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At first look the obscure cloud resembles a meteorite trail or tornado, frozen in time, seconds before the impending doom. At second glance,it looks more like a freaky cloud formation.
Deadly floods hit South Asian states
The floods in Nepal, Bangladesh and India are thought to have killed about 500 people and are expected to worsen.
The International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent (IFRC) says it is becoming one of the worst regional humanitarian crises in years.
There are growing concerns about food shortages and disease.
Martin Faller, ICRC's deputy regional director, said more than a third of Bangladesh and Nepal were flooded, while about 11 million people across four northern Indian states were also affected.
Tens of thousands of people have been displaced.
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The B.C. Wildfire Service said Wednesday that a total of 1,026 wildfires have razed nearly 8,950 square kilometres, surpassing the old record of 8,560 square kilometres set in 1958.
The majority of the activity has occurred in the province's Cariboo region where fires have destroyed more than 6,700 square kilometres.
B.C. Wildfire Service spokesman Kevin Skrepnek says there are still 142 fires currently burning in the province.
"Most of those are the major fires that started on July 7, we have done a good job at getting on new fires quickly and keeping them small," he said.
A scooter zoomed into view with the driver so distracted by their mobile phone they didn't see the sinkhole
Footage from Chinese television shows the ground suddenly give way in the middle of a street, creating a hole almost the whole way across one side.
Some time later, a scooter zoomed into view and drove straight into it without slowing down at all.
Both driver and bike disappeared into the hole just as another man frantically ran towards it in a doomed attempt to warn the driver.
Part of a mountain engulfed "a fisherman's camp after heavy rains caused a landslide," the deputy governor of Ituri province, Pacifique Keta, told AFP on Thursday.
He said 40 people were killed in the disaster in the village of Tora on the banks of Lake Albert on Wednesday.
"Yesterday (Wednesday), we buried 28 bodies and today we will bury 12 more," said Keta.
A doctor at the nearby Tshomia hospital, Herve Isamba, said they were treating four people injured in the landslide.
The vast country has experienced a number of previous such disasters.
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Ocean recedes at Montevideo, Uruguay on August 11
Ocean recedes at Montevideo, Uruguay on August 11
The Uruguayan Meteorological Institute (INUMET) had issued orange wind warnings earlier for Montevideo, Canelones, Maldonado, Rocha and Lavalleja. According to El Pais as reported in Elonce, the spokesman for the National Navy, Gastón Jaunsolo,said the phenomenon was caused by strong winds coming from the north.
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The shallow 6.2-mile-deep quake near the volcanic island was reported at 2:59 a.m. UTC.
The US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration said there was no tsunami danger for the US east coast, the Gulf of Mexico states or the eastern coast of Canada based on the quake's location.
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Greenland Ice Sheet Surface Mass Budget: DMI
Greenland Ice Sheet Surface Mass Budget: DMI
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Area whale experts at a property in Tremont prepare to perform a necropsy on a minke whale found dead in Blue Hill Bay on Sunday
Area whale experts at a property in Tremont prepare to perform a necropsy on a minke whale found dead in Blue Hill Bay on Sunday
"We got a picture of the dorsal fins for both and went to the office yesterday and confirmed it wasn't the same," said Emma Ober of Allied Whale.
The whale was brought to the home of Dan DenDanto, a research associate for Allied Whale, for a necropsy. The COA research vessel Osprey towed the carcass to the Seal Cove docks Monday, where it was transferred to a trailer for transport to DenDanto's yard.
Volunteers made precise incisions in order to search for the cause of the animal's death. Oil flowed out of the minke whale's blubber like olive oil being poured into a sink. "The oil coming out is due to the internal pressure, and when cuts are made, it relieves the pressure, and that's why the oil flows out like that," DenDanto said.
Comment: Taken from a different angle this impressive photo of the cloud looks like a giant incoming fireball.
Lenticular 'fireball' cloud over Teixeira de Freitas, Brazil