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Four quakes rock Nepal in past 12 hours


The Extinction Protocol
Sat, 25 Aug 2012 06:10 UTC
Four consecutive earthquakes - two of them powerful ones - rocked western Nepal in past 12 hours.

With their epicenters in the border area of Rolpa and Rukum districts, the tremors of the first quake were felt in Kathmandu at 10:15 pm last night.

Its magnitude was 5.6 on the Richter scale, according to Dilli Ram Tiwari, survey officer at National Seismological Centre (NSC) in Kathmandu.

The second quake was measured at 10:27 pm yesterday, and it was 4.4 in magnitude.

The NSC has recorded two earthquakes this morning also. The quakes at 6:02 am and 9.40 am were 4.4 and 5.2 on the Richter Scale, Tiwari said.

Source: The Himalayan
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Alert level raised on previously extinct Colombian Sotará volcano: an eruption would be first known in recorded history


The Extinction Protocol
Sat, 25 Aug 2012 06:04 UTC
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Sotara volcano looks set to erupt for first time in recorded history
According to INGEOMINAS, the Observatorio Vulcanológico and Sismológico de Popayán reported that during 8-14 August seismic activity at Sotará increased.

The seismic network recorded 110 magnitude 0.2-1.6 events mainly located in an area 0.1-5 km NE of the peak, at depths of 2-6 km. Inflation was detected in the NE area, coincident with the zone of increased seismicity.

Web-camera views showed no morphological changes.

The Alert Level was raised to III (Yellow; "changes in the behavior of volcanic activity"), or the second lowest level. (Smithsonian Institute)

Source: Earthquake Report
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Infrastructure unraveling: Section of longest bridge in China, just nine months old, collapses and kills 3


The Extinction Protocol
Sat, 25 Aug 2012 05:49 UTC
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© Hao Bin/European Pressphoto AgencyA collapsed section of the Yangmingtan Bridge’s ramp, in the city of Harbin, dropped 100 feet to the ground on Friday, killing three people and injuring five.
One of the longest bridges in northern China collapsed on Friday, just nine months after it opened, setting off a storm of criticism from Chinese Internet users and underscoring questions about the quality of construction in the country's rapid expansion of its infrastructure.

A nearly 330-foot-long section of a ramp of the eight-lane Yangmingtan Bridge in the city of Harbin dropped 100 feet to the ground. Four trucks plummeted with it, resulting in three deaths and five injuries. The 9.6-mile bridge is one of three built over the Songhua River in that area in the past four years.

China's economic stimulus program in 2009 and 2010 helped the country avoid most of the effects of the global economic downturn, but involved incurring heavy debt to pay for the rapid construction of new bridges, highways and high-speed rail lines all over the country.
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Umbrella

New deadly flood hits Russia's south: 4 killed, over 1,500 affected


Russia Today
Wed, 22 Aug 2012 05:28 UTC
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Four people have died, three more are missing and over 1,500 have been affected by a devastating deluge that inundated the region, already severely battered by the deadly disaster in July.

­Three of the dead have already been identified, Emergency Ministry says. They are reported to have been tourists.

The overall number of those affected by the disaster currently stands between 1,500 and 1,800 people, according to different sources.

The heavy rainfalls battering the area in the last 24 hours - in some places the average monthly falls - triggered the flooding.
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112 families displaced by landslide in Dolkha, northern India


Himalayan Times
Sat, 25 Aug 2012 05:23 UTC
As many as 112 families have been displaced due to landslides that took place in Dolkha district between mid July to mid August this year.

Majority of the displaced families are from Bhirkot VDC. As many as 24 families have been completely displaced while others have been affected partially as a result of landslides.

Similarly, landslides completely displaced six families in Bhimeshwor Municipality and 10 other families have been partially affected.

The landslides also damaged houses in Jafe, Namdu, Mirge, Babare, Sahare, Suspakshamawati, Dandakharka, Chyama, Pawati and Laduk VDCs, according to Nepal Red Cross Society.

Harka Bahadur Shrestha, President of NRCS, Dolkha, said the NRCS had distributed clothing, utensils, and tent worth Rs. 6,500 per family as immediate relief to the landslide victims.

The landslide completely displaced 49 families and left partial damages in the houses of 63 families in Dolakha, added Shrestha.
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Igloo

Global Cooling: Greenpeace Arctic oil rig protesters pointing in wrong direction


Russia Today
Sat, 25 Aug 2012 05:10 UTC
A Russian floating oil rig in the Arctic has been ambushed - by a group of Greenpeace activists. Six men scaled the platform and are currently dangling off the side, suspended by cables, in protest against energy giant Gazprom's plans to drill in the area. Let's now talk to Piers Corbyn, the director of WeatherAction.com

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Cow Skull

Food supply on its last legs: High price of corn forcing US farmers to feed candy to livestock

Robert Bradfield
wpsdlocal6.com
Mon, 13 Aug 2012 04:10 UTC

At Mayfield's United Livestock Commodities, owner Joseph Watson is tweaking the recipe for success.

"Just to be able to survive, we have to look at other sources for nutrition," he said.

His 1,400 cattle are no longer feeding off corn. The prices, Watson said, are too high to keep in stock. So earlier this year, he began to buy second hand candy.

"It actually has a higher ratio of fat then actually feeding them straight corn," Watson said.
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Strange Sounds Over Clifton, New Jersey August 15th, 2012

MisterMachine1977
YouTube
Sat, 18 Aug 2012 03:58 UTC
Sent to me by a friend in Clifton who heard the same thing I hear all the time. Crazy.


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Cloud Lightning

Isaac nears hurricane strength as it lashes Haiti


NBC News
Sat, 25 Aug 2012 02:25 UTC

Tropical Storm Isaac strengthened as it dumped heavy rains on Haiti on Saturday, threatening floods and mudslides in a country where hundreds of thousands of people remain homeless more than two years after a devastating earthquake.

Lashing rains and high winds were reported along parts of Haiti's southern coast and in the Haitian capital of Port-au-Prince, where more than 350,000 survivors of the 2010 earthquake are still living in fragile tent and tarpaulin camps.

Intermittent power outages affected the greater Port-au-Prince area in the early hours of Saturday as Isaac bore down on the impoverished Caribbean country.

The U.S. National Hurricane Center said at 2 a.m. ET that Isaac was 55 miles southwest of Port au Prince and moving northwest at 13 mph.

It had maximum sustained winds of 70 mph, the NHC added.

Its center was expected to pass over Haiti's southern coast early Saturday. The NHC warned there was a possibility Isaac could reach hurricane intensity before making landfall in Haiti.
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Hundreds of racing pigeons vanish in UK 'Bermuda triangle' of birds


Daily Mail, UK
Fri, 24 Aug 2012 14:24 UTC
Pigeon racers are mystified after hundreds birds disappeared in an th
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ey have now dubbed the Bermuda Triangle.

Only 13 out of 232 birds released in Thirsk , North Yorkshire, on Saturday by a Scottish pigeon racing club made it back to Galashiels, Selkirkshire.

It follows a summer in which hundreds more have vanished in the same area.

Keith Simpson, of the East Cleveland Federation, said pigeon racers across the region had all suffered massive losses since the season started in April - with many losing more than half of their birds.

Some fanciers are considering stopping flying the birds until they establish why so many failed to return.
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