Danville emergency workers evacuate people living and working along two streets due to flooding from the severe storms we got hit by. The Danville Emergency Operations Center tells us Fall Creek overflowed its banks along Water and Halifax Street.
May 10, 2008 - 6:06:13 AM
No one was injured during that eruption, although a viewing platform was damaged. But the elevated sulfur dioxide levels, which along with ash contribute to the air pollution known as "vog," have forced a temporary evacuation of Hawaii Volcanoes National Park since then.
May 10, 2008 - 5:58:53 AM
Chile's government abandoned hundreds of pet cats and dogs in Chaiten, angering animal-rights activists, after more than 4,000 residents near an erupting volcano were evacuated this week.
May 10, 2008 - 5:47:04 AM
PUERTO MONTT, Chile - A towering plume of ash from an erupting volcano in Chile's remote Patagonia could collapse and devastate the surrounding area, a leading expert warned yesterday.
May 10, 2008 - 5:42:48 AM
Geographic coordinates: 12.459N, 143.146E. Magnitude: 6.8 Mw. Depth: 74 km. Universal Time (UTC): 9 May 2008 21:51:30. Time near the Epicenter: 10 May 2008 07:51:30. Local standard time in your area: 9 May 2008 21:51:30. Location with respect to nearby cities: 207 km (128 miles) WSW (237 degrees) of HAGATNA, Guam.
May 9, 2008 - 4:59:41 PM
At least four tornadoes touched down in Oklahoma on Wednesday as a line of powerful thunderstorms pushed across the state, weather officials confirmed.
May 9, 2008 - 12:04:41 PM
The Pakistani army confirms that tests of the Hatf-VIII, a cruise missile capable of carrying a nuclear warhead. Two days ago, India had experimented with a ballistic weapon with a range of 3,000 kilometres, capable of striking Pakistan and China.
May 9, 2008 - 11:59:30 AM
There were more reports from Chile of further activity in the volcano, which began erupting on Friday for the first time in 9,000 years, sending plumes of smoke from the Andes mountains across the whole South American continent to the Atlantic Ocean. Army staff supervising the evacuation of nearby towns yesterday reported hearing rumbling noises underground and seeing flashes of light overnight, while experts said the volcano could continue to erupt for weeks or months.
May 9, 2008 - 10:26:28 AM
GREENSBORO, N.C. - Authorities began combing through the wreckage Friday caused by a reported tornado that killed one person and injured three others in central North Carolina.
May 9, 2008 - 10:21:53 AM
Chaiten volcano is located in southern Chile, 10 km NE of the town of Chaiten on the Gulf of Corcovado. The volcano contains an obsidian lava dome in a 3.5 km wide caldera. The volcano is covered with snow, but does not contain a glacier. Two small lakes occupy the caldera floor on the west and north sides of the lava dome.
May 9, 2008 - 12:14:08 AM
The death toll in cyclone-ravaged Burma could hit 500,000 - more than twice the total killed by the Sumatra Tsunami. Sources said 200,000 people were already dead or dying. But the figure could rise to half a million through disease and hunger if the nation's hardline army rulers continue to block aid for the devastated lowlands of the Irrawaddy Delta.
May 8, 2008 - 11:00:03 PM
CHAMPAIGN, Ill. — New scientific evidence suggests that deep inside the planet Mercury, iron “snow” forms and falls toward the center of the planet, much like snowflakes form in Earth’s atmosphere and fall to the ground.
May 8, 2008 - 9:14:55 AM
PUERTO MONTT, Chile - Chile evacuated the last military personnel from the vicinity of an erupting volcano in its remote Patagonian region before dawn on Thursday, after it spat a surge of fiery material.
May 8, 2008 - 8:52:36 AM
YANGON, Myanmar — Relief supplies from the United Nations began arriving in Myanmar Thursday, but U.S. military planes loaded with aid were still denied access by the country's isolationist regime five days after a devastating cyclone.
May 8, 2008 - 8:42:53 AM
