Our Amazing Planet - Becky Oskin, 12/13/12

MBARI researchers used the “manipulator arm” on ROV Doc Ricketts to collect rock samples from the rhyolite dome.
CREDIT: (c) 2012 MBARI

SAN FRANCISCO — Scientists have discovered one of the world's weirdest volcanoes on the seafloor near the tip of Baja, Mexico.

The petite dome — about 165 feet tall (50 meters) and 4,000 feet long by 1,640 feet wide (1,200 m by 500 m) — lies along the Alarcón Rise, a seafloor-spreading center. Tectonic forces are tearing the Earth's crust apart at the spreading center, creating a long rift where magma oozes toward the surface, cools and forms new ocean crust.

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Huffington Post UK - 12/14/12,Steven Morris, guardian.co.uk

Flood warnings issued as high winds and heavy rainfall sweep across south-west England and Wales

Parts of Britain are on flood alert yet again after heavy rain and strong winds swept the country.

The Met Office issued severe weather warnings for the south-west and much of the north of England, together with areas of Scotland and Northern Ireland.

Source: The Extinction Protocol - 12/13/12

December 13, 2012 – NAVIDAD, Chile — One jolt hit in the middle of the night. Another caught fishermen at a nearby beach. Then the ground shook at supper. And then again, and again: More than 170 tremors were felt in Navidad in just five weeks. The strongest struck during a funeral, and sent panicked mourners fleeing into the street. Navidad, a coastal farming town of 5,500 people, has become one of the shakiest spots in one of the world’s shakiest countries. And seismologists can’t say whether these were aftershocks from Chile’s devastating quake two years ago, or warnings of another huge disaster to come.

Source: Volcano Discovery - 12/13/12, By T

Tolbachik Volcano on 12/5/12
Source: Voices from Russia Too

WAFB.com - Updated 12/13/12, By Amber Stegall

Source: Assumption Parish Office of Homeland Security and Emergency Preparedness

BAYOU CORNE, LA (WAFB) -

Texas-Brine, the company that owns the cavern that is suspected of being the cause of the sinkhole in Assumption Parish, reports that a small slough-in happened Tuesday night on the Southwest side of the sinkhole.

The Assumption Parish OEP says they estimate a section of 20' by 30' was consumed by the sinkhole near the Pipeline Right of Way.

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