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Earth Changes
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Siberian Accentor, Mossy Hill, Shetland, 9 October 2016
Siberian Accentor, Mossy Hill, Shetland, 9 October 2016
The Siberian Accentor flew into the Shetlands last Sunday - the first time it had been seen in Britain.
One was then recorded in Spurn, in East Yorkshire, before two more were spotted in the region.
On Saturday one was found in a hedgerow on the cliffs at Saltburn, in East Cleveland, and then the a bird was discovered at a quarry in Hendon.
It's thought the birds were migrating to South East Asia when they were blown off course.
Bulusan, an active volcano in the eastern Philippine province of Sorsogon, erupted again Monday
Renato Solidum told radio DzBB in an interview that Bulusan volcano in Sorsogon province that the steam-driven explosion took place at 7:36 a.m..
In its bulletin, the Phivolcs said it has detected a total of 24 volcanic earthquakes during the past 24 hours.
"Steaming activity could not be observed due to thick clouds covering the summit," the bulletin said.
It added that the volcano's sulfur dioxide emission was measured at an average of 79 tonnes a day on Oct. 12.
A second early snowfall has nearly destroyed any hope of bringing in a bountiful harvest for farmers across Alberta.
Deryk Sanford is a third-generation farmer in Lavoy, Alta. who calls the snow "a significant blow."
"When the snow hits and you take it down [to the ground] like this, you can imagine how much melting you have to do in order to get rid of that type of snow," he said.
"If we were to get a good week of no precipitation, sunshine, warm weather, we have the opportunity to get out there and take the rest of the harvest. But it's not looking good right now. We're going to need to have at least two, maybe three weeks of dry weather."
Sanford said the snow is making an already difficult year - due to rain and hail - even more difficult.
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Canola crops at Jacqueline Laniuk’s farm in Vegreville have been flattened by the snow.
Canola crops at Jacqueline Laniuk’s farm in Vegreville have been flattened by the snow.
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Snow covers Mount Juneau, Sunday, Oct. 16
Snow covers Mount Juneau, Sunday, Oct. 16
The National Weather Service reported Sunday that Juneau is one of the first communities in the state to see measurable snowfall this year.
"Fairbanks has not seen any snow yet so far this season, neither has Anchorage. Nome has had zero. Kotzebue has had zero," Liske said. "The only place that really has had measurable snow this season has been Barrow with a tenth of an inch so far."
The incredible October continues! Juneau has not seen measurable snow before Fairbanks since 1940! #akwx pic.twitter.com/Ap5nosquur
— NWS Juneau (@NWSJuneau) October 16, 2016
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The tremor took place 17km from the Chinese town of Aduo and 294 km from the city of Chamdo, the USGS reported.
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The 6.9 magnitude earthquake was recorded off the coast of New Britain, Papua New Guinea.
The 6.9 magnitude earthquake was recorded off the coast of New Britain, Papua New Guinea.
The US Geological Survey detected the epicentre near New Britain, Papua New Guinea's largest offshore island, at 4.15pm local time (7.15am BST).
It came days after another tremor measuring 6.4 hit the same region. There was no immediate information on casualties or damage.
The Pacific Tsunami Warning Centre did not release a warning following the earthquake.
"Based on all available data, there is no tsunami threat from this earthquake," a notice said.
Papua New Guinea lies on the Pacific "Ring of Fire" - a volcanically active region subject to requent earthquakes, tsunamis and volcanic eruptions.
In July 1998, two undersea quakes measuring 7.0 on the Richter scale created three tsunamis that killed at least 2,100 people near the town of Aitape.
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A "mysterious" hole in the Blåmannsisen in the Arctic.
A "mysterious" hole in the Blåmannsisen in the Arctic.
It is not normal that they are so big. The ones forming during the summer, are usually between 20 and 30 centimeters in width, Atle Nesje, a professor at the Geological Institute of the University of Bergen, says to TV 2.
Kjetil Wiik at 330 Squadron says this hole seemed to be between 15 and 20 meters in diameter, and went very far down the ice.
Nesje thinks the hole is a melt hole formed when the melt water has been present on the surface of glacier. This is relatively common in Norwegian glaciers.
Due to the pressure it has melted itself down into glacier. When a hole appears in the glacier, it has emptied itself of the water, Nesje says, and informs that the water usually works its way through the ice until it reaches the bottom.
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Comment: Another possible explanation to this mysterious hole is discussed in this article: SOTT Exclusive: The growing threat of underground fires and explosions
In 2014 a mysterious crater-hole was discovered in the Yamal peninsular, northwest Siberia, Russia. It was 'probably caused by methane released as permafrost thawed' according to researchers, and the result of 'internal forces not seen in 8,000 years'. Since then new information has come to light, with witnesses reporting an 'explosion' and a 'glow in the sky' from 100 km away.
This would indicate an extremely powerful explosion occurred from below to form this 'crater-hole', in a region known in the local Nenets language as the 'end of the world'. The recent discovery by scientists of methane 'bubbles' on the remote Belyy Island in the Kara Sea off the Yamal Peninsula coastline may be another alarming sign of increased activity in the depths.
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Floods surround houses in Vietnam’s Ha Tinh province after torrential rain submerged tens of thousands of houses.
Floods surround houses in Vietnam’s Ha Tinh province after torrential rain submerged tens of thousands of houses.
The communist government has ordered local authorities to mobilise the army and police to rescue trapped residents following heavy downpours, state-run Vietnam television reported.
The channel said at least 11 had died in the flooding with some 27,000 homes under water in the region.
Local official Nguyen Huu Hoai said the death toll was seven in Quang Binh province, but added that conditions were improving.
University student Cooper Hallam said he was 'hit hard' from the rear left side and then took two or three bites to his body before he could react and fight off the shark.
The attack took place at Kings Beach, in Caloundra, late on Saturday afternoon.
Photographs of Mr Hallam's wounds were uploaded to the Dorsal Shark Reports Facebook page along with a description of the attack.
'Shark was obviously small, couldn't fit jaws around my waist, but still enough to give me the fright of my life,' he wrote.
'Further inspection of the bite looks like the sharks jaw size is around the diameter of a dinner plate.'
'Still very rattled... Not freaking out quite as much as my Mum though.'
Photographs of the man's wounds were uploaded to the Dorsal Shark Reports Facebook
Comment: From Dutch Birding on the 17th October via Google Translate: