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Wrong time, wrong place: Bowhead whale from Arctic waters seen off the coast of Cornwall, UK; only second time recorded in Europe

W B Gayle
West Briton
Mon, 16 May 2016 14:23 UTC
Bowhead whale

Bowhead whale spotted off Cornish coast
Marine experts were left flabbergasted after a whale paid a visit to a Cornish beach over the weekend.

The bowhead whale, which was seven metres long, was seen in shallow wasters at Long Rock Beach near Penzance yesterday.

There were fears it would become beached but fortunately the lone adventurer turned around and made its way back out to sea.

Posting on Facebook, Marine Discovery Penzance, which provides tours in the area, said: "So, flabbergasted doesn't begin to cover it

"There have been two confirmed sightings of this species in Europe and both of them were in Cornwall.

"The previous one was in the Isles of Scilly in February 2015, so it's possible that this was the same bowhead whale, though it would be impossible to tell.


Comment: See also: Rare Arctic bowhead whale seen for the first time in UK waters

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Millions of tuna crab die mysteriously along coast of Ensenada, Mexico


Strange Sounds
Mon, 16 May 2016 09:08 UTC
Dead crabs
Are these mysterious mass die-offs along the Pacific coast going to decrease or what?

Now thousands of tuna crab have washed ashore on beaches in Ensenada, Mexico.

There is currently something going wrong along the American Pacific coast.

Almost every day, an catastrophic animal die-off is being reported... But nobody knows why.

Some officials name red tides and El Nino, or even natural death as origins... But there may be something more terrifying behind.

I don't know what you think about these apocalyptical signs, but animals dying are never a good omen.

After California, this latest mass die-off was reported in Ensenada, Baja California on May 14, 2016, where beaches turned completely red! Blood red.


Comment: See also: Thousands of tuna crabs found in Imperial Beach, California

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Fire

Guatemala's Volcan de Fuego erupts, prompting evacuations


RT
Wed, 18 May 2016 18:45 UTC
Guatemala’s Volcan de Fuego
© Conred / Facebook
A volcanic eruption at Guatemala's Volcan de Fuego, one of the most active volcanoes in Central America, has sparked the evacuation of the area surrounding the peak.

Guatemala's National Institute for Seismology and Vulcanology are reporting that an ash column reaching 5,500 meters (18,000 feet) above sea level has emerged, while "moderate" lava flow is pouring out of the mountain.

"This pyroclastic flow was accompanied by moderate rumble of the volcano [and] fallen ash is reported in the villages of El Rodeo, La Rochelle, Osuna, Panimache, Morelia, Sangre de Cristo and Yepocapa," a statement by the government agency confirmed.

The alert also recommends that people steer clear of the canyon near the volcano.

Bombero de Antigua, a disaster relief team in the area, has tweeted that at least one school has been evacuated in the municipality of Alotenango.
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Fire

Earthquake swarms reported at Mt. Hood, Mt. Rainier and Mt. St. Helens: Is a major eruption imminent?

Michael Snyder
End of The American Dream
Tue, 17 May 2016 00:00 UTC
Volcanic eruption
Is an eruption of one or more of the major volcanoes in the northwest United States imminent? In recent days, very large earthquake swarms have been reported at Mt. Hood, Mt. Rainier and Mt. St. Helens. It is certainly not unusual for each of these volcanoes to experience earthquake swarms from time to time, but right now we are seeing this happen at all three volcanoes simultaneously, and this comes at a time when seismic activity along the Ring of Fire is on the rise all over the planet. If you have followed my work for a while, then you probably already know that I have been consistently warning that an eruption of Mt. Rainier is coming, and of course Mt. Hood and Mt. St. Helens are exceedingly dangerous volcanoes as well. If any one of the three were to erupt on a massive scale, it would instantly become the biggest news story of the year.

Mt. St. Helens

Many of my older readers remember the devastating eruption of Mt. St. Helens back in 1980 very well. This volcano is probably not as dangerous as Mt. Hood, and it is definitely not as dangerous as Mt. Rainier, but a full-blown eruption could still do an immense amount of damage to nearby communities.

Over the past couple of months, there has been a very disturbing series of earthquakes at Mt. St. Helens, and just within the last 30 days there has been a total of 103 quakes. In this article, I am going to share with you a series of maps that come from the Pacific Northwest Seismic Network via Google Earth. On this first map, you can see that the earthquake swarm that has been striking Mt. St. Helens in recent days is centered right at the core of the volcano...
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Cloud Lightning

3 rhinos and other animals killed by lightning bolt that 'shook the ground for miles' in West Bengal, India

Simon Tomlinson
Daily Mail
Wed, 18 May 2016 20:55 UTC
Cut down in their prime: The family had been living in the reserved forest at Gorumara National Park in India's West Bengal state for more than a decade

Cut down in their prime: The family had been living in the reserved forest at Gorumara National Park in India's West Bengal state for more than a decade
Three members of a rhino family have been killed by a lightning strike at an Indian national park.

A 27-year-old female, a 14-year-old calf and a baby rhino were found dead after they were struck by a bolt that 'shook the ground' for miles, officials said.

The family had been living in the reserved forest in Gorumara National Park in India's West Bengal state for more than a decade.

Uma Rani, Jalpaiguri district's forest officer, said: 'The deaths were caused by lightning. It was an unprecedented accident.

'Some other animals have also died and we are checking the forests.'

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Fire

Mount Etna in Sicily erupts spewing ash and smoke hundreds of metres into the skies


The Local.it
Wed, 18 May 2016 15:42 UTC
Mount Etna eruption May 2016
© INGV
The volcano's north-east crater at 13:42pm on Wednesday.
Sicily's Mount Etna is erupting again.

Europe's most active volcano has spent the last 24 hours sending huge plumes of ash and smoke hundreds of metres into the skies above Sicily.

The 3350-metre high volcano began to stir on Tuesday, with emissions from its north-east crater growing in intensity throughout the day.

"On May 17th we witnessed an increase in the amplitude of volcanic tremors and recorded intense degassing accompanied by occasional, weak emissions from the north-eastern crater," explained the Catania branch of Italy's National Vulcanology and Geophysics Institute (INGV).

Vulcanologists are classing the eruption as 'Strombolian' - a category characterized by explosive bursts of activity during which cinder, ash and smoke are ejected from the crater with great force.

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Rainbow

Circumhorizontal arcs spotted in Alabama's Tennessee Valley

Christina Edwards
WHNT News 19
Mon, 16 May 2016 19:19 UTC
Check out this really cool photo that Kim Johnson sent us from Arab, at approximately 11:30am Monday.
Circumhorizontal arc Arab, AL
© Kim Johnson
Arab, Alabama
Kim described it as a "straight rainbow just hovering in the sky at Arab City Hall."

Cindy Bryan saw something similar, too, in Fort Payne -- about 45 miles east as the crow flies.
Circumhorizontal arc in Alabama
© Cindy Bryan
Fort Wayne, Alabama
While it looks like a rainbow and it belongs in the atmospheric optics family, this phenomenon is actually a circumhorizon arc. It is a halo that is located beneath the sun, parallel to the horizon.

Circumhorizon arcs occur when sunlight passes through plate-oriented ice crystals suspended in the sky; these ice crystals are what make up high, thin clouds like cirrus and cirrostratus clouds, located about 16 thousand to 50 thousand feet above the ground.

As the sun rises higher in the sky, sunlight enters a portion of the ice crystal that is nearly vertical before exiting out the flat, horizontal bottom. As it does so, the light refracts and produces bright, prismatic colors. Often, the colors are more vibrant and pure than those seen in a rainbow.

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Cloud Lightning

Three killed by lightning strikes in Thailand and Cambodia; 30 dead for the latter in first 5 months of 2016

Khouth Sophak Chakrya
Phnom Penh Post
Wed, 18 May 2016 18:19 UTC
Lightning strike
Two Cambodians working on a farm in Thailand's Rayong province were killed by lightning on Monday.

A border communications officer, who asked to remain anonymous, said the victims were a mother and a son from Battambang province.

Their bodies were sent to Cambodia yesterday via border checkpoint 400, to be handed over to their relatives for a funeral. Their names were not immediately available.

Separately, 64-year-old farmer Hoern Plorng was struck down while cutting bamboo during a storm in O'Chrou district in Banteay Meanchey yesterday, according to district police chief Ee Cheng Sokha.

National Committee for Disaster Management (NCDM) spokesman Keo Vy said yesterday that Plorng's death was the 30th lightning fatality in Cambodia since the start of the year.

According to a May 17 NCDM report, lightning this year has killed 30 and injured 35 people, compared to 18 deaths and seven injuries in the first five months of 2015.
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Attention

Second powerful earthquake of the day hits Ecuador: Magnitude 6.8

Gonzalo Solano
abcnews.go.com
Wed, 18 May 2016 18:02 UTC
quake
© El Comercio/AP
Two powerful earthquakes jolted Ecuador on Wednesday, a magnitude 6.7 early morning temblor followed by a 6.8 shake near midday.

The extent of damage from the second quake was not immediately clear, though President Rafael Correa announced on Twitter some areas along the coast had lost power and said schools would be cancelled nationwide as a precaution. The first caused little serious damage.

Both appeared to be aftershocks of a magnitude 7.8 quake a month earlier.

The U.S. Geological Survey said the second quake hit at 11:46 a.m. (12:46 p.m. EDT; 1646 GMT) and was centered along the coast below land about 15 miles (24 kilometers) north of the city of Rosa Zarate.

The earlier quake was centered less than 10 miles (about 10 kilometers) away and struck shortly before 3 a.m. local time. Both are less than 100 miles (155 kilometers) west-northwest of the capital, Quito.
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Second whale washes up on the beaches of Spain within a week


Spanish News Today
Wed, 18 May 2016 17:38 UTC
Dead whale
Another whale beaches on the beach of Matalascañas in Huelva

Following the discovery last week of a live whale calf on the beach of Punta del Moral in Ayamonte, in the province of Huelva (Andalucía), a second beached whale was found on the Atlantic coast on Tuesday in Matalascañas, around a hundred kilometres further east.

The animal, which measured 9.5 metres in length, was found dead on the beach of Asperillo, and despite the fact that this incident occurred so close to Ayamonte and such a short time afterwards the Department of the Environment in the regional government reports that there is no reason to conclude that there is any relation between the two deaths.

The responsibility of removing the dead whale from the beach lies with the Town Hall of Almonte.
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