Guatemala’s Fuego volcano belched black ash high into the sky at dawn on Friday, May 5th, with authorities placing local authorities from nearby villages on high alert.
Guatemala’s volcanic monitor, Insivumeh, said in a statement that thick columns of ash reached between 34,000 feet and 37,000 feet above sea level, amid loud explosions and extended new lava flows.
Toxic smog prompted London’s Mayor to issue a ‘very high’ air pollution alert for the first time today as heavy fog caused travel chaos for thousands of plane passengers – with more on the way tomorrow morning.
The deadly Mount Paektu, which straddles the borders of North Korea and China, is responsible for one of the deadliest eruptions in human history, and scientists fear that it could blow again.
Nearby nuclear weapons testing from the Kim Jong-un regime could trigger an eruption as rumblings could upset lava beneath the surface, scientists have previously stated.
Having not yet recovered from the severe earthquakes of recent months, central Italy was struck by 10 earthquakes in succession over a four-hour period Wednesday, all of them registering over 4.0 on the Richter Scale.
Worst affected is the Abruzzo region, still recovering from a 2009 quake, while towns hit in Marche and Lazio last year are also badly affected.
More than 300,000 people are without power in Abruzzo and traffic has been disrupted in the Marche quake zone.
SAN FRANCISCO (KPIX 5) — A swarm of more than 250 small earthquakes since New Year’s Eve near the California-Mexico border is raising concerns among scientists.
The strongest was a magnitude 3.9 underneath the town of Brawley, about 170 miles southeast of Los Angeles, according to the U.S. Geological Survey.
GeoScience Australia reported a magnitude-6.3 earthquake occurred about 20 kilometres from the island at 7:46am AEST.
Australian Antarctic Division’s Macquarie Island station leader Esther Rodewald said it was very noticeable.
“Good side-to-side shake, although I was in one of the earthquake-resistant buildings, so I may have felt it less than others,” she said.
AN EARTHQUAKE predictor, who claims to have foreseen several major tremors including the huge quake which claimed more than 8,000 lives in Nepal last year, has warned a “big one” of up to magnitude nine could strike within days.
Three volcanoes in Indonesia have all covered skies in a cloud of ash that is disrupting flights in several parts of the region.
Mount Rinjani on Lombok Island near Bali, the Sinabung volcano on Sumatra Island and Mount Gamalama in the Moluccas chain of islands have all erupted within the last three days.
PHOENIX — Monsoon storms in Arizona hit the Valley hard on Tuesday, causing flash flooding and water rescues, CBS Phoenix affiliate KPHO reported.
An elderly woman was rescued from her car, according to the Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office. There was another water rescue in which police officers pushed a woman’s vehicle off the road after it died in a flooded section of the road, police said.