Earth ChangesS


Cloud Precipitation

Five die in torrential rains, floods in Balochistan, Pakistan

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Five people were died on Sunday due to rains and floods in different areas of Balochistan. According to private media reports, two persons were died each in Khuzdar, Mach and Lasbela and one in Ketch due to rains and flood. The Provincial Disaster Management Authority (PDMA) officials said that several slum houses were damaged in Chagai and Panjgur while Bolan Panjra Bridge and Sonari Bridge were partially vanished by Kohlu floodwaters due to recent heavy rains.


Black Cat

70-year-old hiker fought off mountain lion in Utah

A cougar
© DreamstimeA cougar
A 70-year-old hiker escaped with cuts on his arms and legs after fighting off a mountain lion in north-central Utah, the state's Division of Wildlife Resources (DWR) says.

Evan Ray Nilsen was hiking in Diamond Fork Canyon near Spanish Fork on Thursday afternoon when he says the lion leapt on him.

"A mountain lion hit me right on the side, knocked me down the hill," Nilsen said. "I kind of hunched up or folded up, and it come down around behind me," Nilsen told KUTV.


Cloud Lightning

Lightning strike kills 4 children picking mangoes in Jharkhand, India

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Ranchi, April 30: In Sahibganj, four children were killed by lightning.

Ayesha Khatoon, 14, Nazrul Islam, 7, Zahid Alam, 6, and Tauqeer Alam, 10, were among those who died.

There was a loud thunderclap, and the thunder fell on the same tree where the children were standing to pick mangoes.

This thunderclap killed four children on the spot.

Comment: Another strike killed two people on April 27th in Bangladesh.


Doberman

Woman mauled to death by stray dogs in Madhya Pradesh, India

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In a shocking incident, a 55-year-old woman was mauled to death by stray dogs at a village in Madhya Pradesh's Seoni district on Saturday. Giving details, police said the incident was reported at Mundrai village under Kanhiwada police station limits, around 20 km from the district headquarters.

"A post-mortem conducted on the woman's body revealed that she had sustained deep wounds from animal bites. The doctor who conducted the procedure has said that the woman may have died due to dog bites. No other injury marks were found on the body," Kanhilwada police station in-charge Monis Singh Bais told news agency PTI.

Police said the matter will be clear once the forensic report arrives. In the meantime, the victim's relative said a pack of stray dogs was around a tree when the woman was heading towards a field at around 7 AM on Saturday.

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Waterspout forms offshore Sunny Isles Beach moving north into Hallandale Beach area, Florida

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A waterspout was seen Friday morning in the waters off the coast of Sunny Isles Beach.

While flying over for a different story, Chopper 6 caught video of the waterspout around 11 a.m. off the coast.

The spout lasted for several minutes and never moved closer to land.

It comes one week after a waterspout moved on shore at Hollywood Beach and quickly dissipated, National Weather Service officials said.


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Watch the moment a sinkhole swallows a Tesla Model Y in Taiwan

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A sinkhole has swallowed a Tesla Model Y in Taiwan.

CCTV footage captured the moment the SUV, which can cost up to USD $95,000, was sucked into the void too.

The footage, posted to Twitter by @notonlywater shows a section of road opening up and sucking the Tesla and nothing but the Tesla into it.

It's almost as if the sinkhole specifically targeted the Model Y.


Snowflake

Surprise "Spring Snow" in Reykjavík, Iceland

This was what Kópavogur looked like
© mbl.is/Árni SæbergThis was what Kópavogur looked like this morning, and it looks more like Christmas than the beginning of summer.
Capital area residents in Iceland opened their eyes this morning to a blanket of white outside their window. Snow began falling yesterday and measured 10 cm [3.9 in] deep this morning at the Icelandic Met Office. While residents of Reykjavík and the surrounding area are not unused to seeing some falling flakes at this time of year, Meteorologist Teitur Arason of the Icelandic Met Office says this much snow in late April is indeed a rare occurrence.


Hardhat

Grapefruit-sized hail bombards Texas as icy baseballs pelt Florida

A hailstone four inches across that fell near Waco, Tex., on Wednesday.
© Matthew WatersA hailstone four inches across that fell near Waco, Tex., on Wednesday.
Hail season is in full force across the Lower 48, and it's no surprise that multiple massive hailstorms have rolled through Texas this week, tossing missiles of ice bigger than softballs out of the sky. What is surprising, however, is where else the enormous hail has been reported — Florida — with several days of back-to-back rotating thunderstorms dropping tennis ball-sized hail and causing damage.

More hail is expected in the days ahead, particularly on Friday, when a level 3 out of 5 enhanced risk of severe weather has been drawn by the National Weather Service Storm Prediction Center for parts of Texas.

April into May marks the climatological peak for severe weather, including tornadoes, in the Lower 48. After a record-active start to the year that's already been responsible for 63 fatalities, there has been a pause for the past week or two. Signs point to that lingering until the second week of May, when dangerous storms could make a swift return.


Wolf

32 villagers injured after wolf attack in Madhya Pradesh, India

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Indian wolf
Panic gripped three villages, Limmedia, Gadgyam, and Khadkiya Nandi, all inside the Chenpur police station jurisdiction in Khargone district, when 32 residents were reportedly attacked by wolves.

Nine people were hospitalised at the Khargone district hospital, while 12 others were taken to the Jalgaon hospital in Maharashtra. The incident occurred between Monday and Tuesday night, while they were sleeping outside their homes.

After getting the information, a team from the Forest Department reached the village on Tuesday along with the police team and met the families of the injured in Limmedia, Gadgyam and Khadkiya Nandi villages. All these are border villages in Maharashtra.

Seismograph

2 strong earthquakes of magnitude 6 and 6.6 hit the Pacific Ocean south of Fiji

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The epicenter of the earthquake
Two strong earthquakes, the largest a 6.6, and smaller aftershocks have hit the Pacific Ocean far south of Fiji and Tonga, seismologists say. There is no threat of a tsunami.

The first quake, which had a magnitude of 6.0, struck at 3:13 p.m. Fiji time on Friday and was centered about 785 kilometers (490 miles) south of Suva, the capital of Fiji, or 790 km (490 mi) southwest of Tonga.

The U.S. Geological Survey said the earthquake was followed by a stronger earthquake, a 6.6, just moments later.
Both struck nearly 600 kilometers (370 miles) below the seabed, making them very deep earthquakes.

The earthquakes were followed by two moderate aftershocks during the next hour, both of which measured 5.5, according to the USGS. The first one struck at 3:34 p.m., the other one at 3:51 p.m.

There is no threat of a tsunami from Friday's earthquakes.