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Ground strikes can kill entire herds of animals with no visible signs of trauma. I couldn't find any strikes during the time period where they were hiking on
by sitkack 5y ago
Ground strikes can kill entire herds of animals with no visible signs of trauma.
I couldn't find any strikes during the time period where they were hiking on
https://www.lightningmaps.org/ https://www.lightningmaps.org/
map.blitzortung.org doesn't appear to have historical search. But it doesn't mean it didn't happen, just that lightning network didn't record it.
I didn't see any seismic activity nearby either. Thinking that maybe a poison gas flow might have been started by a small earthquake.
- nate_meurer 5y agoThanks! It didn't occur to me that there might be publicly accessible lighting strike data and mapping, but of course there is, duh. Do you happen to know the sensitivity of the network? That is, the percentage of lighting strikes they expect to catch?
- sitkack 5y agoI don't know that, but they are great questions for lightning researchers. The premier lightning research org (to my knowledge) is in New Mexico. https://www.nmt.edu/research/organizations/langmuir.php https://www.nmt.edu/research/organizations/langmuir.php http://www.lightning.nmt.edu/nmt_lms/ http://www.lightning.nmt.edu/nmt_lms/ Let us know what you find out!
- sliken 5y agoWas talking to a vet, they claimed that most cases of herd's dying "from lightning" were botulism related or other poisonings. The herds graze together, and can die together.