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© Melvin NicholsonThe beautiful fogbow which appeared during Storm Angus
Melvin Nicholson captured a stunning photo of the rare phenomena - technically a fog bow - on Rannoch Moor while out walking yesterday.
A fog bow is a colourless rainbow made up of tiny water droplets that cause fog.
Due to the small size of the water droplets it has very weak colours, with a red outer edge and bluish inner edge.
Melvin said: 'I have never seen a fog bow before and understand that it is very rare.
© GNS Science / YouTube
The footage shows the extent of the damage caused, and is a sobering watch in light of the latest earthquakes that struck the country Tuesday. The North Island was hit with a 6.0-magnitude earthquake. The South Island also experienced a 5.3 quake a few hours later that may have been an aftershock from the previous week.
The Kekerengu Fault is one of several to have ruptured during the Kaikoura earthquake on the South Island. Scientists estimate the surface rupture to be about 30km (19 miles) long.
The videos were created by GNS Science, a geoscience research company. They sent a drone over both the Kekerengu Fault and the Papatea Fault in the northeast South Island with captivating results, highlighting the damage sustained as well as New Zealand's beautiful landscapes.
Comment: See also:
- 6.0 earthquake shakes New Zealand's North Island
- 6.2 aftershock rattles New Zealand after powerful 7.8 earthquake kills at least 2
- Strange glowing in the sky during New Zealand's earthquake possibly 'earthquake lightning'
- Powerful magnitude 7.4 earthquake strikes near Christchurch, New Zealand
A new crisis is now happening all around us affecting trees. It appears that millions, hundreds of millions even, of trees are dying in North America and around the world from a basket of reasons, promising to completely and permanently alter the landscape and environment around us.
Teenager nearly swallowed up by a sinkhole
"All of a sudden I just fell down," 13-year-old Lake Elsinore resident Macayla Wittman said.
Surveillance video captured part of the struggle, with Macayla's legs visibly flailing as she fought to escape the well-like hole in her front yard on Pennsylvania street.
She was walking on her front yard when the ground gave way underneath her. But Macayla stopped her fall by grabbing onto the edge of the 3-foot-wide sinkhole.
Seconds later she climbed out shaken, but not hurt.
The cow flipped the man into the air in front of a shocked crowd in Nigeria
The video, filmed in Nigeria, showed a man trying to catch the long-horned cow with a rope on a pole, watched by a crowd.
However the cow evaded the rope and instead charged at a bystander.
As he sprinted away, the cow turned its attention to another man trying to run off.
In his desperate efforts to scramble to safety, he stumbled into a ditch and the cow stabbed him with its horns.
Robert Lange of Pictou County snaps a photo of a dolphin that washed up along the shoreline in Big Island, N.S. on Sunday, Nov. 20, 2016.
Robert Lange says he was driving home last week when he noticed a pod of dolphins splashing in the Merigomish Harbour.
"The dolphins were swimming very close to shore here and when I stopped and looked closer with the binoculars, there was a pod of maybe a dozen or more swimming very close together," said Lange. "The fins were all out of the water and the tide was very low with the supermoon."
Robert Lange of Pictou County snaps a photo of a dolphin that washed up along the shoreline in Big Island, N.S. on Sunday, Nov. 20, 2016.
One of the animals died that night and another washed ashore the next morning.
The dolphins appear to be trapped by geography. At one end, Merigomish Harbour has a wide opening between Big Island and the Mainland, but it narrows significantly and closes at the other end.
"We assume that these ones were probably chasing a school of fish, and got up here and got out of the channel and into the shallow water and couldn't get back," said Lange.
Snr Asst Comm Charamba said the other three boys and the teacher were treated and discharged. "With the onset of the rainy season, members of the public are urged to take precautionary measures when it is about to rain, during or after.
"Please avoid taking shelter at isolated places or being the sole target at open spaces; avoiding contact with electrical gadgets and seeking shelter under isolated tall trees or other objects," said Snr Asst Comm Charamba.
Japanese broadcaster NHK World reported that people should evacuate immediately
The quake struck near Fukushima at about 06:00 local time (21:00 GMT Monday), triggering initial warnings of 3m (9.8ft) high waves. The waves which eventually hit the coast were much smaller.
Thousands were asked to evacuate the area and minor injuries were reported.
An earthquake and tsunami struck the area in 2011 killing 18,000 people.
That quake, one of the most powerful ever recorded, also caused a meltdown at the Fukushima nuclear power plant, where a massive clean-up operation is still going on.
Officials have said there is no sign of damage to the plant this time.
The US Geological Survey initially put the magnitude at 7.3 but later downgraded this to 6.9, lower than the number given by the Japanese authorities.
The Japan Meteorological Agency (JMA) said in its latest update that no tsunami damage is expected, although there may be slight changes to the sea level.
© USGS
The earthquake, initially estimated at magnitude 6.3, was registered at a depth of 37km (23 miles) and centered off the coast of North Island, some 123km (76 miles) from Palmerston North.
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