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The northern lights could push as far south as 21 states on August 19

By Everett Sloane

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The 1883 Krakatoa eruption was so loud it circled the Earth four times and burst eardrums 40 miles away

By Everett Sloane

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The southern San Andreas has been quiet for 300 years, and seismologists say that is the scary part

By Everett Sloane

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A wall of mud from Mount Rainier could reach Seattle’s suburbs in under an hour

By Everett Sloane

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A restless supervolcano under Naples has bulged upward beneath 500,000 people

By BeckhamLangford

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The Cascadia fault is locked and loaded for a magnitude-9 quake scientists say is overdue

By Everett Sloane

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A derecho tore across northern Illinois with punishing winds and spun up tornadoes near Chicago

By Everett Sloane

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Oregon and Washington have now burned past 3 million acres

By Everett Sloane

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A magnitude 7.7 quake off Indonesia has killed at least 47 people

By Everett Sloane

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A wildfire can create its own weather, spinning up fire tornadoes that fling burning debris for miles

By Everett Sloane

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The strongest tornadoes can throw a loaded truck like a toy and level a brick home in seconds

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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A supervolcano under Yellowstone is quietly monitored around the clock for a reason

By Everett Sloane

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The Pacific Northwest sits on a fault that could unleash a magnitude 9 quake and a tsunami

By Everett Sloane

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Forecasters flag the first real storm threat of a strangely quiet Atlantic hurricane season

By Everett Sloane

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A lightning-sparked wildfire has torn through 150 square miles of Oregon and swallowed a ski resort

By Everett Sloane

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Guatemala’s Fuego volcano hurled lava a thousand feet high and drove 1,700 people from their homes

By Everett Sloane

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A magnitude 7.4 quake struck deep under Colombia and shook 10 million people

By Everett Sloane

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A silent ‘bomb cyclone’ can drop pressure fast enough to rival a hurricane

By Everett Sloane

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The fastest wind ever clocked on Earth topped 250 miles an hour

By Everett Sloane

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