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USGS: Earthquake Magnitude 6.3 - 102km WSW of Sangay, Philippines


US Geological Survey
Tue, 02 Dec 2014 06:37 UTC
Sangay Quake_021214
© USGS
Event Time
2014-12-02 05:11:31 UTC
2014-12-02 13:11:31 UTC+08:00 at epicenter

Location
6.138°N 123.168°E depth=617.9km (384.0mi)

Nearby Cities
102km (63mi) WSW of Sangay, Philippines
107km (66mi) WSW of Kalamansig, Philippines
133km (83mi) SW of South Upi, Philippines
146km (91mi) ESE of Isabela, Philippines
920km (572mi) E of Bandar Seri Begawan, Brunei

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Snowflake Cold

Wheat kill-off in the U.S. heartland from extreme cold during November

Robert Felix
Ice Age Now
Sat, 29 Nov 2014 20:21 UTC
2015-2035 Mini Ice Age - Extreme cold in the U.S. heartland where farming takes place
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With 130-year cold sweeping across the USA, temperatures -50F below normal are bound to have an effect on winter wheat seedlings that are just a few inches tall.

Temperatures dropped to -26F/-32C, which caused an 8% increase in wheat futures.

Thanks to David DuByne, who created this video.
"I think the cold will not be the regular interval of Dalton or Maunder Minimum type cold," says David. "I think we may be heading into a 5125-year cold cycle."

Comment: SOTT has been talking about this for quite some time: Fire and Ice: The Day After Tomorrow

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Ice Cube

Rare ice storm strikes Waldviertel in Austria


thelocal.at
Mon, 01 Dec 2014 20:00 UTC
Image
© APA/FF Ottenschlag/Fichtinger
Firefighters preventing a tree from damaging a power line.
The fire service was called out more than 200 times over the weekend in the district of Zwettl (Lower Austria) as a rare ice storm hit the region, bringing chaos with layers of frozen ice in trees.

Firefighters have been busy clearing away hundreds of trees from the vicinity of homes and power lines. The trees' branches had been bent almost double by the weight of the ice. The area near Ottenschlag has particularly been hit hard. A combination of very low temperatures and high humidity caused many layers of thick frost to form into heavy ice.

Motorists in the region have been asked to exercise extreme caution due to icy conditions on the roads. Northeast Fire Department spokesman Franz Resperger described on Sunday how many trees were destroyed by the ice, including some with trunks more than a meter in diameter.

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Info

Biocide! Abandoned fishing nets trapping the ocean's turtles, seals, sharks and birds

Melissa Hills
Daily Mail, UK
Fri, 28 Nov 2014 15:22 UTC
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Experts say up to 14,000 turtles could have died at the Gulf of Carpentaria, northern Australia in the last nine years
These appalling photos reveal the largely unknown damage that abandoned fishing gear dubbed 'ghost nets' in a new campaign is doing to animals in the ocean surrounding Australia.

Turtles are the main victims that get trapped in abandoned nets in the Gulf of Carpentaria in northern Australia and experts estimate there could have been 14,000 that have died over the last nine years, large numbers of seals are also getting caught up in the nets across the country's waters.

World Animal Protection has launched the Sea Change campaign with the aim to make fishermen, fisheries and the general public more aware of this problem and they want to save one million animals by 2018.

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Bizarro Earth

UN agency declares emergency due to severe flooding in Gaza


Scoop.co.nz
Mon, 01 Dec 2014 15:12 UTC
Image
© UNRWA Archives/Ahmad Awad
A flooded street in Gaza
The United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) in Gaza, has declared an emergency in Gaza City, following extreme weather and severe flooding over the past 48 hours exacerbating the already poor humanitarian situation in the enclave, which is dealing with the aftermath of a last summer's conflict, and an acute fuel and energy crisis.

"We are particularly concerned for those families still seeking adequate shelter and preparing for the winter months, and for the impact the flooding is already having on children unable to attend school," said UNRWA's Director of Operations Robert Turner in Gaza on Thursday.

No casualties or injuries have been reported, but hundreds of residents in the flooded areas around the Sheikh Radwan storm water lagoon have evacuated their homes. One UNRWA school and an UNRWA Collective Centre in Gaza City have been affected by the rising waters.

The Agency has established an Area Emergency Operations room in Gaza City following contingency planning undertaken last week. As the largest UN agency in the Gaza Strip, UNRWA supplies emergency fuel to municipalities, water, sanitation and health facilities, partially through the WASH and Health clusters led by UN Children's Fund (UNICEF) and the World Health Organization (WHO).
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Bizarro Earth

Southern France recovers from the worst flooding it's seen in years


TheLocal.fr
Mon, 01 Dec 2014 15:03 UTC
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As southern France recovers from the worst flooding it's seen in years, The Local takes a look at some of the most shocking images of the damage done by the forces of nature. The latest victim was a 73-year-old man who died of heart failure in Rivesaltes, in the Pyrenees-Orientales region, when trying to force his car through a big dip in a road that was flooded.

Along the banks of the Agly river in the same region, some 2,800 people had been evacuated by late afternoon Sunday, the government office there said. The flooding was considered already more serious than deadly overflows in 1999 and "we are evacuating residents within 200 metres (yards) of either side of the river," the government said.

The prime minister's office dubbed the flooding "exceptional" in a statement but said "the situation is under control."
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Bizarro Earth

4.7 magnitude earthquake strikes near Sedona, Arizona

Lynne LaMaster
Prescott News
Mon, 01 Dec 2014 14:56 UTC
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Despite some rock falls, there appear to be no injuries due to Sunday night's earthquake. According to the US National Weather Service, "An earthquake just hit northern Arizona this evening Nov 30th at 10:57pm. The magnitude as reported by the USGS was 4.7 on the Richter Scale.

The location was near the West Fork of Oak Creek Canyon 12 km north of Sedona. Multiple reports of this earthquake were received in Flagstaff, Sedona and Camp Verde this evening." Rock falls have been reported along 89A near the epicenter. ADOT crews worked to remove the rock and debris overnight from the roadways. Drive carefully!

Here is the information from the USGS website
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Bizarro Earth

USGS: Earthquake Magnitude 4.7 12km N of Sedona, Arizona


US Geological Survey
Mon, 01 Dec 2014 14:50 UTC
Image
© USGS
Event Time:
2014-12-01 05:57:38 UTC
2014-11-30 22:57:38 UTC-07:00 at epicenter

Location:
34.977°N 111.740°W depth=10.2km (6.4mi)

Nearby Cities:
12km (7mi) N of Sedona, Arizona
13km (8mi) NNE of West Sedona, Arizona
25km (16mi) SSW of Flagstaff, Arizona
36km (22mi) NE of Cottonwood, Arizona
172km (107mi) N of Phoenix, Arizona

USGS data
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Binoculars

Arctic snowy owls may be preparing for another irruption into the U.S.

Marcus Schneck
The Patriot-News
Tue, 25 Nov 2014 17:20 UTC
Image
© Sean Simmers
A snowy owl sits in the grass in a courtyard at Cedar Cliff High School in Camp Hill.
Cedar Cliff High School in Camp Hill was visited Tuesday by a snowy owl, one of several of the Arctic birds that have shown up in Pennsylvania in recent days. The large, mostly white birds may be the precursors of a repeat of last winter's mass invasion into Pennsylvania and several other states.

Scott Weidensaul, one of the owl researchers who organized the Project SNOWStorm banding and radio-tracking effort in response to last winter's record-setting irruption by snowies, said already this year owls have been spotted in the Gratz Valley of northern Dauphin County, near Morgantown in Berks County, on Presque Isle in Lake Erie and "a bunch on the coast."

Dozens of additional snowy owls have been reported throughout the Northeast, around the Great Lakes, and as far south as Illinois and Maryland.
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Binoculars

2 Rare Arctic ross's geese turn up in Hardeeville, South Carolina

Sarah Bowman
The State (South Carolina)
Mon, 24 Nov 2014 00:00 UTC
Image
© Carol Clemens
DA Ross's Goose photographed in the Savannah National Wildlife Refuge

When avid birdwatcher Carol Clemens had a chance to see a rare species -- one that usually migrates only along the West Coast -- just 45 minutes from her Hilton Head Island home, she couldn't pass it up.

A Ross's goose, similar to but smaller than a snow goose, had been spotted in the Savannah National Wildlife Refuge near Hardeeville, and Clemens hopped in her car almost as soon as she heard.

"This bird is so unusual that if I hadn't called my friend to go out and see it, then it would have been a lost opportunity," said Clemens, membership co-chairwoman of the Hilton Head Island Audubon Society.

"We were hoping to get a glimpse of the goose, but thought that it would be just a white speck on the horizon," she added. "But then we got almost 10 feet away and could really admire it."

Sadly, the visit by both the goose and its apparent companion proved short-lived -- both have been found dead, within about 10 days of their arrival, according to refuge spokeswoman Monica Harris.

The first goose is believed to have been killed last week by a bobcat, Harris said. The second was found dead Monday morning, though the cause is not yet known.
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