of snow remains on the ground in June

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Bizarro Earth

Massive Kaua'i Sinkhole Reveals Source of 1586 Tsunami


Maui Now
Thu, 08 Jun 2017 14:08 UTC
maui sinkhole
© R. Butler (L), Gerard Fryer (R), GoogleMaps
Makauwahi sinkhole
Research of coral deposits at a massive sinkhole/cave on the island of Kauaʻi has revealed the origin of a tsunami that hit Sanriku, Japan in 1586.

The study determined that the Japan event was caused by a mega-earthquake measuring greater than a magnitude 9.5 from the Aleutian Islands that broadly impacted the north Pacific. A team of researchers led by Dr. Rhett Butler, geophysicist at the University of Hawai'i at Mānoa, re-examined historical evidence around the Pacific including coral fragments deposited into the Makauwahi Cave on Kauaʻi.

The Makauwahi geological feature is situated in a hardened sand dune about 100 meters from the ocean in the Māhāʻulepū area, and is the "only well-documented paleotsunami deposit in Hawaiʻi from the 16th century." An earlier study estimated the probability of a 9+ Magnitude earthquake in the Aleutian Islands, and its power to create a mega-tsunami in Hawai'i.
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Cloud Lightning

Lightning strikes kill 57 within 10 weeks in Myanmar (Burma); compares to 10 deaths for roughly the same period in 2016

Myint Kay Thi
The Myanmar Times
Thu, 08 Jun 2017 13:32 UTC
lightning
From April to end of May last year 10 people died from lightning strikes, but this year the figure has risen to 57 between April and June 6, with another 18 people injured, according to the Department of Relief and Resettlement.

Apart from Chin State, there were casualties in other states and regions. Deaths from lightning strikes were highest in Ayeyarwady Region with 14, while Bago Region had eight deaths, Tanintharyi Region had seven, Magwe Region had six and Yangon Region had five.

There were also fatalities and injuries from strong winds. According to the department's figures for March to May 26, 19 people were killed and 30 people injured by strong winds, which also destroyed more than 13,000 houses and about 160 religious buildings.

"In the past few years, cumulonimbus clouds have been forming in a wider area, even in Ayeyarwady, Bago and Yangon. This year, there has been more lightning and hailstorms from these clouds and we have had more reports of people being hit by lightning," U Kyaw Moe Oo, deputy director general of the Department of Meteorology and Hydrology, said Wednesday.
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Fire

'The whole town is burning': Deaths, mass evacuations as fire sweeps Knysna, South Africa


RT
Thu, 08 Jun 2017 13:33 UTC
Fires burn at Buffelsvermaak farm near Knysna, South Africa
© Simone Terblanche / Reuters
Fires burn at Buffelsvermaak farm near Knysna, South Africa June 7, 2017.
Eight people are dead and 10,000 have fled their homes as an enormous fire sweeps through the town of Knysna, South Africa.

Numerous homes have been gutted by the blaze that started on Tuesday and grew rapidly when a storm passed over the Western Cape town.

Western Cape local government spokesman James-Brent Styan confirmed in a statement that up to 10,000 evacuations had taken place in the town of 77,000 residents.

"The fire in Knysna is the largest and most destructive fire in a built-up area in the Western Cape in recent memory with thousands displaced. It comes on the back of the worst storm seen in the Western Cape in at least 30 years," Styan said.

Comment: More on the unfolding South Africa disaster: Storm wreaks havoc in Cape Town, South Africa

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