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India
Avalanche Kills Ten, 20 Missing
At least ten climbers are confirmed dead in the wake of an avalanche in the Indian Himalayas on Tuesday; at least 20 others are still missing, with poor weather conditions hindering rescue operations. The avalanche occurred around 8:45am (03:15 GMT) in the northern state of Uttarakhand, at an elevation of about 16,000 ft. (4,880 m). The Uttarakhand state police chief reported the group was hit by the avalanche on a peak located in the Gangotri range of the Garhwal Himalayas. According to the Nehru Institute of Mountaineering, the climbers were part of a group of 34 trainees and seven instructors. The National Disaster Response Force and the Indian army have deployed teams to help with the rescue efforts. Avalanches are common in the mountainous regions of Uttarakhand; just last year, a glacier burst resulting in a flash flood that killed more than 200 people.
This map depicts the location of an avalanche that occurred in the Indian Himalayas, killing at least four people. Click on the map to learn more.
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Graphic Source: Times of India
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Brazil
Presidential Election In Run-Off
Brazil’s first round of presidential elections has resulted in a run-off between the top two candidates: former president Luis Inácio Lula da Silva and incumbent Jair Bolsonaro. The Brazilian constitution requires a presidential candidate to exceed 50% of the vote in the first round to win the election outright. The run-off to decide the winner between Lula da Silva and Bolsonaro will be held on October 30th. The face-off is widely regarded as the most important election in decades for Brazil and has stirred widespread international attention.
This map depicts the results of the first round of Brazil’s presidential election. Red denotes states won by Lula da Silva and blue denotes states won by incumbent President Bolsonaro. Click on the map to learn more.
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Graphic Source: BBC Brazil
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United States
Dinosaur-Killing Meteor’s Tsunami
A new study published in the journal AGU Advances, led by scientists at the University of Michigan, has produced a clearer picture of the effects of the miles-wide asteroid that struck Earth at Chicxulub and set in motion the extinction of the dinosaurs species 65 million years ago. The researchers found the asteroid would have produced a wave immediately around the impact reaching 2.8 miles (4.5 km) high, and the following tsunami almost one mile (1.5 km) high would have swept across the World Ocean, impacting the entirety of what is now the North Atlantic. As there was no Central American isthmus connecting North America and South America at the time, the tsunami would have also swept down into the South Pacific, reaching as far as modern-day Australia.
This map depicts the global effects of the tsunami that resulted from the impact of the Chicxulub meteor which effected the extinction of the dinosaurs sixty-five million years ago. Click on the map to learn more.
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Q: What Chinese village is home to the fossils of Peking Man, the earliest remnants of human habitation in Beijing?
A: Zhoukoudian, China
The village of Zhoukoudian is an archaeological site in the Beijing municipality which has yielded the largest known collection of fossils from the extinct hominin Homo erectus. Around 40 incomplete skeletons of Peking man have been found here, including the remains of modern humans, Homo sapiens. These discoveries proved Zhoukoudian to be a vital geographic point in the study of human evolution. The hominin remains were found in a series of caves in a limestone cliff known as Dragon Bone Hill. In 1921, Swedish geologist J. Gunnar Andersson was fascinated by the tales of “dragon bones” that local people found in the caves and used for medicinal purposes. When exploring, Andersson found pieces of quartz that he believed were used as early cutting tools. His discovery bolstered his theory that the dragon bones were in fact human fossils. Six years later, Canadian anthropologist Davidson Black found a hominin molar on site which came from the previously unknown group, which he named Sinanthropus pekinensis (Peking man). Large scale excavations followed two years later.
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Q: What U.S. state extends across the three physiographic regions, the Coastal Plain, the Piedmont, and the Appalachian Mountains?
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