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Swarm of 7 earthquakes hit off Oregon coast

Kohr Harlan
KOIN 6
Mon, 01 Jun 2015 05:46 UTC
USGS monitoring station
© KOINThe wall of earthquake monitors at the USGS monitoring station in Vancouver, June 1, 2015
A series of earthquakes struck off the Oregon coast early Monday, but scientists said they weren't strong enough to trigger tsunamis.

The first came at magnitude 5.8. It struck about midnight Sunday and was followed by three quakes early Monday. They were of magnitude 4.3, 5 and 4.4. A fifth struck around 1:13 p.m. and registered at a 5.9 magnitude.

At 7:50 p.m., a 3.9 magnitude earthquake was recorded off the Oregon coast. Then at 8:11 p.m., a 4.2 magnitude trembler was felt.

A ground motion sensor near Mt. Hood picked up all of the ocean quake activity, highlighted by red indicators on screens at the U.S. Geological Survey offices in Vancouver.

They struck at a fault nearly 300 miles west of Coos Bay, Oregon. They were relatively shallow, at 6 miles deep.

KOIN 6 News wanted to know if these quakes could mean we're closer to a big offshore quake, like the one that rattled the region more than 300 years ago.

"These earthquakes are happening in a totally different part of the system and aren't really relevant in a physical way," USGS seismologist Seth Moran said.

According to Moran, Monday's quakes are on a fault line farther out to sea than the much more dangerous fault line right off the Oregon coast. That closer fault line — the Cascadia-Subduction Zone — has caused huge quakes in the past and is currently building up pressure.
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Windsock

Cyclone caused passenger ship carrying 450 people to sink abruptly in Chinese river


RT
Mon, 01 Jun 2015 22:17 UTC
Cyclone causes ship to sink on Yangtze River
© Reuters / Chen ZhuoRescue workers are seen near the site where a ship sank, in the Jianli section of the Yangtze River, Hubei province, China, June 2, 2015.
A ship carrying more than 400 people and some 50 crew members from the eastern Chinese Jiangsu province to the southwestern city of Chongqing has sunk in the Yangtze River, according to local officials. Only 13 people are said to have been rescued so far.

The vessel sank Monday night in the Jianli County, Hubei Province, according to the Yangtze River Navigation Administration cited by Xinhua. The ship, named Dongfangzhixing (Eastern Star), was heading to Chongqing from the city of Nanjing, the capital of Jiangsu Province.


The boat was carrying 405 passengers, five travel agency workers and 47 crew members at the time of the accident, the agency reported.According to CCTV, the captain and chief engineer of the ship are now in police custody.

Rescue operations began during the night. Five individuals, whose bodies were recovered, have been confirmed dead. The Ministry of Transport said 13 people have been saved so far.Among the survivors in Jianli, Hubei, is an 85-year-old woman.



According to Dongfangzhixing's captain and chief engineer, who were among the rescued, the ship abruptly sank after being hit by a cyclone. Both have been detained by police for questioning, Xinhua news agency reported.

Strong wind and heavy rain are still hampering the rescue work.
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Bizarro Earth

Dunedin, New Zealand jolted by strongest quake in 41 years

Susan Strongman
The New Zealand Herald
Mon, 01 Jun 2015 23:17 UTC
Dunedin Quake
© ThinkstockThe quake was 7km deep.
The 4.7-magnitude earthquake that rocked parts of Otago last night was believed to be the strongest experienced in the region since 1974.

It struck at 11.17pm at a depth of 7km, centred 2km northeast of Lee Stream, some 30km west of Dunedin.

The quake was felt in various parts of Otago, but there were no immediate reports of injury or damage.

Adrian Bardrick, publican at the Clarks Junction Hotel, on State Highway 87, only about 12km from the epicentre, said they received a pretty good "sort of thump".

It rattled the bottles, he said.

"But there was no damage."

The hotel was cleaning up after a good evening.

"The Strath Taieri boys had beaten the West Taieri boys" in rugby and had called in on their way home.

They had left by the time of the quake.

The largest quake significantly affecting Dunedin in the past several decades was on April 9, 1974. It was magnitude 5 and dislodged grocery stock and damaged some chimneys.

The quake on October 16 last year was magnitude 4.1 at a depth of 4km and in almost the same place as last night's shake.

Police early this morning received several calls but no reports of damage.
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Attention

Lion leaps through open car window and mauls tourist in South African game park


The Raw Story
Mon, 01 Jun 2015 17:30 UTC
lion mauls tourist
© AFP Photo/Stephane de Sakutin)The incident occured at the The Lion Park, on the outskirts of Johannesburg
A lion leapt through a open car window and mauled to death an American tourist at a privately-run game park just outside Johannesburg on Monday, a park official said.

"There was a car driving to the lion camp and the lion did come through the window and bite the lady," Scott Simpson, operations manager of The Lion Park venue told Talk Radio 702.

"The ambulance arrived quite soon, but the lady had passed away."

Comment: American woman killed by lion in S. Africa identified as 'Game of Thrones' editor

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Bizarro Earth

Continental collision could trigger California tsunami

Tia Ghose
Live Science
Mon, 01 Jun 2015 12:28 UTC
California Coastline
© Mark LeggA new study shows that an undersea area off the coast of California, known as the California Borderland, is building up seismic stress and could rupture catastrophically, unleashing tsunamis. Here, a map of the California Borderland, showing tectonic features and locations of earthquakes greater than Magnitude 5.5. The dashed box shows the area of the new study. The arrows show relative plate motion between the Pacific and North American plates.
Massive undersea earthquakes off the coast of California could send a tsunami crashing into Los Angeles or San Diego, new research suggests.

As the North American and Pacific tectonic plates grind past each other, large chunks of Earth's crust wedged between them get squeezed and twisted off Southern California and Baja California in Mexico. This logjam of crust could cause catastrophic ruptures at two faults along this boundary, setting off undersea temblors of magnitude 7.9 or 8.0, according to new research published April 25 in the Journal of Geophysical Research: Earth Surface.

"We're dealing with continental collision," Mark Legg, a geologist at Legg Geophysical, a geoexploration and hazard assessment company in Huntington Beach, California, said in a statement. "That's fundamental. That's why we have this mess of a complicated logjam."
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Question

NASA confirms strange sounds emanating from the sky

Dayana Sobri
malaysiandigest.com
Mon, 01 Jun 2015 18:25 UTC
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Strange sound coming from the sky
There was no special celebration happening in town, yet the strange sound coming from the sky, which sounds similar to the echoes of trumpets, have been recorded by people all over the world.

Until now, the strange noise has been detected and heard in the US, Canada, Australia, Russia, Germany, and other several countries despite the minimal hype.

Several social media users have taken initiatives to record the sounds and have uploaded them on YouTube.

For the Muslims, the phenomenon of the eerie sound is akin to echoes of the Doomsday's trumpets, though no one has ever heard such a sound as the judgement day has yet occurred.

Kimberly Wookey from Terrace, British Columbia in Canada first captured the alien sound in June 2013, and since then she has managed to capture several recordings of the noise with her most recent being on May 7 this year.

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Arrow Down

Minivan falls into Saskatoon sinkhole

David Giles
globalnews.ca
Fri, 29 May 2015 18:02 UTC
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Minivan ends up in Saskatoon sinkhole
Passersby and employees of nearby Saskatoon businesses scrambled to help pull a woman and two children from a minivan that plunged into a large sinkhole. The sinkhole opened up at the intersection of 45th Street and Hanselman Avenue just before 5 p.m.

The woman driving the van thought she could simply drive over what she thought was a pothole.

Instead, the entire front end fell in and water started flooding the front seat. Everyone was able to get out safely.

The driver, who didn't give her name, said she was later told the van had not reached the bottom and was balancing on the edge.

The intersection where the accident happened is expected to be closed for several days while crews repair the damage and fix a broken water main that's believed to have carved out the crater.

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Question

Odd trumpeting sounds heard from the sky in Cheltenham, UK


Gloucestershire Echo
Mon, 01 Jun 2015 16:18 UTC
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Angel Trumpets?
Readers in Cheltenham have been hearing odd trumpeting sounds over the town in the past few nights.

One took to our Facebook page to pose the question, having heard a noise in the Pittville area.

It comes after numerous people around the world posted videos of strange trumpeting sounds being heard in countries as diverse as the US, Germany, Australia and Iceland.
Has anyone else heard a strange trumpet like sound in Cheltenham (Pitville area) over the past few nights?

Posted by Aisha A on Monday, 1 June 2015
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Cloud Lightning

Man survives direct lightning strike near Idaho City

Ruairi Casey
newstalk.com
Mon, 01 Jun 2015 15:54 UTC
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© Heather CrossRyan Cross
A lightning bolt entered his head and exited out of his back.

Ryan Cross, 34, was riding his bike during a camping trip with friends near Idaho City when a hailstorm swept in and lightning struck.

The father-of-two was taken to hospital where he was treated for bleeding in his brain. According to his wife Heather, he is now alert, eating and has even had the chance to walk.

Photos posted by his wife on Facebook show Mr Cross on his hospital bed with what appears to be a red streak down the front of his chest and a red mark on his back from the bolt.


She told 7 KTVB.com: "They were riding, and it started raining and then all of a sudden it started hailing pretty heavily so they stopped.

"Ryan got off his four-wheeler went under a tree to protect himself from the hail, leaned up against a tree, was looking at a map on his phone, and that is when it all happened."
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Cloud Lightning

Woman, 30 sheep killed by lightning in Raichur, India

Kumar Buradikatti
The Hindu
Mon, 01 Jun 2015 15:23 UTC
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Lightning
A woman and over 30 sheep have been killed in three separate incidents of lightening strike in Raichur on Sunday evening.

The deceased has been identified as Yallamma (35), a resident of Ulumeshwar village in Lingasugur taluk. Another woman Lingamm (30), who was with the deceased, sustained injuries. As per the villagers, both were at an agricultural field when lightening struck.

In another incident at Gorebal village in Sindhanur taluk, 26 sheep were killed by lightning at about 6.30 p.m. The villagers said there were 45 sheep in the flock when lightning struck. The flock belonged to Venkatesh, resident of the same village. In the third incident, at least 4 sheep were killed at Balaganur in Sindhanur taluk.

Hailstorm and rain were reported from the rural areas of Lingasugur, Raichur and Sindhanur districts. Roofs of many huts at LBS Nagar in Raichur city were ripped off in the rainstorm.
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