Evoking a sense of curiosity among the people, a halo appeared around the sun in the skies of Palakkad on Friday. A similar phenomenon was reported from Alappuzha and Kozhikode the other day. The halo appeared around the sun at Thursday noon in the skies of Alappuzha town. According to Met department, an atmospheric whirlpool formed in Tamil Nadu and Lakshadweep caused the halo.
The solar halo is formed when there is a surge in humidity in atmosphere. In fact it is the light which diffuses after hitting water particle in atmosphere that appears to be a halo. It is not a rare phenomenon.Atmospheric whirlpools are formed by concentration of air in a particular spot.
Comment: The increase in sun halos is likely a combination of possible comet dust loading and changes in the layers of the atmosphere is producing all sorts of anomalous phenomena.
A 6.0-magnitude earthquake struck off the Solomon Islands early Friday, US geologists said, but there were no initial reports of damage and no tsunami warnings were issued.
The quake struck 98 kilometres (60 miles) southeast of the capital Honiara in the early hours of Friday (around 1600 GMT Thursday) at a depth of approximately 23 kilometres (14 miles), USGS said.
The Solomons are part of the Pacific "Ring of Fire", a zone of tectonic activity known for its frequent earthquakes and volcanic eruptions.
In 2013, the Solomons were hit by a tsunami after an 8.0-magnitude quake, leaving at least 10 people dead and thousands homeless after buildings were destroyed.
The Colima Volcano continues to be active, sending a 1,500-meter column of smoke skyward at 7:08 this morning.
Civil Protection's national coordinator, Luis Felipe Puente Espinosa, reported the eruption on his Twitter account, advising that the smoke, with a low ash content, was moving southwest.
The ash expelled by the volcano consists of material less than two millimeters in diameter and moves with the wind. But rock projectiles from the Volcano of Fire, as it is also known, are a different matter.
They can be up to 50 millimeters in diameter and are sent shooting out of the crater at high speed, before falling to the ground. This volcanic material can cause damage and injuries in populated areas, particularly if they are hot, which can result in fires.
Biologists will perform a necropsy Thursday on a dead whale that washed up near Fremont to determine what caused its death, according to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service.
Biologists will perform a necropsy Thursday on a dead whale that washed up near Fremont to determine what caused its death, according to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service.
The 25-foot long carcass was discovered washed up on a rocky beach in the Don Edwards San Francisco Bay National Wildlife Refuge on Tuesday just north of the Dumbarton Bridge, according to East Bay Regional Park District spokeswoman Carolyn Jones.
A park ranger spotted the whale carcass about 150 to 200 yards south of the Alameda Creek Channel, Jones said.
"We had a lot of whales washing up on shore," said Mary Jane Schramm from the National Marine Sanctuaries, Gulf of the Farallones.
The Telica volcano located in northwestern Nicaragua has once again erupted, after it started spewing smoke on Wednesday.
According to the AFP, civil defense officials in the region have described dense volcanic ash settling over the six surrounding villages. Evertz Delgadillo, a member of the local municipal disaster prevention committee, said the first explosion lasted 20 minutes and was followed by three other shorter explosions.
Back in May, the 90-mile-high volcano erupted twice.
The Nicaraguan government has previously shown some hesitancy in ordering the evacuation of the people who live near the active volcano.
Some mainland residents at an unknown location run for cover.
Hongkongers reported feeling a tremor late last night when an earthquake of magnitude 3.8 shook the southeastern mainland city of Shantou in Guangdong province.
The Hong Kong Observatory said the earthquake struck at 10.57pm near the coast of southeastern China.
The epicentre was located about 110km west-southwest of Shantou, or about 180km east-northeast of Hong Kong.
The depth of the focus was 16km, according to the mainland's Earthquake Networks Centre.
A moderate earthquake has been recorded off the northwest tip of Vancouver Island.
Natural Resources Canada says it hit at 6:48 a.m.
It was centred in the Queen Charlotte fault region, about 200 kilometres west of Port Hardy.
The US Geological Survey says the shaker occurred at a depth of 10 kilometres and had a magnitude of 5.5, although Natural Resources Canada lists a preliminary magnitude of 5.7.
All experts agree the quake would only have been lightly felt and would not have caused any damage or spawned any damaging waves.
The geological survey says more than 150 earthquakes of magnitude 5 or greater have occurred along this fault line over the last 40 years, but only a handful — including two off Haida Gwaii in 2012 and 2013 — were strong enough to be felt or cause damage.
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Comment: The increase in sun halos is likely a combination of possible comet dust loading and changes in the layers of the atmosphere is producing all sorts of anomalous phenomena.