(Natural News) Earth’s inner core may have reversed its rotation, according to a team of researchers from China. The team’s peer-reviewed study was published Monday, Jan. 23, in the journal Nature Geoscience. The reversal of the inner core rotation would shorten the length of the day by a fraction of a millisecond over the course of a […]

(Natural News) The U.S. Geological Survey reported a 6.4 magnitude earthquake hit Northern California’s Humboldt County in the wee hours of Tuesday, December 20, leaving at least two people dead and 12 injured. “It was the most intense earthquake that I’ve felt,” Rio Dell Mayor Debra Garnes said. “It was a long-duration earthquake, so it was […]

(Natural News) Large portions of Japan’s Fukushima Prefecture remain abandoned ten years after the natural disaster that crippled the area. The prefecture bore the brunt of an earthquake and tsunami that hit it in 2011, damaging a nuclear power plant based in the town of Okuma. Truly, Fukushima still feels the effects of the Fukushima […]

(Natural News) A 70-plus-story high-rise in China’s Shenzhen city wobbled for two consecutive days even though there was no earthquake at the time. The city experienced only light winds, The Epoch Times reported. SEG Plaza, a 1,167-foot building with 75 floors above ground and four floors underground, started to sway at noon on Tuesday, May 18. Some 15,000 people fled […]

(Natural News) The Mid-Atlantic state of New Hampshire was recently roused by a mysterious explosion. Adding to the mystery was the fact that earthquake monitors detected no seismic activity in the region that could have caused the boom. Thus, many speculate that a meteor may have caused the loud explosion felt and heard in different […]

(Natural News) September 19 marks the sixth month of the Reykjavik volcanic eruption that continues to mesmerize spectators in the area, making it the longest that Iceland has witnessed in over 50 years. Lava first spewed out of a fissure close to Mount Fagradalsfjall on March 19 in the Geldingadalir region of the Reykjanes peninsula, southwest […]

(Natural News) Early in September, a massive earthquake swarm was reported around the volcanic island of La Palma in the Canary Islands of Spain. According to the Volcanological Institute of the Canary Islands (INVOLCAN), these tremors could be caused by slowly rising magma in the area. An earthquake swarm refers to a sequence of seismic events occurring in […]

(Natural News) Researchers suggest that mysterious booming noises called skyquakes are mainly caused by celestial phenomena, such as meteor explosions and supersonic aircraft zooming through the sky. Described as explosive booms rumbling in the distance, skyquakes are widely thought to originate from the sky. These mysterious booms are often reported in the eastern coast of the United States where […]

(Natural News) Fears of a major earthquake along the New Madrid Seismic Zone in the Midwest emerged after a sinkhole opened up in a lake in Missouri and cracks were found in a major bridge in Tennessee. The sinkhole appeared in a lake in Lone Elk Park in St. Louis County. Parks director Tom Ott was told on May […]

(Natural News) Experts predict that the next big earthquake along the Cascadia Subduction Zone will be much worse than the catastrophic earthquake that struck Japan in 2011. In a March episode of PBS Terra‘s “Weathered,” meteorologist and host Maiya May showed how vulnerable the Pacific Northwest is to the so-called “Big One” earthquake along Cascadia. She said that this disaster would likely cause more damage to the […]