Earth Changes

Home leveled by massive explosion in Washington state, blast felt miles away

CBS News‎
Tue, 23 Feb 2016 09:30 UTC

© South Kitsap Fire and Rescue
South Kitsap Fire and Rescue confirms the explosion happened at a residential structure. The building was leveled.

A massive house explosion in a Seattle suburb knocked out windows several hundred yards away and was mistaken by some locals to be an earthquake.

Officials told CBS affiliate KIRO-TV in Seattle the explosion occurred in a residence in Port Orchard shortly after 4 a.m.

It is not known if anyone was home during the blast.

Officials said the home was leveled by the blast, and the fire has been contained. The cause of the explosion is unclear.

An elementary school several hundreds yards away saw many of its windows shattered.

Several nearby residents told KIRO they initially thought it was an earthquake. One resident told KIRO that officers at Naval Base Kitsap in nearby Bremerton across the inlet from Port Orchard sent officers searching the base for the source until they realized what had happened.

Comment: Last August a huge gas explosion leveled a large section of a motel in Bremerton in Washington state.

There seems to have been an increase in the number of massive house explosions around the world in recent months, with investigators still attempting to determine the cause in many cases. Could a 'cosmic' source of ignition be responsible for some of these incidents?

26 dead gannets found at Ormond Beach, Florida

Emily Blackwood
Ormond Beach Observer
Tue, 23 Feb 2016 16:02 UTC

Twenty-six dead Northern Gannets have been brought in to the center since Valentine's Day.

While Ormond Beach resident Walker Fischer was taking a stroll on the beach this past Friday, he counted four dead Northern Gannets and a pelican within a mile's walk.

The Volusia County Beach Patrol said the increase was not uncommon for this time of year. Due to migration patterns, there is an increase in the amount birds in the area, and they find a few dead birds every day. They believe the recent death are mostly like of natural causes.

Heavy snowfall paralyses daily life in Sivas, Turkey

cihan.com.tr
Mon, 22 Feb 2016 15:00 UTC

Central Turkish province of Sivas, which had been witnessing spring weather conditions in the middle of the winter for a while, took heavy snowfall, paralyzing daily life across the city.

Snowfall which has begun with blizzard in the late hours continued until the morning hours of Saturday. Following the snowfall the snow has reached 50 centimeters in depth across the province. As walking on the pavement has nearly become impossible since the thick snow layer also many cars have stayed under the snow drift.

Many people, who intended to reach their working place, had difficulty while clearing their car from the snow banks. People shovel up the ways of their working place.

13 bald eagles died in Maryland

Brian Clark Howard
National Geographic
Tue, 23 Feb 2016 11:57 UTC

It's a whodunit for the animal kingdom: State and federal wildlife officials are trying to find out what happened to 13 bald eagles that were discovered dead on Maryland's Eastern Shore on Saturday.

The birds of prey were found on a farm in rural Caroline County, about 90 miles (145 kilometers) east of Washington, D.C. and just west of the 3,800-acre Idylwild Natural Area. A man looking for shed deer antlers found some of the birds and phoned state officials, who then found several more.

Comment: Interesting how they immediately assume someone is responsible and thus a reward is offered, but they don't know the cause of death. How about out-gassing due to the Earth opening up? On a related note, this is certainly symbolic given that the national bird of the USA is the bald eagle.

Tornado activity in Illinois well above average for 2015

John Dodge
CBS Local
Mon, 22 Feb 2016 12:37 UTC

Illinois was hit hard by tornadoes in 2015, well above its average and the fourth-most in the nation, according to the National Weather Service.

Based on preliminary data, Illinois had a total of 69 twisters, well above the state's 25-year average of 53.

By August, the Chicago area had set a record for the number of tornadoes in 2015.

Only Texas (239), Kansas (125) and Oklahoma (110) had more, and all three states were well above their state's average.

Illinois' neighbors to the west, Iowa (58) and Missouri (48), were slightly above their average.

Interestingly, another Plains state, Nebraska, was well below its average, with only 26 reported tornadoes.

In total, the United States reported 1,152 tornadoes in 2015, with the overwhelming majority (1,069) reported as relatively weaker EF-0 or EF-1 storms.

Prelim 2015 tornado count from @NWSSPC. IL had 69 tornadoes, 4th most of any state. IN had 18. #ilwx #inwx pic.twitter.com/1w51McxoZv
— NWS Chicago (@NWSChicago) February 21, 2016

Flash floods hit eastern Israel

Times of Israel
Mon, 22 Feb 2016 11:02 UTC

© Akil al Ziadneh/Albayan
Flooding in the Bedouin town of Um Namila, near Rahat in the Negev on Monday, February, 22, 2016

Flash floods hit eastern Israel as temperatures drop throughout country; warmer days expected later in the week

Several Israeli schools and roads were closed Monday due to flooding as rain and wind bashed the country after a week of unseasonably high temperatures.

Flash floods in the area of Ein Gedi in eastern Israel prompted school closures in the area. On Mount Hermon, heavy snow and wind led operators to close the ski resort.

A group of 10 hikers who were stranded due to the inclement weather in the Negev, next to the Ramon Crater in southern Israel, were rescued. A search and rescue unit was called to the area and safely brought the hikers out using jeeps, reports said.

The southern city of Sderot also experienced flooding, as well as many Bedouin areas of the Negev.

Lightning bolt kills family of 5 in Siavonga, Zambia

znbc.co.zm
Mon, 22 Feb 2016 20:38 UTC

Lightning has killed a family of five people in Siavonga District of Southern province.

Siavonga District Commissioner (DC) Lovemore Kanyama confirmed the development to ZANIS saying the family who include father, mother, and three children were struck by lightning on Sunday night.

The incident happened during a downpour in Munyama area.

He said a combined team of police officers, council officers and health officers rushed to the village where the incident happened to assess the situation.

Rattling explosion sounds heard over several Northeast Georgia counties

Wayne Ford
Athens Banner-Herald
Thu, 18 Feb 2016 20:03 UTC

Booms so loud they have actually shaken homes were reported over the past two weeks in several Northeast Georgia counties.

Three reports were filed Sunday in the Maysville area of Jackson County, but numerous other reports were made in Hall, Habersham and Madison counties, authorities said Thursday. Several reports were filed the previous week in the Commerce area of Jackson County.

"We've had a lot of people saying their houses are shaking and describing it as sounding like a car crash to a tree falling," Banks County Sheriff's Sgt. Carissa McFaddin said.

"The radius of where the reports are coming from is very wide, so it's not a concentrated area," she said.

"We really do not know what it may have been. I do know we've had a number of military jets flying over that day," she said leading many to believe the explosions are sonic bombs.

Bulusan volcano in Philippines erupts, ejecting steam and ash

Rap Torres
Manila Bulletin
Mon, 22 Feb 2016 14:11 UTC

Bulusan Volcano spewed a grayish steam and an ash column reaching 500 meters on Monday afternoon, February 22, the Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology (PHIVOLCS) said.

In the latest bulletin issued by PHIVOLCS at 6:00 pm, Bulusan Volcano's ash fall occurred at 5:01 pm, which also reflected as an explosion type earthquake that lasted for four minutes and twenty-one seconds.

PHIVOLCS detected a total of 12 volcanic earthquakes prior to the ash fall.

The agency raised Alert Level 1 over Bulusan Volcano and the public is reminded not to go inside the 4-kilometer radius Permanent Danger Zone (PDZ) due to risks of sudden steam and ash explosions.

Strange trumpet sounds in the sky heard by people in Québec: The dogs 'are going nuts'

Hayley Juhl
National Post (Canada)
Mon, 22 Feb 2016 15:12 UTC

Residents of Dollard des Ormeaux, Quebec, were distracted Sunday night by an eerie noise they said sounded like trumpets somewhere in the sky.

"All the dogs in the neighbourhood are going nuts," D.D.O. resident Adria Morrell posted to Facebook around 10 p.m. She recorded the noise, which sounded like wind through wires or wind chimes.

There was no wind at the time, she said, and soon after she posted, other West Island residents recounted their own spooky aural encounters. The sound was reported to have lasted more than an hour.

This sort of event isn't unheard of. Similar things have happened in Montana, Australia, Germany and British Columbia. Though there's no clear explanation, reports say NASA has theorized that it could be the "background noise of the earth."

"These natural radio emissions from the planet are very much real," Tech Times reported NASA as saying.

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Earth Changes

Home leveled by massive explosion in Washington state, blast felt miles away

26 dead gannets found at Ormond Beach, Florida

Heavy snowfall paralyses daily life in Sivas, Turkey

13 bald eagles died in Maryland

Tornado activity in Illinois well above average for 2015

Flash floods hit eastern Israel

Lightning bolt kills family of 5 in Siavonga, Zambia

Rattling explosion sounds heard over several Northeast Georgia counties

Bulusan volcano in Philippines erupts, ejecting steam and ash

Strange trumpet sounds in the sky heard by people in Québec: The dogs 'are going nuts'

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