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Hundreds of small quakes shake Mount Rainier in unusual seismic swarm

A swarm of small earthquakes began early Tuesday morning beneath Mount Rainier, with more than several hundred minor tremors recorded as of midday, according to scientists with the U.S. Geological Survey and the University of Washington. The activity began at 1:29 a.m. on July 8 and was detected by the Cascades Volcano Observatory (CVO) and the Pacific Northwest Seismic Network (PNSN). Researchers said the ongoing swarm is larger than the typical one or two smaller swarms that occur at the volcano each year. The strongest quake so far reached magnitude 1.7, and most of the events have been located between 1.2 and 3.7 miles (2 to 6 kilometers) below the surface.
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There have been no signs of ground deformation based on data from GPS monitoring stations around the mountain, according to USGS. Additionally, there are no visible changes on webcams and no infrasound or other seismic indicators of volcanic unrest. “Earthquake swarms like this have been attributed to circulation of hydrothermal fluids that are interacting with preexisting faults at shallow levels below the summit of the volcano,” USGS officials said in a notice. The last time Mount Rainier experienced a swarm of this size was in 2009, when hundreds of earthquakes occurred over a three-day period, with the largest reaching magnitude 2.3.
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KIRO 7 asked Harold Tobin, the Director of the Pacific Northwest Seismic Network, how concerned the general public should be. “At this point in time, I want to be really clear, this is not really cause for concern,” Tobin said. Tobin reiterated though that scientists are certainly paying attention to it.
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Dr Ben Roberts, a senior lecturer in healthy buildings at Loughborough University, said applying yoghurt to the outside of windows can lower the temperature by up to 3.5C. He has pointed to the results of a month-long experiment to show the method has brought results.
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According to Dr Roberts, the yoghurt forms a thin film on the window itself and reflects some of the incoming solar radiation as it is a light colour. This means not as much heat passes through the window. He told the BBC the yoghurt smells for "30 seconds when drying" but that as soon as it has dried "the smell disappears".
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For their experiment, the scientists at Loughborough University used a supermarket-brand of Greek yoghurt that has a fat percentage of about 10%.
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Experiment finds yoghurt can lower house temperature

Dr Ben Roberts and a PhD student conducted research on two test houses at Loughborough University.
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fatness said:
Dr Ben Roberts, a senior lecturer in healthy buildings at Loughborough University, said applying yoghurt to the outside of windows can lower the temperature by up to 3.5C. He has pointed to the results of a month-long experiment to show the method has brought results.
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According to Dr Roberts, the yoghurt forms a thin film on the window itself and reflects some of the incoming solar radiation as it is a light colour. This means not as much heat passes through the window. He told the BBC the yoghurt smells for "30 seconds when drying" but that as soon as it has dried "the smell disappears".
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For their experiment, the scientists at Loughborough University used a supermarket-brand of Greek yoghurt that has a fat percentage of about 10%.
Click to expand...
www.bbc.com

Experiment finds yoghurt can lower house temperature

Dr Ben Roberts and a PhD student conducted research on two test houses at Loughborough University.
www.bbc.com www.bbc.com
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Ill add this note to all new window installations.
 
California woman's home flooded with unwanted Amazon packages

A California woman said her house is being flooded with unwanted Amazon packages that have been arriving for about a year. The San Jose resident, who wanted to remain anonymous, said each box contains a faux-leather car seat cover from the brand Etkin and sold by Chinese Amazon seller Liusandedian. The woman's address was apparently listed as the company's address for returns. The online seller's reviews are filled with complaints about seat covers not fitting, the high cost of returns and failure to receive refunds.
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"What you see now is a fraction."
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A Surge of Earthquakes in Alaska Is Raising Red Flags

A powerful offshore earthquake triggered a tsunami warning for communities along a 700-mile (1,100-kilometer) stretch of Alaska’s southern coast on Wednesday, July 16. Fortunately, the wave never came, and ground shaking caused minimal damage, but another large quake could strike this area in the near future. Since 2020, five earthquakes ranging from magnitude 7.2 to 8.2 have struck the southern coast of Alaska. It’s not unusual for seismic activity to occur in this part of the state, as it runs along an active tectonic plate boundary called the Aleutian subduction zone. Still, seeing five large quakes within close range of each other in just five years has captured the attention of seismologists like Michael West, Alaska’s state seismologist and director of the Alaska Earthquake Center. West told Gizmodo that the southern coast appears to be experiencing an earthquake sequence. While it’s possible that Wednesday’s quake was the last in this sequence, it’s also possible that more large earthquakes—or even one huge one—could strike within the next few years, he said. “Five earthquakes is enough to be statistically significant,” West said.
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Seismologists know the Aleutian subduction zone is capable of triggering devastating, Pacific-wide tsunamis. In 1946, for example, an 8.6 magnitude earthquake in this plate boundary caused a tsunami that traveled all the way to the shores of Antarctica and killed more than 150 people in Hawaii. The epicenter of that quake was located just 100 miles away from that of Wednesday’s quake, West said.
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