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3 people killed by lightning as heavy rains flood Guangxi, China


South China Morning Post
Mon, 18 May 2015 18:33 UTC
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© Xinhua
Residents clear debris from a river in Ronghsui county.
Three people died from lightning strikes in mainland China's Guangxi area and an unknown number of others were missing in floods as heavy rain hit the autonomous region, state media reported.

More than 60,000 people in 11 counties were affected by the storms, Xinhua reported.

The "six horses" statue - an attraction in the Li River - has been almost completely submerged by floods, according to reports.

Local governments had evacuated more than 2,400 people, Xinhua reported. At least 152 houses collapsed and nearly 700 were damaged, it said. Twelve rivers had high water levels and traffic was blocked in remote regions

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Twisted weather: 19 tornadoes wreak havoc, down power in central US states (images)


RT
Sun, 17 May 2015 17:04 UTC
tornado damage
© Reuters / Mike Stone
A cowboy hat lies among the debris of destroyed homes after a tornado swept through the area the previous night in Van, Texas May 11, 2015.
At least 19 tornadoes have struck the mid-US this weekend damaging homes and causing blackouts, according to weather channels. The worst affected states are Oklahoma and Texas, which were hit by hail and destructive storms.

Minnesota, Oklahoma, Texas, Missouri, Kansas, Nebraska, Wyoming, Iowa and Louisiana have all witnessed the wayward and harsh whims of May's weather.

A tornado touched down near the town of Ogden in Iowa, on Sunday.


On Saturday, a "multi-vortex" tornado hit southwest of the towns of Murdock and Rosen in Minnesota on Saturday. Broken Arrow in the northeastern part of Oklahoma also reported a twister, which caused structural damage and power outages in the area. A separate and large tornado struck southwestern Oklahoma.

"Elsewhere in Oklahoma, tornadoes were reported 9 miles [14 km] south of Anadarko, near Meers and Elk City along Interstate 80," the Weather Channel said.

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Arrow Down

At least 33 killed in Colombian landslide


BBC
Mon, 18 May 2015 16:17 UTC
landslide in Columbia
At least 33 people have been killed in a landslide in Antioquia province in north-west Colombia, officials say.

The director of Antioquia's Disaster Prevention Department told local media 20 people had been injured.

Heavy rains caused the river Liboriana to burst its banks, triggering the landslide.

Much of the village of Santa Margarita, south-west of the provincial capital Medellin, was reportedly swept away when the landslide hit early on Monday.

Police in Antioquia put the number of dead at 39.
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Second eruption in 2015 at Piton de al Fournaise volcano


Volcano Discovery
Sun, 17 May 2015 15:03 UTC
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A new eruption, so far small, began this Sunday at 13:45 from a fissure vent at the the southeast slopes of the Dolomieux crater inside the Enclos next to the Château Fort cone.

An intense seismic crisis with 5-7 earthquakes per minutes started 55 minutes before the onset of the eruption, as magma pushed its way to the surface. A few minutes after the beginning of the quakes, significant deformation of the Dolomieu crater rim could be measured as well.

The prefecture of La Réunion triggered alert phase 2 and closed access to the Enclos.

The new eruption seems to be similar in its (small) size and vent location as the last one that occurred between 4-16 February this year. Both probably originate from a same shallow magma reservoir that by early 2015 had grown enough to produce eruptions at the surface.

Frequent (several per year), but generally small eruptions have been a typical feature of Piton de la Fournaise during much of the volcano's recent past decades.

Comment: Reports of eruptions and volcanic activity since May 1:



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Sinkhole closes street in Belhaven, Mississippi

Roslyn Anderson
WLBT News
Mon, 18 May 2015 14:19 UTC
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© WLBT
A sinkhole closes a busy street in Belhaven raising concerns after several days of rain.

The ground gave way at the intersection of Poplar Boulevard and Kenwood Place Friday.

Carey Armstrong tells us she saw the pavement dipping when she drove over it on her way to the grocery store, and 15 minutes later she returned and saw the gaping hole.

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Attention

Herd of elephants trample man to death in Bengal, India


indileak.com
Mon, 11 May 2015 13:34 UTC
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Soren was gored to death by the elephants
With shrinking forests owing to increasing human pressure, the man-animal conflict is on the rise. The latest in this regards is the killing of a man by a wild elephant in the forests of Bankura district of West Bengal on Monday.

This unfortunate incident occurred in Gokul Mathura village under Barjora Forest Range in the district when a herd of elephants gored a man to death in Bankura district, said a forest official.

He said that an old man whose name was Biswanath Soren and was around 65 years old, was sleeping under bamboo thickets on the edge of forest when a herd of at least a dozen elephants while passing through the area attacked him.
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Sinkhole suddenly appears in Drammen, Norway


norwaytoday.info
Fri, 15 May 2015 13:15 UTC
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The sinkhole in Drammen
Two trees disappeared one and a half meter into the ground as a sinkhole suddenly appeared outside the entrance to the college BI at Greenland in Drammen Thursday night.The sinkhole outside the building Papirbredden, which includes the economic college BI and the college of Buskerud and Vestfold, was five times five meters.

The depth is estimated to be one and a half meters as two trees at the site fell one and a half meters into the ground.It was the police themselves who discovered the sinkhole when a police car passed the place just before 22.30pm, writes the local newspaper Drammen Tidende

.An eyewitness informs local newspaper that the ground just collapsed while the paper's own reporter mentioned that the hole was several meters deep- It looks like a big mud pool and several meters deep.
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Dump truck hangs over edge of huge sinkhole in Niagara Falls, New York


wkbw.com
Fri, 15 May 2015 13:06 UTC
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© Scott Lasker
Sinkhole in Niagara Falls
Scott Lasker sent WKBW this incredible picture of a sinkhole in Niagara Falls.

Lasker says the roughly 8-by-12-foot hole opened up right by Rt. 104. The truck is one in his fleet. Lasker is employed by Mallare Enterprises and is working on a state construction job at De Veaux Woods State Park.

There were no injuries.

State Parks officials say the hole opened over an old water cistern that was buried.

The area around the sinkhole has been secured and crews are working to free the dump truck.
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Attention

Dozens of dead diamondback terrapins found on beaches in Flanders Bay, New York

Katie Blasl
riverheadlocal.com
Wed, 13 May 2015 12:26 UTC
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© Peter Blasl
Nick Mancuso, a state wildlife technician, collects bodies of dead turtles from Iron Point in Flanders this morning.
Dozens of dead turtles have been washing up on beaches along Flanders Bay— with little explanation as to what is killing them.

The bloated bodies of dozens of diamondback terrapins, a species of turtle that can be found in coastal wetlands along the East Coast, have been found scattered across the shores of several Jamesport and Flanders beaches since late April.

"A woman called who said her daughter had seen a hundred turtles dead on the beach," said Jim Divan, Riverhead Town Bay Constable. "I was like — a hundred turtles? That sounds crazy."

But when he arrived at the beach, residents there told him they'd taken "about 100 of them" from the beach over the weekend.

"I've never seen anything like it," Divan said. "They were all dead."

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Snowflake Cold

More snow in autumn shows that South Africa is in for a very cold winter


traveller24.news24.com
Tue, 12 May 2015 16:44 UTC
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Snow on the mountains in Elliot, Eastern Cape
Warnings of a bitterly cold winter this year is fast becoming a reality for South Africans, as snow fall was reported again this weekend in the higher parts of the country and Lesotho on Sunday, 10 May.

Snow fall was reported to Snow Report SA's Facebook page by travellers on the Sani Pass in KwaZulu-Natal, and from Lesotho's AfriSki Mountain Resort.

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Snow at Sani Mountain Lodge
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