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At least 65 injured after strong winds knock down trees, billboards
A severe dust storm claimed the lives of at least five people, including two minor girls and two elderly people, on Saturday night in Bahawalnagar district.
At least 65 people, many of them children and women, were injured as a furious storm hit the area. Strong winds knocked down trees, billboards and power lines, suspending power supply in the entire district.
The administration declared emergency in DHQ Hospital Bahawalnagar and called in all the doctors to tackle with the large number of injured.
In the city area, two elderly persons - Jam Muhammad of Mohallah Qaziyan and Muhammad Siddique of Hussainabad - and a 10-year-old girl of Bhatta Colony were killed besides injuries to 27 others as several incidents of roof and wall collapse were reported. In Chishtian tehsil, six-year-old Hadiya died in Chak No 16, while a woman Farih, who came from Haroonabad, died at the THQ hospital. Another 28 people were injured in different localities and had been shifted to the THQ hospital.
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According to reports, Sujan Gain (32) from V K Pur village in Little Andaman, went for fishing at V K Pur Creek with one of his friends on Saturday evening.
While trying to cross the creek, Gain slipped and fell into it. Immediately, a crocodile appeared from nowhere and dragged him into deep waters, said an eyewitness.
The matter was reported to police and a massive search operation was launched. The body was recovered in mutilated state, police said.
A large sinkhole was discovered at Glenview Championship Golf Course.
Golf course personnel closed six holes and roped off an area behind homes in the 3300 block of Richmond Drive in the Village of Belle Aire. There is said to be a second sinkhole in a nearby retention pond.
Sam Wartinbee of District Property Management on Friday said drought followed by sudden, heavy rain make conditions ripe for sinkholes to occur.
Strong explosion from Stromboli's NW vent (S1) and a moderate one from the eastern (N2) vent on 11 June 2017 evening
When observed last night, powerful strombolian explosions from this vent, often accompanied by loud detonations, often reached or even exceeded 200 m height, and occurred at intervals of 5-10 minutes.
In total, only 4 of the 5 vents previously observed were active; the second vent (S2) in the western crater area
was not observed yesterday. The central vent only had rare (every 1-2 hours) mild strombolian bursts, but showed frequent mild spattering and intense lava glow.
Activity at the eastern vents was similar as described earlier, but weaker and not as frequent any more (N2: eruptions every 15-20 minutes; N1: eruptions every 30-60 minutes). During some of the more powerful explosions, the western (S1) and eastern (N2) main vents erupted simultaneously.
The Keyraki mud volcano
According to the press service of the Ministry of Ecology and Natural Resources, the eruption lasted for 15 minutes and the mud covered an area of 3.5ha.
The depth of the erupted mud layer reached 3 meters within the crater and 0.2 to 0.3 meter around the crater.
The Keyraki mud volcano is situated 12km north of Baku. The eruption caused no damage to the nearby residential areas. However, there are several active mud volcanoes in the area and thus further eruptions cannot be ruled out.
Experts of the Ministry of Ecology and Natural Resources are studying the consequences of the eruption.
The Keyraki mud volcano has erupted 18 times so far. Last time it had erupted in 2014.
© US Geological SurveyThe epicentre of the quake was located some 84 km (52 miles) northwest of the Aegean coastal province of Izmir
The epicentre of the quake was located some 84 km (52 miles) northwest of the Aegean coastal province of Izmir, the European-Mediterranean Seismological Centre (EMSC) said on its website.
The Greek island of Lesbos has also been rattled.
Comment: This quake occurred at a depth of just 10 kilometres according to Earthquake Track, although another source has it even shallower at only 5 kms.
Approximately 13 hours earlier: Shallow 6.3 magnitude earthquake hits off Indonesia's Java Island
In that time, about an inch and a half of snow stuck to cars and hillsides.
Travelers on Interstate 80 had to battle the elements on the road and the cold temperatures, which some were not expecting.
"We thought we might get some rain, even hail, but we didn't expect snow," says Tami Johnson as she headed back home to Reno.
The sinkhole opened near the intersection of Southwest 27th Avenue and State Road 200, also known as College Road, at the Gateway Plaza.
Video shows a car teetering on the edge of the 25 foot by 25 foot hole in a Checker's restaurant parking lot.
Cell phone video shows a car teetering on the edge of a sinkhole in #Ocala. A couple somehow managed to escape https://t.co/zC3KZWjmzz pic.twitter.com/kdsDPP7uoQ— Matt Petrillo (@MattPetrillo) June 11, 2017
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The earthquake, which struck at 6:15 a.m. local time on Monday, was centered about 192 kilometers (119 miles) southwest of Bogor. It struck at a depth of about 10 kilometers (6.2 miles), making it a shallow earthquake.
Indonesia's seismological agency BMKG put the preliminary magnitude at 6.3, while the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) put the magnitude at 5.6. Many people across the western end of Java said the earthquake was strong enough to wake them up.
"Just laying on bed and shook hard enough to wake me up," one resident in Bogor told EMSC. Someone else in the city told the agency: "While at hospital, bed shock hard enough to wake me up."
Comment: Just over a week ago a giant dust storm swept through Khartoum, Sudan.