Dead whale found on beach near Cape Disappointment
A gray whale was found dead on the beach near Cape Disappointment Saturday.
Cape Disappointment is in Ilwaco on the Long Beach Peninsula on the southwest corner of Washington.
Experts with the Cascadia Research Collective and Portland State University are performing a necropsy, Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife spokesperson, Jennifer Sepulveda, told KOMO News.
WDFW said the whale was the fifth reported dead in Washington so far this year.
Sepulveda said the deaths are fairly common this time of year when gray whales are migrating north past Washington to their summer range and become stranded.
The Police of the Republic of Mozambique (PRM) has confirmed that the three-year-old child attacked by a pit-bull last Wednesday in the Tchumene 2 neighbourhood (Block 25A), in Matola municipality, Maputo province, has died in hospital.
PRM spokesperson Delfina Massingue reported that the 10th Police Station learned of the incident through the block chief and went to the scene immediately.
Upon arrival, the police found the child still alive and arranged for him to be transported to the Matola Provincial Hospital, where he was declared dead a few minutes later.
"The police's own canine unit, which specializes in cases of this type, was also deployed to the scene, together with the Protection Police, and managed to subdue the animal," the spokesperson reported.
Claude Strother wasn't expecting much action when he slipped into the Alabama woods on the afternoon of April 18. The 82-year-old turkey hunter had an hour to spare and figured he'd pass it by working a few calls from his Wilcox County property. What he got instead was the wildest hunt of his life, when a bobcat launched itself at the back of his head.
Strother had been feeling restless because his wife, Bettie, had gone to Birmingham for the day. So he decided to go hunting and planned to sit for about an hour and call every so often to try to strike up a gobbler.
"Instead of sitting by a big tree like I always do, I sat between two little trees about as big as my arm," Strother said in a Facebook reel posted by his daughter, DeAnn McGilberry. "It left my back and head exposed."
He'd only been calling for a few minutes when something hit him hard from behind.
"All of a sudden, I thought someone had hit me with a baseball bat," Strother said. "It hit behind my head. My whole head is sore. His claws hit right above my eyes. Not any real damage, although there was a lot of blood."
A magnitude 6.3 earthquake has struck near the coast of Ecuador, according to the European-Mediterranean Seismological Centre (EMSC).
The epicentre of the quake - which took place at about 6:45am local time (11:45 GMT) - was near the Pacific coast of the northwestern city of Esmeraldas, at a depth of 30km (18.6 miles), said the EMSC. Tremors were reported in 10 provinces of the country, even as far as the capital, Quito.
Images shared online show buildings visibly damaged in the earthquake. Damaged structures included 30 homes, a health centre and a military building, the facade of which partially collapsed, according to authorities.
Ecuador's daily El Comrecio newspaper reported power outages in Esmeraldas. The state energy company Petroecuador said that it had paused operations at the Esmeraldas refinery and SOTE pipeline as a precautionary measure following the earthquake.
President Daniel Noboa said in a social media post that the government is working to set up shelters and offer humanitarian assistance to residents, promising to help with "everything our people need".
Volcanic ashfall from an eruption of Bezymianny Volcano in Russia's far eastern Kamchatka Peninsula has blanketed three villages in the Milkovo District, local emergency services said on Thursday.
Volcanic ash is currently falling in three villages from emissions from Bezymianny Volcano, the regional branch of the Russian Ministry of Emergency Situations said on its Telegram channel, News.Az reports, citing Xinhua.
"While the livelihoods of residents have not been disrupted, emergency services strongly advise people to stay indoors unless absolutely necessary," it added.
The Far Eastern Branch of the Institute of Volcanology and Seismology of the Russian Academy of Sciences has modeled the projected path of the ash cloud. Their data indicate that volcanic particles are drifting toward another settlement, the village of Kozyrevsk in the Ust-Kamchatsky District.
The Bezymyanny volcano has emitted an ash column for the fifth time in 24 hours, with the latest plume rising 11 km above sea level. As a result, the aviation color code has been raised to "red," meaning a significant threat to all types of aircraft.
Bezymianny Volcano is situated about 40 km from the village of Klyuchi and 350 km from the regional capital city of Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky.
Following the heavy rains affecting the country. Here in Nairobi, six people died following the effects of the heavy downpour on the night of Easter Monday.
Three of them—a mother and her two children—were killed when a boulder crushed their house in Mathare.
The other three died in separate incidents across the city after being swept away by floods.
More than 500 families have fled their homes in Mukuru Kwa Reuben following flash floods that hit them in the night.
An earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 6.2 has shaken Istanbul, Turkey's emergency management agency said.
There were no immediate reports of any damage or injuries.
The earthquake had a shallow depth of about six miles, according to the United States Geological Survey.
Its epicentre was some 25 miles south-west of Istanbul in the Sea of Marmara.
It was followed by several aftershocks, including one measuring 5.3. The disaster and emergency management agency urged residents to stay away from buildings.
The total area of woodland burned by the massive wildfires that ravaged North Gyeongsang Province last month is twice the initial estimate of the state Korea Forest Service, officials said Thursday.
According to a government-led joint investigation, roughly 90,000 hectares of land were damaged by a wave of forest fires that swept across five cities and counties in North Gyeongsang Province in March.
Initially, the forest service had put the estimated damage at 45,157 ha, or roughly half the actual area.
The revised figure is also nearly four times the 23,794 ha damaged by wildfires on the east coast in 2000, which were the worst in the nation's history at the time.
It is unusual for the area of actual damage to be far greater than the initial estimate of areas affected by wildfires, as the latter always includes zones that are later determined to have not been burned.
The forest authorities plan to verify the exact extent of the damage and announce it in the coming days.
The U.S. Geological Survey reported that an earthquake with a magnitude of 6.2 struck 269 kilometres southeast of Pondaguitan, Philippines, on Tuesday at 10.17 GMT.
The tremor originated at a depth of 117.8 kilometres, with the epicentre located at coordinates 4.51 degrees north latitude and 127.76 degrees east longitude.
This seismic event marks another occurrence in the region, known for its tectonic activity due to its position along the Pacific Ring of Fire.
Further details about the impact or any damages are yet to be disclosed.
The Poás volcano, one of Costa Rica's most popular tourist attractions, erupted suddenly on Monday, arousing the interest of many social media users and amateur volcanologists.
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