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A tropical disturbance in the Western Pacific is about to lash the Philippine islands and will persist for several days over the area and potentially develop into a tropical cyclone.
Etna showed signs of increased unrest on November 15, 2022, forcing the Etna Volcano Observatory to raise the Aviation Color Code for the volcano from Green to Yellow. It was lowered back to Green at 10:20 UTC on November 16 after geophysical parameters returned to background levels.
Although more than 2 400 km (1 500 miles) away, the M7.6 earthquake in Mexico on September 19, 2022, triggered 1.2 m (4 feet) tall waves in Death Valley’s Devils Hole. A colloquial term for the event is a ‘desert tsunami.’
Drought and heat have pushed European benchmark electricity prices to all-time highs on August 2, 2022. As a result, countries are relying even more on Russian gas to meet increased power demand instead of storing it for the coming winter season, as recently agreed in Brussels.
A massive booster from Chinese Long March 5B rocket, launched on July 24, 2022, is expected to re-enter Earth’s atmosphere over the weekend, with some of its pieces surviving the descent and hitting the surface. The rocket delivered the Wentian experiment module to China’s Tiangong Space Station.
Joel Skousen predicted the exact year the conflict with Russia would start, now he has an even more dire prediction, watch the whole video if you want to see what the future may have in store for us.
Elbert County officials ordered the demolition of the remaining parts of the Georgia Guidestones monument after it sustained heavy damage in a bombing that took place on the morning of July 6, 2022.
A bolt of lightning hit a 12 m (39 feet) long fishing boat about 160 km (100 miles) off the coast of Clearwater, Florida on June 25, 2022, disabling it and leaving its crew of 7 people stranded in the middle of stormy weather. The group was participating in a fishing tournament.
A wide number of eyewitnesses in Spain observed a series of fireballs crossing the night sky over the Mediterranean Sea between 22:30 and 22:32 UTC on June 20, 2022.
A massive rock face collapsed into Lake Powell near Antelope Marina, Arizona on May 30, 2022.
