What if someone were to tell you that there’s a region in the world where roughly 90% of the world’s earthquakes occur. What if they were to tell you that this region is also home to over 75% of the world’s active and dormant volcanoes, and all but 3 of the world’s 25 larg...
What:A volcano is a rupture in the crust of a planetary - mass object, such as Earth, that allows hot lava, volcanic ash, and gases to escape from a magma chamber below the surface.Where:Volcanoes are usually found where tectonic plates are diverging or converging. The Ring of Fire, whi...
He added: "It is very difficult to say how long these eruptions will last; it could be days, it could be months. Larger more intense eruptions tend to last a shorter time, but if the flow rate becomes small it could go on for some time." Image:The Blue Lagoon pictured clos...
They happen in (mostly) predictable locations, like the infamous 'Ring of Fire' around the Pacific plate. If you're in (or plan to be in) a place that's subject to seismic upheaval during a SuperMoon stress window, it's not hard to figure out that being prepared to the extent that...
The first U.S. space tragedy occurred on January 27, 1967. Virgil “Gus” Grissom, Ed White and Roger Chaffee died when a fire erupted in the 100 percent oxygen atmosphere of their Apollo spacecraft during a pre-launch test at Kennedy Space Center, FL. They would have been the first cr...
The next monthly Blue Moon is on May 31, 2026, according to Time and Date. The next seasonal blue moon will be on Aug. 21, 2032. When was the last Blue Moon? The last Blue Moon was on Aug. 19, 2024. Related: Supermoon Blue Moon 2024: Top photos from around the world If yo...
What if Bianca had lived, and Percy hadn't? (Art by Viria) Contents 1 Death, More Death, and Another Choice 2 Whats-Her-Name Sells Her Soul 3 Social Services Sets My House On Fire 4 My Brother Gets The Worst Night-Light Ever 5 I Start Some Kind Of Local Legend About Disappearing...
I took it home, completed it and brought it back the next day, thinking I’d drop off the application, which they would look at and, if approved, I could take him home that day. I was wrong. The application had to go back to the animal services organization in the next town over ...
The sun in the west was a drop of burning gold that slid near and nearer the sill of the world. (Lord of the Flies, William Golding) If wits were pins, the man would be a veritable hedgehog. (Fly by Night, Frances Hardinge)
I think that if you are an American or a citizen of the world you have a beef with Rubin for believing–as I did–in the “Greenspanist” doctrine that the Federal Reserve had the tools to put a firewall between finance and employment and should thus regard bubbles principally with benign...