Loud sound, mild tremors in Bengaluru
The Hindu
Karnataka State Natural Disaster Monitoring Cell ruled out an earthquake
Several residents of Bengaluru, especially those living off Mysuru Road, reported a loud sound and mild tremors, which shook window panes, on November 26.
Karnataka State Natural Disaster Monitoring Centre (KSNDMC) ruled out an earthquake as none of their seismographs had recorded any such incident.
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When fed into Latin, pusilla comes out denoting “very small”. The Baillon’s crake can be missed in the field, when it is at a distance, as the magnification of the human eye is woefully short of what it takes to pick up this tiny creature. The other factor is the Baillon’s crake’s predisposition to present less of itself: it moves about furtively and slides into the reeds at the slightest suspicion of being noticed. But if you are keen on observing the Baillon’s crake or the ruddy breasted crake in the field, in Chennai, this would be the best time to put in efforts towards that end. These birds live amidst reeds, the bulrushes, which are likely to lose their density now as they would shrivel and go brown, leaving wide gaps, thereby reducing the cover for these tiddly birds to stay inscrutable.