earthquake in Castelluccio, Europe,Italy

Πολλοί εκ των νεκρών έχασαν τη ζωή τους στο χωριό Πεσκάρα ντελ Τρόντο, το οποίο σχεδόν ισοπεδώθηκε και οι αρχές εκφράζουν φόβους ότι ο τελικός απολογισμός θυμάτων θα είναι μεγαλύτερος.

Τους 50 έφθασαν οι νεκροί στην Ιταλία από τον καταστροφικό σεισμό που έπληξε το κεντρικό τμήμα της χώρας, ενώ δεκάδες άνθρωποι αγνοούνται, με πολλούς από αυτούς να βρίσκονται κάτω από σωρούς ερειπίων.

Τον τελευταίο απολογισμό μετέδωσε η ιταλική εφημερίδα La Stampa.

Σκληρό πλήγμα για Πεσκάρα ντελ Τρόντο - Αματρίτσε - Ακούμολι

Πολλοί εκ των νεκρών έχασαν τη ζωή τους στο χωριό Πεσκάρα ντελ Τρόντο, το οποίο σχεδόν ισοπεδώθηκε και οι αρχές εκφράζουν φόβους ότι ο τελικός απολογισμός θυμάτων θα είναι μεγαλύτερος.

Μεγάλο μέρος της πόλης Αματρίτσε έχει μετατραπεί επίσης σε σωρό ερειπίων, ενώ εκφράζονται φόβοι ότι τετραμελής οικογένεια έχει ξεκληριστεί στο Ακούμολι.

Ο σεισμός έπληξε την κεντρική Ιταλία στις 03.36 τα ξημερώματα, 100 χιλιόμετρα βορειοανατολικά της Ρώμης.

Το εστιακό βάθος ήταν σχετικά μικρό και κυμαινόταν στα 10 χιλιόμετρα. Η δόνηση ξύπνησε μνήμες Απριλίου 2009 στην Λ'Άκουϊλα, όταν είχαν χάσει τη ζωή τους συνολικά 309 άνθρωποι από ισχυρό σεισμό.

Το επίκεντρο της δόνησης ήταν κοντά στο Ακούμολι.

Στη Ρώμη υπήρξαν κτήρια τα οποία «κουνήθηκαν» για περισσότερα από 20 δευτερόλεπτα, καθώς η περιοχή που επλήγη «άγγιζε» εδάφη των περιφερειών Ούμπρια, Λάτσιο και Μάρκε.

Η σεισμική δόνηση έγινε αισθητή από την Μπολόνια στον βορρά μέχρι την Νάπολι στον νότο. Στην Πεσκάρα ντελ Τρόντο, τουλάχιστον 10 άνθρωποι έχασαν τη ζωή τους, μεταξύ αυτών και παιδιά. Είκοσι άνθρωποι μεταφέρθηκαν σε νοσοκομεία.

Τα σωστικά συνεργεία προσπαθούν ακόμη να φθάσουν στο απομονωμένο χωριό Περάκια ντι Άκουα Σάντα Τέρμε.

Ρέντσι: Κανένας σεισμοπαθής μόνος του

Δεν πρόκειται να μείνει κανένας μόνος του και αβοήθητος, δήλωσε ο πρωθυπουργός της Ιταλίας Ματέο Ρέντσι, σε τηλεοπτικό μήνυμά του, με το οποίο εξέφρασε τη συμπαράστασή του στις οικογένειες των θυμάτων και τους άστεγους που προκάλεσε ο σεισμός που έπληξε τις πρώτες πρωινές ώρες την κεντρική Ιταλία.

«Σε στιγμές μεγάλης δυσκολίας η Ιταλία δείχνει το καλυτερό της πρόσωπό», πρόσθεσε ο κ. Ρέντσι, ο οποίος ευχαρίστησε για τη γενναιόδωρη συμβολή της την υπηρεσία πολιτικής προστασίας, αλλά και το σύνολο των εθελοντών.

«Πρέπει να προετοιμαστούμε για την κατάσταση έκτακτης ανάγκης των επόμενων ημερών, αλλά τώρα η απόλυτη προτεραιότητα είναι να σωθούν ζωες σκάβοντας στα συντρίμμια», δήλωσε ακόμη ο Ιταλός πρωθυπουργός, ο οποίος ανακοίνωσε ότι αργά το απόγευμα θα επισκεφθεί τις περιοχές που επληγησαν από τον εγκέλαδο.

Δραματική έκκληση απυύθηνε ο δήμαρχος της πόλης Αματρίτσε, Σέρτζιο Πιρότσι, μιλώντας στην κρατικη΄τηλεόραση, τονίζοντας πως η κατάσταση είναι δραματική και πως τα 3/4 της πόλης του έχουν καταστραφεί.

'Οι δρόμοι πρόσβασης στην πόλη έχουν καταστραφεί, απευθύνω έκκληση για την απελευθέρωσή τους. Πάνω από την μισή πόλη έχει εξαφανιστεί, υπάρχουν άνθρωποι κάτω από τα συντρίμμια. Υπάρχει χώρος για την προσγείωση ελικοπτέρων διάσωσης, αλλά προτεραιότητά μας είναι να ανοίξουν οι δρόμοι'. Αυτή είναι η δραματική έκκληση του δημάρχου της πόλης Αματρίτσε, Σέρτζιο Πιρότσι. 'Προσπαθούμε με κάθε τρόπο να φέρουμε τις πρώτες βοήθειες, αλλά δουλεύουμε χωρίς φως' εξήγησε τις πρώτες πρωινές ώρες ο Πιρότσι στο Rainews24.
'Η κατάσταση είναι δραματική. Οι νεκροί είναι τόσοι πολλοί, δεν μπορώ να υπολογίσω προς το παρόν. Οι έρευνες συνεχίζονται και η κατάσταση είναι πολύ δύσκολη. 'Η μισή πόλη έχει καταστραφεί και ψάχνουμε μέσα στα χαλάσματα. Έχουμε ήδη βγάλει αρκετούς νεκρούς, αλλά δεν ξέρουμε πόσοι υπάρχουν ακόμη εκεί κάτω. Ακούγονται φωνές κάτω από τα ερείπια, πρέπει να σώσουμε τους ανθρώπους' πρόσθεσε.

Ο δήμαρχος του Ακούμολι, μιας άλλης πόλης που επλήγη από το σεισμό στην περιοχή Λάτιο, δήλωσε πως δεν υπάρχει κανένα ίχνος ζωής από μια τετραμελή οικογένεια, μεταξύ των οποίων και δύο παιδιά που είναι παγιδευμένοι κάτω απότα συντρίμμια.
'Με το φως της ημέρας, βλέπουμε ότι η κατάσταση είναι ακόμη χειρότερη από αυτή που φοβόμασταν. Πολλά κτίρια έχουν καταρρεύσει, υπάρχουν άνθρωποι παγιδευμένοι στα ερείπια και δεν υπάρχει ίχνος ζωής' δήλωσε.

Lava from Hawaii volcano flows into ocean, tourists flock to vivid display

Tourists are warned to keep their distance if they want to keep their shoes, boat tours serve as perfect viewing platform

Lava from Kilauea, an active volcano on Hawaii's Big Island, flows into the ocean as seen from a boat off the coast of Volcanoes National Park near Kalapana, Hawaii. (AP Photo/ Caleb Jones)

VOLCANOES NATIONAL PARK, Hawaii — For the first time in three years, lava from a volcano on Hawaii’s Big Island has crept down miles of mountainside and is dripping into the Pacific Ocean — where it’s creating new land and a stunning show for visitors.

Thousands of people from around the world have swarmed Volcanoes National Park by land, sea and air to view the lava. They’re also hearing and smelling it.

The billowy, bright-orange lava crackles and hisses, and reeks of sulfur and scorched earth, as it oozes across the rugged landscape and eventually off steep, seaside cliffs. When the hot rocks hit the water, they expel plumes of steam and gas — and sometimes explode, sending chunks of searing debris flying through the air.

The 2,000-degree molten rock is from Kilauea, one of the world’s most active volcanoes. Its Puu Oo vent began erupting in the 1980s and periodically pushes enough lava seaward that people can access it.

Reaching the flow requires a boat, a helicopter or strong legs — the hike to the entry point, where the lava meets the sea, is 10 miles roundtrip on a gravel road surrounded by miles of treacherous, hard lava rock.

Pablo Aguayo, of Santiago, Chile, took a sunrise boat tour of the flow earlier this month.

“It’s pretty amazing,” he said. “You start in the middle of the ocean in the darkness, and you end up in this beautiful lava falls.”

Aguayo said he could feel the lava’s heat, and it smelled “super funny.”

“It’s like welding something,” he said. “We have many volcanoes back home in Chile. We have plenty. But nothing like this.”

His tour boat was a 12.8-metre aluminum catamaran operated by Lava Ocean Tours owner Shane Turpin, who said he navigates to within a few yards of the entry point for the best view.

On Aug. 9, a second branch of lava started to spill into the ocean, giving Turpin’s passengers a look at two lava flows about 183 metres apart.

Hot lava spills from an active volcano in Hawaii. The erupton has created 500 acres of new land. (AP Photo)

“Just to have one drip (of lava) touching the ocean is awesome,” Turpin said as people snapped photos of the dual flows. “But to get a show like you’re getting this morning, well, it sets the bar pretty high for a second trip.”

Volcanoes National Park has seen an increase of about 1,000 to 1,500 visitors per day since the current lava flow reached the sea, boosting attendance to about 6,000 people daily, officials said.

Park spokeswoman Jessica Ferracane warns the area can be dangerous.

Hikers can get close enough that the soles of their shoes get hot. Also, the area is flanked by hardened lava rock as sharp as glass. Many people have suffered lacerations while trying to cross the jagged landscape, Ferracane said.

“Everybody wants to see the lava flow, but not everybody should be hiking out there,” she said.

Additionally, when the lava reaches the ocean, it reacts with the saltwater and produces harmful hydrochloric acid, which wafts into the air, said Janet Babb, a U.S. Geological Survey geologist at the Hawaiian Volcano Observatory.

As it streams into the water, the lava creates a new landscape in a matter of moments. According to the U.S. Geological Survey, the Puu Oo flow alone has created about 202 hectares of new land since it began erupting. The flow that began in May has created about 8 new acres. Most of Kilauea’s activity has been nonexplosive, but a 1924 eruption hurled ash and 9,000-kilogram rocks into the sky and left a man dead.

The 1983 Puu Oo vent eruption resulted in lava fountains soaring over 1,500 feet high. In the decades since, the lava flow has buried 48 square miles of land and destroyed many homes.

In 2008, after a series of small earthquakes rattled the island, Kilauea’s summit crater opened and spewed lava and rock over 75 acres of the mountain, damaging the nearby visitor overlook.

It’s hard to predict when the volcano will inflate or when the current flow will stop, Babb said. It could slow down any day or keep cascading into the sea for months.

Liberian Clown Car Gets Lit Up – They Use Each Other As Cover

A Liberian militia group decides to pack their entire unit into one technical vehicle. When it gets lit up, they use each other as cover.

When you get over confident in your units ability, you tend to make some stupid mistakes. I think this is probably the first time in the history of warfare that confidence lead to using one of your buddies as a source of cover.

What appears to be an entire unit of Liberian militiamen load into a single technical vehicle. Maybe they were trying to offer the gunner some moral support, but all they really managed to accomplish was dying.

Pay close attention to the guy in the yellow shirt. When the return fire starts, he uses the guy in the wife beater as cover.

A boy with the messi shirt on was found in Kerkuk with a bomb tied around his chest !

Shocking Video: The moment of explosion in Turkey

Βίντεο ντοκουμέντο έρχεται στο φως της δημοσιότητας το οποίο αποκαλύπτει στιγμή του αιματοκυλίσματος σε γάμο στο Γκαζιάντεπ της Τουρκίας.

Στο βίντεο φαίνεται ο κόσμος να διασκεδάζει και να χορεύει μαζί με το νεόνυμφο ζευγάρι και την στιγμή εκείνη μια ισχυρή έκρηξη τρομάζει τους πάντες!, Τζάμια σπάνε, παντού φαίνονται φλόγες και μαύροι καπνοί και όλος ο κόσμος αρχίζει να τρέχει πανικόβλητος.

Ανάμεσά τους και μικρά παιδιά που ουρλιάζουν και προσπαθούν απεγνωσμένα να βρουν τους γονείς τους.

Δείτε το συγκλονιστικό βίντεο:

£2 Million Lamborghini Centenario Roadster debuts at Pebble Beach – & it’s all SOLD out Read more: http://www.carsuk.net/lamborghini-centenario-roadster-debuts-pebble-beach-sold/#ixzz4Hzfcjn00

AUGUST 21, 2016 BY CARS UK

£2 Million Lamborghini Centenario Roadster debust at Pebble

The Lamborghini Centenario Roadster has debuted at Pebble Beach as a convertible version of the Centenario revealed at the Geneva Motor Show. Costs £2 million.

Lamborghini has lots of form for churning out cheap to build cars with fancy names, fancy bodywork and fancy prices to tempt buyers who really should know better, and what better place than Pebble Beach to deliver another – the Lamborghini Centenario Roadster?

Essentially a convertible take on the Centenario we saw at Geneva in the spring, built to celebrate the centenary of Ferruccio Lamborghini, there will be just 20 built – that’s half the run of the Centanario Coupe – and each will cost – as near as makes no difference – £2 million in the UK.

Just like the Coupe, the Roadster gets Lamborghini’s naturally aspirated V12 delivering 760bhp through all four wheels – which all steer too – with loads of carbon fibre and some clever aerodynamics to keep it all together.

But you can’t buy one.

Lamborhghini has, once again, managed to churn out a titivated Aventador at getting on for ten times the price and sold them all in quick sticks. Which is very good business if you can do it, but we’re not entirely sure it adds to Lamborghini’s credibility.

Still, with its OTT looks Lamborghini should mop up credibility in the supercar poster market. Assuming it still exists.

HELLISH ‘FIRENADOES’ ARE STRIKING EAST OF LOS ANGELES

Ashkey May for USA Today reports Fire tornadoes, also known as firenadoes or fire whirls, are spiraling out of wildfires east of Los Angeles this week. Wildfires have scorched more than 25,000 acres of mountain and desert near San Bernardino, Calif., where at least 82,000 people have been told to evacuate.

Scientists are closing in on turning hydrogen into a metal in liquid or solid form

The pressure is on to make metallic hydrogen

Scientists are closing in on turning hydrogen into a metal in liquid or solid form

BY 

EMILY CONOVER 

9:00AM, AUGUST 10, 2016

UNDER PRESSURE  Physicists use powerful electrical pulses in the Z machine at Sandia National Laboratories to create liquid metallic hydrogen for fleeting moments.

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In a few highly specialized laboratories, scientists bombard matter with the world’s most powerful electrical pulses or zap it with sophisticated lasers. Other labs squeeze heavy-duty diamonds together hard enough to crack them.
All this is in pursuit of a priceless metal. It’s not gold, silver or platinum. The scientists’ quarry is hydrogen in its most elusive of forms.
Several rival teams are striving to transform hydrogen, ordinarily a gas, into a metal. It’s a high-stakes, high-passion pursuit that sparks dreams of a coveted new material that could unlock enormous technological advances in electronics.
“Everybody knows very well about the rewards you could get by doing this, so jealousy and envy [are] kind of high,” says Eugene Gregoryanz, a physicist at the University of Edinburgh who’s been hunting metallic hydrogen for more than a decade.
Metallic hydrogen in its solid form, scientists propose, could be a superconductor: a material that allows electrons to flow through it effortlessly, with no loss of energy. All known superconductors function only at extremely low temperatures, a major drawback. Theorists suspect that superconducting metallic hydrogen might work at room temperature. A room-temperature superconductor is one of the most eagerly sought goals in physics; it would offer enormous energy savings and vast improvements in the transmission and storage of energy.
Metallic hydrogen’s significance extends beyond earthly pursuits. The material could also help scientists understand our own solar system. At high temperatures, compressed hydrogen becomes a metallic liquid — a form that is thought to lurk beneath the clouds of monstrous gas planets, like Jupiter and Saturn. Sorting out the properties of hydrogen at extreme heat and high pressure could resolve certain persistent puzzles about the gas giants.  Researchers have reported brief glimpses of the liquid metal form of hydrogen in the lab — although questions linger about the true nature of the material.
While no lab has yet produced solid metallic hydrogen, the combined efforts of many scientists are rapidly closing in on a more complete understanding of the element itself — as well as better insight into the complex inner workings of solids.

Not so simple

Hydrogen, the first element in the periodic table and the most common element in the universe, ought to be easy to understand: a single proton paired with a single electron. “What could be more simple than an assembly of electrons and protons?” asks theoretical physicist Neil Ashcroft of Cornell University. But at high pressures, the physics of hydrogen rapidly becomes complex.
At room temperature and atmospheric pressure, hydrogen is a gas. But like other materials, altered conditions can transform hydrogen into a solid or a liquid. With low enough temperatures or a sufficiently forceful squeeze, hydrogen shape-shifts into a solid. Add heat while squeezing, and it becomes a liquid.
If subjected to still more extreme conditions, hydrogen can — at least theoretically — undergo another transformation, into a metal. All metals have one thing in common: They conduct electricity, due to free-flowing electrons that can go where they please within the material.

Exotic forms of hydrogen

Under ordinary conditions, in a region too small to be seen on this chart, hydrogen is a gas. At very high temperatures, it becomes liquid. At high pressures, it’s a solid in one of several phases. Scientists expect that it will become a solid metal at pressures not yet reached. 

ADAPTED BY E. CONOVER AND J. HIRSHFELD

Source: I.F. Silvera/Harvard Univ.

Squeeze anything hard enough and it will become a metal. “Pressure does a great job of dislodging the outer electrons,” Ashcroft says. This is what scientists are aiming to do with hydrogen: create a sloshing soup of roving electrons in either a liquid or a solid.
When hydrogen is compressed, many atoms begin to interact with one another, while paired in molecules of two hydrogen atoms each. The underlying physics becomes a thorny jumble. “It is amazing; the stuff takes up incredibly complex arrangements in the solid state,” says Ashcroft, the first scientist to propose, in 1968, that metallic hydrogen could be a high-temperature superconductor.
Hydrogen’s complexity fascinates scientists. “It’s not just the metallization question that’s of interest to me,” says Russell Hemley, a chemist at the Carnegie Institution for Science in Washington, D.C., and Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in California. Studying the intricacies of hydrogen’s behavior can help scientists refine their understanding of the physics of materials.
In 1935, when physicists Eugene Wigner and Hillard Bell Huntington of Princeton University first predicted that compressed solid hydrogen would be metallic, they thought the transition to a metal might occur at a pressure 250,000 times that of Earth’s atmosphere. That may sound like a lot, but scientists have since squeezed hydrogen to pressures more than 10 times as high — and still no solid metal.
Scientists originally expected that the transition would be a simple flip to metallic behavior. Not so, says theoretical physicist David Ceperley of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. “Nature has a lot more possibilities.” Solid hydrogen exists in multiple forms, each with a different crystal structure. As the pressure climbs, the wily hydrogen molecules shift into ever-more-complex arrangements, or phases. (For physicists, the “phase” of matter goes deeper than the simple states of solid, liquid or gas.) The number of known solid phases of hydrogen has grown steadily as higher pressures are reached, with four phases now well established. The next phase scientists find could be a metal — they hope.