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The exact timeline of the recent Nepal flooding disaster is becoming clearer. At 8:37 a.m., instruments recorded what was initially interpreted as an earthquake near Nepal's border with China. Seven minutes later, CCTV recorded ...
The massive January 2022 eruption of Hunga volcano in the Kingdom of Tonga took the world by surprise.
Growing up, many of us were taught to drop, cover and hold on during an earthquake. The guidance is straightforward, but how people actually respond when the ground starts shaking can be far more complicated. Now, UC Berkeley ...
On the morning of Aug. 26, a section of mountain near Langtang Lirung peak in Nepal suddenly collapsed.
In computer simulations of the Big One—a large-magnitude earthquake that may occur along the San Andreas Fault in California—seismic waves ripple from the epicenter of a magnitude 7.8 earthquake near the Salton Sea into the ...
Erosion rates on parts of the Kaikōura Peninsula more than doubled after the 2016 earthquake, showing major quakes can "rapidly alter" the way coastlines evolve, an Otago researcher says.
Mount Sinabung on Indonesia erupted Monday, spewing a column of black ash and smoke 3,500 meters (11,482 feet) from the top of the mountain into the sky over Sumatra island.
Does the devastating flooding unleashed by the collapse of a section of a glacier in the Nepali Himalayas signal a new kind of risk in a world warmed by climate change? Here's what scientists told AFP.
Fracking, the injection of high-pressure fluid to fracture rock and release oil or gas, can trigger earthquakes. While some sites generate small tremors beforehand that may provide an early warning, others produce few or ...
The catastrophic flood in Nepal and Tibet is a devastating reminder that disasters rarely occur in isolation.
