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Q: Italy’s Civil Protection officials said the quake, which struck at 3:19 a.m., was part of a swarm of some 1,000 tremors, most of them barely perceptible, linked to Etna’s volcanic eruption this week. Italy’s national seismology institute said the quake had a magnitude of 4.8 on the open-ended Richter scale and 4.9 on the moment magnitude scale, which relates to the amount the ground slips. It struck north of Catania, the largest city in the eastern part of the Mediterranean island, but no damage or injuries were reported there. The quake opened up cracks in homes in several towns, sending chunks of concrete debris tumbling to the ground. It toppled a Madonna statue in a church in Santa Venerina and broke up sidewalks and a stretch of highway, forcing it to close. Many people spent the hours after the quake sleeping in their cars. In the town of Piano d’Api, firefighters removed cracked stucco from the bell tower of the damaged Santa Maria della Misericordia church. Italy’s culture ministry said the quake damage to churches was being tallied by experts. “Etna remains a dangerous volcano, and this country of ours is unfortunately fragile,” government undersecretary Vito Crimi said as he reported 10 people injured. The most seriously injured was a 70-year-old man who fractured ribs and was undergoing surgery for chest injuries. A 71-year-old patient was being kept in hospital for observation, while others were treated and released, the Italian news agency ANSA reported. Additionally, 18 other people went to local hospitals suffering from panic attacks or shock, news reports said. One 80-year-old man was safely extracted from the rubble of his home, ANSA said, while a woman told state radio that her sister was pulled out from under a heavy armoire that had toppled. A ceiling collapsed in another house, and in other homes parts of exterior walls crumbled. Some stone walls along fields and local roads crumbled. Etna, the largest of Italy’s three active volcanoes, has been particularly active since July. In recent days, Etna’s latest eruption has been shooting volcanic ash, heavy smoke and lava stones into the air, coating roads and homes nearby with ash. A new fracture has opened near Etna’s southeast crater and lava has been flowing down an uninhabited slope. The quake was also felt in the upscale Sicilian resort town of Taormina and in other towns in eastern Sicily. The Civil Protection agency said temporary shelters were being set up in gyms or municipal buildings for people whose houses were damaged or who were too frightened to return to their homes. Similar volcanic activity on Etna has been observed many times in past decades, Andrea Billi, a geologist with the state National Council of Research, told RaiNews24. This kind of activity “can last days or weeks,” he said, “but it’s unpredictable.” Italy’s Civil Protection chief said it appeared the activity at Etna was calming down. “From a scientific point of view, we’re dealing with an isolated event,” Angelo Borrelli told Sky TG24 TV. “The technical experts tell us we’re heading toward a cooling of the lava, and we ought to expect a quiescence of the phenomenon (of earthquakes).” Some residents told reporters that after a similar quake in 1984 which killed a person, many on Mount Etna retrofitted their houses to enable them to withstand more powerful temblors. ___ Frances D’Emilio is on twitter at a href=’http://www.twitter.com/fdemilio%3c’www.twitter.com/fdemilio/a

A: Quake from Mount Etna volcano jolts Sicily, sparks panic.
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Q: Two rural water systems in Sandoval County say the crop may be depleting local water supplies, and they say they have been left powerless to stop it, the Albuquerque Journal reports. The Peña Blanca Water and Sanitation District and Sile Mutual Domestic Water and Sewer Association sent a letter last month to state agencies and legislators describing their concerns over their disappearing water resources. The water system representatives say New Mexico’s patchwork of medical marijuana regulations has not kept up with the increased strain on rural water supplies. “The (cannabis) companies may think that the water rights were already taken care of when they purchased the property,” Peña Blanca district president John Gurule said. “We see the potential for these farms to bring economic growth to a rural community, so how do we support that growth while bringing water to our residents?” The groups are asking that all producers applying for a medical cannabis license prove a valid water right for commercial agriculture with the Office of the State Engineer. The Sile water system serves 154 people west of the Rio Grande between Cochiti and Kewa pueblos. The Peña Blanca system is responsible for delivering water to 448 people on the east side of the river between the same pueblos. An average household in the Peña Blanca system uses about 3,000 gallons of water a month, president John Gurule said. A cannabis farm with greenhouses in Peña Blanca that began operating last year is logging 20,000 gallons of domestic water use per month. The board members say the increases could point to treated drinking water being used for cannabis irrigation. New Mexico legalized medical cannabis in 2007. Domestic well water may not be used for agriculture in the state. Farmers must irrigate cannabis or other crops with another water source by acquiring a valid water right. John Romero, director of the Water Rights Division and the Resources Allocation Program for the Office of the State Engineer, said the affected mutual domestic water systems have a history of poor infrastructure, limited revenue, too many connections, and water overuse. The increase in cannabis production and alleged improper water use may be exacerbating those issues. “Cannabis hasn’t helped this situation. It is illegal to use domestic well water for agriculture, but it is up to (Sile and Peña Blanca) to enforce that,” Romero said. “We can’t police every mutual domestic water association, but we will work with them and help to see if these properties have a valid water right for what they want to do.”

A: Marijuana farms may be straining New Mexico water supplies.
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Q: The film, which follows former Vice President Al Gore on his continued quest to educate and inform the public and world leaders on climate change, is the first in a series of 14 environmentally focused documentaries scheduled to play at the annual film festival in their newly anointed “New Climate” section. The films include looks at coral (“Chasing Coral”), the Mexico City sewer system (“The Diver”), Greenland’s ice sheet (“Melting Ice”), and the industry of big-game hunting (“Trophy”). Sundance founder and longtime environmentalist Robert Redford said in a statement that “independent perspectives are adding the depth and dimension needed for us to find common ground and real solutions.” It’s fitting then that the festival begins with a sobering look at just what has happened since “An Inconvenient Truth” helped made climate change part of the popular consciousness. That film, directed by Davis Guggenheim, won the Academy Award for best documentary feature (Guggenheim’s role in the new film is as executive producer). “It’s more overwhelming and more horrible and bleak than you ever thought, but also you realize that we’re closer than ever to a turning point where things can really change. It’s really intense,” Shenk said recently. “People have gotten used to and almost numb to the climate crisis and this feeling of, ‘What can we do?’ This film will elucidate both what has happened and what is possible.” That the film is premiering the day before Donald Trump, who has dismissed climate change as a hoax, assumes the presidency is not lost on the filmmakers, who call this moment “a cold shower.” And yet they’re still hopeful. “We’re at a very different place in terms of the solutions now,” Cohen said. “It is kind of an exciting time from Al Gore’s perspective, not only to put the dire message out but to offer to people solutions.” Filmmaker Marina Zenovich also notes the poignant and urgent political moment in which these films are debuting. Her film, called “Water and Power: A California Heist,” has been described as ”‘Chinatown’ the documentary.” “We didn’t time this, but this is how it happened,” Zenovich said. “We have this valuable, precious resource that is like gold, it’s like a treasure and it’s being privatized and commodified and it’s kind of like the time has come for us to all come together and pay attention to it.” While urgency looms in the New Climate section and documentaries on subjects like Syria and domestic police practices fill out the schedule, festival interest might rest elsewhere, according to Tatiana Siegel, a senior film writer for The Hollywood Reporter. “It’s interesting because a lot of the docs are very issue oriented,” Siegel said. “But when you talk to buyers, the ones that they’re most interested in are a little bit more escapist.” Sundance has launched films like “Whiplash,” ″Beasts of the Southern Wild,” and “Manchester by the Sea” in recent years. Buzzy titles premiering over the two weeks include the Gulf War drama “The Yellow Birds,” starring Jennifer Aniston and future Han Solo, Alden Ehrenreich; director Dee Rees’ WWII-era racial drama “Mudbound” with Mary J. Blige and Carey Mulligan; and “The Incredible Jessica James” starring comedian Jessica Williams. Also hotly anticipated is the Roxane Shante biopic “Roxanne Roxanne” starring Nia Long and “Moonlight’s” Mahershala Ali. There’s also films like “78/52,” which dissects the shower scene in Alfred Hitchcock’s “Psycho,” the 235-minute long Grateful Dead documentary “Long Strange Trip,” which recently sold to Amazon, and  “Step,” about a group of high school girls in inner-city Baltimore. “Step” director Amanda Lipitz, also a Broadway producer, had been making shorts about kids from her hometown of Baltimore who were the first in their family to go to college when she stumbled upon stepping,  a style of dancing punctuated by hand claps and foot stomps popularized by black fraternities and sororities, through a group of girls she’d been documenting. “They were doing this handclap thing and I said, ‘What are you doing?’ and they said, ‘We’re stepping! You’ve got to come, you’ve got to film this step team,’” she said. “I went and brought cameras and walked in to the gym and my heart stopped beating and I thought, ‘Oh my God, this is what happens in a great musical! When characters can’t speak anymore so they sing to express their hopes and their dreams.’ That’s what these girls were doing with step.” The Sundance Film Festival runs through January 29. ___ Online:  www.sundance.org  ___ Follow AP Film Writer Lindsey Bahr on Twitter: www.twitter.com/ldbahr

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‘An Inconvenient Sequel’ kicks off climate-focused Sundance.
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