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The four-ton Mintrop ball
Göttingen, Germany

Wiechert Earthquake Station

Home to the world’s oldest seismograph and a four-ton steel ball that makes its own earthquakes.
Haunting and overgrown.
Concepción, Chile

Enrique Molina Theater

The ruins of a grand theater destroyed during the most powerful seismic catastrophe ever recorded.
The tsunami stone of Aneyoshi Village
Kesennuma, Japan

Tsunami Stones

Stone slabs along the coast warn of Japan's tsunami-ravaged past, often marking the highest point of a wave's reach.
Families picked their way through the flooded streets of San Juan after Hurricane Maria.
disasters

2017 Brought Disasters, and Brought Out the Best in People

When wildfires, earthquakes, floods, and other crises delivered one wallop after another, bravery, kindness, and creativity fought back.
Jessica Leigh Hester December 18, 2017
Kumamoto, Japan

Kumamoto Castle

The iconic castle that withstood a magnitude 6.2 earthquake has become a symbol of resilience.
Fourth Avenue in Anchorage, Alaska, after a magnitude-9.2 earthquake in 1964. The earthquake was caused by the Aleutian Megathrust, a subduction zone.
disasters

Simulating What Could Happen When the 'Really Big One' Hits the Pacific Northwest

When the Cascadia subduction zone slips, the effects will vary based on where and how.
Kelsey Kennedy October 23, 2017
Have you seen his bones?
santa claus

Have Turkish Archaeologists Found the Final Resting Place of Saint Nick?

A tomb in Myra adds to confusion over relics of the beloved icon.
Vittoria Traverso October 3, 2017
The Delphi complex is one of the most famous landmarks of the ancient world.
ruins

The Ancient Greeks May Have Deliberately Built Temples on Fault Lines

Then again, they may just have an awful lot of both.
Natasha Frost September 12, 2017
science

A Landslide Was the Culprit Behind a Massive Tsunami in Greenland

This could be just the beginning.
Kelsey Kennedy July 27, 2017
Researchers studying the layers of silt in an Indonesian cave.
caves

A Sea Cave in Indonesia Contains a 5,000-Year Record of Tsunamis

Layers of silt show just how unpredictable earthquakes are.
Kelsey Kennedy July 19, 2017
The Ghost Forest in 1997
Copalis Crossing, Washington

Ghost Forest of Copalis

This grove of ghostly cedars was killed in 1700 by an enormous tsunami, felt from the United States to Japan.
A neighborhood in Aguadilla, Puerto Rico, following an earthquake and tsunami in 1918.
science

The Forgotten Documents of a 1918 Tsunami in Puerto Rico

They are helping scientists understand exactly what happened.
Kelsey Kennedy July 5, 2017
The courtyard in the main complex.
Tatev, Armenia

Gavazan Column at Tatev Monastery

Centuries before the modern seismograph, Armenian monks measured quakes with this tilting pillar.
The new outflow of the Kaskawulsh Glacier.
pirates

A 'River Pirate' Can Be a Criminal—Or Another River

What outlaws on the Mississippi have to do with glaciers in the Yukon.
Samir S. Patel April 18, 2017
Permanently Closed
185 Chairs Memorial
Christchurch, New Zealand

185 Chairs

An unusual and powerful memorial in which earthquake victims are remembered by empty white chairs.
Kobe, Japan

Kobe Luminarie

An astounding annual light display honors the victims of one of Japan's most devastating earthquakes.
Phelan Building, with the rooftop penthouse visible
San Francisco, California

Phelan Building

The second building of its name to occupy this location might be the finest flatiron building in San Francisco.
temples

Lots of Ancient Pagodas and Temples Were Damaged in the Myanmar Earthquake

Many are nearly a millennium old.
Erik Shilling August 26, 2016