Total seismic energy estimate: 1.8*10^13 J (5.12 GWh / 4407 tons of TNT / 0.3 atomic bombs equivalent)
Earthquake report world-wide for Tuesday, 21 May 2019
Intense Storms and Floods Hit Central U.S.
In the central United States, a series of intense storms brought flash flooding, baseball-sized hail and at least 19 tornadoes to parts of Missouri, Kansas, Oklahoma and Texas on Monday.
Egypt says 16 militants killed in Sinai
Egypt said its police forces killed 16 Islamist militants in raids in the restive northern part of the Sinai Peninsula.
Houthis Launch Drone Attack on Saudi Airport
Meanwhile in Saudi Arabia, Yemen’s Houthi rebels said Tuesday they launched another armed drone attack on an airport on the Saudi-Yemeni border.
Bomb-carrying drone strikes Saudi airport
Yemen’s Iranian-allied Houthi rebels attacked a Saudi airport and military base with a bomb-laden drone Tuesday, an assault acknowledged by Saudi Arabia as tensions remained high between Tehran and Washington.
Mammoth collision of `impossible’ black holes detected for the first time
The most massive black hole collision ever detected has been directly observed by the LIGO and VIRGO Scientific Collaboration, which includes scientists from The Australian National University (ANU).
Scientists Detect New Kind of Black Hole After Massive Collision
We still don’t understand a lot of things about black holes, which hover at the very edge of our scientific knowledge.
GW190521
GW190521 is a gravitational wave detection from May 21, 2019 which was so unusual that scientists had to spin it as a mammoth collision of impossible black holes.