An unusually intense storm for this time of year caused damaging coastal flooding, inland flash flooding and power outages from Florida to Maine on Monday into early Tuesday.
Threat level: The storm, currently slamming New England with winds of 65 mph, has cut power to about 420,000 customers in Maine alone, about half the customers tracked there, according to PowerOutage.us.
An earthquake in northwestern China has killed at least 116 people and injured over 500 others in the Gansu and Qinghai provinces, state media reported Tuesday morning local time.
The big picture: The state-run Global Times reported that Chinese President Xi Jinping ordered an "all-out" search and rescue operation following the massive quake that struck in Gansu around midnight.
A volcano erupted on Iceland's Reykjanes Peninsula on Monday night, spewing bursts of lava into the air after weeks of intense seismic activity that forced the entire town of Grindavík to evacuate.
The big picture: The eruption some 2.4 miles from Grindavík, southwest of the capital Reykjavik, follows "earthquake swarms" in the area, per an Icelandic Met Office post. The New York Times notes the growing, 2.5-mile-long fissure poses a threat to the nearby Svartsengi Power Plant, though a local utility firm said there's no immediate danger to power lines.
Life-threatening flooding in Australia's Far North Queensland saw rescue teams respond to more than 370 callouts and receive over 1,000 requests for assistance in 24 hours, the state's Fire and Emergency Services said Monday.
The big picture: Thousands were without power and officials in Cairns raised concerns the city that's the gateway to the Great Barrier Reef could lose drinking water as heavy rains from ex-Tropical Cyclone Jasper lashed the region.
