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Powerful 7.0 Quake Off Yilan Shakes Northern Taiwan

Officials report no immediate major damage or casualties.

Search Intensifies for Missing Spanish Family After Tour Boat Sinks Off Komodo

Unidentified Man Found Dead in Partially Submerged Car After Lancaster Flooding

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Most Power Restored After Central Coast and Bay Area Storms as Thousands Remain Without Electricity

Lick Observatory Shutter Ripped Off by 114 MPH Christmas Winds, Forcing Closure

Cabrillo Beach Closed After 100,000-Gallon Sewage Spill Taints Shoreline

Christmas Tornado Warning for Santa Cruz County Is Canceled Early

San Ramon Logs 300-Plus Quakes in Ongoing Swarm as USGS Sees No Sign of Major Fault Rupture

Menlo Park Issues Shelter-in-Place as Flooding Inundates Hamilton and Carlton Avenues

Kīlauea Marks One Year of Eruption With 39th Summit Fountaining Episode Reaching 1,400 Feet

Infant, Eight Others Rescued After South Yuba River Traps Home Near Donner Summit

Yellowstone Webcam Captures New ‘Dirty Eruption’ at Black Diamond Pool

Fourmile Canyon Wildfire Fully Contained as Boulder County Lifts Evacuations

Mexico Logs New Pre-Dawn Tremors After Chiapas 5.2 as Authorities Report No Damage

Magnitude 6.5 Quake Strikes Near Goroka, Papua New Guinea

San Francisco Blackout Cuts Power to 130,000 as PG&E Works Through Night

Three Quakes Jolt San Ramon as USGS Revises Largest to Magnitude 4.0

Most Power Restored After Pennsylvania Wind Storm as Thousands Remain Without Electricity

UAE Downpour Floods Cities and Disrupts Travel as Dubai Airport Eases Delays

LADWP Prepares Months-Long Shutdown of Santa Ynez Reservoir to Replace Damaged Cover