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Magnitude 5.5 earthquake hits near the island of Crete in Greece


Global News
Wed, 25 May 2016 10:36 UTC
quake
© El Comercio/AP
Greek authorities say a strong earthquake with preliminary magnitude 5.5 has occurred off the southern island of Crete, but no damage or injuries have been reported.

Athens University's Geodynamic Institute says the undersea quake struck at 11:36 a.m. Wednesday, 30 kilometres (19 miles) south-southeast of Crete's southeastern tip.

Greece is one of the world's most seismically active countries, with hundreds of earthquakes recorded every year from several faults. But severe damage or injuries are rare.
#Earthquake 5.5R 30Km SSE of #Crete. Minor #power disruptions were reported in Heraklion pic.twitter.com/VO2AAqd8BV

— Thanasis Mitsakos (@TMitsakos) May 25, 2016
In 1999, a strong earthquake near Athens killed 143 people, levelling some buildings and causing extensive damage to others.
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Snowfall record hit on May long weekend in Fort St. John, Canada

Dwight Ford
Energetic City
Tue, 24 May 2016 10:22 UTC
Snow on Friday May 20, 2016 set a one day record for Fort St. John.

Snow on Friday May 20, 2016 set a one day record for Fort St. John.
The month of May has again lived up to its weather reputation in this region with record one day snowfall and precipitation amounts on Friday pushing monthly totals well past the norms.

The local airport weather station posted 19.4 centimetres of snow on Friday, and along with 1.2 millimetres of rain, that lifted the precipitation total to 20.6 millimetres.

The previous May 20th records were 18.8 millimetres of precipitation and only 1.6 centimetres of snow.

In addition when the Friday numbers were added to those posted Thursday, it resulted in two day snowfall and precipitation totals of 20.2 centimetres and 33.2 millimetres.

The latter was more than three and half times the amount of precipitation recorded at the airport station in the previous 18 days of this month, and it left the year-to-date total at 44.7 millimetres, nearly seven more than the May norm of 37.9.
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India's roads melt as 'unprecedented' record-breaking heat wave continues

Alexandra Sims
The Independent (UK)
Mon, 23 May 2016 06:46 UTC
melting road in India
© NDTV/ YouTube
A man becomes stuck in melting tarmac as the heat wave in India continues

Temperatures hit a record-breaking 51C in the city of Phalodi, Rajasthan on Friday

India's on-going heat wave, which set a new record for the country's highest-ever recorded temperature last week, is melting tarmac on the roads of some of India's busiest cities.

Residents in the city of Valsad, Gujarat, had to fight melting tar while crossing the road as temperatures rose to 36C.

Video footage from NDTV shows people becoming trapped on a melting road surface as their shoes stick in the softening tarmac.

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Tornado hits town in central Serbia


B92
Tue, 24 May 2016 15:50 UTC
tornado over Jagodina, Serbia
© YouTube/Milos Lukic (screen capture)
The town of Jagodina in central Serbia on Tuesday afternoon experienced a strong storm, with a tornado-like "landspout" forming in the sky.

The storm lasted half an hour, while the rotating column of air - a rare meteorological occurrence in Serbia - dissipated after about 15 minutes.

State broadcaster RTS said the Radar Center in Besnjaja reported that anti-hail missiles were fired into the storm clouds in the area, while small hailstones fell in Cuprija, Jagodina, and surrounding villages.


Comment: This week in Europe other 'rare' tornado-like phenomena have been reported in the UK, Germany, Bulgaria and the Czech Republic.

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Australian town overrun by bats; state of emergency issued


Global News
Tue, 24 May 2016 21:29 UTC
gray headed flying foxes
© Reuters
Work was underway on Tuesday to eradicate thousands of bats from the Australian town of Batemans Bay, in New South Wales, with local government officials labelling the situation as a "state of emergency,' local media reported.

There are more than 100,000 bats that made their home in the coastal town south of Sydney, creating problems for local residents, according to local media.

The New South Wales state government says it will commit about US $1.8 million to help the local council disperse the bats, known as grey-headed flying foxes.
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Attention

Another dead whale found along Aquidneck Island's coastline in Rhode Island

Ryan Belmore
whatsupnewp.com
Tue, 24 May 2016 20:11 UTC
Dead whale
© Jessica Pohl
Visitors to Ocean Loop at Sachuest on Tuesday morning discovered a small dead whale had washed ashore.

This is the second whale to wash ashore on the coast of Aquidneck Island in the last two months, in April a dead humpback whale washed ashore Hazard's Beach in Newport. There have also been reports of whales washing up on the shore of Long Island, Block Island and Cape Cod in recent weeks.

Folks on scene this morning at Sachuest believed the dead whale to be a small Minke Whale.

According to the American Cetacean Society, the minke whales is the smallest member of the rorqual family of whales (those whales with baleen, a dorsal fin, and throat pleats). Adult males average about 8 m (26 feet) with a maximum length of 9.4 m (31 feet), while adult females average 8.2 m (27 feet) with a maximum length of 10.2 m (33 feet). Both males and females weigh about 10 tons. Both sexes are slightly larger in the southern hemisphere.

Comment: Recent reports (last 2 months) from this part of the world: Rare Right whale calf found dead off Chatham, Massachusetts

Dead 7-ton minke whale found on beach in Biddeford, Maine

Dead Humpback whale washes up on Duxbury Beach, Massachusetts

Dead humpback whale washes up on beach in Newport, Rhode Island

Dead humpback whale washes up on Block Island, Rhode Island

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Attention

Dead whale washed ashore in Shelter Cove, California

John Ross Ferrara
Lost Coast Outpost
Mon, 23 May 2016 19:54 UTC
Dead whale
© Philip W. Young
A big dead whale washed up on Black Sands Beach in Shelter Cove on Sunday.

Shelter Cove Resort Improvement District General Manager Philip Young told the Outpost via email that some people reported seeing the whale being attacked by sharks before it washed ashore.

"There are some reports that it was still alive when it washed ashore, others said it was attacked by sharks while in the water," Young said. "The photos will reveal very few bite marks, and certainly none that are fatal, nor persistent bites on its pectorals and tail. Photos of the head reveal marks which could be 'ulcers or body sores,' an indication it might have been sick. Lastly, the vertebrae towards the tail as pronounced, indicating it might have been malnourished. It's body is already starting to bloat from internal decay."
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Fire

More than 15,000 hectares of forest burnt in Russia over past 24 hours


TASS
Tue, 24 May 2016 19:37 UTC
Wildfire
© Zorikto Dagbayev/TASS
Wildfires have consumed some 24,500 hectares in the last 24 hours across Russia, destroying more than 15,000 hectares of forest, the aerial forest protection service Avialesookhrana said on Tuesday.

Firefighters have managed to extinguish 131 wildfires on the total area of 13,300 hectares. The effort involved almost 5,500 people as well as 838 pieces of equipment and 26 aircraft.

As of Tuesday, some 128 wildfires engulfed the area of more than 77,000 hectares in Russia. The wildfires are raging in the Amur Region in the Far East, the Republic of Buryatia and the Trans-Baikal Territory in East Siberia. The fire hazardous situation has been registered in 81 Russian regions.

The wildfire area in the Trans-Baikal Territory has grown to 22,400 hectares over the past 24 hours, the region's forestry service said. Some 742 people are battling the fires in the region, including paratroopers. A state of emergency has been declared in the local forests.
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Landslides kill at least 20 in Taiz, Yemen

Ali Aweida
Turkish Weekly
Tue, 24 May 2016 18:34 UTC
Landslide
Landslides in Yemen's mountainous southwestern Taiz province have killed at least 20 people, the country's SABA news agency (currently run by the Shia Houthi group) reported on Monday.

The landslides, which were triggered by heavy rainfall, also reportedly left dozens injured.

Rescue workers have so far failed to reach the affected area due to rough terrain, prompting fears that the death toll may rise further.

Different parts of Yemen have been pounded by heavy rainfall over the last week, claiming a number of lives and causing an indeterminate number of injuries.
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Cloud Lightning

4 killed and 3 injured by lightning strikes in Bihar, India


Business Standard
Tue, 24 May 2016 18:13 UTC
Lightning strike
Four persons were killed while three others injured when lightning struck them at different parts of Bhagalpur district today.

Kahalgaon Sub-Divisional Officer Arunabh Chandra Verma said the victims were working in their farm and orchards in different police station areas of the district this morning when they were struck by thunder bolt as the district was lashed by a squall.

The deceased have been identified as Ajit Uraon (10) of Malkhanpur village under Shivnarayanpur police station area, Munna Modi (38) and Barun Modi (40) of Khanpur village under Pirpainty police station area and Mohammad Shamsher Khan (28) of Ukgara village under Budhuchak police station area of the district.

The four injured were Surya Uraon (13), Rohit Uraon (12) and Manisha Kumari (13), all residents of Malkhanpur village, the SDO said adding that they were being treated at a private clinic while the bodies have been sent to Jawaharlal Nehru Medical College and Hospital, Bhagalpur for post-mortem.

Verma said that each of the family of the deceased would get Rs 4 lakh as compensation from Disaster Management Fund.

Source: Press Trust of India
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