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At least 9 killed as Typhoon Mitag lashes South Korea


PHYS.ORG
Thu, 03 Oct 2019 09:57 UTC
Typhoon Mitag left floods and landslides in its wake after it lashed South Korea
Typhoon Mitag left floods and landslides in its wake after it lashed South Korea
At least nine people were killed and several others missing after Typhoon Mitag lashed South Korea with heavy rain and strong winds, authorities said Thursday.

The storm hit southern parts of the country on Wednesday night, prompting flood warnings and triggering landslides in affected areas.

A total of nine people were killed across the country as of Thursday afternoon, the Ministry of Interior and Safety said, but the toll was expected to rise with several people missing.

A woman in her 60s was found dead after her home was buried in a landslide in the southern port city of Busan and around 600 rescue workers were trying to locate three others believed to be trapped beneath the rubble.

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Plasma? Mysterious 'fireball' that crashed in Chile was NOT meteor say scientists


RT
Thu, 03 Oct 2019 00:16 UTC
Chile
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Mysterious "fireball"-like objects spotted blazing through the sky over Chile were not meteors, government scientists say, in a finding sure to enthuse UFO buffs the world over.

Residents of Dalcahue, a port city on the southern island of Chiloé, took to social media last week with reports of the unidentified flying objects, some sharing photos of the phenomenon. The "fireballs" reportedly crash-landed at a number of locations around the town.

Chile's National Geology and Mining Service soon gathered scientists to investigate the strange bright objects, dispatching teams to some seven sites on Chiloé to take samples. In a statement issued over the weekend, the scientists concluded they "found no remains, vestiges or evidence of a meteorite" left behind by the "luminous and incandescent" objects.

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Ice Age Farmer Report: The US has no grain reserves - Feed/seed shortages


Ice Age Farmer
Thu, 03 Oct 2019 09:45 UTC
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The US liquidated in 2008 the Strategic Grains Reserve -- a little known and unsettling fact that merits discussion as we witness global wheat production dropping and massive crop losses worldwide. Rains keep tractors out of the fields and wash away cover crop seeds in parts of the midwest, raising concern among farmers -- and, ultimately, food prices. Start growing your own food today.


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Cloud Precipitation

Hurricane Lorenzo: Storm 'possibly strongest in 20 years' rips through the Azores

Rachael Kennedy
EuroNews
Wed, 02 Oct 2019 08:43 UTC
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Residents on Portugal's Azores islands were hunkered down on Wednesday amid a deadly hurricane that has been described by local authorities as possibly the"strongest" in the last two decades.

Hurricane Lorenzo is sweeping along the western edge of the Azores, having knocked down trees and brought possibly life-threatening water currents with winds of up to 90mph.

Local authorities closed roads, schools and non-emergency public services on Wednesday as the Category 1 hurricane reached the archipelago.

It also knocked out power for those on the worst-affected island of Flores, where Portugal's metereological service predicted waves could reach up to 25 metres.

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2019 was one of the coolest years on record in the US

Tony Heller
YouTube
Wed, 02 Oct 2019 08:22 UTC
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The past 12 months have been one of the coolest years on record in the US. The US climate is getting less extreme, even as the heatwave propaganda ramps up to record levels.


Comment: Well, let's not go too far. There may be an overall cooling trend, but we cannot say say that extreme weather is decreasing...

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Popocatepetl volcano in Mexico lights up the night sky


SBS News
Wed, 02 Oct 2019 07:38 UTC
Popocatepetl
Mexico's Popocatepetl volcano erupted overnight in a dramatic show of ash, smoke and gas. Authorities have advised locals to keep their noses and mouths covered from falling ash and gases.

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Lightning strike kills 3 family members in northern Ethiopia

Mu Xuequan
Xinhua
Wed, 02 Oct 2019 07:20 UTC
lightning
A lightning strike in Ethiopia's Amhara regional state located in the northern part of the country has killed a family of three, an Ethiopian official said on Wednesday.

Dejen Wodage, Chief Police Inspector of Waghimera zone in Amhara regional state, said a lightning strike on a residential house on Monday evening left a father and his two children dead, reported state media outlet Ethiopia News Agency.

Wodage said a four-year-old child who was badly injured in the lightning strike is currently being treated in a nearby medical facility.

Ethiopia is in the midst of a rainy season which started in July and is expected to last until early October, which occasionally causes landslides and lightning strikes in some parts of the east African country.
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7 days of Tropical Storm Narda leaves a trail of damage on Pacific coast of Mexico, killing at least 2


Mexico News Daily
Wed, 02 Oct 2019 16:10 UTC
Washed-out bridges and mudslides cut off many communities in Guerrero.
Washed-out bridges and mudslides cut off many communities in Guerrero.
Tropical storm Narda left a trail of damage along Mexico's Pacific coast as it moved northward during the past seven days, hitting the states of Oaxaca and Guerrero particularly hard.

The storm claimed the lives of two people in Oaxaca: a 23-year-old man and a 17-year-old boy who were swept away by floodwaters while trying to cross rivers in the municipalities of San Pedro Mixtepec and San Jerónimo Coatlán respectively.

About 300 homes and at least 11 schools were damaged in the southern state as was the hospital in Tutupec, a municipality halfway between Puerto Escondido and Pinotepa Nacional.

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Earthquake swarms impact Texas, Oklahoma, San Francisco and New Madrid fault zone

Michael Snyder
End of the American Dream
Tue, 01 Oct 2019 00:00 UTC
new madrid fault zone
There is a whole lotta shaking going on in America right now, and many people are concerned about what that could potentially mean. Could it be possible that the U.S. is entering a more seismically active time? This week alone, we have seen earthquake swarms in Texas, Oklahoma, San Francisco and the New Madrid fault zone. Of course earthquakes happen every day, but to see so many earthquake swarms happen in such diverse places within such a compressed period of time is definitely unusual. And what makes this even more unusual is the fact that Rosh Hashanah just ended. In fact, the earthquake swarm that we just witnessed in Texas started on Rosh Hashanah with a magnitude 4.0 quake near the town of "Snyder"...
In just over 12 hours, Texas experienced not one earthquake, but four, experts say.

Three quakes were centered near the town of Snyder — just south of the Texas panhandle — with a fourth centered near the Fort Worth area, according to the United States Geological Survey. The first and strongest of the cluster hit just after 4:45 p.m. Monday about 12 miles north of Snyder and measured magnitude 4.0.
That was the strongest earthquake in Texas so far this year, and it was followed by a magnitude 3.8 earthquake near Snyder, a magnitude 3.2 earthquake just south of Fort Worth, and a magnitude 2.5 earthquake near Snyder.

Comment: See: Five earthquakes in less than an hour rattle southeast Missouri, part of the New Madrid Seismic Zone

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Man attacked by black bear 3 times in northwestern Ontario


Global News
Tue, 01 Oct 2019 08:49 UTC
black bear
A Winnipeg man says he is lucky to be alive after suffering severe bites from a bear that attacked him three times near his cottage in northwestern Ontario.

Dave Schwab, who is 69, says he was finishing his walk near Kenora last Thursday when he spotted a black bear about 100 metres ahead of him in some bushes.

Schwab, an experienced hiker, says he made noise and the bear seemed to walk away, but it didn't leave the area and started following him before it attacked and bit his thigh and arm.

Comment: Bear attacks increasing worldwide

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