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A search expanded on Thursday for those killed or trapped alive by an earthquake in the Pacific island nation of Vanuatu, as rescue workers arriving from abroad fanned out through the capital, Port Vila, encountering flattened...
Russia Wednesday expanded an operation to clean up thousands of tonnes of oil that spilt into the sea and contaminated 50 kilometers of beaches after tanker ships were wrecked in a storm. An aging Russian oil tanker broke up...

What’s the tallest wave ever recorded on Earth?

This wave was taller than the Empire State Building. In July 1958, an 8.3-magnitude earthquake at the Fairweather Fault rocked Alaska's southern coast. The ground-shaking...

Strange ‘reverse shock wave’ supernova is exploding in the wrong direction

Part of the shock wave is shrinking rather than expanding. A powerful shock wave traveling through a cloud of gas left behind by the explosive...

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