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Magnitude 5.8 Quake Hits Western Montana (UPDATED)
Hmmm, not too far from Yellowstone National Park…interesting indeed! ABCnews: Two strong earthquakes have hit western Montana. The U.S. Geological Survey says a magnitude 5.8 earthquake struck early Thursday about 6 miles (9.7 kilometers) southeast of Lincoln. A magnitude 4.5 quake rattled the same general area within a half-hour of the bigger one. The Independent Record reports ( http://bit.ly/2tjvI12 ) … Continue reading
10 BILLION Humans To Inhabit Earth By 2050 Leading To Fears Of Global Famine
THE global population is to reach almost 10 billion by 2050, according to revised projections which are increasing the fears of global famine. Previous predictions had estimated the global population would hit nine billion by the middle of the century, but a report from the UN’s Department of Economic and Social Affairs’ Population Division forecasts now puts it at 8.6 … Continue reading
Yellowstone’s Split Cone Geyser Zapped By A Massive Lighting Bolt
Seems like a 1 in a million chance this of all places would get hit as it is practically flat bare ground. As it seems extremely unlikely it did happened at Yellowstone National Park, a massive lightning bolt struck the geyser next to Old Faithful in the Norris Geyser Basin. Is it possible that as a result of electrons building … Continue reading
NASA Confirms Our Sun is Heading Toward Solar Minimum
High up in the clear blue noontime sky, the sun appears to be much the same day-in, day-out, year after year. But astronomers have long known that this is not true. The sun does change. Properly-filtered telescopes reveal a fiery disk often speckled with dark sunspots. Sunspots are strongly magnetized, and they crackle with solar flares—magnetic explosions that illuminate Earth … Continue reading
‘Rock’ That Crashed Through Shed Roof in a Dutch Village Identified As Meteorite
A rock that crashed through the roof of a shed has been confirmed as only the sixth meteorite to be recovered in the Netherlands. The 4.5 billion-year-old lump of stone, which weighs around 500g, landed in the village of Broek in Waterland, Noord-Holland province, in January. The owners discovered it the next morning and contacted Naturalis museum in Leiden after … Continue reading
Stargazers Left Baffled By ‘Red Mystery Fireball’ That Lit Up The Night Over Perth Australia
A ‘red fireball’ that lit up Australian skies has left locals baffled and debating the mystery object. Several Perth residents reported the sighting on Saturday saying the fireball was seen streaking across the sky for five minutes. One motorist driving on Karrinyup Road told 7 News Perth it was the craziest thing he had seen in a long time and … Continue reading
The Statistical Likelihood That We Will All Be Destroyed By An Asteroid in 10 Million Years
Scientists have spent decades debating whether asteroids and comets hit the Earth at regular intervals. At the same time, a few studies have found evidence that the large extinction events on Earth – such as the one that wiped out the dinosaurs 66 million years ago – repeat themselves every 26 million to 30 million years. Given that there’s good … Continue reading
Is Earth About To Be Hit By An Asteroid? Making Sense of Life in a Hostile Universe
This Saturday at roughly 2:38 AM Eastern Time an asteroid bigger than a football stadium will whiz past Earth at 28,000 miles per hour and almost certainly not hit us. But that won’t be the end of it. The 755-foot-diameter projectile is set to return every year until 2022, during which time who knows what could happen. Per custom, the … Continue reading
5.8 Magnitude Earthquake Hits Mozambique
Another rare quake of this level has hit Mozambique Africa. Africanews reports: An earthquake has struck central Mozambique on Saturday morning. According to media reports the magnitude 5.8 quake impacted the towns of Dondo and Tica. Residents of Beira, the second biggest city in the country, also confirmed having felt and heard a loud vibration this morning. The United States’ … Continue reading
Experts Warn Earth Is Overdue for Catastrophic Asteroid Impact; Inevitable Unparalleled Ruin Awaits
Experts with Queen’s University Belfast (QUB) in Northern Ireland have warned that it’s only a matter of time before a large asteroid strikes Earth, causing a natural catastrophe unparalleled in the ruin that it would bring. Dr. Alan Fitzsimmons, an expert with QUB’s Astrophysics Research Center, compared the inevitable destruction to the Tunguska event of 1908, when a meteoroid exploded … Continue reading