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Everett Sloane

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A coordinated hit on a few power substations could black out a US region for weeks

When two hurricanes drift too close, they can begin a rare orbiting dance

A towering wall of dust can swallow an entire city in minutes

An underwater volcano off Oregon is inflating toward its next eruption

Forecasters are watching a wave off Africa as a quiet Atlantic hurricane season stirs

Evacuation levels jump again as the Hagen Fire tears across Oregon’s Umatilla County

For the first time in its history, Cal Fire sent crews out of state to fight Northwest flames

Oregon and Washington wildfires have now scorched more than 3 million acres

The biggest wildfires can spin up fire tornadoes strong enough to flip vehicles

A derecho can blast hurricane-force winds across a thousand miles of the Midwest

A lightning bolt is roughly five times hotter than the surface of the sun

A repeat of the 1859 Carrington solar storm could knock out the power grid for months

A restless supervolcano beneath Naples has been swelling and shaking for months

A mudflow off Mount Rainier could reach Puget Sound suburbs in under an hour

A fault under the Midwest once rang church bells in Boston and could rupture again

Yellowstone sits atop a magma system big enough to bury much of the country in ash

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