Earth Changes

Thousands of dead fish found floating in Chesapeake Bay

Chris Horne
wavy.com
Tue, 29 Jul 2014 09:04 UTC

Thousands of dead fish appeared on the surface of the Chesapeake Bay over the weekend near the northern end of the Chesapeake Bay Bridge-Tunnel.

James Ryan, a fisherman of Virginia Beach, captured video of the unusual sight. He said the fish are bunker fish, also known as menhaden. Fishermen say menhaden can be used as bait for crab, or be harvested for fish oil.

Social media posts from area fishermen indicate a commercial boat from Omega Protein was in the area at the time. 10 On Your Side contacted Omega, and company spokesman Ben Landry said an Omega vessel was not and could not have been involved, because the company does not have fishing operations on weekends or holidays.

Environmentalists said such an incident would result from either of two likely causes - commercial fishing, when a crew hauls in more fish that it can store, or poor water quality.

10 On Your Side is awaiting response from the Department of Environmental Quality and the Virginia Marine Resources Commission to find out more about how the fish were killed.

Wild weather in Tasmania causes electricity cuts and one death

ABC
Thu, 31 Jul 2014 05:41 UTC

Wild weather is lashing Tasmania, with communities in the state's north facing flooding danger and the south enduring a major blackout

A 63-year-old woman has been killed by a falling tree in Launceston during a fourth day of wild weather across Tasmania.

Police were notified about midday that the woman was trapped under a tree at her home in the suburb of Trevallyn.

Inspector Michael Johnston said police were still at the property investigating the circumstances of the woman's death.

"They'd had a number of trees fall on her property and they were in the process of clearing those when a further tree fell and struck her," he said.

"She was trapped under the tree. Her husband was able to cut some of the tree away and get her out.

"Unfortunately, she was pronounced dead at the scene."

Extreme weather is causing massive power disruptions and damage as trees fall onto houses and power lines.

New un-Earthly phenomenon! 'Crater-holes' opening in Siberia 'not in scientific literature'

Tanya Lewis
Live Science
Wed, 30 Jul 2014 17:26 UTC

A trio of mysterious gaping holes in northern Siberia has spawned many theories about the craters' origin, but scientists have suggested some concrete explanations.

In mid-July, reindeer herders stumbled across a crater that was approximately 260 feet (80 meters) wide, on the Yamal Peninsula, whose name means "end of the world," The Siberian Times reported. Since then, two new chasms - a 50-foot (15 m) crater in the Taz district and a 200- to 330-foot (60 to 100 m) crater in the Taymyr Peninsula - have also been reported.

Neither aliens nor meteorites caused the strange cavities, as some had speculated, but the true explanation could be exciting nonetheless. Russian scientists have launched an investigation to find out more.

Helicopter video footage of the first hole shows it is surrounded by a mound of loose dirt that appears to have been thrown out of the hole.

Comment:

"It's not even in the [scientific] literature..."

Wow, are we living in 'interesting times' or what?!

We can offer an alternative explanation to pingos and man-made global warming.

For an explosion you need two things: an igniter and combustible material. The Arctic, as with many other places on Earth is outgassing methane at never-before-seen rates. Lightning discharge events are also increasing in intensity and frequency because the solar wind is being grounded while comet dust loading of the atmosphere increases nucleation and resistance, leading to greater precipitation and greater charge-rebalancing respectively.

See Earth Changes and the Human Cosmic Connection: The Secret History of the World - Book 3 where this is explained in greater detail.

These 'crater- holes' are not an indication of global warming. They're another indication of the planet opening up.

Speaking of exploding Earth, notice how this lady in Florida described this monster sinkhole open up earlier this month...

Magnitude 3.0 earthquake strikes near Manhattan Beach, CA

LA Late News
Wed, 30 Jul 2014 14:23 UTC

A Los Angeles earthquake today 2014 has struck Manhattan Beach. The Los Angeles earthquake today July 30, 2014 began moments ago and was located near Hermosa Beach, El Segundo, Redondo Beach and Torrance. Damage assessment is pending.

Officials tell news that a 3.0 magnitude Los Angeles earthquake today struck just after 12:23 pm PST. The quake was shallow. Reps tell news that the quake started only six miles below sea level. As a result the quake could be felt across the vicinity. USGS indicates to news that the quake was six miles west of Manhattan Beach. It was six miles west of El Segundo. Reps tell news that the quake was six miles of Hermosa Beach, seven miles west of Redondo Beach. It was also west of Torrance, north of Palos Verdes, and northwest of Orange County.

North America: Massive numbers of sea creatures dying along the west coast

Michael Synder
The End of the American Dream
Tue, 29 Jul 2014 18:50 UTC

Never before have we seen so much death along the west coast of North America. Massive numbers of sea stars, bluefin tuna, sardines, anchovies, herring, oysters, salmon, marine mammals and marine birds are dying, and experts are puzzled. We are being told that we could even see "local extinctions" of some of these sea creatures. So are all of these deaths related? If so, what in the world could be causing this to happen? What has changed so dramatically that it would cause massive numbers of sea creatures to die along the west coast?

The following are 15 examples of this phenomenon. Most scientists do not believe that these incidents are related. But when you put them all together, it paints quite a disturbing picture...

Killer whale washes up on the Isle of North Uist, Scotland

David Raven
Daily Mirror, UK
Wed, 30 Jul 2014 14:59 UTC

Washed up: The 6 metre whale

The 6.5 metre specimen was spotted on Monday on the Isle of North Uist off the north-west coast of Scotland

A killer whale thought to belong to the UK's only native orca pod has been found dead on a beach.

The 6.5 metre specimen was spotted on Monday partially buried in sand on the Isle of North Uist, off the north-west coast of Scotland and the cause of death is still a mystery.

Islanders have suggested that it may be a member of the orca family which is frequently sighted following herring shoals around the Scottish coast.

Photos posted to social media shows the carcass to be intact, and seemingly undamaged by contact with boat propellers, leaving the cause of death unknown.

Including humans: Scientists say mass extinction may be underway

CBS News - Charlotte
Tue, 29 Jul 2014 21:55 UTC

An international team of scientists is warning that Earth may be entering the early stages of another mass extinction event, reports Live Science.

More than 320 land vertebrates have gone extinct since the year 1500 and many of the world's plant and animal species are endangered, says a new study. Up to one-third of all vertebrates are threatened or endangered, the researchers said.

Large land animals, such as elephants, rhinoceroses and polar bears, show the highest rates of decline. They are at particular risk because they tend to have few offspring and low population growth rates. Hunters and poachers also find their fur, meat, tusks or horns to be attractive targets.

Losing a species of large animal can have unexpected effects on the ecosystem and nearby human developments, a process known as defaunation. In an earlier study, researchers isolated patches of land from animals, including zebra, giraffes and elephants. Without the animals, the grass and shrubs grew tall, and the soil became looser. Rodents quickly took over and doubled in numbers, eating the seeds from the plants and living in the patchy soil that was relatively predator-free.

Comment: Mass extinctions have happened before and will happen again soon.

See: Forget About Global Warming: We're One Step From Extinction! And read Sott's Comets and Catastrophe series here. Something wicked this way comes!

17 confirmed dead after landslide buries houses in West India - hundreds trapped

BBC.com
Wed, 30 Jul 2014 11:33 UTC

At least 17 people are confirmed dead after a landslide buried some 40 houses and trapped about 150 people in a village in west India, officials say. Teams of emergency workers have so far rescued six people in Malin village, near the city of Pune in Maharashtra state, where the disaster happened. Rescuers trying to reach survivors caught under the debris are being hampered by bad weather.

The landslide hit the village early in the morning while people were sleeping. BBC Hindi's Devidas Deshpande, who is at the scene, says it took hours to raise the alarm. A local bus driver alerted officials on discovering that Malin and the road leading to it were no longer to be seen. The whole village except its school has been washed away or buried, our correspondent says.

Landslides are common in some parts of India during the monsoon rains, which run from June to September. An official from India's National Disaster Response Force (NDRF) said hilly terrain was making rescue work difficult. Prime Minister Narendra Modi described the loss of lives in the landslide as "saddening". He said Home Minister Rajnath Singh would travel to Pune to assess the situation.

Scientists left baffled after two new holes appear in Russia's icy wilderness

Will Stewart and Ellie Zolfagharifard
Dailymail.co.uk
Mon, 28 Jul 2014 09:31 UTC

One of the craters is located in Siberia's Yamal Peninsula in the Taz district and has a diameter of 49ft (15 metres)
The other was spotted on the Taymyr Peninsula in Kransoyark region and has a diameter of 13ft (four metres)
They follow the discovery of a larger hole found in Yamal earlier this month at around 230ft (70 metres) in diameter
Andrei Plekhanov from Scientific Research Center of the Arctic says crater was formed due to rising temperatures
One theory is that a chunk of ice that is located underground created a hole in the ground when it melted
Another is that the crater was formed by a mixture of water, salt and gas igniting an underground explosion

The new Yamal crater (pictured) is in the area's Taz district near the village of Antipayuta and has a diameter of about 49ft (15 metres). According to local residents, the hole formed on 27 September 2013.

New unexplained holes have appeared in Siberia following the mystery over a giant crater on the Yamal Peninsula.A second is in the same permafrost region of northern Russia, and a third on the Taymyr Peninsula, to the east, in Kransoyark region.

Both were spotted by reindeer herders who almost fell in.The original hole received worldwide attention after being identified by helicopter pilots some 20 miles (32km) from a huge gas extraction plant at Bovanenkov. Now the new holes - smaller in diameter but similar in shape - are posing a fresh challenge for Russian scientists.

Comment: See also:

SOTT EXCLUSIVE: Sinkhole, meteor crater, or something else? Giant hole spotted in remote Yamal Peninsula, northern Siberia

Update! Russian scientists explore site of 'crater-hole' in Yamal peninsula: 'Probably result of internal forces not seen in 8,000 years'

Hundreds evacuated and 3 killed due to floods in Bulgaria and Romania

Gabrovo
Miami Herald
Tue, 29 Jul 2014 11:46 UTC

Three people died and several hundreds were forced to evacuate as surging floodwaters submerged villages in Eastern Europe on Tuesday.

In Bulgaria, authorities said a 61-year-old woman died in the floods and another person was reported missing after torrential rains hit the region of Gabrovo in the central parts of the country.

Two people, including a 72-year-old man, also drowned in Romania as floods raged in different regions, said Interior Minister Gabriel Oprea. A passenger train derailed in the same area after a small bridge caved in due to flooding, but there were no immediate reports of injuries, the national railway said.

Seventy Bulgarian villages and parts of the city of Gabrovo were left without electricity and water supply was disrupted as the flooding destroyed some of the water and sewerage infrastructure. The rains also induced landslides and destroyed bridges, and many roads in the region were blocked by mud and debris.