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1. When will Mayon Volcano erupt? TAGS: Geography. Geology. News. Philippines. Photos.
2. Chicago-sized chunk of ice has fallen TAGS: Chicago. Geology. Google. Images. Nature. News. Photography. Space. Sustainability. TECH.
3. Earth's May spectacular TAGS: Geology. Nature. News. Photos. World.
4. Miniature Tyrannosaurus Rex discovered TAGS: Biology. Cool. Fauna. Geology. Images. Nature. Paleontology.

If I'm in Chicago and practically biting my nails, then I imagine the locals must be really edgy with over 30,000 resident evacuating.

I saw both Mayon Volcano [W] and Taal Volcano [W] when I was in the Philippines in 2004. Mayon Volcano is in Albay Province [W] is in the Bicol Region and is on the north border of Sorsogon Province [W]. My parents come from Sorsogon Province, so while Mayon Volcano is the Philippine equivalent of Japan's Mount Fuji [W] and is hence a national symbol, for my family it was a local thing.

Mayon Volcano is also just 15 Km = 9.3 miles from Legazpi City [W], a city with over 150,000 people that I also visited in 2004. Legazpi City is named after Miguel López de Legazpi [W], the Spanish conquistador who established the first Spanish colony in the Philippines.

Here's are some recent shots via http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/in_pictures/5252146.stm.

Is the chicken is his lunch or what?

These guys are close enough to cook.

Here's a shot from Wikipedia. Yes, the volcano is indeed that close to the airport.
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A city-size chunk of the Wilkins Ice Shelf has actively and visibly collapsed in just a few days.

• By 02-28, a piece of the shelf 100 sq. Km = 39 sq. miles broke off.
• By 03-08, an additional 570 sq. Km = 102 sq. miles is visibly distenegrating.
• Roughly another 8000 sq. Km = 3000 sq. miles is expected to distengrate as well.

For reference, I took a screenshot of Google Maps of the Wilkins Shelf (70°15'S, 73°W) and of Chicago on the same scale:

For reference, Chicago is 606 sq. Km = 237 sq. miles, so roughly a Chicago-sized chunk of ice has fallen into the ocean. All together an area around the size of Rhode Island (4002 sq. Km = 1545 sq. miles) is expected to fall in.

Earth is giving out quite a show this May:

• At least 71 tornadoes [W] blew in the US (Arkansas, Oklahoma, Missouri, and Georgia). Around 24 dead.
• Chaitén volcano [W] erupted in southern Chile. It last erupted around 7400 BCE.
• Cyclone Nargis [W] blew in Burma/Myanmar. Around 100,000 dead from this typhoon/hurricane.
• Sichuan earthquake [W] shook China. 7.9 Mw. Around 12,000 dead. The deadliest Chinese earthquake since 1976 in Tangshan where around 250,000 died.

Perhaps that state-size mass of ice in Wilkins Sound [W] will finish collapsing this month. Throw in some floods, tsunamis, and fires for a complete set. There's more than half the month left too!

What a cutie!

Puny arms, massive jaws, swift legs — all the ingredients of the king of the carnivores — adorned a newly discovered dinosaur, Raptorex kriegsteini, reported by the journal Science. But Raptorex was only about 1/90 the size of Tyrannosaurus, and flourished about 40 million years before T.Rex appears in the fossil record.

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