The earthquakes occurred in the Borrego Springs area, about 32 miles southeast of Palm Springs. According to the U.S. Geological Survey, a 4.8 earthquake followed by a 4.9 quake struck just after 8 p.m.

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Link to this movie

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On May 30, at about 4.30 p.m. local time, researchers saw the whale off the coast of Spain, near Barcelona.
Comparative photographs confirm it was the same one that was seen off Israel (then again, it would be an even more remarkable story if it were not, and there were more than one gray whale swimming around the Mediterranean).

The whale, having somehow found its way through the Strait of Gibraltar and traveled east as far as it could, has now made it back to the western side of the sea.

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Today, June 12th at 0055 UT, new sunspot 1081 unleashed an impulsive M1-class solar flare. NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory recorded the blast in high-resolution:

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Driver has lucky escape after sinkhole swallows up car on busy China motorway

The vehicle was trapped, with its front wheels sunk into the chasm, when the gap, measuring about 13ft-wide, suddenly appeared.

Aerial, ground view of Giant Sinkhole crater after Agatha floods Guatemala City

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I R I S - seismic monitor

The quake prompted the Pacific Tsunami Warning Center to issue a tsunami watch for the Indian Ocean.

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