By Tomi Soetjipto
Reuters Mon May 15, 2006 KETEP, Indonesia - Indonesia's Mount Merapi volcano exploded with clouds of hot gas and ash rain early on Monday, sending some villagers who had been reluctant to leave scurrying for safety.
Gray ash covered some vegetation and rooftops in the area of Ketep, 10 kms (six miles) from the base of the mountain, and many houses appeared deserted after residents evacuated. Not everyone was gone, however. Some people cleaned ashes off their houses and others opened shops, while commercial mini-buses continued to run. |
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by Jason Gutierrez
AFP Sat May 13, 2006 MANILA - Tropical storm Chanchu continues to lash the Philippines, leaving at least 21 people dead as heavy rains triggered landslides and left parts of the country under water.
Floodwaters submerged two provinces in the central Visayas region and several villages in Leyte's Sogod town were cut off after landslides and floods damaged a bridge and vital highway. |
Reuters
Sat May 13, 2006 DHAKA - At least 10 Bangladeshis were killed and dozens of others injured in lightning strikes during a violent rainstorm, weather officials said on Saturday.
They said the country experienced this year's heaviest rainfall on Friday, including about 50 mm (two inches) recorded in the capital Dhaka. The deaths were reported from outside Dhaka -- in Gopalganj, Patuakhali and Jessore towns -- and were mostly caused by lightning during the 80 kph (50 mph) storm. Strong winds flattened many homes, damaged crops and uprooted trees and electric poles, local officials said. |
By DAVID TIRRELL-WYSOCKI
Associated Press May 14, 2006 CONCORD, N.H. - Gov. John Lynch declared a state of emergency and activated the National Guard on Sunday as torrential rain washed out roads, flowed over dams and forced people from their homes.
"It's a very serious situation," Lynch said, adding that forecasters were predicting 12 to 15 inches of rain by the end of the storm in parts of southern New Hampshire. "It continues to change and the situation continues to worsen." Some areas had seen 7 inches of rain by midday Sunday and forecasters said up to 5 more inches might come during the day. |
AP
Sunday, May 14, 2006 A plane carrying U.S. Sen. Edward M. Kennedy from western Massachusetts to his home on the coast was struck by lightning Saturday and had to be diverted to New Haven, Conn., his spokeswoman said.
The eight-seat Cessna Citation 550 plane lost all electrical power, including communications, and the pilot had to fly the plane manually, according to spokeswoman Melissa Wagoner. No one was hurt. The Democrat had just delivered the commencement address at the Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts in North Adams and was on his way to his Cape Cod home when the plane was struck around 4 p.m., she said. The jet landed safely at New Haven at 4:11 p.m., said Federal Aviation Administration spokeswoman Arlene Murray. A report was filed with the agency, which will look into the incident, she said. Kennedy planned to stay in Connecticut overnight because he was scheduled to return to western Massachusetts on Sunday to deliver a commencement address at Springfield College, Wagoner said. |
15/05/2006
The bodies of two women, both killed by alligators, have been found less than a week after a similar death in Florida, a state that had seen just 17 confirmed fatal attacks by the animals in the previous 57 years.
A 23-year-old woman staying at a secluded cabin near a spring that feeds into the Lake George was attacked yesterday at a recreation area, said Marion County Fire-Rescue Capt. Joe Amigliore. The lake is about 80 kilometres southeast of Gainesville. "The people she was staying with came around and found her inside the alligator's mouth," Amigliore said. "They jumped into the water and somehow pulled her out of the gator's mouth." The woman, whose name was not released, was pronounced dead at the scene. Her stepfather, who had tried to help her, was treated on the scene for a hand injury, said Amigliore. In Pinellas County, the death of another woman whose body was found early yesterday in a canal 30 kilometers north of St. Petersburg also was blamed on an alligator, authorities said. |
BY MICHAEL CABBAGE
The Orlando Sentinel Sun, May. 14, 2006 CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. - Mark your calendar for Sunday, April 13, 2036. That's when a 1,000-foot-wide asteroid named Apophis could hit the Earth with enough force to obliterate a small state.
The odds of a collision are 1-in-6,250. But while that's a long shot at the racetrack, the stakes are too high for astronomers to ignore. For now, Apophis represents the most imminent threat from the worst type of natural disaster known, one reason NASA is spending millions to detect the threat from this and other asteroids. |
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