(Natural News) A magnitude 4.9 earthquake hit Mila province in northeastern Algeria on Friday, August 7, leaving huge cracks on the ground and destroying at least three houses. People rushed to the streets as the shallow quake, which was located 6.3 miles underground, hit in the morning at 6:15 UTC. The epicenter of the quake was located almost […]

(Natural News) Two undersea earthquakes struck Sumatra in Indonesia on Wednesday, August 19. They were followed hours later by the eruption of Mt. Sinabung in North Sumatra. The first earthquake, a magnitude 6.8, hit 13.6 miles below the sea. The epicenter was located about 86 miles west-southwest of Bengkulu city on the western coast of Sumatra […]

(Natural News) Lightning strikes have been triggering a lot of wildfires in the West. These are brought by the thunderstorms moving westward since last week – and extreme dry conditions and winds from the tropics are not helping. Experts blame the southerly winds coming from the tropics for fueling the storms, which caused about 10,000 […]

(Natural News) There are now so many wildfires blazing across California that already stretched fire crews are no longer able to keep up with trying to fight them all. Some two dozen wildfires, mostly in Northern California, are eating up tens of thousands of acres as increasingly more area residents are being forced to evacuate […]

(Natural News) An earthquake along the New Madrid fault system in the central United States could cause more widespread damage than a major earthquake along the San Andreas Fault, scientists warn. California’s famed fault gets more attention, but it appears that New Madrid, which is also called the New Madrid Seismic Zone, poses an even […]

(Natural News) As the clown circus of American politics continues to dominate the headlines, hundreds of thousands of Midwesterners are without power, and at least 10 million acres of food crops in Iowa alone have been destroyed, thanks to the devastation caused by the “Great Derecho.” This massive storm, which swept across Iowa and Illinois […]

(Natural News) Authorities are closely monitoring a swarm of small earthquakes underneath the Salton Sea in southern California. The swarm first occurred on Monday morning at 6:33 a.m., August 10. Since then, more than 100 small earthquakes have already been recorded, with the biggest one occurring also on Monday at 8:56 a.m. The epicenter of the swarm was located […]

(Natural News) A massive Earth-facing sunspot was detected earlier this August, raising concerns over the possibility of solar flares. Experts project that the sunspot, part of the cluster tagged as AR2770, is going to grow in size — its dark primary core is already estimated to be about the diameter of Mars. Amateur astronomer Martin Wise of Trenton, […]

(Natural News) A massive column of ash and smoke clouded the skies of north Sumatra, Indonesia, after Mount Sinabung erupted on Monday, 10:16 a.m. local time. The plume of smoke rose around 5,000 meters, or more than three miles, to the sky and plunged surrounding towns in darkness. Ash and debris fall accumulated two inches on the […]

(Natural News) We live at a time when giant space rocks are whizzing past our planet with alarming regularity.  Sometimes we know in advance that they are coming, and sometimes we don’t.  In fact, on July 28th an asteroid the size of a car zipped past our planet “at a range that rivals the orbits of […]