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The quake occurred at a depth of 10 kilometres and struck at 10.26pm local time.
Earth Changes
The quake occurred at a depth of 10 kilometres and struck at 10.26pm local time.
Indonesia's Soputan Volcano
A volcano in central Indonesia has erupted, sending columns of thick ash as high as 7,500m into the sky.
Mount Soputan, located on the northern part of Sulawesi island, erupted twice on Sunday morning, said the country's national disaster agency.
Locals have been urged to wear masks in case of ash rain and to stay clear of the mountain in anticipation of hot ash and lava sliding down its slopes.
The quake was about 158 kilometres (98 miles) south-southwest of the province's capital Jayapura at 6:42 pm (0942 GMT), at a depth of 61 kilometres, according to the US Geological Survey.
The quake was felt in Jayapura, but residents didn't panic, a military spokesman said.
"I felt it at home," Papua's military spokesman in Jayapura Dax Sianturi said.
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The attack happened at a property in Wykes Road, Yaxley, near Peterborough, with emergency services called at 01:47 GMT on Sunday.
The boy is said to be in a "critical condition" and has been transferred to Addenbrooke's Hospital, Cambridge.
A 28-year-old woman and a man, aged 31, from Yaxley, have been arrested on suspicion of child neglect.
Comment: UPDATE: The Sun reports on the 14th December:
A BABY boy has died weeks after being savaged by his family's Staffordshire bull terriers, police said.
Reuben McNulty, aged under a month old, was attacked at his home in Yaxley, near Peterborough, last month.
The infant had spent weeks fighting for life at Addenbrooke's Hospital in Cambridge but cops confirmed he passed away yesterday.
Cambridgeshire Police say the dogs, named Fizzy and Dotty, were seized at the time but today said they have since been destroyed.
Little Reuben died in hospital after being mauled by a dog
A 28-year-old woman and a 31-year-old man, both from Yaxley, were arrested on suspicion of child neglect.
The dogs - named as Fizzy and Dotty - were seized at the time but police announced today they had been destroyed
The pair, named locally as Dan McNulty and Amy Litchfield, have been released under investigation.
The death is not being treated as suspicious and has been handed to the coroner.
Relatives of Reuben had been holding a vigil at his hospital bedside when he died.
Dan's sister Stacey McNulty posted on social media that she was "feeling heartbroken" at around 11am yesterday.
She earlier wrote: "Bye [sic] your side all the way, Dan McNulty and Amy Litchfield (McNulty).
"So proud of my little angel of a nephew. We love you so much."
The baby suffered "life-threatening injuries" and was taken to Peterborough City Hospital in the early hours of November 18.
The newborn was then transferred to Addenbrooke's Hospital in Cambridge where he remained in a critical condition.
On November 20, Amy's dad Paul Litchfield visited the unemployed couple's home where the attack happened.
He insisted that Reuben had been injured in a "freak accident" and that both Amy and Dan were good parents.
Speaking from the £160,000 two-bedroom flat, Mr Litchfield said: "They're not going to be here for months now because that kid is not good bless him.
"Even the parents are in a bad way.
"At the end of the day it's just a big freak accident and everyone's making a big thing of it.
"They've done nothing wrong and the way it's being portrayed at the minute, they're horrible parents.
"They bloody aren't, they've been fantastic.
"If they were horrible parents they wouldn't be sitting with that young lad now.
"People need to realise there's always two sides to the story.
"The thing is there's a lot at stake here for everybody, not just them, for us as well, as family."
Following the incident, a man at the property who did not want to be identified, said: "They're in bits, they're devastated."
A neighbour who lived opposite the couple's flat claimed he told them to 'be careful' around the dogs after bringing Reuben home from hospital last month.
Asking not to be named, the man said: "He (Dan) was showing people his new baby because he was so proud of it.
"When he showed me the pictures, I said be careful because those dogs might not be used to the baby.
"I know what dogs are like when they get jealous.
"He said I will do. He said, 'Me and Amy were thinking about that anyway'.
"I can't work out what happened."
Amy, 31, posted pictures of a newborn baby, believed to be Reuben, less than a month ago on social media.
Photos of Fizz and Dotty also appeared on her Facebook profile.
Another neighbour described the dogs as 'vicious'.
The man said: "I have seen those dogs before and they are vicious and will show their teeth at anyone.
"If that family left that poor baby on its own with those vicious dogs they should be locked away for many years.
"Any parent that would leave their poor little baby in the presence of those dogs is incredibly irresponsible."
He told how he was woken by police sirens in the early hours of Sunday, November 18.
"I was woken in the middle of the night to sirens and bright lights and I was worried," the man said.
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The dead dolphin found at Karioitahi beach.
The dead dolphin found at Karioitahi beach.
The body of a juvenile dolphin was found on Karioitahi Beach in the Franklin district by members of the public who reported it to DOC.
The species is critically endangered and found only on the west coast of the North Island.
If confirmed this would be the third Māui dolphin death reported to DoC this year.
Comment: See also this report from October: Rare Māui's dolphin found dead on a beach at Te Akau, New Zealand
A Christmas party at a Pakenham housing estate in the city's outer southeast was called off Saturday afternoon when heavy rainfall halted celebrations.
Organiser Samantha Thorpe said a little pond nearby became "like a raging river".
"It has never happened like this before."
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A pedestrian walks along a flooded street in the south of Melbourne on Thursday
A pedestrian walks along a flooded street in the south of Melbourne on Thursday
With more than a month's worth of rain already fallen across parts of northeast Victoria as wild weather rages across the state, authorities say some people have not heeded warnings about driving into floodwaters.
"We've seen people that have had to be rescued from the roofs of their cars, 17 people in total, and 100 people have been stranded just to the south of Wangaratta," Victoria State Emergency Service chief officer Tim Wiebusch told reporters.
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The news cycle is largely distraction from increasing food prices and societal changes as Earth shifts to a cooler climate. As the Eddy Grand Solar Minimum intensifies, a 400-year cycle in our Sun is affecting crop production, the economy and everyone on our planet.
This is a timeline for what you can expect from now to 2030 as the frequency from our Sun changes...
Topics from the interview:
- Magnetic Field weakening on Earth
- Volcanic winter if a VEI6-7 occurs during the Eddy Grand Solar Minimum
- Decreasing charge of Earth's Ionosphere leads to increased volcanic activity
- Global Electric Circuit
- Electric Universe
- Late Antique Little Ice Age and SO2 in the air globally
- Galactic Cross
- Victor Clube
- Continental climate in both Asia and N. America will cool faster than other parts of the globe
- Interweaving of long term cycles coming together in our lifetimes
- Dimensional reality splits as energetic changes sweep the spiral arm of our galaxy
- New reality aggregating and condensing
- Hyper-dimensional view of reality
Comment: See also: Adapt 2030 Ice Age Report: Interview with Laura Knight-Jadczyk and Pierre Lescaudron
Review of Earth Changes and the Human-Cosmic Connection. The book is available to purchase here.
Seismic activity and other geological phenomena increased in November. A 6.3 degree earthquake in Iran and a 7.0 in Anchorage, Alaska, to mention the most significant. Meanwhile, volcanoes in Guatemala, Russia, Mexico, and Italy all sprung into action and India and Saudi Arabia were affected by huge earth cracks that are becoming more common around the world. The earth appears to be 'opening up'.
Heavy rain, floods and big hail have become the new normal - even in some countries' dry season - causing hundreds of deaths this month, failed crops and infrastructure damage. Kuwait, Vietnam and Sydney paid a heavy toll, but the Middle East and Italy were the most affected. Record extreme weather did serious damage to Italy with hurricane like wind gusts, fiery storms and heavy floods causing the death of 30 and heavy damage to crops and entire forests destroyed.
The sheets of rain that have been falling have also been causing liquefaction of the soil that has provoked landslides in Panama, Costa Rica, Brazil , Peru and Ecuador, to name just a few. Much of the downpours - in combination with increasingly low temperatures caused by the solar minimum - also caused heavy early snowfalls that surprised many.
Meteor fireballs also gave us quite an spectacle this month, but in a rather unusual event, four meteor fireballs blazed over southern Spain, two of them sighted within 2 hours.
Watch our summary below:
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Texas had more rainfall this fall than in recorded history - which dates back to 1895 - and tropical weather disturbances had nothing to do with it, Texas Department of Licensing and Regulation Meteorologist George Bomar said to Texas Media Directory.
A total of 15.27 inches, averaged statewide, was more than double the normal for the season that runs from Sept. 1 to Nov. 30, according to TMD, with the Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex receiving about 29.21 inches.
Gayle White of Cleburne - who has an official weather gauge from NBC DFW - measured 4.88 inches in September, 10.73 inches in October and 3.35 inches in November.
Comment: See also: 6.1-Magnitude earthquake strikes eastern Indonesia