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Lightning strikes kill at least 20 across the Indian state of Jharkhand in 3 days


The Weekend Leader
Fri, 28 Jun 2019 20:23 UTC
lightning
With monsoon hitting Jharkhand there has been some relief, but at least 20 people have also been reported dead due to lightning in different parts of the state over the last three days, police said.

Nine people died on Thursday, seven on Wednesday and rest on Friday.

According to the police three deaths were reported from Lathear, two from Palamau, four in Gumla and Lohardagga district. While there were similar deaths in Jamshedpur, Bokaro, Hazaribagh, Sahebganj also.

Every year 50 to 60 people die due to lightning in the state.

Source: IANS

Comment: Lightning strikes kill at least 30 people across the Indian state of Bihar in 24 hours

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Strong magnitude 6.4 earthquake strikes Maug Islands region, Northern Mariana Islands


eturbonews.com
Fri, 28 Jun 2019 19:28 UTC
quake
Strong, magnitude 6.4 earthquake struck Northern Mariana Islands' Maug Islands region today.

Preliminary Earthquake Report:

Magnitude 6.4

Date-Time 28 Jun 2019 15:51:31 UTC

29 Jun 2019 01:51:31 near epicenter
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Cloud Precipitation

Roads swamped after torrential rain in Serbia and Croatia - 4 inches hit Belgrade in under 2 hours


Floodlist
Tue, 25 Jun 2019 19:02 UTC
Flooding in Novi Beograd, Serbia yesterday, June 23rd

Flooding in Novi Beograd, Serbia, June 23rd
Parts of Serbia and Croatia were hit by heavy rain on 23 June, 2019, causing flash flooding.

Croatia

In Croatia, the country's civil protection directorate (Ravnateljstvo civilne zaštite) said that rain on 23 June caused flooding in Brod-Posavina county including Slavonski Brod and surrounding areas after rivers broke their banks. Basements of houses were flooded, several roads were blocked and crops and farm land damaged. Fire crews carried out over 60 interventions in the area, pumping water or clearing flood debris.

Civil protection also reported flooding in Breznik Našičko, Osijek-Baranja County and in parts of Požega-Slavonia County, where fire crews were called out to flood incidents in Pleternica and Čaglin.
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Arrow Up

Eruption of Russian volcano, dormant for almost 100 years, captured from space

Ryan W. Miller
USA TODAY
Thu, 27 Jun 2019 19:26 UTC
An astronaut's photo of the Raikoke volcano erupting on June 22, 2019
© NASA
An astronaut's photo of the Raikoke volcano erupting on June 22, 2019.
The volcano sat dormant for almost a century. Then at 4 a.m. last Saturday, it awoke.

In striking photos captured by satellites and astronauts on the International Space Station, smoke billows from the volcano on Raikoke, northeast of Japan. The uninhabited island saw its first volcanic eruption since 1924.

The photos released this week by NASA show volcanic plumes that rarely rise from the stratovolcano, which is almost a half-mile wide and 650 feet deep.

Raikoke is a tiny island of not even 2 square miles in the Sea of Okhotsk and has been under Russia's control since World War II.

The eruption consisted of at least nine explosions and lasted into the evening, according to the Smithsonian Institution's Global Volcanism Program.

The ash plumes containing large amounts of sulfur dioxide rose as high as 42,700 feet, or 8 miles. Lightning was detected in the plumes as they drifted east and northeast, the report said.


Comment: According to Marina Chibisova, a senior researcher at the laboratory of volcanology and volcanic danger at the Institute of Marine Geology and Geophysics of the Far East Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, the eruption of the Raikok volcano on the eponymous Kuril island resulted in the death of flora and fauna in the region.

"The flora and fauna of the island, which was restored after the last eruption of Raikoke in 1924, was destroyed by pyroclastic flows and ash falls," she said.

Post apocalyptic photos of Raikoke eruption on June 22, 2019
© Nikolay Pavlov / http://easttour.ru
Post apocalyptic photos of Raikoke eruption on June 22, 2019.


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Attention

Ulawun volcano erupts in Papua New Guinea, sends residents fleeing - ash sent over 13km into the air


The Straits Times
Wed, 26 Jun 2019 12:37 UTC
A pilot for Niugini Helicopters flying near the crater witnessed a column of lava spurting vertically into the equatorial sky, along with ash that has been belching since early morning on June 26, 2019
© AFP/NIUGINI HELICOPTERS
A pilot for Niugini Helicopters flying near the crater witnessed a column of lava spurting vertically into the equatorial sky, along with ash that has been belching since early morning on June 26, 2019
Papua New Guinea's volatile Ulawun volcano - designated one of the world's most hazardous - erupted on Wednesday (June 26), spewing lava high in the air and sending residents fleeing.

A pilot for Niugini Helicopters flying near the crater witnessed a column of lava spurting vertically into the equatorial sky, along with ash that has been belching since early morning.

Ulawun, on the remote Bismarck Archipelago chain, is listed as one of 16 "Decade Volcanoes" targeted for research because they pose a significant risk of large, violent eruptions.

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Attention

Three sharks attack and kill woman snorkeling in the Bahamas

Amanda Batchelor
local10.com
Wed, 26 Jun 2019 12:28 UTC
Shark attacks
An American tourist was killed Wednesday in a shark attack in the Bahamas.

The Royal Bahamas Police Force announced that the woman, identified as Jordan Lindsey, 21, of Torrance, California, was attacked shortly after 2 p.m. near Rose Island as she was snorkeling.

According to Deputy Commissioner Paul Rolle, Lindsey was attacked by three sharks and suffered bites to her arms, legs and buttocks. Her right arm was bitten off, he said.

Rolle said Lindsey was on the snorkeling expedition with her family, including her parents, when the attack occurred.
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Cloud Precipitation

Mexico and USA - Floods hit Texas and Tamaulipas after a foot of rain in 4 hours


Floodlist
Wed, 26 Jun 2019 12:02 UTC
Floods rescues in Reynosa, Mexico, June 2019.
© Government of Tamaulipas
Floods rescues in Reynosa, Mexico, June 2019.
A violent storm hit border areas between Tamaulipas State, Mexico and Texas, USA, from 24 June 2019, bringing lightning strikes, strong winds and torrential rain. More than 12 inches (300mm) of rain fell in 4 hours in parts of Texas.

Tamaulipas, Mexico

In Mexico, the worst affected areas are in the municipality of Reynosa, where authorities say over 50 neighbourhoods were affected. Flooding damaged roads, homes and medical centres. Local media reported that at least one person died in the floods.

Teams from police, military and emergency service including civil protection, carried out evacuations and rescues. State Civil Protection have been distributing relief supplies to affected communities. Francisco Javier García Cabeza de Vaca, Governor of Tamaulipas, toured some of the affected areas on 25 June.

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Snowflake

June snowfall again blankets highway west of Okanagan, Canada

Doris Maria Bregolisse
Global News
Fri, 28 Jun 2019 11:13 UTC
snow highway
As travelers look to hit the roads for the Canada Day Long Weekend, the last thing on their minds is snow.

But that's what's coming down on the Okanagan Connector.

An unseasonably cold weather front caused temperatures to plummet at the Pennask Summit on Highway 97C, at 1,717 metres or 5,600 feet elevation, turning rain into snow on Thursday evening.

The area saw at least one rollover crash as the storm hit.

As darkness falls, the temperature could fall below zero turning snowy and wet roads into ice.


Comment: A week ago June snowfall hit the same highway in British Columbia for 2 days in a row.

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Snowflake

Unexpected summer snow hits W. Mongolia


Xinhua
Fri, 28 Jun 2019 11:08 UTC
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An "abnormal" summer snowfall has hit a western Mongolian province, a local meteorological department said Friday.

"An unexpected summer snow hit the southwestern mountainous parts of our province on Tuesday and Wednesday, with an average precipitation of 2-3 mm," said Jagsalag Khulibek, expert of Bayan-Ulgii Province's meteorological bureau, calling the snowfall an unusual weather condition.

The meteorologist explained that the unseasonal snow was brought by a strong cyclone from the Siberia.

Bayan-Ulgii Province is located in the west of Mongolia and shares borders with both China and Russia.
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Cloud Lightning

Lightning strikes kill at least 30 people across the Indian state of Bihar in 24 hours


Parda Phash
Thu, 27 Jun 2019 10:08 UTC
lightning
As per the information given by the official, minimum of 30 people were killed and over a dozen others injured in incidents of lightning strikes across Bihar in the last 24 hours.

The deaths occurred in Bhagalpur, Begusarai, Saharsa, Purnea, Araria, Katihar, Jamui, Khagaria, Madyepura, Madhubani, Darbhanga, Sitamarhi, Mitigari and Gaya districts, the state disaster management department official said.

"The state government has ordered an ex-gratia payment of Rs 4 lakh each to the victims" kin," the official added.

According to the weather office, lightning strikes occur in the state during the June-September monsoon season.

Comment: Elsewhere in the last few days lightning strikes have also killed 6 in Nepal, 3 in Uganda, 5 in Pakistan, 4 in West Bengal (India) and 2 men (while playing mobile games on a mountain) in the Philippines.

Regarding that last report there was a similar incident involving a mobile phone 6 days ago in Maharashtra, India .

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