When Renata De Oliveira and her husband were jolted awake by a loud thud that rattled the windows of their Roosevelt Island apartment early Tuesday morning, she thought her upstairs neighbor might have taken a bad fall, or that maybe there was a problem with her building’s heating system. But the culprit, it turned out, […]
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It Could Be a Vast Source of Clean Energy, Buried Deep Underground
In the rocky soil of Lorraine, a former coal mining region near the French-German border, scientists guided a small probe one recent day down a borehole half a mile into the earth’s crust. Frothing in the water table below was an exciting find: champagne-size bubbles that signaled a potentially mammoth cache of so-called white hydrogen, […]
Read MoreAfghanistan Struck By Large Quake Days After Deadly Temblors
A powerful earthquake struck Herat Province in Afghanistan near the border with Iran early Wednesday, several days after two major quakes in the same area killed more than 800 people. The magnitude 6.3 temblor struck northwestern Afghanistan at 5:22 a.m. local time at a depth of about 10 kilometers, according to the U.S. Geological Survey. […]
Read MoreEarthquake Strikes Morocco
This is a developing story. A powerful earthquake hit Morocco late Friday, killing nearly 300 people, the country’s military said early Saturday. The Moroccan armed forces announced the confirmed death toll of 296 in a post on X, formerly known on Twitter, soon after releasing a preliminary estimate saying that about 100 had been killed. […]
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