The Central Weather Administration recorded more than 400 aftershocks from Wednesday morning into Thursday night. The national legislature and sections of Taipei's main airport suffered minor damage.
A report from Colorado State University is calling for 11 hurricanes, the most they have ever forecast. They said five of those storms could be major hurricanes of Category 3, 4 and 5.
In a new study, researchers found that alfalfa and other cattle-feed crops consume 46% of the water that is diverted from the river, accounting for nearly two-thirds of agricultural water use.
Maine and New Hampshire bore the brunt of the power outages, with about 341,000 and 155,000 respectively as of early Thursday afternoon, according to poweroutage.us. Local officials said the heavy, wet snow was to blame for bringing down trees and power lines.
With Santa Clara County's district attorney starting a move to resentence condemned inmates, other Bay Area counties have their own stances on executions as punishment.