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Spanish Wildfire Threatens Ancient Forest Area


CTV News
Sat, 11 Aug 2012 12:50 UTC
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© The Associated Press/Moises Mendoza
A scorched and burnt farm appears after the ravages of a wildfire which swept through parts La Gomera, the Canary Islands, Spain on Aug. 6, 2012.
Madrid - Officials said Saturday that a wildfire thought to be under control on a Spanish island is now spreading, threatening a UNESCO World Heritage Site.

Regional agriculture spokeswoman Nancy Melo said flames on the Canary Island of La Gomera were encroaching on Garajonay National Park, which contains forests "of incalculable ecological value."

The government of the Canary Islands said in a Friday night statement that the fire had now intensified, and another blaze had started on the neighbouring island of Tenerife, with some 400 residents evacuated from the island's west.
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Western States Bake Under Extended Heat Wave of 100-Degree Plus Temperatures

Christina Hoag
Las Vegas Sun
Sat, 11 Aug 2012 00:00 UTC
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© The Associated Press
The sign at the Clovis Memorial District building reads 107 degrees, Friday, Aug. 10, 2012, in Clovis, Calif. On Friday and Saturday, the extreme heat hitting the Central Valley closed in on records.
Los Angeles, California - Temperatures are soaring into triple digits across the western United States as a continuing heat wave strained energy supplies and sent thousands to beaches, lakes and shopping malls in search of cooler climes.

A large and forceful high pressure system pushed the mercury to roughly 10 degrees above normal across the west Saturday.

California, Nevada, Arizona, New Mexico, Colorado, Utah, Idaho and Montana all reported higher than normal temperatures. Authorities in numerous states issued warnings for everything from fire danger to energy use to dehydration - and even to be on lookout for hungry bears.

David Sweet, meteorologist for the National Weather Service, says relief is in sight - the high pressure system is drifting east. By Tuesday, temperatures should be back to normal.

Source: The Associated Press
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Attention

Update: Iran Back-to-Back Quakes Death Toll Hits 180, with Hundreds Injured, Six Villages Leveled


Fox News
Sat, 11 Aug 2012 00:00 UTC
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© The Associated Press
Aug. 11, 2012: Medics tend a woman who was injured in an earthquake in the city of Varzaqan in northwestern Iran.
Northwestern Iran was struck Saturday by a series of major earthquakes and strong aftershocks, as state TV reported at least 180 dead, 1,350 injured and at least six villages leveled.Officials asked residents in affected areas to stay outdoors through the night, the Fars news agency reported.The U.S. Geological Survey put the first earthquake, which struck midday, at magnitude 6.4, followed by a 6.3 quake. There were numerous aftershocks, registering as high as magnitude 5.0.
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Bizarro Earth

Is The Super Volcano Taupo in New Zealand Awakening?


Twawki
Thu, 09 Aug 2012 14:12 UTC
Taupo Volcano
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1800 years ago Taupo volcano in New Zealand had the largest volcanic eruption in the world for the last 5000 years. Taupo ejected over 30 cubic kilometers of material including a pyroclastic flow that moved at 600-900km/hr, traveling up mountains to a height of 1500m .

But even that massive eruption was dwarfed by the huge Taupo eruption just 26,500 years ago which plunged the earth into a volcanic winter & wiped out 60% of the population. From Wikipedia;
The Oruanui eruption of the Taupo volcano was the world's largest known eruption in the past 70,000 years, with a Volcanic Explosivity Index of 8. It occurred around 26,500 years ago and generated approximately 430 km³ of pyroclastic fall deposits, 320 km³ of pyroclastic density current (PDC) deposits (mostly ignimbrite) and 420 km³ of primary intracaldera material, equivalent to 530 km³ of magma. [4] [5] [6]

Modern Lake Taupo partly fills the caldera generated during this eruption.

Tephra from the eruption covered much of the central North Island with ignimbrite up to 200 metres deep. Most of New Zealand was affected by ash fall, with even an 18 cm ash layer left on the Chatham Islands, 1,000 km away. Later erosion and sedimentation had long-lasting effects on the landscape, and caused the Waikato River to shift from the Hauraki Plains to its current course through the Waikato to the Tasman Sea.
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Bizarro Earth

Back-to-Back 6.4 and 6.3 Magnitude Earthquakes hit Iran, followed by a 5.0 Magnitude Aftershock

Marcus George
Reuters
Sat, 11 Aug 2012 12:06 UTC
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© USGS
Two strong earthquakes struck northwest Iran on Saturday, killing between 40 and 50 people and injuring 400, Iranian media said. The Iranian Students' News Agency quoted the head of the government's emergency centre, Gholamreza Masoumi, as announcing the casualty figures.

A local official in the area told ISNA that six villages had been completely destroyed and 60 villages had been 50 to 70 percent destroyed. The U.S. Geological Survey measured the first quake at 6.4 magnitude and said it struck 60 km (37 miles) northeast of the city of Tabriz at a depth of 9.9 km (6.2 miles). A second quake measuring 6.3 struck 49 km (30 miles) northeast of Tabriz 11 minutes later at a similar depth.

The second quake struck near the town of Varzgan, Fars news agency said. "The quake was so intense that people poured into the streets through fear," it said.

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Cloud Lightning

Lightning Strikes to Increase as Sun Completes Solar Cycle, Says Physicist

Wilson Akiiki Kaija (on behalf of Brian Luwag)
Uganda Radio Network
Tue, 28 Jun 2011 08:33 UTC
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Cases of lightning strikes in Uganda and world over will increase as the sun completes its solar cycle in 2013, a Makerere university physicist says. StoryCases of lightning in Uganda and world over will increase as the sun completes its solar cycle in 2013, a Makerere university physicist says.

Over ten people have so far been struck dead by lightning in the districts of Mitooma, Buikwe, Alebtong, Jinja, Kaliro, Agago, Amuru, Kabarole among others and the cases of lightning seem to be rampant today compared to past years.

In an interview with Uganda Radio Network, Benon Fred Twinamatsiko, a physicist at Makerere University department of physics says that lightning is rampant today because the sun is maximizing its 11th year solar cycle.

He explains that in the process of completing the cycle, the sun emits gases into the earth, which cause enormous electrical discharge. He adds that the discharge causes imbalances between positive and negative charges on earth and clouds leading to lightning.

Twinamatsiko says that the solar cycle which takes 11 years will end in 2013 and when it's about to end natural calamites like floods, lightning and earthquakes frequently happen.

He explained that lightning strikes target unprotected buildings with no lightning conductors, trees, stepless grounds and when a person is found in such places at a time of rainfall it becomes easier for their body to work as a channel of lightning and are easily struck dead or paralyzed.

Comment: This solar maximum has been dismal - the sun is far quieter than usual. So something else must be responsible for he increased electrical storm activity:

From Chemtrails, Disinformation and the Sixth Extinction, we read:
Put that together with the really sad performance of the sun during this solar maximum, the puzzling decrease of the Earth's magnetic field, the increase in electrical activity, including the now well-known "mysterious sounds" phenomena, and you get the impression that something outside the solar system or at least at the edges of it, is "grounding the current flow" through all the planets and things are definitely getting interesting.


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Cloud Lightning

Alabama Teenager Dies from Lightning Strike


WTVY
Thu, 09 Aug 2012 08:02 UTC
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An Alabama teenager who was struck by lightning on a Florida beach earlier this week has died.

14 year old Tristan Barger of Chelsea, AL, died Wednesday night at about midnight at Sacred Heart Hospital in Pensacola from injuries suffered from a lightning strike.

Barger and his step father were struck by lightning Monday as they were trying to get back to their boat at Shell Island near Panama City Beach. The family was walking on the beach on the last day of their vacation when the storm hit.
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Cloud Lightning

Lightning Storm Kills 13 People, Injures 20 in Bangladesh Makeshift Mosque

Farid Ahmed
CNN
Sat, 11 Aug 2012 07:24 UTC
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At least 13 people were killed and 20 wounded when lightning struck a makeshift mosque in a remote village in northeast Bangladesh on Friday, police said.

The lightning strike occurred as people gathered for a special evening prayer known as taraweeh that is conducted during the Muslim holy month of Ramadan.

"Multiple lightning strikes occurred during a storm when nearly 35 people gathered at a house in the village of Saraswati where they turned a tin roof shed into a makeshift mosque for the month of Ramadan as a regular mosque was far away," Dharmapasha police chief Bayes Alam told CNN.

The village Saraswati is some 200 kilometers (124 miles) from the capital of Dhaka.
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Cloud Lightning

Unusual Summer Storm Blasts the Arctic

Everett Rosenfeld
Time NewsFeed
Fri, 10 Aug 2012 00:00 UTC
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A rare summer storm blasted the Arctic this week, beginning off the coast of Alaska, and moving over much of the Arctic Sea for several days before dissipating.

Although the storm itself was uncommon - NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md., estimates that there have only been about eight similarly strong August storms in the last 34 years - the real news behind the meteorological event is the stunning Aug. 6 photo taken by the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on NASA's Aqua satellite. The cyclone is spinning toward the North Pole, with Greenland visible in the bottom-left of the image. Scientists are left speculating what the impact of such a storm could be.

From NASA:
Arctic storms such as this one can have a large impact on the sea ice, causing it to melt rapidly through many mechanisms, such as tearing off large swaths of ice and pushing them to warmer sites, churning the ice and making it slushier, or lifting warmer waters from the depths of the Arctic Ocean.

"It seems that this storm has detached a large chunk of ice from the main sea ice pack. This could lead to a more serious decay of the summertime ice cover than would have been the case otherwise, even perhaps leading to a new Arctic sea ice minimum," said Claire Parkinson, a climate scientist with NASA Goddard. "Decades ago, a storm of the same magnitude would have been less likely to have as large an impact on the sea ice, because at that time the ice cover was thicker and more expansive."
More information on the abnormal Arctic weather this summer can be found here, courtesy of the National Snow and Ice Data Center.
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Sherlock

Louisiana Probes Cause of Massive Bayou Sinkhole

Melissa Gray
CNN
Fri, 10 Aug 2012 08:22 UTC

Louisiana officials are investigating whether an underground salt cavern may be responsible for a large sinkhole that has swallowed 100-foot-tall cypress trees and prompted evacuations in a southern Louisiana bayou.

The state's Department of Natural Resources ordered Texas Brine Company, which mines the cavern, to drill a well into the cavern to see whether it caused the dark gray slurry-filled hole nearby.

Measurements taken Monday showed the sinkhole measures 324 feet in diameter and is 50 feet deep, but in one corner it goes down 422 feet, said John Boudreaux, director of the Office of Homeland Security in Assumption Parish, about 30 miles south of Baton Rouge.

Assumption Parish Police said Thursday the sinkhole has since grown another 10 to 20 feet.
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