They say wonders will never cease. And residents of jomvu village in Mombasas Changamwe constituency woke up to a shocking incident this morning.The discovery that a goat had given birth to a miracle kid with human features.
Earth Changes
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A deadly typhoon has left at least 100 people dead or missing after ravaging western Japan
A deadly typhoon has left at least 100 people dead or missing after ravaging western Japan
Talas brought torrential rain and strong winds when it made landfall Saturday, swelling rivers and triggering landslides that swept away buildings in the southwestern island of Shikoku, Kii peninsula and the Chugoku region.
At least 50 people have been confirmed dead in nine prefectures.
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Dominion Virginia Power's North Anna Power Station in Mineral, Virginia is pictured in this undated photograph obtained on August 23, 2011.
Dominion Virginia Power's North Anna Power Station in Mineral, Virginia is pictured in this undated photograph obtained on August 23, 2011.
Dominion Resources told the regulator that the ground under the plant exceeded its "design basis" -- the first time an operating U.S. plant has experienced such a milestone -- but said its seismic data from the site showed shaking at much lower levels than those reported by the U.S. Geological Survey.
Both the company and the Nuclear Regulatory Commission have not yet found any signs of serious damage to safety systems at the North Anna nuclear plant, and the company said it is eager to resume operations once inspections and repairs are complete.
The NRC has said it plans to order all U.S. plants later this year to update their earthquake risk analyses, a complex exercise that could take two years for some plants to complete.
The North Anna quake shows the need for the nation's 104 aging reactors to reevaluate earthquake risks using up-to-date geological information, said Majid Manzari, an engineer at George Washington University who studies quake impacts.
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National Weather Service meteorologist Victor Murphy told The Associated Press Thursday that Texas' 86.8 degree Fahrenheit (30.4 Celsius) average beat out Oklahoma's 85.2 degrees (29.6 Celsius) in 1934.
That Dust Bowl year is now third on the list for the three-month span, behind No. 2 Oklahoma's heat wave this June through August at 86.5 degrees (30.3 Celsius).
Both states and others in the nation's southern tier have baked in triple-digit heat this summer.
Louisiana's heat this June through August puts it in the fourth spot all-time - 84.5 degrees (29.2 Celsius).
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Chip Blanchard, right, and David McNider, both of Mobile, Ala., walk past shells and tar balls on the beach in Gulf Shores, Ala., Tuesday, Sept. 6, 2011. Currents and strong waves from Tropical Storm Lee brought tar balls on shore during landfall along the Gulf Coast
Chip Blanchard, right, and David McNider, both of Mobile, Ala., walk past shells and tar balls on the beach in Gulf Shores, Ala., Tuesday, Sept. 6, 2011. Currents and strong waves from Tropical Storm Lee brought tar balls on shore during landfall along the Gulf Coast
Both the company and area officials said it would be days before tests confirmed whether the tar balls were from last year's massive oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, but BP contractors were removing the pollution anyway.
Grant Brown, a spokesman for the City of Gulf Shores, said residents have feared more oil remains on the gulf's sandy floor despite months of cleaning.
"It's more proof that there still are offshore tar mats and it's washing ashore . . . and it's going to continue, it looks like, coming to shore,'' said Brown.
Relatively few tourists were on the beaches as the cleanup began. Crews picked up hundreds of tar balls, which were dumped into large plastic bags and hauled off the beach for disposal.
Hershey, Pennsylvania - More than 100,000 residents were ordered to flee the rising Susquehanna River on Thursday as the remnants of Tropical Storm Lee dumped more rain across the Northeast, socking areas still recovering from Hurricane Irene and closing major highways at the morning rush.
The Susquehanna is projected to crest in northeastern Pennsylvania between 4 p.m. and 8 p.m. Thursday at 41 feet - the same height as the levee system protecting riverfront communities including Wilkes-Barre and Kingston, officials said. Residents were ordered to leave by 4 p.m.
"There is no need to panic," Wilkes-Barre Mayor Tom Leighton said. "This is a precautionary evacuation and the safety of our residents is our biggest concern. We have prepared for this type of emergency and we are ready to respond to whatever comes our way over the next 72 hours."
The Susquehanna is projected to crest in northeastern Pennsylvania between 4 p.m. and 8 p.m. Thursday at 41 feet - the same height as the levee system protecting riverfront communities including Wilkes-Barre and Kingston, officials said. Residents were ordered to leave by 4 p.m.
"There is no need to panic," Wilkes-Barre Mayor Tom Leighton said. "This is a precautionary evacuation and the safety of our residents is our biggest concern. We have prepared for this type of emergency and we are ready to respond to whatever comes our way over the next 72 hours."
Susquehanna River is expected to crest at 41 feet later on Thursday
As the remnants of Tropical Storm Lee dump heavy rain on the Northeast, officials in northeastern Pennsylvania are calling for a mandatory evacuation of communities along the Susquehanna River - an area that was inundated in the historic Agnes flood of 1972.
The order affects roughly 65,000 residents.
Luzerne County Management Agency official Frank Lasiewicki told The Associated Press Thursday the river is projected to crest at nearly 41 feet between 4 p.m. and 8 p.m. ET Thursday - the same height as the levee system protecting riverfront communities including Wilkes-Barre and Kingston.
Residents were ordered to leave by 4 p.m. Wilkes-Barre Mayor Tom Leighton said residents should prepare for an extended evacuation of 72 hours and advised them to take clothing, food and prescription medicine. He also asked city businesses to close their doors by noon.
The evacuations come as Lee's remnants caused havoc around the Northeast on Thursday, bringing floods that cut off major highways and caused some schools to open late or not at all.
At least three people have died.
As the remnants of Tropical Storm Lee dump heavy rain on the Northeast, officials in northeastern Pennsylvania are calling for a mandatory evacuation of communities along the Susquehanna River - an area that was inundated in the historic Agnes flood of 1972.
The order affects roughly 65,000 residents.
Luzerne County Management Agency official Frank Lasiewicki told The Associated Press Thursday the river is projected to crest at nearly 41 feet between 4 p.m. and 8 p.m. ET Thursday - the same height as the levee system protecting riverfront communities including Wilkes-Barre and Kingston.
Residents were ordered to leave by 4 p.m. Wilkes-Barre Mayor Tom Leighton said residents should prepare for an extended evacuation of 72 hours and advised them to take clothing, food and prescription medicine. He also asked city businesses to close their doors by noon.
The evacuations come as Lee's remnants caused havoc around the Northeast on Thursday, bringing floods that cut off major highways and caused some schools to open late or not at all.
At least three people have died.
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In a summer where brush fires have become a near-daily occurrence, firefighting officials said the multiple wildfires that raged across Central Texas on Sunday were the worst the region has seen all year.
Numerous wind-driven fires pushed fire departments to their limits and forced evacuations in Bastrop County, the Steiner Ranch subdivision, Pflugerville, Spicewood and other areas. Scores of residents were left wondering whether they had homes to return to as many of the fires continued to burn Sunday night.
The largest and most destructive fire was in Bastrop County, where a blaze burned 14,000 acres and grew to an estimated 16 miles long by the end of the day, said Mark Stanford, fire chief of the Texas Forest Service.
"It's catastrophic," Stanford said of the Bastrop County fire. "It's a major natural disaster."
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Wednesday, September 07, 2011 at 17:58:21 UTC
Wednesday, September 07, 2011 at 11:28:21 PM at epicenter
Time of Earthquake in other Time Zones
Location:
28.995°N, 77.223°E
Depth:
10 km (6.2 miles)
Region:
HARYANA-DELHI-UTTAR PRADESH REG., INDIA
Distances:
36 km (22 miles) N of Delhi, Delhi, India
44 km (27 miles) N of NEW DELHI, Delhi, India
46 km (28 miles) W of Meerut, Uttar Pradesh, India
49 km (30 miles) SSE of Panipat, Haryana, India
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Global warming is the most likely cause of a growing number of king crabs that have been marching along the sea floor toward West Antarctica, according to a report by biologists on Wednesday.
The intruder, 'Neolithodes yaldwyni Ahyong and Dawson', a bright-red deep-sea predator that had previously been spotted only in the Ross Sea, on the other side of West Antarctica, is now living and reproducing in abundance on the western edge of the icy continent.
Writing in the journal Proceedings B, scientists said the crabs are currently thriving in the Palmer Deep, a basin cut in the continental shelf. They believe the crabs were washed in during an upsurge of warmer water.
The crabs are ravenous predators on the sea floor and could likely change the ecosystem profoundly if they spread further, researchers warn. The crab is known as an "ecosystem engineer" because it digs into the sea floor to feast on worms and other tiny animals, an activity that can have repercussions across the marine food web if these crabs continue to multiply and spread out.
A team of scientists, led by Laura Grange of the University of Hawaii at Manoa, lowered a remotely operated vehicle (ROV), named the Genesis, into the Palmer Deep in March of last year as part of a long-term probe into biodiversity in the waters off Antarctica.
