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The San Andreas fault is locked and loaded for the big quake Californians dread

By Everett Sloane

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Italy’s Campi Flegrei is stirring beneath a city of half a million people

By Everett Sloane

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A quake on the Ramapo fault could someday rattle New York City

By Everett Sloane

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A wall of volcanic mud from Mount Rainier could reach Seattle’s suburbs within an hour

By Everett Sloane

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Yellowstone sits on a supervolcano that has erupted catastrophically three times in the deep past

By Everett Sloane

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Mount Vesuvius still looms over three million people around the Bay of Naples

By Everett Sloane

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Derecho windstorms can flatten crops across several states in hours

By Everett Sloane

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Wildfire smoke can drift across a continent and choke cities thousands of miles away

By Everett Sloane

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The San Andreas fault is quietly building toward the ‘Big One’

By Everett Sloane

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A single Gulf hurricane can push a wall of seawater miles inland

By Everett Sloane

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Rip currents drown more US beachgoers than sharks ever do

By Everett Sloane

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The Cascadia fault is overdue for a quake that could devastate the Northwest

By Everett Sloane

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Heat domes can trap dangerous temperatures over a region for days

By Everett Sloane

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The Plaskett Fire has shut 50 miles of Highway 1 as it tears across Big Sur

By Everett Sloane

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Sinkholes are opening under US cities as old pipes and aquifers give way

By Everett Sloane

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Wet-bulb heat is creeping toward the limit the human body can survive

By Everett Sloane

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Derechos, the inland windstorms that act like hurricanes, are flattening whole regions

By Everett Sloane

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Softball-size hail is falling more often as storms grow more violent

By Everett Sloane

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Fire whirls, the spinning columns of flame, are showing up in bigger wildfires

By Everett Sloane

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A single lightning bolt is five times hotter than the surface of the Sun

By Everett Sloane

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