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Kīlauea’s Latest Summit Episode Sends Lava Fountains to 500 Feet at Halemaʻumaʻu

USGS says the short-lived event stayed within the summit crater, prompting advisories for vog and windborne Pele’s hair.

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Iron Carbonate, Not Phosphate, Preserved Biomolecules in Ancient Coprolites

M7.8 Quake Off Kamchatka Triggers Tsunami Alerts as Alaska Advisories Are Downgraded

Powerful 7.8 Quake Strikes Off Russia’s Kamchatka, Triggers Tsunami Alerts

New 'Ananguite' Tektite Field Identified in Australia From 11-Million-Year-Old Impact

Magnitude 6.1 Quake Strikes Papua’s Nabire, Scattered Damage Reported

Reanalysis of GRACE Data Points to 2007 Deep-Mantle Shift Near Earth’s Core

Mount St. Helens Plumes Are Wind-Blown 1980 Ash, Not a New Eruption

Study Pinpoints Microbial Colonization of Finland’s Lappajärvi Impact Crater

Conference Model Points to Rare, Distant Technological Civilizations in the Milky Way

Shocked Quartz at Three Clovis Sites Revives Case for Younger Dryas Comet Airburst

Study Ties Earth’s Early Crust Changes to Milky Way Spiral-Arm Passages

NASA Images Show Alaska’s Prow Knob Has Become an Island as Alsek Glacier Retreats

The Moon Is Drifting Farther From Earth by 3.8 Centimeters a Year

MIT Lab Quakes Reveal Where Earthquake Energy Goes

USGS Reports Magnitude 5.2 Quake Off Aleutians With No Tsunami Warning

M7.4 Quake Off Kamchatka Triggers Tsunami Alerts Later Canceled

Magnitude 7.4 Quake Strikes Russia’s Kamchatka as Local Tsunami Threat Issued

First Direct Date of Dinosaur Eggshells Pins Chinese Clutch to 86 Million Years

Museum Fossil From Wales Named New Triassic Theropod, Newtonsaurus Cambrensis