Heavy rain over the last few days has caused flooding and landslides in parts of Central Vietnam where at least 1 person has died and 2 were reported missing. Some parts of Thua Thien Hue Province recorded more than 850 mm of rain in a 24 hour period.

One person died in flood waters in Nui Thanh District, Quang Nam Province, on 10 October 2022. Meanwhile one person was reported missing in floods in Tam Kỳ, the capital city of Quảng Nam Province, where around 1,500 homes were flooded.

Areas of Quang Ngai Province have also seen heavy rainfall, in particular the districts of Son Ha and Tra Bong. One person was reported missing after a landslide at a hydropower plant in Tra Bong District late on 11 October. Around 1,000 families have been evacuated due to flood threats in the districts of Nghia Hanh, Binh Son and Duc Pho.

Thousands evacuated from many provinces as hundreds of homes damaged by floodwaters

At least 33 people have died in Nepal from floods and landslides triggered by incessant rainfall over the last week, reported local media.

Thousands have been evacuated from several provinces in the country's northwest, where the monsoon has hit the hardest.

At least 18 people are also reportedly missing across the Karnali province while hundreds of homes have been damaged by floodwaters.

The Kathmandu Post newspaper reported that 13 people who were attending a funeral went missing after a massive landslide struck at Rachuli in Tilagupha Municipality-4, Kalikot on Sunday. It said that two individuals sustained critical injuries in the incident.

A rare bird had birders flocking to Windsor, Ont., this week to catch a glimpse.

It's called a tropical kingbird. Originally from the Gulf of Mexico, the bird was spotted fluttering around the city Monday morning and remained into the day on Tuesday as well.

Jeremy Bensette, one of a few year-round resident birders from the Point Pelee area, said the bird was first spotted along side the Detroit River which mobilized a number of local bird watchers who were followed by some out-of-towners.

Bensette said there have been a number of vagrant birds found in the northeast of North America in recent days, likely pulled north from the tropics in one of the recent large hurricanes.

"Sometimes [in] the weeks following, these birds are found surviving in natural areas, in the Great Lakes region or on the East coast," he said. "No one knows for sure, but that's likely where this what turned out to be a tropical kingbird, came from."

Officials in the state of Aragua in north-central Venezuela reported that at least 22 people have died and 52 were missing after flash floods in the town of Tejerias.

Torrential rain fell on steep slopes surrounding Tejerias in Santos Michelena municipality, late on 08 October 2022, causing raging flood waters and debris to flow through streets in scenes reminiscent of the floods in the Mocotíes Valley Area in August last year.

Venezuela Vice President Delcy Rodriguez said that a month's worth of rain had fallen in just eight hours. Karina Carpio, Governor of Aragua State, said at least 5 rivers or streams in the area had broken their banks.

Looking at the state of our world, are the climate related disruptions the reason for the government events to distract from solar system cycles?

Hurricane Ian hit Florida as a furious Category 4 storm taking the lives of at least 100. The strong winds and floods destroyed hundreds of houses and businesses and left hundreds of thousands of people without power. Some residents of island communities were cut off from the mainland.

Ian caused the most significant hurricane loss in Florida history, with total economic damage of $100 billion.

Sheets of rain and record-breaking floods continue to wreak havoc around the world, but in parallel, volcanic and seismic activity in the Ring of Fire peaked in September:

• 7.6 M earthquake in Michoacan, Mexico (September 19)
• 7.6 M earthquake in the Eastern New Guinea region (September 10)
• 7.0 M earthquake Southeast of the Loyalty Islands (September 14)
• 6.9 M earthquake in Taiwan (September 18)
• 6.9 M earthquake in the Central Mid-Atlantic Ridge (September 4)

On September 19, 1985, an 8.1-magnitude earthquake killed 10,000 people in Mexico City. On September 19, 2017, an earthquake struck Puebla, killing 369 people in several states, mainly Mexico City. And now, a 7.6 magnitude earthquake struck Mexico City... on the same day as the previous years.

José Luis Mateos, a physicist at the National Autonomous University of Mexico, pointed out that the likelihood of having three strong earthquakes on the same day in different years is 0.00000024%.

"The coincidence of the dates of the earthquakes deserves to open new lines of scientific research. It must be done with seriousness and methodology. In science, new questions require answers", said the National Seismological Service. "There is no scientific reason that explains or justifies it."

So what's behind this quite unlikely series of events?

Pierre Lescuadron tells us in his book Earth Changes and the Human Cosmic Connection, that human experience and collective consciousness are connected to nature in subtle, and not-so-subtle ways, and it seems that nature responds to emotionally charged human events.

It might not be a coincidence to see significant earth changes events when there are crises and turmoil in society. The Chinese Dynastic cycles show that much too.

So we can assume that these series of coincidental earthquakes in Mexico have something to do with suffering, oppression, and overall social crisis.

In general, things are getting tense out there, to say the least. We have the Great Reset psychos pushing for a controlled collapse of the existing economic and social systems to impose their totalitarian utopia, and the only counter-force now is represented by Russia and China.

So far, neither front is giving ground on their objectives, yet, the Western world is starting to show clear signs of an impending precipitous fall. So maybe it is not so crazy to suggest that as this conflict between these opposing forces develops, and the serious, global social consequences start to become more obvious (famine and sickness, for example), we might see a gradually increasing response from the cosmos in the form of earth changes and cosmic events.

All this and more in our SOTT Earth Changes Summary for September 2022:

They were working instead of taking shelter during rain, police say

A lightning strike killed five workers of a brick kiln in Pirganj upazila of Rangpur on Tuesday.

The deceased are Abdul Jalil, Nazmul Islam, Siam, Shahadat and Rashedul.

Pirganj police station OC Abdul Aual confirmed the matter.

According to the police, lightning struck five brick kiln workers at around 3:30pm, killing four of them on the spot, while another injured worker died on the way to the hospital.

The OC said the five had been working instead of taking shelter during rain.

A confused 'fact-check' from Agence France-Presse (AFP) claims that the Daily Sceptic published a misleading claim in saying: "Studies of Greenland show climate change is caused by natural factors, not carbon emissions." We did no such thing. In an article published on October 2nd, we reported on a paper written by three Japanese climatologists commenting specifically on the recent decade-long slowdown of melting on the Greenland ice sheet. We noted the scientists wrote that "frequent occurrence of central Pacific El Niño events have played a key role in the slow-down of Greenland's warming and possibly Arctic sea ice loss".

In a crucial finding, possibly missed by the AFP 'fact-checker' since it appears in the main body of the paper, there was an additional comment about this spell of Greenland warming dating back to 2012: "This nonuniform Arctic warming can be attributed to natural variability, rather than anthropogenic forcing, although most climate models are unable to reasonably simulate the unforced natural variability over Greenland."

Hurricane Julia swept past the Colombian islands of San Andrés and Providencia before making landfall as a Category 1 Hurricane near Laguna de Perlas, Nicaragua on 09 October 2022. The storm then weakened as it moved across Central America.

Julia brought torrential rain to areas of Central America, triggering floods and landslides in northern Colombia, Nicaragua, Honduras, Guatemala, Costa Rica, El Salvador and Panama. As of 10 October, over 20 fatalities were reported and thousands of people were displaced.

A trough of low pressure in the region was forecast to bring further heavy rainfall, the National Hurricane Center said.

Heavy rain said to be associated with Hurricane Julia had previously caused flooding in Trinidad and Venezuela.

Footage shows an up close view of a volcano erupting on the Italian island of Stromboli.