Earth ChangesS


Ice Cube

Icebound Lake Superior strands 10-15 ships


RT
Thu, 09 Apr 2015 02:08 UTC
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© Reuters / Kenneth ArmstrongThe Canadian Coast Guard Ship (CCGS) Samuel Risley is shown in this aerial photo near Whitefish Bay on Lake Superior northwest of Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario April 7, 2015.
Harsh spring weather has caused up to 15 American and Canadian ships to become stranded in ice-covered Lake Superior, with coastguards working on a rescue operation. One of the freighters has been damaged by the crushing grip of the ice.

Canadian icebreaker Pierre Radisson on Wednesday set out to join other rescue ships to help break the ice in Whitefish Bay, according to the US Coast Guard.

Some of the vessels have been stranded since Sunday.
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Cloud Precipitation

41 killed as powerful storms slam Bangladesh and 6 killed in Haiti


The Extinction Protocol
Wed, 08 Apr 2015 22:25 UTC
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At least 41 people were killed when powerful storms swept Bangladesh at the weekend and left a trail of devastation in the northwest, officials said Monday. Rescuers and villagers recovered the bodies of victims after the storms flattened thousands of houses, uprooted trees and electricity poles and damaged paddy fields across a large area on Saturday night and Sunday.

Nineteen people died in the northern district of Bogra, government administrator of the district Shafiqur Reza Biswas told AFP, adding that more than 100 people were injured. "They died mostly after they were hit by falling trees or collapsed houses and walls," he said, adding that authorities have sent emergency relief to thousands of villagers.

In neighboring Rajshahi district, at least five people were killed and 27 injured as the storm hit a large stretch of low-lying land, another administrator said.
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Attention

Sinkholes continue to plague Mississippi town

Brad Broders
Local Mephis
Tue, 07 Apr 2015 11:17 UTC
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A DeSoto County subdivision is dealing with a hole in the ground...again.

Local 24 News first told you about the sinkhole problem in the Ravenwood subdivision in 2013. At that time, crews filled were busy filling one measuring four feet wide and four feet deep.

Monday, a year and a half later, frustrated neighbors are dealing with another one.

Comment: Sinkholes may break water lines, but most are not actually caused by them. Many are more likely caused by the slowing down of the earth due to the increase of electrically charged cometary dust surrounding the planet, and the decrease in solar activity. This leads to the planet literally "opening up" as it becomes ever slightly deformed. For more info, check out the book Earth Changes and the Human-Cosmic Connection:
Looking back through reports over the last ten years, it seems that the appearance of new sinkholes accelerated in 2007 when a giant sinkhole opned up in Guatemala City. A second monster hole appeared in 2010.

The frequency of sinkholes over the last three or four years has increased to the point that people are being unexpectedly 'swallowed' and even killed in urban areas. Homes and vehicles have also been gobbled up in ever-larger numbers.

[...] New sinkholes have increased not only in number, but in severity too. If ten years ago you were told that a sinkhole had literally swallowed human beings alive, you would probably have dismissed it as the plot from a bad horror movie. Well, that is today's reality. In the last few years, over 20 individuals have experienced 'death by sinkhole'.

Since none of the invoked causes can explain the sudden appearance of so many new sinkholes in so many different locations, we're left to consider that some new factor must underpin the sharp increase. It makes us wonder if the 'opening up' of the Earth is not this new factor.


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Cloud Lightning

Tornado touches down in Tennessee, damages roofs and buildings


Times Free Press
Tue, 07 Apr 2015 11:00 UTC
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© elperiodicomediterraneo.comA tornado captured on film
A tornado touched down in Williamson County damaging some roofs and outbuildings, snapping trees and blowing a carport down a hill.

The Tennessean reports the National Weather Service designated the Friday afternoon tornado an EFO -- the smallest rating on the Enhanced Fujita scale.

Meteorologists said it touched down between 5:22 p.m. and 5:30 p.m., reaching wind speeds of up to 85 miles per hour. Its damage path was 5.6 miles long and 75 yards wide.

Comment: For more on the nature of tornadoes and other air-spiral phenomena, check out the book "Earth Changes and the Human-Cosmic Connection":
Electricity seems to play a major role in air spiral phenomena, including hurricanes. To better understand these electric phenomena, let's first consider lightning, which, as we will soon see, is closely related to hurricanes, depressions, tornadoes and their accompanying cloud masses.[...]

Hurricanes are to sea surface what lightning bolts are to ground surface. They are both caused by upward electron flows and they both rebalance elctric charges by returning electrons to the ground: rainfall in the case of hurricanes, lightning in the case of electrical storms.


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Cloud Lightning

Tornado touches down near Ider, Alabama

Ben Benton
Times Free Press
Tue, 07 Apr 2015 11:07 UTC
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The National Weather Service and DeKalb County emergency management officials confirm an EF-1 tornado touched down Friday night near Ider, Ala., damaging a handful of homes while leaving residents unharmed.

"We got a little bit of damage, but it was major to the individuals that were affected," DeKalb County Emergency Management Agency deputy director Michael Posey said early Monday. "We had five homes that were impacted in some form; two of those sustained major damage. There were no injuries."

The small storm hit the Sand Mountain community of Cartersville, just north of the town of Ider, a little before 10:30 p.m. CDT Friday.

National Weather Service meteorologist Jennifer Saari said the tornado had estimated winds of 105 mph and cut a path about 75 yards wide for a little more than two miles.
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Wolf

Long harsh winter in Nova Scotia hard on predators like bobcat, foxes

Evan Webster
The Chronicle Herald
Tue, 07 Apr 2015 17:44 UTC
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© Tim Krochak/ StaffA pair of malnourished bobcats under the care of Hope For Wildlife in Seaforth are seen among trees in their enclosure Tuesday.
It's been a long, harsh winter for all local wildlife, but the top of the food chain is suffering most.

Andrew Hebda, the Nova Scotia Museum's curator of zoology, said the recent heavy snowfall is leaving predators hungry.

"It's been especially difficult for foxes, bobcats and coyotes," Hebda said Tuesday. "Anything that relies on rodents, rabbits or any small mammal for food is stressed."

According to Hebda, small mammals are hibernating longer this year, leaving carnivores at risk of starvation.

"We've had quite a few reports of saw-whet owls being found dead," he said. "If you make your living catching things that move, then there's a problem. They just don't have access to food."

Hope Swinimer, director of the Hope for Wildlife Society, has been rehabilitating wild animals for 20 years. So far this winter she's treated eight bobcats, two minks and countless other owls and rodents for starvation.
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Bizarro Earth

Magnitude 4.5 earthquake shakes Hawaii island

Craig Gilma
Staradvertiser.com
Sun, 05 Apr 2015 17:16 UTC
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© PACIFIC TSUNAMI WARNING CENTERThis map from the Pacific Tsunami Warning Center shows the location of a magnitude 4.5 earthquake that struck early Sunday morning off Hawaii island. The earthquake did not generate a tsunami.
A magnitude 4.5 earthquake shook Hawaii island early Sunday morning, but no tsunami was generated and there were no immediate reports of serious injuries or damage.

The earthquake struck at 3:23 a.m. about 7 miles west of Kalaoa and 10 miles northwest of Kailua-Kona at a depth of 6.2 miles, the U.S. Geological Survey reported.

Only light shaking was reported and the earthquake caused no detectable changes to the volcanoes on Hawaii island, the Hawaiian Volcano Observatory reported.

The earthquake was widely felt on the Big Island. The USGS "Did You Feel It?" website received more than 150 felt reports, including 3 people who said they felt it on Oahu at Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam and in Aiea.

During the past 30 years, geologists recorded 23 earthquakes, including Sunday's temblor, in the same area offshore of Keahole Point with magnitudes greater than 3.0 and depths of 3 to 9 miles.

The volcano observatory said earthquakes at this depth off the west coast of the Big Island are typically caused by abrupt motion on the boundary between the old ocean floor and the volcanic material of the island and are usually not directly related to volcanic activity.

As of 7 a.m., no aftershocks of the earthquake were reported, volcano scientists said.

Comment: Magnitude 3.3 earthquake reported near summit of Hawaii's Mauna Loa volcano

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Red Flag

Man killed by bull in Hoschton, Georgia

B.J. Williams
accesswdun.com
Mon, 06 Apr 2015 16:39 UTC
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Jackson County authorities say a man was killed in a bizarre accident in Hoschton Friday night.

According to Steve Nichols, the director of Jackson County EMS, the man was gored to death by a bull grazing on his property on Highway 332. He said emergency responders arrived at the scene just after 8 p.m.

"They kept the bull at bay until the first responders could remove the victim from the field," said Nichols.

Nichols said the victim owned the property and he owned the animal. He did not know what prompted the animal to attack. The bull was not euthanized; family members will decide what to do with the animal, according to Nichols.

Nichols was unable to release the victim's identity because of HIPPA regulations.
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Attention

Turrialba Volcano erupts again spewing hot rocks and ash 2 kilometers high

Zach Dyer
Tico Times
Tue, 07 Apr 2015 16:47 UTC
Turrialba Volcano is at it again.

The Volcanological and Seismological Observatory (OVSICORI) released video Tuesday of an eruption at 2:07 a.m., when a column of hot rocks and ash rocketed out of the colossus. The eruption sent ash 2 kilometers into the air.

The eruption's most dramatic moment comes 14 seconds into the video when a rush of heat from the crater flashes white on the screen.

Ash and sulphur smells from the eruption were reported as far away as Cuidad Quesada and across Alajuela, Escazú, Heredia and Curridabat, among other places. See the map from OVSICORI for more details:

A crowdsourced map of ash and sulphur smells from the April 7, 2015 eruption at Turrialba Volcano.
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Click here to participate in OVSICORI's ash/sulphur survey (in Spanish).

Comment: Turrialba Volcano spews more ash over Costa Rica's Central Valley

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Arrow Down

Sinkhole opens beneath garbage truck in East Hampton, New York

T.E. McMorrow
The East Hampton Star
Mon, 06 Apr 2015 14:59 UTC
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© T.E. McMorrow Garbage truck in sinkhole.
While many drivers in East Hampton Town have been angered by the recent blight of large potholes along Montauk Highway from Napeague to the Lighthouse, that have been destroying tires and tire rims, they have nothing on the sinkhole that opened up on Montauk Main Street Monday morning.

"We were picking up the garbage," Tim Schellinger, the driver of an East Hampton Town Department of Parks and Recreation garbage truck, said as he stood on the side of the road waiting for assistance, his truck mired in an asphalt pit. He and a co-worker were emptying trashcans after a busy holiday weekend on the north side of Main Street, between Essex and South Edison Streets. They had pulled over by a pail west of Martell's Stationary.
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