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The 8ft alligator was later found and euthanized, Sam Chappalear of the South Carolina Department of Natural Resources told the Island Packet newspaper.
The 8ft alligator was later found and euthanized, Sam Chappalear of the South Carolina Department of Natural Resources told the Island Packet newspaper.
Cassandra Cline, 45, of Hilton Head Island, was walking the dog along a residential area of Sea Pines Resort when she was attacked, state and local officials said. The 8ft alligator was later found and euthanized, Sam Chappalear of the South Carolina Department of Natural Resources told the Island Packet newspaper.
"It appears the alligator went after her dog and she tried to protect it," Chappalear said.
The dog was unharmed.
Blake Smith, 34, was leaving his house when he saw police cars and firetrucks in the neighborhood.
A 24-year-old man and a 70-year-old woman were killed on Sunday in the district of Korogwe by "elephants who had left the national Mkomazi park", said regional police spokesperson Edward Bukombe.
The little-known Mkomazi park runs on from Kenya's Tsavo National Park on the other side of the border, and is situated a short distance from Mount Kilimanjaro.
Clashes between humans and wild animals are a growing problem in parts of east Africa, as burgeoning populations seek to carve out a space for themselves.
Communities increasingly attack animals seen as a threat, while residents are injured or occasionally killed in these encounters, or have their crops destroyed.
Source: AFP
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The eruption happened at around 4.30am BST
The eruption happened at around 4.30am BST
The eruption, which occurred in the remote Andreanof Islands region of Alaska, happened at around 4.30am BST and had a depth of 27 miles.
There has been a total of 35 earthquakes in Alaska in the last two days, ranging from 2.5 in magnitude to 6.3 according to the USGS.
Tanaga Volcano, is located in Tanaga Island within the Andreanof archipelago and is one of three volcanoes on the island.
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Vadim Klabukov, 23, was ambushed by two bears that had earlier killed another bear and dug the prey into the ground along with some salmon.
Vadim Klabukov, 23, was ambushed by two bears that had earlier killed another bear and dug the prey into the ground along with some salmon.
The graduate of Irkutsk Agrarian University was ripped and gnawed to death by the pair of brown bears on Kamchatka peninsula in the far east of Russia.
He had been with a group of tourists at a spot where red salmon spawn - and left his backpack.
Without informing his fellow rangers he left the Ozerny base and went back alone to retrieve it - but was ambushed by two bears that had earlier killed another bear and dug the prey into the ground along with some salmon.
Klabukov unwittingly went close to the 'cannibal bears'' food stash and was immediately attacked without time to use his gun or after going close to to a spot where the predator had dug its salmon prey. He died on the spot.
His gnawed bones were found at the site where there were signs of a skirmish.
The experimental map created by the NOAA shows the current movement of the smoke across the U.S. This map (10am EDT on August 20, 2018) comes from NOAA and is an experimental model showing both upper level on near-surface smoke.
An experimental map created by the NOAA shows the current movement of the smoke across the U.S.
The West Coast of the United States is shrouded in smoke from the 110 large fires (this does not include smaller fires within each complex of fires) that have erupted across the region during this fire season.
Over 1.9 million acres are or have been ablaze, and smoke from these fires have traveled along the west to east jet stream and are bringing that smoke across the country as far as the East Coast,' NASA said.
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Red Sprites And Meteors August 14, 2018 @ Nýdek, Czech republic
Red Sprites And Meteors August 14, 2018 @ Nýdek, Czech republic
"The sky above my hometown Nýdek was criss-crossed by sprites and meteors," says Popek. "I created this composite to summarize the action."
Comment: In recent years it has been shown that there is actually a direct relationship between fireball activity, meteor dust in the atmosphere and our increasingly strange skies:
- Meteor dust sucking up electrons in atmosphere
- Scientists find that Meteor Dust Directly Affects the Weather
- Meteor smoke creates noctilucent clouds, and in recent years they're occurring much further south
- 'Strange' Arctic rainbow and red 'summer' sprites in winter - Rare atmospheric events on the increase
- Strange skies: Red Sprites in Oklahoma, aurora Steve in Canada, iridescent clouds in Illinois and noctilucent clouds in Denmark
- Strange but beautiful skies: Noctilucent 'tornado' cloud, auroras, double and twin rainbow plus a midnight rainbow
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Sixty-nine earthquakes, including 16 tremors registering 4.5 or above on the Richter scale, recently hit the area, according to the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), which recorded the events but did not issue a warning.
Several of the quakes registered significant impacts, including one that hit 5.0 and shook the area on Tuesday morning. Fiji appeared to be the most impacted, as five tremors above a 4.5 magnitude hit the small island.
Luckily, the earthquakes did not reach the western coast of the U.S., which partially sits on the Cascadia subduction zone, a fault that stretches from mid-Vancouver Island to Northern California. The recent tremors have sparked concern that "the Big One" could be near, according to The Daily Mail, but the USGS has made no mention of this.
Of the 69 earthquakes, 53 hit the area on Sunday, followed by the 16 subsequent tremors, impacting Indonesia, Bolivia, Japan and the aforementioned Fiji.
Comment: Some notable earthquakes over the past few days include:
- Magnitude 6.3 earthquake off coast of Oregon warns of Cascadia subduction zone slippage
- Shallow M6.7 earthquake hits Vanuatu
- Major 7.3 earthquake strikes northern Venezuela, causing minor damage - Largest quake in 118 years
- Yet MORE earthquakes hit Lombok, Indonesia - 6.9 and 6.3 magnitude quakes cause landslides
- Powerful magnitude 8.2 earthquake hits Pacific near Fiji
- The really big one: The next full Cascadia rupture will spell the worst natural disaster in North American history
- On June 7, FEMA will hold a massive drill to prepare for a 9.0 Cascadia Subduction Zone earthquake and tsunami
- Cascadia fault line in North America: A now still and silent subduction zone where disaster awaits
Videos capturing snow falling in the kingdom's Abha governorate went viral on social media earlier this week, while snow, rain, and thunderstorms have been affecting several parts of the kingdom recently, creating a phenomenon never witnessed by the country before.
On Sunday, severe rain and a sandstorm also hit the country's Mecca, a holy city which is currently hosting millions of Muslims who had arrived in the kingdom for this year's Hajj (pilgrimage) season.
عاجل | 🔴تراكم مميز للبرد قبل قليل على السودة في #ابها .. ما شاء الله #يوم_الترويه pic.twitter.com/MEWkJDK6Dn
— طقس العرب - السعودية (@ArabiaWeatherSA) August 19, 2018
Comment: It's hail, not snow.
Comment: Study: Arctic sea ice is thicker now than it was in 1955