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Recent shark attacks In Florida:
April 2, 2017: 17-year-old Caitlyn Taylor, of Louisville, Kentucky, was visiting Florida to play in a softball tournament when she was bitten by a shark while swimming in the Gulf of Mexico off of the Florida Panhandle near Destin.
April 3, 2017: 16-year-old Kody Stephens, of Peachtree City, Georgia, was on a family vacation when he was bitten by a shark while swimming off of Daytona Beach.
April 4, 2017: 51-year-old Melanie Lawson, of Marietta, Georgia, was bitten by a shark while standing in only three feet of water off of New Smyrna Beach, which is just a few miles south of Daytona Beach.
April 10, 2017: 23-year-old Heather Orr, of Palm Bay, Florida, was bitten on the hand while swimming off of Melbourne Beach.
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The ground was apparently washed out under a road in the area, causing its collapse. Slabs of asphalt are seen crumbling into mud and water on the video.
© APThis photo from a US Coast Guard reconnaissance aircraft shows icebergs floating near the Grand Banks of Newfoundland in the North Atlantic.
Todays quake is the 22nd major quake of 2017 which is incredibly low.
Where have all the major quakes gone?
We are into the second half of April yet this year's total so far is extraordinarily low, 2017 has recorded only 22 quakes of magnitude 6 or higher, this total is the lowest this century by a country mile at this stage of the year.
These statistics are wonderful news for USGS who have claimed major quakes are not on the increase, however this year's total so far is astonishingly low, at the moment 2017 is yielding 6 major quakes per month which would give us a grand total of 72 for the year, we have to go back 50 years to the 1960's when so few major quakes were recorded but it's early days.
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Hundreds of dead fish swamped the shores of one neighborhood lake, a stench that could be smelled blocks away.
"They were all dying, there was just hundreds of them lying around," said Linda Watts, who lives by the lake.
But the smell is just one cause of concern.
Watts has lived in the Seven Oaks neighborhood next to the lake for nearly ten years, and said this is a problem she has never had to deal with.
"If there is something in the water, it is going to get into our drinking water? We don't know," she said.
The water behind is filled with dead fish of all different sizes like catfish, carp and trout.
© Artemy Voikhansky Griffon Vulture
At the end of 2016, the Vulture Conservation Foundation posted on their website that "The #european medicines agency (EMA) has their long-awaited technical position on the vulture-killing drug diclofenac, following a request from the European Commission." Finally, it seems that they have confirmed "that veterinary diclofenac does represent a real risk to European vultures, and therefore recommends that a number of risk management measures should be taken to avoid the poisoning of vultures, including more regulation, veterinary controls, better labelling and information and/or a ban of the drug."
What is being done to address the death of Europe's vultures?
The fight for the vultures has been a long and hard one. In 2015, the United Nations Environmental Program (UNEP) announced in a press release that member countries who are Signatories to the MOU on the Conservation of Migratory #Birds Of Prey, listed more species of vultures to their annexure 1. The agreement which was discussed in Bonn was motivated by the African vulture crisis. Apart from illegal trade in the birds, poisoning is of very high concern. At that time there were 533 signatory countries, which was good news, but it did raise the question of what they are doing to address the threat to vultures and other birds of prey in Europe.
The deceased have been identified as 35-year-old Chhatra Kumari Rai of Haguwa, Khalchha Chhintangshahid Rural Municipality and Krishna Rai, 24, of Sanrigadhi Rural Municipality-10, said police.
According to a local, Krishna was talking on cell phone when he was struck by the lightning.
Similarly, police have also recovered a mobile phone set from the body of Chhatrakumari Rai.
Police have reached the incident site. Police said they are making preparations to bring the dead bodies to District Hospital for postmortem, said SP Sudip Raj Bhandari.
Seven cars have gone missing in Azarshahr, he regretted, adding, despite the warnings some people were reluctant to leave the area.
According to East Azarbaijan crisis management organization up to now, 14 have died and at least 3 gone missing in Azarshahr and some 4 individuals are missing and 15 are dead n Ajabshir.
"Some bridges are reportedly damaged in West Azarbaijan province and sadly a 12-year-old boy is taken away by the flood while biking," he explained.
Moreover, 4 died in a landslide triggered by the flood in Saqqez, Kordestan province, and one passed away in Baneh, he said.
So far, some 1,100 have received relief services, 77 provided with emergency accommodation, and 6 transferred to hospitals in 32 cities and villages, Najjar noted, adding, water was pumped out of 48 houses as well.
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The quake struck at 5.15am local time (8.15am GMT) about 90 miles southeatst of the city of Calama.
USGS said the tremor had a preliminary magnitude of 6.2 and a depth of 188km, Reuters reported.
There have been no reports of inuries so far.
Comment: $500 billion plan to refreeze polar cap, while icebergs detour ships 650 kilometers south