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Black bear attacks man in Powell River, Canada

Chris Bolster
PeakOnline
Thu, 24 Sep 2015 17:21 UTC

A 51-year-old man was hospitalized with minor injuries after being attacked by a black bear. The bear and its two cubs have since been destroyed by conservation officers.

Conservation officers are searching for a bear responsible for sending a 51-year-old man to hospital in the early hours of Thursday, September 24.

Powell River RCMP have confirmed that a man walking his dog on the 4700 block of Redonda Avenue, behind the Town Centre Mall, was attacked by a bear at approximately 5:30 am.

The man sustained only minor injuries in the attack and did not require BC Ambulance Service paramedics to transport him to Powell River General Hospital, Constable Tim Kenning told the Peak at 9 am.

Kenning said that the unnamed man told him "the bear came out of nowhere."

Massive waterspout moves through peninsula in Greece

Accuweather
Mon, 21 Sep 2015 15:36 UTC

Check out this large waterspout filmed moving through a peninsula near Methana, Greece, Monday, Sept. 21.

Sun halo appears around the sun in Palakkad, India

Asia Net India
Fri, 25 Sep 2015 09:16 UTC

Evoking a sense of curiosity among the people, a halo appeared around the sun in the skies of Palakkad on Friday. A similar phenomenon was reported from Alappuzha and Kozhikode the other day. The halo appeared around the sun at Thursday noon in the skies of Alappuzha town. According to Met department, an atmospheric whirlpool formed in Tamil Nadu and Lakshadweep caused the halo.

The solar halo is formed when there is a surge in humidity in atmosphere. In fact it is the light which diffuses after hitting water particle in atmosphere that appears to be a halo. It is not a rare phenomenon.Atmospheric whirlpools are formed by concentration of air in a particular spot.

Comment: The increase in sun halos is likely a combination of possible comet dust loading and changes in the layers of the atmosphere is producing all sorts of anomalous phenomena.

6.0-Magnitude earthquake recorded off Solomon Islands: USGS

ndtv.com
Fri, 25 Sep 2015 14:53 UTC

A 6.0-magnitude quake hit off the Solomon Islands

A 6.0-magnitude earthquake struck off the Solomon Islands early Friday, US geologists said, but there were no initial reports of damage and no tsunami warnings were issued.

The quake struck 98 kilometres (60 miles) southeast of the capital Honiara in the early hours of Friday (around 1600 GMT Thursday) at a depth of approximately 23 kilometres (14 miles), USGS said.

The Solomons are part of the Pacific "Ring of Fire", a zone of tectonic activity known for its frequent earthquakes and volcanic eruptions.

In 2013, the Solomons were hit by a tsunami after an 8.0-magnitude quake, leaving at least 10 people dead and thousands homeless after buildings were destroyed.

Source: Agence France-Presse

More activity seen at Colima Volcano, Mexico

Mexico News Daily
Thu, 24 Sep 2015 14:29 UTC

Colima Volcano

The Colima Volcano continues to be active, sending a 1,500-meter column of smoke skyward at 7:08 this morning.

Civil Protection's national coordinator, Luis Felipe Puente Espinosa, reported the eruption on his Twitter account, advising that the smoke, with a low ash content, was moving southwest.

The ash expelled by the volcano consists of material less than two millimeters in diameter and moves with the wind. But rock projectiles from the Volcano of Fire, as it is also known, are a different matter.

They can be up to 50 millimeters in diameter and are sent shooting out of the crater at high speed, before falling to the ground. This volcanic material can cause damage and injuries in populated areas, particularly if they are hot, which can result in fires.

Dead Gray whale washes up near Fremont, California

ktvu.com
Thu, 24 Sep 2015 13:50 UTC

Biologists will perform a necropsy Thursday on a dead whale that washed up near Fremont to determine what caused its death, according to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service.

Biologists will perform a necropsy Thursday on a dead whale that washed up near Fremont to determine what caused its death, according to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service.

The 25-foot long carcass was discovered washed up on a rocky beach in the Don Edwards San Francisco Bay National Wildlife Refuge on Tuesday just north of the Dumbarton Bridge, according to East Bay Regional Park District spokeswoman Carolyn Jones.

A park ranger spotted the whale carcass about 150 to 200 yards south of the Alameda Creek Channel, Jones said.

"We had a lot of whales washing up on shore," said Mary Jane Schramm from the National Marine Sanctuaries, Gulf of the Farallones.

Telica volcano erupts in northwestern Nicaragua

Roberto Ontiveros
Latin Post
Wed, 23 Sep 2015 13:27 UTC

The Telica volcano located in northwestern Nicaragua has once again erupted, after it started spewing smoke on Wednesday.

According to the AFP, civil defense officials in the region have described dense volcanic ash settling over the six surrounding villages. Evertz Delgadillo, a member of the local municipal disaster prevention committee, said the first explosion lasted 20 minutes and was followed by three other shorter explosions.

Back in May, the 90-mile-high volcano erupted twice.

The Nicaraguan government has previously shown some hesitancy in ordering the evacuation of the people who live near the active volcano.

Townhouse gas explosion in Columbia, Maryland

Mike Hellgren
CBS Baltimore
Thu, 24 Sep 2015 19:53 UTC

Authorities condemn six townhouses in Columbia after a massive fire and explosion Wednesday night.

Mike Hellgren reports for WJZ.

The blast blew the top floor off of one house. And neighbors thought a plane hit the neighborhood.

"We heard a big bang," said one neighbor, Jim Parks. "When we opened the shades, the home insulation looked like snow coming out of the sky."

Authorities say a gas leak started the fire.

No one was inside of the home at the time.

Earthquake hits southeastern China and jolts Hong Kong

Danny Mok
South China Morning Post
Thu, 24 Sep 2015 15:21 UTC

Some mainland residents at an unknown location run for cover.

Hongkongers reported feeling a tremor late last night when an earthquake of magnitude 3.8 shook the southeastern mainland city of Shantou in Guangdong province.

The Hong Kong Observatory said the earthquake struck at 10.57pm near the coast of southeastern China.

The epicentre was located about 110km west-southwest of Shantou, or about 180km east-northeast of Hong Kong.

The depth of the focus was 16km, according to the mainland's Earthquake Networks Centre.

5.1 magnitude earthquake rattles North Island, New Zealand

radionz.co.nz
Thu, 24 Sep 2015 19:37 UTC

An earthquake has been felt widely across the North Island this morning.

The 5.1 magnitude quake was 167 km deep, centred 25 km south-east of Tokoroa, GNS said.

It struck at about 6.48am and has been felt in Hawke's Bay, Manawatu-Wanganui, Wellington and in the top of the South Island.

GNS seismologist John Ristau said the depth of the quake was probably the reason it was felt so widely.

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Earth Changes

Black bear attacks man in Powell River, Canada

Massive waterspout moves through peninsula in Greece

Sun halo appears around the sun in Palakkad, India

6.0-Magnitude earthquake recorded off Solomon Islands: USGS

More activity seen at Colima Volcano, Mexico

Dead Gray whale washes up near Fremont, California

Telica volcano erupts in northwestern Nicaragua

Townhouse gas explosion in Columbia, Maryland

Earthquake hits southeastern China and jolts Hong Kong

5.1 magnitude earthquake rattles North Island, New Zealand

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