There will be more aftershocks in the coming days, if not weeks.
Hurricane Irene is threatening to become one most impacting storms to ever strike the Northeast U.S., possibly striking major cities including Philadelphia, New York and Boston at hurricane strength late into the weekend. After lashing the Bahamas on Wednesday, Irene is moving up the U.S. East Coast as a major Category 3 hurricane, packing winds of 115 miles per hour. Irene is centered about 65 miles east-northeast of Nassau, Bahamas and moving northwest at 13 miles per hour.
Hurricane Irene is cutting its way toward a direct hit on the U.S. East Coast, threatening to wreak havoc in major cities along the highly-populated I-95 corridor late this weekend, including Philadelphia, New York, Hartford, and Boston. After lashing the Bahamas on Wednesday, pummeling small outlying Caribbean islands, the first hurricane of the 2011 Atlantic season is posing an extreme threat to the U.S. East Coast -- with potential to become historic before it sweeps away from...
Commodities trader Glencore International posted a 50 percent rise in headline first-half profit and said it saw opportunities emerging from turbulence in its key markets as commodity demand remains strong.
Hurricane Irene is strengthening, and taking aim at New York, America's largest city. New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg is urging city residents to focus on potential damage Irene could cause, in a rare hurricane strength strike.
The Washington Monument will be closed indefinitely to the public as engineers have found additional cracks in the stones at the top of the structure.
It seems many of the animals at the Smithsonian National Zoo saw the earthquake coming before it hit the metro region.
Even if Irene reaches New York as a weakened Category 1 or Category 2 hurricane, it could still wreak havoc because the city is simply not prepared to handle such storms the way Florida or the Gulf Coast are. In a worst-case scenario, here are the top five threats New York City would face from a major hurricane.
The historic earthquake caused a historic damage as it shook the nation's capital.While the mess around Washington, D.C. is being cleaned up on Wednesday, the Washington Monument in the heart of the city remained encircled within a black fence - due to a crack caused by Tuesday's 5.8-magnitude earthquake centered in Virginia.
Despite the entire hullabaloo surrounding the historic East Coast earthquake, the 5.8 magnitude quake didn't create that much economic damage.
While preparing for a major hurricane, the U.S. has seen an unusual amount of earthquake activity this week
Photos of engineers surveying the damage to a cherished national monument
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A 7.0-magnitude earthquake hit a remote Amazon region of Peru on Wednesday, reports Reuters.
On Tuesday, the day the earthquake struck the east coast of the U.S., there were at least 30 seismic actions around the world of at least magnitude-2.5.
The 5.8 magnitude earthquake that rippled through Washington, D.C. on Tuesday cracked the Washington monument and broke loose pieces of the National Cathedral, leading authorities to close the two symbolically and architecturally significant sites.
Robertson, a native of Virginia, the epicenter of the quake, has long associated natural disasters with the ‘end of times’ and prophecies in the Bible.
The earthquake reminded us that we’ve got to be prepared for a variety of things.
Tuesday's shake-up also affected apes, snakes and beavers at the National Zoo.
Powerful Hurricane Irene could pose a big threat to the densely populated northeast United States, including New York, as it swings up the eastern seaboard from Saturday on its current forecast track, the top U.S. government hurricane forecaster said on Wednesday.
The earthquake that rocked the East Coast Tuesday was highly unusual, seismologists said. The 5.9 magnitude earthquake impacted the Carolinas to New England. The earthquake's epicenter was in central Virginia, the U.S. Geological Survey said, adding that Central Virginia is a seismic zone.
The Virginia earthquake sends a warning as many as 10 U.S. nuclear plants need to be checked
