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First Came A Quake In Mexico, Then Strange Blue Lights
NPR - Thu Sep 9, 2021
Mexicans are sharing spectacular videos of bursts of blue lights seen streaking across the skies as a strong earthquake rocked the country's Pacific coast city of Acapulco on Wednesday. More»

Six Earthquakes Rattle Lake Tahoe, Carson City and Reno in a Day
New York Times - Fri May 28, 2021
At least six earthquakes, including one with a preliminary magnitude of 4.2, shook the Lake Tahoe, Reno and Carson City area early on Friday, according to the US Geological Survey. More»

Volcano Erupts Near Congolese City of Goma; Residents Flee
NBC New York - Sat May 22, 2021
Congo’s Mount Nyiragongo erupted for the first time in nearly two decades Saturday, turning the night sky a fiery red and sending lava onto a major highway as panicked residents tried to flee Goma, a city of nearly 2 million. More»

Extreme Heat of Vesuvius Eruption Turned a Man's Brain to 'Glass'
Geology - Fri Feb 28, 2020
A man who died in Herculaneum during the historic Vesuvius eruption was found with an exploded skull and glass-like brain tissue. More»

Thousands flee as volcano erupts in the Philippines, Manila airport closed
WNBC-TV - Sun Jan 12, 2020
TAGAYTAY, Philippines - A small volcano south of the Philippine capital that draws many tourists for its picturesque setting in a lake erupted with a massive plume of ash and steam Sunday, prompting thousands of people to flee and officials to shut Manila’s international airport. More»

8 Dead, 60 Hurt As Quakes Shake Northern Philippine Isles
Associated Press - Sat Jul 27, 2019
MANILA, Philippines - Two strong earthquakes hours apart struck a group of sparsely populated islands in the Luzon Strait in the northern Philippines early Saturday, killing at least eight people, injuring about 60 and damaging ancestral houses famous among tourists. More»

Fires Break Out After 7.1 Earthquake Strikes in Southern California
CNN - Sat Jul 6, 2019
A 7.1 magnitude earthquake rocked Southern California on Friday night - the second temblor to hit near Ridgecrest in less than two days. More»

Geologists Discover Largest Underwater Volcano, Explain Weird Hum Heard Around the World
Live Science - Thu May 23, 2019
A strange seismic event off the coast of Africa has led scientists to a mighty finding: the discovery of the largest underwater volcanic eruption ever recorded. More»

River of flowing ROCKS in New Zealand after cyclone Gita strikes
Daily Mail - Sat Feb 24, 2018
This incredible video shows a river of rocks flowing down a gorge in New Zealand after they were dislodged by Cyclone Gita. More»

Four dead, hundreds injured in Taiwan after 6.4-magnitude earthquake strikes
New York Daily News - Tue Feb 6, 2018
TAIPEI, Taiwan - Rescuers were working Wednesday to try to reach people who were trapped after a strong earthquake near Taiwan's east coast caused several buildings to cave in and tilt dangerously. More»

New Zealand earthquake: Tsunami follows powerful tremor
BBC - Sat Nov 12, 2016
The US Geological Survey said the magnitude-7.8 quake hit just after midnight (11:02 GMT on Sunday), some 95km (59 miles) from Christchurch. More»

Nepal Quake Toll Passes 4,000
Reuters - Mon Apr 27, 2015
Hundreds of Nepalis, angered and frustrated by the government's slow response, were digging through rubble themselves on Tuesday to find remains of their loved ones after a devastating earthquake three days ago killed more than 4,000 people. More»

Powerful Magnitude-7.8 Earthquake Rocks Nepal, Death Toll Exceeds 1,200
Wall Street Journal - Fri Apr 24, 2015
NEW DELHI - Rescuers worked into the night Saturday searching for survivors of a powerful 7. More»

Erupting Calbuco Volcano Lights Up The Sky
Associated Press - Wed Apr 22, 2015
Santiago, Chile - Twin blasts from the Calbuco volcano in southern Chile have sent vast clouds of ash into the sky, increasing concerns that it could contaminate water, cause respiratory illnesses and ground more flights. More»

Volcano Villarrica Erupts in Chile
Reuters - Mon Mar 2, 2015
Volcano Villarrica in southern Chile erupted in the early hours of Tuesday, sending a plume of ash and lava high into the sky, and forcing the evacuation of nearby communities. More»

Lava flows from Philippine volcano; thousands flee
AP - Wed Sep 17, 2014
MANILA, Philippines - The Philippines' most active volcano has sent more huge lava fragments rolling down its slopes in an ongoing gentle eruption that has prompted authorities to evacuate thousands of villagers, officials said Wednesday. More»

Popocatepetl Volcano in Mexico Sparks Fresh UFO Alert
International Business Times - Tue Feb 19, 2013
UFOs swoop around a smoking volcano in Latin America in footage that has caused a stir on local television news. More»

Fracking is transforming our energy economy-but it's also causing earthquakes
MSNBC - Sun Dec 9, 2012
In just the past few years a revolution in carbon extraction technology has radically transformed our energy economy. More»

Magnitude 7.1 earthquake hits South Pacific
Associated Press - Mon May 9, 2011
PARIS - Geological monitoring services say a magnitude 7.1 earthquake has hit in the South Pacific off the French territory of New Caledonia. More»

Japan equates nuclear crisis severity to Chernobyl
Associated Press - Mon Apr 11, 2011
TOKYO - Japan ranked its nuclear crisis at the highest possible severity on an international scale - the same level as the 1986 Chernobyl disaster - even as it insisted Tuesday that radiation leaks are declining at its tsunami-crippled nuclear plant. More»

More radioactive water spills at Japan nuke plant
Associated Press - Sun Mar 27, 2011
TOKYO - Workers discovered new pools of radioactive water leaking from Japan's crippled nuclear complex, officials said Monday, as emergency crews struggled to pump out hundreds of tons of contaminated water and bring the plant back under control. More»

Breach suspected at troubled Japanese power plant
Associated Press - Thu Mar 24, 2011
TOKYO - Two weeks after an earthquake and tsunami triggered a crisis at a nuclear plant, the facility is still not under control, and the government said Friday there is a suspected breach at a reactor. More»

New reactor fire as Japan works to contain threat
Associated Press - Mon Mar 14, 2011
SOMA, Japan - A new fire broke out at a nuclear reactor early Wednesday, a day after the power plant emitted a burst of radiation that panicked an already edgy Japan and left the government struggling to contain a spiraling crisis caused by last week's earthquake and tsunami. More»

Meltdown alert at Japan reactor
BBC - Sun Mar 13, 2011
Technicians are battling to stabilise a third reactor at a quake-stricken Japanese nuclear plant that has been rocked by a second blast in three days. More»

Hydrogen explosion at stricken Japanese nuke plant
Associated Press - Sat Mar 12, 2011
TOKYO - Japan's chief cabinet secretary says a hydrogen explosion has occurred at Unit 3 of Japan's stricken Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear plant. More»

Japan warns of second nuclear plant explosion
AFP - Sat Mar 12, 2011
Japan's top government spokesman has warned of the risk of a second explosion at the quake-hit Fukushima nuclear plant, but said that reactor three could withstand it as reactor one did a day earlier. More»

Partial Meltdowns Presumed at Crippled Reactors
New York Times - Sat Mar 12, 2011
TOKYO - Three days after a massive earthquake and tsunami, the Japanese authorities were still struggling Sunday to avoid full meltdowns at a plant with two stricken reactors on Japan's coast. More»

Japan quake causes emergencies at 5 nuke reactors
Associated Press - Thu Mar 10, 2011
TOKYO - Japan declared states of emergency for five nuclear reactors at two power plants after the units lost cooling ability in the aftermath of Friday's powerful earthquake. More»

New Zealand earthquake rips a new fault line across the world
The Daily Mail - Sat Sep 4, 2010
New Zealand's powerful earthquake that smashed buildings, cracked roads and twisted railway lines around Christchurch ripped a new 11ft wide fault line in the earth's surface, a geologist said today. More»

Iceland's volcanic ash halts flights across Europe
Associated Press - Wed Apr 14, 2010
LONDON - An ash cloud from Iceland's spewing volcano halted air traffic across a wide swath of Europe on Thursday, grounding planes on a scale unseen since the 2001 terror attacks as authorities stopped all flights over Britain, Ireland and the Nordic countries. More»

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