Earth Changes
The Fire Service reported that from 05 to 07 April they rescued 14 people from flood water in Sitia and 5 in Ierapetra, both in the regional unit of Lasithi, Crete. The Fire Service also evacuated over 20 people to safer locations. The service said it had received a significant number of calls for assistance to pump flooded houses. A house in Lasithi was completely destroyed by the rain and flooding.
Flash flooding also damaged crops and roads. Landslides triggered by the rain also caused some damage. No fatalities or injuries have been reported however.
The appeal was made in the wake of frequent deaths and injuries from lightning across the country. According to NEOC, Prakash Raut was killed and two others injured after being struck by lightning in Mechinagar Rural Municipality-15, Jhapa, yesterday. Three persons were injured after lightning struck them while they were using mobile phones outside their house in Baitadi district.
Although the country has witnessed deaths caused by lightning in all geographical regions, casualty is higher in central and eastern hills and eastern Tarai.
Lightning mainly occurs before the onset of and immediately after rain due to natural electrical discharge in the atmosphere and due to the imbalance between positive and negative charges, according to Nepal Disaster Report. Maximum people are killed by thunderbolt in the months of February, March, April, June, July, August and September.

The 2016 Kaikoura earthquake was a magnitude 7.8 (Mw) earthquake in the South Island of New Zealand that occurred two minutes after midnight on 14 November 2016 NZDT (11:02 on 13 November UTC).
This slow-slip began last week and so far scientists have recorded "up to 3cm of eastward displacement," said Wallace.
"This is caused by up to 10-15cm of movement on the Hikurangi plate boundary offshore of Gisborne."
While these events are fairly common, happening every one or two years, this slow-slip is on track to be "as large at the previous slow-slip" recorded off Gisborne in 2010.
Since Monday, 85 quakes have been recorded in the area.

The fourth snow survey of the water year recorded 106.5 inches of snow depth and a snow water equivalent of 51 inches, which is 200 percent of average for this location, 90 miles east of Sacramento in El Dorado County.
April records also could fall .
'A California Water Supply Dream': Record Snowpack Measured In Sierra Nevada, Lake Tahoe Region.
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The footage was shared by the El Refugio restaurant which said even more snow fell on the sierra yesterday.
It comes as a cold snap has swept across the country following a warmer than average winter.
Snow has also fallen on the sierras behind Malaga and areas around Ronda.

Children in Zimbabwe carry drinking water over debris created by Cyclone Idai, March 22, 2019.
Comment: For more information check out SOTT's latest monthly summary: SOTT Earth Changes Summary - March 2019: Extreme Weather, Planetary Upheaval, Meteor Fireballs
To understand how and why these extreme weather events are occurring read Earth Changes and the Human Cosmic Connection by Pierre Lescaudron and Laura Knight-Jadczyk.

Malakand, Hazara, Murree, Gilgit-Baltistan (G-B) and Kashmir divisions have received 22.5 inches of snow so far.
With an unusually long winter facing Pakistan this year, chief meteorologist of the Pakistan Meteorological Department (PMD) Khalid Malik on Wednesday said Malakand, Hazara, Murree, Gilgit-Baltistan (G-B) and Kashmir divisions have received 22.5 inches of snow so far.
In an interview with BBC Urdu, Malik said, "This winter, 50 per cent more snow has been recorded as compared to the previous years. By the end of the winter in March, as much as 50 inches of snow would have fallen."
He added, "More than 25 to 30 per cent rain has been recorded this winter in various parts of the country, due to which the Tarbela and Mangla dams level are also more than normal."
The epicenter was initially located at 6.8491 degrees south latitude and 125.0425 degrees east longitude.
Meanwhile, the tremor hit 538.48 km deep into the ground.
While the media hypes the pseudo-scientific claim that climate change is man-made and whose effects should really only concern future generations, here and now the climate is shifting - and, besides mitigating some of its effects, there is nothing governments can do to prevent this shift from happening.
Among the 'highlights' in March were catastrophic flooding in the US Midwest after a 'winter hurricane' inundated much of the US with snow and rain. Nebraska was especially hardest hit as two-thirds of the state became an inland sea. Of the multiple powerful cyclones in the southern hemisphere last month, one caused unprecedented flooding in southeastern Africa and killed 1,000 people.
Huge dust-devils, 'snownados', 'thundersnow', and deluges of hail and rain occur with such regularity now, they're practically 'normal'. The same goes for spectacular meteor fireball events, which - after a decade of not seeing them - even the mainstream media reports on these days.
All that, and more, in this month's SOTT Earth Changes Summary...
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Check out the other recent releases:
- SOTT Earth Changes Summary - October 2018: Extreme Weather, Planetary Upheaval, Meteor Fireballs
- SOTT Earth Changes Summary - November 2018: Extreme Weather, Planetary Upheaval, Meteor Fireballs
- SOTT Earth Changes Summary - December 2018: Extreme Weather, Planetary Upheaval, Meteor Fireballs
- SOTT Earth Changes Summary - January 2019: Extreme Weather, Planetary Upheaval, Meteor Fireballs
- SOTT Earth Changes Summary - February 2019: Extreme Weather, Planetary Upheaval, Meteor Fireballs

A view of the Lower Falls at the Grand Canyon of the Yellowstone National Park on May 11, 2016. Yellowstone, the first National Park in the US and widely held to be the first national park in the world, is known for its wildlife and its many geothermal features.
Experts at the Yellowstone Volcano Observatory found what appeared to be a previously unknown pocket of warmth nestled between West Tern Lake and the Tern Lake thermal area after studying the latest thermal infrared images of the National Park taken in April 2017, according to the U.S. National Geodetic Survey.
The team then checked high resolution aerial photos of the same spot captured in 2017 by the The National Agriculture Imagery Program, and noticed dead trees and bright soil. These were the signs of a thermal area they were expecting to find. In contrast, a 1994 picture showed a crop of healthy trees which started to fade in a 2006 image.
Researchers therefore believe the thermal area near the northeast border of the Sour Creek resurgent dome first emerged in the late 1990s or early 2000s.
Comment: That record breaking year wasn't limited to just the Steamboat geyser and, when taken together, these events are likely to be a sign that there is an unusual uptick in activity at Yellowstone. And it's not only Yellowstone:
- Huge crack appears in rock wall in Grand Teton National Park, Wyoming - Area not far from Yellowstone
- Magma plume stretching all the way from Mexico found beneath Yellowstone supervolcano
- The ground around the Yellowstone supervolcano has deformed after 1,500 quakes this summer (2017)
- Yellowstone earthquake swarm now one of largest on record, with over 2,300 tremors since start of June (2017)










Comment: Activity around the ring of fire has seen an uptick recently: A total of 12 major quakes, (Mag 6 or higher) occurred in March with all 12 recorded around the Pacific ring of fire
Also check out SOTT's monthly documentary: Earth Changes Summary - March 2019: Extreme Weather, Planetary Upheaval, Meteor Fireballs