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At least 8 killed after shallow M5.4 earthquake damages 180+ houses in northwest China


RT
Thu, 11 May 2017 03:32 UTC
China earthquake map May 11 2017
© Google Maps
A moderate, shallow earthquake in northwest China has claimed the lives of at least eight people and injured dozens more after almost 200 homes in the area reportedly collapsed.

At least 8 people were killed and over 20 injured after a 5.4-magnitude earthquake struck Taxkorgan County in northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region at 5:58am Thursday, the region's earthquake administration said.

The quake, in a remote mountainous area that borders Tajikistan, Afghanistan and Pakistan, struck at a depth of 10 kilometers, the US Geological Survey said.

The shallow quake, known to cause greater shaking at the surface inflicted a lot of damage.

More than 180 houses collapsed and 789 people were affected, the Xinjiang Uyghur seismological center announced.

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Better Earth

Analysis of NASA data shows modern temperature trends are not unusual - Video

Anthony Watts
Watts Up With That?
Wed, 10 May 2017 20:20 UTC
iceball earth
Michael Thomas writes:

An important aspect of the climate change debate can be summed up like this: "One position holds that medieval warm temperatures reached levels similar to the late twentieth century and maintained that the LIA was very cold, while another position holds that past variability was less than present extremes and that the temperature rise of recent decades is unmatched". This video challenges whether the rise of recent decades is unmatched.

The overall trend since 1880 when instrumental data started is 0.11 degrees Celsius per decade. This is according to NOAA data for northern hemisphere land records. The most extreme trend occurs between 2006 and 2016 and is, according to NOAA, is 0.38 degrees Celsius per decade.
Eight separate studies of historical data, all of which are referenced by the IPCC in the 2013 report, are examined to see whether the trend between 2006 and 2016 is indeed unmatched over the past two thousand years.

Multiple examples were found where trends equaled or exceeded over the past two thousand years.

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Question

South Carolina mystery booms may be legendary 'Seneca Guns'

Brett Tingley
Mysterious Universe
Tue, 09 May 2017 21:26 UTC
South Carolina coast
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Residents of Charleston, South Carolina and the surrounding towns of North Charleston, Mount Pleasant, and West Ashley were all startled by an unexplained booming noise which shook windows and doors. The noise was reported on the morning of Friday, May 5th just after 8:30 a.m. While reports of the boom came in from all throughout the South Carolina Lowcountry, experts and law enforcement officials currently disagree about what the source of the sound might have been.

Minor earthquakes or other seismic activity were speculated to be the cause of the boom, but geophysicists reported little seismic activity in the area at the time. There are also armed forces bases nearby, and aircraft exercises were cited as the likely cause of a similar boom last year. However, military officials in the area claim that they weren't behind the noise.

That does not rule out any classified or undisclosed testing, however. The Air Force's secretive X-37B spacecraft landed in Florida over the weekend, causing a sonic boom upon reentry. Could there have been another secret landing we don't yet know about?
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Snowflake

Here it comes - Melting snowpack floods Merced River in California's Yosemite National Park


CBS San Francisco
Wed, 10 May 2017 19:34 UTC
yosemite river
© National Park Service
The Pohono Bridge over the Merced River in in Yosemite National Park in January 2017.
The river running through Yosemite National Park briefly flooded its banks and a sheriff in California's Central Valley organized an airdrop of feed for 30 cows stranded downstream by rising waters as a heat wave melts record snowpack in the Sierra Nevada.

The National Weather Service says the Merced River should reach flood stage for a second-straight night Wednesday under the park's iconic Pohono Bridge. Cooling temperatures Thursday and through the weekend will slow the melt and ease the flooding.
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Cloud Lightning

Webbot hit : Electrical ferocity that ancients witnessed & atmospheric compression events

Adapt 2030
You Tube
Wed, 10 May 2017 19:50 UTC
flood
The May 2017 ALTA report other wise known as the Webbots pegged exactly a river of rain in the skies, a deluge and "Rain Train" with such force that it would electrify the skies and displace cities. I dug through the new GOES-16 satellite images of the Lightning Mapper Satellite and Infrared cloud density, what I present to you should be an eye opened as these types of events will intensify further as we descend into the new grand solar minimum.

These electrical storms are ferocious to say the least and when you see the electric scorpion tail in that set of storms, you will begin to understand some of the petroglyphs.


Sources

Comment: For a more in-depth understand of this 'electrical ferocity that ancients witnessed', do read: Earth Changes and the Human Cosmic Connection by Pierre Lescaudron and Laura Knight-Jadczyk

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Bizarro Earth

Burst of earthquakes along the Alaskan archipelago

David Jacobson
Temblor
Wed, 10 May 2017 19:25 UTC
alaska earthquake map
© USGS
This Temblor map shows the location of the earthquakes in the last two days in the Aleutian Islands. While the quakes to the northwest have strike-slip focal mechanisms, the ones to the southeast have thrust focal mechanisms.
Over the last two days, a series of earthquakes has struck the Aleutian Islands in Alaska near Adak Island. Approximately 8 hours ago, there was a M=5.9, and two days ago, a M=6.4 struck. While almost no one lives along this portion of the archipelago, the recent swarm highlights a zone where the plate boundary transitions from pure subduction to strike-slip motion. What this means is that in the area of the recent earthquakes, there is oblique subduction and earthquakes with varying focal mechanisms can occur.

Comment: See also: The Great M9.2 Alaska Earthquake and Tsunami of March 27, 1964

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Cloud Lightning

Father and son killed by lightning bolt in Karnataka, India


The Times of India
Wed, 10 May 2017 19:28 UTC
lightning
A father-son duo was killed on the spot following a lightning strike at a field in Periyapatna in Mysuru on Tuesday.

Beeregowda, 47, and his son Shivakumar, 14, residents of Makoda Shetty Halli in the taluk, were at work when they were struck by lightning. Police said the duo was taking shelter under a tree after it started raining heavily around 2.45pm. The rain was accompanied by thunderstorms, and the tree under which they were standing was struck by lightning.

Periyapatna police said some villagers were at the field at the time of incident.
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Bizarro Earth

Death toll from Arkansas' severe storms, floods rises to 10

Ellen Lampe
Arkansas Matters
Wed, 10 May 2017 18:15 UTC
flash flood sign
At least 10 deaths are blamed on severe storms that knocked out power to more than 100,000 homes and business across the state, caused catastrophic flooding in northeast Arkansas and ravaged hundreds of homes. The storms rolled in over the last week of April and peaked during the weekend of April 29-30. Arkansans are still feeling the aftermath of those storms nearly two weeks later, as cleanup and repairs are still underway and, in some areas, have just begun.

Strong storms packing high winds and heavy rain hammered the state Saturday, April 29, into early Sunday, April 30, leaving widespread damage -- enough for Governor Asa Hutchinson to declare a "state of emergency" statewide. All that rain caused river and lake levels to rise and eventually overflow, causing extreme flooding in various parts of the state. The flooding continued to worsen even after the brunt of the bad weather was over, with waters still lingering nearly two weeks after the original storms. Northeast Arkansas was the hardest hit after nine levees breached, putting the town of Pocahontas and other parts of Randolph County underwater.
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Bizarro Earth

The Great M9.2 Alaska Earthquake and Tsunami of March 27, 1964


US Geological Survey
Wed, 10 May 2017 17:13 UTC
1964 alaska earthquake map
© USGS
Map of southern Alaska showing the epicenter of the 1964 Great Alaska Earthquake (red star).
On March 27, 1964 at 5:36pm local time (March 28 at 3:36 UTC) a great earthquake of magnitude 9.2 occurred in the Prince William Sound region of Alaska. The earthquake rupture started approximately 25 km beneath the surface, with its epicenter about 6 miles (10 km) east of the mouth of College Fiord, 56 miles (90 km) west of Valdez and 75 miles (120 km) east of Anchorage. The earthquake lasted approximately 4.5 minutes and is the most powerful recorded earthquake in U.S. history. It is also the second largest earthquake ever recorded, next to the M9.5 earthquake in Chile in 1960.

The map shows the epicenter of the 1964 Great Alaska Earthquake (red star), caused when the Pacific Plate lurched northward underneath the North American Plate.
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Attention

Earthquake hits western Brittany, tremor one of several to have shaken France over weekend


The Connexion
Tue, 09 May 2017 17:03 UTC
Earthquakes in France
Tremor is one of several to have shaken several parts of France over the weekend

The earth moved a little bit for residents in Brittany when an earthquake struck halfway between Quimper and Vannes.

The tremor, rated at 3.2 on the Richter scale, happened 3km south-west of Quimperlé, Finistère, and 20km north-west of Lorient, Morbihan, at 15.18 yesterday and was picked up by the military detectors of the Commissariat à l'Energie Atomique.

It was reported by several residents in Quimperlé and Concarneau on social media - with one asking if it was an earthquake or a sonic boom from an aircraft. Some reported it as a shaking and others as a grinding feeling.


Brittany has been hit by several small quakes over the past few months, with the largest one being a tremor of magnitude 3.9 near Brest in December.
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