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Mystery booms continue daily in Sonora, California; town still seeking answers

Catherine Thorbcke
ABC News
Wed, 20 Jul 2016 15:29 UTC
sonora california
A mysterious booming noise in a small California town has residents baffled, and has sparked many conspiracy theories.

Every weekday, between 11 a.m. and 2 p.m., a thunderous noise rocks through Sonora, California, according to locals.

The cause of the mysterious booms remains a mystery, with local residents pointing to everything from mining operations to aliens.

Glen White, a local teacher and geologist who has researched the sound extensively, told local ABC affiliate KXTV-TV that he thinks the noise comes from bombs and grenades exploding.

White said he believes the explosions come from an Army depot outside of Hawthorne, Nevada, about a hundred miles away from Sonora. There, a private company disposes and dismantles old munitions, White said.

Comment: Only on weekdays? If it's not the munitions depot, what could cause such booms to occur consistently on only five days a week? Sonora isn't the only Californian town with similar experiences: Mystery explosions still plaguing Alhambra, California

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Sherlock

Scientists find new, strange 'methane bubbles' in field on Russian island


Siberian Times
Wed, 20 Jul 2016 14:55 UTC
siberia methane bubble
© Alexander Sokolov/Vesti
Scientists discovered 15 'bubbles' filled with methane and CO2.
Earth is moving as 'leaking methane gas due to global warming causes surface to bubble' in a new phenomenon.

This extraordinary sight - in a video filmed of the tundra on remote Belyy Island in the Kara Sea off the Yamal Peninsula coastline - was witnessed by a scientific research expedition. Researchers Alexander Sokolov and Dorothee Ehrich spotted 15 patches of trembling or bubbling grass-covered ground.

When punctured they emitted methane and carbon dioxide, according to measurements, although so far no details have been given. The reason is as yet unclear, but one possible explanation of the phenomenon is abnormal heat that caused permafrost to thaw, releasing gases.

Alexander Sokolov said that this summer is unusually hot on the Arctic island, a sign of which is polar bears moving from the frozen sea to the island.

Comment: First of all, "global warming" is a fraud, at least as it's commonly presented by mainstream media, governments, and scientists. The earth's climate periodically warms, but it inevitably always cools as part of a natural feedback mechanism. So warm temperatures may be involved with this methane bubble phenomenon. But there may be other factors involved - perhaps subterranean in nature. Volcanic activity is spiking. (Also possibly relevant, now or in the future: Massive 'lava lamp' blobs deep inside Earth have scientists puzzled) See also Pierre Lescaudron's book Earth Changes and the Human-Cosmic Connection.

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Attention

70 dead pilot whales found on Clemente Island, Chile


Channel NewsAsia
Wed, 20 Jul 2016 12:48 UTC
Handout picture released by Sernapesca on Jul 20, 2016 showing dead whales found in the Chilean Patagonia seashore, near the port of Aysen.

Handout picture released by Sernapesca on Jul 20, 2016 showing dead whales found in the Chilean Patagonia seashore, near the port of Aysen.
Some 70 dead whales have been found in southern Chile less than a year after more than 330 whales washed up in a remote Patagonian inlet.

The animals are not of the same species discovered in last December's die-off, the biggest single event of its kind known to science, the Chilean fisheries service said.

"They are smaller than those we saw last time," national fisheries director Jose Miguel Burgos said.

Teams will inspect the relatively accessible site in the coming days, focusing on whether humans played a role in the whales' deaths, he added.

The animals died more than two months ago, the authorities said, adding that autopsies will probably still be possible as the cadavers remain intact.
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Target

South Bay earthquake swarm continues near Hollister, California

Amy Graff
S F Gate
Wed, 20 Jul 2016 02:06 UTC
Hollister swarm
© sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com
San Andreas Fault, latest swarm of quakes.
An earthquake swarm is continuing to rattle the South Bay near Hollister. In the past four days, more than 39 tremors have hit the area on a section of the San Andreas system known as the Calaveras Fault. Between Sunday night and Monday afternoon, 39 quakes greater than 1.0 have occurred and 20 more than 2.0, seven over 3.0, one 4.1 and one 4.2, according to the U.S. Geological Survey.

The first struck Sunday night at 10:26 a.m., 12 miles southeast of Hollister, and had a preliminary magnitude of 3.3. Over 260 people reported the incident to the USGS. The largest quake recorded on Monday gave a gentle shake at 2:27 a.m., 12 miles northeast of Hollister, and had a preliminary magnitude of 3.8.


Several quakes shook the area on Tuesday, including a 4.2 trembler recorded 11 miles southeast of Hollister and 17 miles east of Salinas. Over 650 people reported feeling this quake. On Wednesday, tremors continued to gently shake the area, and the USGS recorded two 3.0 earthquakes. One hit 12 miles southeast of Hollister at 5:14 a.m. and another two miles southwest of San Juan Bautista and nine miles west of Hollister at 7:08 a.m.

No injuries or damage have been reported.
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Cloud Precipitation

Stunning photo and video show a microburst dumping rain and wind over Phoenix, Arizona

Andrew Freedman
Mashable
Wed, 20 Jul 2016 12:01 UTC
Zoomed in image of the rain shaft associated with the microburst.
© Jerry Ferguson
Zoomed in image of the rain shaft associated with the microburst.
Helicopter pilot Jerry Ferguson was cruising through the skies above Phoenix on Monday as thunderstorms erupted around the desert city.

While filming the weather for a local television station, Ferguson took a picture that ranks among the best photos ever captured of a dangerous meteorological phenomenon known as a microburst.

Microbursts occur when a rush of rain cooled air collapses toward the ground from a parent thunderstorm, crashing to the ground and spreading out at speeds above 100 miles per hour.

The microburst in this image, and in a related timelapse video shot by Bryan Snider from the vantage point of Phoenix's Sky Harbor International Airport.

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Cloud Lightning

Lightning strike kills male teenage hiker on Humphreys Peak, Arizona

Andreas Preuss
CNN
Thu, 21 Jul 2016 10:48 UTC
Lightning
A lightning strike killed a teenage hiker this week at the highest point in Arizona, police said.

The unidentified 17-year-old male hiker was fatally struck Wednesday near the summit of Humphreys Peak, the Coconino Sheriff's Office said.

Two other hikers, ages 17 and 18, were transported to a Flagstaff hospital. Their condition is unknown, but they were conscious and walking when emergency responders reached them, the Sheriff's Office said.

Their injuries were apparently related to their proximity to the lightning strike.

At 12,633 feet, Humphreys Peak is the highest point in the state, and with a trail that leads directly to the summit, is a popular hiking spot in the Flagstaff area.
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Deluge hits Siberia's largest city - 3 'rare' tornadoes in two weeks


The Siberian Times
Tue, 19 Jul 2016 10:32 UTC
Tornado - first since 1954 - signals freak downpour, opening craters in roads which swallow up cars.
siberia tornado
The sudden storm caused flooding in Novosibirsk's metro stations, city centre streets and shops - while the water opened cracks in asphalt large enough for vehicles to fall into. A waterfall was spotted close to the central railway station, a major stopover on the Trans-Siberian Railway.

'New tourist attraction,' quipped one online joker.

A rare tornado seen over Burmaistrovo village - the first in Novosibirsk region in more than 60 years, but the third in Siberia in two weeks - preceded the flash flooding in and around the city with a 1.51 population, the third largest in Russia. No injuries were reported from this rare phenomenon.



Comment: To gain further understanding as to how and why these events are occurring, read:

Earth Changes and the Human Cosmic Connection: The Secret History of the World by Pierre Lescaudron and Laura Knight-Jadczyk.

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Cloud Lightning

Violent storm peels roof off apartment building in Winnipeg, Canada


CBC News
Wed, 20 Jul 2016 22:18 UTC
Winnipeg Apt Roof
© Sean Kavanagh/CBC
The roof of an apartment on Sinclair Street in Winnipeg lifted off the building during a storm Wednesday night.
The roof of an apartment complex in Winnipeg was peeled off the building like a sardine can as a storm and violent winds forced their way through the city Wednesday night.

Police and emergency crews were called to a building in the 2000 block of Sinclair Street at about 8:45 p.m.

Insulation from the building was strewn across lawns and boulevards near Leila Avenue at the northeast edge of the Garden City neighbourhood.

The underside of the roof appeared to be flipped up and facing the sky, and a large part of the roof could be seen dangling over the edge of the top of the building.
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Ice Cube

Déjà vu: Global warming expedition stopped in its tracks by Arctic sea ice

Craig Boudreau
The Daily Caller
Wed, 20 Jul 2016 01:10 UTC
The MV Akademik Shokalskiy
© REUTERS/Andrew Peacock
The MV Akademik Shokalskiy is pictured stranded in ice in Antarctica, December 29, 2013.
A group of adventurers, sailors, pilots and climate scientists that recently started a journey around the North Pole in an effort to show the lack of ice, has been blocked from further travels by ice.

The Polar Ocean Challenge is taking a two month journey that will see them go from Bristol, Alaska, to Norway, then to Russia through the North East passage, back to Alaska through the North West passage, to Greenland and then ultimately back to Bristol. Their objective, as laid out by their website, was to demonstrate "that the Arctic sea ice coverage shrinks back so far now in the summer months that sea that was permanently locked up now can allow passage through."

There has been one small hiccup thus-far though: they are currently stuck in Murmansk, Russia because there is too much ice blocking the North East passage the team said didn't exist in summer months, according to Real Climate Science.

Real Climate Science also provides a graph showing that current Arctic temperatures — despite alarmist claims of the Arctic being hotter than ever — is actually below normal.
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House

Several houses evacuated after 30-foot-wide (and growing) sinkhole opens in Tampa Bay, Florida


WFTV
Mon, 18 Jul 2016 19:40 UTC
Holiday, Florida sinkhole
© Cox Media Group
Officials say they've evacuated several Tampa Bay area homes after a sinkhole opened up beneath one house.

Pasco Fire Rescue responded to the Holiday neighborhood Monday afternoon.

Chief Shawn Whited says they initially estimated the hole to be about 30 feet wide and 15 feet deep, but it was still growing. Firefighters evacuated the affected home, as well as four other surrounding houses. Whited says the structures will have to remain empty until an engineer can inspect the hole either later Monday or Tuesday.

Whited says the sinkholes can usually be stabilized and filled in.

No injuries were reported.

Comment: Sinkholes: The groundbreaking truth

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