December 4, 2012 – AUSTRALIA – After the eastern beaches coastline resembled the Red Sea last Tuesday, the “night lantern” visited Sydney’s Malabar beach that evening. These photos have not been digitally enhanced – in fact, photographer Dr David Psaila said the water was an even more spectacular color blue than that shown in these images, the Southern Courier reports. “The organism responsible, Noctiluca Scintillans known as “night lantern” is very aptly named, as it will luminescent a bright blue when it is disturbed by waves,” he said.
The tension is waxing and waning, as you all feel the pull from the vortex you have entered. In many ways, it is just like entering a black hole, and you have just passed what is referred to as the ”event horizon”. In other words, there is no turning back now, and even if this concept might feel a bit challenging, it is only the first stage of a wondrous process that will deliver you safe and sound on the other side of this monumental vortex of energetic change.
But just as in a black hole, there is no way of literally seeing anything ahead of you, as it seems that every last drop of visibility is sucked away from you, just like the light particles entering the mouth of said black hole. But fear not, this is not about disappearing forever into something that on the outside might seem like an abyss. Rather it is indeed like entering a set of interlocking doors where you cannot see what is on the other side before you have passed them both.
December 4, 2012 – ALASKA – A magnitude 5.8 earthquake struck off the coast of Alaska on Monday, close to the city of Anchorage, rattling buildings and knocking bric-a-brac from shelves, but no serious damage or injuries were reported. The tremor, initially reported as a magnitude 5.7, struck at 4:42 p.m. (8:42 p.m. EST) 25 miles west of Anchorage, the U.S. Geological Survey said.
The quake, relatively shallow at a depth of 33.1 miles, was widely felt in Anchorage, according to Guy Urban, a geophysicist for the West Coast and Alaska Tsunami Warning Center in Palmer, Alaska. “Some people in Anchorage said some things fell off the shelves,” he told Reuters, adding that the center was unaware of any severe property damage or anyone being hurt. Quakes of similar strength are fairly common in Alaska, one of the most seismically active parts of the United States. –Reuters
For decades, a source of powerful earthquakes and volcanic activity on the Pacific Rim was shrouded in secrecy, as the Soviet government kept outsiders away from what is now referred to as the Russian Far East.
But research in the last 20 years has shown that the Kamchatka Peninsula and Kuril Islands are a seismic and volcanic hotbed, with a potential to trigger tsunamis that pose a risk to the rest of the Pacific Basin.
The 2009 eruption of Sarychev Peak volcano in the Kuril Islands was captured in this photograph from the International Space Station. (NASA)
A Mohali-based real estate company has succeeded in creating a record of constructing a 10-storey building within 48 hours.The building was constructed using pre-fabricated steel structure technology. Three cranes were pressed into service to assemble the pre-fabricated roof and walls, which were prepared in the factory. The pre-fabrication took three months in the factory.
Traffic in Los Angeles and New York City pales in comparison to the 125-mile backup in Russia over the weekend.
On the highway between St. Petersburg and Moscow, a traffic jam stretched 125 miles and last for three days, CNN reported. The two cities are the country's most populated.
December 3, 2012 – TEXAS – High temperatures in the Austin area have already broken records during December, after November also brought record high temperatures and, for the first time in decades, no rain in Austin for the entire month. Austin saw no measurable rainfall in November, according to reports compiled on the Austin-Bergstrom Airport Area by the National Weather Service Southern Region Headquarters. According to the report, this is the first year Austin has had only trace amounts of rainfall in the month of November since 1970, more than four decades ago.
Record highs were set on Nov. 1 at 88 degrees and Nov. 3 at 87 degrees. High temperatures reached into the 80s on 15 days in November, and lows never reached freezing. The most days it has reached 80 degrees in the area in November was in 1931, with 17 days in the 80s. Temperatures Saturday hit 83 degrees, breaking the daily record of 82 degrees set in 1954. The high reached 80 degrees Sunday, and is forecast to hit 83 degrees Monday.
Boy, December wasted no time at all making itself Known, well, that really should say the energy I call December. I sat on my couch on the morning of December 1st and I was watching earth open up in a way that so took me by surprise. It had all the elements of the cube that was in the movie Hellraiser (for those not familiar with that movie, I embedded a clip of that cube scene below.) I just sat there and watched as it moved, opened, shifted, changed.
MILWAUKEE -- "Red Nose" just meant a reindeer named Rudolph to Karen Mallet until she bought a print by that name for $12.34 at a Goodwill store in Milwaukee. It turned out to be a lithograph by American artist Alexander Calder worth $9,000.
Mallet's good fortune is at least the fourth time in six months that valuable art has turned up at Goodwill, where bargain-hunters search for hidden treasure among the coffee cups, jewelry, lamps and other household cast-offs.
Taipei, Dec. 3 (CNA) Three earthquakes shook Hualien in eastern Taiwan early Monday, with the strongest recorded at magnitude 5.1 on the Richter scale, but there were no reports of casualties or damage, according to the Central Weather Bureau (CWB).
The magnitude 5.1 earthquake hit at 1:45 a.m., centered 7.5 kilometers southwest of the Hualien C
Blasting out of the Pacific, the third and most powerful “Pineapple Express” storm of the week swept over the Bay Area Sunday morning, dumping heavy rain on a region already soaked to the roots and reeling from power outages and flooding. “It’s a mess,” said CHP Officer James Evans. “We’ve got flooding everywhere.” The triple whammy toppled trees and power lines, snarled traffic, caused accidents on slippery roadways and cut electrical power to about 297,000 customers in the region, including BART riders who were stranded on subway cars during a harrowing, one-hour outage early Sunday morning.
![The new lava dome of Paluweh volcano in the early morning of 1 Dec 2012](http://www.volcanodiscovery.com/index.php?eID=tx_cms_showpic&file=uploads%2Fpics%2Fpaluweh_i57007_01.jpg&title=paluweh_i57007_01.jpg&width=1000m&height=500m&caption=The+new+lava+dome+of+Paluweh+volcano+in+the+early+morning+of+1+Dec+2012&md5=2f6c978c6ef0c89d7e61b933aa449909?file=uploads%2Fpics%2Fpaluweh_i57007_01.jpg&width=1000m&height=600m&bodyTag=<body bgcolor%3D"black">&wrap=<a href%3D"javascript%3Aclose()%3B"> | <%2Fa>&md5=8c2adb80efada6cb17f7fe419a5daacf "The new lava dome of Paluweh volcano in the early morning of 1 Dec 2012")
