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The humongous chunk of ice calved from the western side of the Ronne Ice Shelf in Antarctica.
The humongous chunk of ice calved from the western side of the Ronne Ice Shelf in Antarctica.
The finger-shaped chunk of ice, which is roughly 105 miles (170 kilometers) long and 15 miles (25 kilometers) wide, was spotted by satellites as it calved from the western side of Antarctica's Ronne Ice Shelf, according to the European Space Agency. The berg is now floating freely on the Weddell Sea, a large bay in the western Antarctic where explorer Ernest Shackleton once lost his ship, the Endurance, to pack ice.
The 1,667-square-mile (4,320 square kilometers) iceberg — which now the world's biggest and has been called A-76, after the Antarctic quadrant where it was first spotted — was captured by the European Union's Copernicus Sentinel, a two-satellite constellation that orbits Earth's poles. The satellites confirmed an earlier observation made by the British Antarctic Survey, which was the first organization to notice the breakaway.
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A strong blast occurred on the nearby Aeolian island of Stromboli just before 15.00 this afternoon, the latest in an "intense phase of renewed volcanic activity," according to INGV.
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Another vigorous eruption, lasting about 11 minutes, occurred at 04:48 local time this morning at the volcano.
According to PVMBG volcano observatory, a dense dark ash plume rose to estimated 6 km altitude and drifted east and south.
The explosion also triggered pyroclastic flows (gravity-driven mass flows) over the E-SE slopes reaching length of at least 3000 m.
The surroundings of labská Bouda in the giant mountains remain covered with a large layer of snow even in mid-May. The situation is being exploited by cross-country skiers.
There is even so much snow that even a snow blower was unable to bite through the huge barriers to the Elbe shed.
"According to driver Jaroslav Palivoda, who has been milling the road for 37 years, he has experienced this only three or four times in all those years.
On Thursday, the snow blower finally bit through the snow barriers at the Hanče and Vrbata mounds.
See video.
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Magnitude: 6.7
Depth: 10.0 km
Epicenter latitude / longitude: 33.24°S / 109.57°W
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Siegen Calais Apartments
Siegen Calais Apartments
The National Weather Service declared a flash flooding emergency for Ascension, East Baton Rouge, Iberville and Livingston.
People from around the region posted photos on social media showing streets going underwater, and some people reported water entering their homes.
St. George Fire Department crews made a number of water rescues of people who drove into high water, spokesman Eldon Ledoux said. He and other local officials urged people to stay off the roads unless absolutely necessary.
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An aerial view of a street flooded by water from the Negro river, where people walk over wooden walkways installed by the city hall in downtown of Manaus, in Amazonas State, Brazil May 17, 2021.
An aerial view of a street flooded by water from the Negro river, where people walk over wooden walkways installed by the city hall in downtown of Manaus, in Amazonas State, Brazil May 17, 2021.
Across the state of Amazonas, more than 400,000 people have been affected by flooding, said the state's Civil Defense service, many of whom were evacuated as water levels climbed.
The Rio Negro river was rising by about 3 centimetres (1 inch) a day and on Monday streets in the centre of Manaus were already under water, according to city hall.
Reader Darren Cornish shot the photo above of a funnel cloud forming out of the stormy skies.
And Andy Popham captured the video below over the village of Mark near Burnham-On-Sea.
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