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Monarch Pass, August 4, 2017
Monarch Pass, August 4, 2017
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2017-08-08 13:19:49 UTC
USGS page: M 6.5 - 36km W of Yongle, China
USGS status: Reviewed by a seismologist
Reports from the public: 10 people
10 km depth
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Tuesday's quake comes less than three weeks after a 6.7-magnitude earthquake struck in the Mediterranean Sea near Turkey and the Greek islands. The quake triggered a mini tsunami which flooded some areas.
The magnitude of 5.3 was reported by Turkish Boğaziçi University's Kandilli Observatory, which specializes in earthquake research. However, there are conflicting reports that the magnitude was 4.9, according to the Prime Ministry Disaster and Emergency Management Authority (AFAD) of Turkey.
Objects can be seen crashing to the floor in CCTV footage apparently taken at the moment the quake struck the Turkish coast.
Schachinger was rushed to a private hospital in Marsa Alam, a popular tourist spot located in the eastern south of Egypt, and received treatment on her right leg. She was later transferred to Austria for further medical treatment.
"There is no threat to the Austrian tourist's life," medical sources in the Red Sea governorate reported.
Although shark attacks are not common in Egypt, environmentalists say certain actions on the part of divers and swimmers may provoke attacks.
The Society for the Rescue and Protection of the Environment of the Red Sea warns against feeding sharks.
Raging river in Pakistan
According to Gilgit-Baltistan Disaster Management Authority, five people including 4 students were killed and others injured in rain-related incidents in Sadpara, the tribal area of Skardu.
The floodwaters also washed away a bridge and 4 hotels in Sadpara area.
Five roads of the valley including Dusi Road were washed away by floods creating hardships for hundreds of the tourists in the valley.
According to local people and police, the flood hit Goner area of Diamer district in which three people including a woman were killed and several others injured. Flood torrents damaged many link roads, bridges and cultivated land.
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The flesh-eaters were identified as lysianassid amphipods, a type of scavenging crustacean, commonly known as “sea fleas.”
The flesh-eaters were identified as lysianassid amphipods, a type of scavenging crustacean, commonly known as “sea fleas.”
Sam Kanizay, 16, spent Saturday evening unwinding at Dendy Street Beach in Brighton, Melbourne when he got the fright of his life. He didn't notice anything was wrong at first as the water was so cold - temperatures reached as low as three degrees Celsius (37°F) last week.
"When he got out, he described having sand on his legs, so he went back in the water," his father Jarrod Kanizay told the AAP.
"He went back to his shoes and what he found was blood on his legs... They ate through Sam's skin and made it bleed profusely."
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As grave as the findings are, the greater implications of the Bacillus cereus biovar anthracis (Bcbva) bacterium could be that its infection vector isn't just limited to chimps - with researchers unexpectedly finding the strain had also killed animals from numerous other species.
"To our surprise, almost 40 percent of all animal deaths in Taï National Park we investigated were attributable to anthrax," says virologist Emmanuel Couacy-Hymann from the Ivorian Animal Health Institute.
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The gigantic iceberg, the third largest ever recorded, broke free from the southernmost continent sometime between July 10-12 and is now adrift off the coast.
Given the catchy name A68, the iceberg is some 5,800 square kilometers in size, making it twice the size of Luxembourg and almost four times larger than the Greater London area.
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Thredbo
Thredbo
A record of the Thredbo Top station for 3am on Wednesday shows a temperature reading of -10.6C. This compares with the BoM's monthly highlights for June and July, both showing a low of -9.6C.
The BoM said it had taken immediate action to replace the Thredbo station after concerns were raised that very low temperatures were not making it onto the official record. Controversy has dogged the bureau's automatic weather station network since Goulburn man Lance Pigeon saw a -10.4C reading on the BoM's website on July 2 automatically adjust to -10C, then disappear.
Later independent monitoring of the Thredbo Top station by scientist Jennifer Marohasy showed a recording of -10.6C vanish from the record.
BoM initially claimed the adjustments were part of its quality control procedures. But bureau chief executive Andrew Johnson later told Environment Minister Josh Frydenberg that investigations had found a number of cold-weather stations were not "fit for purpose" and would be replaced.
Comment: So...the smartcards did it. Why would national meteorology trackers have smartcards in their temperature reader and then 'not know about it'. This is official weather data collected and tracked for the country, for the world...and it has a smartcard. That is a real headscratcher unless there was a manmade global warming parameter and a reason to round off, cut off, change, erase data that didn't meet the target, as in distortion to fit false facts.
See also: Study reports temperature adjustments account for 'nearly all of the warming' in climate data