A beached whale washed ashore at Robert Moses State Park on Friday.
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A beached whale washed ashore at Robert Moses State Park on Friday.
The orcas let up the chase after an hour but the steering on the boat failed so they headed back to shore.
Janet Morris and Stephen Bidwell, from Cambridge, were enjoying a sailing course off the coast of Morocco when they spotted a pod of orcas.
Some of the deadly mammals then started bumping the boat - an attack which continued for an hour, it is claimed.
Also faced with high winds and big swells, the able crew managed to navigate to calmer waters - and to safety.
Business consultant Janet, 58, said: 'I couldn't believe it when I saw them - it's extremely rare. We were sitting ducks.
Around 9 am on Thursday, the child was headed to a washroom in the area alone when he noticed a pack of dogs approaching him, sources said. The boy tried to run but fell down, when the dogs violently attacked and killed him on the spot.
The police have taken cognizance of the incident.
In a similar incident, a nine-year-old from Meerut was attacked by a stray pit bull earlier on Thursday. The boy survived with severe injuries to his face, thighs and stomach. The local police were alerted about the incident and authorities have ensured adequate action.
Officers shot dead the animal after the attack in Leigh, Wigan, on Thursday evening.
Hogg was found by officers in Westleigh Lane with serious injuries shortly after 9.10pm. He was taken to hospital but died in the early hours of Friday.
Paying tribute to him, his family said: "Jonathan was a well-loved, sensitive, and kind person who will never know how loved and appreciated he was by everyone who knew him.
The epicentre was 35 kilometres (22 miles) deep and located about 300 kilometres (190 miles) east of the New Caledonian archipelago, it said. Any tsunami waves are expected to be less than 0.3 metres (one foot), the Pacific Tsunami Warning Center said in its latest update.
The waves may reach the Pacific islands of Fiji, Kiribati, Vanuatu and Wallis and Futuna, it said, after earlier issuing a warning for coasts within 300 kilometres (185 miles) of the epicentre.
On Friday, a 7.7-magnitude quake in the same area sent people scrambling for higher ground on several Pacific islands for fear of giant waves. A tsunami warning was lifted hours later.
Source: AFP
It may be just a month until summer starts, but no one told that to the mountains in New Hampshire, which saw a thick coating of snowfall at some of its highest elevations on Thursday
The Mount Washington Observatory noted the absurdity of seeing the white stuff this time of year in a Facebook post after the beauty spot was given a thick coating.
'The calendar might read mid-May but the White Mountains will feel more like late March Weds into Thurs morning,' the observatory said.
Clarksville, New Hampshire - a town about two hours east of Montreal - also saw visible snowfall on Thursday, although it did not lay on the ground.
Areas at 4,000 feet above sea level saw a possibility of three inches of snow Wednesday going into Thursday.
Rain and hail in various parts of Andalusia. The storm has hit the Sierra de Cádiz with force, especially in Zahara de la Sierra and El Bosque. We find a similar situation in Ronda, Málaga, and in some municipalities of Seville. In places some crops have become waterlogged.
The quake was detected some 340 kilometers east of Vao city in New Caledonia, a French Pacific territory, according to the U.S. Geological Survey.
In New Caledonia, the police had evacuated the coast and tsunami sirens had been activated.
Tsunami waves of one-to-three meters above tide are possible along some coastal areas of Vanuatu, according to the Honolulu-based Pacific Tsunami Warning Center.
"I had never seen anything quite like it," says Heiko Ulbricht of Saxony, Germany. "The auroras began to tear themselves apart, pulsating as they formed individual blobs that floated high in the sky."
"It literally took my breath away," he says. "My pulse was still racing hours later!" The same blobs were sighted in France and Poland, and in Denmark they were caught flashing like a disco strobe light.
Comment: Whilst the aurora disco blobs may have been partly explained by the physicist above, they don't appear to be a particularly common occurance; and it's notable that there has been an increase in sightings of formerly rare phenomena, as well as a number of new discoveries:
- Powerful Solar storm has unusually strong impact on Earth, delays SpaceX rocket launch, stalls oil rigs in Canada
- "The Dunes": NEW type of aurora discovered, and the unexpected physics behind it
- Rare ELVE photographed during intense lightning storm over Italy
- Rare blue jet atmospheric phenomenon photographed over Texas, several sighted in one night
- Cosmic climate change: 'Space plasma hurricane' observed in ionosphere above North Pole!
- Our changing atmosphere: Stunning iridescent cloud over Mexico, complex solar halo over Russia and a triple rainbow over Norway
- Behind the Headlines: Earth changes in an electric universe: Is climate change really man-made?
- MindMatters: The Holy Grail, Comets, Earth Changes and Randall Carlson
- Behind the Headlines: The Electric Universe - An interview with Wallace Thornhill
The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) said the magnitude 6.4 quake struck at a depth of 252 kilometers (156.6 miles) and its epicenter was some 2 kilometers southeast of the municipality of Canilla, Guatemala.
Guatemala's natural disaster agency said there were no immediate reports of damage, while the civil protection authorities of the southern Mexican state of Chiapas said there were no injuries or damage to property.
Neighboring El Salvador said on Twitter there was no risk of a tsunami from the quake.
Comment: Earthquake Track also reports a 6.5 magnitude aftershock about 20 minutes after the above event.
Details of the earlier earthquake: New Caledonia lifts tsunami warning after 7.7-magnitude quake