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Sinkhole opens up and swallows man in Pennsylvania, but who pays to fix it?

Patrick Cloonan
Trib Live
Wed, 01 Apr 2015 04:41 UTC
Sinkhole
© Unknown
A man was trapped in a sinkhole Friday night under the Mansfield Bridge, between Grassport and McKeesport.
A sinkhole has been covered alongside the W.D. Mansfield Memorial Bridge underpass carrying West Fifth Avenue traffic from McKeesport onto Monongahela Avenue in Glassport.

But it's uncertain who's responsible for its maintenance, three days after a man was injured falling into the sinkhole as it opened up under him.

"That is not the department's roadway," PennDOT District 11 spokesman Steve Cowan said. "My documents do not show who is the owner of the road, but I would think it would either be the municipality or the county."

Comment: For more on the danger of sinkholes, check out:
  • 45 sinkholes open up in Kaski, Nepal 50 families displaced so far
  • Car falls into sinkhole in Toronto parking lot

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Unidentified 'booms' have been waking up Berkeley for a month and nobody knows why


RT
Wed, 01 Apr 2015 00:23 UTC
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© AFP Photo / Greg Baker
Strange, loud noises have been scaring pets, waking up children and triggering car alarms for more than a month in Berkeley, California, but local residents and police are still at a loss when it comes to identifying what's now called the "Berkeley Boom."

The first "booms" were reported to authorities on February 26, according to Berkeleyside. The noises haven't been heard every night, but streams of tweets have gradually documented their recurring nature, with people in neighboring Oakland and Emeryville also saying they've heard the sounds.

"I'd say it was around one in the morning, scared the hell out of me. I jumped out of bed," local resident Rachael Marzoline said to local KPIX 5, referring to the sound she heard on the evening of March 29.
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Chile's Villarrica volcano explodes to life again


ABC.net.au
Thu, 02 Apr 2015 00:07 UTC
After a short period of rest, the Villarrica volcano in southern Chile recently exploded to life again, sending a plume of boiling ash high into the atmosphere.
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© NASA/USGS
The eruption triggered an increase in the alert level near the volcano to orange, the second highest rating.

The 2860-metre-high snow-capped stratovolcano, located 750 kilometres south of the capital Santiago, is one of the most active in Chile.

The latest series of eruptions began on 7 February with several minor explosions and ash plumes triggering a yellow alert.

A further pre-dawn eruption on 3 March sparked the evacuation of thousands of people from within a 10-kilometre radius of the volcano.

That eruption covered the mountain's eastern flank with a huge volume of volcanic material.

Villarrica is one of Chile's most active volcanoes with at least 66 recorded eruptions since the arrival of Europeans.

This image of Villarrica's latest eruption was taken from an altitude of about 700 kilometres by the Advanced Land Imager onboard NASA's EO-1 satellite on 18 March, 2015.
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Attention

4.6 magnitude Costa Rican earthquake produces more than 70 aftershocks


Insidecostarica.com
Tue, 31 Mar 2015 23:58 UTC
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An early morning earthquake that struck two kilometers north of Vara Blanca, Heredia, produced more than 70 aftershocks, according to the National Seismological and Volcanological Observatory (OVSICORI).

The initial quake, measuring 4.6-magnitude on the Richter scale, struck at 3:09 a.m. Aftershocks continued until 5:17 a.m., according to OVSICORI.

Significant shaking was reported in various sectors of Heredia, as well as in Naranjo, La Garita, El Coyal and Poas in Alajuela, and the western San Jose suburbs of Escazu and Santa Ana.

There were no reports of injury or damage.
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Incredible images of super typhoon Maysak from satellite

Dylan Stableford
Yahoo! News
Wed, 01 Apr 2015 23:18 UTC
'Commands respect even from space,' Astronaut Samantha Cristoforetti says
Typhoon Maysak from sky
© NASA/Samantha Cristoforetti
Super Typhoon Maysak as seen from space, March 31, 2015.
Super Typhoon Maysak — which left at least five people dead after slamming into the Micronesian island of Chuuk — is expected to weaken as it approaches the Philippines, forecasters say. But it looked plenty powerful Tuesday, when astronauts aboard the International Space Station captured some incredible images of the enormous storm.

Italian astronaut Samantha Cristoforetti took several photos of the typhoon Tuesday, when Maysak's maximum sustained winds were 160 mph.
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Mystery earth-shaking booms rattle central New Jersey residents


The Extinction Protocol
Wed, 01 Apr 2015 21:45 UTC
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Mysterious, earth-shaking booms have been reported in recent weeks by dozens of Bordentown and Hamilton residents, and authorities are at a loss to explain them. The most likely culprit, Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst, says it wasn't them. While the military base routinely hosts artillery training on weekends and warns residents in advance, the mystery booms have come at odd hours and on weekdays when the range is inactive.

The latest boom jolted residents at 10 p.m. Monday. A closed Facebook group for Bordentown Township residents lit up with people asking each other, "Did anyone just feel that loud rumble? Was in the garage and the garage doors both rattled hard and I could feel the rumble under my feet," was one of a dozen replies. A similar online conversation unfolded on March 19 after the noise was heard around 9 p.m. Another series of reports occurred on March 17, a Tuesday. Some have reported hearing several booms in succession during the span of an hour.
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Huge increase in dog attacks of 357% since 2012 in Kent, UK

Gareth Arnold
kentonline.co.uk
Wed, 01 Apr 2015 17:29 UTC
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Dangerous dog attacks are on the rise
Kent has seen an alarming 357% increase in dog attacks since 2012, according to figures obtained by KentOnline.

The data from Kent Police shows that in 2012 there were 100 attacks in public places which resulted in injury; in 2014 this figure leapt to 457.

But the number of people charged has decreased, with 13% of attacks resulting in a charge in 2012, compared to just 6% in 2014.

Comment: For more on this trend of increasing dog attacks worldwide, see also: Number of dog attack injuries treated at Ipswich Hospital UK have significantly increased in the last 2 years

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Car falls into sinkhole in Toronto parking lot

David Shum
globalnews.ca
Wed, 01 Apr 2015 17:10 UTC
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© Cam Woolley
A car that fell into a large sinkhole in the city's west end Wednesday morning is shown.
No injuries were reported after a car fell into a large sinkhole at a west-end Toronto parking lot Wednesday morning.

Toronto police spokesperson Cst. Victor Kwong said the hole was originally reported the day before but the vehicle fell in today.

A photograph posted on Twitter by Metrolinx spokesperson Anne Marie Aikins shows the car's front end completely immersed in the ground with its trunk and roof visible.

The sinkhole is located at parking lot on Todd Baylis Blvd. at Industry St. near the Black Creek Dr. area.

Aikins said on Twitter the hole is not linked to the Crosstown Eglinton underground construction.

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Bacon

Where's the beef? Empty meat shelves in the stores of Newfoundland and Labrador


cbc.ca
Mon, 30 Mar 2015 15:02 UTC
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© Hannah Rideout
A photo shared on social media over the weekend shows empty shelves in the meat section of Dominion in Gander.
People looking to buy fresh meat in Newfoundland and Labrador grocery stores had to do without this past weekend, or get their meat elsewhere.

Staff at a Dominion grocery store in Gander say the store is "dramatically behind on orders" because of transportation problems.

It's not the first case of food shortages in the province's grocery stores recently, with reports of many not receiving shipments in time to restock their shelves over the last several weeks.

Shoppers took to social media to post and share photos of empty shelves in Gander over the weekend.
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14 people dead due to severe flooding in the Democratic Republic of the Congo

Richard Davies
floodlist.com
Tue, 31 Mar 2015 14:21 UTC
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© Radio Okapi /John Bompengo
A family flooded by rainwater.
Local Democratic Republic of the Congo radio station Radio Okapi is reporting that at least 14 people have died in flooding in the territory of Fizi, South Kivu province in the east of the country after several days of heavy rain.

Rivers have overflowed, flooding farmland, blocking roads and damaging 100s of homes. According to the source, the worst affected areas are Mutambala, Ubwari, Makobola, Swima, Kabunde and Baraka, where around 50 homes have been completely destroyed.

Radio Okapi also report that parts of the neighbouring provinces of North Kivu and Katanga, in particular the town of Kalemie, have also been affected by flooding and heavy rain in the last few days.

Four people were killed in flood-related incidents in the region in October 2014. Later that month at least 30 people were killed by floods in Kalehe Territory in South Kivu province after 3 days of heavy rain.

Fizi is around 130 km south of Bujumbura, Burundi, where 15 died in a landslide after heavy rain on Sunday 29 March 2015.
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