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The sinkhole caused a closure in the area.
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The sinkhole caused a closure in the area.
After visiting the Mt. Shasta area to photograph Whitney Glacier (which is growing, by the way), I decided to drive north to Bend, Oregon. According to the map, it looked like I could easily drive along the west side of Crater Lake.
Oops. Maybe not.
As I got closer and closer to the lake, the snowbanks got higher and higher. Can you even see the automobile in this photo?
From the American Museum of Natural History and the "no ice ages here" department:
Fossil beetles suggest that LA climate has been relatively stable for 50,000 years
New radiocarbon dating of La Brea Tar Pits beetles indicates that Southern California's Paleoclimate was very similar to today
Research based on more than 180 fossil insects preserved in the La Brea Tar Pits of Los Angeles indicate that the climate in what is now southern California has been relatively stable over the past 50,000 years.
The La Brea Tar Pits, which form one of the world's richest Ice Age fossil sites, is famous for specimens of saber-toothed cats, mammoths, and giant sloths, but their insect collection is even larger and offers a relatively untapped treasure trove of information. The new study, published today in the journal Quaternary Science Reviews, is based on an analysis of seven species of beetles and offers the most robust environmental analysis for southern California to date.
"Despite La Brea's significance as one of North America's premier Late Pleistocene fossil localities, there remain large gaps in our understanding of its ecological history," said lead author Anna Holden, a graduate student at the American Museum of Natural History's Richard Gilder Graduate School and a research associate at the La Brea Tar Pits and Museum. "Recent advances are now allowing us to reconstruct the region's paleoenvironment by analyzing a vast and previously under-studied collection from the tar pits: insects."
The deceased were identified as Sadik Ali, 36, son of Mafiz Ali of Mannargaon village in Dowarabazar upazila; Milon Miah, 18, son of Shamsuddin of Madhabpur village in Bishwanath upazila of Sylhet and M Akmal Hossain, 25, son of Nur Miah of the same village in Bishwanath upazila.
Police said Sadik died on the spot as a thunderbolt hit him while he was catching fish at a haor in Mannargaon village during a storm in the morning.
Another lightning strike hit Milon and Akmal while catching fish in the Surma river beside Nurullahpur village in Chhatak upazila in the morning, leaving them dead on the spot, said officer-in-charge of Chhatak police station Ashraful Islam.
USGS page: M 5.8 - 161km ESE of Nikolski, Alaska
USGS status: Reviewed by a seismologist
Reports from the public: 1 person
2017-05-24 16:36:01 UTC 5.8 magnitude, 11 km depth
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Red billed tropicbird
That's a pretty rare bird, but not rare enough for Duncan, 82, to abandon the jungle trek that he was on with his wife, Lucy.
Good thing he didn't find out until he got home to Gulf Breeze that the bird had been misidentified and was actually an even more rare bird for the area — the red-billed tropicbird. Otherwise, Duncan might have caught the next plane home.
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Huge waterspout spotted off St Agnes coast
Huge waterspout spotted off St Agnes coast
The striking phenomena was spotted by avid wildlife watcher Ian Boreham from Newquay who was out enjoying a walk along the cliff tops when he saw the tornado looking formation heading towards the coast.
Mr Boreham said that he had seen similar sights in the past, but admitted that it was "quite impressive".
Rincón de la Vieja Volcano
Expelled materials were visible on the north slope of the volcano, located some 270 kilometers (167 miles) northwest of San José in the province of Guanacaste.
Residents of the nearby community of Upala reported hearing a loud sound during the explosion, similar to that of a jet turbine. Mud and other materials from the volcano also fell on the Penjamo River and changed the water color, OVSICORI report stated.
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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