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Wild elephants kill 4 within 2 days in Sherpur, Bangladesh; 7 killed in the region over the past month


bdnews24.com
Mon, 17 Oct 2016 16:43 UTC
Charging elephant
© Getty
Charging elephant
Wild elephants attacked and killed another person in Sherpur on Saturday, a day after they had killed three in the same area.

Early on Friday, three persons were trampled to death in Jhenaigati Upazila.

The latest victim has been identified 60-year-old Momena Begum, who was attacked in the border village of Tilaparha on Saturday, said Jhenaigati Forestry Department's Beat Officer Ashraful Alam.

"Around 2:30am on Saturday, a wild elephant charged into the victim's home and trampled her to death," he said.

In the past one month, wild elephants have killed seven people in the Jhenaigati border region, said Upazila administration chief (UNO) Md Selim Reza.
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Victim recovering after bear attack near Columbia Falls, Montana


kpax.com
Mon, 17 Oct 2016 16:29 UTC
Bear attack
A person was attacked by a bear Sunday in northwest Montana.

The victim was taken to Kalispell Regional Medical Center with what are said to be non-life threatening injuries.

Montana, Fish, Wildlife and Parks has closed the area where the attack happened until further notice.

All of the land owned by Stoltze Lumber near Columbia Falls is now off-limits and the Haskill Basin is closed until further notice.

We will have more information on this developing story as it becomes available.
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Rainbow

New Zealand skydivers soar above magnificent 360-degree double rainbow

Rumble Viral
YouTube
Mon, 10 Oct 2016 16:16 UTC
360-degree double rainbow
© Via YouTube/Rumble Viral
While skydiving at 16,000 feet in New Zealand's Bay of Islands, these lucky adventurers witness a stunning double rainbow in the form of a 360 degree circle. What are the odds of encountering that?

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4 birds from Siberia seen in the UK for the first time; an unprecedented influx of 59 in northern Europe


ITV
Mon, 17 Oct 2016 14:40 UTC
Siberian Accentor, Mossy Hill, Shetland, 9 October 2016
© Josh Jones
Siberian Accentor, Mossy Hill, Shetland, 9 October 2016
A rare bird has got twitchers in a flap after being spotted in the North East TWICE over the weekend.

The Siberian Accentor flew into the Shetlands last Sunday - the first time it had been seen in Britain.

One was then recorded in Spurn, in East Yorkshire, before two more were spotted in the region.

On Saturday one was found in a hedgerow on the cliffs at Saltburn, in East Cleveland, and then the a bird was discovered at a quarry in Hendon.

It's thought the birds were migrating to South East Asia when they were blown off course.


Comment: From Dutch Birding on the 17th October via Google Translate:
Unbelievable! 59 Siberian Accentors (Prunella Monta ella) have been recorded in northern Europe (outside Russia) within 13 days (4-16 October 2016)! No doubt this is not yet the end of this amazing influx and I am certain that in the next days other individuals will turn up.


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Bulusan volcano spews ash a kilometer high in the Philippines


Global Times
Mon, 17 Oct 2016 14:24 UTC
Bulusan, an active volcano in the eastern Philippine province of Sorsogon, erupted again Monday

Bulusan, an active volcano in the eastern Philippine province of Sorsogon, erupted again Monday
A Philippine volcano 250 km southeast of Manila erupted on Monday, spewing ash about a kilometer high into the sky above the volcano's crater, said the chief of the the Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology (Phivolcs).

Renato Solidum told radio DzBB in an interview that Bulusan volcano in Sorsogon province that the steam-driven explosion took place at 7:36 a.m..

In its bulletin, the Phivolcs said it has detected a total of 24 volcanic earthquakes during the past 24 hours.

"Steaming activity could not be observed due to thick clouds covering the summit," the bulletin said.

It added that the volcano's sulfur dioxide emission was measured at an average of 79 tonnes a day on Oct. 12.
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'It's disheartening': Quantity, quality of crops in question as early snowfall blankets farms in Alberta, Canada

Julia Wong
Global News
Sun, 16 Oct 2016 13:24 UTC
A second early snowfall has nearly destroyed any hope of bringing in a bountiful harvest for farmers across Alberta.

A second early snowfall has nearly destroyed any hope of bringing in a bountiful harvest for farmers across Alberta.
Farmers who had been hoping for warmer weather got a huge disappointment last Friday as 10 cm of snow covered the area in and around the Capital Region.

Deryk Sanford is a third-generation farmer in Lavoy, Alta. who calls the snow "a significant blow."

"When the snow hits and you take it down [to the ground] like this, you can imagine how much melting you have to do in order to get rid of that type of snow," he said.

"If we were to get a good week of no precipitation, sunshine, warm weather, we have the opportunity to get out there and take the rest of the harvest. But it's not looking good right now. We're going to need to have at least two, maybe three weeks of dry weather."

Sanford said the snow is making an already difficult year - due to rain and hail - even more difficult.
Canola crops at Jacqueline Laniuk’s farm in Vegreville have been flattened by the snow.
© Julia Wong/Global News
Canola crops at Jacqueline Laniuk’s farm in Vegreville have been flattened by the snow.
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Snowflake

Juneau in Alaska beats Fairbanks to first snowfall for first time in 70+ years

Quinton Chandler
ktoo.org
Sun, 16 Oct 2016 13:12 UTC
Snow covers Mount Juneau, Sunday, Oct. 16
© Tripp Crouse/KTOO
Snow covers Mount Juneau, Sunday, Oct. 16
National Weather Service meteorologist Edward Liske said this season is the first-time Juneau has seen measurable snowfall before Fairbanks since about 1940.

The National Weather Service reported Sunday that Juneau is one of the first communities in the state to see measurable snowfall this year.

"Fairbanks has not seen any snow yet so far this season, neither has Anchorage. Nome has had zero. Kotzebue has had zero," Liske said. "The only place that really has had measurable snow this season has been Barrow with a tenth of an inch so far."
The incredible October continues! Juneau has not seen measurable snow before Fairbanks since 1940! #akwx pic.twitter.com/Ap5nosquur

— NWS Juneau (@NWSJuneau) October 16, 2016
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A 6.4 magnitude earthquake shakes Tibet- USGS


RT
Mon, 17 Oct 2016 11:05 UTC
Map of China
© earthquake.usgs.gov
A 6.4 magnitude earthquake has shaken the Himalayan region of Tibet, China, the US Geological Survey reported, adding that the depth of the quake was about 32km.

The tremor took place 17km from the Chinese town of Aduo and 294 km from the city of Chamdo, the USGS reported.
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Bizarro Earth

6.9 magnitude quake strikes off the coast of Papua New Guinea

Lizzie Dearden
The Independent, UK
Mon, 17 Oct 2016 07:02 UTC
Papua New Guinea Earthquake
© USGS
The 6.9 magnitude earthquake was recorded off the coast of New Britain, Papua New Guinea.
An 6.9 magnitude earthquake has struck off the coast of Papua New Guinea.

The US Geological Survey detected the epicentre near New Britain, Papua New Guinea's largest offshore island, at 4.15pm local time (7.15am BST).

It came days after another tremor measuring 6.4 hit the same region. There was no immediate information on casualties or damage.

The Pacific Tsunami Warning Centre did not release a warning following the earthquake.

"Based on all available data, there is no tsunami threat from this earthquake," a notice said.

Papua New Guinea lies on the Pacific "Ring of Fire" - a volcanically active region subject to requent earthquakes, tsunamis and volcanic eruptions.

In July 1998, two undersea quakes measuring 7.0 on the Richter scale created three tsunamis that killed at least 2,100 people near the town of Aitape.
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Question

Mysterious hole discovered in Norwegian glacier

Natanael Waage
Norway Today
Sun, 16 Oct 2016 06:27 UTC
hole in Blåmannsisen, Norway
© Vebjørn Karlsen / NTB scanpix
A "mysterious" hole in the Blåmannsisen in the Arctic.
330 Squadron discovered a large hole in the glacier Blåmannsisen in Nordland when they flew over the area as a part of a military excercise trip.

It is not normal that they are so big. The ones forming during the summer, are usually between 20 and 30 centimeters in width, Atle Nesje, a professor at the Geological Institute of the University of Bergen, says to TV 2.

Kjetil Wiik at 330 Squadron says this hole seemed to be between 15 and 20 meters in diameter, and went very far down the ice.

Nesje thinks the hole is a melt hole formed when the melt water has been present on the surface of glacier. This is relatively common in Norwegian glaciers.

Due to the pressure it has melted itself down into glacier. When a hole appears in the glacier, it has emptied itself of the water, Nesje says, and informs that the water usually works its way through the ice until it reaches the bottom.

Norwegian glacier hole
© Vebjørn Karlsen / NTB scanpix

Comment: Another possible explanation to this mysterious hole is discussed in this article: SOTT Exclusive: The growing threat of underground fires and explosions
In 2014 a mysterious crater-hole was discovered in the Yamal peninsular, northwest Siberia, Russia. It was 'probably caused by methane released as permafrost thawed' according to researchers, and the result of 'internal forces not seen in 8,000 years'. Since then new information has come to light, with witnesses reporting an 'explosion' and a 'glow in the sky' from 100 km away.

This would indicate an extremely powerful explosion occurred from below to form this 'crater-hole', in a region known in the local Nenets language as the 'end of the world'. The recent discovery by scientists of methane 'bubbles' on the remote Belyy Island in the Kara Sea off the Yamal Peninsula coastline may be another alarming sign of increased activity in the depths.


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