Archive | December 1, 2015
FEROCIOUS and spectacular lightning strikes 62,000 times, uproots trees and roofs in parts of Australia
FEROCIOUS and spectacular electrical and hail storms tore through Gympie region on Monday night, as a series of dangerous storm events continued to come in from the south-west.
And it could be even worse today, before a cooler south-easterly change moves in tomorrow, a Bureau of Meteorology forecaster said yesterday.
Buildings were damaged, trees snapped off and roofs were damaged.
A horse was struck by lightning at Goomboorian as strong wind gusts and hail came in from the South Burnett, where golf ball sized hail was recorded at Kingaroy.
Energex reported 62,000 lightning strikes between Bribie Island and Rainbow Beach.
And 2546 Energex customers were without power in the Gympie region.
Squally Monday night conditions caused severe local conditions with emergency crews called in to help tarp roofs at Southside.
MAURIE and Joyce Shanks were stunned when a fully grown pine tree in their neighbour’s front yard literally broke in half and fell on their Silky Oak Dve home near Glastonbury Rd.
“It’s a big old hoop pine and the borers got the better of it,” Mrs Shanks said yesterday.
“They had been going to take it out.
“Fortunately and unfortunately, it wrecked the verandah but not the house.
“If it had been only a little bit over, it would have come into the house,” she said.
“And it just clipped the corner of the garage, which is also lucky, or my car would have been wrecked too.”
The couple, both in their eighties, spent the day under the remains of their verandah roof waiting for insurance assessors to arrive.
“It’s a huge tree,” she said.
To Gympie’s north and west, an Ergon Energy Spokesman said an outage at Kilkivan sub-station had been quickly fixed, but had affected about 8000 people including residents of Kilkivan, Curra and to the north.
Energex said its affected customers were all reconnected by midnight.
Pam Fitzgerald of Watson Rd was enjoying a beer on her back verandah just after dark when she was hit by a wall of horizontal rain. She got inside and the power went out. Police refuted an apparently malicious hoax Facebook posting claiming a man had died near Nanango when a tree fell on his house.
Courtesy of gympietimes.com.au
Chemical factory fire prompts 15 to evacuate in Cray Avenue, St Mary Cray, UK
Photo by ACLearmouth
Fifteen people were evacuated from a factory in St Mary Cray as thick, black smoke poured out from a fire blazing inside.
Fire crews tackled a blaze at Sun Chemical, in Cray Avenue, which broke out in a laboratory shortly before 10am on Saturday (November 28).
Four fire engines and 20 firefighters from Orpington and Bromley fire stations attended, preventing the fire from spreading to any flammable or combustible chemicals in the building.
The surrounding roads were cordoned off as firefighters fought to extinguish the flames.
No-one was injured in the fire, which is not being treated as suspicious and investigators believe was caused by an accidental, electrical fault.
The fire was brought under control at around 12pm and the road reopened just before 12.20pm.
London Fire Brigade shared pictures showing the damage to the factory after the fire was put out.
The damaged caused by the fire at the factory (Photo by London Fire Brigade)
Courtesy of newsshopper.co.uk
Massive sinkholes now spread to more villages in Kadapa, India
The emergence of fresh sinkholes is giving sleepless nights to people in the district
The mysterious formation of huge sinkholes with deafening noise in three villages in Chintakommadinne mandal of Kadapa district has spread to three more villages in the mandal, spreading fear among villagers.
Even as the Geological Survey of India officials are analysing the causes for the phenomenon in Nayanoripalle and Peddamusalreddipalle and near Sri Bugga Malleswara Swamy temple in Chintakommadinne mandal a fortnight ago, the emergence of fresh sinkholes in Goodavandlapalle, Buggaletipalle and Buggalapalle in the mandal is giving sleepless nights to its residents.
Meanwhile, officials plunged into action on the orders of Kadapa District Collector K.V. Ramana and evacuated people from Nayanoripalle and Peddamusalreddipalle following the formation of sinkholes of a diameter of 25 feet. Land sunk, forming 15 feet-wide and seven-feet deep circular sinkholes at four places in Buggaletipalle and Buggalapalle villages in Chintakommadinne mandal on Sunday.
A farmer, Rasool Reddy, who got his field ploughed with a tractor on Saturday, was baffled finding a large sinkhole of 20 feet diameter filled with water on Sunday. Three similar sinkholes were formed in the banana plantation in Takkoli Lakshmipathi Reddy, damaging drip irrigation equipment and engulfing nearly 40 banana plants. Chintakommadinne Tahsildar Gunabhushan Reddy and MPDO Ramachandra Reddy examined the sinkholes along with a surveyor.
School demolition
Last week, a large sinkhole had formed in front of the mandal parishad school building at Nayanoripalle village, and the school compound wall, a water tank and some trees fell into it. On the Collector’s orders, officials took up demolition of the mandal parishad school building at Nayanoripalle, as its condition was bad. The school has 33 students and classes were held for them in a mosque in the village, according to the Chintakommadinne Tahsildar.
“People of several villages of Chintakommadinne are scared of entering their agricultural fields and fearing formation of sinkholes. The government must press into service scientists to ascertain the reasons for the formation of sinkholes and dispel fears of people,” Ramamohan Reddy, a farmer from Buggalapalle, said.
Courtesy of thehindu.com
MAGNITUDE 5.0 BOUGAINVILLE REGION, P.N.G.
http://www.emsc-csem.org/Earthquake/earthquake.php?id=473857
Subject To Change
Depth: 55 km
Distances: 556 km NW of Honiara, Solomon Islands / pop: 56,298 / local time: 07:20:12.9 2015-12-02
466 km SE of Kokopo, Papua New Guinea / pop: 26,273 / local time: 06:20:12.9 2015-12-02
74 km S of Panguna, Papua New Guinea / pop: 2,916 / local time: 06:20:12.9 2015-12-02
MEGA DIP SPIKES ON THE WEAK MAGNETOSPHERE @ APPROX 19:00, 19:15, 22:15 HRS UTC
**VERY URGENT**
MEGA DIP SPIKES ON THE WEAK MAGNETOSPHERE @ APPROX 19:00, 19:15, 22:15 HRS UTC. FURTHER EARTHQUAKES, VOLCANO ACTIVITY & ADVERSE WEATHER PATTERNS WILL BE GREATLY INFLUENCED BY THE COSMIC RAYS STRIKING THE EARTH’S CORE
***BE ALERT***
MAGNITUDE 5.7 FIJI REGION
http://www.emsc-csem.org/Earthquake/earthquake.php?id=473816
Subject To Change
Depth: 10 km
Distances: 554 km W of Apia, Samoa / pop: 40,407 / local time: 07:08:27.0 2015-12-02
442 km E of Lambasa, Fiji / pop: 24,187 / local time: 06:08:27.0 2015-12-02
MAGNITUDE 5.3 SOUTHERN PERU
http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eventpage/us100042fk#general_summary
Subject To Change
Depth: 98 km
Distances: 38km (24mi) E of Arequipa, Peru
94km (58mi) NNW of Moquegua, Peru
114km (71mi) NE of Mollendo, Peru
134km (83mi) SW of Atuncolla, Peru
323km (201mi) W of La Paz, Bolivia
MAGNITUDE 5.0 HALMAHERA, INDONESIA
http://www.emsc-csem.org/Earthquake/earthquake.php?id=473774
Subject To Change
Depth: 10 km
Distances: 704 km S of Davao, Philippines / pop: 1,212,504 / local time: 20:14:21.2 2015-12-01
306 km E of Manado, Indonesia / pop: 451,893 / local time: 20:14:21.2 2015-12-01
29 km NE of Ternate / pop: 101,731 / local time: 21:14:00.0 2015-12-01
MAGNITUDE 5.2 KYRGYZSTAN
http://www.emsc-csem.org/Earthquake/earthquake.php?id=473715
Subject To Change
Depth: 50 km
Distances: 196 km SW of Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan / pop: 900,000 / local time: 12:13:44.2 2015-12-01
57 km NE of Jalal-Abad, Kyrgyzstan / pop: 75,700 / local time: 12:13:44.2 2015-12-01
Fireball over Northern Ireland and Scotland
A fireball which was spotted in Scotland and Northern Ireland on Sunday evening prompted more than 30 calls to the Armagh Observatory.
The blazing fragment was filmed from just outside Kirriemuir, Scotland, by Mike Majorek’s dashboard camera.
Courtesy of BBC News
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