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Strong and shallow M6.2 earthquake hits Solomon Islands

Sam Stevenson
Express
Fri, 16 Nov 2018 05:03 UTC
Soloman Islands quake map
© USGS
A map shows where the earthquake hit
The quake, at a depth of 33km (20 miles), was centred 161km (100 miles) east of Kira Kira in the Solomon Islands.

The Solomon Islands, a nation of hundreds of islands in the South Pacific, has many World War Two-era sites.

The earthquake, which struck at 3.26am (GMT), was reviewed to a magnitude 6.2 and a revised depth of 10.6km (6.5miles).

Affected areas include Kirakira, the provincial capital of the Makira-Ulawa Province in the Solomon Islands.

The earthquake's epicentre was 132 km (82.3 miles) west of the city, which has a population of 11,222.

It is located on the north coast of Makira, the largest island of the province.

The area is known for its stunning natural beauty and ample beaches.

Comment: The USGS also registered a strong and shallow (10.0 km depth) M6.3 earthquake hit Southern East Pacific Rise on November 15, 2018.

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Snowflake Cold

Climate scientists admit to critical errors in study of how fast the oceans are warming

Chris Mooney and Brady Dennis
The National Post
Wed, 14 Nov 2018 22:34 UTC
Northwest Passage Canada
© David Goldman / Associated Press/File
In this July 21, 2017 file photo, researchers look out from the Finnish icebreaker MSV Nordica as the sun sets over sea ice floating on the Victoria Strait along the Northwest Passage in the Canadian Arctic Archipelago.
The findings suffer from too much doubt to definitively support the paper's conclusion, says a study co-author: 'Unfortunately, we made mistakes'

Scientists behind a major study that claimed the Earth's oceans are warming faster than previously thought now say their work contained inadvertent errors that made their conclusions seem more certain than they actually are.

Two weeks after the high-profile study was published in the journal Nature, its authors have submitted corrections to the publication. The Scripps Institution of Oceanography, home to several of the researchers involved, also noted the problems in the scientists' work and corrected a news release on its website, which previously had asserted that the study detailed how the Earth's oceans "have absorbed 60 percent more heat than previously thought."

Comment: Volcanic eruptions, rising CO2, boiling oceans, and why man-made global warming is not even wrong

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Cloud Precipitation

Close to year's worth of rain inundates Kuwait City with severe flooding - 3rd flood event this month

Kristina Pydynowski
Accuweather
Thu, 15 Nov 2018 21:18 UTC
It might be fun for some, but Kuwait is reeling from torrential rains.
© AFP
It might be fun for some, but Kuwait is reeling from torrential rains.
One of two potent storms descending on the Middle East triggered severe flooding in Kuwait City Wednesday through Thursday.

More than 95 mm (3.80 inches) of rain inundated Kuwait City's International Airport Wednesday into Thursday.

That is just shy of the 117.8 mm (4.64 inches) that the airport has averaged annually in recent years, according to the Kuwait Meteorological Department. Typically, 18.8 mm (0.74 of an inch) is an average rainfall for all of November.

Runoff from the heavy rain flooded roads and damaged some buildings, according to Aljazeera. Schools and public offices were closed on Wednesday and Thursday. Air traffic was suspended at the international airport.


Comment: Details of the 2 earlier flooding episodes: National Guard called in to help as rains wreak havoc across Kuwait

Streets of Kuwait city heavily flooded

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Snowflake

Early season snow storm dumps at least 7 inches in parts of east-central Missouri

Jason Taylor
Missourinet
Thu, 15 Nov 2018 20:44 UTC
Webster Groves residents dig out of snowstorm
© St. Louis Post-Dispatch
Webster Groves residents dig out of snowstorm
The second biggest pre-November 15 snow event on record in east-central Missouri bogged down traffic in the St. Louis area. National Weather Service Meteorologist Kevin Deitsch says snow plows haven't kept up with snowfall that could total eight inches in some places. "Most roads that we've noticed have been covered," said Deitsch. "MoDOT (Missouri Department of Transportation) has been working hard to clear them but the snow has just come down fairly heavy that they haven't been able to keep up."

Southeast Missouri, including Cape Girardeau and the Bootheel region, have received one to two inches of snow from the storm while Jefferson City in mid-Missouri has also received two inches or more. Deitsch says the early winter storm will hover over the region into the midday. " Looks like the precipitation should start to get out of here late this morning to early this afternoon, in the metro probably ending sometime between about noon and 3 p.m."

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Snowflake

Record breaking snowfall for parts of the ArkLaMiss region

Brian Briggs
myarklamiss.com
Wed, 14 Nov 2018 20:30 UTC
snow
While the calendar says we're about a week away from Thanksgiving, Mother Nature says it's more like January.

A low pressure system brought some accumulating snow to parts of the Arklamiss today. This is incredibly rare, as snow is more typical later into winter (January, February).

Totals ranged from a dusting to just over half an inch.

While totals were fairly low and impacts were minimal, this event broke a record for earliest accumulating snowfall in history for the twin cities.

And many of us enjoyed it! The kids still had to go to school, but many residents and four legged friends got to enjoy it as well.


Comment: See also: Cold weather gives Texas earliest snowfall ever recorded - 7 inches in the Panhandle

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Attention

Italian supervolcano Campi Flegrei could be rumbling towards a colossal eruption


RT
Thu, 15 Nov 2018 16:51 UTC
Campi Flegrei
© Flickr / Michele Costigliola
Campi Flegrei
An ancient Italian supervolcano that hasn't erupted in 500 years may be starting a stage of activity that could lead to a colossal eruption, spelling potential disaster for communities lying in its path.

Campi Flegrei may have entered a new magma cycle, according to newly released findings that suggest the feature's "subvolcanic plumbing system" is commencing "a new build-up phase." The researchers warn this could give rise "at some undetermined point in the future," to "a large volume eruption."

A large volcanic area west of Naples which has 24 volcanic craters, Campi Fieri, has "produced two cataclysmic caldera-forming eruptions and numerous smaller eruptive events over the past 60,000 years," according to the new paper. Calderas are vacant spaces left after rock explosions during eruptions.

Comment: Considering seismic and volcanic activity around the world is on the rise, the 'near future' may come sooner than the researchers think: For more on the dramatic changes happening on our planet, check out SOTT radio's: Behind the Headlines: Earth changes in an electric universe: Is climate change really man-made?

And SOTTs monthly documentary: SOTT Earth Changes Summary - October 2018: Extreme Weather, Planetary Upheaval, Meteor Fireballs



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Fire

California wildfires: Sheriff releases names of missing - death toll stands at 56

Dani Anguiano and Gabrielle Canon
The Guardian
Wed, 14 Nov 2018 17:50 UTC
Camp Woolsey fires california paradise
© John Locher/Associated Press
Search and rescue workers search for human remains at a trailer park burned by the Camp fire in Paradise.
Governor describes scenes of devastation as a 'war zone', as thousands remain displaced and more than 100 unaccounted for

Fifty-six people have died in the Camp fire, authorities said on Wednesday after they tracked down an additional eight sets of remains outside and in the rubble of homes in Paradise.

The majority of victims, 47 in total, have been tentatively identified by authorities, the Butte county sheriff, Kory Honea, said, but they are awaiting DNA confirmation. Some remains may never be recovered due to the extent of the fire.

Two people have also died in the Woolsey fire, a major blaze around Los Angeles, and authorities said earlier on Wednesday that they were investigating a third apparent fire-related death in the burn zone in the south of the state.

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Seismograph

Central Pennsylvania residents report loud booms, shaking

Teresa Boeckel
York Daily Record
Thu, 15 Nov 2018 07:54 UTC
Mystery boom in York, PA
© York Daily Record
Don Vitale had just walked into his house Tuesday evening when he heard a boom that sounded like a thunderstorm in the distance.

Then, a few minutes later, he heard a louder boom, and a pan on the stove rattled.

Vitale, who moved into his Carroll Township home about six years ago, wondered what it was. Then a neighbor called him: "Did you hear that?" Vitale said that he did.

"That's an earthquake," the neighbor told him.

It's been 10 years since an earthquake swarm rattled the Dillsburg area of northern York County. It started with a 2.0 tremor on Oct. 5, 2008, and the booming and rattling occurred periodically until early 2010. The tremors were centered in an area along Old York Road and Brandon Lane in Carroll Township.
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Blue Planet

Erroneous climate change study reported far and wide, corrections few and far between


RT
Thu, 15 Nov 2018 17:23 UTC
climate change protest
© REUTERS/Philippe Wojazer
As the world grapples with extreme weather and wildfires, the issue of climate change is at the forefront of policy decisions, scientific research and media coverage - but bias towards alarmism is proving somewhat irresistible.

A new study recently published in the journal Nature suggested that "ocean warming is at the high end of previous estimates," based on atmospheric data taken between 1991 and 2016. Ocean temperatures are 60-percent higher per year than the estimates offered by the United Nations' Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change in 2014, the authors claim.

The research was co-authored by an expert - a Princeton geoscientist no less - so the disturbing newsspread like... well, wildfire across the newsmedia, with each headline more breathless than the last. The only problem was, the numbers used to generate the conclusions in the research were off; way off.
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Doberman

Woman killed by family pit bull terrier in Big Prairie Township, Michigan

Annmarie Kent
abc6onyourside.com
Thu, 15 Nov 2018 12:02 UTC
PIT BULL ATTACK
A woman was killed Tuesday evening after being bitten by her family pit bull.

Just after 7 p.m., Michigan State Police Troopers were sent to a home in Big Prairie Township and found a 77-year-old woman unresponsive.

First responders attempted to save the woman but Sharon Daniels was pronounced dead at the scene, according to troopers.
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