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Earthquake of magnitude 6.0 rocks northeast Japan, no tsunami warning

Anwesha Majumdar
Republic World
Tue, 21 Sep 2021 10:23 UTC
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The National Center for Seismology (NCS) has informed that an earthquake of a magnitude of 6.0 struck Japan around 1:55 a.m. (IST) on September 21, Tuesday.

The earthquake shook at a depth of approximately 10 kilometres and at a distance of nearly 1593 kilometres northeast of Tokyo. The NCS wrote on Twitter, "Earthquake of Magnitude: 6.0, Occurred on 21-09-2021, 01:55:24 IST, Lat: 46.23 & Long: 152.56, Depth: 10 Km, Location: 1593km NE of Tokyo, Japan."

According to the National Center for Seismology, the earthquake has hit nearby Kuril Island, which is situated approximately 1,300 km northeast from Hokkaido in Japan. No Tsunami warning has been issued so far.
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Canary Islands: 5,000 evacuated as La Palma volcano eruptions continue

Sam Jones
The Guardian
Mon, 20 Sep 2021 07:39 UTC
Mount Cumbre Vieja erupts in El Paso
© Desiree Martin / AFP
Mount Cumbre Vieja erupts in El Paso, spewing out columns of smoke, ash, and lava as seen from Los Llanos de Aridane on the Canary island of La Palma on September 19, 2021
At least 20 homes destroyed and people told to stay away as lava pours from volcano on Spanish island

Authorities on the Canary island of La Palma have told spectators to stay away from the continuing volcanic eruptions that have forced the evacuation of 5,500 people and destroyed at least 120 homes since Sunday afternoon.

The island had been on high alert after more than 22,000 tremors were reported within a week in Cumbre Vieja, one of the most active volcanic regions in the archipelago.

Officials had begun evacuating the infirm and some farm animals from nearby villages before the eruption at 3.15pm local time on Sunday on a wooded slope in the sparsely populated Cabeza de Vaca area, according to the government.

Two hours later, with lava edging down the hillside from five fissures, the municipality ordered the evacuation of four villages, including El Paso and Los Llanos de Aridane.

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Cloud Precipitation

10 killed in West Bengal floods, India - 1.2 million people affected

Richard Davies
Floodlist
Mon, 20 Sep 2021 18:49 UTC
NDRF Kolkata carry out flood rescue and relief supplies distribution in West Bengal, India, September 2021.
© NDRF
NDRF Kolkata carry out flood rescue and relief supplies distribution in West Bengal, India, September 2021.
At least 10 people have lost their lives as a result of severe flooding in the state of West Bengal, eastern India.

National and State disaster authorities reported flooding struck in the state after days of heavy rain from 14 September 2021. The situation was worsened after dam releases from the Galudih Barrage Dam on the Subarnarekha river in Ulda in the neighbouring state of Jharkhand.

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Red Flag

Alaska volcano sparks red alert as 'major eruption' underway - 'explosions' spotted

Brian McGleenon
Daily Express
Mon, 20 Sep 2021 12:46 UTC
Satellite image of the volcano
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Satellite image of the volcano
A RED alert warning has been issued by scientists stating that a "major eruption" of an Alaskan volcano is occurring.

Volcanologists have stated that the major volcanic eruption is underway with hazardous activity both on the ground and in the air. Seismic observations represent an increase in eruptive activity at the site of the volcano. Scientists have upgraded the Aviation Color Code and Volcano Alert level to a red warning.

The volcano is called Semisopochnoi. It is located on Unyak Island, which is part of the Rat Islands group in the western Aleutian Islands of Alaska.

Observations of Semisopochnoi volcano shows an increase in ash plumes rising to 15,000 feet into the atmosphere.

The ash emissions from the volcano have increased in frequency and intensity and can be seen on satellite images rising above the weather clouds.
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Attention

4 dolphins strand on beach in Brewster, Massachusetts - 2 die


Cape Cod Times
Sat, 18 Sep 2021 12:19 UTC
Point of Rocks Beach in Brewster

Point of Rocks Beach in Brewster
Four dolphins stranded Friday at Point of Rocks Landing Beach in Brewster, according to Yarmouth Port-based International Fund for Animal Welfare.

Two of the dolphins were already dead when a team led by IFAW assistant research coordinator Kristy Volker arrived.

The remaining two — a pregnant female and a juvenile male — were transported to Herring Cove in Provincetown around 5 p.m., Volker said. Before they were released, the two dolphins were given a physical check that included an ultrasound and a blood test.
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Question

'Like nothing in my lifetime': researchers race to unravel the mystery of Australia's dying frogs

Lisa Cox
The Guardian
Sat, 18 Sep 2021 12:03 UTC
A white-lipped tree frog. Scientists are trying to unravel the cause of thousands of frog deaths in eastern Australia.
© Liam Driver
A white-lipped tree frog. Scientists are trying to unravel the cause of thousands of frog deaths in eastern Australia.
In the middle of Sydney's lockdown, scientist Jodi Rowley has been retrieving frozen dead frogs from her doorstep.

Occasionally one will arrive dried and shrivelled up in the post.

She'll pack them in ice in an esky to be taken to her lab at the Australian Museum, where even more samples - green tree frogs, striped marsh frogs and the invasive cane toad among them - are waiting in a freezer for genetic testing.

Rowley and her team, along with scientists at the Australian Registry of Wildlife Health at Taronga zoo and a forensic unit in the NSW department of planning, industry and environment, are trying to solve the mystery of what is killing Australia's frogs.

Since late July, they've collected 1,200 records of dead or dying frogs, about 70% of them in New South Wales and 22% in Queensland.
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Attention

From summer drought to a rainy harvest, Alberta weather has dealt farmers a tough hand


CBC News
Sun, 19 Sep 2021 11:46 UTC
The summer drought created lower yields for Alberta farmers, who are now racing against the clock to get their crops off the field.
© Shannon VanRaes/Bloomberg
The summer drought created lower yields for Alberta farmers, who are now racing against the clock to get their crops off the field.
When Alberta farmers needed rain, the weather was dry as a bone.

Now that harvest season has arrived and they need dry weather, the sky has brought forth showers.

"(Crops) are considerably less than what they would be on a normal year," Christi Friesen, who has a grain farm near Peace River, Alta., told CBC's Edmonton AM on Wednesday.

Friesen grows canola, barley, oats and wheat. Because of the drought that persisted through the summer, some of her crops yielded less than 25 per cent of normal, she said.

Barley, for example, normally comes in at more than 100 bushels per acre. "We're lucky to hit 30 this year," she said.
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Snowflake

Early snowfall at Crater Lake National Park, Oregon


Yahoo! News
Sun, 19 Sep 2021 19:45 UTC
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The first snow of the season dusted mountains in southern Oregon's Crater Lake National Park on Saturday, September 18, park officials said.

"Visitors were treated to dramatic skies and ever-changing shades of blue on the lake to go along with brisk gusty winds," Crater Lake National Park wrote on Facebook Sunday morning. "Today's forecast is for one more day of glorious rain and snow."

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Fire

Lava shoots up from volcano on La Palma in Spanish Canary Islands

Borja Suarez
Metro (US)
Sun, 19 Sep 2021 15:42 UTC
Lava and smoke are seen followng the eruption of a volcano in Spain

Lava and smoke are seen following the eruption of a volcano in Spain
A volcano erupted on the Spanish Canary Island of La Palma on Sunday, sending fountains of lava and a plume of smoke and ash into the air from the Cumbre Vieja national park in the south of the island.

Authorities had already begun evacuating the infirm and some farm animals from the surrounding villages before the eruption, which took place on a wooded slope in the Cabeza de Vaca area at 3:15 p.m. (1415 GMT), according to the islands' government.

Immediately after the eruption, the municipality urged residents in a statement to "exercise extreme caution", and stay away from the area and off the roads.

The population of nearby villages were told to go to one of five centres to be evacuated, and soldiers were deployed to help.

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Fire

Iceland's volcanic eruption the longest in half a century


PHYS.ORG
Sat, 18 Sep 2021 13:57 UTC
The first lava began spewing out of a fissure close to Mount Fagradalsfjall on the evening of March 19

The first lava began spewing out of a fissure close to Mount Fagradalsfjall on the evening of March 19
It will be six months on Sunday that the volcanic eruption currently mesmerising spectators near Reykjavik first began, making it the longest Iceland has witnessed in more than 50 years.

The first lava began spewing out of a fissure close to Mount Fagradalsfjall on the evening of March 19 on the Reykjanes peninsula to the southwest of Reykjavik.

And the ensuing spectacle—ranging from just a slow trickle of lava at times to more dramatic geyser-like spurts of rocks and stones at others—has become a major tourist attraction, drawing 300,000 visitors so far, according to the Iceland Tourist Board.

Iceland's sixth volcanic eruption in 20 years is already longer than the preceding one in Holuhraun, in the centre-east of the island, which lasted from the end of August 2014 until the end of February 2015.

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