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The horrific impact that asteroid 2024 YR4 could have on Earth has been laid bare in a new simulation. With an estimated 2.3 ...

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In late July to October 2022, residents of the Manu’a Islands in American Samoa felt the earth shake several times a day, raising concerns of an imminent volcanic eruption or tsunami.

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Berger will be awarded the John von Neumann Prize and deliver the associated lecture at SIAM/CAIMS Annual Meetings 2025 (AN25 ...

Psychologists and other experts examine how disasters like the LA wildfires can tap into our own trauma and sense of identity ...

In 2018, the side of the Anak Krakatau volcano collapsed in a powerful eruption and produced a tsunami that killed hundreds and injured thousands on nearby Java and Sumatra in Indonesia. A new ...

The Pacific Tsunami Warning Center said there's “no tsunami threat to Guam/CNMI” from the nearby quake. Residents reported feeling the earthquake. USGS said the quake was located about 8 miles ...

Discover interesting facts about how big earthquakes can get, why earthquakes happen, and why they're so hard to predict.

A massive 7.5 magnitude earhquake rocked the Caribbean, just north of Honduras on Saturday, the German Research Center for ...

An earthquake measuring 7.2 magnitude hit north of Honduras, prompting a tsunami warning. Initially recorded as a 6.89 ...