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Sinkhole Opens Up in Bay Ridge, Brooklyn


NBC
Sat, 30 Jun 2012 15:40 UTC
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© NBC 4 New York
Eleven families were evacuated from their homes on 92nd Street but have since allowed to return home

Eleven families were evacuated from their homes in Bay Ridge, Brooklyn Thursday evening when a 60-foot sinkhole opened up in front of their buildings, officials said.

They have since been allowed to return to their homes on the 200 block of 92nd Street.

Crews are continuing repairs at the site of the sinkhole.
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Better Earth

Tunguska, Psychopathy and the Sixth Extinction

Laura Knight-Jadczyk
Sott.net
Sat, 30 Jun 2012 04:33 UTC
Tunguska

How the Tunguska object may have appeared.
One hundred and four years ago today, on the night of 30 June and 1 July, one of the most extraordinary events in modern history occurred.
The first reports of a strange glow in the sky came from across Europe. Shortly after midnight on 1 July 1908, Londoners were intrigued to see a pink phosphorescent night sky over the capital. People who had retired awoke confused as the strange pink glow shone into their bedrooms. The same ruddy luminescence was reported over Belgium. The skies over Germany were curiously said to be bright green, while the heavens over Scotland were of an incredible intense whiteness which tricked the wildlife into believing it was dawn. Birdsong started and cocks crowed - at two o'clock in the morning. The skies over Moscow were so bright, photographs were taken of the streets without using a magnesium flash. A captain on a ship on the River Volga said he could see vessels on the river two miles away by the uncanny astral light. One golf game in England almost went on until four in the morning under the nocturnal glow, and in the following week The Times of London was inundated with letters from readers from all over the United Kingdom to report the curious 'false dawn'. A woman in Huntingdon wrote that she had been able to read a book in her bedroom solely by the peculiar rosy light. There were hundreds of letters from people reporting identical lighting conditions that went on for weeks... (Tom Slemen)
None of the people witnessing this strange phenomenon had any idea that, in the central Siberian plateau, just after 7:15 a.m. local time, the planet had been hit by a cometary impactor that exploded - as most such impactors do - in the atmosphere just above the Earth's surface.
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Better Earth

Stunning Map Reveals World's Earthquakes Since 1898

Andrea Mustain
Live Science
Sat, 30 Jun 2012 09:00 UTC
If you've ever wondered where - and why - earthquakes happen the most, look no further than a new map, which plots more than a century's worth of nearly every recorded earthquake strong enough to at least rattle the bookshelves.
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© John Nelson/IDV Solutions
More than 100 years of earthquakes glow on a world map.
The map shows earthquakes of magnitude 4.0 or greater since 1898; each is marked in a lightning-bug hue that glows brighter with increasing magnitude.

The overall effect is both beautiful and arresting, revealing the silhouettes of Earth's tectonic boundaries in stark, luminous swarms of color.

The map's maker, John Nelson, the user experience and mapping manager for IDV Solutions, a data visualization company, said the project offered several surprises.

"First, I was surprised by the sheer amount of earthquakes that have been recorded," Nelson told OurAmazingPlanet. "It's almost like you could walk from Seattle to Wellington [New Zealand] if these things were floating in the ocean, and I wouldn't have expected that."

In all, 203,186 earthquakes are marked on the map, which is current through 2003. And it reveals the story of plate tectonics itself.
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Question

Mysterious Bubbles in Bayou Corne, Louisiana coincide with homes subsiding and shaking

Kiran Chawla
WAFB
Fri, 29 Jun 2012 15:20 UTC
Mysterious Bubbles
© WAFB
Assumption Parish, LA - Mysterious bubbles are rising up out of an Assumption Parish bayou. Officials are trying to figure what's causing them.

Take a ride down Bayou Corne, and there are bubbles of all sizes along the waterway.

"We have reported on May 30th a pipeline leak, which started us coming out and investigating a bubbling in Bayou Corne," said Assumption Parish Homeland Security Director John Boudreaux.

Since then though, pipeline officials have not ruled that out just yet, but said it's unlikely. So now, investigators are going through the process of elimination.

By coincidence, since the bubbling began, many in Assumption Parish are worried

"Our houses shifting and cracks in our sheet rock and our foundation," said Jason Hugh.

"My home moved, and my home shook. My home moved, and I'm on cement," said Debra Charlet.

Officials don't know yet whether the two are related. Boudreaux has taken samples of the bubbles and sent them off for testing. Those samples are expected back in the next couple of weeks.

Officials are monitoring the bubbles twice a day. As for now, no evacuations have been issued and the waterways remain open.

Click here for more information.
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Question

Strange Sound Reported in San Diego

R. Stickney, Lauren Steussy and
NBC San Diego
Fri, 29 Jun 2012 20:02 UTC
San Diego
© Getty Images
Residents from Chula Vista to Oceanside reported a large rumble around 12:45 p.m. Friday.

The mysterious sensation was described by some people as sounding like a door slamming while others said it was strong enough to rattle windows.

A check of the U.S. Geological Survey website showed no earthquake activity.

NBC 7 San Diego's Dagmar Midcap was in Del Mar at the time and described it as a "Sonic 'rumble'" She tweeted, "according to my contacts at USGS, not seismic but rather sonic."

Two months ago, when San Diegans heard a similar sound, there was evidence of chaff on weather radar. Chaff is a material sometimes emitted during military exercises.

On Friday, however, Tina Stall with the National Weather Service said there was no visible chaff in the area at the time the noise was reported.

The mysterious sound had both residents and experts scratching their heads. Scripps Institution of Oceanography scientist Kristoffer Walker said he felt it too, and looked into microphones recorded from MCAS Miramar.

Evidence from his research revealed an answer.
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Bizarro Earth

USGS: Earthquake Magnitude 6.3 - Northern Xinjiang, China


US Geological Survey
Fri, 29 Jun 2012 21:53 UTC
Xinjiang Quake_290612
© USGS
Date-Time
Friday, June 29, 2012 at 21:07:32 UTC

Saturday, June 30, 2012 at 05:07:32 AM at epicenterTime of Earthquake in other Time Zones

Location
43.444°N, 84.725°E

Depth
18 km (11.2 miles)

Region
NORTHERN XINJIANG, CHINA

Distances
99 km (61 miles) S of Dushanzi, China

141 km (87 miles) SW of Shihezi, China

218 km (135 miles) WSW of Changji, China

219 km (136 miles) NNW of Korla, China
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Phoenix

Northern Cheyenne Reservation Burning


Indian Nation
Thu, 28 Jun 2012 17:46 UTC
The Ashland Creek fire on the Northern Cheyenne Reservation outside Billings, Montana, continued to rage on Wednesday and Thursday, with no sign of containment, authorities said.

As it surpassed 110,000 acres on Wednesday, three towns were evacuated and the people taken to Lame Deer 21 miles away, according to KULR TV in Billings. But Lame Deer is without power, so 700 people were crowding into the shelter there looking for food and other assistance.

"We've had quite a few families that are actually displaced," Geri Small, of the Boys and Girls Club of Northern Cheyenne, to the television station. "Their homes burned, and they don't have nothing. Some don't even have their shoes on."
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Cloud Lightning

Superstorm smashes UK as flash-flooding and 5-inch long hailstones cause widespread damage

Rob Cooper and Jaya Narain
Daily Mail
Thu, 28 Jun 2012 15:15 UTC
A huge clean-up operation was being carried out in parts of Britain today after yesterday's downpours brought flooding chaos to parts of the country. Hailstones as big as golf balls pummelled parts of Leicestershire after black thunderclouds descended. Residents reported cars being dented and damaged by the ice, some even smashing windows.

Torrential storms also left hundreds of homes flooded and motorists having to be rescued from their vehicles. At the storm's peak, 153 lightning strikes were being recorded every minute. The Environment Agency has 10 flood warnings in place in the Midlands, North East and North West, but the worst of the weather looks to be over.

Forecaster Nick Prebble, said: "Today there will be a mixture of sunshine and showers across the UK with temperatures cooling off. "Most parts of Britain could experience the odd passing shower during the day, but the focus of the heavy downpours will be across Scotland. "Northern parts could also have a few thunder storms but the weather doesn't appear to be as severe as yesterday."

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© North News and Pictures Ltd
Floodwaters rise around stranded cars as the rain teems down in Heaton, Newcastle upon Tyne where roads were transformed into lakes in a matter of seconds
Additional pictures
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Igloo

Sweden Records One Of Its Coldest and Wettest June Months Since Records Began In 1786

P Gosselin
NoTricksZone
Fri, 29 Jun 2012 14:58 UTC
The English language Swedish online news site The Local.se reports on how the weather in Sweden has been so far during the month of June: wet & cold.

Sweden
© Wikipedia, taken by Mark A. Wilson, Department of Geology, The College of Wooster
Chilly June hits Sweden.
According to the Swedish Meteorological and Hydrological Institute (SMHI), temperatures have been well below average in June, at just 13.3 degrees Celsius. Normal is 15.2°C.

On June 2, the temperature in Stockholm rose only to 6°C, the coldest high in 84 years, read more here. Earlier in the month one town recorded a temperature of 6°C below zero - the coldest June temperature in Sweden in 20 years. Snow even blanketed parts of northern Sweden.
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Sun

Two Suspected Deaths in US Heat Wave

Ian Cummings
The Kansas City Star
Thu, 28 Jun 2012 04:54 UTC
heatwave
© unknown

Kansas City's current heat wave is suspected as the cause of two deaths, one of them a one-year-old boy.

The Kansas City Health Department announced Thursday that the county medical examiner is investigating the deaths of the child and a 60-year-old man as the first suspected heat-related deaths of the year.

No other [sic] details were available.

The metro area, along with eastern Kansas and all of Missouri, remains under an excessive heat warning expected to continue into next week.

Thursday's high hit 106 at Charlie Wheeler Downtown Airport and 105 degrees at Kansas City International Airport. The heat index reached as high as 108, according to the National Weather Service.

Temperatures are expected to back off a little for the weekend, but not much. The lowest we can expect will be about 100 on Sunday.

After that, the forecast is more heat, and lots of it.
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