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Video of the Day

Water wall destroys North Carolina home

Emmeline Blythe
By Emmeline Blythe
October 03, 2024 06:30 AM
(Instagram/@rachel_wilkes)
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Video of the Day

Video of the Day: Volcanic eruption near Grindavik, Iceland

By Jaecie Stilovich
March 22, 2024 12:00 AM
An Icelandic volcano erupted for the fourth time since December 2023 on Saturday, March 16. The Timelapse video shows lava emerging near Grindavik, a small fishing town. Manmade barriers blocked lava from reaching the town.
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World

BYU students in Morocco weather the quake

By Lynnette Mcconkie
September 11, 2023 12:00 AM
BYU study abroad students in Morocco may have been a little shaken on Friday, Sept. 8, but they are alive, well and are doing what they can to help the community in the aftermath.
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Video of the Day: Volcano Mauna Loa erupts in Hawaii

By Carly Ludlow
December 01, 2022 12:00 AM
(U.S. Coast Guard Hawaii Pacific via Twitter, Big Island Vip Tour Company, Hawaiian Volcano Observatory, HAWAII DOD)The world’s largest active volcano, Mauna Loa erupted for the first time in 38 years on Nov. 27 on the island of Hawaii, Hawaii.
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Music

Things you should know today: 10/5/18

By Laurie Bradshaw
October 05, 2018 12:00 AM
Muslims pray for strength in quake-hit Indonesian city
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World

Tsunami sweeps away homes on Indonesian island of Sulawesi

By Associated Press
September 28, 2018 12:00 AM
By STEPHEN WRIGHT, Associated Press
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World

Hope fades in Philippines for dozens buried in landslides

By Associated Press
September 17, 2018 12:00 AM
Rescuers retrieve a body they recovered at the site where victims are believed to have been buried by a landslide after Typhoon Mangkhut lashed Itogon, Benguet province, northern Philippines on Monday, Sept. 17, 2018. Itogon Mayor Victorio Palangdan said that at the height of the typhoon's onslaught Saturday afternoon, dozens of people, mostly miners and their families, rushed into an old three-story building in the village of Ucab. The building, a former mining bunkhouse that had been transformed into a chapel, was obliterated when part of a mountain slope collapsed. (AP Photo/Aaron Favila)
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Nation

Trump rejects Puerto Rico hurricane death toll, blames Dems

By Associated Press
September 13, 2018 12:00 AM
President Donald Trump speaks during a Congressional Medal of Honor Society Reception in the East Room of the White House in Washington, Wednesday, Sept. 12, 2018. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)
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World

6 dead, 76 missing after strong quake hits Taiwan

By Associated Press
February 07, 2018 12:00 AM
In this photo released by the Taiwan Presidential Office, Taiwan's President Tsai Ing-wen, center back-facing, is briefed at the site of a collapsed building from an earthquake, Wednesday, Feb. 7, 2018, in Hualien, southeastern Taiwan. Rescuers continue to search for dozens of unaccounted people for in several buildings damaged by a strong earthquake near the island's eastern coast. (Taiwan Presidential Office via AP)
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Nation

How $10 donations help natural disaster victims

By Jenna Crowther
December 06, 2017 12:00 AM
Editor's note: this story pairs with 'Stories of relief from Hurricane Harvey'
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World

2nd strong quake hits southern Japan; some reported trapped

By Gianluca Cuestas
April 15, 2016 12:00 AM
This aerial view shows damaged houses in Mashiki town, Kumamoto prefecture, southern Japan, Friday, April 15, 2016, a day after a magnitude-6.5 earthquake. More than 100 aftershocks from Thursday night's magnitude-6.5 earthquake continued to rattle the region as businesses and residents got a fuller look at the widespread damage from the unusually strong quake, which also injured about 800 people. (Koji Harada/Kyodo News via AP)
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World

Worst natural disasters

By Kate Hollis
May 27, 2015 12:00 AM
Natural disasters wreak havoc and ruin the lives of people both in the country affected and around the world, especially those who have friends or family in the area. Nepal is currently in a state of recovery after suffering from double earthquakes earlier this year, but it is not the only country still feeling the effects of a major catastrophe this century.
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