Earth Changes

Magnitude 4.2 earthquake in Oklahoma widely felt throughout Midwest

David Jacobson
Temblor
Fri, 14 Jul 2017 08:20 UTC

© Temblor
Map shows the location of today’s M=4.2 earthquake in Oklahoma. This quake was widely felt throughout the state, and was also felt in 4 other surrounding states based on USGS felt reports.

At 8:47 a.m. local time this morning, a M=4.2 earthquake struck central Oklahoma in between the cities of Oklahoma City, Tulsa, and Stillwater. This was followed by five aftershocks, the largest of which was a M=3.8. At 10 a.m. local time, there have been over 1,500 felt reports from the mainshock on the USGS website, from all over the state of Oklahoma, and even in Wichita, Kansas, over 200 km away.

So far, there are no reports of damage, which is unlikely given this quake's moderate magnitude. Additionally, the USGS PAGER system estimates that economic losses should remain extremely minimal, and any fatalities are very unlikely.

According to the USGS, today's earthquake occurred at a depth of 9.3 km, and was right-lateral strike-slip in nature. This depth is relatively deep for Oklahoma, but still within the range frequently seen. Based on the fault map shown in the Temblor map above, and the strike-slip component of today's earthquake, it occurred on an unmapped fault in the region.

Southern Europe gripped by record-high heatwave

Brett Gibbons
The Weather Channel
Fri, 14 Jul 2017 03:45 UTC

A heatwave has gripped southern Europe with temperatures rocketing above 40C in parts of Spain.

Wildfires have been sparked in Italy and tourist sites in Greece have been shut because of the heat.

One man died in Spain of suspected heatstroke late Wednesday while working on roads near Seville, where temperatures reached 43C. In nearby Granada the mercury has been recorded at 45.7C.

Spain's meteorological agency AEMA said seven cities including capital Madrid had set record temperatures for July.

It soared to 40.2 C in Madrid, smashing a previous record of 39.6 C recorded in 2015.

New record highs were also set in Badajoz, Caceres, Ciudad Real, Cordoba, Jaen and Teruel.

Extreme weather 2017 caused by cosmic rays not CO2, the grand solar minimum amplifying effect

Adapt 2030
YouTube
Fri, 14 Jul 2017 06:48 UTC

Inversion of weather extremes is the theme of the year on Earth in 2017, extreme cold wipes out vineyards in Europe through May, but now record heat. In the USA record floods turn fields in to lakes, but now record drought in crop lands. All time record droughts reversed in California and Florida in a matter of months, Australian wheat crop plunges by 40% from 2016. What no body is talking about are cosmic rays causing all of this. There will be a 19% increase of cosmic rays over solar cycle 25 which will make all of theses weather anomalies of 2015 until now look small in comparison. Are you ready?

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'Wow, this is crazy!' Strange banging sounds from the sky recorded in Carteret, New Jersey

Felix Borbor
YouTube
Tue, 04 Jul 2017 22:18 UTC

The sky does strange sounds in Carteret NJ:

Comment: About two months ago (and not so far away) in Staten Island, New York, similar sounds were recorded:

'Banging sounds from the sky' recorded in Staten Island, New York

Strange trumpeting, groaning sounds heard in Hungary

MiklóS
YouTube
Wed, 28 Jun 2017 21:14 UTC

Strange Sound in the sky

U.S. West is battling crop-killing insect swarms

agrinews.com
Fri, 14 Jul 2017 17:52 UTC

FILE - In this June 10, 2003, file photo, Jeff Knight, an entomologist with the Nevada Department of Agriculture, holds a female Mormon cricket north of Reno, Nev.

Farmers in the U.S. West face a creepy scourge every eight years or so: Swarms of ravenous insects that can decimate crops and cause slippery, bug-slick car crashes as they march across highways and roads.

Experts say this year could be a banner one for Mormon crickets — 3-inch-long bugs named after the Mormon pioneers who moved West and learned firsthand the insect's devastating effect on forage and grain fields.

The U.S. Department of Agriculture's Animal Plant Health Inspection Service reports "significantly higher Mormon cricket populations" on federal land in southwestern Idaho, agency spokeswoman Abbey Powell wrote in an email to The Associated Press.

"There isn't a clear explanation why populations are so much higher this year," Powell wrote. "We know that populations are cyclical. ... In Idaho, in a few locations, we have seen populations as high as 70 per square yard."

The bugs can start to be detrimental to rangeland and crops when they number about 8 per square yard, state officials said.

Rancher loses 10 head of cattle to lightning bolt in Jewett, Texas

Josh Chapin
khou.com
Thu, 13 Jul 2017 17:06 UTC

It was a hot Wednesday evening at Bar M Ranch in Jewett, but the heat didn't stop Brett Mitchell from tending to and feeding his prized cattle, or at least the ones he has left.

"A storm came through here early July 4th morning," Mitchell said. "It struck our tree and it had 8 cattle laying around it."

In all Mitchell, who lives in Katy, lost ten cattle: four cows with one calf each; a steer and a heifer during the lightning strike.

He estimates the loss is around $20,000.

"Everything in a 20-foot radius around that tree was dead," Michell said. "They were killed instantly. It's one thing to deal with maybe one cow, but to be overwhelmed with so many it was pretty hard."

Freak floods turn Siberian runway into a lake forcing closure of airport for four days

The Siberian Times
Fri, 14 Jul 2017 00:00 UTC

A muddy take off... Bodaibo airport pictured several years ago

Vacations ruined by spectacular flood at Bodaibo as the airport is closed for four days, 11 flights grounded.

The freak floods in Irkutsk region have left hundreds of passengers stranded, many of them seeking to escape for beach holidays.

The runway, prone to turning into a mud bath, is now like a lake after the incessant downpours.

Evgeny Yumashev, mayor of Bodaibo, a gold-mining outpost with a 13.104 population, explained: 'The abnormal rains began here, starting from Sunday.

'Looking back, we did not have such weather in a long time.'

Mysterious red flashes during thunderstorm spark UFO landing fears in Hungary

BSP News
YouTube
Fri, 14 Jul 2017 17:01 UTC

Red flashes during thunderstorm in Budapest

Mysterious red flashes spotted streaking across the sky during thunderstorm prompt fears of alien spaceship invasion

Flashing red-lights spotted in the sky sparked fears of a landing by UFOs and invasion by extraterrestrials. Several residents in Budapest, Hungary, described a "UFO landing" - following a late-night thunderstorm in the country.

Martin Szoter captured mystery red lights in the sky from near where he lives in Budapest's 21st district, Csepel. Martin believed it to be a crash landing - and that there may have even been more than one extraterrestrial visitor.

UFOs landed in Budapest XXI. District, in the thunderstorm," he wrote.

But Martin was far from the only person to witness the mysterious light source.

Online user 'HU MFM' noted that they saw this strange phenomenon "five times", calling it a "red 'something'" appearing before every lightning strike.

There has been no official explanation from local officials or meteorological experts.

Rare whale washes ashore near Mumbai, India

Badri Chatterjee
Hindustan Times
Fri, 14 Jul 2017 16:47 UTC

Rajodi fishermen trying to push the whale back into the sea.

In a rare incident along the state's coastline, a seven-and-a-half-foot-long sperm whale washed ashore at Rajodi beach, Virar, around 3pm on Thursday.

Though the state mangrove cell confirmed that it was a sperm whale, the officials are unclear whether it was a juvenile whale or a pygmy or a dwarf (subspecies). The whale weighed 60 kg.

Fishermen from Rajodi said they spotted the whale close to the shoreline towards the south side of the beach and it looked injured.

"The mammal most likely hit a large rock close to the shoreline and got injured. We tried pulling it out, but it died as soon as it came close to the beach. We informed the forest department but nobody showed up at the spot," said James Rodrigues, a fisherman and Rajodi beach resident. "Along with seven others, we buried the animal near the spot where it had washed ashore. We have not seen a mammal like this at this beach before."

Comment: See also: 36 whales wash up on west coast of India in 2 years

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Earth Changes

Magnitude 4.2 earthquake in Oklahoma widely felt throughout Midwest

Southern Europe gripped by record-high heatwave

Extreme weather 2017 caused by cosmic rays not CO2, the grand solar minimum amplifying effect

'Wow, this is crazy!' Strange banging sounds from the sky recorded in Carteret, New Jersey

Strange trumpeting, groaning sounds heard in Hungary

U.S. West is battling crop-killing insect swarms

Rancher loses 10 head of cattle to lightning bolt in Jewett, Texas

Freak floods turn Siberian runway into a lake forcing closure of airport for four days

Mysterious red flashes during thunderstorm spark UFO landing fears in Hungary

Rare whale washes ashore near Mumbai, India

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