Columbus, Ohio - A loud noise heard near Delaware and Marion counties concerned many residents Thursday evening.
10TV News received reports that residents in Hilliard, Galloway, Westerville and Canal Winchester also heard the sound.
According to the Delaware County Sheriff's Office, a low-flying jet broke the sound barrier and created a sonic boom.
Earth Changes
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In Alaska, changes in moose migrations no longer line up with the hunting season, creating problems for native tribes who depend on the meat.
In Alaska, changes in moose migrations no longer line up with the hunting season, creating problems for native tribes who depend on the meat.
But increasing research is showing some of these relationships are falling out of sync as climate change alters important cues, such as the arrival of spring warmth.
"There are going to be winners and losers," said David Inouye, a biology professor at the University of Maryland, who has followed seasonal events at the Rocky Mountain Biological Laboratory in Colorado since 1973. "The ultimate outcome will be that some species go extinct and some manage to adapt."
This isn't just a problem for the natural world. Shifts in seasonal events can have direct implications for humans, "because we, as human societies, are adapted to certain seasonal conditions," said Shannon McNeeley, a postdoctoral researcher at the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) who has studied how a mismatch is playing out in Alaska. There, changes in the moose migrations have made it difficult for native people to obtain the meat they need during the legal hunting season.
"This more subtle seasonal change has not been a main focus of climate research," McNeeley said. "I think it is going to be one that emerges more and more as we see these changes happening, and we start to have more conflicts around this."
A Motel 6 in Port Allen, Louisiana had an unusual guest on Thursday, a 5-foot-plus alligator that wandered up to the building from a nearby canal. It was first spotted by a hotel employee, but it was a guest who attempted to subdue the animal before police and animal control personnel arrived on the scene. The man was bitten and later admitted to a nearby hospital.
Animal control personnel managed to trap the alligator and release it back into the wild. Spring is when alligators mate and seek out places for safe nesting. Reuters quotes parish animal control director Richard Summers as saying that sometimes alligators wander away from their normal habitats and "just get lost."
Animal control personnel managed to trap the alligator and release it back into the wild. Spring is when alligators mate and seek out places for safe nesting. Reuters quotes parish animal control director Richard Summers as saying that sometimes alligators wander away from their normal habitats and "just get lost."
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Earthquake Location
Earthquake Location
Thursday, April 12, 2012 at 03:29:22 UTC
Wednesday, April 11, 2012 at 09:29:22 PM at epicenter
Time of Earthquake in other Time Zones
Location
37.811°N, 112.089°W
Depth
10.6 km (6.6 miles)
Region
UTAH
Distances
21 km (13 miles) N (360°) from Tropic, UT
27 km (17 miles) N (353°) from Cannonville, UT
29 km (18 miles) NNW (343°) from Henrieville, UT
209 km (130 miles) ENE (57°) from Mesquite, NV
328 km (204 miles) S (183°) from Salt Lake City, UT
The amount of floating ice in the Arctic's Bering Sea - which had long been expected to retreat disastrously by climate-Cassandra organisations such as Greenpeace - reached all-time record high levels last month, according to US researchers monitoring the area using satellites.
The US National Snow and Ice Data Center announced last week that ice extent in the Bering for the month of March has now been collated and compared, and is the highest seen since records began. The NSIDC boffins said in a statement:
The US National Snow and Ice Data Center announced last week that ice extent in the Bering for the month of March has now been collated and compared, and is the highest seen since records began. The NSIDC boffins said in a statement:
As winds from the north pushed Arctic ice southward through the Bering Strait, the ice locked together and formed a structurally continuous band known as an ice arch, which acts a bit like a keystone arch in a building. The ice arch temporarily held back the ice behind it, but as the winds continued, the arch failed along its southern edge, and ice cascaded south through the strait into the Bering Sea. Sea ice also piled up on the northern coast of St Lawrence Island, streaming southward on either side of it.
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Wednesday, April 11, 2012 at 22:41:47 UTC
Wednesday, April 11, 2012 at 01:41:47 PM at epicenterTime of Earthquake in other Time Zones
Location
43.593°N, 127.557°W
Depth
10.2 km (6.3 miles)
Region
OFF THE COAST OF OREGON
Distances
271 km (168 miles) W of Coos Bay, Oregon
303 km (188 miles) WSW of Newport, Oregon
317 km (196 miles) WNW of Brookings, Oregon
391 km (242 miles) WSW of SALEM, Oregon
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Our planet as seen from space.
Our planet as seen from space.
A group of former NASA employees, including astronauts, has called on the agency to stop making "unproven and unsubstantiated remarks" regarding global climate change - specifically that human activities are driving global warming.
"We believe the claims by NASA and (Goddard Institute for Space Studies), that man-made carbon dioxide is having a catastrophic impact on global climate change are not substantiated," write the 49 signatories in a letter to NASA administrator Charles Bolden. [Read the Full Letter]
This is the most recent objection by skeptics who challenge the reality of human-caused global warming. For decades, climate scientists have warned that humans are changing the composition of our atmosphere, warming the planet and, as a result, face rising sea levels, more extreme weather and other consequences. The concept is now well established in scientific literature and attempts to address it are the subject of ongoing international talks.
The letter originates from members of the Johnson Space Center Chapter of the NASA Alumni League, according to Walter Cunningham, a former astronaut who flew the Apollo 7 in 1968 and one of the letter's signatories.
In its four paragraphs, the letter deliberately avoids delving into its signatories' reasons for doubting climate-change science, Cunningham told LiveScience. "It's really trying to get NASA to back off from taking political positions on science."
Human-caused global warming is "a very open issue right now," he said.
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The earthquake that struck Sumatra was a big one, but , here's how it compares to some record holders.
The earthquake that struck Sumatra was a big one, but , here's how it compares to some record holders.
First was the magnitude-8.6 earthquake that struck off the coast of the Indonesian island of Sumatra yesterday (April 11), spurring tsunami warnings and watches across the Indian Ocean basin that were later cancelled. Only a modest uptick in ocean surface heights were detected by buoys, unlike in the 2004 Indian Ocean disaster that generated a massive tsunami that killed thousands. The more recent earthquake was a different type of earthquake than the 2004 event and did not result in a large upward displacement of the ocean floor, which is typically what triggers tsunami.
Later in the day came a magnitude 6.5 earthquake on the Pacific coast of Michoacan, Mexico. It did not result in any tsunami warnings. It came a couple weeks after a magnitude 7.4 struck Oaxaca, Mexico, causing residents to evacuate buildings and causing some structural damage and minor injuries.
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Comment: This boom, occurred just six hours after a similar massive boom that shook houses over large swathes of England was heard. That boom was also blamed, by British authorities, on military jets. What are the odds? Given the large number of meteorite sightings in recent years, it is far more likely that these booms were caused by overhead meteorite detonations and the US and British governments are scrambling to cover it up.
Note some of the comment of eyewitnesses left on at the original link of this article: