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An aerial view shows shanties damaged by flash floods brought by Typhoon Washi in Cagayan De Oro city, southern Philippines in December 2011.

WE'VE all seen images of the Grand Canyon in print and on screen, but there is nothing like arriving at the rim and taking it all in the immensity, the depth, the atmosphere and the light.

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The Hope Diamond's 45.52 sparkling, steely blue carats make it the most famous diamond in the world - shrouded in mystery and intrigue since it was pulled out of the ground in 17th-century India.

Paleogeography during the Permian-Triassic boundary extinction 252 million years ago.

A shallow magnitude 3.0 earthquake was reported Thursday evening 18 miles from Cartago, according to the U.S. Geological Survey.

But there are the occasional exceptions allowing for moments of levity at the Joint Finance Committee.

IT'S -4C, the wind is light and southerly, and conditions are clear. Snow clouds are edging down from the north and the overnight temperatures could plunge to -9C. Sean Batty, STV's most popular weatherman, is in Iceland shivering by the roadside, yards from a massive glacier at two in the morning and a five-hour drive from civilisation.

Workers from Austintown-based Wildcat Drilling work near Coshocton at a site where Buckeye Brine is installing a brine injection well.

Utah is selling new maps that show the shaking intensity of earthquakes for the west half of Salt Lake County.

For more than a year now, we have been talking about the potential for an oil boom in the northwest corner of South Dakota.

The Oklahoma Department of Emergency Management and Oklahoma Geological Survey want Oklahomans to join a nine-state earthquake drill.

Scientists have known for decades that hidden under those impressive vistas at sites such as Death Valley and Yellowstone National Park are magma pools that under the right conditions can trigger explosive eruptions.

A shallow 6.9-magnitude earthquake hit off the coast of the South Pacific island of Vanuatu late on Thursday, February 02, 2012, the US Geological Survey said, but there was no tsunami warning.

Photo by Ron McCann Vale-Former West Lincoln softball standout Ashley Rhyne has announced plans to play for Gardner-Webb Bulldogs this coming season.

Several MPs with the right-wing Bulgarian Blue Coalition have prepared a draft resolution against the recent ban imposed on the use of hydraulic fracturing in the country.

Blast from the past: Rocks from ancient eruption show volcanoes give us 100 years 'warning' they're going to blow Stones from an eruption 3,500 years ago in Greece hint that magma beneath the ground had been running into the magma chamber for 100 years before a huge eruption.

Dr. Fred Edinger, professor of geology at Coker College, reminisces about the first Coker Olympic of Winter held in 1976 as he looks at the coverage in school yearbook that year.

A small tremble rippled through at about 2:26 a.m. local time. Data from the United States Geological Service pinned the quake at five kilometres below the surface, and said it reached 3.3 magnitude.

Beth Styler Barry, executive director of the Musconetcong Watershed Association, and Robert Reiser, of the U.S. Geological Survey New Jersey Water Science Center, prepare their presentation Tuesday during an association "River Talk" hosted by the Hackettstown Municipal Building.