Earth Changes
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Charging elephant
Charging elephant
The incidents took place late Sunday evening in Pathalgaon forest range of the district, located around 450 km from the state capital Raipur, he said.
As per the official, a 50-year-old native of Saraitola village, identified as one Dilsai Ram Chauhan, was returning on foot after work from nearby Dumarbahar village when he was attacked by an elephant.
Despite being advised by forest personnel not to take that route because of the presence of jumbos, Chauhan took the route, he said.
Saudi Arabia's National Center of Meteorology had expected the continuation of thunderstorms accompanied by heavy winds in the regions of Mecca, Al Baha, and Asir, extending to parts of the regions of Ha'il and Al Jawf.
Region HOKKAIDO, JAPAN REGION
Date time 2021-01-12 02:39:41.8 UTC
Location 43.72 N ; 140.08 E
Depth 200 km
Distances 95 km WNW of Otaru, Japan / pop: 143,000 / local time: 11:39:41.8 2021-01-12
80 km NW of Yoichi, Japan / pop: 22,700 / local time: 11:39:41.8 2021-01-12
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"I was running around my apartment like a maniac, looking for pants and camera equipment," says photographer Markus Varik of Tromsø, Norway. " I didn't have enough time to go to completely dark location--but I didn't need to. The auroras were so bright."
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The epicenter
The epicenter
The earthquake struck at 5:33 a.m. local time on Tuesday and was centered in Lake Khövsgöl in northern Mongolia, about 55 kilometers (34 miles) from the border with Russia, or 288 km (179 miles) southwest of Irkutsk.
The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) put the earthquake's magnitude at 6.7, down from an earlier estimate of 6.8. It said the quake struck at a depth of just 10 km (6 miles) and was felt across the region on both sides of the border.
The area near the epicenter is not heavily populated but is home to a number of villages near the lake, including Hatgal and Turt, which have a combined population of up to 5,000 people. There were no immediate reports of casualties.
Fifty centimeters of snow has accumulated on the cirque just below the summit of Snow Mountain, forcing most hiking teams to retreat to the 369 mountain hut for safety.
The Shei-Pa National Park Headquarters said on Monday (Jan. 11) that according to the reports of patrolling volunteers, Snow Mountain received considerable snowfall during the cold wave last week. After a letup in the daytime on Sunday, snow began to fall on the mountain again around 9 p.m. Sunday night, which continued all of Monday, according to a CNA report.
By Monday evening, there was 50 cm of snow accumulation on the cirque, 30 cm in the Black Forest, and 25 cm at the 369 mountain hut.
A lightning detector in the National Lightning Detector Network.
Vaisala owns the National Lightning Detection Network(NLDN), which it developed in 1989. Around 100 lightning sensors evenly distributed across the U.S. can count every lightning bolt, whether from cloud-to-cloud or cloud-to-ground.
Vaisala counted up all of the lightning pulses across the country, and put together this interesting report.
The NLDN counted 2,317,693 in-cloud and cloud-to-ground lightning pulses across Michigan in 2020.
The map below shows the density of lightning pulses. Chris Vagasky, Meteorologist, Lightning Applications Manager at Vaisala, defines pulses as the total of in-cloud strikes and cloud-to-ground strikes.
Snow in Belgrade, Serbia
In Serbia, authorities on Monday started clearing up tons of garbage that was clogging a southwestern lake after it was swept off from landfills by overflowing rivers. Emergency measures were announced in the southern Doljevac and Vlasotince municipalities, where rescue teams helped more than two dozen people evacuate their homes.
The state RTS television reported that numerous homes, barns and fields were flooded and villages were left without drinking water after days of rain and snow around the southern town of Leskovac and nearby areas.
In central and eastern Serbia, thousands of people were left without electricity as heavy snow collapsed distribution lines. Serbia's state power company EPS said Monday they were working to restore power.
Comment: A day later in the same country a tea garden worker was killed by elephant in Alipurduar, West Bengal. Meanwhile over in Kenya a wildlife tour operator died as a result of a similar attack.