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USGS: Earthquake Magnitude 6.5 - Izu Islands, Japan region


US Geological Survey
Tue, 03 Sep 2013 19:38 UTC
Izu Quake_040913
© USGS
Event Time
2013-09-04 00:18:24 UTC
2013-09-04 09:18:24 UTC+09:00 at epicenter

Location
29.986°N 138.811°E depth=404.8km (251.5mi)

Nearby Cities
356km (221mi) SSW of Hachijo-jima, Japan
494km (307mi) SSE of Shingu, Japan
514km (319mi) S of Oyama, Japan
515km (320mi) SSE of Owase, Japan
637km (396mi) S of Tokyo, Japan

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Cowboy Hat

Idiocracy: Fourth largest fire in California history caused by 'some sort of marijuana-type grove thing'

Scott Kaufman
The Raw Story
Tue, 03 Sep 2013 16:29 UTC
Todd McNeal
© UnknownFire Chief Todd McNeal
A video of Twain Harte Fire Chief Todd McNeal briefing the community on California's Rim fire surfaced online today, and in it he said that "we know [the fire]'s human-caused, as there was no lightning in the area...and we highly suspect there might be some sort of illicit grove, some sort of marijuana-type grove thing."

The fire started in a remote area Stanislaus National Park known as Jawbone Ridge. The area is familiar to locals not only for the ruggedness of its terrain, but for the recent appearances of "marijuana plantations" in its more inhospitable reaches.

Comment: Yup, it's all down to 'some sort of marijuana-type grove thing'. Pay no attention to the changing weather!

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Bizarro Earth

USGS: Earthquake Magnitude 6.0 - 191km WSW of Bella Bella, Canada


US Geological Survey
Tue, 03 Sep 2013 16:10 UTC
Bella Bella Quake_030913
© USGS
Event Time
2013-09-03 20:19:06 UTC
2013-09-03 11:19:06 UTC-09:00 at epicenter

Location
51.198°N 130.405°W depth=1.0km (0.6mi)

Nearby Cities
191km (119mi) WSW of Bella Bella, Canada
347km (216mi) S of Prince Rupert, Canada
388km (241mi) WNW of Campbell River, Canada
388km (241mi) SSW of Terrace, Canada
592km (368mi) NW of Victoria, Canada

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Two record-setting Alligators weighing more than 700 pounds caught in Mississippi

Liz Klimas
The Blaze
Tue, 03 Sep 2013 15:56 UTC
Trammell alligator
© Mississippi Department of Wildlife, Fisheries, and Parks via NBC NewsThe crew with the Trammells held a state record for heaviest male alligator for only about an hour. It was soon broken by another catch.
Open season for alligator hunting in Mississippi began over the weekend with a few record-setting catches.

First-time hunters Beth and Rob Trammell were heading back into shore after a long day of hunting Sunday when they hooked what would turn out to be a state record-setting 723.5-pound male gator, according to The Clarion-Ledger.

"Oh, my gosh. It's the Loch Ness monster," Beth Trammell recalled saying when the beast surfaced after more than an hour of struggle.
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Snowflake Cold

Record cold in parts of Alaska

Robert Feliz
iceagenow.info
Mon, 02 Sep 2013 06:55 UTC
Most notably, Bettles recorded a low of 15ºF Saturday morning, by far the lowest temperature of record at Bettles in August. The previous record at the Bettles in August was 22ºF on August 30, 1969. At old Bettles, about four miles downriver from the current townsite, a low of 20ºF was measured on August 24, 1948.

Other low temperatures included 17ºF at both Chandalar DOT and Coldfoot DOT and a chilly 13F at the Norutak Lake RAWS west of Bettles. These are close to, but not at the record low temperature for the month of August in the state.

http://ak-wx.blogspot.de/2013/08/record-cold-in-northern-interior.html

Thanks to F. Guimaraes for this link

"The winter could be starting earlier!" says Guimaraes.

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Snowflake Cold

More than 25, 000 animals killed in southern Peru

Robert Felix
iceagenow.info
Mon, 02 Sep 2013 06:47 UTC
Snow expected to continue for about 60 days. Humanitarian catastrophe unfolding.

1 Sep 13 - Snowfall in parts of the southern highlands of Peru has killed more than 25,000 animals and destroyed 137 homes, according to the National Institute of Civil Defense (Indeci).
(These are government numbers. I earlier reported that 250,000 alpacas had been killed in Peru. This is on top of the 70,000 animals killed in Bolivia.
The national government on Saturday declared a state of emergency in 250 localities of the country since the snow is expected to continue for about 60 days.

Until Saturday, there were a total of 5,247 people injured and 739 homes declared uninhabitable in Apurimac (south), Cusco (southeast), Ayacucho (South Central), Huancavelica (center), Puno (southeast) and Junin (center) .

The deputy director of humanitarian assistance and mobilization of the National Institute of Civil Defense (Indeci), Eric Cortijo, reported that this phenomenon affected more than 67,000 people. (I don't know what he meant by "affected.")
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Fish

Ghana: Huge, mysterious mammal appears on beach in Jomoro District

Zachary Stieber
Epoch Times
Mon, 02 Sep 2013 00:00 UTC
Ghana Mysterious Mammal
© Screenshot/My Joy OnlineA screenshot of My Joy Online, a Ghanaian news agency, shows a purported mysterious sea creature, which is described by a local as having a head which looks like a crocodile, and a tail similar to a whale's.
A mysterious creature has appeared on the shores of a beach in Ghana's Jomoro District.

The creature, deemed a mammal weighing between six and eight tons, is decomposing after washing ashore several days ago, locals told My Joy Online, a Ghanaian news agency.

The stench coming from the mammal is disturbing and makes it hard to breathe, locals said.

Isaac Bentum Williams, a businessman who was at the shore, said the creature could be an endangered species and said scientists and researchers should come and study it.

The head of the creature looks like a crocodile while its tail looks like a whale's tail, he said.

People commenting on the article online said it should definitely be studied.
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Flooding in the Far East of Russia reaches its most dangerous moment from swollen rivers


The Siberian Times
Mon, 02 Sep 2013 15:51 UTC
Defences were breached in Komsomolsk-on-Amur engulfing several villages, as forced evacuation rise.
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© YoutubeToday the waters at Komsomolsk-on-Amur were up to 803 centimetres, by 102 centimetres above the rating of record flooding from 1959.
Water levels in the city of Khabarovsk mean thousands could be forced to evacuate in the coming days. Many are fearful to leave, concerned their water-logged properties can be looted, say locals in stricken regions.

Concern on Monday focused on the villages of Molodezhniy and Kharpensky close to Komsomolsk-on-Amur, with rescuers carrying our an emergency evacuation. People are forced to leave their homes even if they initially refused because of the high risk to their lives for staying after flood defences burst. A dozen were reported to be refusing to quit.

Some houses were completely underwater. 223 houses were flooded. Residents were evacuated to temporary shelters, specially arranged for them, or to their family members. New dikes were being built in industrial city Komsomolsk-on-Amur to a height of 9.20 metres.
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'UFO' clouds spotted over Scotland leaving homeowners baffled

Olivia Williams
The Daily Mail
Mon, 02 Sep 2013 15:36 UTC
A mysterious UFO-like cloud made homeowners in Scotland this morning do a double take as it appeared to hover close to the ground.

Claire Stewart, 37, from Kincorth, Aberdeen caught sight of the strange-looking out over her back garden at 9.30am.

She said: 'I was just looking out from my home in Kincorth when I saw the cloud.

'It looked like a UFO and I had to double take before I realised it was actually a cloud.'
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© Claire Stewart/HEMEDIAStrange sighting: It was likely that the odd cloud in Aberdeenshire sky was formed in the Cairngorms mountains
'I've never seen anything like it before, but apparently they're called lenticular clouds.

'It's very weird.'
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Cloud Lightning

Freak tornado ploughs through Tokyo suburb


The Telegraph
Mon, 02 Sep 2013 14:09 UTC
Tornado in Japan
© NHK World
At least 27 people have been hospitalised after a rare tornado ripped through a suburb of Tokyo.

Several dozen people were injured when a tornado ripped through parts of eastern Japan on Monday, tearing off roofs and uprooting trees.

Footage shot by public broadcaster NHK shows a number of homes destroyed, upturned cars, schools with shattered windows and a warehouse that had been lifted from its foundations and hurled into other buildings in Koshigaya, north of Tokyo.

Some electricity poles had been snapped and a number of them had hit houses as they fell, worsening the damage.

The Koshigaya city hall said 29 people were injured, three of them seriously, in the city alone. Local news reports said most of the injured were members of a volleyball team at a local middle school.

A meteorologist at Japan's weather agency said the tornado was caused by warm, wet air coming inland over flat areas.
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