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'Major' sinkhole opens in Dorchester County, South Carolina

Mark Davenport
live5news.com
Mon, 15 Jul 2013 12:14 UTC
sinkhole SC
Another sinkhole has cropped up in the Lowcountry, according to the South Carolina Department of Transportation.

SCDOT spokesman Bob Kudelka said a washout closed Wire Road in Dorchester County on Monday. Wire Road is located about half a mile from the Orangeburg County line in Reevesville.

On-site SCDOT engineer David Pilch said the first warning of a sinkhole came Sunday night on a call by the South Carolina Highway Patrol.

Pilch says when his crews arrived in the morning, the sinkhole was five feet wide and several feet deep. Those measurements changed early in the afternoon when Kudelka reported the sinkhole grew to 10 feet deep and seven feet wide.

Monday morning both lanes of Wire Road were closed.
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Question

Mystery as 300 stingrays are found washed up on Mexican beach


Mail Online
Wed, 17 Jul 2013 11:59 UTC
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Beached: Stingray carcasses litter the shore of the Chachalacas beach near the town of Ursulo Galvan on Mexico's Gulf Coast
Mexican authorities are investigating the death of at least 300 stingrays found on a beach of the Gulf coast state of Veracruz.

Residents and visitors first spotted the dead rays on Tuesday on the Chachalacas beach in the town of Ursulo Galvan and posted photos on social media.

Ursulo Galvan Mayor Martin Verdejo says it's possible the stingrays could have been abandoned by fishermen after being trapped in their nets.

Upon realizing they were unlikely make much profit from their sale, they simply emptied their nets along the beach.

Others say the dead came rays were washed ashore by the waves at sunrise.
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Red Flag

Mysterious animal die-off around the world in July 2013 - bees, whales, fish


strangesounds.org
Wed, 17 Jul 2013 10:13 UTC
In the following article, you will find a compilation of animal, mammal and fish die-offs around the world. Keep safe and care about the environment.

Three killer whales found dead near Fraser Island off the Queensland coast (Australia) - SMH, NINMSN, SKY NEWS

A third killer whale carcass has been found by wildlife rangers at Fraser Island, off the southern Queensland coast. The whale was discovered late on Friday in a creek north of Kingfisher Bay on the island by Queensland Parks and Wildlife Service staff. The discovery comes two days after two whales, believed to be a mother and calf, died on Wednesday when their pod became stranded on a sandbar in the Great Sandy Strait which separates the island from the mainland.


Hundreds of bluefish surfacing dead in and around Shinnecock Bay (New York) - HISZ

Hundreds of bluefish are turning up dead off the coast of Long Island - and nobody knows why.
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Bizarro Earth

USGS: Earthquake Magnitude 6.0 - W of Chivay, Peru


US Geological Survey
Tue, 16 Jul 2013 23:25 UTC
Chivay Quake_170713
© USGS
Event Time
2013-07-17 02:37:42 UTC
2013-07-16 21:37:42 UTC-05:00 at epicenter

Location
15.635°S 71.773°W depth=6.6km (4.1mi)

Nearby Cities
18km (11mi) W of Chivay, Peru
88km (55mi) NNW of Arequipa, Peru
148km (92mi) NE of Camana, Peru
151km (94mi) WSW of Ayaviri, Peru
399km (248mi) WNW of La Paz, Bolivia

Technical Details
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Bizarro Earth

USGS: Earthquake Magnitude 6.0 - W of Panguna, Papua New Guinea


US Geological Survey
Tue, 16 Jul 2013 19:10 UTC
PNG Quake_160713
© USGS
Event Time
2013-07-16 09:35:54 UTC
2013-07-16 19:35:54 UTC+10:00 at epicenter

Location
6.309°S 154.782°E depth=44.3km (27.5mi)

Nearby Cities
77km (48mi) W of Panguna, Papua New Guinea
84km (52mi) W of Arawa, Papua New Guinea
353km (219mi) SE of Kokopo, Papua New Guinea
520km (323mi) E of Kimbe, Papua New Guinea
666km (414mi) WNW of Honiara, Solomon Islands

Technical Survey
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Arrow Down

Louisiana sinkhole depth exceeds estimates official says


The Town Talk
Tue, 16 Jul 2013 17:14 UTC
sinkhole
© Gerald Herbert/AP
Texas Brine, Inc. spokesman Sonny Cranch highlights work being done to remediate the approximately 22-acre sinkhole, seen behind him, last month in Bayou Corne.
An Assumption Parish official says the deepest part of the 22-acre sinkhole near Bayou Corne is at least 500 feet deep, and not between 110 to 220 feet deep that has been estimated by Texas Brine.

John Boudreaux, director of the Assumption Parish Office of Homeland Security, said previous depth reports released by Texas Brine Co. may have been inaccurate because the company's sonar did not penetrate debris fields inside the sinkhole.

The swampland hole emerged last August after a Texas Brine salt dome cavern failed deep underground. That failure forced the evacuation of 350 residents for almost a year.

Comment: Watch here as a local attempts to measure the depth of the sinkhole... and runs out of line!



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Cloud Lightning

Huge storm brings hail, multiple tornadoes to Saskatchewan, Canada

Lauren Strapagiel
Canada.com
Tue, 16 Jul 2013 16:47 UTC
Storm
© BRYAN SCHLOSSER/Regina, Leader-Post
Dark clouds as the storm passed near Regina, Sask. on Monday, July 15, 2013.
It was a wild day of weather yesterday in parts of Saskatchewan as a large storm cell made its way through the province.

Much of the southern part of the province were put on alert with tornado and severe thunderstorm watches through the afternoon and evening. Although it wasn't quite as "Oklahoma-style" as Weather Network chief meteorologist Chris Scott predicted on Twitter, it sure packed a wallop.
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Cloud Precipitation

Monster hail storm causes major damage in Irricana, Alberta, Canada

Sara Wilson
Rocky View Weekly
Tue, 16 Jul 2013 16:30 UTC
Residents of Irricana, are cleaning up after a monster thunderstorm rolled through town July 6, leaving more than a foot of hail in its wake.


Life-long residents are stunned as photos and stories emerge of the devastation of the storm.

"Never in all my years," David Butters, resident of Irricana since 1974 said, while showing off the flooding and destruction along First Street. "I've never seen anything like this."

He's not the only one.
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Info

Deadly oak disease 'spreading' in UK

Helen Briggs
bbc.co.uk
Mon, 15 Jul 2013 14:19 UTC
The government is stepping up monitoring of a disease thought to pose a serious threat to UK oak trees.

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The problem is on the rise in England
Acute Oak Decline, which causes weeping patches on the stems of mature trees, is on the rise in England, particularly in the Midlands and the South East.

A national survey has been commissioned as part of a new £1.1m research drive.

Thousands of trees are thought to be affected, the Forestry Commission's lead scientist on the condition told Radio 4's Farming Today.

"This is a serious problem in the UK," said Dr Sandra Denman.

"So far we've only seen it in England, but because we haven't done any formal surveys we're unsure as to the full extent of the problem.

"But we do estimate that there are many thousands of trees that are affected."

Scientists believe a beetle may be responsible for the disease.

They are also trying to isolate and identify a bacteria found on the dying trees that might be linked to the infection.

Little is known about the rate of spread of the disease and whether all oak trees are at risk.
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Bizarro Earth

'Very anomalous weather pattern' - Heat wave building into the Ohio Valley and eastern United States


NASA
Tue, 16 Jul 2013 10:21 UTC
A very anomalous weather pattern is in place over the U.S. for mid-July. Trapped between an upper level ridge centered over the Ohio Valley and the closed upper level low over the Texas/Oklahoma border, atypical hot, muggy air is stifling a broad swath of the eastern U.S. The closed low is expected to drift west toward New Mexico bringing heavy, localized rain to some areas and temperatures running 10-20 degrees below mid-July averages. Across the east, temperatures will warm well into the 90's and stay there through the week. This image was taken by the GOES East satellite at 12:45 p.m. EDT on July 15, 2013.
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© NOAA/NASA
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