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Vanuatu - Earthquake Magnitutde 6.6

Vanuatu Quake_090111
© USGSEarthquake Location
Date-Time:
Sunday, January 09, 2011 at 10:03:43 UTC

Sunday, January 09, 2011 at 09:03:43 PM at epicenter

Time of Earthquake in other Time Zones

Location:
19.163°S, 168.326°E

Depth:
17.4 km (10.8 miles)

Region:
VANUATU

Distances:
110 km (65 miles) WNW of Isangel, Tanna, Vanuatu

160 km (100 miles) S of PORT-VILA, Efate, Vanuatu

270 km (165 miles) N of Tadine, Loyalty Islands, New Caledonia

1815 km (1130 miles) ENE of BRISBANE, Queensland, Australia

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SOTT Focus: Chemtrails? Contrails? Strange Skies

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© NASAContrails as seen from space: the fact that now the contrails persists for so long is in itself a sign that something is not going well, but it's NOT evidence they are "chemtrails."
A few things that should be considered when talking about so-called "chemtrails":

1) Obviously, there is some "spraying" that goes on and it's not for the benefit of humanity. I've heard a few stories from people about very low flying planes dispersing stuff that lands all over everything or makes people sick. And I do mean LOW flying.

2) Spraying that actually affects a designated area beneath the sprayer (the plane in question) must be at a fairly low altitude otherwise what is sprayed will not come down on the area beneath the spraying. This is due to the fact that our atmosphere has a number of layers and each layer has its own temperature and wind speed and direction, and very often, things in one layer take a very long time and distance to mix or mingle with other layers, IF they mix at all. Usually, the wind speeds in the upper layers are such that anything deposited there might only penetrate to lower, weather, layers, after many thousands of miles of travel. It's a very nonlinear situation and highly, impossibly, unpredictable.

3) So, if you are talking about chemical spraying that you can see above in the sky, that then falls on the area below it, you must be talking about low altitude spraying.

4) Therefore, trails that are very high in the sky that have no hope of ever interacting with the ground below them cannot properly be called "chemtrails" except, perhaps, if a chemical is being sprayed that is supposed to affect the weather (and even that is done fairly low). Cloud seeding is done by dispersing elements such as dry ice crystals or silver iodide in the atmosphere with an airplane or even ground based stations. Seeding clouds is believed to promote condensation of water droplets, thus, rain.

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Swedish bird mystery: Deaths due to 'external injuries'

Officials investigating the mysterious deaths of up to 100 birds on a road in Sweden say tests have revealed they suffered external injuries.

Dozens of jackdaws were found in the centre of Falkoeping prompting comparisons with the mysterious deaths of 3,000 birds in the US.

Sweden's National Veterinary Institute said it had tested five of the birds and found evidence of traumatic injury.

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Best of the Web: 7 Reasons Food Shortages Will Become a Global Crisis

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© Activist Post
Food inflation is here and it's here to stay. We can see it getting worse every time we buy groceries. Basic food commodities like wheat, corn, soybeans, and rice have been skyrocketing since July, 2010 to record highs. These sustained price increases are only expected to continue as food production shortfalls really begin to take their toll this year and beyond.

This summer Russia banned exports of wheat to ensure their nation's supply, which sparked complaints of protectionism. The U.S. agriculture community is already talking about rationing corn over ethanol mandates versus supply concerns. We've seen nothing yet in terms of food protectionism.

Global food shortages have forced emergency meetings at the U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization where they claim "urgent action" is needed. They point to extreme weather as the main contributing factor to the growing food shortages. However, commodity speculation has also been targeted as one of the culprits.

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Plume Seen Above Kizimen Volcano

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© Jesse Allen and Robert Simmon, NASA
Kizimen Volcano on Russia's Kamchatka Peninsula sent a plume toward the west-southwest on January 6, 2010, according to a NASA statement. The Advanced Land Imager (ALI) on NASA's Earth Observing-1 (EO-1) satellite captured this natural-color image the same day.

Low-angled sunlight illuminates the southern face of the plume, leaving the northern side in shadow.

The plume's beige color suggests that its visible components are a mixture of volcanic ash and water vapor. The slopes of Kizimen and the nearby land surfaces appear dull gray-brown, likely resulting from a coating of volcanic ash. (A wider view of the region shows areas father from the volcano blanketed in snowy white.)

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Experts Close In On What Killed Fish

Monday, officers with the
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© Arkansas Game and Fish Commission
said an investigation into what killed nearly 100,000 fresh water drum fish has turned up the possibility of a virus or bacteria.

It was on Thursday when people started reporting the dead fish lining the banks of the Arkansas River.

Game and fish officers said that during their investigation, they discovered the dead fish covered about 17 miles of river from the Ozark Lock and Dam downstream to River Mile 240, directly south of Hartman, Ark.

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Sunsets: Why So Stunning?

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© Sam GangwerSunset over Huntington Beach pier Thursday.

Sunsets are bursting lately with dazzling colors, shapes and textures, and we asked an expert: Why?

The answer has mainly to do with high clouds, said meteorologist Jamie Moker of the National Weather Service.

"The way the light reflects and refracts through the clouds causes it to basically make those brighter colors," Moker said. "The sunsets lately have had a lot of mid and upper-level clouds. Those clouds seem to refract light."

And while pollution can sometimes enhance sunsets, in this case it's a lack of pollution that is doing the job, he said.

Light passing through low clouds also passes through a lot of fine particles. Higher clouds are largely free of it, allowing colors to look more vivid.

"It's not dulled out by pollution - particulates in the lower atmosphere," Moker said.

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Two potential causes ruled out in Arkansas fish kill

Little Rock - An Arkansas Game and Fish Commission official says parasites and bacteria have been eliminated as causes of a fish kill last week in the Arkansas River.

Fisheries division chief Mark Oliver told the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette that it will take three more weeks to determine whether the 80,000 to 100,000 drum that died were killed by a virus. Samples were sent to the University of Arkansas at Pine Bluff's fish-disease diagnostic laboratory for testing.

A tugboat operator first noted the dead fish Dec. 29 near the Roseville community boat ramp. The fish were seen for nearly 20 miles, from the Ozark-Jeta Taylor Lock and Dam near Ozark to near Hartman.

The Arkansas Department of Environmental Quality determined that the deaths weren't related to river pollution.

Information from: Arkansas Democrat-Gazette

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City moves to clean beach of dead fish

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Trey Smalls, with B & C Utilities, cleans up the fish kill on Folly Beach
Folly Beach-- The fish kill was Gene Nelson's opportunity to scoop up free fertilizer. Nelson arrived early Friday to collect buckets of dead menhaden, filling three or four loads of the finger-length fish. He plans to bury them as tree feed ahead of planting season.

"You've got to put them in the ground right away," said Nelson, of North Charleston, who wore rubber gloves as he bent over on his hands and knees pulling loads in.

Nelson wasn't the only scooper on site. Down the beach, work crews hired by the city of Folly Beach used shovels and heavy duty earth-moving equipment to clean a mile-and-a-half stretch of thousands of stinking menhaden carcasses that had washed ashore earlier this week. Officials expect the work to be all done by today, at a cost of between $5,000 and $6,000.

While state wildlife officials said the die-off appears to be a product of the recent cold and lower sea temperatures, some locals said there is reason to be concerned about stress on the ocean's environment.

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Sewage inflow kills fish in thousands in Bangalore's Iblur Lake

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In what is seen as a case of civic negligence, thousands of fish have been found dead mysteriously at Iblur Lake near HSR Layout.

Narayana, the licensed contractor for the fish in the lake, blamed untreated sewage water from several residential areas in Bellandur Gate as the cause of the deaths. He alleged that the sewage water is sent to the drain without treating, thus depleting the oxygen level of the lake water.

"I have already suffered huge losses thrice and though I complained to BBMP officials of Bellandur and HSR wards, no action has been initiated so far. The officials are inefficient and we are the ones who incur the loss," said Narayana.

The park by the lake, which once had people frequenting it, now wears a deserted look. Visitors say the foul smell emanating from the lake is getting worse by day and spoiling the mood and environment that persisted in the lake a few years ago.