Sudden floods hit Patzun, Chimaltenango Guatemala.
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Sudden floods hit Patzun, Chimaltenango Guatemala.
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Authorities previously reported the death of nearly 300 endangered seals on Dagestan's Caspian shore in December 2020.
Authorities previously reported the death of nearly 300 endangered seals on Dagestan's Caspian shore in December 2020.
"These are the dead animals that we saw, photographed and whose GPS coordinates we noted," Viktor Nikiforov of the Moscow Marine Mammals research centre told the AFP news agency on Thursday.
Images shared with the AFP showed several seal carcasses washed up on the beach.
The deaths may have been caused by "industrial pollution, fishing or poaching when seals get caught in the nets", Nikiforov said.
Local time at epicenter: 7 May 11:35 am (GMT -12)
Magnitude: 6
Depth: 384.0 km
Epicenter latitude / longitude: 18.74°S / 177.63°W
The incident took place on Thursday evening, when the victims, including three sisters, were at their paddy field near Bichhli village under Kelhari police station area, an official said.
The deceased include Jailal Khairwar (45), his two daughters Pramila (20) and Subhadra (15) and son-in-law Bhupendra (25), he said.
Khairwar's son Surajbhan and daughter Budhhi sustained burn injuries in the incident, the official added.
On being alerted, a police team rushed to the spot and bodies were sent for post-mortem, he said, adding that the injured are undergoing treatment at the district hospital in Baikunthpur.
Source:PTI
Indonesia's Sinabung volcano erupts, spewing massive column of smoke and ash up to 2,800 metres high
Mount Sinabung erupted on Friday
The volcano in North Sumatra province started belching ash and volcanic material at 9 am and the eruption lasted almost six minutes, a local geological agency said.
Images showed a thick column of ash spewing from the inside of Sinabung towards the east.
The epicenter, with a depth of 10.0 km, was initially determined to be at 54.3761 degrees south latitude and 144.1926 degrees east longitude.
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Unseasonal snow gives skiers a chance to return to the slopes
Zoe was curious to know what the global snowfall trend was in this era of "extreme global warming."
"Luckily," she writes, "NASA covertly provides us with all the necessary data to figure this out."
Zoe downloaded all available monthly images from 1980 to 2020 (inclusive), such as the one shown here:
Comment: On the same day a teenage girl was killed by a lightning strike in Nepal.