Two young girls, one of them pregnant, were struck by lightning and killed on Sunday September 2 in the remote community of La Chumicosa on Sunday. The girls, aged 10 and 16 were sitting under a mango tree watching a football game in Olá district of Cocle. Witnesses said there had been drizzle, but no stormswhen lightning struck the tree, killing the two girls.
The local deputy who visited the scene, called for a public awareness program. to help the population understand precautions to be taken when there is thunder and lightning.
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Traffic was thrown out of gear by the downpour
Many parts of Saurashtra received up to 75 mm rainfall in the last 36 hours. Jamnagar recorded 65 mm, Amreli 77 mm, Junagadh 40 mm and Gondal in Rajkot 75 mm of rainfall, district control room said.
Police said Devgan Jhala (14) and his cousin Kisan Jhala (13) were working in their field at Kotda Sanghani in Rajkot when lightning struck them. The duo sustained serious injuries and were taken to Rajkot Civil hospital where they died, said Dr Harsha Patel.
In another incident, a farmer was killed by lightning when he was working in his farm in Jagdan town of the district, officials said.
Meanwhile, heavy rain accompanied by thunderstorm lashed Ahmedabad and nearby areas on Monday evening, leading to waterlogging which disrupted vehicular movement at many places.
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2012-09-03 18:23:04 UTC
2012-09-04 02:23:04 UTC+08:00 at epicenter
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244km (152mi) S of Sidorukun, Indonesia
264km (164mi) S of Muncar, Indonesia
266km (165mi) S of Gambiran Satu, Indonesia
267km (166mi) S of Srono, Indonesia
924km (574mi) SE of Jakarta, Indonesia
The temblor occurred at 3:26 a.m.
According to the USGS, the epicenter was one mile from West Hollywood, two miles from Century City and eight miles from Los Angeles Civic Center.
The USGS "Do You Feel It" site said the quake was most strongly felt on the Westside but also in the South Bay, downtown L.A. area and the San Fernando Valley.
In the past 10 days, there has been one earthquake magnitude 3.0 and greater centered nearby.
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Anak Krakatau in the Sunda Strait, 130 kilometers west of Jakarta, was created by the same tectonic forces that led to the 1883 Krakatoa eruption that killed tens of thousands of people.
Anak Krakatau in the Sunda Strait, 130 kilometers west of Jakarta, was created by the same tectonic forces that led to the 1883 Krakatoa eruption that killed tens of thousands of people.
"The ash was carried by wind from the southeast to the south, reaching Bandarlampung," Nurhuda, who heads the observation and information section of the Meteorology, Climatology and Geophysics Agency (BMKG) in Lampung, said according to state news agency Antara.
Nurhuda said the ash fell over several subdistricts in Bandarlampung, about 130 kilometers away from Anak Krakatau.
"It is rather unusual for the dust to be this thick," said Juniardi, a resident of Bandarlampung who complained that the falling dust was also hampering visibility.
Officials warned that the ask posed health hazards and asked local residents to wear masks when going outdoors or driving motorcycles.
The latest solar cycle update graphs have been released by the NOAA SWPC today, and the anemic cycle 24 continues:
The current count isn't keeping up with the prediction line in red. Not only is the sunspot count low, so is the 10.7cm radio flux and the Ap magnetic index:
Scene of a landslides at another gold-rush village in southern Philippines earlier this year.
Three days of heavy rains spawned the landslide on Thursday, which covered makeshift mining tunnels in a mountain area in Mindanao, said Mati City Mayor Michelle Rabat.
She said a village chief in the isolated area told her by telephone that seven bodies had been recovered from the tunnels and the miners were digging to find more people believed buried.
Other miners who descended from the mountains gave similar accounts, Rabat told AFP.
A Polk County family may be forced out of their home after a sinkhole opened up and is threatening to swallow their home.
The 22-foot wide, 17-foot deep sinkhole has made the mobile home unsafe to live in and already swallowed part of their sidewalk.
The couple who lives there is waiting to find out if filling the hole will save the home.
If filling the hole doesn't help, the homeowners will have to move out for good. They said the home is too old and would likely fall apart if they moved it.
The Red Cross was paying for the couple to stay in a hotel, but their assistance ran out Saturday and they have nowhere to go.
Heavy rainfall in Springfield, Illinois
New Orleans Mayor Mitch Landrieu said cleanup of trees and debris was under way in the storm-stricken city, but the lack of power was frustrating.
"Like everyone else, my patience is wearing thin," he said. "This is more than an inconvenience; it continues to be dangerous for everybody."
The (New Orleans) Times-Picayune reported the electric utility Entergy Corp. said only about 40 percent of New Orleanians had power, while the lights were on for about 46 percent of the people in Jefferson Parish about four days after Isaac hit.
The U.S. Department of Energy said more than 15,000 electricity workers from more than 24 states were assessing the damage and working to restore power.
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Svalbard Champagne Glass.
Svalbard Champagne Glass.
Normally the champagne glass collapses around the end of July, but so far nothing has happened.Now locals wonder if summer will come to Svalbard at all.Last year's collapse took place on the 29th of July. But as of today, the last day of August, the stem is still in one piece.
This has not happened in at least 40 years.
The local newspaper Svalbardposten records the date each year when the stem breaks and conducts a contest where readers can predict when it will happen.
Maybe the stem has not broken before, says editor Birger Amundsen, but certainly not since I first came to Svalbard in 1973.
Amundsen still believes the stem will break and he bets on a beautiful autumn in the north.
By the way, Svalbard is where the global seed vault is located. Won't do anyone much good if it's buried beneath the ice, will it?
Source: Aftenposten
