A dead whale was spotted floating in the water in Chesapeake Bay west of the Lynnhaven Fishing Pier Sunday.

The whale was brought ashore by members of the Virginia Aquarium's Response Team earlier this afternoon, but the reason for the whale dying and other details are not known at this time.

The Virginia Aquarium did confirm that is would be performing a necropsy at the beach the whale was brought ashore on Monday from 8:30 a.m. to 11:30 a.m.

The huge quake was recorded 6.0-magnitude and measured 57.8km in depth.

It hit 78 miles east of the town of Rabaul at 7.11am UTC.

The country is situated on the Pacific Ring of Fire - at the point of collision of several tectonic plates.

In the region, a number of active volcanoes and eruptions are frequent.

A rapidly intensifying storm has brought wind gusts in excess of 90 mph to Alaska's Aleutian Islands this weekend while also presenting spectacular views on satellite imagery.

The storm easily met the criteria for what meteorologists call bombogenesis, which is an atmospheric pressure drop of 24 millibars in 24 hours. In general, a lower atmospheric pressure correlates with a more intense low-pressure system.

In the case of this weekend's storm, the pressure dropped an incredible 55 millibars in 24 hours (1002 millibars 10 p.m. Friday Alaska time to 947 millibars 10 p.m. Saturday Alaska time). The pressure reading continued to drop and was at 944 millibars as of early Sunday, making it the strongest storm on Earth based on pressure at that time.

Winds gusted up to 92 mph and 91 mph at Atka Island and Adak Island, respectively, as the storm swept into the Bering Sea late Saturday into early Sunday. The winds on Atka Island gusted in excess of 70 mph at least once per hour for 12 consecutive hours (11 p.m. Saturday Alaska time to 11 a.m. Sunday Alaska time).

Rare sighting of a waterspout in the Caribbean Island Aruba.

A man was bitten by a shark Friday when fishing in Stillwater Cove near Pebble Beach in Monterey County, sheriff's officials said.

The man was spear-fishing when he was attacked by the shark, suffering massive blood loss, sheriff's officials said. Two off-duty sheriff's deputies luckily were also fishing in the cove and they took care of the man, as did an on-duty deputy summoned to the scene.

One of the deputies on the scene, trained in emergency field medicine, applied a tourniquet to the man's leg, stopping the blood loss, sheriff's officials said.

The earth-facing plasma filament erupted overnight. This morning we are tracking the eruption and will have updates on potential earth impacts coming up... As we descend into the Grand Solar Minimum many people are worried about a colossal CME erupting from the sun. In recent weeks it is becoming quite evident that plasma filaments on the spotless sun are just as ominous and dangerous as sunspots. Additionally, it appears that Earth facing plasma filament destabilization is increasing as we enter this uncharted territory.


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Severe turbulence injured 11 passengers and wrecked inside a plane's cabin during a 13 hour flight this week. Pictures of the aftermath of the Eva Air flight from Taiwan to Chicago show bags, belongings and food scattered across the floor and in the galley.

When the Boeing 777 plane landed in Chicago, eight flight attendants and three passengers were taken directly to hospital with injuries including sprained ankles and bruises.

The pictures also show flight crew struggling to stand as the turbulence rocked the plane.

The Mirror reported turbulence started an hour and twenty minutes into the flight.

Those out for a stroll along the Causeway coast yesterday afternoon were in for a shock, after a six-metre long whale washed up on the beach.

A member of the public reported the sighting to the Coleraine Coastguard on Friday afternoon at Runkerry Strand, near the town of Portballintrae.

Personnel from the coastguard investigated the sighting and unfortunately, on arrival, the animal was already dead.

The whale carcass will now be examined by the Environment Agency before it is removed by the council.

There are unconfirmed reports that the mammal may be a Minke Whale.

One of the more hopeful ecological stories of recent years - the slow restoration of numbers of the North Atlantic right whale - has taken a disastrous turn for the worse. Marine biologists have found their population has plunged abruptly in the past few years and that there may now only be around 100 reproductively mature females left in the sea. Many scientists fear the species could soon become the first great whale to become extinct in modern times.

The principal cause for the North Atlantic right whale's precipitous decline has been the use of increasingly heavy commercial fishing gear dropped on to the sea bed to catch lobsters, snow crabs and hogfish off the east coast of North America. Whales swim into the rope lines attached to these sea-bed traps and their buoys and become entangled. In some cases hundreds of metres of heavy rope, tied to traps weighing more than 60kg, have been found wrapped around whales. "We have records of animals carrying these huge loads - which they cannot shake off - for months and months," said Julie van der Hoop, of Aarhus University in Denmark.

"In some cases they have to burn more than 25,000 calories a day to carry these great weights around with them. Some whales die. In other cases, divers have been able to free them but the whales are often left very thin and undernourished. As a result, they cannot reproduce."

The North Atlantic right whale, Eubalaena glacialis, derives its name from the fact that early whalers considered them to be the "right" whales to hunt - they are slow swimmers, linger in coastal waters and float after being killed. Vast numbers were slaughtered across the Atlantic, with only a few pods surviving along the east coast of the United States and Canada. Numbers dropped - possibly to a population as low as 100 - until in 1935 it was declared illegal to hunt them.

Had Hema Devi paid heed to warnings of forest officials in Uttarakhand's Tanakpur, not to venture into the jungle to collect fodder and firewood following reports that a suspected man-eater was on the prowl in the area, she would been alive today.

Hema Devi, a forest villager, was mauled to death by a tiger on Wednesday afternoon inside the forest where she had gone to collect fodder, allegedly disregarding the warnings.

Despite reports of the presence of the big cat in the area, women from surrounding villages entered the forest twice every day to collect firewood and fodder.

On Wednesday morning officials asked the women not venture into the forest, warning them about the presence of the suspected man-eater.

In a video provided by the forest department, two officials--Nirmal Khulbe and Kailash Bisht-- are heard asking the women not to venture into the forest.