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Earthquakes
April 5, 2024
Hafiz Rashid
What?! New York Earthquake Epicenter Is at a Trump Golf Course
Of course Trump is somehow related to the earthquake that jolted the Northeastern U.S.
April 5, 2024
Ellie Quinlan Houghtaling
New York Earthquake Is a Reminder of Eric Adams’s Shaky Mayoral Record
New Yorkers seized on the earthquake as a chance to roast Mayor Eric Adams.
February 16, 2023
Tori Otten
Authoritarianism in Turkey Is Making the Earthquake Even Deadlier
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has for years hobbled civil society and bragged about ignoring construction safety guidelines. Now the death toll keeps rising.
February 6, 2023
Tori Otten
Earthquake Kills More Than 2,300 People in Turkey, Syria, as Death Toll Quickly Rises
This was the worst earthquake the two countries have seen in nearly a century.
October 9, 2017
Lisa Levy
A Journalist Confronts the Japanese Tsunami
In "Ghosts of the Tsunami," Richard Lloyd Parry asks: How can you write about a disaster beyond comprehension?
March 12, 2016
Emma Foehringer Merchant
At the time of the Fukushima disaster, there were 442 nuclear reactors in the world. Today, there are 440.
July 15, 2014
Rebecca Leber
Fracking Is Setting Earthquake Records in Oklahoma, Scientists Say. Is a Big One Coming?
September 6, 2013
Molly Redden
A Scary New Study Erases Doubts That Fracking Causes Earthquakes
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