Geohazards

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A carpenter named Ace Hopewell rode his motorcycle up San Francisquito Canyon...

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If you’re new here, welcome to Geoscopy, a geology science-communication project dedicated...

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A glacier and the bedrock beneath it broke off the...

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Early on the morning of November 20, 1980, the drilling...

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The Venezuela earthquake of 24 June 2026 began...

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On Valentine’s Day 1981, twelve-year-old Todd Domboski crossed his grandmother’s...

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A man pushes through jungle undergrowth, machete in hand. One...

A hole that should not exist

In mid-July 2014, helicopter crews...

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On the night of July 9, 1958, a wall of...

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A limnic eruption is one of Earth’s strangest killers, an...

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In late summer of 1507, a Douglas-fir stood in what is now...

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It is a wet September night in 1931, and the...

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The Great Dying took place 251.902 million years ago, and...

On the evening of 26 January 1700, about a thousand kilometres of the...

The Messinian Salinity Crisis and the Zanclean Megaflood

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Earthquakes and volcanic eruptions claim thousands of lives each year. These disasters...

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Scrolling through geology TikToks and Insta reels is a bit like a...

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Planetary geology has advanced rapidly over the past decade, with new missions...

What is asbestos, why was it used as an insulator and how come it...