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© Michael B. JaucianMayon Volcano in Albay province is Bicol region’s top attraction.
Alert Level 1 means Mount Mayon is having an "abnormal condition."
"Although this means that presently no magmatic eruption is imminent, it is strongly advised that the public refrain from entering the 6-kilometer radius Permanent Danger Zone due to the perennial life-threatening dangers of rockfalls, landslides/avalanches at the middle to upper slope, sudden ash puffs and steam-driven or phreatic eruptions from the summit," the Phivolcs 8 a.m. bulletin stated.
Phivolcs resident volcanologist Ed Laguerta said the agency is closely monitoring the surge of volcanic earthquakes currently taking place for the past three days, specifically the parameters that could trigger the volcanic tremors.
Someone captured video of the funnel cloud outside the junior high and high school.
The National Weather Service in Grand Rapids confirmed the sighting of the funnel cloud in a Facebook post.
The National Weather Service explained it started as a water spout over Lake Michigan, underneath a developing shower which grew tall enough to form graupel.
"Waterspouts dissipate fairly quickly after reaching shore, but the funnel cloud can persist and any remnant ground circulation could produce a wind gust over 50 mph before diminishing," the National Weather Service wrote.
Graupel is granular snow pellets, and also sometimes called soft hail. The National Weather Service confirmed you can see graupel in the video as well.
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Authorities in Piedmont and Lombardy are seeking to have states of emergency declared for their regions, which have been hit by an abnormally dry summer, little autumn rainfall and winds that have helped spread the flames.
Interior Minister Marco Minniti held a crisis meeting Monday with emergency authorities in Turin, capital of the hard-hit Piedmont region, and said evidence points to arson as the cause for at least some of the fires.
The fires have contributed to a thick cloud of choking smog that has covered northern Italy for days.
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The quake struck at a depth of 32.4 kilometres (20 miles) and was centred 32 kilometres west of Hila on the island of Ambon, the US Geological Survey (USGS) reported.
There were no immediate reports of injuries and no tsunami warning was issued. The USGS website assessed the likelihood of deaths or major damage as low.
"There was damage and it is still being monitored," Mochammad Riyadi, an official at Indonesia's meteorology and geophysics agency, told AFP.
The earthquake was one of five tremors that rattled Maluku province within 30 minutes, according to the agency. The others were all under magnitude six.
"People panicked and scattered out of houses and buildings," said national disaster mitigation agency spokesman Sutopo Purwo Nugroho.
Comment: Earlier today a shallow magnitude 7.0 earthquake struck off New Caledonia in the South Pacific.
People are seen outside JR Nagoya Station on Sunday afternoon
The season's 22nd typhoon was moving 170 kilometers west of Miyake Island in central Japan as of 6 p.m. Sunday, with an atmospheric pressure of 975 hectopascals, it was heading north-northeast with winds of up to 162 km per hour.
In Kyushu's Miyazaki Prefecture, more than 400 millimeters of rain was recorded in the 24 hours to Sunday morning, a record in the region.
The Japan Meteorological Agency warned the public to expect high winds, flooding of rivers and mudslides in wide areas of Honshu. The typhoon is expected to become an extratropical cyclone by Monday morning.
© Piyarach ChongcharoenAn aerial view shows connected sinkholes within a few metres of the Banbonkaokangriang School grounds in Sri Sawat district of Kanchanaburi on Saturday
The sinkholes are threatening Banbonkaokangriang School, which educates 187 children from kindergarten to grade 9 in tambon Tha Kradan. Many big trees have fallen into the holes in the past year and cracks in the earth are seen stretching from the holes to some school buildings.
School director Somwut Srisangworn said there used to be a stream flowing near the school to a waterfall. In November last year, runoff caused the stream to subside and disappear. The sinkholes first appeared on Nov 10 last year and have continued to grow.
Officials of the Department of Mineral Resources inspected the area and found a lot of perforated limestone that is vulnerable to erosion, especially from an underground waterway.
The lightning strike caused sparks to fly only centimetres from an outdoor table on the balcony
Terror came to Tim Allfrey and his young family as they stayed at the Oaks Grand in Gladstone.
The Newcastle man captured the bolt on his camera phone as storms and heavy rain swept across central Queensland on Monday night.
Less than 30 seconds earlier, he was shooting panoramic footage of the regional city showing the bleak, grey night skies momentarily flashing pink as lightning was striking on the horizon.
Then, a white bolt of lightning causes sparks to fly centimetres from an outdoor table on the balcony.
Comment: See also: Electric universe: Lightning strength and frequency increasing and Picket fence auroras and plasma ropes, electrical phenomenon in Earth's skies intensifies
The Electric Universe model is clearly explained, with a lot more relevant information, in the book Earth Changes and the Human Cosmic Connection by Pierre Lescaudron and Laura Knight-Jadczyk.