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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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Oregon’s Crater Lake fills a volcano that blew its top about 7,700 years ago

By Everett Sloane

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A fire whirl can rise out of a wildfire as a spinning tornado of flame

By BeckhamLangford

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Over one Venezuelan lake, lightning flickers almost every night of the year

By Everett Sloane

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A wall of straight-line wind called a derecho can flatten forests for hundreds of miles

By Everett Sloane

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A giant “megaflood” could turn California’s Central Valley into a temporary sea

By Everett Sloane

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Mount Etna’s eruption shut Sicily’s Catania airport in its longest closure since 2002

By Everett Sloane

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California’s Timber Fire exploded to 12,000 acres and now threatens 661 buildings

By Everett Sloane

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A tornado tore through Dover, Delaware, flooding roads as storms battered the coast

By Everett Sloane

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Russia’s Klyuchevskoy volcano is throwing dense ash in a fresh eruption

By Everett Sloane

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A fast-moving Big Sur wildfire forced evacuations and closed the coast

By Everett Sloane

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