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USGS: Earthquake Magnitude 7.2 - ENE of Taron, Papua New Guinea

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© USGS
Event Time
2013-07-07 18:35:30 UTC
2013-07-08 04:35:30 UTC+10:00 at epicenter

Location
3.939°S 153.882°E depth=378.8km (235.4mi)

Nearby Cities
110km (68mi) ENE of Taron, Papua New Guinea
185km (115mi) ENE of Kokopo, Papua New Guinea
311km (193mi) NW of Arawa, Papua New Guinea
374km (232mi) ESE of Kavieng, Papua New Guinea
904km (562mi) NW of Honiara, Solomon Islands

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Video summary of extreme weather events of June 2013


Comment: To put things in perspective, we have decided to put these video summaries in one place. For context on recent weather and geological changes, listen to our podcast on the subject:

Ice Age Cometh? Extreme Weather Events and 'Climate Change'





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Impressive roll cloud over Svolvær, Norway

This so called roll cloud appeared last week over Svolvær, Norway.


Sources: Nordlys.no / Lofoposten / Roy Størkersen

Ice Cube

Taber, Alberta hailstorm - 'it came down in buckets'

"There's still hail sitting around now and it's like what, noon?" said Gaylene Whitley, surveying her lawn. "It's still sitting around. It came down in buckets." For Taber residents, waking up to snow on the lawn is normal in the spring. But waking to snowdrifts in July has the town speechless.

Friday evening, large thunderstorms rolled into Taber, with hail covering streets, lawns and sidewalks. Ice pellets blocked storm sewers, flooding residential streets and sending some vehicles floating in the water. "In some spots in town I bet you there was two feet of water on the road. It was a lot of water and hail," said Taber resident Cody Cook.
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Comment: Weird weather is everywhere: Over a foot of hail covers Santa Rosa, New Mexico


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Huge waves hit Chile and Peru


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Over a foot of hail covers Santa Rosa, New Mexico


Santa Rosa, N.M. - In some areas of New Mexico Wednesday, it looked more like the night before Christmas than Independence Day Eve.

More than a foot of hail covered streets, yards and parking lots in Santa Rosa, about 100 miles east of Albuquerque. A huge thunderstorm dumped golfball-sized hail around 6 p.m.

Snow plows cleared drifting hail from the roads.

The storm caused severe damage to many homes, cars and businesses.

Meteorologists say large accumulations of hail are fairly common in northeast New Mexico because of the high elevation.

Bizarro Earth

USGS: Earthquake Magnitude 6.0 - SW of Sungai Penuh, Indonesia

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© USGS
Event Time
2013-07-06 05:05:07 UTC
2013-07-06 12:05:07 UTC+07:00 at epicenter

Location
3.237°S 100.595°E depth=23.5km (14.6mi)

Nearby Cities
154km (96mi) SW of Sungai Penuh, Indonesia
195km (121mi) WNW of Bengkulu, Indonesia
216km (134mi) W of Curup, Indonesia
252km (157mi) W of Lubuklinggau, Indonesia
617km (383mi) SW of Singapore, Singapore

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Ball lightning strikes twice in southern Russia?

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One of the damaged apartments in Emanzhelinka, southern Russia
The following excerpts come from Russia news sources concerning an apparent incidence of 'Ball Lightning' a month ago on June 5, 2013, in the village of Emanzhelinka, which lies 50 km south of Chelyabinsk, site of the overhead cometary explosion in Russia on 15th of February this year.

Bizarro Earth

Algae overwhelms beach in Qingdao, east China


Algae overwhelms a popular beach in Qingdao, east China. Officials use bulldozers to remove it. The algae boom may have been caused by pollution from industry. The region has had algae booms six years in a row, but this year's is twice as big as the previous largest in 2008. The algae is not dangerous to humans but can suffocate marine life by sucking oxygen from the water

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Terrifying power of a tornado caught on camera as it rips dome off sports arena and sends it flying over highway

Tornado ripped off the dome on Connecticut sports arena

Dome caught on film flying over highway and landing on traffic

Minutes earlier 29 children had been forced to flee Sports World Dome


The terrifying power of a tornado has been caught on film as it blew off the dome of a sports arena in Connecticut.

The giant dome was sent flying through the air over a highway where a driver caught it on his mobile phone.

The driver can be hear shouting in panic as the dome spreads out over the cars and narrowly escaped as it lands on oncoming traffic.

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Power of nature: The dome covering a nearby sports arena is lifted off by the tornado and sent flying over a highway where it was caught on camera

'Holy s***, that's nuts!,' a male voice can be heard shouting, before adding further expletives in shock.

As the dome lands on the other side of the road he can be heard breathing a sigh of relief.