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Your daily dose of natural disasters and amazing phenomena for September 16, 2021...
Hi everybody! I hope you are having a great day! Here some interesting news!
Where on Earth do cyclones go? Usually known as hurricanes when in the Atlantic Ocean and typhoons when in the Pacific, the featured map shows the path of all major storms from 1985 through 2005.
The map shows graphically that cyclones usually occur over water, which makes sense since evaporating warm water gives them energy. The map also shows that cyclones never cross -- and rarely approach -- the Earth’s equator, since the Coriolis effect goes to zero there, and cyclones need the Coriolis force to circulate. The Coriolis force also causes cyclone paths to arc away from the equator. Although long-term trends remain a topic of research, evidence indicates that hurricanes have become, on the average, more powerful in the North Atlantic over the past 30 years, and their power is projected to keep increasing.
Natural disasters
Downtown Salt Lake City sits above interacting seismic faults which could devastate Utah’s capital…
The remnants of Hurricane Larry dropped abundant snowfall on Greenland just as the summer melt season was coming to an end…
Widespread disaster after shallow M6.0 earthquake (USGS M5.4) kills 3 in Sichuan Province, China…
And the La Palma seismic swarm continues - 4530 earthquakes since Sept. 11th - 50 shallow earthquakes between 1-5 km - Seismic activity continues to migrate slightly to the northwest - vertical deformation is around 10 cm in the area close to seismicity. Here a video:
Is Earth’s magnetic field flipping?
Toronto’s CN Tower was struck by lightning six times during a stormy night on September 15…
Smoke from Australia's Black Summer bushfires of 2019/2020, which burnt through 18 million hectares of land, produced a phytoplankton bloom larger than the entire country of Australia located in the Southern Ocean…
Miscellaneous
Mysterious boom rattles thousands across Helsinki the capital of Finland…
Scientists have debuted a massive magnet nearly 300,000 times stronger than Earth's magnetic field. It'll be used to help build a nuclear fusion reactor…
Kids discover giant penguin’s fossil skeleton in New Zealand…
A team of scientists from the University of Osaka achieved a 3D bioprinting that faithfully replicates the texture, shape, and smell of Kobe Beef, the most expensive meat in the world…
Scientists confirm Mars experienced thousands of massive, ancient volcanic super-eruptions…
Mass grave of Christian crusaders shows bloody reality of medieval war. Some of the skeletal remains show sword wounds to the back of the body, suggesting the soldiers were attacked from behind, likely running away at the time they were cut down…
22% of UK parents can't afford childcare, resorting to debt, foodbanks to survive…
A series of camel sculptures carved into rock faces in Saudi Arabia are likely to be the oldest large-scale animal reliefs in the world…
Are we soon going to fins Planet Nine?
Kleopatra orbits the Sun in the Asteroid Belt between Mars and Jupiter. Astronomers have called it a "dog-bone asteroid" ever since radar observations around 20 years ago revealed it has two lobes connected by a thick "neck". In 2008, Marchis and his colleagues discovered that Kleopatra is orbited by two moons, named AlexHelios and CleoSelene, after the Egyptian queen's children…
The ethical bankruptcy of vaccinating 12-15 year-olds…
How to make fire cider to boost immunity and promote healing…
Never heard before: Whale songs helps identify possible new Pygmy Blue Whale population…
The Cosmos’s attack on computers…
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