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8.5 magnitude earthquake hits Oaxaca, Mexico, cutting power and sparking mysterious lights


RT
Fri, 08 Sep 2017 18:04 UTC
Mexico earthquake
© Global Look Press
A building damaged during an earthquake in Tuxtla Gutierrez, Chiapas state, Mexico
The death toll from an 8.2-magnitude earthquake that hit Mexico has reached at least 32, according to tallies from local authorities.

Twenty-three of the confirmed fatalities were in the state of Oaxaca, according to its governor. Seventeen of those deaths occurred in the town of Juchitan.

Seven people were killed in the state of Chiapas, where a state of emergency has been declared, according to a spokesman for emergency services cited by Reuters.

Two children were killed in neighboring Tabasco state, according to its governor. One was crushed by a collapsing wall, while the other - an infant on a respirator - died after the quake triggered a power outage in the hospital.

The epicenter of the quake was at a depth of 33 km (21 miles), 123 km (76 miles) southwest of the town of Pijijiapan, not far from the Guatemalan border.

Comment: Hospital ventilators failed as the earthquake struck:
The quake caused widespread power outages and as a 0.7-metre wave hit the country, the Pacific Tsunami Warning Centre confirmed more hazardous tsunamis were possible within three hours.

The death toll includes two children in Tabasco state.

Tabasco Govenor Arturo Nunez said one of the children died when a wall collapsed, and the other was a baby who died in a children's hospital that lost electricity, cutting off the supply to the infant's ventilator.
Earthquake lights, a commonly reported phenomenon, were seen:
One person took a video of the earthquake light phenomenon which often happens after an earthquake strikes.


Little is known about why they occur and some believe it may be as a result of power supplies being hit while others claim that they have been reported for thousands of years.

Seismologist Stephen Hicks said: 'Earthquake lights have never been proven. Simpler explanation is small explosions in electric generators and power systems.

The lights are similar to auroras and can sometimes continue for several minutes after or before the quake.

For example in 1975, the mystery lights appeared during and immediately after the main shock in the Kalapana earthquake in Hawaii.

They come in many colours and forms and people have reported seeing them for hundreds of years but only recently have scientists come a little closer to establishing why they appear.
More on the light phenonmenon:
Another explanation claims that the tectonic movement of rocks including quartz, generates a piezoelectric field which produces flashes of light.

A 2014 study said the stress of the tectonic plates can break apart pairs of negatively-charged oxygen atoms, pushing them towards the Earth's surface and forming a light-emitting plasma when it combines with air.




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Bizarro Earth

Strange sounds heard in Illinois sky

Aledragon777Lopez
YouTube
Tue, 05 Sep 2017 20:13 UTC
Strange sounds in Illinois
© YouTube/Aledragon777 Lopez
Strange sound in the sky September 5th 2017, Illinois.

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Cloud Precipitation

Strong surf pounds eastern Cuba causing flooding as Irma marches west

Mimi Whitefield
Miami Herald
Fri, 08 Sep 2017 17:29 UTC
Cuba prepares for destructive power of Hurricane Irma

Cuba prepares for destructive power of Hurricane Irma
Surf surged over the seawall in Baracoa on Cuba's eastern tip as Hurricane Irma began a side swipe Friday along Cuba's northern coast, flooding streets and knocking out electricity in a city already ravaged by a hurricane last year.

At noon the center of Irma, now a Category 4 hurricane, was about 118 miles east northeast of Nuevitas in Camagüey province. Cuban meteorologists say the island is taking an indirect hit from Irma with tropical-storm-force winds buffeting the coastline. But the most damage is expected to come from water.

Waves of 13 to 16 feet have caused coastal flooding from Gibara to Baracoa and heavy rain is pelting the northern coast. The Palenque de Yateras in Guantánamo province recorded 4.6 inches of rain in 24 hours.

"Now Baracoa is under the effects of Hurricane Irma, luckily we have only experienced rains, sea penetrations and some winds... but sincerely, nothing compared to what we were expecting," Radio Baracoa posted on its Facebook page at 9 a.m. Friday. More than 25,000 people from the city were evacuated to safer areas.

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Waterspouts pop up all over Lake Erie in Ohio

Darcie Loreno
Fox8
Thu, 07 Sep 2017 19:44 UTC
Waterspouts over Lake Erie
© Fox8
Northeast Ohio residents are spotting several waterspouts swirling over Lake Erie!

Viewers sent in photos from places like Mentor-on-the-Lake, Willoughby, Avon Lake and Conneaut.

There are two types of waterspouts. Tornadic waterspouts are associated with severe storms, according to the National Weather Service. Fair weather waterspouts form in light wind conditions and move very little.

These waterspouts are in the fair weather category.


Comment: And another from Avon Lake:



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Massive sinkhole discovered on bridge over Houston tollway

Mike H.
CW90 TV
Fri, 08 Sep 2017 08:13 UTC
Sinkhole in Houston
© CW39TV
Talk about a sinking feeling!

First it was flooding, now it's a giant sinkhole to reckon with in west Houston!

The traffic nightmare there, caused in part by massive flooding on W. Beltway 8 Tollway near I-10, may not go away anytime soon.

That's because there's one more wrinkle added to the mess: a sinkhole blocking the Beltway feeder road!

A giant crater has formed on the bridge above the tollway on Boheme Drive at Beltway 8.

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Question

Eerie green glow appears over Tonbridge in Kent, UK

Rob Waugh
Metro, UK
Wed, 06 Sep 2017 14:43 UTC
Eerie green glow over Kent, UK
© Wessex News
Hand on heart, we'll admit that Tonbridge in Kent is a pretty odd place for an alien invasion to start - but residents spotted something very odd last night.

An eerie green glow in the sky - far too far south to be the northern lights.

So it's obviously Martians, right?

Tonbridge's green tinge in the night sky was visible for miles around the town, with motorists reporting it from far afield, and it was at its strongest from around 8pm to 10pm.
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Arrow Down

Deep sinkhole several meters wide opens in Brussels, Belgium


9News
Fri, 08 Sep 2017 16:38 UTC
Sinkhole in Brussels, Belgium
© 9News
A sinkhole several metres wide appeared on a busy street in Brussels on Thursday, shutting the road to traffic and worrying local residents.

The hole, caused by a leak in underground water pipes, did not result in any injuries according to local media, but restaurant owner Massut Ozkan said he had to hurry to halt buses and cars heading for the street when the hole appeared.

"We stopped the traffic. I went up to stop all the cars. There were also buses, fortunately they didn't go down the road. We stopped everybody, on both sides of the street. Honestly, we avoided a serious danger. If a big bus or a van had gone by, things would not be the same," he said.

The road has been closed for safety reasons and 200 people evacuated, according to local media.

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Bizarro Earth

'Ginormous'! Hurricane Irma is larger than the entire state of Florida

Michael Bastasch
The Daily Caller
Wed, 06 Sep 2017 14:32 UTC
Hurrican Irma
© Nasa / Reuters
Hurricane Irma, a record Category 5 storm, churns across the Atlantic Ocean on a collision course with Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands, is show in this NASA GOES satellite image taken at 1715 EDT (2215 GMT)) on September 5, 2017
Not only is Hurricane Irma the strongest storm to form in the Atlantic outside the Gulf of Mexico and Caribbean Sea, it's also larger than entire U.S. states.

Irma is larger than Florida, the very state forecasts show it reaching by the weekend, according to CBS News weather producer David Parkinson.

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Cloud Precipitation

Colossal waterspout seen off the coast of Tropea, Italy


Yahoo! News
Thu, 07 Sep 2017 15:45 UTC
Waterspout off Italy's coast
A video uploaded to social media captures a spinning waterspout off the coast of Tropea, Italy on Sunday.

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Bizarro Earth

Hurricane Irma presents an extreme storm surge threat to the US and Bahamas

Dr. Jeff Masters
Weather Underground
Wed, 06 Sep 2017 00:26 UTC
Radar image of Irma from the Puerto Rico radar at 9 pm EDT September 6, 2017.

Radar image of Irma from the Puerto Rico radar at 9 pm EDT September 6, 2017.

After clobbering the Lesser Antilles islands of Barbuda, Saint Barthelemy, Anguilla, and Saint Martin/Sint Maarten early Wednesday morning, Hurricane Irma carried its march of destruction into the British Virgin Islands on Wednesday afternoon, still packing top winds of 185 mph. As of 5 pm EDT Wednesday, Irma had spent a remarkable 1.5 days as a Category 5 hurricane, which is the 7th longest stretch on record in the Atlantic, according to Dr. Phil Klotzbach.

Longer-range outlook for Irma: Cuba, The Bahamas, and Southeast U.S.

The 12Z Wednesday runs of our top four track models-the European, GFS, HWRF, and UKMET models-were in strikingly close agreement that Irma will continue on a west-northwest track till Saturday, then arc sharply to the north-northwest. All four model runs placed the center of Irma within roughly 50 miles of Miami on Sunday morning; the latest 18Z GFS was also there. The average track error in a 4-day forecast is 175 miles, but this remarkable agreement among the models lends additional confidence to the NHC forecast track, which brings Irma over or very near southeast Florida on Sunday. All four models move Irma northward along or near Florida's east coast, with landfall in Georgia or South Carolina on Monday.
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