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Ontario, Canada: Giant sinkhole closes section of Toronto's Bayview Ave

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A large sinkhole that resembles something out of a Hollywood movie has closed a section of Bayview Avenue to traffic.

It happened overnight on Thursday after a water main break. Bayview Avenue just north of Steeles Avenue is closed between Proctor Avenue and Laureleaf Road as crews work to fix the buckled pavement.

In some sections, the crack is as wide as a traffic lane.

CBC's Lorenda Reddekopp was at the scene and said York Regional police officers were describing the nine-metre deep sinkhole as "something out of Jurassic Park."

Better Earth

US: Timber! The dramatic moment a pair of 250ft giant sequoias that have stood for 1,500 years fell to the ground

These incredible pictures show how a pair of 1,500-year-old giant sequoias - whose branches are the size of normal trees - dramatically fell to the ground.

A German tourist watched the two 250ft trees fall to the ground at the Trail of 100 Giants in California and captured the amazing moments and the crushing sound on video.

The trees lay the length of a football pitch and their diameter of their torn roots and base was 20ft.

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Huge: One of two downed trees lies across the popular Trail of 100 Giants at Sequoia National Forest, California, temporarily closing the trail

Cloud Lightning

UK: Tornado rips the roof off a stable as wet weather turns Bonfire Night into a damp squid

It looks like the aftermath of a tropical storm, but this scene of destruction took place on a farm in Worcestershire yesterday.

A tornado uprooted trees and tore the roof of a stable as it swept past the village of Inkberrow in the mid-afternoon.

Amazingly, the fierce winds threw the stable roof 20metres through the air before it came to rest stuck in the branches of a nearby tree.

Other trees were left broken in half at the Knowle Fields Barn Farm complex.
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Twister: A tornado ripped the roof off a building and pulled up trees in Worcestershire yesterday

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US: 4.7 Magnitude Earthquake Shakes Central Oklahoma

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At least a couple of aftershocks have been confirmed following a 4.7-magnitude earthquake in central Oklahoma on Saturday morning, according to the United States Geological Survey.

The latest aftershock came at 2:44 a.m. and was a 2.7-magnitude quake, according to the USGS website .

The epicenter of the initial quake was about 6 miles north of Prague, 7 miles east-southeast of Sparks, 9 miles west-northwest of Paden or roughly 20 miles northeast of Oklahoma City. The first aftershock happened in the same area, according to the United States National Weather Service office in Norman, which posted this message to Facebook at about 3 a.m.

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US, Virginia: Six Hundred Aftershocks and Still Shaking

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2.3 magnitude aftershock Thursday

Needles at the U.S. Geological Survey jumped again on Thursday morning, when a 2.3 magnitude aftershock rattled Louisa County.

Geological Survey staffers said in a lecture this week they've actually recorded over 600 aftershocks following the August 23 quake.

Staff geologist and Mineral, Virginia resident Mark Carter lectured on the Virginia quake's aftershocks on November 2 in Fairfax. The lecture was also shared via the USGS twitter feed.

The geologist said that in central Virginia, seismic activity is "somewhat regular." However, the strength of the August 23 quake had not been seen in a century, and the damage has been unprecedented.

"It was a miracle that there were no casualties given the damage we found," he wrote.

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Earthquake Magnitude 5.7 - Antofagasta, Chile

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Saturday, November 05, 2011 at 07:13:57 UTC
Saturday, November 05, 2011 at 04:13:57 AM at epicenter

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Location 23.529°S, 70.400°W

Depth 27.3 km (17.0 miles)

Region ANTOFAGASTA, CHILE

Distances 22 km (13 miles) NNE of Antofagasta, Antofagasta, Chile

154 km (95 miles) S of Tocopilla, Antofagasta, Chile

177 km (109 miles) SW of Calama, Antofagasta, Chile

1106 km (687 miles) N of SANTIAGO, Region Metropolitana, Chile

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Earthquake Magnitude 5.8 - Vanuatu

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Saturday, November 05, 2011 at 01:49:19 UTC
Saturday, November 05, 2011 at 12:49:19 PM at epicenter

Time of Earthquake in other Time Zones

Location 18.293°S, 168.309°E
Depth 39.5 km (24.5 miles)

Region VANUATU

Distances
61 km (37 miles) S of PORT-VILA, Efate, Vanuatu

172 km (106 miles) NW of Isangel, Tanna, Vanuatu

328 km (203 miles) SSE of Luganville, Espiritu Santo, Vanuatu

1869 km (1161 miles) ENE of BRISBANE, Queensland, Australia

Igloo

Iceberg the size of Berlin forms in Antarctica

A huge iceberg that will grow to 880 square kilometres - an area the size of Berlin - is forming in a shelf of floating ice in West Antarctica.


The iceberg started out as a surface crack in the sheet of ice, which is located in front of the Pine Island Glacier (PIG) in the Antarctic region.

The rift, which was first noticed in October, runs for almost 20 miles from end to end and is thought to be 200ft deep.

With the crack widening every day, the iceberg will be formed - or 'calved' as it is scientifically known - when it breaks away from the floating ice mass.

This is expected to take place at the end of the year or in early 2012.

Bizarro Earth

Mud rivers: flash floods wreak havoc on Italy's western coast- 6 dead

Torrential rains lashed Genoa and Italy's western coastline again Friday, triggering flash floods that killed at least six people as raging water uprooted trees and swept cars and furniture through the streets.

Luca Cari, spokesman for Genoa's fire department, told Italy's Sky TG24 that six people were confirmed dead and one person was missing.

Two of the dead were reported to be children.

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© Massimo Cebrelli / AFP / GettyPeople stand in a street amongst mud and debris after rivers burst their banks during heavy rainfall in downtown Genoa, Friday.

Bizarro Earth

Sea boils near El Hierro: submarine volcanic activity continues off El Hierro Island

A 3.8 magnitude earthquake occurred at 13.41 hours, in latitude 27.7886, longitude -18.0469 with an estimated depth of 21 kilometers, in line with those that occurred during late Thursday night and Friday morning. In this way, and during the day Friday, El Hierro has produced a total of 24 earthquakes- the 3.8 that has been the strongest. Fear of new and powerful earthquakes continues to spread in El Hierro. This morning, the island has recorded twelve new earthquakes, which have ranged from 2 to 3 degrees of intensity, as reported Canarias 7 citing National Geographic Institute.


Meanwhile, on Thursday, the direction of Civil Protection Plan for Volcanic Risk said Border seismic events correspond to the stage of La Restinga underwater eruption, which began on 10 October. Specifically, there have been twelve new earthquakes that have had an intensity of 2 to 3 degrees as reported by sources of IGN Canarias 7 newspaper. On Thursday, officials of the Civil Protection Plan for Volcanic Risk assured the public that the latest seismic events, which have intensified in recent days, corresponds to the scene of the submarine eruption of La Restinga, which began on 10 October.