2017-08-06 19:32:06 UTC
USGS page: M 5.8 - Southeast Indian Ridge
USGS status: Reviewed by a seismologist
Reports from the public: 0 people
10 km depth
Southeast Indian Ridge
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2017-08-06 19:32:06 UTC
USGS page: M 5.8 - Southeast Indian Ridge
USGS status: Reviewed by a seismologist
Reports from the public: 0 people
10 km depth
Southeast Indian Ridge
© Tom Gilbert/Tulsa World via Associated Press
This photo shows damage to a Fridays restaurant after a storm moved through the area in Tulsa, Okla., Sunday, Aug. 6, 2017. A tornado struck near midtown Tulsa and causing power outages and roof damage to businesses.
This photo shows damage to a Fridays restaurant after a storm moved through the area in Tulsa, Okla., Sunday, Aug. 6, 2017. A tornado struck near midtown Tulsa and causing power outages and roof damage to businesses.
Out-of-season EF2 twister tears through midtown, damaging structures and injuring at least 30 people
An unseasonable August tornado tore through midtown Tulsa early Sunday, damaging dozens of businesses and injuring at least 30 people who were surprised by the sudden spin-up.
The EF2 tornado touched down about 1:25 a.m. in midtown, and left a path of damage between 41st and 51st streets, stretching from Harvard Avenue to Mingo Road, according to a city of Tulsa news release.
EMSA ambulances transported 13 people with storm-related injuries to local hospitals in the aftermath of the tornado. Of those, eight were taken from a TGI Fridays restaurant near the 41st Street and Yale Avenue shopping corridor, and four were taken from a nearby Whataburger, spokeswoman Kelli Bruer said.
Saint Francis Hospital treated 30 people for storm-related injuries at its trauma emergency center, said Lauren Landwerlin, executive director of corporate communications.
A spokeswoman with St. John Medical Center refused to comment on the number of patients who were treated at that hospital, citing federal privacy guidelines.
Sunday's storm was unusual in two ways: It developed in August, after Oklahoma's spring tornado season, and it developed rapidly out of what appeared Saturday evening to be a "garden variety" thunderstorm, said Roger Jolliff, Tulsa Area Emergency Management director said.
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© Suzie Harlan
It looks like a rainbow, but it is actually called a circumhorizontal arc.
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Monarch Pass, August 4, 2017
Monarch Pass, August 4, 2017
Case in point? These photos of Monarch Pass. Yup - it's kinda snowy up there! And the pics are from Aug. 3. That's in the summer.
Brad Shilling lives in Gunnison and took the photos en route to the seasonal state swim championship in Lamar. When they got to the top of the pass, Shilling says rain turned into freezing hail, and then pea-sized hail.
Other cars started to fishtail and lose control in what he described as "slush-snow-rain."
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It's no super hero, but it is super cool and more common than you might think.
The atmosphere is made up of all kinds of gases. The one that we see the most is water vapor in the form of clouds, fog, and precipitation. At high levels of the troposphere, the part of the atmosphere where are weather happens, it is cold enough to freeze some of that water vapor to make clouds out of ice crystals.
When the sun's light passes through these crystals it gets refracted, or bent like light through a prism. That refraction spreads out the different colors of sunlight so we see them all.
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A funnel cloud spotted in Leduc on Saturday.
A funnel cloud spotted in Leduc on Saturday.
Early Saturday afternoon, a severe thunderstorm warning, including the potential for funnel clouds, was issued for Edmonton and the surrounding cities of Sherwood Park and St. Albert.
Funnel clouds were seen in the area, and Edmonton was hit with large amounts of hail in various parts of the city. Other parts flooded.
#yeg #yegwx #edmonton hailstorm south side pic.twitter.com/BJ8R9fbZjg
— crazy lizard lady™ (@kittje) August 5, 2017
#yeg #yegwx #edmonton hailstorm south side pic.twitter.com/BJ8R9fbZjg
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A task force set up to patrol the area will shoot monkeys if necessary, although traps will also be used to return others to the forest.
The long-tailed macaques have been growing increasingly bold in their interactions with humans in the Boyolali district of Central Java, north of the city of Solo.
"The monkeys had started coming here two months ago," said police chief Aries Andhi. "After we shot one of them, the rest didn't come back. Now they are back again."
A task force set up to patrol the area will shoot monkeys if necessary, he said, although traps will also be used to return others to the forest.
"As long as they don't disturb the villagers, we won't shoot them," said Andhi.
According to GeoScience Australia, the quake struck in the extremely remote area of the vast state near Sturt Creek, close to Northern Territory border, around 12.21pm AWST (2.21pm AEST). Preliminary information has the tremor measuring in at a strong magnitude 5.1.
This, however, is likely to be either downgraded or upgraded once all data has been analysed. GeoScience Australia estimates that the quake could have felt by people up to 187km away and could have caused damage within a 15km radius.
A video has found its way into the collective consciousness of the internet showing a Croisières de France cruise liner being violently struck by lightning and then bursting into flames followed by a billow of thick black smoke.
The video—taken from another cruise ship, the MSC Precioza—is equal parts terrifying and enjoyable to watch numerous times. The fact that it stayed hidden for years after it was filmed is maybe the most amazing part.
It's important to note that the ship was docked. No one was hurt. Things were taken care of immediately, and the ship didn't appear to sustain any lasting damage. The only thing that may have broken was the internet when this video started making the rounds.
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