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13 KILLED AFTER 6.2 MAGNITUDE EARTHQUAKE DEVASTATED MOUNTAIN TOWNS IN CENTRAL ITALY | WATCH

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 Italy EarthquakeA strong earthquake devastated a string of mountainous towns over a swathe of central Italy early on Wednesday, trapping residents under hills of rubble, with at least 13 people believed killed and many missing. 
 The quake struck in the early hours of the morning when most people were asleep, razing homes and buckling roads in a cluster of towns and villages some 170 km east of Rome. 
 The emergency services released an aerial photograph showing swathes of the town of Amatrice flattened, while debris filled the streets of nearby Accumoli. 
 “Now that daylight has come, we see that the situation is even more dreadful than we feared, with buildings collapsed, people trapped under the rubble and no sound of life,” said Accumoli Mayor, Stefano Petrucci. 
 Wide cracks appeared like open wounds on the buildings that were still standing. 
 Residents were sifting through the rubble with their bare hands before emergency services arrived with earth-moving equipment and sniffer dogs. 
 The quake hit during the summer when the populations of the towns and villages in the area, normally low during the rest of the year, are swelled by vacationers. 
 A family of four, including two boys aged 8 months and 9 years, were buried when their house imploded. 
 Rescue teams used heavy equipment to try to clear the wreckage, but there was no indication they had survived the disaster. 
 Police said two people were known to have died in the nearby village of Pescara del Tronto. 
 Some 100 people were still unaccounted for in the village of Arquata del Tronto and two bodies were removed from the debris in Amatrice. 
 “Three quarters of the town is not there anymore. The aim now is to save as many lives as possible. There are voices under the rubble, we have to save the people there,” Amatrice Mayor, Sergio Pirozzi told state broadcaster RAI. 
 
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 A Reuters reporter said the town’s hospital had been badly damaged by the quake, with patients moved into the streets. 
 RAI reported that two Afghan girls, believed to be asylum-seekers, were also missing in the town. 
 The earthquake caused damage to towns in three regions – Umbria, Lazio and Marche. 
 The U.S. Geological Survey, which measured the quake at 6.2 magnitude, said it struck near the Umbrian city of Norcia, while Italy’s earthquake institute INGV registered it at 6.0 and put the epicentre closer to Accumoli and Amatrice, the two towns that appeared to be hardest hit. 
 The damage was made more severe because the epicentre was at a relatively shallow 4 km below the surface of the earth. 
 Residents of Rome were woken by the quake, which rattled furniture, swayed lights and set off car alarms in most of central Italy. 
 “It was so strong. It seemed the bed was walking across the room by itself with us on it,” Lina Mercantini of Ceselli, Umbria, about 75 km away from the hardest hit area, told Reuters. 
 Olga Urbani, in the nearby town of Scheggino, said: “Dear God it was awful. The walls creaked and all the books fell off the shelves.” 
 INGV reported 60 aftershocks in the four hours following the initial quake, the strongest measuring 5.5. 
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 Italy sits on two fault lines, making it one of the most seismically active countries in Europe. 
 The last major earthquake to hit the country struck the central city of L’Aquila in 2009, killing more than 300 people. 
 The most deadly since the start of the 20th century came in 1908, when an earthquake followed by a tsunami killed an estimated 80,000 people in the southern regions of Reggio Calabria and Sicily.</div>
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Italy EarthquakeA strong earthquake devastated a string of mountainous towns over a swathe of central Italy early on Wednesday, trappin...

Scientists discover ‘earth-like planet’

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 Scientists Wednesday announced the discovery of an Earth-sized planet orbiting the star nearest our Sun, opening up the glittering prospect of a habitable world that may one day be explored by robots. Named Proxima b, the planet is in a “temperate” zone compatible with the presence of liquid water — a key ingredient for life. <a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="more" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #0c343d; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word;"></a> The findings, based on data collected over 16 years, were reported in the peer-reviewed journal Nature. “We have finally succeeded in showing that a small-mass planet, most likely rocky, is orbiting the star closest to our solar system,” said co-author Julien Morin, an astrophysicist at the University of Montpellier in southern France. “Proxima b would probably be the first exoplanet visited by a probe made by humans,” he told AFP. An exoplanet is any planet outside our Solar System. Lead author Guillem Anglada-Escude, an astronomer at Queen Mary University London, described the find as the “experience of a lifetime”. Working with European Southern Observatory telescopes in the north Chilean desert, his team used the so-called Doppler method to detect Proxima b and describe its properties. The professional star-gazers spent 60 consecutive days earlier this year looking for signs of gravitational pull on its host star, Proxima Centauri. Regular shifts in the star’s light spectrum — repeating every 11.2 days — gave a tantalising clue. They revealed that the star alternately moved towards and away from our Solar System at the pace of a leisurely stroll, about five kilometres (three miles) per hour. – Goldilocks zone – After cross-checking an inconclusive 2000-2014 dataset and eliminating other possible causes, the researchers determined that the tug of an orbiting planet was responsible for this tiny to-and-fro. “Statistically, there is no doubt,” Anglada-Escude told journalists in a briefing. “We have found a planet around Proxima Centauri.” Proxima b is a mere four light years from the Solar System, meaning that it is essentially in our back yard on the scale of our galaxy, the Milky Way. It has a mass around 1.3 times that of Earth, and orbits about seven million kilometres (4.35 million miles) from its star. A planet so near to our Sun — 21 times closer than Earth — would be an unlivable white-hot ball of fire. But Proxima Centauri is a so-called red dwarf, meaning a star that burns at a lower temperature. As a result, the newly discovered planet is in a “Goldilocks” sweet spot: neither so hot that water evaporates, nor so cold that it freezes solid. But liquid water is not the only essential ingredient for the emergence of life. An atmosphere is also required, and on that score the researchers are still in the dark. It all depends, they say, on how Proxima b evolved as a planet. “You can come up with formation scenarios that end up with and Earth-like atmosphere, a Venus-like atmosphere” — 96 percent carbon dioxide — “or no atmosphere at all,” said co-author Ansgar Reiners, an expert on “cold” stars at the University of Goettingen’s Institute of Astrophysics in Germany. Computer models suggest the planet’s temperature, with an atmosphere, could be “in the range of minus 30 Celsius (-22 Fahrenheit) on the dark side, and 30C (80F) on the light side,” Reiners told journalists. Like the Moon in relation to Earth, Proxima b is “tidally locked,” with one face always exposed to its star and the other perpetually in shadow. Emerging life forms would also have to cope with ultraviolet and X-rays bombarding Proxima b 100 times more intensely than on Earth. – Search for life – An atmosphere would help deflect these rays, as would a strong magnetic field. But even high doses of radiation do not preclude life, especially if we think outside the box, scientists say. “We have to be very open-minded as to what we call ‘life’,” Jean Schneider, an expert on exoplanets at the Observatoire de Paris, told AFP. Some 3,500 exoplanets have been discovered since the first confirmed sighting in 1995. Most of these distant worlds — like our own Jupiter and Neptune — are composed of gas, an inhospitable environment for life. Even the 10 percent that do have rocky surfaces are mostly too cold or too hot to host water in liquid form. And — until today — the handful that are in a temperate zone are effectively beyond reach. Last year, for example, NASA unveiled Kepler 452b, a planet about 60 percent larger than Earth that could have active volcanoes, oceans, sunshine like ours, and a year lasting 385 days. But at a distance of 1,400 light-years, humankind would have little hope of reaching this Earth-twin any time soon. By comparison, Proxima b is a stone’s throw away, though still too far away for humans to visit with present-generation chemical rockets. “This is a dream for astronomers if we think about follow up observations,” said Reiners. AFP

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This Will Shock You As A Dead Dragon Was Spotted In Tibet.

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An unconfirmed video shows a dead dragon on a large farm in Tibet. This video has been going viral for a while now and is starting to get people wondering if this is true as there have been many cases of this sort of story in the past that ended up as a Photoshop initiated prank. This time, it's an uncut clip of a creature which clearly resembles a dragon. If this is true, then many questions should arise from this, like, should humans be scared? Are these creatures things we can quickly kill? Are they treat to people? So many questions need to be answered as this discovery pops up at this time. See clip below to see the dragon: 
 
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Here is a fascinating excerpt from an interview with H. H. Sakya Trizin (the leader of one of the foremost sects of Tibetan Buddhism), which speaks of dragons and zombies: 
 
Ques: DR. There are many stories about zombies in the history of Tibet. Do people still see such today? 
Ans: I believe that there hasn't been any case recently. However, when I visited Ladakh earlier this year, I noticed that the door frames were very low. I was informed that it was because there was a lot of zombies in Ladakh and zombies don't bend. The height of the doors was, therefore, to restrict them from getting in. We do not find these stories today, however. 
 
Ques: Have you met zombies? 
Ans: No, but I saw a dragon, and I mentioned in my autobiography. When we celebrated the Tibetan New Year in Purwala it was raining and lightning. Some parts of the sky were blue. Suddenly there was a loud thunder, and we saw a long line of color from dark clouds in the shape of the tail of a dragon. As we heard, thunder shook the tail, and it disappeared into the clouds.</div>
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News world update This Will Shock You As A Dead Dragon Was Spotted In Tibet.

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13 KILLED AFTER 6.2 MAGNITUDE EARTHQUAKE DEVASTATED MOUNTAIN TOWNS IN CENTRAL ITALY | WATCH

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