The epicenter, with a depth of 602.12 km, was initially determined to be at 20.8319 degrees south latitude and 178.5723 degrees west longitude.
Earth Changes
The epicenter, with a depth of 602.12 km, was initially determined to be at 20.8319 degrees south latitude and 178.5723 degrees west longitude.
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Lightning strikes in front of the St. Louis' Gateway Arch Sunday evening.
Lightning strikes in front of the St. Louis' Gateway Arch Sunday evening.
As violent thunderstorms rattled south St. Louis, Missouri, on Sunday night, four people in the city were struck by lightning.
At 9:35 p.m. on Sunday, the St. Louis Fire Department released information regarding the lightning strikes on social media. The department reported that the four victims -- all of whom were men -- were transported by Emergency Medical Services (EMS) and one was in critical condition.
"Thunderstorms with a tremendous amount of cloud-to-ground lightning affected Greater St. Louis Sunday evening," AccuWeather Senior Meteorologist Dave Samuhel said.
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Officials told the news agency—Kashmir News Observer (KNO) that the incident took place in the intervening night of Monday- Tuesday.
They said the lightning hit a seasonal dhok in Gumsar, leaving three nomads dead on the spot who belong to Surankote area of the district.
They added that many animals including goat and sheep, whose number is believed to be in several hundreds, also got perished in the incident.
Sub Divisional Magistrate Surankote, Saleem Qureshi said that teams are rushing to the spot to assess the loss.
A 50-mile-wide swarm of flying ants has been making its way over the UK - and it's so huge that it has been spotted from space.
The enormous cloud of insects was picked up by the Met Office's weather radar over Kent and Sussex, on England's southeast coast.
The weather service said smaller swarms could be seen over London.
A video was released by the Met Office, alongside a tweet saying: "It's not raining in London, Kent or Sussex, but our radar says otherwise...
Two children below the age of five were buried alive under a landslide in Tokha municipality, 12 km north of Kathmandu on Tuesday morning, they said.
Similar incidents were also reported in the last 24 hours from other parts of the country.
While one death each was reported from Dhading and Darchula districts, two persons died in Nawalparasi district, National Emergency Operation Centre chief Murari Basti said.
Summer snow India, 500 year storm New Zealand along with new data showing no warming in the country for the last 130 years. Brazil record cold in 23 municipalities and multiple volcanic eruptions across Japan. Is it a sign from nature that the changes begin ?
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Buildings submerged in flood waters of Shijiu Lake on Sunday in Nanjing, Jiangsu province of China.
Buildings submerged in flood waters of Shijiu Lake on Sunday in Nanjing, Jiangsu province of China.
The dam on the Chu river in Anhui province - a tributary of the Yangtze river - was destroyed with explosives on Sunday morning, state broadcaster CCTV reported, after which the water level was expected to drop by 70cm (2ft).
The water released is being channelled into two storage ponds on a flood plain that can hold more than 60m cubic metres (2.1bn cubic ft) of water.
Water levels on many rivers have been unusually high this year because of torrential rains. Blasting dams and embankments to discharge water was an extreme response employed during China's worst floods in recent years in 1998, when more than 2,000 people died and almost 3m homes were destroyed.
Comment: Flooding of biblical proportions is happening with an increasing frequency all over the planet, here are just some of the recent reports:
- Tunisia floods due to heavy rains
- Death toll from the flash flood in South Sulawesi, Indonesia rises to at least 36 with 40 still missing
- Oman floods due to heavy rains
- Houses crumble as drain in Delhi overflows after heavy rain
Streets flooded due to heavy rains.
Comment: A lightning bolt also killed 16 goats in Pakistan on July 20.