earthquake
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Entire Town Levelled As Yet Another Massive Earthquake Hits Italy
Just a few months after central Italy was battered by a magnitude 6.2 earthquake, the region has been struck again, and harder.
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It’s A Wild, Weird Time To Live On Planet Earth
Australia is in the midst of the worst heat wave on record, but that’s just the start. Around the world, 2015 saw exceptional droughts, deadly heat waves and massive wildfires. Add in earthquakes, landslides, and a brewing El Niño and we’re convinced our planet is trying to kill us.
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This Was One Of The Largest Landslides Ever, So How Did No One See It For Months?
How big is this landslide in China’s Tonzang valley? Big. So big that it created many (many!) new lakes. So big that, at just one of its three major points of origin, it shifted 395 million (million!) tonnes of earth. But it didn’t just happen — it actually occurred back in July. So why are…
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The Himalayas Dropped Almost A Metre After The Nepal Earthquake
The earthquake in Nepal was so violent it moved mountains. Satellite imagery shows that the parts of the Himalayas sank three feet (91cm) — and the area around it as much as five feet (152cm) — as tectonic plates snapped under extreme pressure. But the mountains will regain their height, slowly but surely, thanks to…