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Mount Rainier
Mount Rainier
The Stevens Canyon Road remains closed. The park's roads condition hotline, last updated at 7:15 a.m., states that the road to Sunrise is closed.
Weather forecasts call for sunny weather over the weekend.
Earth Changes
The Stevens Canyon Road remains closed. The park's roads condition hotline, last updated at 7:15 a.m., states that the road to Sunrise is closed.
Weather forecasts call for sunny weather over the weekend.
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Yellowstone supervolcano caldera
Yellowstone supervolcano caldera
Since about mid-July, the earth beneath the volcano has been shifting in a sign that magma could be rushing into the caldera's main chamber. Since then, there have been roughly 2,500 small-scale earthquakes recorded near the volcano, the largest stretch on record. Previous estimates had assumed that the process that led to the eruption took millenniums to occur.
The same estimates that USGS based their warning on.
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As the Times points out, scientists expect a supervolcano eruption to scar the planet once every 100,000 years.
To reach their conclusion, the team of scientists spent weeks at Yellowstone's Lava Creek Tuff - a fossilized ash deposit from the volcano's last supereruption, where they gathered samples and analyzed the volcanic leftovers. The analysis allowed the scientists to pin down changes in the lava flow before the last eruption. The crystalline structures of the rocks recorded changes in temperature, pressure and water content beneath the volcano just like tree rings do.
The underwater volcano near El Hierro is simmering
The volcano beneath the surface began spewing ash and lava which bubbled to the top - and although that eruption was not too strong, scientists are monitoring the volcano as they are wary it could burst into life with more power.
A project known as Vulcano-II-1017 from the Ministry of Economy, Industry and Competitiveness and Feder, in conjunction with the Spanish Institute of Oceanography, the University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, the University of La Laguna and the Museum of Nature and Man of Tenerife, will monitor the situation to see if the volcano poses any danger.
The reason experts are keeping a close eye on it is because the volcano is still rumbling six years after its eruption near to the tourist hotspot.
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Double waterspouts form in Washington's Birch Bay on Oct. 11, 2017.
Double waterspouts form in Washington's Birch Bay on Oct. 11, 2017.
"We lost count at 40 of them, at least," said John Evich, who was out crabbing Wednesday morning.
Evich said he and his crew spotted the first one around 8 a.m. as he left Blaine heading toward Alden Bank near Orcas Island.
"The very first one started in the center of Birch Bay," he said. He called a bunch of his fishing friends to go look for the waterspouts -- essentially tornadoes over water -- but they hadn't left port yet.
"At that point, we kept crabbing, and then saw another one -- then another one build up right next to it," Evich said. He said the two combined into one waterspout and then wiped each other out.
We examined the timing of 11 eruptive events that produced silica-rich magma from four volcanoes in Japan (Mt. Fuji, Mt. Usu, Myojinsho, and Satsuma-Iwo-jima) over the past 306 years (from AD 1700 to AD 2005). Nine of the 11 events occurred during inactive phases of solar magnetic activity (solar minimum), which is well indexed by the group sunspot number.
This strong association between eruption timing and the solar minimum is statistically significant to a confidence level of 96.7%. This relationship is not observed for eruptions from volcanoes with relatively silica-poor magma, such as Izu-Ohshima. It is well known that the cosmic-ray flux is negatively correlated with solar magnetic activity, as the strong magnetic field in the solar wind repels charged particles such as galactic cosmic rays that originate from outside of the solar system.
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Police said they received numerous calls around 10:45 p.m. Saturday about an "explosion" that rattled windows and shook homes, reported Fox8 WGHP. The reports came from people living in a several mile-wide radius from Tommy's Lake Road to Bethania-Rural Hall Road.
Adding to the mystery: No evidence of damage has been found, media outlets are reporting.
The injured pupils are admitted at Nhowe Mission Hospital.
The deceased, Esnath Tanaka Musodza (14), who had sat for most of her Grade Seven examinations, was fatally struck while studying within the school premises.
The injured pupils — Tilda Chideya (14), Shyline Mukwati (14), Chipo Gova (13), Tinotenda Sinzau (12), Rejoice Kativhu (12) and Kimberly Kadzere (13) — were also in the school yard when the bolt of lightning struck.
In a statement yesterday, the Ministry of Primary and Secondary Education sent a condolence message to Esnath's family.
Ski areas in the Alps have reported up to 20cm of fresh snow in the past 24 hours - around 15 glacier ski areas are already open and have great conditions.
Comment: See also this brief film featuring some revealing comments made by Cesar Millan about the fundamental nature of this type of dog.
...Yeah, but this is a different breed...the power that comes behind the bull dog, pit bull, presa canario, the fighting breed - They have an extra boost, they can go into a zone, they don't feel the pain anymore...so if you are trying to create submission in a fighting breed, it's not going to happen. They would rather die than surrender. If you add pain, it only infuriates them...to them pain is that adrenaline rush, they are looking forward to that, they are addicted to it...that's why they are such great fighters. Especially with fighting breeds, you're going to have these explosions over and over because there's no limits in their brains...
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"We cannot conclusively confirm at this time the nature (natural or human-made) of the event," the USGS said
The US Geological Survey (USGS) detected a 2.9-magnitude earthquake in area close to North Korea's nuclear test site on Thursday evening, but is currently unable to explain the nature of the seismic event.
"This event occurred in the area of the previous North Korean Nuclear tests. The event has earthquake-like characteristics, however, we cannot conclusively confirm at this time the nature (natural or human-made) of the event," the USGS said in a brief statement.
The epicenter of the seismic event is located approximately 25 km away from Sungjibaegam, a town close to the Punggye-ri nuclear test site, at the depth of five kilometers.
The situation on the Korean Peninsula remains tense amid Pyongyang's active development of its missile and nuclear programs and the US-South Korean military drills. In July, North Korea carried out two tests of ballistic missiles, and on August 29 and September 15 it launched two missiles, which flew over Japan's territory. On September 3, Pyongyang announced a successful test of a hydrogen bomb.
Washington, Seoul and Tokyo believe that Pyongyang is preparing to perform another test of a ballistic missile or even a nuclear test soon.
Comment: See also this recent report from the 10th of October concerning the region: 40 earthquake tremors in 48 hours hit La Palma, Canary Islands