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Topic: Earthquakes

A burned building on Sunset Boulevard during the Palisades Fire on Wednesday, January 8, 2025, in Pacific Palisades, CA. (Photo by (Jeff Gritchen/MediaNews Group/Orange County Register via Getty Images)

A history of California's fire struggles

James Thornton Harris
Planet Mars (Getty Images/SCIEPRO/SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY)

Earthquakes on Mars reveal core mystery

Troy Farah
An earthquake survivor reacts as rescuers look for victims and other survivors in Hatay, the day after a 7.8-magnitude earthquake struck the country's southeast on February 7, 2023. (BULENT KILIC/AFP via Getty Images)

Why we can’t predict earthquakes yet

Harold Tobin - The Conversation
Smoke billows from Iskenderun Port fire as people walk past collapsed buildings on February 07, 2023 in Iskenderun, Turkey. (Burak Kara/Getty Images)

Why we can't predict earthquakes

Troy Farah
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Electricity and Earthquakes (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Why earthquakes send out electricity

Matthew Rozsa
Illustration of a coronal mass ejection impacting the Earth s atmosphere. These events, CMEs for short, are powerful releases of solar charged particles (plasma) and magnetic field, travelling on the solar wind. (Getty Images/MARK GARLICK/SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY)

Could the sun cause earthquakes?

Matthew Rozsa
A Puerto Rican flag waves on top of a pile of rubble as debris is removed from a main road in Guanica, Puerto Rico on January 8, 2020. (Ricardo Arduengo/AFP via Getty Images)

Puerto Rico wasn’t ready for earthquakes

Paola Rosa-Aquino - Grist
Concerned dog looking at a Richter Scale (Getty Images/Salon)

Can dogs predict earthquakes?

Nicole Karlis
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A contractor helps apply a FEMA tarp to a home damaged by Hurricane Maria in Morovis, Puerto Rico. (Getty/Mario Tama)

Short-term disaster relief is a disaster

Farzana Gandhi
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Bay Area looses sleep over earthquake

Rachel Leah
A building that collapsed after an earthquake in Mexico City. (AP/Rebecca Blackwell)

7.1 magnitude quake shakes Mexico City

Jennie Neufeld
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Earthquakes: Deadly & needed

David Nabhan
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A sign is submerged in the water from Coyote Creek Tuesday, Feb. 21, 2017, in Morgan Hill, Calif. Rains have saturated once-drought stricken California but have created chaos for residents hit hard by the storms. The latest downpours swelled waterways to flood levels and left about half the state under flood, wind and snow advisories. () (AP Photo/Marcio Jose Sanchez)

California's Earthquakes

Gillian Foulger, Jon Gluyas, Miles Wilson - The Conversation
Earthquake survivor Fakriyah tries to balance herself as she walks on the rubble at her shop damaged during Wednesday's earthquake in Tringgading, Aceh province, Indonesia, Friday, Dec. 9, 2016. Over a hundred people were killed in the quake that hit the northeast of the province on Sumatra before dawn Wednesday. Hundreds of people were injured and thousands buildings destroyed or heavily damaged. (AP Photo/Binsar Bakkara) (AP)

People cause earthquakes

Gillian Foulger, Jon Gluyas, Miles Wilson - The Conversation

Four for Four

Kevin Carlin
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OK's fracking "game changer"

Lindsay Abrams
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This is the scary earthquake

Salon Staff
Dwayne Johnson in "San Andreas" (Warner Bros. Entertainment)

Rock amid the rubble

Andrew O'Hehir
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Big Oil attacks science

Lindsay Abrams
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Nepal devastated by quake

Binaj Gurubacharya, Muneeza Naqvi
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More quakes than ever

Lindsay Abrams
(Karen Grigoryan/Shutterstock)

Oklahoma admits the obvious

Lindsay Abrams
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Fracking shakes up Oklahoma

Lindsay Abrams
(Karen Grigoryan/Shutterstock)

Frackquakes shake Oklahoma

Lindsay Abrams
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