Earth Changes
Piecing together the evidence, forest officials believe that the incident happened when mahout Ranjeet Kumar (37) went inside the enclosure to apply medicine on another elephant, Sundar, on Thursday night. For some reason, he must have approached Mohan, which was in another part of the enclosure. Another elephant, called Gajraj, was near Mohan. It was raining heavily and Mohan may have become nervous, possibly due to the thunder and lightning, and attacked the mahout.
Vacaville suffered through high temperatures of 108 degrees on Thursday, according to the National Weather Service. By 8 p.m., temperatures had dropped down to the low 80s - like what you'd usually expect to happen when the sun goes down.
However, after bottoming out at 80, temperatures actually started to shoot up as the night progressed.
By midnight, temperatures had spiked at 95 degrees.
NWS says the bizarre temperature spike is due to a rare event called a "heat burst."
Much like downburst, a heat burst is usually associated with decaying thunderstorms. Heat bursts are basically the inverse of a downburst - instead of cool and moist air, hot and dry air is rushed toward the surface.
Speaking to Buffalo News Justin Dahl, manager of a kayak store on Lake Erie, described how two children jumped off their water bikes in panic when they saw the waterspout Friday.
"The chain broke on their water bike and the parents came back to the dock for help," he said.
Dahl and another employee took to the water in a kayak to rescue the children. RT.com contacted Jolie Roetter who gave permission to use his video in which the waterspout can be seen passing in the distance as dark clouds engulf the waters.
Jack Borowiak also gave permission to use the video below, in which the waterspout can be seen with flashes of lightning.
A powerful 5.8 magnitude earthquake has struck the southern Philippine island of Mindanao, the US Geological Survey reports.
The quake, measuring 5.8 on the Richter scale according to the USGS' preliminary information, struck at a depth of 74.4 km several kilometers east of the city of General Santos, which has a population of over 600,000.
The earth tremors were reported at 8:30am (0030 GMT), the USGS said.
According to the European-Mediterranean Seismological Centre (EMSC), the quake was widely felt across the surrounding region.
According to Marisol Abdurahman's report on "24 Oras", a portion of the road in Sta. Barbara Villas collapsed early Wednesday morning after a heavy rain.
The hole is reportedly 60-foot deep.
Jun Bryan, a resident in the area since 1999, said people would have trouble sleeping because of the incident.
The report said the road had started to collapse in September 2016.
The death toll due to lightning increased to 48 in six days in the state. As many as 18 persons were killed on Sunday and 17 on the very next day.
In Mayurbhanj district, three persons died and three others injured in the incident. Purnachandra Singh of Angargadia village under Udala police limits died when he was returning from Similibandha weekly haat near Udala after marketing. Two others, Mangala Soren of Banakati village of Udala block, and one Mangulu Singh from Betanati block also died. Three persons from Khunta block were injured in the incident.
A thunderstorm dumped almost 4 centimetres (1.5 inches) of rain onto the area in just half an hour on Thursday afternoon (August 3), according to weather services.
The sludge engulfed roads, overflowed onto a busy motorway and even halted local train services.
Several stranded drivers had to be rescued by helicopter, but no serious injuries were reported.

Volcanic ash is seen following an eruption of Mount Sinabung volcano, in Beganding Village, Karo, North Sumatra, Indonesia August 2, 2017
On Wednesday, the volcano erupted at least 19 times between 8am and noon local time causing heavy lava flows, volcano monitoring expert Isya Nurrahmat Dana told the AP.
Parks Canada said it closed Highway 93 from Castle Junction near the Trans-Canada Highway to the town of Radium Hot Springs some 100 kilometres south.
The highway reopened late Wednesday but drivers were being warned that with shifting conditions, there was always the possibility they would be forced to detour again.
On Thursday afternoon, Parks Canada issued a news release suggesting that the best time to travel the highway over the long weekend would be between 7 a.m. and 2 p.m.
The agency also told motorists to check for possible temporary closures at either www.DriveBC.ca or www.alberta511.ca.
Parks incident commander Jane Park said the smoke was extremely dense in some areas.
The moderate earthquake occurred at 11.43am at a 10km depth.
It was located at 248km Northeast from Nuku'alofa in Tonga, 346km Southwest from Alofi in Niue, and 921km Southeast of Suva, Fiji.
The Seismology Unit of the Mineral Resources department has assured that this earthquake did not pose any immediate threat to the Fiji region.
Meanwhile, the unit also recorded two seismic activities in the Tonga region yesterday which did not pose any threat as well to the Fiji region.













