Strange Sounds

The San Andreas Fault in the Southern California desert gets most of the local earthquake press and the starring roles in summer blockbusters. But scientists are getting better at mapping the fault lines...

A large nuclear-powered attack submarine of the Soviet Navy during the final years of the Cold War sank in the Norwegian Sea on April 7, 1989 with its nuclear reactor and two...

Way back in 1811 and 1812, a series of over 1,000 earthquakes rocked the Mississippi River between St. Louis and Memphis. One was so powerful that it caused the river to run...

More than 10,000 earthquakes have hit California and Nevada in the last 7 days. Picture via USGS The ground is constantly shaking in southern California right now, and...

The ruins of Ziklag, the long-lost town famed as a refuge for King David in the Hebrew Bible has finally been discovered by a team of archeologists in Israel. The...

Volkswagen is halting production of the last version of its Beetle model this week at its plant in Puebla, Mexico. It’s the end of the road for a...

Dead fish and bourbon began to enter the Ohio River on Monday due to the runoff from last week's Jim Beam warehouse fire. The “alcohol plume” from the...

Northern Arizona has had deep ties to the Apollo missions. Every moon-walking astronaut took crash courses in geology at the Grand Canyon and a nearby impact crater. Any...

Religious publishers say President Donald Trump’s most recent proposed tariffs on Chinese imports could result in a Bible shortage. That’s because millions of Bibles — some estimates put...

Iran has been rocked by a massive 5.7-magnitude earthquake on July 8, 2019. The shallow quake - also felt in Iraq, Saudi Arabia and Kuwait - killed at...

There were multiple fissures that broke the ground in the Mojave Desert in southern California on Thursday and Friday after two major M6.4 and M7.1 earthquakes struck the area.

A massive sinkhole swallowed one vehicle in Woodbridge, Virginia, Thursday evening, when a protion of Princedale Drive literally collapsed underground. Since the sinkhole is still growing, it...

One person is dead and as many as a dozen people were hurt when lightning struck a popular river gathering spot in South Carolina on Independence Day. Lightning...

Indonesia’s geophysics agency has issued a tsunami warning, after a magnitude 7.1 earthquake struck in the Moloccan Sea to the country’s east. The figure was later downgraded to...

Excavation of ancient Chinese tombs have revealed the oldest human skulls which were intentionally reshaped as part of a ritual to show status and wealth. At a site...

This should be a wake up call for everybody! look at this mother bird feeding her chick a cigarette butt. It's just too shocking!

The misuse of antibiotics has already led to the emergence of a huge number of antibiotic-resistant bacteria that could potentially threaten the future health of the human species. As...

Good morning, everyone: as I’m sure you’ve spotted by now, there was a magnitude 7.1 earthquake in Southern California at 2019 hours local time on Friday. Although there...

This amazing animation shows the waves from the California M6.4 earthquake traveling through the earth and across earth's surface on July 4, 2019. The shaking was felt from...

Typically, when you’re dead, you’re dead. But one man in India did, seemingly, come back to life – at his own funeral. Man declared...

Millions of animals dead, a disease devastating entire populations in multiple states, and no cure or treatment in sight. That’s the reality of white nose syndrome, a disease...

Wearing wading boots and a wide-brimmed hat, Derrick Currie casts his green fishing line into a pool of brown water along a rural Tennessee road. In a couple...

Six years ago, an island was created by a deadly M7.7 earthquake which killed more than 800 people off Pakistan. The tiny earthquake island, also known as Zalzala...

An incredibly rare lake of lava has been discovered on Saunders Island in the South Sandwich Islands, one of the world’s most remote and volcanically active island ranges.

A M6.4 earthquake rattled parts of Southern California and Nevada on July 4, 2019. This is the strongest earthquake to hit Southern California in nearly 20 years. The shallow quake - reported by...

A strong M6.2 earthquake hit the Pacific Northwest in the Haida Gwaii region, British Columbia, Canada on July 4, 2019. The quake was shallow - 10km (6.2 miles)....

A garbage truck plunged into a massive sinkhole in the Italian city of Naples on Monday, sparking the evacuations of several homes nearby. The truck was traveling down the Casoria...

Volcanoes in Italy are currently very active. Just before Stromboli today, a powerful explosion rattled Etna volcano on July 2, 2019. Etna volcanic...

The Stromboli volcano has violently erupted, killing a tourist in Italy. Other people, terrified when ash started rising high into the sky, threw themselves into the sea.

On July 4, 1826, two prominent presidents, Thomas Jefferson and John Adams, took their final breaths within hours of each other. Some have wondered if it was somehow...

Barbara has become the Eastern Pacific's first major hurricane (Category 3 or higher) of the season. In less than 24 hours, the storm has exploded from a tropical...

Rain has finally arrived to India! But in insane quantity! Heaviest rain in decade triggers flooding chaos in Mumbai, India and at least...

That's a groundbreaking discovery! Scientists have successfully eliminated HIV-1 DNA, the virus responsible for AIDS, from the genomes of living animals in what could be a step towards...

For the past several months, earthquake and ground deformation rates at Mauna Loa Volcano have exceeded long term background levels. Accordingly, HVO is elevating the Mauna Loa...

Record-smashing heat has scorched Alaska over the past few days, and even worse heat is in store for the week ahead. On Saturday, downtown Juneau, Alaska's capital city, hit...

What's happening in the sky? Something looking like a gate to another dimension or to an unknown imaginary Kingdom suddenly appeared in the sky.

More than 500 rodents have plummeted to their deaths in just three days in the Dutch city of Hommerts. But no one knows why.

The last total solar eclipse our planet experienced was the Great American Eclipse, which darkened the sky of the United States from the West to the East coast on August 21, 2017.

It's not quite Atlantis, but a new model of the early development of continental crusts proposes Earth really did once have lost continents. They were just a few...

If you’re out taking a walk in Alabama this summer and you hear a strange droning hum, we suggest you quickly head in the other direction. Hoards of yellow jacket...