A 10-year-old boy is in hospital with injuries to the head and chest after a shark grabbed him from a boat and attacked him off the coast of Tasmania, Australia.
The shark swam away when the boy's father jumped into the water, but the child suffered lacerations across his body, Ambulance Tasmania said on Friday.
He is in stable condition following the incident, which took place off Stanley on Tasmania's northwest coast.
"The boy, from the North-West, was aboard a six-metre vessel on a fishing expedition about five kilometres from shore with his father and two other men when a shark grabbed him from the boat," authorities said.
The Red Sea and the Gulf of Aden emerged as the result of a deep geological process that has been going on for the last 30 million years with Arabia moving away from Africa. But even these waters could soon merge into a new, yet-to-be-named ocean, as the world's hottest continent splits apart.
Something is going on underneath the African continent. It has been known for some time that the three tectonic plates, Nubian, Somali and Arabian, that lie beneath the continent's Afar region, have been very slowly peeling apart from each other. Now researchers are able to use satellite images and measurements to study the process more precisely and predict how a new ocean will soon flood the region, according to NBC News.
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A once-in-500-year storm has slammed Northland, flooding shops and forcing residents to evacuate homes.
Fire crews rushed out to 212 emergency callouts as the storm dumped 220mm on Whangārei.
The heavy falls caused slips and landslides that closed roads and limited water supplies.
Whangārei residents were this morning being asked to conserve water after the city's water treatment plants were "struggling to cope with the intense rainfall", Whangārei District Council said.
Residents in Onerahi and Whangārei Heads were advised not to drink or use tap water except in emergencies after a burst water main on Riverside Dr drained local supplies.
Comment: Earlier this year the army was deployed to Northland as it experienced its 'worst drought on record'.
World Disaster Compilations YouTube Fri, 17 Jul 2020 12:58 UTC
Flooding in Rostov-on-Don, Russia: July 17, 2020.
Rostov-on-Don is a city in southern Russia. The Rostov Regional Museum of Local History has collections on Cossack lore and war history. Nearby, Rostov Regional Museum of Fine Arts displays Russian art from the 16th - 20th centuries. The Rostov Academic Drama Theater of Maxim Gorky, built in the shape of a tractor, presents classic and contemporary plays. Outside, Theater Square has fountains and a Ferris wheel.
Russia, or the Russian Federation, is a transcontinental country located in Eastern Europe and Northern Asia.
The dog, described as a pit bull-type breed, was injured and was later euthanized, according to police
A toddler was killed and two adults were injured in an attack by the family dog, police in Rhode Island said Friday.
Police responded to an East Providence home at about 2:45 p.m. Thursday for a report of a disturbance and learned that a 15-month-old child had been bitten by a dog, East Providence police said in a Facebook post.
As the storm passed through Argentina and Chile, heavy snowfalls left international crossings closed, with walls on both sides of the route of up to 5 meters (16 1/2 ft) of snow (national 242); extreme temperatures with thermometers that have marked 23 negative degrees.
The storm in Ecuador in the Andean area of Píllaro, in the center of the country and entrance to the Llanganates National Park, left a snowy surprise of up to 30 cm (12 inches).
Since the end of June, Patagonia has been punished with heavy snowfalls and severe low temperatures which make it difficult or impossible to travel between towns and cities. Asphalt or gravel roads are the basis of these accumulations of ice and snow, which in many cases are very dangerous to travel. For example, National Route 40 at night, in some sections, is closed. Route 237 that goes to Neuquén also presents a similar panorama.
Disaster Compilations YouTube Fri, 17 Jul 2020 19:46 UTC
An earthquake of a magnitude of 5.9 degrees, according to consolidated information from the National Seismological Center, was recorded at 1.40 am this Friday in the Tarapacá Region.
The epicenter of the tremor was located 4 kilometers northeast of Alto Hospicio, while its hypocenter was recorded at a depth of 77 kilometers.
In that commune, in addition to Iquique and the town of La Tirana, the movement reached a degree VI intensity on the Mercalli scale.
Flooding in India's northeastern state of Assam has affected over 3.9 million people, officials said Friday.
The floods have hit 27 districts in the state.
According to officials at Assam Disaster Management Authority, the ongoing flooding has affected 3,218 villages and damaged cropland spreading over 13 million hectares, besides affecting over 3.3 million animals.
On Thursday, the floods claimed five lives, which took the death toll to 71.
A sinkhole near the intersection of Ramond Road and Chicopee Street has caused traffic snarls in the area.
The hole first appeared the morning of July 14 when the paved road gave way and a parked car sank about halfway into the hole.
No one was injured in the surprise incident, said Erin Hastings, executive director of Westcomm Regional Dispatch.
It is not clear what caused the sinkhole to open, but Hastings said dispatch was made aware of a nearby water main break that may have had something to do with it. The water main was repaired by 1 p.m.
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- Huge fissures tear through homes and infrastructure after heavy rains in Uganda
- Massive fissure discovered in Arizona desert
- Mysterious deep fissures appear in Bissarieh, Lebanon
- Another massive fissure opens on Hawaiian volcano; some defy evacuation order
- Giant fissures appear near epicenters of California's major earthquakes
- The unsolved mystery of the Earth blobs
- "Blobs": Scientists think they know why magnetic poles wandering
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- Behind the Headlines: Earth changes in an electric universe: Is climate change really man-made?
- Adapt 2030 Ice Age Report: Interview with Laura Knight-Jadczyk and Pierre Lescaudron
And check out SOTT's monthly report Earth Changes Summary - May 2020: Extreme Weather, Planetary Upheaval, Meteor Fireballs for the various phenomena occurring worldwide: