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Evacuations spread as the Gann Fire chews through 10,000 acres of California’s Gold Country

By Everett Sloane

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A magnitude-6.3 earthquake struck off the southern Philippines at shallow depth

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Kilauea is reinflating and could erupt again within days, USGS warns

By BeckhamLangford

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A supercell storm can drop hailstones the size of grapefruit

By Everett Sloane

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Colorado’s Aspen Acres Fire has scorched more than 100,000 acres

By Everett Sloane

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A flash flood can turn a dry desert wash into a deadly torrent in minutes

By Everett Sloane

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A sudden downburst can slam winds toward the ground with hurricane force

By Everett Sloane

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Wildfires can spawn their own thunderstorms and even fire tornadoes

By Everett Sloane

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A heat dome can trap deadly temperatures over a region for a week

By Everett Sloane

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A wall of wind called a derecho can flatten forests across several states in hours

By Everett Sloane

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Rain after a wildfire can turn a burned slope into a wall of debris

By Everett Sloane

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Wildfire smoke can threaten towns hundreds of miles from the flames

By Everett Sloane

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Storm surge is often the deadliest part of a hurricane before landfall

By Everett Sloane

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A wind-driven fire jumped the Spokane River and sent thousands fleeing

By Everett Sloane

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Lightning storms flash over Venezuela’s Lake Maracaibo about 160 nights each year

By Everett Sloane

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Scientists give the Pacific Northwest roughly a 1-in-8 chance of a magnitude-9 quake within 50 years

By Everett Sloane

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Antarctica’s Florida-sized ‘Doomsday Glacier’ already drives 4 percent of global sea-level rise

By Everett Sloane

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A California supervolcano has bulged upward about two and a half feet since 1978

By Everett Sloane

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Great Salt Lake mud is preserving a hidden record of earthquakes along the Wasatch fault

By Everett Sloane

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The U.S. is battling 99 active large fires as the season outruns its 10-year average

By Everett Sloane

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