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Scientists are piecing together the factors that led to the disaster, which has also exposed gaps in cross-border information sharing on hazards in the rapidly changing Himalayas.

Center for Land Surface Hazards (CLaSH)

Daniel Blumstein recently sat in a Colorado meadow waiting for yellow-bellied marmots to appear, as the ecologist and evolutionary biologist had done many times before, the New York Times reported. Bu...

Global cooperation revealed a landslide, not a glacial collapse, likely initiated the cascade of events

On 28 May 2025, twenty million cubic metres of rock and ice buried the medieval village of Blatten and nearby settlements in the Swiss Lötschen valley. In the wake of the warmest decade since at least...

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Deep strike-slip event within a subducting slab

A reminder of the neighboring 2016 Kumamoto M7.0 earthquake

Experiment event details for Egypt vs Iran

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Severe damage; collapsed buildings; significant fatalities possible

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Back-to-back powerful earthquakes have hammered Venezuela, collapsing buildings in the capital of Caracas. The U.S.

Back-to-back powerful earthquakes have hammered Venezuela, collapsing buildings in the capital of Caracas. The U.S.