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Two Earthquakes, 39 Seconds Apart: Inside Venezuela’s 24 June 2026 Doublet
Introduction
The Venezuela earthquake of 24 June 2026 began...
June 25, 2026
Santorini 2025 Earthquake Swarm Explained
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By late January 2025, the residents of Santorini had stopped sleeping well....
June 11, 2026
Vredefort Crater: Earth’s Oldest, Biggest Impact Scar
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Two billion years ago, a rock between 20 and 25...
June 10, 2026
The 26-Second Pulse: Earth’s Heartbeat No One Can Explain
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On 6 June 1961, the needles on long-period seismographs scattered...
June 7, 2026
Shanay-Timpishka: The Amazon’s Boiling River
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Walk the bank of the Shanay-timpishka and the first thing...
June 4, 2026
Kola Superdeep Borehole: The Deepest Hole on Earth
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On a low rise of Arctic tundra near the Norwegian...
June 2, 2026
Earthquake Lights: The Science Behind the Glow
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Just before 11 p.m. on 8 September 2023, security cameras around Marrakech...
June 1, 2026
Indian Ocean Gravity Hole Explained
The Indian Ocean “Gravity Hole”: How Earth’s Largest Geoid Low Formed
May 28, 2026
The Bermuda Anomaly: An Island Floating on a 20-km Raft
New seismic imaging shows Bermuda is held up by a thick slab of cooled...
May 28, 2026
First-Ever Fault Rupture Caught on Camera
How a CCTV clip from the 2025 Mandalay earthquake rewrote seismology
The afternoon...
May 25, 2026
Argoland: The Lost Continent Hidden Under Indonesia
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Argoland is a lost continent that broke off northwest Australia roughly 155...
May 24, 2026
Laschamps Excursion: When Earth’s Field Collapsed
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In a fourth-floor office of the Climate and Space Sciences and Engineering...
May 23, 2026
Birth of a Sixth Ocean: Inside the Turkana Rift’s Final Act
On a hillside in West Turkana, late-Miocene mudstones tilt toward the sky in alternating...
May 23, 2026
World’s Oldest Impact Crater Found in Pilbara
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On a hot morning in May 2021, Chris Kirkland, Tim Johnson and...
May 21, 2026
Earth’s Inner Core Reverses Its Spin, Learn Why
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In June 2024, a team led by Wei Wang and...
May 20, 2026
Northern Appalachian Anomaly: The Hot Blob Drifting East
The Northern Appalachian Anomaly, Explained
In brief: The Northern Appalachian Anomaly...
May 14, 2026
The Great Unconformity: How a Billion Years of Earth’s History Went Missing
A new thermochronology study from the North China Craton argues that supercontinent tectonics, not...
May 13, 2026
LLSVPs: Hidden Giants at Earth’s Core–Mantle Boundary
Tuzo and Jason: The Continent-Sized Blobs Inside Earth
Drop straight down through the...
May 12, 2026
When the Mediterranean Vanished: The 600,000-Year Drought and the Megaflood That Ended It
The Messinian Salinity Crisis and the Zanclean Megaflood
May 10, 2026
Earth Has 8 Continents. Why Did We Miss One?
For 375 years, an entire continent was hiding in plain sight, obscured by the...
January 7, 2026
