An expert has warned a gigantic tsunami could hit Britain "at any time", demolishing coastal towns and cities in its path and killing millions. Sir David King, who worked as Chief Scientific Advisor to the British Government for seven...
Vandi Mahoney watched television images of snow falling across parts of Southern California the last few days as a massive winter storm moved through the region, but on Sunday she just had to see it for herself.Standing at Kenneth...
In a jaw-dropping moment, the 100-foot statue of Jesus Christ towering over Rio de Janeiro was hit by lightning. The stunning scene was captured during a flash storm which hit the coast of Brazil on Friday. The bolt of...
Buffalo and surrounding communities appear to have emerged virtually unscathed from the 3.8 magnitude earthquake that struck Erie County Monday morning, but it certainly gave people a fright."I heard a loud bang and then the building started shaking," said...
MOUNT WASHINGTON, N.H. – Hurricane-force wind gusts will peak as high as 140 mph. Temperatures will plunge to life-threatening values, with the wind chill dropping to nearly 110 degrees below zero.Those are some of the warnings and impacts for Mount Washington in New...
Stars like our sun are violent creatures — constantly spewing out radiation, gamma rays and all kinds of nasty stuff (though luckily Earth's ozone layer and atmosphere protect us from the worst of it.) But when stars die, especially big ones, their wrath becomes...
The sun has woken up grumpy this week, developing unusually unstable magnetic fields at some sunspots that may result in rare and violent X-class solar flares being fired at the Earth.X-class flares are the most powerful type of solar...
Northern California officials are back in clean-up mode after the second earthquake in two weeks struck the region Sunday morning (10:35 a.m.), cracking walls and roads.The 5.4 magnitude earthquake was shallow, striking at a depth of about 19 miles,...
Thousands of Americans still remain without power and drivers have been found dead in their cars after being left stranded on snow-covered highways and interstates.Temperatures plunged to a dangerously cold -53F in Sioux Falls, South Dakota when the wind chill was taken into account in the...
After a few months of relatively low solar activity, the Sun might be about to spit out more solar flares.
Images of the Sun taken on December 4 show that it has five large sunspots and two long filaments of magnetism...
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Puerto Rico rocked by 6.3 earthquake as major storm approaches
A magnitude 6.0 earthquake struck near Puerto Rico Monday evening, scaring and rousing many from their sleep in the U.S. territory. The U.S. Geological Survey...
