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Wasn't sure where to put this, so starting this new thread for weird threats that are still mysteries or that don't fit clearly elsewhere:

Mystery gas hits town in Irkutsk region as flowers die and people suffer toxic poisoning

http://siberiantimes.com/ecology/others ... poisoning/

Yeah, it might be methane, but methane itself has no odor, and this has a distinct smell.

Sounds like Hydrogen Sulfide (H2S) to me, but that is just a guess based on very little solid information.

Yeah, not much to go on yet. H2S is serious stuff!

They said it smelled like gasoline. What are the main components that make up that smell, I wonder.

I was wondering about benzene, but I'm not sure if there are natural sources big enough to permeate a whole area like that.

Benzene has a sweet, aromatic, gasoline-like odor. Most individuals can begin to smell benzene in air at 1.5 to 4.7 ppm. The odor threshold generally provides adequate warning for acutely hazardous exposure concentrations but is inadequate for more chronic exposures.

http://www.cdc.gov/niosh/ershdb/emergen ... 50032.html

Well I think I heard that Hydrogen Sulfide (H2S) has that distinct rotten egg smell.

How is this for strange and ominous- Masdar City could become world’s first green ghost town
http://www.theguardian.com/environment/ ... ghost-town

http://www.desdemonadespair.net/2013/10 ... edish.html
Waves of Jellyfish shut down nuclear reactor. Crazy.

http://www.theguardian.com/environment/ ... fs-capital
Beijing issues first pollution red alert as smog engulfs capital

Thanks for your contributions, errr, tales, to my new thread, ol!

Some really wacky things are happening Dohboi, so this is a good thread you started. Oh and no I will not be using my CRAZY image. haha. Oh and how is the weather in Minnesota?

Spring seems to be starting early--temps in the 30's and 40 for the next week or so. Probably all the snow will melt within a couple days. Temps on average should still be in the 20's this time of year.

An underground fire is burning near radioactive waste. Don’t worry, EPA says.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/ene ... no-danger/

“A burning radioactive waste dump requires the government to act with urgency, but EPA seems unable to move forward with a meaningful solution,” State Attorney General Chris Koster wrote last week in an angry letter to members of the delegation, in which he called for the Army corps’ intervention.

How about this strange noises being heard around the world for about a decade and nobody has a solid explanation. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/travel/trave ... ation.html

onlooker wrote:Well I think I heard that Hydrogen Sulfide (H2S) has that distinct rotten egg smell.

Speaking from experience, I can tell you this is true.

pstarr wrote:so this is another we-are-all-going-to-die-thread? It's like old times here when the gun nutz and gold bugs ruled the PO.com roost. Those were the good ole' days. I got strange and ominous for you all: it's raining cats dogs and snow worms here in Cali and you doomers will have nothing to talk about anymore. So sad lol

Well, Pstarr, if you don't like the discussion you can, ya know, give up the site. I know we'd all miss you sooo much.

Fiji was just hit by Winston, the most powerful cyclone ever recorded in the southern hemisphere (this just months after the strongest cyclone ever in the Northern Hemisphere--Patricia, by the way).

Now we see: Prelim M5.8 earthquake Fiji region Feb-20 15:51 UTC, updates: http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/ ... us10004rdp

Connection? Can the barometric pressure get so low in the eye of a hurricane that it effects earthquakes!!??

Or is this just a curious coincidence? Something to throw out there for conversation and curiosity.

dohboi the epicenter was 579.4 km (360.0 mi) deep.

I don't think that any cyclone would effect the earths plates that deep.

Good point. But the general idea that storm can effect quakes is not quite as out there as one might have thought.

scientists have found associations between storms and earthquakes:

Typhoons Can Trigger Earthquakes, Study Suggests
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news ... uakes.html

Heavy Rainfall Can Cause Huge Earthquakes
Rain-induced erosion loosens faults, scientist says.
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news ... nce-earth/

Hurricanes and typhoons can trigger earthquakes, says study
http://earthsky.org/earth/hurricanes-an ... says-study

(Thanks to sigmetnow at neven's site for these links.)

Isn't that also the risk from melting glaciers that you are inducing changes in compression and pressure on the Earth's crust and creating that instability and dynamic can trigger Earthquakes.

Yup.