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Rare 'megamouth' shark caught off Japan

Tom Evans
Daily Star (UK)
Sat, 16 Apr 2016 13:43 UTC

Fishermen were stunned to when they saw the massive beast

An incredibly rare deepwater shark has been caught by terrified fishermen.

The massive 16ft beast was snared in fishing nets as stunned sailors were forced to pull up the monstrous fish - reportedly weighing over a tonne.

The enormous deep sea dweller has been identified as a megamouth shark and was caught five kilometres off the coast of central Japan.

They have only been spotted 60 times since they were first discovered in 1976 - when a deep-sea anchor caught one off the coast of Hawaii.

The sharks dive as deep as 160 metres underwater during the day before rising as high as 12 metres during the night to feed.

The shark was 16ft long

Signs and Portents: Two-headed calf discovered at slaughterhouse in Obidos, Brazil

Janet Tappin Coelho , James Day
Daily Mirror
Fri, 15 Apr 2016 13:34 UTC

Gruesome remains of a malformed two-headed calf have stunned slaughterhouse staff in Brazil.

The freak creature was discovered in the womb of a slaughtered cow thought to have been too old to produce anymore offspring.

Each fully formed head had a pair of eyes, ears, nostrils and a muzzle, and each sat on separate necks attached to a single body with four legs and a shared tail.

The still born calf, weighing around 5kg and aged around seven months old, was also completely hairless .

Lightning bolt kills man in Boynton Beach, Florida

Rebeca Piccardo
Sun Sentinel
Fri, 15 Apr 2016 12:53 UTC

A 23-year-old man died after he was struck by lightning in Boynton Beach Friday, as heavy storms rolled across Palm Beach County..

The incident happened just before 6 p.m. while the man was standing under a tree in front of a house on the 200 block of North Palm Drive, police said.

The unidentified man was taken to Bethesda Medical Center, where he died, said Officer Jaclyn Smith, spokeswoman for the Boynton Beach Police Department.

Lightning kills 3 in Bangladesh

The Daily Star (Bangladesh)
Sat, 16 Apr 2016 12:39 UTC

Three people, including a local Jubo League leader, were killed in separate incidents of lightning strike during storm in Sadar and Lakhai upazilas in Habiganj this afternoon.

The deceased were identified as Ramjan Ali, 35, a resident of Paschim Bolla union in Lakhali upazila and also Jubo League president of the union, Shafiqul, 40, of Badirkara village of the same upazila and Abid Ali, 22, of Kashiar Abla village of Sadar upazila.

Sadar upazila health complex sources said a thunderbolt struck the trio while they were working in fields in their respective villages around 2:00pm, leaving them seriously injured.

Later, they were rushed to the hospital where doctors declared them dead.

Tornado kills 4, injures hundreds in southwestern Uruguay

Nelson Quinones
CNN
Sat, 16 Apr 2016 05:13 UTC

Comment: This was the first deadly tornado in Uruguay in 30 years.

A tornado ripped through the southwestern city of Dolores in Uruguay, killing four people and leaving hundreds injured, government officials said. More than 200 people suffered injuries and about 400 structures have been affected, said Uruguayan Sen. Guillermo Besozzi. Images from the city showed overturned cars piled on top of one other, shattered windows and decimated buildings.

Así quedó la oficina de mi hermana en Dolores luego del tornado. Su auto voló más de 100 mts. #TornadoDolores pic.twitter.com/6vpt7IAH7L
— Marcelo Umpierrez (@emekavoces) April 15, 2016

The tornado hit the city around 4 p.m. local time Friday. The National Institute of Meteorology has yet to determine the scale of the tornado."There are businesses in the center of the city, completely destroyed. Schools, churches destroyed. This is something never seen before. This is something out of the normal for our country," Besozzi said.

Mariela Umpiérrez, a resident of Dolores, told CNN en Español that her house, office car and those of her relatives were damaged. "The images seems taken out of a movie, but not from reality," she said. The Uruguay government pledged to send emergency help to the affected areas. There have been some looting in the area, but the government has sent officers to address it, Besozzi said.

Cause of house explosion in El Reno, Oklahoma remains a mystery

Ashley Kringen
kfor.com
Thu, 14 Apr 2016 18:00 UTC

Investigators are still trying to figure out what caused a house explosion in El Reno Wednesday afternoon.

Shortly before 4 p.m. on Wednesday, authorities were called to a home at 1120 S. Hadden in El Reno after a possible explosion.

Residents three blocks away reported hearing their windows rattle and feeling their floors shake.

El Reno officials confirm one person was injured and taken to a nearby hospital for treatment.

She remains in critical condition, according to El Reno fire officials.

Investigators still haven't been able to determine what caused the explosion.

Fire officials said they haven't found any explosives, and ONG claimed there's no evidence of a natural gas leak.

On Thursday, caution tape blocked off the damage site, not far from Hillcrest Park.

Neighbors are still shaken about the unexpected event.

"All the sudden, we just felt this vibration, this big explosion, and we didn't know what it was," said Danny Rundell.

Several killed as heavy floods hit Iran

PressTV News Videos
Youtube
Fri, 15 Apr 2016 05:53 UTC

The floods have washed away cars and blocked roads. Iranian railway authority has canceled all trains scheduled for Friday to and from the southern parts of the country. Iran's Red Crescent says 126 cities have been affected by the floods. In Khuzestan, nearly 21-hundred people have been evacuated to safer areas. Several people have been injured in the southern province while some three-hundred homes are under water in Lorestan. Iran's President Hassan Rouhani has ordered authorities to mobilize all resources available to provide relief assistance to the flood-stricken people.

Mount Aso volcano erupts after deadly earthquakes in Japan

RT
Sat, 16 Apr 2016 01:04 UTC

After a series of deadly earthquakes in Japan, a "small-scale" eruption of Mount Aso has been recorded by the Japan Meteorological Agency. However, it decided to keep the alert level at 2, as it was not immediately clear whether the natural disasters were related.

Plumes of smoke rose some 100 meters into the sky, according to local media and videos captured by witnesses. The eruption of Mt. Aso, located in southern Japan, was recorded at around 11:30pm GMT Friday.

The cicadas are coming! New brood will descend on the northeastern US

Travis M. Andrews
Washington Post
Fri, 15 Apr 2016 19:14 UTC

The eighth biblical plague that tortured Egypt was a plague of locusts.

As described in Exodus 10:5, "And they shall cover the face of the earth, that one cannot be able to see the earth: and they shall eat the residue of that which is escaped, which remaineth unto you from the hail, and shall eat every tree which groweth for you out of the field."

Flip the aforementioned "they" from locusts to cicadas, and that's actually a pretty apt description of what residents in some parts of Ohio, New York, Pennsylvania, Maryland, Virginia and West Virginia will experience next month when the soil warms to 64 degrees and billions of cicadas rise from the ground to mate. Fortunately, cicadas can't chew so they don't devour our plants and trees. If they manage to avoid predators long enough they suck up plant sap but not enough to any real damage.

75-foot by 45-foot crater swallows high school basketball court in Huntington Park, California

Strange Sounds
Thu, 14 Apr 2016 18:03 UTC

The crater measures about 75 feet by 45 feet. Regardless, class remained in session Tuesday at Linda Esperanza Marquez High School in Huntington Park, California.

The school, which opened in 2013, is built on the rubble of "a former toxic concrete mountain" known as "La Montaña."

But according to officials, there is no known correlation between the current crater and the ground beneath the school.

Sinkhole or man-made?

News channels describe the collapse in the concrete as a sinkhole. In contrast school officials argue the crater is the result of an underground water retention and recharge system built during the school's construction in 2012.

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Earth Changes

Rare 'megamouth' shark caught off Japan

Signs and Portents: Two-headed calf discovered at slaughterhouse in Obidos, Brazil

Lightning bolt kills man in Boynton Beach, Florida

Lightning kills 3 in Bangladesh

Tornado kills 4, injures hundreds in southwestern Uruguay

Cause of house explosion in El Reno, Oklahoma remains a mystery

Several killed as heavy floods hit Iran

Mount Aso volcano erupts after deadly earthquakes in Japan

The cicadas are coming! New brood will descend on the northeastern US

75-foot by 45-foot crater swallows high school basketball court in Huntington Park, California

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