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Burbank police announced mandatory evacuations of residents in the Brace Canyon Park area after the surrounding Verdugo Mountains caught fire at about 1:30pm on Friday afternoon.
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Burbank police announced mandatory evacuations of residents in the Brace Canyon Park area after the surrounding Verdugo Mountains caught fire at about 1:30pm on Friday afternoon.
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Police in Hanover Park issued the warning in a Facebook post Thursday after receiving several reports that malnourished or neglected stray dogs are roaming around the Illinois village.
The authorities go on to make clear that the 'dogs' are not domestic animals, rather urban coyotes infected with sarcoptic mange, a highly contagious skin disease which gives them the look of the undead.
"There is unfortunately an increase in sarcoptic mange in the urban coyote populations which has caused these normally nocturnal animals to become more active during the day. Infected animals will often appear 'mangy' - which looks just like it sounds," Hanover Police said.
"They suffer hair loss and develop secondary infections, eventually looking like some sort of 'zombie' dog. The infections affect their vision, causing them to look for food during the daylight hours."
At least 11 deaths have been attributed to electrocution, as rising waters become electrified in low-lying urban areas, according to the Edhi Foundation, the city's main emergency aid agency.
Karachi is the latest major South Asian city to be hit by heavy monsoon rains amid a widening flood-related crisis engulfing much of the region. More than 1,200 have died and upwards of 41 million people have been affected in neighboring India, Nepal and Bangladesh, according to estimates provided by the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC).
Figures released by the city's Meteorological Department show Karachi normally receives an average of 19.9mm of rain in September. On Wednesday, northern parts of the city received 97mm, equivalent to five times that amount.
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View of the Grand Prismatic hot spring in Yellowstone National Park
View of the Grand Prismatic hot spring in Yellowstone National Park
As of August 30, 2,357 earthquakes had been recorded. The most powerful in recent weeks was magnitude 3.3; it took place on August 21.
The most powerful in the current swarm was a magnitude 4.4, which was recorded on June 15. Most of the earthquakes were in the magnitude 0 or 1 range, with a further 181 recorded at magnitude 2 and 11 at magnitude 3. Another 53 were less than 0, meaning they were very small events that could be detected only with sensitive earthquake-monitoring instruments.
Jamie Farrell, a research professor at the University of Utah, which is involved in monitoring seismic activity at Yellowstone, told Newsweek that the swarm was "nothing out of the ordinary" and that it had "slowed down significantly but does occasionally have little bursts of activity that lasts for a few hours."
Meteorological measurement tools in Taipei, Taiwan.
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A holidaymaker has died after being struck by lightning while on a beach on the Ile d'Oléron.
Emergency services said the 51-year-old, from the Dordogne, was on the beach at Saint-Trojan-les-Bains with her husband when she was hit at about 8.30am on Friday.
Although local storms were forecast in the area, it was raining, but not stormy, at the time, 20minutes.fr reports.
Her husband raised the alarm, and gave first aid until the emergency services arrived - but the woman was declared dead at the scene.
The quake's epicenter was located in the Aegean Sea at a depth of 43km below the seabed. There are no reports of injuries, or damages.
Earthquakes have historically caused widespread damage across central and southern Greece, Cyprus, Sicily and other neighboring regions.
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Australian researchers were surprised to find high concentrations of microplastics embedded in the seafloor along the southeast coast of Australia.
Scientists with the Institute for Marine and Antarctic Studies sampled marine sediments at 42 locations from Adelaide to Sydney and discovered these tiny particles at every location, from busy city harbors to seemingly pristine locations.
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Pen Hadow sets sail for North Pole as Arctic ice meltsUm, no. Above is the view of the North pole today, as reported by the National Snow and Ice Data Center (NSIDC).
British explorer Pen Hadow and his crew have set sail from Alaska, in an attempt to become the first people ever to sail to the North Pole.
With Arctic ice melting at an unprecedented rate, previously inaccessible waters are opening up, creating the potential for their planned 5,500 km (3,500 mile) journey for the first time in human history.
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Their efforts to warn the public may get an unlikely boost from the unprecedented disaster unfolding in Houston, where Tropical Storm Harvey dumped trillions of gallons of rain across Texas and brought America's fourth-largest city to its knees.
While epic flooding is different from a powerful temblor, both natural disasters fundamentally alter daily life for months or years.
In recent years, officials have drawn up detailed scenarios of what would happen if a huge quake struck this region, part of a larger campaign to better prepare.
The last two big earthquakes to hit Los Angeles - the 1971 Sylmar quake and 1994 Northridge quake - caused destruction and loss of life. But the worst damage was concentrated in relatively small areas and did not fundamentally bring daily life across all of Southern California to a halt.
Experts have long warned that a significantly larger quake will eventually strike and that the toll will be far greater.
Comment: Heads-up, folks. We are heading into rocky times with potentially devastating events. For excellent research on this topic and its correlation to extended solar minimums and increased volcanism: Upheaval!, Why Catastrophic Earthquakes Will Soon Strike the United States, by author John L. Casey.
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