Earth Changes
"I was terrified and everyone was freaking out," Shaked said.
She was returning home to Boston from Chicago's Midway Airport on Flight 2386 and was seated in the front row. After the unexpected, frightful drop, she heard several flight attendants ask if there were any doctors on board to assist their co-workers who got hurt.
"They were crying with an ice pack. The other had a concussion and one was pregnant and they didn't know what would happen to her. The plane rapidly dropped for about five seconds a bunch of passengers flew up and stuff went everywhere," Shaked said.
A video posted to YouTube by Lynchburg Sports shows a clip from Saturday's game between the Lynchburg College Hornets and the Bridgewater College Eagles.
The clip shows the batter in place and the pitcher about to throw the ball when a massive dust devil, or "dirt tornado," enters the frame of the video and sweeps across the infield while the players flee.
"Mother Nature wanted to play along at Moon Field this past Saturday vs Bridgewater," the video's description reads.
The Arizona Geological Survey said two quakes occurred, including a magnitude 2.6 quake at 12:07 a.m.
There has been a swarm of 21 quakes in an area along the Arizona-Nevada line south-southwest of Littlefield, AZ, which is also close to southwestern Utah and the frequency and span puzzles geologists.
NW Arizona earthquake swarm keeps rolling on with two events today, including M2.6 at 12:07 am. pic.twitter.com/9jYcHj9HlxThe survey said the area has several active faults and that its geologic features suggest there could be additional potentially active faults just north of the largest quake.
— AZ Geological Survey (@AZGeology) April 24, 2016
The largest in the swarm was a magnitude 3.4 quake was reported at 2:23 a.m. on April 8.
The seismic and volcanic activities along The Ring of fire are currently exploding.
Between April 23 and April 24, 2016, about 73 minor earthquakes hit between two volcanoes in Costa Rica. Zoom in, just East of San Jose, the capital city, on that map to get the info about the several quakes.
The tremors form a straight line right in-between the Turrialba Volcano and the Irazu Volcano.
Last eruption of the Turrialba Volcano was on May 4, 2015. The latest eruption of the Irazu Volcano occurred on December 8, 1994.
A massive low-pressure center swirls over Denver. The effects of the giant comma-shaped storm stretch from Canada to the Gulf of Mexico.
Welcome light rains in Minnesota. Record April heat in Seattle. Prolific snow totals in Colorado's high country. Torrential downpours and flash floods along the tail end of the troubled front in Houston.
More than 1000 water rescues today as torrential rains of 8"-16" inundated the Houston area https://t.co/WhVfcD9O7opic.twitter.com/hzh8lETrRdWhen you get 15 inches of rain, there's just nowhere for the water to go. Cue the weather drones.
— Weather Underground (@wunderground) April 18, 2016
An #eyewitness news viewer sent us this drone video of flooding in Morton Ranch https://t.co/x6CS4vdJ54https://t.co/ThNOco3IRJRainfall totals between 10 and 17 inches are common across the Houston area with this storm. The heaviest totals of 15 inches-plus focused in the western suburbs.
— Houston News (@abc13houston) April 19, 2016
17.6" of rain in parts of Houston metro today. More totals across SE Texas here: https://t.co/h0N3JXLFsI#houwx pic.twitter.com/7jK2XOKTuI
— NWSHouston (@NWSHouston) April 18, 2016
The tremor took place 97 kilometers from the Chiapas state town of Suchiate, which has over 35,000 residents.
The quake occurred 81 kilometers from the town of Puerto Madero, which has a population of 6,000 people, and 103 kilometers from the city of Tapachula, which has 320,000 residents.
According to EMSC (European Mediterranean Seismological Centre), the quake has a magnitude of 5.7.
Mexico is considered one of the world's most seismically active countries, with a long history of earthquakes, according to the USGS. In July 2014, five people died after a 7.1-magnitude quake struck the southern Mexican state of Chiapas and neighboring Guatemala.
Western Odisha town Titilagarh sizzled at highest 48 degree Celsius, country's highest temperature in 20 years in month of April, while Talcher was the second hottest at 46.8 degree Celsius.
Titlagarh, which recorded 47.5 degree Celsius on Friday, witnessed the mercury rising further on Saturday in the western Odisha town.
With 18 towns in the state recorded temperature above 40 degree Celsius, the suspected death toll due to sunstroke rises to 79.
As an unwavering heat wave sweeping, the government on Saturday announced ex-gratia compensation of 50 thousand rupees for each death caused by sun stroke.
The special relief commissioner's office on Saturday said to meet the drinking water scarcity need, more than one thousand tankers have been pressed into water supply service while 745 teams were engaged in repair of tube wells.
The regional Met department said the heat wave condition would prevail in several parts of the state till tomorrow and also warned interior and western parts will continue to face crippling heat conditions in next two days
Comment: Recent data indicates an increase in the frequency, intensity and duration of heat waves in India in recent years. Last year alone, heat wave killed at least 2,500 people - a 50 per cent increase compared to 2014.
SE Milwaukie Avenue at Reedway reopened just after 3 p.m. Friday
Crews with the Portland Bureau of Transportation responded to several sinkholes in the past week, including one on Friday morning that was discovered at NE 16th and Prescott which closed the intersection for part of the day.
A hole in the road also closed part of N. Interstate Avenue near the Broadway Bridge for part of Friday. Crews discovered the hole earlier in the morning while they were repairing damage to the storm water system.
Crews also worked to repair a sinkhole at SE Milwaukie Avenue and SE Reedway.
Dylan Rivera, the spokesperson for the Portland Bureau of Transportation, told KOIN 6 News the city averages "a few hundred sinkholes" each year.
"It could be a construction issue, could be a worn out pipe," Rivera said.
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Collapsed houses caused by an earthquake are seen in Mashiki town, Kumamoto prefecture, southern Japan, in this photo taken by Kyodo April 15, 2016
At least 865 aftershocks have been registered in the prefectures of Kumamoto and Oita on the southwestern Japanese island of Kyushu after last week's massive earthquake that hit the region, the Japan Meteorological Agency said Sunday in a statement.
A deadly 6.5-magnitude earthquake hit the Kumamoto region on April 14 and a magnitude-7.3 quake struck the southern island of Kyushu on April 16.
"Experiencing earthquakes since the earthquake on [April] 14 at 21:26, by [April] 24 at 15:00 we observed the seismic intensity more than 865 times," the statement reads.
The multiple earthquakes have claimed the lives of 48 people and injured over 2,000, with two persons still remaining missing.















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