The epicenter of Wednesday's tremor was located 9.5 kilometers southeast of Chiayi City Hall, at a depth of 18.3 kilometers, according to the CWB. Earlier in the day, a magnitude 4.1 temblor also shook the area.
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The epicenter of Wednesday's tremor was located 9.5 kilometers southeast of Chiayi City Hall, at a depth of 18.3 kilometers, according to the CWB. Earlier in the day, a magnitude 4.1 temblor also shook the area.
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Farms destroyed after a massive landslide in Kanyakiri village, Embu North subcounty, May 20, 2017.
Farms destroyed after a massive landslide in Kanyakiri village, Embu North subcounty, May 20, 2017.
Video footage shows large tracts of land moving along a river for about a kilometre, felling trees and destroying vegetation along the way.
The mudslide came after a heavy rains that have hit the area for the last two weeks.
Speaking to the Star on Wednesday, Kinyua Njeru said they had woken up early to pick tea when they found their farms moving and the boundaries changed.
"We were forced to scamper for safety. This is the work of the devil. I have never seen anything like this in my entire life," said the 50-year-old resident.
Area Chief Mark Karangi said crops worth about Sh3 million were destroyed but noted that no one was injured.
A fire truck of the Autryville Fire Department is covered with rubble at the damaged fire
A tornado warning was issued for Sampson County on Tuesday afternoon, and most of central North Carolina already was under a flood watch through late Wednesday night.
A spokesman for Sampson County says multiple structures have been damaged after what's believed to be a tornado touched down.
Spokesman Richard Carr says the town of Autryville and the Bearskin community suffered property damage from the storm on Tuesday. Carr said there was "substantial" damage to the Autryville Fire Department.
Earlier, Sampson County Emergency Management said the fire department was destroyed.
Floodwater in Guyana
That was the grim report provided today (May 23, 2017) by Deputy Director of the Civil Defense Commission (CDC), Major Kester Craig.
So far $2.8M have been spent on the flights alone into the affected areas, according to the CDC Deputy Director.
He reported that 327 relief food hampers were distributed in Chenapau, Kaibarupai, Waipa, Sand Hill, Itabac, Kanapang. He said 209 relief cleaning hampers have been distributed to Kaibarupai, Waipa, Sand Hill, Itabac, Kanapang.
According to Major Craig, the food hampers were envisaged to cater for a small family for two weeks.
Government has spent some $4.1M on hampers, this minus the donation from corporate Guyana.
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Nancy Smith says: 'Here is a picture of my husband Nelson Smith with Frosty the Snowman on May 2-4 weekend in Mary's Harbour, Labrador.'
Nancy Smith says: 'Here is a picture of my husband Nelson Smith with Frosty the Snowman on May 2-4 weekend in Mary's Harbour, Labrador.'
About 30 cm (12 inches) of snow fell Roddickton and Englee areas, while about 20 cm fell in La Scie.
Thanks to Terry Homeniuk for this link
Nieve es San Luis. Municipalidad La Carolina.
Heavy rains in the southern region of Misiones over the last few hours have caused flooding of urban streams and flooded homes, streets, schools and hospitals, a source in the provincial government's Civil Protection Subsecretariat reported Monday.
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Snow plows out clearing a path in Conche on Newfoundland's Northern Peninsula.
Snow plows out clearing a path in Conche on Newfoundland's Northern Peninsula.
With 4.0cm of snow, yesterday was #StJohns's snowiest May 20th since records began in 1874. #NLWx
With 4.0cm of snow, yesterday was #StJohns's snowiest May 20th since records began in 1874. #NLWx pic.twitter.com/bx3ZkBCWRsThanks to Terry Homeniuk for this link
— YYT Weather Records (@YYT_Weather) May 21, 2017
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A stricken taxi in Shau Kei Wan at the height of the storm.
A stricken taxi in Shau Kei Wan at the height of the storm.
Among the worst hit areas were Shau Kei Wan and Mid-Levels on Hong Kong Island.
At 6:40am, the Observatory issued an amber rainstorm signal and by 9:15am it was raised to red, forcing the Education Bureau to suspend all afternoon school classes.
At 11:30am the black rainstorm warning was issued, which advises people to stay indoors. An hour later it was downgraded to amber and by 3pm no warnings were in affect.
Floods were seen on Shau Kei Wan Main Street East, sections of the Island Eastern Corridor, Robinson Road, King's Road in North Point and Kai Yuen Street, RTHK reported.
Paleoclimatologists Rock -Two million years of radical climate change is significant.
David C. Greene writes:
"The smoking gun of the ice ages" is the title of an article in the Dec. 9, 2016 issue of Science, the journal of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. The author, David A. Hodel, is listed with the Laboratory for Paleoclimate Research, Department of Earth Sciences, at Cambridge University in the UK.
Hodel cites a 40-year-old paper in Science, 194,1121 (1976). In that paper, Hays, Imbrie and Shackleton reported that their proxies for paleo sea surface temperatures and changing continental ice volumes exhibited periodicities of 42,000, 23,500 and 19,000 years, matching almost exactly the predicted orbital periods of planetary obliquity, precession and eccentricity. They also found that the dominant rhythm in the paleoclimate variations was 100,000 (±20,000) years.
Other climatologists have identified 20 glacial/interglacial oscillations over the past two million years with glacial parts of the cycles lasting about four times as long as the warm, interglacial parts. The last glacial maximum was about 18,000 years ago. We have been enjoying the present warm interglacial for about 12,000 years.
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The non-profit Gotham Whale logged an increase in whale sightings around New York City in 2016, including this one seen near the Statue of Liberty in November.
The non-profit Gotham Whale logged an increase in whale sightings around New York City in 2016, including this one seen near the Statue of Liberty in November.
The nonprofit Gotham Whale recorded a whopping 152 whale sightings in the waters around New York City. The group also identified 166 individual whales during that time.
"This phenomenon is brand new but it's also fraught with danger," Paul Sieswerda, the founder of Gotham Whale, said Monday. "They are coming into these areas when there is an increasing number of ships coming into New York Harbor."
Sieswerda said the group logged 87 sightings and 106 individual whales in 2014 and 62 sightings and 69 individual whales in 2015.
He believes the uptick is due to an increase in whales in the area, who are likely attracted by higher levels of food partly as a result of some restrictions on fishing, as well as a greater interest from the public to help track their movements.
