Nearly 75 per cent of the us is at risk from earthquakes

The Cascadia Subduction Zone, a massive fault line stretching from northern California to British Columbia, has been eerily quiet for 300 years. When it finally ruptures, it’s expected to trigger a co

In 1999, Japanese manga artist Ryo Tatsuki published a strip called The Future I Saw, which featured a cartoon version of herself sharing her visions and dreams. In it, she predicted a major disaster

“There are too many women traveling luxuriously in ‘Darkest Africa’. Eskimos of Disco, Greenland, are publishing a newspaper,” Charles Fort wrote in New Lands. So I checked whether there were still ne

Neutron stars can suffer quakes far more powerful than anything on Earth

The discovery of buried ‘mud waves’ off the ...

With their potent blend of wild looks and mystery, Britain’s ancient sites have an enduring magnetism–and there are far more of them than you might imagine, says Tom Howells