Earth Changes

New Zealand Quake Ruptured 6 Faults

Tia Ghose
Live Science
Wed, 16 Nov 2016 23:57 UTC

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A new map reveals that six faults ruptured during the Nov. 14 Kaikoura earthquake in New Zealand. The magnitude-7.8 quake ruptured at least four faults along the coast, as well as two inland. Arrows show the level of displacement along each of these faults.

The magnitude-7.8 quake that rattled New Zealand, killing at least two people and stranding thousands of people, completely transformed the underlying faults in the region.

Six major faults ruptured as a result of the New Zealand quake, a new map reveals.

The Kaikoura earthquake struck the South Island of New Zealand early in the morning on Nov. 14 local time, triggering landslides, tsunamis and hundreds of aftershocks. And thousands of people were stranded when earthquake detritus dammed a river. During the quake, bystanders captured images of mysterious earthquake lights painting the sky in eerie blue and green.

To see how the massive temblor reshaped the landscape, Nicola Litchfield, a geologist with the geoscience consultancy group GNS Science in New Zealand, and colleagues flew over the South Island in a helicopter to take video footage of the region.

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Locals attempt to rescue two rare oarfish from beach stranding in Busselton, Western Australia

Emma Kirk and David Allan-Petale
WAtoday
Thu, 17 Nov 2016 20:46 UTC

Donna Moule, her brother Mark and a local woman tried to help the oar fish get back into the water.

Busselton resident Karen Smith was walking along the shore near the Busselton Jetty on Friday when she spotted something peculiar in the shallows.

Very long, silvery and looking more like a snake than a fish, she sent a picture to her colleague at Busselton's Underwater Observatory and was told the unusual animals were oarfish.

"They are tropical and rare, apparently they do beach themselves quite regularly, people at the beach helped put it back in the ocean," she said

"One was still floating around under the jetty but we did not think it would survive."

Close lightning strike filmed in Mutare, Zimbabwe

Peter Lowenstein
You Tube
Tue, 15 Nov 2016 18:28 UTC

CAUTION! At full volume the bass on slow motion replay is very loud and could damage sub-woofers.

On 14 November there was a violent afternoon thunderstorm with hail and 90 millimeters of torrential rain which persisted into the night. At about quarter past three there was a very close lightning bolt which struck a pole which had just one week earlier been installed by the national telephone company to bring a fiber internet connection to my home. The pole is situated on the opposite side of the road less than 50 meters from the front of the house.

The accompanying video, which begins at normal speed then plays in three slow-mo rates of x0.5, x0.25 and x0.125 and ends at normal speed again, shows the brief but intense lightning flash descending towards the pole which is just below the field of view. It was accompanied by a sharp click of static electricity and almost immediately afterwards by a very loud report which could be felt and shook the house. This was followed by a deep rumbling sound which persisted for almost twenty seconds. An electromagnetic pulse was generated which was strong enough to affect the electronics in the Panasonic Lumix DMC-TZ10 being used to film the storm and produced strange bright histogram shaped patterns in the two frames which captured the strike. The video thumbnail image has been processed to remove these.

The fiber optic internet connection was unaffected by the strike but induced high voltages damaged the LNB in my rooftop satellite TV dish and connected decoder.

Tornado-like winds whip through western Britain

Lucy Verasamy
ITV News
Thu, 17 Nov 2016 16:56 UTC

A combination of unstable upper air, heavy downpours and strong gusty winds peaking at 84mph (in Shropshire) earlier produced 'tornadic' winds across Wales and the West Midlands earlier this afternoon.

Reports of actual tornadoes remain unconfirmed by the Met Office and tornado and storm organisation TORRO.

Tornadoes or tornadic winds occur when we have particularly squally (or windy and wet) conditions, where strong wind sheer at the ground meets a strong updraft (due to unstable air and downpours) shooting up into the atmosphere.

The winds then become a powerful, destructive rotating column of air - extending skyward while maintaining contact with the ground.

The UK is no stranger to tornadoes - around 30 are reported every year - but don't always affect populated, urban areas.

A tornado swept through London in December 2006 damaging at least 100 properties and one of the strongest tornadoes on record ripped through Birmingham in summer 2005, where winds peaked at 130mph or more.

Woman attacked by black bear in Frederick County, Maryland

ems1.com
Thu, 17 Nov 2016 17:27 UTC

Black bear

Wildlife officials have killed a bear that injured a woman in a rare attack in western Maryland.

Maryland Natural Resources Police spokeswoman Candy Thomson said by telephone Thursday that the attack, the only one she can remember in Maryland for decades, happened Wednesday night when 63-year-old Karen Osborne went outside to investigate why a dog was barking nearby.

She dropped into a fetal position and called 911. The bear eventually left.

Osborne was taken to a hospital with a broken arm, cuts and puncture wounds, but Thomson says her injuries aren't considered life-threatening.

Thomson says wildlife officials tracked the bear and killed it. She says officials believe Osborne got between the sow and her cubs. She says the cubs, who are old enough to live on their own, were released.

Source: Associated Press

Cold blast set to plunge temperatures up to 50 degrees in northeastern U.S.

Alex Sosnowski
AccuWeather
Thu, 17 Nov 2016 07:42 UTC

The first major blast of cold air will sweep across much of the northeastern United States this weekend and will be accompanied by snow and strong winds in some areas.

The same storm set to bring the first heavy snow and blizzard conditions of the season to the northern Plains into Friday will turn eastward this weekend.

Cold air wrapping around the storm will slash temperatures by 25-50 degrees Fahrenheit in about 36 hours from the Midwest to the mid-Atlantic. More than half of the temperature plunge can occur in the matter of a few hours.

Temperatures in Pittsburgh, Cleveland, Morgantown, West Virginia, and Buffalo, New York, will plummet from the 60s and 70s on Friday to the upper 20s and lower 30s during Saturday night. Then, temperatures may recover by only 10 degrees or less on Sunday.

The transition to cold air will be slightly less dramatic along the Interstate 95 corridor of the mid-Atlantic. However, strong winds will mark the approach and passage of the leading edge of the cold air during Saturday evening.

In coastal New England, the bulk of the cold air will not arrive until the end of the weekend, but cold and blustery conditions will make their presence known during Sunday and Monday.

Mysterious 'phantom earthquake' reported in San Jose, California

Dianne de Guzman and Amy Graff
SFGate
Wed, 16 Nov 2016 20:34 UTC

South Bay residents felt some shaking Tuesday afternoon, however the exact cause is unknown.

The U.S. Geological Survey confirmed that what South Bay residents felt was not an earthquake.

"Our duty seismologist did an extensive search and we did not see any seismic activity in the South Bay," Susan Garcia, a spokeswoman with the U.S. Geological Survey, said to SFGATE. "So it's not an earthquake, whatever they're feeling — as far as we can tell."

Despite that, many local residents did report on Twitter that a rumbling of some sort was felt at about 2:45 p.m.

Comment: Reports of a sonic boom being responsible for the mysterious shaking also appear to have been discounted. "Based on initial reports we're receiving, it's inconsistent with a military sonic boom taking place," Marc Calero, a spokesperson for the Naval Air Station at Lemoore said Wednesday evening. "The way people have described it seems highly inconsistent with a sound barrier being broken."

Early deep freeze in Siberia closes schools

Tass
Mon, 14 Nov 2016 20:16 UTC

Hmm..I wonder if Ishould skip my homework about global warming?

On November 14, the temperature in Russia's Siberian cities is -28 degrees Celsius (-18.4 degrees Fahrenheit)

Schools in Russia's Siberian cities of Tyumen and Khanty-Mansiysk have been closed on Monday due to severe frost, the Khanty-Mansiysk Department of Education said.

"We have cancelled classes in the first to ninth grades as the temperature today is minus 28 degrees Celsius (-18.4 degrees Fahrenheit)," the department noted.

"Because of the low temperature, classes in the first to fourth grades have been cancelled in Tyumen," the city administration told TASS.

Hailstones the size of golf balls pound Ashburton, New Zealand

Jamie Small and Erin Tasker
Stuff
Wed, 16 Nov 2016 15:22 UTC

Large hailstones fell on Ashburton on Wednesday afternoon, including some the size of golf balls.

Hailstones the size of golf balls rained down on Ashburton as thunder and lightning storms swept across Mid Canterbury.

Stones, some as large as a $2 coin, sent Ashburton residents running for cover about 3pm on Wednesday, and as the storm moved north of the town cars were seen veering off State Highway 1 in search of trees under which to shelter.

The storm was accompanied by sustained periods of thunder and lightning, and brought hailstones some residents described as the size of golf balls.

Many workers in Ashburton's town centre returned to their cars after work, wondering what damage they'd find.

Thankfully, much of it was minor, but there were reports of shattered glass in glasshouses.

Other residents reported damage to property and cars.

Mid Canterbury Federated Farmers arable chairwoman Joanne Burke was in town when the first hailstorm hit, and her car was dented, but she said there would be minimal crop damage for the district's farmers.

Woman bitten by shark off Maui, Hawaii; 7th attack for the area this year

Melissa Tanji
The Maui News
Tue, 15 Nov 2016 15:06 UTC

"Everyone get out of the water, get out of the water, there's a shark," the apparent victim of a shark attack told her fellow swimmers Monday morning, a witness said.

Jordan Snow, 29, who was swimming with the victim as part of a group called the Maui Mermaids, said he did not hear the woman, whom he referred to as Barbara, scream but heard her tell the 20 other swimmers off Kamaole Beach Park I to get out of the water.

"After that, I said, 'You heard the lady, everybody get out of the water,' " Snow recalled telling the others. "She was being a tough lady."

Snow, who is a friend of the victim, said: "She was hurt, bit really badly. She was bleeding so badly."

Russ Butcher, who was on the beach, said he saw the woman come ashore. He described her injuries as a "couple little gashes in a radius" on the woman's upper right thigh. There also was a piece of loose skin and scrapes on the woman's ankle.

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Earth Changes

New Zealand Quake Ruptured 6 Faults

Locals attempt to rescue two rare oarfish from beach stranding in Busselton, Western Australia

Close lightning strike filmed in Mutare, Zimbabwe

Tornado-like winds whip through western Britain

Woman attacked by black bear in Frederick County, Maryland

Cold blast set to plunge temperatures up to 50 degrees in northeastern U.S.

Mysterious 'phantom earthquake' reported in San Jose, California

Early deep freeze in Siberia closes schools

Hailstones the size of golf balls pound Ashburton, New Zealand

Woman bitten by shark off Maui, Hawaii; 7th attack for the area this year

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