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Earth Changes
Theories rained like manna from heaven Friday, but officials had no explanation for the nocturnal rumble.
The West Virginia Department of Military Affairs and Public Safety announced Friday that there are no cases of ground explosions, arson or mine accidents, according to a MetroNews report.
"If you figure it out, we'll both know," Bradley-Prosperity Volunteer Fire Department Assistant Chief Bobby Palmer said Friday.
The first report to Raleigh County Emergency Operations Center in Beaver came from a Prosperity caller around 10:30 p.m. Thursdays, but the EOC operators had hardly needed a tip.
One of the hardest hit areas was near 103rd Street between Wornall and State Line roads. Water covered 103rd Street and flooded some businesses in the area.
Two people were rescued from Coach's Bar & Grill after flooding swamped the area.
One of Coach's owners, Brian Darby, said in a phone interview with KMBC that one of the walls at the bar collapsed due to the force of the water. Darby said he and a woman were checking the business because of the heavy rain when they became trapped.
The pair climbed into the rafters at the business, clinging to water pipes, awaiting rescue.
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Photo taken on July 27, 2017 shows damaged cars after a flood in Suide county of Yulin city, northwest China's Shaanxi Province. Six people are reported dead in a rain-triggered flood, local authorities said.
Photo taken on July 27, 2017 shows damaged cars after a flood in Suide county of Yulin city, northwest China's Shaanxi Province. Six people are reported dead in a rain-triggered flood, local authorities said.
More than 71,300 people have been relocated after torrential rain battered the city of Yulin from Tuesday evening, according to the provincial flood control headquarters.
Water burst out of the Qingshuigou Reservoir, a water source for 45,000 residents in the county seat of Zizhou, on Wednesday, disrupting water supply, according to the headquarters.
More than 2,200 hectares of crop fields were damaged, and direct economic losses will exceed 230 million yuan (around 34 million U.S. dollars).
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Katla is an active volcano underneath the Mýrdalsjökull ice cap.
Katla is an active volcano underneath the Mýrdalsjökull ice cap.
To top of today's series of earthquakes, a quake measuring 4.5 occurred at the mother of all volcanoes in Iceland, Katla tonight at around 10.30 pm. Another earthquake measuring 3.2 occurred a little later. Both eruptions were felt in nearby areas.
A specialist on duty tonight at the Iceland Met Office says that the earthquakes are nothing to worry about. It's quite usual to have a few tremors when the ice cap melts in summer.
There is no connection between the earthquake in Katla tonight and the series of earthquakes occuring in Reykjanes today.
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Reykjanes is an area of great geothermal power.
Reykjanes is an area of great geothermal power.
According to the Iceland Met Office, over 500 earthquakes have been measured in the swarm which began yesterday morning at 7 am. Three earthquakes were clearly felt in Reykjavik, especially the one at 13:55 which measured 4.1.
Geophysicist Páll Einarsson said speaking to today's Morgunblaðið that the earthquakes are at the point where the tectonic plates meet. He said that although earthquakes in Reykjanes are common, the swarm yesterday was one of the biggest that they've measured in a few years.
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Resident drives motorcycle through haze as peatland fires at Suak Raya village in Aceh Barat, Indonesia Aceh province, Jul 24, 2017
Resident drives motorcycle through haze as peatland fires at Suak Raya village in Aceh Barat, Indonesia Aceh province, Jul 24, 2017
National Disaster Mitigation Agency spokesman Sutopo Purwo Nugroho said 18 helicopters have been deployed to help extinguish fires in Sumatra and Kalimantan.
Satellite images show that the number of fires increased from 150 on Sunday to 179 on Tuesday, he said.
Nugroho said the provinces of Riau, Jambi, South Sumatra, West Kalimantan and South Kalimantan have declared emergencies in anticipation of a worsening of the fires and to mitigate the choking smoke that peatlands generate when burned.
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Current Infrared Satellite Image
The highest cloud tops, corresponding to the most vigorous convection, are shown in the dark red and pink colors. Clustering, deep convection is a sign of a developing tropical cyclone.
Current Infrared Satellite Image
The highest cloud tops, corresponding to the most vigorous convection, are shown in the dark red and pink colors. Clustering, deep convection is a sign of a developing tropical cyclone.
Hurricane Hilary and Tropical Storm Irwin, are, fortunately, no threat to Mexico's Pacific coast.
Their centers are now sufficiently close - about 600 miles apart - that a phenomenon meteorologists call the Fujiwhara effect kicks in.
Named after a Japanese researcher who discovered this in experiments with water in the early 1920s, the Fujiwhara effect details how two tropical cyclones less than 900 miles apart rotate counter-clockwise about one another.
Think of the teacup ride at Disney or the Tilt-a-Whirl at your local county fair, but with tropical systems instead. In the teacup ride, adjacent teacups can not only spin, but revolve about each other.
In this case, Irwin, the westernmost storm of the pair, has temporarily stalled, but will soon get pulled north and will revolve counterclockwise around the circulation of Hilary this weekend, according to the latest forecast guidance.
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Alexander, a community just west of Brandon, had hail the size of walnuts and eggs, Environment Canada reports
Alexander, a community just west of Brandon, had hail the size of walnuts and eggs, Environment Canada reports
But in most places, the storm system didn't leave much rain. It was more about the bombast — a show of lightning and thunder, Environment Canada reports.
"I don't think there was any flooding-type rain out of this system," said Environment Canada meteorologist Dave Baggaley.
"The most serious event was the hail."
The storms were all part of the same weather system, which began in the southwest corner of the province Monday evening and rolled out the southeast corner just before 7 a.m. Tuesday.
The Mako shark writhes around on the deck of the boat with its body trapped beneath the guard-rail
In the clip, taken off the coast of Long Island in New York state, fisherman look on in horror as the mako shark writhes around on the deck of the boat with its body trapped beneath the guard-rail.
The shark's mouth become bloodied after it had bit the rail several times as it struggles to release itself.
The sea creature was only released after an innovative idea from one of the crew members paid off.
Captain Don Law, from Outlaw Fishing Charters, tied rope around the shark's fin while another crew member kept its head facing the ocean by hooking it with fishing line.
Comment: Another news outlet reported that the National Weather Service in Charleston received "multiple reports of a loud explosion and some saw a bright flash of light."