Two of the ten most damaging earthquakes in recorded history happened on January 17th. This year is the thirtieth anniversary of Japan’s Great Hanshin-Awaji Earthquake. The Northridge Earthquake in ...
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Truck Parking Club mapped Geological Survey data to see which Washington counties have the most land area at risk of ...
Hotel that sparked Richard Branson’s love affair with Morocco fully open for first time since 2023 earthquake - Kasbah ...
New mapping of the magma lying beneath Yellowstone National Park sheds light on where volcanic activity is shifting, and the ...
The Pacific Tsunami Warning Center said there is no tsunami threat to Guam or the Northern Marianas from an earthquake in the Vanuatu Islands. The U.S. Geological Survey recorded an earthquake ...
This story was originally published in the 2024 edition of Discovery magazine, the College of Science's publication. This ...
January 23, 1556, may have been centuries ago, but it's still described as the 'deadliest day' in world history after 800,000 ...
It was the worst tsunami disaster in history. The clearing-up process in Galle, southern Sri Lanka, in 2004 The Boxing Day earthquake struck at 7.59am local time and, during the day, multiple ...
3. Indian Ocean 2004: Magnitude 9.1 Twenty years ago, an undersea earthquake off the coast of Sumatra, Indonesia, caused widespread devastation in multiple countries. It was the worst tsunami disaster ...