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A magnitude 5.9 quake struck near Tambolaka, Indonesia, on Oct. 3

The Sauk and Skagit valleys carry Glacier Peak’s potentially more damaging lahar risk because more people live there

A magnitude 4.7 quake near Korumburra, Australia, drew 517 felt reports to USGS

A magnitude 5.9 quake off Russia’s Kuril Islands on Oct. 6 tied for the week’s largest worldwide

Volcanic carbon dioxide at Mammoth Mountain killed three ski patrol members in 2006

Glacier Peak’s lahars once left 7 feet of sediment at Arlington, 60 miles downstream

Portland and the northern Willamette Valley face a 6% chance of a magnitude 6.5 quake in 50 years

Extreme Heat Warnings cover Southern California as temperatures run 15 to 20 degrees above normal

Puget Sound has an 85% chance of a deep magnitude 6.5 quake within 50 years, USGS says

The Bouquet Fire near Santa Clarita grew from about 20 to about 1,000 acres in under 3.5 hours

A forgotten 30-year forest experiment grew unusually large trees where loggers thinned hardest

A sulfur-based material split water into hydrogen using light and no additional expensive metal catalyst

US uranium production in 2025 hit its highest level since 2017, more than tripling 2024, EIA says

Pikes Peak took 18 inches of snow in five days as October arrived

NOAA’s flood map now reaches nearly every American and 3.3 million river miles

Modeled stress on the San Andreas and San Jacinto faults reached a 1,000-year high near Cajon Pass, a June study found

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