Bali volcano shuts down flights, sends residents scurrying to safety

Volcanic eruptions on the Indonesian resort island of Bali have prompted officials to cancel flights and move about 24,000 residents out of the way as a thick ash cloud from Mount Agung, thousands of meters high, drifts east and southeast along the archipelago.

Residents were evacuated from 224 points around the island while Lombok International Airport on Pulau Lombok, the island due east of Bali, has closed temporarily, said Ari Ahsan, spokesman for Ngurah Rai International Airport in Bali.

At Ngurah Rai, Bali's main airport, flight cancellations stranded roughly 7,000 domestic and international passengers, according to the airport's latest report.

Indonesia's Center for Volcanology and Geological Hazard Mitigation raised its aviation notice from an orange alert to a red one Sunday.

Read more - http://edition.cnn.com/2017/11/26/asia/mount-agung-eruption-bali-indonesia/index.html

Bali volcano shuts down flights, sends residents scurrying to safety

Volcanic eruptions on the Indonesian resort island of Bali have prompted officials to cancel flights and move about 24,000 residents out of the way as a thick ash cloud from Mount Agung, thousands of meters high, drifts east and southeast along the archipelago.

Residents were evacuated from 224 points around the island while Lombok International Airport on Pulau Lombok, the island due east of Bali, has closed temporarily, said Ari Ahsan, spokesman for Ngurah Rai International Airport in Bali.

At Ngurah Rai, Bali's main airport, flight cancellations stranded roughly 7,000 domestic and international passengers, according to the airport's latest report.

Indonesia's Center for Volcanology and Geological Hazard Mitigation raised its aviation notice from an orange alert to a red one Sunday.

Read more - http://edition.cnn.com/2017/11/26/asia/mount-agung-eruption-bali-indonesia/index.html

This huge crack has appeared in a stunning West Wales coast path

'It looked like the whole cliff was about to go in'

The area has been been closed by Ceredigion County Council and a diversion has been put in place.

Ceredigion councillor Paul Hinge said: “A big thank you to Eifion Jones and Nigel Nicholas for promptly closing down this section of the costal path whilst they investigate and draw up plans for either repair or re-direction of the path.”

Read more: - http://www.walesonline.co.uk/news/wales-news/huge-crack-appeared-stunning-section-13932320

This huge crack has appeared in a stunning West Wales coast path

'It looked like the whole cliff was about to go in'

The area has been been closed by Ceredigion County Council and a diversion has been put in place.

Ceredigion councillor Paul Hinge said: “A big thank you to Eifion Jones and Nigel Nicholas for promptly closing down this section of the costal path whilst they investigate and draw up plans for either repair or re-direction of the path.”

Read more: - http://www.walesonline.co.uk/news/wales-news/huge-crack-appeared-stunning-section-13932320

FIREBALL LIGHTS UP SKIES OVER JAPAN

The fireball which lit up Japanese night skies was probably a fragment of an meteorite that burnt up on contact with the Earth's atmosphere

Weather cameras and mobile phones captured the moment when a fireball lit up the night skies across Japan.

Witnesses report seeing a soundless bright light falling, like a shooting star, illuminating the sky for a few seconds with a greenish glow.

FIREBALL LIGHTS UP SKIES OVER JAPAN

The fireball which lit up Japanese night skies was probably a fragment of an meteorite that burnt up on contact with the Earth's atmosphere

Weather cameras and mobile phones captured the moment when a fireball lit up the night skies across Japan.

Witnesses report seeing a soundless bright light falling, like a shooting star, illuminating the sky for a few seconds with a greenish glow.

Massive sinkhole opens up in the middle of a Brazilian farming town

Watch your step! An enormous sinkhole has opened up in the tiny municipality of Coromandel, in the State of Minas Gerais, Brazil. As Forbes reports, the 65-foot hole appeared overnight in the thick of a local soybean farm swallowing up earth, crops, and putting some 28,000 residents on alert. While some in the area had suspected a meteor was to blame for the cavernous hollow, geologists from the Federal University of Uberlândia have confirmed the sinkhole was in fact caused by the disintegration of the town’s underlying limestone bedrock.

read more: - https://inhabitat.com/massive-sinkhole-opens-up-in-the-middle-of-a-brazilian-farming-town/