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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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Scientists say a giant magma reservoir is refilling under Long Valley in California

By Everett Sloane

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A megaflood could turn California’s Central Valley into an inland sea

By Everett Sloane

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Campi Flegrei is stirring under half a million people near Naples

By Everett Sloane

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Mount Rainier’s real danger is a mudflow that could reach Tacoma within an hour

By Everett Sloane

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Yellowstone’s supervolcano sits under three million visitors every year

By Everett Sloane

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12 dangerous US volcanoes scientists keep under close watch

By Everett Sloane

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11 US cities with official battle plans for extreme heat

By Everett Sloane

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The strongest US tornadoes can fling debris more than 100 miles downwind

By Everett Sloane

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A megatsunami once surged 1,700 feet up the walls of an Alaskan bay

By Everett Sloane

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A quiet California fault could rupture and cut water to millions

By Everett Sloane

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