Earth Changes

Two blasts off of Turkey's Çanakkale trigger earthquake panic

Hurriyet Daily
Thu, 29 Jun 2017 14:23 UTC

Turkey canakkale natural gas seabed leak

Two natural blasts occurred around 75 meters off the coast of the Marmara province Çanakkale on June 28, prompting fear among locals that an earthquake was occurring, Doğan News Agency has reported. Footage of the incident, recorded by 47-year-old Hasan Durmaz, triggered debate among locals in Çanakkale's Ayvacık district. Geology professor Doğan Perinçek said the blasts were not signs of an earthquake, instead resulting from natural gas shooting out from the seabed.

"Today, two blasts and gas shootouts occurred in the Edremit strait, 75 meters off the coast and at a depth of 45 meters at 10:00 a.m. There was no earthquake reported. Small-size gas shootouts were previously witnessed by some locals after the Gülpınar earthquake," Perinçek wrote on his social media account.

Big One Coming? Northern California shaken by more than a dozen earthquakes

Sputnik
Thu, 29 Jun 2017 14:16 UTC

Northern Californians were rather surprised - and perhaps a little unnerved - when more than a dozen earthquakes shook the Sierra region in a single morning. At least 16 earthquakes were registered near the town of Truckee in Northern California, about 200 miles northeast of San Francisco. According to the US Geological Survey (USGS), the first temblor hit the area at about 2:00 a.m., while the strongest shake had a magnitude of 3.9.

"I literally felt a wave under the bed, and I sat straight up," one resident told CBS.

A group of UC Berkeley seismologists says that heavy rain and snow this winter has contributed to the earthquakes, which were centered in the Sierra mountains. They say the excessive mass of water and snow puts enough pressure on the mountains to make them move and flex as the water begins to run off and dry out, triggering the earthquakes. "These stress changes are just giving it that push over the edge, and makes these faults rupture earlier," said Christopher Johnson, a researcher at Berkeley's Seismology Lab.

Global warming? "Lack of evidence" is a useful scientific finding

Michel de Rougemont
Watts Up With That
Thu, 29 Jun 2017 13:07 UTC

global warming heresy heretic global cooling ice age

Heretic? You're welcome!

Hysteric? Please cool down!

We hear that global warming is highly dependent on the concentration of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, this gas that is required to sustain life on Earth and that is also emitted when burning flammable stuff, such as wood, coal, mineral and organic oils, or methane.

If you are told "this depends on that", you are invited to examine available data observed over time to draw a representation of this on the y-axis vs. that on the x-axis.

Downburst captured near Caorle, NE Italy (PHOTOS)

Sott.net
Thu, 29 Jun 2017 13:23 UTC

A downburst was captured in the vicinity of Caorle and Lignano Sabbiadoro in north-eastern Italy yesterday according to Meteo Web.

Downbursts are created by an area of significantly rain-cooled air that, after reaching ground level, spreads out in all directions producing strong winds. Dry downbursts are associated with thunderstorms with very little rain, while wet downbursts are created by thunderstorms with high amounts of rainfall.

Lightning strikes claim 5 lives in Rajasthan, India

The Times of India
Wed, 28 Jun 2017 12:39 UTC

Two women were on Tuesday noon killed on the spot after lightning struck them while they were working in agriculture field at two separate places under Ghatoli police station in Jhalawar district. The bodies were handed over to the family members after post-mortem. On Monday too lightning claimed three lives including two women in Jhalawar and Baran districts of the region.

Twenty-six-year old Bhulibai Lodha, a resident of Prathvipura village was killed on the spot after lightning struck her on Tuesday noon while she was working in the field, said SHO Ghatoli police station, Sardar Khan. The woman was rushed to nearby government hospital where the doctors declared her brought dead, the SHO said.

In a similar incident, a 25-year-old woman identified as Prembai, a resident of Devkadar village under the same Ghatoli police station area was killed on the spot after lightning struck her while she was working in the field, said the SHO.

The bodies were handed over to the family members after post-mortem in the evening, he said.

Lightning strikes kill 3 in Pakistan

Dawn
Thu, 29 Jun 2017 12:34 UTC

Three people died in heavy rain and thunderstorm in two separate incidents here on Tuesday night.

Farzana Bibi, 28, and her eight-year-old son Shoaib died when they were struck by lightning, police claimed. An official said two boys were also injured in the incident and were shifted to a nearby hospital.

In another incident, a youth was hit by lightning when he was returning from fields. He was identified as Muhammad Khan of Basti Khushal Singh.

Another person was injured in the incident, and shifted to hospital for treatment.

The bodies were shifted to Minchinabad THQ Hospital for medico-legal formalities.

Meanwhile, Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif has expressed deep sense of grief over the loss of lives due to lightning in Bahawalnagar district and announced a financial aid of Rs500,000 each for their heirs.

Record low temperatures across the planet outweigh record high's by 18:1 ratio

Adapt 2030
You Tube
Wed, 28 Jun 2017 12:26 UTC

An interesting idea was to use google and enter record high temperature / record low temperature and see the number of results that appeared for each entry by each area on the planet. The results shocked me and I think they will more than surprise you as well. Continent by continent, Oceania, Middle East Tropics, and both hemispheres. Try not to spill your drink while watching.

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Lightning strikes claim 14 lives in a day across Madhya Pradesh, India

Amarjeet Singh
The Times of India
Wed, 28 Jun 2017 08:10 UTC

Wreaking havoc in the state lightning claimed 14 lives on Wednesday across several districts of the state. Of these five people have died in each of Dindori and Tikamgarh districts, 2 people were killed in Katni and one each were killed in Seoni and Satna districts.

In the first incident five including three class 8 students were killed after lighting hit them in Dindori district. The incident took place at Bhartoli village under Shahpura police station of the district.

Police said that Maheshwari Paraste, 26, her daughter Sharda Paraste, 11, another girls, Poonam Barmaiya, 13, Sushma Uladi, 13 and Nanki Marko, 14, were struck by lightning while they were returning after taking bath from nearby Sakul river in the morning.

All the five died on the spot a case has been registered on the information of the local village panchayat secretary, added police. Apart from Dindori district, five people were killed in two separate incidents in Tikamgarh district.

Of the five, three were killed in Midaoli village of the district. Police said that the incident took place when the villagers had gathered to participate in a 'kanya bhoj' organised at the village.

Red sprites captured over English Channel

NASA
Thu, 15 Jun 2017 07:03 UTC

Mysterious and incredibly brief, red sprites are seen to occur high above large thunderstorms on planet Earth. While they have been recorded from low Earth orbit or high flying airplanes, these dancing, lightning-like events were captured in video frames from a mountain top perch in northern France.

Taken during the night of May 28, the remarkably clear, unobstructed view looks toward a multicell storm system raging over the English Channel about 600 kilometers away.

Lasting only a few milliseconds, the red sprite association with thunderstorms is known. Still, much remains a mystery about the fleeting apparitions including the nature of their relation to other upper atmospheric lightning phenomena such as blue jets or satellite detected terrestrial gamma flashes.

Red Sprites over The Channel from Stephane Vetter on Vimeo.

Comment: Some other transient luminous events (TLEs) so far this year include:

June 2017: Red jellyfish sprites with halo of light captured over Austria

April 2017: Rare ELVE and red sprites captured in Czech Republic and 6 'gigantic jets' (ionospheric lightning) were photographed in Western Australia.

March 2017: A huge blue jet was observed over Brazil.

See also: Electric universe: Lightning strength and frequency increasing

The Electric Universe model is clearly explained, with a lot more relevant information, in the book Earth Changes and the Human Cosmic Connection by Pierre Lescaudron and Laura Knight-Jadczyk.