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The epicenter, with a depth of 486.81 km, was initially determined to be at 53.1633 degrees north latitude and 153.6852 degrees east longitude.
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The epicenter, with a depth of 486.81 km, was initially determined to be at 53.1633 degrees north latitude and 153.6852 degrees east longitude.
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Lightning was seen in the distance, behind the aircraft
Lightning was seen in the distance, behind the aircraft
The scene involving an Airbus A380 was seen at 15:30 (02:30 GMT) by a pilot from Garden City Helicopters.
"The view out our window onto the tarmac today!" the company wrote on Facebook. "The Emirates plane [was] waiting for the storm to pass."
Comment: See also:
- Lightning bolt kills 3 school children in Zimbabwe
- Photographer has close shave as lightning strikes
- 210,000 lightning strikes recorded in Sweden this year, a six-fold increase on 2017
- Rare ball lightning caught on video in Siberian city
- 100,000 lightning strikes recorded across France in 12 hours
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The two men in the Lada are believed to have been killed almost immediately.
The two men in the Lada are believed to have been killed almost immediately.
The pair were trapped in the vehicle in Penza and died "almost immediately" when 75C water sprayed the car.
A burst hot water pipe under a car park was seen as the cause of the horror.
Distressing images show the car being pulled out of the sinkhole as hot steam from the opening can be seen rising.
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Some researchers believe a nematode native to Asia is causing a deadly disease in American beech trees.
Some researchers believe a nematode native to Asia is causing a deadly disease in American beech trees.
Regardless of their views, researchers say the outbreak deserves attention. "We're dealing with something really unusual," says Lynn Carta, a plant disease specialist with the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) in Beltsville, Maryland.
American beech (Fagus grandifolia), whose smooth gray trunks can resemble giant elephant legs, can grow to almost 40 meters tall. It is the fifth most common tree species in southern New England and in New York state — and the single most common tree in Washington, D.C. Its annual nut crop provides food for birds, squirrels, and deer.
Comment: It's notable that the wild Beech trees were already suffering from a fungus. What is even more concerning is that cases where pathogens are affecting life on our planet appear to be on the rise, and that includes everything from trees to frogs to deer to humans. One wonders whether these unusual diseases and epidemics are related to the extremes in weather; solar minimum; the influx of cosmic rays; a decrease in immunity; mutation and adaptation; foreign viruses, and so on:
- Nearly 100 species of frogs, toads and salamanders wiped out by fungus
- Man dies from flesh-eating bacteria he contracted on fishing boat
- Hypersexual zombie cicadas infected with psychoactive fungus discovered
- 'Urgent threat': Mysterious, deadly fungus Candida auris sweeps the globe
- Sixth mass extinction well under way
Just last week an amazing storm hit the whole Dubrovnik region and one of the extreme weather phenomena was a huge waterspout that appeared between Dubrovnik and Zupa over the Adriatic Sea.
This video of last week's waterspout was sent to us by a reader and shows the sheer height and power of nature. Could we see similar sights over the next two days? The weather conditions would suggest maybe.
There were no immediate reports of casualties or damage in the earthquake, which the agency said hit at a depth of 26 km (16 miles), and a distance of about 120 km (75 miles) west of the state's Suchiate region.
Earlier, the European-Mediterranean Seismological Centre monitoring agency had put the quake magnitude at 6.2.
Lightning claims over 100 lives every year in Zimbabwe, which holds record for most deaths from single bolt of lightning
A herdboy was swept away by a flooded river in Filabusi, and heavy winds blew away roofing sheets at several homes and schools in Matabeleland South.
The three Early Childhood Development (ECD) pupils from Rusike Primary School were heading home when they were struck by lightning, officials said.
Bruneck native Andreas Auer captured footage showing downed lines sparking into frightening life having fallen onto trees in the area, which is located at the foot of Kronplatz mountain, a skiing hotspot.
Sharing Auer's footage on Facebook, Martin Ausserdorfe, the mayor of nearby market town Sankt Lorenzen, warned that the situation was "dangerous" for locals.
An avalanche caused large snowdrifts and debris to partially engulf the South Tyrol town of Martell on November 17.
Credit: Andreas Auer via Storyful
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Sylvain Quenneville farms in Casselman, Ont.,
Sylvain Quenneville farms in Casselman, Ont.,
During a typical autumn, Sylvain Quenneville would be wrapping up his corn harvest at his farm in Casselman, Ont., east of Ottawa, by now.
But this hasn't been a typical autumn.
The area got about 12 centimetres of snow last week, and Quenneville's equipment isn't built to handle it.
"The thresher can't beat snow," he said in French on Sunday. "We have to wait for the snow to melt ... [or it] will just go through the thresher."
Schools and roads were closed on Monday in parts of Austria as heavy snow and rain cause disruption.
Two women had to be rescued by firefighters after their houses were destroyed in a mudslide in a town near Salzburg, Austrian news agency APA reported.
One of them was rescued almost immediately, another only after several hours. Both were hospitalized.
Over thirty people were evacuated from their homes in the region of Styria amid concerns over landslides, while the residents of 15 buildings in Carinthia were evacuated as the nearby Gurk river threatened to burst its banks.
Heavy winds and winter conditions reported from Hintertux glacier, Austria.
— severe-weather.EU (@severeweatherEU) November 18, 2019
Video was taken by Rafał Raczyński - posted with permission pic.twitter.com/PRMfzQAitP
Comment: A few hours earlier a shallow earthquake of magnitude 6.3 struck off Mexico's Chiapas.