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Earthquake Magnitude 5.3 - 18km SE of Volcano, Hawaii


US Geological Survey
Thu, 08 Jun 2017 18:58 UTC
volcano HI map
© USGS
Magnitude: 5.3

Location: 19.335°N 155.119°W

Depth: 8.0 km

Origin Date/Time: 2017-06-08 17:01:19.390 UTC
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Bizarro Earth

Widening earth crack spreads to 5 km in Manipur, India


E-Pao.net
Thu, 08 Jun 2017 01:02 UTC
Manipur earth crack
Kangpokpi earth crack spreads to 5 Kms
The earth crack at Kalikhola area in Kangpokpi district has already affected a stretch of 5 Km radius approximately with the fissure widening every passing hour while the more than 250 victims sheltered at the temporary relief camp are facing water and power shortage apart from other numerous difficulties.

While the earth fissure at Kalikhola area has widened today one house near the PMGSY road collapsed this morning while more paddy fields and huge trees have caved in and more land have slid down.

Two huge water bodies have been formed near Kalikhola village today while one electric post was also badly damaged.

The origin of the earth fissure is below J Songtun village and it slid down towards Kalikhola village developing larger fissure in the areas and has expanded to a radius of 5 Km approximately now.

The PMGSY road connecting IT road and Kalapahar via Makuli has also slid down about 300 metres from the original site.

All water pipelines have been badly damaged.

Comment: A science professor claims that the phenomenon is an effect of massive landslide triggered by heavy rainfall in the deforested hill slopes which are laden with thick soil cover.

Some other signs of earth 'opening up' in recent times include:

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Snowflake

More snow for the Rockies and Cascades

Robert W. Felix
Ice Age Now
Thu, 08 Jun 2017 14:25 UTC
rocky montain snow
Six or more inches (15 cm) of snow are possible this weekend across the highest elevations of the Washington and Oregon Cascades.

Several inches of snow could also hit higher parts of Idaho, western Montana, western Wyoming, northeast Utah, and northern Colorado into Tuesday, according to the Weather Channel.

With temperatures running 10 to 20 degrees colder than average at times, snow levels are forecast to fall to between 5,000 and 6,500 feet.

Where's all that vaunted global warming?!!

Thanks to Dean Koehler, Craig Adkins and Gordon Broussard for this link

Comment: And Summer is just a few weeks away:
Ski resorts open on six continents as snow falls or remains on slopes worldwide
California's endless winter: 8 feet of snow remains on the ground in June

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Bizarro Earth

Massive Kaua'i Sinkhole Reveals Source of 1586 Tsunami


Maui Now
Thu, 08 Jun 2017 14:08 UTC
maui sinkhole
© R. Butler (L), Gerard Fryer (R), GoogleMapsMakauwahi sinkhole
Research of coral deposits at a massive sinkhole/cave on the island of Kauaʻi has revealed the origin of a tsunami that hit Sanriku, Japan in 1586.

The study determined that the Japan event was caused by a mega-earthquake measuring greater than a magnitude 9.5 from the Aleutian Islands that broadly impacted the north Pacific. A team of researchers led by Dr. Rhett Butler, geophysicist at the University of Hawai'i at Mānoa, re-examined historical evidence around the Pacific including coral fragments deposited into the Makauwahi Cave on Kauaʻi.

The Makauwahi geological feature is situated in a hardened sand dune about 100 meters from the ocean in the Māhāʻulepū area, and is the "only well-documented paleotsunami deposit in Hawaiʻi from the 16th century." An earlier study estimated the probability of a 9+ Magnitude earthquake in the Aleutian Islands, and its power to create a mega-tsunami in Hawai'i.
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Cloud Lightning

Lightning strikes kill 57 within 10 weeks in Myanmar (Burma); compares to 10 deaths for roughly the same period in 2016

Myint Kay Thi
The Myanmar Times
Thu, 08 Jun 2017 13:32 UTC
lightning
From April to end of May last year 10 people died from lightning strikes, but this year the figure has risen to 57 between April and June 6, with another 18 people injured, according to the Department of Relief and Resettlement.

Apart from Chin State, there were casualties in other states and regions. Deaths from lightning strikes were highest in Ayeyarwady Region with 14, while Bago Region had eight deaths, Tanintharyi Region had seven, Magwe Region had six and Yangon Region had five.

There were also fatalities and injuries from strong winds. According to the department's figures for March to May 26, 19 people were killed and 30 people injured by strong winds, which also destroyed more than 13,000 houses and about 160 religious buildings.

"In the past few years, cumulonimbus clouds have been forming in a wider area, even in Ayeyarwady, Bago and Yangon. This year, there has been more lightning and hailstorms from these clouds and we have had more reports of people being hit by lightning," U Kyaw Moe Oo, deputy director general of the Department of Meteorology and Hydrology, said Wednesday.
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Fire

'The whole town is burning': Deaths, mass evacuations as fire sweeps Knysna, South Africa


RT
Thu, 08 Jun 2017 13:33 UTC
Fires burn at Buffelsvermaak farm near Knysna, South Africa
© Simone Terblanche / Reuters Fires burn at Buffelsvermaak farm near Knysna, South Africa June 7, 2017.
Eight people are dead and 10,000 have fled their homes as an enormous fire sweeps through the town of Knysna, South Africa.

Numerous homes have been gutted by the blaze that started on Tuesday and grew rapidly when a storm passed over the Western Cape town.

Western Cape local government spokesman James-Brent Styan confirmed in a statement that up to 10,000 evacuations had taken place in the town of 77,000 residents.

"The fire in Knysna is the largest and most destructive fire in a built-up area in the Western Cape in recent memory with thousands displaced. It comes on the back of the worst storm seen in the Western Cape in at least 30 years," Styan said.

Comment: More on the unfolding South Africa disaster: Storm wreaks havoc in Cape Town, South Africa

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Cloud Lightning

Lightning strikes kill 6 across Bihar, India


The Statesman
Thu, 08 Jun 2017 13:26 UTC
lightning
At least six people, including children and women, were killed after being hit by lightning across Bihar as heavy rains lashed a large part of the state on Wednesday, the Bihar State Disaster Management Authority said.

Four people, including two women and one girl child, in Dhaamdaha block in Purnea district and two people including a woman in Aaryaari block in Sheikhpura district.

The state government has announced a compensation of Rs.4 lakh each to the affected families.

A large part of Bihar including Patna on Wednesday received medium and heavy rainfall. These were pre-monsoon showers, according to local Met department officials, adding that the state will continue to witness pre-monsoon showers over the next 48 hours.

Source: Indo-Asian News Service
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Snowflake

Drought followed by snow for storm-ravaged Western Cape, South Africa

Justin Deffenbacher
Times Live
Thu, 08 Jun 2017 13:04 UTC
Sutherland this morning.
© Snow Report SA‏Sutherland this morning.
Last week the Western Cape government declared the province a disaster area because of the severe drought.

This week residents were warned to stay indoors to escape the wrath of the worst storm Cape Town had seen in 30 years. Gale force winds, rain, and now a thick blanket of snow has covered certain areas.

The storm that battered the city throughout Wednesday moved inland to Matroosberg, turning the torrential downpour into snow. Employees and guests at Matroosberg lodge awoke to a 10 cm of snow.

"The amount of snowfall we received is a lot for this time of the year. We have had people from Cape Town calling all day to come see it and enjoy," lodge manage Didi de Kock said.

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Snowflake

Ski resorts open on six continents as snow falls or remains on slopes worldwide

Patrick Thorne
In The Snow
Thu, 08 Jun 2017 12:45 UTC
Snow slope
With the start of the ski season in Southern Africa, ski areas are open on six continents simultaneously, as of this weekend.

This is partly thanks to the fact that resorts will open for their winter or summer ski seasons on five continents this weekend.

Fresh snow has also fallen or is reported to be due to fall over the weekend in the Alps, Western North America, Africa, Australia, New Zealand and south America, so it's a snowy June picture on ski slopes worldwide.

About half a dozen ski areas are still operating in each of Europe and North America (with Val d'Isere and Whistler Blackcomb due to re-open for summer glacier skiing this weekend and Mammoth pictured still open since last season) and the Gassan spring and summer ski area in Japan, Asia is also open in the northern hemisphere.
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Attention

New eruption at Poas Volcano in Costa Rica

Laura Alvarado
The Costa Rica Star
Tue, 06 Jun 2017 12:28 UTC
June 2 Poas Volcano activity.
© National Seismology networkJune 2 Poas Volcano activity.
The National University's Volcanology and Seismology Research Institute (OVSICORI) reported an eruption that reached 1,000 meters above the crater, 3,708 meters above sea level (12.162,24 ft.), began at 8:50 a.m. local time this Tuesday and was still in progress at 10:05 a.m.

This past Friday, June 2 the Poás Volcano registered constant activity with small size eruptions and redcolumns of gases and ash, on Saturday some activity continued but Sunday and Monday there were no new eruptions although there was an intense column of steam and gases emanating from the crater.
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