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

As part of the aftershocks from July’s 8.8 megathrust, the shallow jolt put Kamchatka on high alert with no confirmed major damage.

Egyptian Team Finds Sunken Port Off Taposiris Magna

Ecuador Quarry Yields South America’s First Mesozoic Amber With Insects

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

Oldest, Most Complete Dome-Headed Dinosaur Unearthed in Mongolia

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Perseverance Maps Repeated Habitable Water Episodes in Jezero, Study Finds

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

JAXA Ends Akatsuki Mission, Leaving Venus Without an Active Orbiter

Yellowstone Crews Remove 13,000 Pieces of Trash From Hot Springs in 2025, USGS Reports

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

Study Pinpoints Microbial Colonization of Finland’s Lappajärvi Impact Crater

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

USGS Reports Magnitude 5.2 Quake Off Aleutians With No Tsunami Warning

MIT Lab Quakes Reveal Where Earthquake Energy Goes

Perseverance Finds Potential Biosignature in Jezero Mudstones, Nature Study Reports

Yellowstone Crew Retrieves 13,000 Items—Including 300 Hats—from Hot Springs This Year

Unexplained Boom Rattles Homes Across Hampton Roads and Northeast North Carolina

Volcanic Sulfur May Explain a Warmer Early Mars, Peer-Reviewed Study Says

M7.4 Quake Off Kamchatka Triggers Tsunami Alerts Later Canceled

Perseverance Finds Potential Biosignature in Jezero Mudstone, Raising Stakes for Sample Return