A three-and-a-half-year-old girl was mauled to death by a leopard in Khaneri village in Rampur, 135 km from here, on Friday night.

Riya was attacked when she went out to answer the call of nature. Her mother realised Riya was missing when she did not respond to her calls. The mother immediately raised the alarm and a search was launched. However, night-long effort by local residents and Forest Department staff bore no result.

The mutilated body of the girl was found on Saturday morning, about 500 m away from where she went missing.

The Divisional Forest Officer (DFO), Rampur, sanctioned an interim relief of Rs 25,000 for the family.

A sinkhole on one of Longview busiest roads is delaying traffic.

The 2 1/2 foot wide, 3 foot deep hole is in the outside northbound lane of the 1600 block of Judson Road, between Iris Circle and Montclair Street. Longview police and street crews are on the scene, barricading the lane and waiting to fix the problem.

Judson Road handles more than 17,000 cars a day.

Another magnitude 4.2 earthquake has occurred off the coast of Oregon.

In the past 7 days, up to 2am CDT April 11, 2015, there have been a series of noteworthy earthquakes along the Southern, and Western portions of the North American Craton.

A series of earthquakes began off the coast of Oregon at the fresh undersea lava fields, moving South to the undersea lava fields (and actual volcano) off the coast of Northern California, moving further South to Pisgah Volcano + Red Mountain, then even further South to Cerro Prieto Volcano in Baja California/Mexico border region.

These volcanic locations are VERY old, and have been dormant for eons. To see earthquake activity at these locations means pressure is building in the region for a larger release of energy.

Information on this current 4.2M in Oregon from the USGS

Here is the 4.2M event off the coast of Oregon from April 11 2015

4.7M off the coast of California near the Gorda ridge volcanic fields

4.3M + 4.0M back to back events at Cerro Prieto volcano in Baja

Another woman trampled to death in elephant attack at Mayapur at Surajpur district on Tuesday. Herd of about 35 elephants present in the region have already destroyed a dozen homes in last two days.

Forest officials said that 25-year-old Pushpa was going towards her home with her two and half-year-old daughter when elephants attacked on her from behind. The incident took place early in morning when it was dark, official added.

Pushpa was pushed and chased few meters and she threw her daughter off the ground, before tuckers trampled her to death. Officials say it's eleventh death in tusker attack in north Chhattisgarh, while on Sunday, three women were also trampled to death at Korba district.

The one common element in recent weather has been oddness. The West Coast has been warm and parched; the East Coast has been cold and snowed under. Fish are swimming into new waters, and hungry seals are washing up on California beaches.

A long-lived patch of warm water off the West Coast, about 1 to 4 degrees Celsius (2 to 7 degrees Fahrenheit) above normal, is part of what's wreaking much of this mayhem, according to two University of Washington papers to appear in Geophysical Research Letters, a journal of the American Geophysical Union.

"In the fall of 2013 and early 2014 we started to notice a big, almost circular mass of water that just didn't cool off as much as it usually did, so by spring of 2014 it was warmer than we had ever seen it for that time of year," said Nick Bond, a climate scientist at the UW-based Joint Institute for the Study of the Atmosphere and Ocean, a joint research center of the UW and the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.

Bond coined the term "the blob" last June in his monthly newsletter as Washington's state climatologist. He said the huge patch of water - 1,000 miles in each direction and 300 feet deep - had contributed to Washington's mild 2014 winter and might signal a warmer summer.

Ten months later, the blob is still off our shores, now squished up against the coast and extending about 1,000 miles offshore from Mexico up through Alaska, with water about 2 degrees Celsius (3.6 degrees Fahrenheit) warmer than normal. Bond says all the models point to it continuing through the end of this year.

The new study explores the blob's origins. It finds that it relates to a persistent high-pressure ridge that caused a calmer ocean during the past two winters, so less heat was lost to cold air above. The warmer temperatures we see now aren't due to more heating, but less winter cooling.

Co-authors on the paper are Meghan Cronin at NOAA in Seattle and a UW affiliate professor of oceanography, Nate Mantua at NOAA in Santa Cruz and Howard Freeland at Canada's Department of Fisheries and Oceans.

The authors look at how the blob is affecting West Coast marine life. They find fish sightings in unusual places, supporting recent reports that West Coast marine ecosystems are suffering and the food web is being disrupted by warm, less nutrient-rich Pacific Ocean water.

A day after two youths were killed in lightning in Dhamnagar area of Bhadrak district, nature's fury claimed seven more lives today as seven people, including two brothers, were killed in lightning strike across Odisha.

While three persons were killed in Jajpur district, two lost their lives in Khurda and two siblings were killed in Baleswar. Five others were critically injured in lightning strikes across the state.

In Jajpur district, one person was killed at Nalipur under Balichandrapur police station limits, another died at Chitta Hata under Sadar Thana and a third person was killed at Aruha village under Dharmasala.

Transportation officials say crews are working to clear a southern Ohio highway after a boulder the size of a two-story house fell onto the road overnight.

Kathleen Fuller with the Ohio Department of Transportation says the rock fell around 2:30 a.m. Friday onto the westbound lane of U.S. 52 near Coal Grove, across the Ohio River from Ashland, Kentucky. The boulder's estimated to be about 1,500 tons.

Officials say the area is susceptible to falling rock, as cliffs border the north side of the highway.

The blaze began near the base of Mangerton Mountain at around 5.30pm on Wednesday.

The fire quickly spread over 100 acres across the foot of the mountain.

Fire crews from Killarney, Castleisland, Kenmare and Killorglin were deployed to the area.

It took 30 firefighters around 12 hours to bring the blaze under control.

The fire was extinguished around 6am on Thursday.

The cause of the blaze is not yet known.

Gardaí are investigating the cause of the fire to determine if it was started maliciously.

Firefighters estimate they have been called out to at least 50 gorse fires in the area since 1 March.

Thirty firefighters are battling a wildfire which spread across two square miles of moorland overnight.

The blaze began in gorseland near the water treatment works at Dornoch in the Highlands at midday on Thursday.

Dry conditions, strong winds and low humidity helped the fire spread and firefighters have been faced with challenging conditions.

Twenty-five firefighters are tackling a wildfire which broke out near Tongue at around 8.20am and there have also been blazes in Cluny, Benbecula, Lochinver and Skye.

Scottish Fire and Rescue Service incident commander John MacDonald said: "We are dealing with a very protracted wildfire which covers a wide area and where access is difficult in places.

"I would like to pay tribute to the commitment and effort of fire crews who have been dealing with this incident. I'd also like to thank local residents for their assistance and support."

Eight fire engines were scrambled along with a water carrier and support vehicles. Six pumps remained on scene overnight.

Terror prevailed at Korba forest region when three women were trampled to death at two separate spots by a herd of elephant on Sunday. It is apparently tenth death reported due to tusker attack in span of four months in northern Chhattisgarh, officials said. The incident took place at Kartala forest region when a woman who had gone to Charmar's Baridand's forest to collect Mahua fruit and was chased for about half a kilometer by herd of 10-12 elephants.

One of the elephants then caught her in the trunk and throwing her on the ground, she was trampled to death. Few kilometers ahead, the herd chased other two women at Chorbhatti forest in the same style, while the women were collecting forest produce and were crushed by elephants, JR Nayak, Korba divisional forest officer said. Police team and forest officials rushed to spot to find the three women dead, however, families of deceased were provided instant relief compensation of Rs 10,000.