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One Cameroon lake suffocated 1,700 people overnight, and it is refilling again

By Everett Sloane

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A fault off the Pacific Northwest could drop the coastline in a single minute

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

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A magnitude 7.4 quake struck Colombia, shaking more than 10 million people

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NOAA says the Atlantic could finish 2026 without a single major hurricane

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Kilauea is fountaining lava hundreds of feet into the Hawaiian sky

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A firestorm tore into Spokane, destroying 700 homes and forcing 65,000 to flee

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A wildfire can spin up a whirling tower of flame called a fire whirl

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A single wildfire ember can travel a mile on the wind and start a new blaze

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Oregon and Washington wildfires have now scorched more than 3 million acres

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The biggest wildfires can spin up fire tornadoes strong enough to flip vehicles

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A derecho can blast hurricane-force winds across a thousand miles of the Midwest

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A lightning bolt is roughly five times hotter than the surface of the sun

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A repeat of the 1859 Carrington solar storm could knock out the power grid for months

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A restless supervolcano beneath Naples has been swelling and shaking for months

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A mudflow off Mount Rainier could reach Puget Sound suburbs in under an hour

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A fault under the Midwest once rang church bells in Boston and could rupture again

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Yellowstone sits atop a magma system big enough to bury much of the country in ash

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The Cascadia fault could unleash a magnitude-9 quake and tsunami the Northwest still is not ready for

By Everett Sloane

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NOAA now expects a quieter-than-normal hurricane season as El Nino throttles Atlantic storms

By Everett Sloane

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