The Ring of Fire is an enormous belt of active and dormant volcanoes that surrounds most of the Pacific Ocean. It runs from southern Chile, up the west coast of the Americas, through the islands off ...

A massive 8.8 magnitude earthquake shook the Pacific last Wednesday. This was the 6th strongest quake ever recorded, according to the US Geological Survey. The quake’s epicenter was 84 miles southeast ...

Natural disasters, from wildfires, floods and mudslides in western states to large earthquakes in Japan, have rocked, burned and flooded parts of the world in the first months of 2025. What’s next?

A "ring of fire" is visible when the moon moves between the Earth and the sun. A new "ring of fire" annular solar eclipse is coming this October and will be visible Wednesday from South America. In ...

The magnitude 8.8 earthquake that struck off Russia's Kamchatka Peninsula on July 29 may have been one of the 10 largest ever recorded on the planet, but it wasn't totally unprecedented. The ...

A dramatic natural event has shaken Russia’s Far East. On Wednesday morning, the Kamchatka Peninsula’s powerful Klyuchevskoy volcano erupted. This eruption occurred soon after a powerful earthquake ...

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