Initial damage from the earthquake was minimal thanks to building codes. Only 150 people died from the quake. The earthquake created a tsunami, that did most of the damage. Levees were in place for tsunamis but since the earthquake exceeded all predictions, it wasn’t enough. The tsunami reac...
Fuego, Mount Rainier and Mount St. Helens are stratovolcanoes, which emit miles-high clouds of white-hot debris and pour out high-speed flows of ash and lava. In contrast, Kilauea is a shield volcano, which typically produces slow-moving lava. When Mount St. Helens erupted in 1980, it s...
One of the reasons we can’t get an accurate count is that the bulk of the things that have yet to be discovered and described are in the realm of the very small: insects, bacteria and other microbes.“We’ve done a pretty good job of categorizing from the size of a fly up,” but...
Warsaw is one of two cities in the United States that holds the record for both the highest and lowest temperatures recorded in a state (the other is Millsboro, Delaware). During the 1965 flood in Edgerton, four people died and 729 residences were damaged or completely destroyed. Approximately...
Even if your day is just going from the house to the car to work, those few minutes outside can be dangerous. The Basics Canva The Basics Hat - keep them ears covered. Gloves - doesn't have to be a huge glove like an astronaut. Something simple will work. Frostbite can steal the ...
June's full moon is commonly known as the strawberry moon, a name that comes from the Algonquin Native American tribe in the northeastern U.S. and eastern Canada and refers to the region's strawberry harvesting season (not the moon's actual hue). ...
Humanity's fascination with lava is nothing new. Cultures around the world have built up millennia-spanning mythologies around the volcanoes (like Mount Kilauea, theHawaiian volcano that's barely stopped erupting since 1983) that produce it. Hollywood's obsession with lava is likewise well documented...
but a second clone of Willa named Antonia, proved capable. In November of 2024, the U.S. Fish and WIldlife Service announced that Antonia had given birth to three kits. One died shortly after birth, but the remaining two, a girl and boy named Sibert and Red Cloud, have proven to be ...
Researchers from Georgia State University have been combing Twitter and ISIS channels on Telegram to record the children’s ages, dates, nationalities — anyone 18 or younger. The trends are striking and deeply troubling. Disturbing statistics ...
While the movies might get the specifics wrong, falling into lava is going to ruin your day. To start, let's look at what happens when lava moves over a proxy organic material: vegetation. According to theUnited States Geological Survey(USGS), lava coming from Mount Kilauea, for example,...