© Frank Becerra Jr./The Journal News
Lightning lights up the afternoon sky over Mahopac July 4, 2018.
Lightning lights up the afternoon sky over Mahopac July 4, 2018.
The lightning strike occurred around 3:30 p.m. when a storm suddenly moved over the lake. Two men and two women who were on an approximately 20-foot pleasure boat in the lake did not come to shore as the storm intensified.
The lightning did not directly hit the boat, which did not appear damaged, said Mahopac fire Chief Bill Nikisher. It's more likely that the lightning struck the water near the boat, he said.
"They were out there and they said (the boat) stopped working after they got hit. One of the people said they felt tingling in their legs," said Nikisher.
Comment: USGS have noted six quakes above magnitude 2 since the start of the year, and two of them were above M4. For the most part the UK is considered seismically quiet so this is unusual - and evidenced by the reaction of the people quoted in the article - and one wonders whether the recent revelation of the fault line in London has anything to do with it:
- Geologists discover London sitting on two serious fault lines, capital at risk of dangerous earthquake
- Second quake in 2 days strikes Surrey, UK - M2.4 rattles houses
It also seems that globally seismic, geologic and volcanic activity seems to be on the increase: