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Strange smell creates panic in Mangalore, India


The Times of India
Sat, 21 Sep 2013 11:13 UTC
A strong odour that wafted across the city on Friday created panic among citizens.

Residents of Maryhill first reported the odour in the morning. People from other areas said it seemed cooking gas had leaked somewhere. Many checked their LPG cylinders.

Residents of Mallikatte reported it at 1pm, and those of Maroli at around 1.30.
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USGS: Earthquake Magnitude 6.1 - 119km NNW of Nggilat, Indonesia


US Geological Survey
Fri, 20 Sep 2013 23:19 UTC
Nggilat Quake_210913
© USGS
Event Time
2013-09-21 01:39:14 UTC
2013-09-21 09:39:14 UTC+08:00 at epicenter

Location
7.264°S 119.961°E depth=536.8km (333.6mi)

Nearby Cities
119km (74mi) NNW of Nggilat, Indonesia
136km (85mi) N of Labuhanbajo, Indonesia
159km (99mi) NNW of Ruteng, Indonesia
191km (119mi) NE of Bima, Indonesia
635km (395mi) WNW of Dili, East Timor

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Umbrella

40,000 people remain trapped in Acapulco, Mexico as more rain is forecast


Guardian
Wed, 18 Sep 2013 21:08 UTC
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© Victor Lopez/RexA police car in a flooded parking lot of Acapulco international airport.
Storms leave 40,000 holidaymakers cut off and locals in shelters, with supplies running short and airports waterlogged

Thousands of tourists are still trapped in Acapulco after roads to Mexico's most famous beach resort were blocked by flash floods and landslides set off by some of the worst storms in decades.

Across the country at least 55 people have been killed in floods after a three-day downpour, spawned by two major storms that converged on Mexico from the Pacific and the Gulf.

Some 40,000 tourists remain stranded in Acapulco after several roads into the city were blocked by mud, while its international airport terminal was still waist-deep in water. Two of Mexico's largest airlines were running flights from the airport, and a nearby military airbase was also used to evacuate stranded tourists.

Families waited for as long as eight hours before jostling to gain a seat on commercial flights, helicopters and seven cargo planes pressed into duty.

Many told of horror stories of spending the weekend trapped by torrential rains inside their hotels, emerging to discover there was no way back home. "It's probably one of the worst holidays I've ever been on," said David Jefferson-Gleed, a 28-year-old Briton from Bristol, who teaches English at a private school in Mexico City. "It wasn't really a holiday, more of an incarceration."

Adding insult to injury, a few immaculately dressed families skipped the line and were escorted to private jets by soldiers, to the incredulous stares of the sweltering masses.
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Super-Typhoon Usagi: 'Most powerful storm on the planet since 1984' is tearing through Southern Pacific, headed for Hong Kong

Rob Williams
The Independent, UK
Fri, 20 Sep 2013 14:11 UTC
Usagi
© The Independent, UK
A monster Super Typhoon has intensified explosively in the last 24 hours and remains on track to wreak havoc in Taiwan, the Philippines and potentially Hong Kong over the weekend.

Over the last day Super Typhoon Usagi, which is now the strongest storm to form on earth this year, has seen winds increase from 75mph on Tuesday to over 160 mph today. The cyclone is now classified now as a Super Typhoon and is considered the equivalent of a category 5 hurricane.

The storm, which is expected to maintain its current strength for at least the next 24 hours, is on course to dump 1000mm of rain (three times the annual London rainfall) on Taiwan over the next three days.

The storm is set to roar between the Philippines and Taiwan before hammering the southern Chinese coast, and possibly Hong Kong, later in the weekend.

Experts have said that due to the lack of 'hurricane hunter' aircraft in the Pacific they can't accurately measure how strong the storm is, and that it may be even stronger.
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Super Typhoon Usagi threatens Taiwan, Northern Philippines, and Hong Kong


WeatherChannel.com
Fri, 20 Sep 2013 14:09 UTC
Super Typhoon Usagi,the equivalent of a Category 5 Atlantic hurricane, intensified rapidly Thursday in the western Pacific Ocean and will threaten parts of Taiwan, the far northern Philippines and southern China through the next several days.

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A tropical cyclone is dubbed a "super typhoon" when maximum sustained winds reach at least 150 mph. Usagi underwent a period of rapid intensification from early Wednesday through midday Thursday (U.S. Eastern time), going from a 55-knot tropical storm to a 140-knot super typhoon in just 33 hours, or just under a 100 mph intensification, based on satellite estimates of intensity.
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7,500 songbirds killed at Canaport gas plant in Saint John, Canada


cbc.ca
Tue, 17 Sep 2013 11:05 UTC
Migrating birds, some possible endangered species, flew into gas flare


About 7,500 songbirds, possibly including some endangered species, were killed while flying over a gas plant in Saint John late last week, officials have confirmed.

It appears the migrating birds flew into the gas flare at Canaport LNG between Friday night and Saturday morning, said Fraser Forsythe, the company's health, safety, security and environmental manager.

The birds were drawn to the flame like moths, an extremely unusual event, according to Don McAlpine, the head of zoology at the New Brunswick Museum.
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More than 100 deer found dead west of Missoula, Montana

Rob Chaney
The Missoulian
Wed, 18 Sep 2013 10:52 UTC
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Fish, Wildlife and Parks biologist Jay Kolbe drags a deer carcass from a backwater of the Clark Fork River on Wednesday evening to confirm signs of internal hemorrhaging caused by a virus spread among deer by biting gnats. Dozens of deer have died west of Missoula in recent days in what appears to be the first documented case of epizootic hemorrhage disease west of the Continental Divide in Montana.
Wildlife officials are trying to find out why more than 100 whitetail deer have died along the Clark Fork River west of Missoula.

"The deer may show no outward symptoms of disease," said Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks biologist Vickie Edwards. "People are seeing healthy looking deer fall over dead."

Fishing guides and landowners along the Clark Fork and fields near and downstream of Harpers Bridge started reporting the dead deer on Sunday. Dead deer have also been found in the Mill Creek area northeast of Frenchtown.
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Evil Rays

Strange sounds from the sky heard over Bratislava in Slovakia - September 18 2013


Strange Sounds
Thu, 19 Sep 2013 09:07 UTC
The roaring noises were reported in various districts of Bratislava last night, similar to a cry of a mysterious and huge animal.

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Nebula

Strange sky sounds investigated by Linda Moulton Howe: 'Horn-like' sounds being heard around the world


DiscloseTruthTV2
Fri, 09 Aug 2013 15:35 UTC
Investigative reporter Linda Moulton Howe discussed the large number of strange and unexplained horn-like sounds filling the air since March 2011 and possible causes.


The phenomenon surfaced after a number of videos were uploaded on YouTube from such divergent places as Norway, Costa Rica, Tennessee and Kiev, Ukraine. Recently, Linda interviewed two witnesses in Tennessee, who in separate locations, heard the Kiev-like horn sounds on January 18-19, 2012. One of the witnesses, retired real estate agent Cindy Smith was packing her car for a trip when the air was filled with the Kiev horn sounds coming from every direction. The strange sounds lasted about 30 seconds and left Cindy frightened, wanting to know what happened.

A woman in Topeka, Kansas told Linda she was awakened on September 3, 2011 at her Perry Lake vacation home by the sound of "a television turned on in the distance with voices we could not make out." Yet, as she and her husband discovered, no television was on in their home when the sounds were heard. More here. In January 2012, an Azerbaijan geophysicist named Elchin Khalilov released an article in which he suggested the strange sounds people are hearing are related to "acoustic-gravity waves caused by powerful solar flares and plasma emissions from the sun." However, when Linda interviewed NASA solar physicist David Hathaway he doubted that solar activity could be connected with the sounds.

Comment: Watch Strange Noises in the Sky: Trumpets of the Apocalypse? to learn more.

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Unusual cloud formations over New Zealand

Caleb Harris
Stuff.co.nz
Thu, 19 Sep 2013 20:09 UTC
Unusual Clouds
© Piers Fuller/Fairfax NZUnusual Sight: Japhy and Enzo Fuller look at the strange clouds over Masterton.

"Freaky" clouds in Wairarapa yesterday evening were caused by warm air "ski-jumping" off the Tararua Range into a rainy front, according to Metservice.

Wairarapa News journalist Piers Fuller was on the lawn outside his home east of Masterton at about 6pm last night, videoing an impromptu rugby game between his sons Japhy, 6, Enzo, 5 and daughter Juno, 2, when he noticed the sky looked "weird".

"I stopped and said, hey, look at these freaky clouds."

Commenters on the Wairarapa News Facebook page thought the clouds were Mammatus clouds, also known as "mammary clouds".

Metservice meteorologist Daniel Corbett agreed, saying mammatus normally form as a result of sinking air, hence their downward udder-like appearance, and often occur in the base of the anvil of a cumulonimbus, or thunderstorm, cloud.

However in this particular case the explanation was a warm north-west wind lifting up over the Tararua Range then falling into the leading edge of a rainy front creeping over the lower North Island last night, he said.

"When [the north-wester] comes over the Tararuas it's almost like a ski slope, it lifts the clouds then pushes them down... that downward motion can help create that type of formation."

Source: The Dominion Post
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