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A coal-seam fire has burned under Centralia, Pennsylvania, for more than sixty years

By Everett Sloane

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Mount Rainier could send a wall of volcanic mud racing toward Seattle’s suburbs without even erupting

By Everett Sloane

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A future eruption of Yellowstone’s supervolcano could bury much of the country in ash

By Everett Sloane

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An extreme heat wave has pushed Southern California into dangerous fire weather with critically dry brush

By Everett Sloane

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Tropical Storm Dolly spun up in the open Atlantic as the season’s fourth named storm

By Everett Sloane

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Wildfires around Spokane forced 64,000 people to flee and destroyed more than 700 buildings

By Everett Sloane

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A glacier collapse in the Himalayas sent a wall of debris down a river, killing hundreds and leaving more than a thousand missing

By Everett Sloane

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The Danakil Depression’s acid pools and lava lakes make it one of the hottest places on Earth

By Everett Sloane

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A collapsing Alaska glacier could unleash a megatsunami taller than any skyscraper

By Everett Sloane

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Geologists say the southern San Andreas is ‘locked and loaded’ for a magnitude-8 quake

By Everett Sloane

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The Hayward fault runs under two million Bay Area residents and is overdue to rupture

By Everett Sloane

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Kilauea fountained lava 500 feet high for nine hours in its 54th eruptive episode

By Everett Sloane

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The Ross Fire exploded to 80,000 acres in hours and forced evacuations west of Fort Worth

By Everett Sloane

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Yellowstone’s magma chamber holds enough molten rock to fill the Grand Canyon many times

By Everett Sloane

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The Cascadia fault could unleash a magnitude-9 quake and tsunami on the Northwest

By Everett Sloane

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A 7.4 earthquake rocked Colombia, a sharp reminder of the Ring of Fire’s power

By Everett Sloane

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More than 60,000 people have fled the Spokane area as fast fires overrun homes

By Everett Sloane

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A brutal heat dome is baking the West, and forecasters say the overnight lows are the real danger

By Everett Sloane

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A California supervolcano has quietly bulged upward more than two feet since 1978

By Everett Sloane

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9 US regions scientists warn are overdue for a major natural disaster

By Everett Sloane

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