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Mysterious animal die-offs in the USA, Canada, Europe and China: Birds, dolphin, cygnets, fish and oysters


strangesounds.org
Sun, 11 Aug 2013 08:13 UTC
Dozen birds Fall mysteriously from the Sky in Winnipeg Manitoba Canada - CBC

Animal experts are trying to figure out what may have killed dozens of black birds that fell from the sky in Winnipeg's North End on Wednesday. Conservation officers have picked up more than 50 dead birds near the intersection of King Street and Dufferin Avenue, while the Winnipeg Humane Society took in 11 birds that were still alive.


Jellyfish attack in Lianyungang in Jiangsu Province China - HISZ

Nearly 20 people were stung by jellyfish yesterday at Lianyungang in Jiangsu Province - including seven who were treated and released by a hospital, and one who had extensive stings and was admitted for further treatment, Yangtze Evening News reported today. A beach official said jellyfish appeared to have been dismembered for an unknown reason in the sea and tentacles washed up at the beach.
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USGS: Earthquake Magnitude 6.0 - NW of L'Esperance Rock, New Zealand


US Geological Survey
Mon, 12 Aug 2013 01:16 UTC
L'Esperance Rock Quake_120813
© USGS
Event Time
2013-08-12 04:16:46 UTC
2013-08-11 16:16:46 UTC-12:00 at epicenter

Location
30.620°S 179.613°W depth=325.2km (202.1mi)

Nearby Cities
112km (70mi) NW of L'Esperance Rock, New Zealand
800km (497mi) NE of Whangarei, New Zealand
861km (535mi) NE of North Shore, New Zealand
866km (538mi) NE of Auckland, New Zealand
1139km (708mi) SSW of Nuku'alofa, Tonga

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Bizarro Earth

USGS: Earthquake Magnitude 6.0 - WNW of Saumlaki, Indonesia


US Geological Survey
Sun, 11 Aug 2013 20:37 UTC
Saumlaki Quake_120813
© USGS
Event Time
2013-08-12 00:53:43 UTC
2013-08-12 09:53:43 UTC+09:00 at epicenter

Location
7.128°S 129.806°E depth=92.7km (57.6mi)

Nearby Cities
189km (117mi) WNW of Saumlaki, Indonesia
363km (226mi) WSW of Tual, Indonesia
420km (261mi) SSE of Ambon, Indonesia
431km (268mi) SSE of Amahai, Indonesia
492km (306mi) ENE of Dili, East Timor

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Bizarro Earth

Super Typhoon Utor strikes the Philippines

Matt Daniel
Earthsky Org
Sun, 11 Aug 2013 20:07 UTC
Typhoon Utor
© NASA
NASA’s Terra satellite captured this image of Typhoon Utor approaching the Philippines on Sunday, Aug. 11, 2013.
Last night (August 10, 2013), Typhoon Utor intensified into a Super Typhoon with winds estimated around 130 knots, or roughly 150 miles per hour. It is pushing to the northwest into the Philippines today, and made landfall around 3 a.m. according to local clocks there on Monday, August 12, 2013.

Heavy rain, flash flooding, storm surge over 20 to 30 feet, and damaging winds are likely for the Philippines as the storm bears down on the northern island of Luzon.
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Igloo

Prepare for decades of extreme cold

Robert Felix
IceAgeNow
Sun, 11 Aug 2013 16:38 UTC
"The Sun drives climate change, not mankind."
IceAge
© India Times
In a press release entitled "Cold Climate Preparation Requires US Academic Support," the Space and Science Research Corporation (SSRC) recently announced that it has launched a nationwide campaign to encourage the largest US academic institutions to become active participants in getting the US prepared for the next climate change, expected to be one of decades of extreme cold weather.

The campaign is to take the form of a letter being sent to the heads of major US universities and colleges, academic associations, science and environmental departments, media, and government leaders. Universities in the Washington, D.C. area will be the first to be notified. The letter has been composed by SSRC President, Mr. John L. Casey.

Mr. Casey (the press release says) is the leading climate researcher in the US advocating national and international preparedness for the coming cold climate era. His foundational research into cycles of the Sun completed in 2007, led him to the creation of the "Relational Cycle Theory" of global climate change and subsequently, the SSRC.

This theory establishes that the Sun drives climate change, not mankind and that repeating cycles of the Sun allow us to predict climate changes decades in advance.
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Gone with the water: Floods in Russia's east cause over $30 mn in damages


Russia Today
Sun, 11 Aug 2013 14:34 UTC
Image
© RIA Novosti/Belozerov Ivan
Local people in a boat in the flood village of Vladimirovka in Amur Region.
Devastating floods that hit Russia's Far East as a result of heavy rains have caused at least one billion rubles (over US$32 million) in damages. Meanwhile, the water keeps rising in several regions.

For about three weeks now several regions in the Russian vast eastern part have been fighting with reportedly the worst floods in decades; a state of emergency has been declared in five of the regions.

About 3,500 people have evacuated from flooded areas in southern parts of the Amur Region, as the situation deteriorated dramatically, Emergencies Ministry said on Sunday. Over a thousand houses and 1,500 gardens in 28 settlements have been inundated, while 29 bridges and around 300km of roads have been closed for use.
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© RIA Novosti/Mikhail Voskresenskiy
Areas flooded due to the overflowing of the Zeya River in the Mazanovo district, Amur Region.
More than 20,000 people and 1,200 pieces of machinery and equipment are engaged in fighting floods, authorities say.

The damage has already cost the country's economy over one billion rubles, but the final figure is expected to be bigger.
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Attention

Six killed in Indonesia volcano eruption

James Legge
The Independent, UK
Sat, 10 Aug 2013 12:31 UTC
Nearly 3,000 people have been evacuated on the remote island

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At least six people have died during a volcano eruption on a remote Indonesian island, which shot smoke and ash up to 2,000 metres into the air.

Those killed were sleeping on a beach on the island of Palue when Mount Rokatenda - which has been rumbling since October 2012 - erupted.

The country's National Disaster Mitigation Agency said the eruption occurred early this morning.

An agency spokesman said the victims included three adults and two children. The age of the sixth person killed was unclear and that the children's bodies had not been recovered from Ponge beach in Rokirole village.

Nearly 3,000 people have been evacuated from the area. the island is about 4km wide, and 1,250 miles east of the capital, Jakarta.

The archipelago nation, home to 240 million people, is prone to earthquakes and volcanic activity because it sits along the Pacific "Ring of Fire," a horseshoe-shaped series of fault lines.
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Cloud Lightning

Dramatic mudslide sweeps away hamlet in northern Japan after four inches of torrential rain falls in an hour leaving six dead

Emily Allen
The Daily Mail, UK
Sat, 10 Aug 2013 12:14 UTC
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Devastation: An aerial view shows the mudslide site at a hamlet where people are still missing, in Senboku, Akita prefecture, Japan. At least eight houses are believed to have been swept away by the floods which hit the area yesterday
These were the shocking scenes of devastation in northern Japan this morning after torrential rain sparked floods and a massive mudslide killing six people.

At least eight buildings were destroyed by one mudslide in Senboku, Akita prefecture, which was triggered when about four inches of rain fell in an hour yesterday - a local record.

The Japanese Meterological Agency has issued evacuation warnings to residents and it's understood that at least 300 people have been forced out of their homes.

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Cloud Precipitation

Freak hail the size of 'eggs' destroys crops in Bordeaux weeks after storms wrecked 90 per cent of Burgundy's vineyards

Suzannah Hills
The Daily Mail, UK
Sat, 10 Aug 2013 12:01 UTC
Severe hailstorms hit the Bordeaux region on August 2 completely destroying entire vineyards

Vineyards owners described the hail as being the size of 'pigeon's eggs'

Comes weeks after much of Burgundy's wine crop was destroyed by storms

Many wine-makers are now facing ruin as they have no grapes to make wine

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uined: Vineyards which were left seriously damaged after a summer hailstorm in Burgundy
Wine-makers in France are facing ruin after hail storms decimated vineyards in Bordeaux just a few weeks after summer storms destroyed up to 90 per cent of crops in Burgundy.

The torrential hail storm which struck on August 2 ravaged around 20,000 hectares of land in the region - leaving many vineyards completely barren.

Many wine-makers in the region have been left with no crops by freak hail the size of 'pigeon's eggs' while others have seen theirs severely reduced.

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Rare Curlew bird found wandering around UK supermarket


swns.com
Mon, 05 Aug 2013 09:40 UTC
One of Britain's rarest birds stunned shoppers after it was found wandering around - a Lidl supermarket

The stone curlew was discovered "dazed and confused" in the shop many miles from the nearest habitat.

Stone curlews are a ground-nesting bird that were once common in upland areas of the West, but nearly died out because of modern farming methods.

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A wildlife expert releases a stone curlew to the wild – after it was found in a supermarket in Devizes, Wiltshire
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