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As Hurricane Laura made landfall last week near the Texas and Louisiana border packing 150-mph winds, the storm’s whipping gusts caused one river in the Lone Star state to flow backward for several hours. Laura roared ashore as a Category 4 storm, which Louisiana Gov. John Bel Edwards said was the most powerful hurricane to ever strike that state. And the … Read More

A strong earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 6.8 struck off the coast of northern Chile on Tuesday according to the U.S. Geological Survey and German Research Center for Geo-sciences (GFZ). The University of Chile’s seismological center said that by early morning it had detected as many as 15 aftershocks around the original epicenter near the port city of Huasco, … Read More

Hurricane Laura struck Louisiana as one of the most powerful storms in U.S. history, leaving widespread destruction across the state. At least six people were killed in Louisiana. The storm tore apart homes and businesses and knocked out power to nearly one million customers in Texas and Louisiana. Arkansas was even put under a state of emergency and was lashed … Read More

A magnitude 6.6 earthquake damaged buildings and roads and sent residents fleeing from their homes in the central Philippines. The shallow quake struck southeast of Masbate Island in the Bicol region at 8:03am (00:03 GMT) on Tuesday, the US Geological Survey said. At least one person had been killed and 43 injured when the 6.6-m earthquake shook the central Philippines, … Read More

For the first time in history, the National Weather Service issued a warning for a likely fire tornado. The Reno office of the National Weather Service warned Northern California of a fire tornado that had sprung up near a large, fast-moving wildfire. It is the first known issuance of a tornado warning for the climate phenomenon since it burst into California’s … Read More

The hottest air temperature recorded anywhere on the planet in at least a century, and possibly ever, was reached in Death Valley in California’s Mojave Desert where it soared to 54.4 degrees Celsius (130 Fahrenheit). An automated observation system run by the U.S. National Weather Service at Furnace Creek reported the record. According to meteorologist Daniel Berc, it felt “insanely … Read More

In the conflict between Greece and Turkey over the eastern Mediterranean Sea rich in energy resources, two of their warships going head-on at each other have collided. The turmoil is over what are the territorial waters between Greece and Turkey as they both defend their conflicting claims of maritime boundaries in the race to tap regional energy reserves in the … Read More

The FBI is investigating the shooting of an Air Force military helicopter during a training mission over Virginia that wounded one crew member aboard and caused an emergency landing. The Air Force helicopter was flying over Middleburg when it was shot from the ground, according to authorities. The helicopter made an emergency landing at the Manassas Regional Airport, and federal … Read More

In a seismic new study published in Nature Geoscience, an international team of geologists has discovered evidence of a “boomerang earthquake” — a type of quake that can ricochet — which rocked the seafloor beneath the Atlantic Ocean in 2016. Undersea seismometers detected the tectonic terror traversing the Romanche Fracture Zone, a 560-mile-long fault located approximately halfway between Brazil and Africa. … Read More

Seattle’s chief of police, Carmen Best, has announced her resignation on the same day that the city council voted to slash the police budget and lay off officers. Chief Best became the city’s first black police chief in 2018, leading a 1,400-member force. The US military veteran joined the Seattle Police Department in 1992. But the city council voted to … Read More