Earth Changes
Mangochi Police Deputy Public Relations Officer Amina Daudi has identified the two as Yusuf Mbalako, 66, and his wife Annie Akibu, 56, both from Chilinda village, Traditional Authority Makanjira in Mangochi.
Daudi told Malawi24 that the two went to their garden which is few meters away from their house and whilst there rainfall started.
They decided to return home but suddenly a lightning struck them on the way and were pronounced dead at Makanjira Health Centre.
The whale had been stranded in shallow water about 100m from the shore.
Residents and holidaymakers had flocked to the beach in droves as word spread about the distressed whale.
Bayworld marine mammal curator Dr Greg Hofmeyr said the whale was probably of the Bryde's species.
As a man, identified only as Ryan, and a friend waded into the surf to try to save the whale by pushing it into deeper water, they were quickly joined by other men, women and children.
But NSRI members who arrived shortly afterwards urged them to get out of the water because it was dangerous. Onlookers on the shore then started chanting "shark, shark, shark", which had the desired effect, with those in the water all out within minutes.
Another terrific video, captured by photographer Joshua Nowicki gives you an even closer look at the frozen castle that looks straight out of a fairy tale.
As this plot of hourly temperatures shows, the average temperature is 16 degrees. F, which is 4 degrees colder than any time last winter. What's worse, the coldest part of winter is still six weeks away.
I can't wait for Monday, March 20th, 2017, when spring starts.
Oreiness John, a Mlinduzi ward councilor in Mpwapwa District, said the incident occurred on Saturday evening in Chaludewa village when the two children were playing near their home.
He said while the youngsters were playing, a storm, which was accompanied with lightning, hit the village located 150km from Tanzania's capital Dodoma.
"There was no rain, but the storm was very strong to the extent that parents who were inside the house were forced to come out. When they came out they found the two children already dead," the local official said, adding that the injured were rushed to Chipogolo Health Centre for treatment.
The civil defence office of that western state of Jalisco says the three eruptions occurred Sunday morning. The biggest columns of ash reached 1.25 miles (2 kilometres) in height, and the smallest was just under a mile tall.
Video showed a large explosion around 9 p.m. Saturday night (0200 GMT Sunday) with glowing lava, smoke and ash shooting from the volcano in front of a starlit, night sky.
An earlier explosion sent a large plume of ash and smoke some 2,000 meters (4,921 feet) into the air around 4 p.m. (2200 GMT).
- Snow, hail and flooding in the deserts of Saudi Arabia (again)
- New Zealand's second strongest tremor in the modern era
- Johannesburg's worst flash-flood in living memory
- Another powerful quake (and another tsunami) off Fukushima, Japan
- Outbreak of 'thunder asthma' in Melbourne, Australia, which killed 8 people and sent another 8,500 to hospital
- The latest Atlantic Hurricane in the modern era (and the most southerly, and the first to ever make landfall in Costa Rica)
- Unprecedented 'superfires' torching swathes of the US Southeast
We are, of course, being facetious. There's nothing normal about any of this. We've entered a new global climate. Forecasting models are largely redundant at this point. The costs from all this destruction pile up ever higher with each passing month. Until now, elites have either ignored the climate/planetary upheaval, or blamed ordinary people for causing one or another symptom, then carried on milking taxpayers and spreading wars. No doubt, given recent patterns, they're soon going to start blaming it all on Putin.
These were (some of) 'the signs' in November 2016...
The earthquake was centered about 37 miles south of Ka Lae (South Point) at a depth of 22.7 miles.
The earthquake was felt on the island, receiving over 50 reports within an hour of the earthquake. Weak shaking was reported across the island. At that intensity, damage to buildings or structures is not expected.
Sunday's earthquake occurred about 43 miles southwest of Lo'ihi, and was not caused by activity on that submarine volcano. The depth, location, and recorded seismic waves of the earthquake suggest a source due to bending of the oceanic plate from the weight of the Hawaiian island chain, a common source for earthquakes in this area. Aftershocks are possible and could be felt.
The earthquake caused no detectable changes in Kilauea Volcano's ongoing eruptions, on Mauna Loa, or at other active volcanoes on the island.
The earthquake hit 100 kilometers (60 miles) southeast of the town of Esperanza at a depth of 550 kilometers, the Geophysical Institute of Peru said.
Deeper earthquakes like this one tend to cause less damage than ones that hit closer to the surface of the earth.
Civil defense authorities said that so far no injuries or damage had been reported, the state news agency Andina said.
Esperanza, with a population of 4,500, is on the banks of the Purus River and close to the border with Brazil.
Source: Agence France-Presse















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