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A grandmother and her 7-year-old granddaughter were swept away in a midnight flood

By Everett Sloane

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8 of the most powerful hurricanes to strike the United States

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A firenado can spin up inside a large wildfire and fling burning debris

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A hidden lake the size of a sea sits frozen beneath miles of Antarctic ice

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A lightning bolt from a clear sky can strike miles from the nearest storm cloud

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Wildfire smoke can push dangerous air hundreds of miles from the nearest flames

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The 2026 fire season has already burned more than eight million acres across the US

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Yellowstone sits atop a supervolcano scientists monitor around the clock

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A restless supervolcano under a Italian city keeps lifting the ground beneath homes

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Mount Rainier’s real danger is not lava but a wall of mud that could bury whole towns

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A quiet fault under the Midwest once rang church bells hundreds of miles away

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The Cascadia fault off the Northwest coast is overdue for a magnitude-9 megaquake

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A derecho can flatten forests across hundreds of miles in a single afternoon

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Heat quietly kills more Americans each year than tornadoes, floods or hurricanes

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Rip currents kill more US beachgoers most years than sharks and hurricanes combined

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A bolt from the blue can strike 10 miles from the nearest storm cloud

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The ground near Naples is bulging again as an ancient supervolcano stirs

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A quake on the New Madrid fault once rang church bells hundreds of miles away in the East

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Yellowstone sits over a magma chamber larger than the park itself

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The government clears the largest US power grid to burn extra power as a heat wave bites

By Everett Sloane

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