All posts tagged with tsunami
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-(Natural News) “Channel One,” a Russian state-run media outlet, ran a feature piece the other day outlining how easy it would supposedly be for Russia to “drown” the United Kingdom in a “radioactive tsunami.” Aleksey Zhuravlyov, the chairman of Russia’s nationalist Rodina political party, explained during the segment that the Russian navy’s nuclear submarines could […]
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-(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 […]
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-(Natural News) A massive, deadly tsunami swept over the Pacific island nation of Tonga earlier this week that was created by a volcanic eruption that was 500 times more powerful than the atomic bombs dropped on Japan during World War II. Pictures of the devastation flooded social media in the aftermath of the tsunami showing […]
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-(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 […]
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-(Natural News) Scientists recently discovered that an asteroid that hit the Earth and killed the dinosaurs millions of years also sent mile-high tsunamis crashing into North America. They found proof of this event through fossilized “mega-ripples” buried within sediments in the central Louisiana area. The finding contributes to the larger search for evidence of the […]
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-(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 […]
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-(Natural News) Russian President Vladimir Putin has been waiting years for an opportunity to regain an upper hand on the U.S. after decades of being a second-rate power following the end of the Cold War. And with the ‘election’ of Joe Biden, Putin’s dreams of dominating the world again have been revitalized. Because our ‘president’ […]
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-(Natural News) A magnitude 7.3 earthquake rocked the Fukushima Prefecture in Japan on Feb. 13. According to the Japan Meteorological Agency (JMA), the quake is an aftershock of the 2011 Japan earthquake that triggered enormous tsunamis and nuclear meltdowns at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant. The powerful quake hit Saturday night off the coast of Fukushima, at a depth of 36 miles. […]
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-(Natural News) Researchers from Portland State University found that the Gales Creek fault in Oregon could unleash an earthquake of up to magnitude 7.4. The researchers dug a trench to study the fault and found evidence of three previous earthquakes in the last 9,000 years. Each earthquake was strong enough to rupture the surface. The researchers said […]
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-(Natural News) Researchers from the University of Houston may have uncovered evidence of the Resurrection plate, a tectonic plate believed to have sunk into Earth’s mantle in the Pacific margin between 40 and 60 million years ago. A study published in the journal Geological Society of America Bulletin revealed that a massive chunk of rock below northern Canada closely matches […]
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