According to latest updates, more than 27,000 people have been evacuated after Mount Mayon exhibited elevated seismic unrest, and summit explosions followed by lava fountaining.
A man in West Midlands was taken aback when a brownish spider which he dismissed as a regular one turned out to be a venomous Brazilian wandering spider.
Japan has conducted similar drills in 20 other cities in the recent past, but this is for the first time that such an activity has been conducted in Tokyo.