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4.5 magnitude earthquake strikes near Pawnee, Oklahoma

Julie Mah
Wichita Eagle
Wed, 02 Nov 2016 04:50 UTC
Wichita earthquake map
© earthquake.usgs.gov
A 4.5 magnitude earthquake in Oklahoma shook some residents in the Wichita area late Tuesday night.

Residents in the Delano district, College Hill, Riverside, north, south and northwest Wichita said on Twitter that they felt it.

Kenneth Woodard e-mailed The Eagle and said: "Felt the bed sway back and forth several times... It was pretty shaky! Nothing fell off the shelves." He said he lives near Edgemoor and 13th.

The U.S. Geological Society initially reported on its website that a 4.1 magnitude earthquake occurred at 11:26 p.m. near Pawnee, Okla. Pawnee is about 90 miles north of Oklahoma City. It later upgraded it to a 4.5 magnitude.

According to the geological society's site, the quake was felt in Arkansas, Missouri and Texas. Besides Wichita, Kansas towns reporting include: Colwich, Derby, Fort Riley, Salina, Haysville, Pratt, Inman, Overland Park, Lawrence, Hutchinson, Hesston, Pittsburg, Topeka and Kansas City.

Comment: It was the fifth earthquake of the day in Oklahoma according to the United States Geological Survey. A couple of months ago
a 5.8 magnitude earthquake struck near Pawnee, the strongest in the state's history.

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Eye 2

Crocodile attacks couple in hotel swimming pool in Kariba, Zimbabwe

Kara O'Neill
Daily Mirror
Tue, 01 Nov 2016 20:00 UTC
The crocodile sneaks out of the shadows and slides into the pool

The crocodile sneaks out of the shadows and slides into the pool
Terrifying CCTV footage has captured the moment a couple were attacked by a giant crocodile in their hotel pool.

The man and woman were enjoying a late night swim when they creature crawled out of the shadows and launched itself into the water.

Seconds later, the croc begins thrashing in the direction of the couple, prompting the man to leap to safety out of the side of the pool.

But the woman cannot escape so easily and is forced to fend off the 6ft-long animal as she desperately tries to swim away.

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Eye 2

Signs and Portents: Two-headed grass snake found in Croatia

Lauren Simmonds
Total Croatia News
Mon, 31 Oct 2016 19:44 UTC
Rare two-headed snake found in Croatia on Sunday
© Barcroft TV
Rare two-headed snake found in Croatia on Sunday
For some, one headed snakes are unpleasant enough, but are two heads really better than one?

A juvenile two-headed grass snake has been discovered in a small town near Croatia's capital city, Zagreb.

The rather bizarre (yet sweet, if I do say so myself) reptile was found by Josip Vranic close to his garage in the small town of Kravarsko, which lies approximately 36km from Zagreb, Barcroft TV reports.

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Black Cat

Leopard kills boy in Mahore, India; second such incident in 17 days for the area

Zahid Malik
Greater Kashmir
Tue, 01 Nov 2016 18:43 UTC
Leopard

Leopard
The badly injured body of the victim was recovered from a field outside the village, about 100 m from the boy's house.

An alleged man eater leopard today killed another minor here - the second such death in the area in last seventeen days.

Police said a 13-year-old boy Nazaqat Ali son of Mohammad Sharief was mauled to death by the leopard in Angralla village- 20 km away from tehsil headquarter Mahore. They said the boy was last seen playing outside his house adding before attacking him , the leopard had also killed a goat .

Comment: See also: Leopard kills 12-year-old boy outside his house in Reasi, India

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Attention

Two shark attacks over the weekend off Mayport, Florida


First Coast News
Mon, 31 Oct 2016 11:48 UTC
Shark attacks
A Mayport spokesperson confirms two shark bites over the weekend in the Mayport area.

The photo we have attached to the story is related to the shark attack near the Mayport poles. There are currently no photos from the second shark bite.

According to the spokesperson a 42-year-old man was bitten on the leg Saturday afternoon at NS Mayport, the man sustained non-life threatening injury.

A second person was bitten by a shark near the Mayport poles. He suffered bite marks to his hand.

Shark bite

Shark bite
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Attention

Wild elephant kills 2 in Bihar, India


Business Standard
Mon, 31 Oct 2016 11:07 UTC
Charging elephant
© Getty
Charging elephant
A wild elephant trampled two persons to death in Piprithan area under Thakurganj block, forest officials said today.

The elephant, that entered the district on Saturday from jungles of Nepal, trampled Baleshwar Singh near Balkaduba village under Pauakhali police station area and crushed a woman Sayeeda Khatoon (35) at nearby Balkaduba village yesterday, DFO, Kishanganj, Dinesh Kumar Das said.

Thakurganj Circle Officer Mohammad Ismail said Rs 5 lakh each would be paid as ex-gratia to the next of the kin of the deceased.

Wild animals, including elephants, often cross over to the bordering areas such as Kadogaon, Suribhitta, Bihartola, Dhantola, Karuvamni and others of the district from the jungles of Nepal, the DFO said.

A youth had been trampled to death by an elephant in March in Bihartoal village of Dhantola panchayat.
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Arrow Up

Dormant volcano near Rome slowly reawakening say scientists

Chiara Palazzo
The Telegraph (UK)
Tue, 01 Nov 2016 02:16 UTC
Alban Hills volcano near Rome

The Alban Hills volcanic district enters an eruptive phase every 31,000 years or so
The string of earthquakes that hit central Italy over the past two months has sparked fears that the country's capital may be at risk of a "big one" herself.

The series of tremors, all followed by powerful aftershocks, proved the final straw for a number of important architectural landmarks, including the Abbey of Sant-Eutizio in Umbria, and damaged several churches and buildings in the heart of Rome, including the Colosseum

Whilst scientists say there is no risk that Rome will be hit by a "big one", something different may be threatening the Eternal City: a dormant volcano.

Situated on Rome's doorstep, the volcano is showing signs of activity which, combined with the seismic history of the area, would indicate it is slowly reactivating, an international team of scientist said.

While in geological times the eruption would be imminent, it's far away on a human scale, about a thousand years, and there isn't currently any cause for worry.

Chambers located between 5km and 10km under the residential areas of Ariccia, Castel Gandolfo, Albano and other "Roman castles" are filling up with magma and the ground is rising 2-3mm per year, the scientists said in the study, published on Geophysical Research Letters in July.
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Windsock

Rare tropical storm forms in Mediterranean Sea

Jon Erdman
The Weather Channel
Mon, 31 Oct 2016 04:24 UTC
Mediterranean Sea tropical cyclone
© NASA Worldview
High-resolution visible image from the Suomi NPP satellite of the Mediterranean Sea tropical cyclone on October 30, 2016.
A tropical storm formed Halloween weekend, not in the typical Atlantic or Pacific, but in the Mediterranean Sea.

This rather strange sequence of events began as an area of low-pressure dropped southward from southern Europe and became temporarily left behind by the jet stream over the central Mediterranean Sea south of the Italian coast.

By Saturday, Oct. 29, a non-tropical low pressure center formed east of Malta, a group of islands between Sicily and the coast of Libya over the weekend.

The next day, thunderstorms became more clustered near the low-pressure center to warm the mid levels of the atmosphere sufficiently to morph the system into a subtropical storm.

A subtropical storm displays features of both tropical and non-tropical systems, including a broad wind field, no cold or warm fronts, and generally low-topped thunderstorms displaced from the center of the system.

Soon after, the clusters of storms became even more tightly concentrated, and the atmosphere warm enough that this low actually became a tropical storm.

This Mediterranean tropical storm, known as invest 90M, wasn't nearly the powerhouse deep tropical cyclone you would see in the tropical Atlantic or Pacific basins.

Its warm air was relatively shallow, but there, according to an analysis from Florida State University.
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Sun

Middle Tennessee residents treated to beautiful evening sundog

Adrian Mojica
Fox 17 News
Wed, 26 Oct 2016 19:40 UTC
Sun dog in Nashville, TN
© Fox Nashville
Residents and drivers around the mid-state Tuesday evening were treated to a very cool meteorological phenomenon known as a sundog.
Residents and drivers around the mid-state Tuesday evening were treated to a very cool meteorological phenomenon known as a sundog.

The patch of light in the sky seen on either side of the setting sun was caused by sunlight refracted by ice crystals says FOX 17 Chief Meteorologist Katy Morgan.

According to Live Science, the crystals sink through the air and become vertically aligned, refracting the sunlight horizontally, causing the sundog. Sundogs in the science community are called parhelia, which stems from the Greek word parelion that means "beside the sun."

There is a sundog on either side of the sun when the phenomenon occurs. Depending on your vantage point, you were able to see one or both as the sun set yesterday evening.

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Snowflake Cold

Cold snap hits northern China, with some areas experiencing lowest October temperatures on record

Sidney Leng
South China Morning Post
Mon, 31 Oct 2016 19:29 UTC
Snow in China

Snow in China
A cold wave is sweeping through northern China, with the lowest temperatures in some places plunging to historical lows on Monday, according to China's meteorological administration.

On Monday morning, 31 weather stations across the middle regions of Inner Mongolia and Liaoning province, northwestern Hebei province and northeastern Shanxi province recorded their daily lowest temperatures for October since records began in 1951, with some reporting temperatures of less than minus 16 degrees Celsius, according to a report by the National Meteorological Centre.

The centre forecast the cold snap would continue across the country in early November. Over the next two days, temperatures in eastern China could decline by four to six degrees, while in areas such as southeastern Heibei, temperatures could drop more than eight degrees, the report said.

Snow in China
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