Natural Disasters News
April 19, 2025
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Apr. 18, 2025 Researchers posed a seemingly simple question: how wide are ...
Apr. 16, 2025 A new study suggests that climate trauma -- such as experiencing a devastating wildfire -- can have lasting effects on cognitive ...
Apr. 16, 2025 Beneath the steaming geysers and bubbling mud pots of Yellowstone National Park lies one of the world's most closely watched volcanic systems. Now a team of geoscientists has uncovered new evidence ...
Apr. 15, 2025 The 28 March magnitude 7.7 Mandalay, Burma (Myanmar) earthquake caused widespread and severe damage in Myanmar and neighboring countries such as Thailand, with more than 5,000 casualties now confirmed. At the Seismological Society of America's ...
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Apr. 14, 2025 Researchers use mathematical modeling to probe whether cohesive communities are more resilient to extreme events, finding that emotional intensity ...
Apr. 11, 2025 For the highly populated coastal country of Bangladesh, once-in-a-century storm tides could strike every 10 years -- or more often -- by the end of ...
Apr. 11, 2025 A team presents new details of an oceanic transform fault at the Gofar fault in the eastern Pacific Ocean. The work reveals unexpected brine deposits beneath the seafloor near the fault, which could ...
Apr. 9, 2025 Wildfire victims have a range of needs, including mental health support and information about wildfire smoke, according to a new ...
Apr. 9, 2025 New findings provide a greater understanding of plate subduction, or how tectonic plates slide beneath one another. This recycling of surface ...
Mar. 18, 2025 Over the past two decades, Haiti has endured the devastation of two catastrophic earthquakes -- first in 2010 and again in 2021. Each disaster left behind widespread destruction: buildings reduced to ...
Mar. 14, 2025 New research quantifies the health risks of wildland-urban interface fires, showing fire emissions in populated areas are three times more likely to lead to annual premature deaths than emissions ...
Mar. 13, 2025 When major storms hit Houston last spring and summer, losing power was a nightmare for residents, but for many, the financial fallout was just as devastating. A new report finds that more than half ...
Mar. 12, 2025 Seismologists describe potential damage forecasts from ground shaking scenarios for moderate earthquakes in three regions of the Mexico City ...
Mar. 7, 2025 An international team of scientists has synchronized key climate records from the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans to unravel the sequence of events during the last million years before the extinction of ...
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Mar. 5, 2025 A new seismic study of Singapore could guide urban growth and renewable energy development in the coastal city nation, where 5.6 million residents live within an area of 734 square ...
Mar. 5, 2025 Whether it's rivers cutting through earth, lava melting through rock, or water slicing through ice, channels all twist and bend in a seemingly similar back-and-forth manner. But a new study has ...
Mar. 4, 2025 Researchers explore the likelihood that Earth's climate, as affected by solar heat, plays a role in seismic activity. Using mathematical and computational methods, they analyzed earthquake data ...
Feb. 28, 2025 Scientists have revealed that two continent-size regions in Earth's deep mantle have distinctive histories and resulting chemical composition, in contrast to the common assumption they are the ...
Feb. 26, 2025 A study looking at a small region in Japan has shown that the properties of fault zone rocks really matter for the generation of ...
Feb. 25, 2025 Grouting is a widely used construction technique that involves injecting stabilizing materials into soil to ensure structural stability, which is especially beneficial in earthquake-prone regions. ...
Feb. 20, 2025 Scientists know that natural disasters have negative health effects on survivors, but long-term observations are lacking. To help fill this gap, a research team has investigated the connection ...
Feb. 19, 2025 Conventional drones use visual sensors for navigation. However, environmental conditions like dampness, low light, and dust can hinder their effectiveness, limiting their use in disaster-stricken ...
Feb. 14, 2025 In late July to October 2022, residents of the Manu'a Islands in American Samoa felt the earth shake several times a day, raising concerns of an imminent volcanic eruption or ...
Feb. 12, 2025 Climate scientists present a realistic supercomputer simulation that resolves the complex interactions between fire, vegetation, smoke and the atmosphere. The authors find that increasing greenhouse ...
Feb. 11, 2025 Research analyzed tree rings and fire scars to compare modern fires to those in the ...
Feb. 11, 2025 In 2018, the side of the Anak Krakatau volcano collapsed in a powerful eruption and produced a tsunami that killed hundreds and injured thousands on nearby Java and Sumatra in Indonesia. A new ...
Feb. 10, 2025 Earth's inner core is undergoing structural transformation. Located 3,000 miles below the Earth's surface, the inner core is anchored by gravity within the molten liquid outer core. Until ...
Feb. 10, 2025 The recent LA fires drove home how dangerous wildfires can be when they encroach on urban areas. So-called 'wildland-urban interface' fires are on the rise. However, building codes and ...
Feb. 6, 2025 An international team of researchers has shown that countless tiny ice quakes take place in one of Greenland's mightiest ice streams. This finding will allow the flowing of the ice sheet and ...
Feb. 5, 2025 What created the Noto Peninsula landscape we know today? After examining the devastation from the 2024 Noto Peninsula earthquake, researchers have a ...
Feb. 3, 2025 Early detection of earthquakes could be vastly improved by tapping into the world's internet network with a groundbreaking new algorithm, researchers say. Fiber optic cables used for cable ...
Jan. 30, 2025 Experts from the global Earth science community have pieced together what happened during the massive Sikkim flood to try to help others prepare for similar ...
Jan. 27, 2025 One would think that a volcano was not the most hospitable place for living organisms. However, the Borealis Mud Volcano, at 400 m water depth, acts as a sanctuary for a number of marine ...
Jan. 23, 2025 The magnitude 7.9 Bonin Islands earthquake sequence, which ruptured deep within the earth near the base of the upper mantle, did not include an aftershock that extended to record depths into the ...
Wednesday, March 5, 2025
- Seismic Study of Singapore Could Guide Urban Construction and Renewable Energy Development
- Researchers Quantify the Way Rivers Bend, Opening Up the Possibility for Identifying Origins of Channels on Other Planets
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Tuesday, February 11, 2025
- Fewer Forest Fires Burn in North America Today Than in the Past--and That's a Bad Thing
- Satellite Data Identifies Warning Signs Ahead of 2018 Volcanic Eruption, Tsunami
Monday, February 10, 2025
- Earth's Inner Core Is Undergoing a Transformation
- Generating International Testing Standards for Large Outdoor Fires
Thursday, February 6, 2025
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- Volcanic Eruption Caused Neolithic People to Sacrifice Unique 'sun Stones'
- Speleothem and Ice Cores: Natural Climate Archives Offer New Insights Into the Climate History of Central Europe
Tuesday, January 14, 2025
- Hiroshima Flooding: A Case Study of Well Usage and Adaptive Governance
- Residents of Unburned Homes Reported Health Symptoms Months After Marshall Fire
Monday, January 13, 2025
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- Unveiling a Century of Stress and Deformation: Insights from Kilauea Volcano's 1975 Earthquake
- New Research Provides an Improved Understanding of Earthquake Hazards in the Permian Basin
Wednesday, November 27, 2024
Tuesday, November 19, 2024
- How Flood Risk Affects Home Values
- Improving Hurricane Modeling With Physics-Informed Machine Learning
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- Building Safer Cities With AI: Machine Learning Model Enhances Urban Resilience Against Liquefaction
Thursday, October 24, 2024
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Monday, October 21, 2024
- What Happened When a Meteorite the Size of Four Mount Everests Hit Earth?
- Shaking from April's Sizable New Jersey Earthquake Traveled Strangely Far
Thursday, October 17, 2024
- When Hurricanes Hit, Online Chatter Drowns out Safety Messaging
- Understanding Landslides: A New Model for Predicting Motion
Wednesday, October 16, 2024
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Friday, September 27, 2024
- Deep Underground Flooding Beneath Arima Hot Springs: A Potential Trigger for the 1995 Kobe (Hyogo-Ken Nanbu) Earthquake
- Ancient Sunken Seafloor Reveals Earth's Deep Secrets
Tuesday, September 24, 2024
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- Scientist's Method Could Give Months' Warning of Major Earthquakes
- New Model to Enhance Extreme Rainfall Prediction
Wednesday, August 28, 2024
- Making Waves in Hurricane Prediction
- Engineers Develop AI System for Real-Time Sensing of Flooded Roads
Tuesday, August 27, 2024
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- Seismic Detectors Measure Soil Moisture Using Traffic Noise
- New Model Refutes Leading Theory on How Earth's Continents Formed
Thursday, August 1, 2024
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- Effective Hurricane Risk Messaging
- An Earthquake Changed the Course of the Ganges: Could It Happen Again?
Thursday, June 13, 2024
- The Rotation of Earth's Inner Core Has Slowed, New Study Confirms
- Video Analysis of Iceland 2010 Eruption Could Improve Volcanic Ash Forecasts for Aviation Safety
- Estimating the Energy of Past Earthquakes from Brecciation in a Fault Zone
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Thursday, May 30, 2024
- Novel Mobile Air Monitoring Technology Yields Greater Insight Into Post-Disaster Pollution Levels
- Safeguarding Urban Infrastructure from Subsidence and Liquefaction Risks