Friday marked the 324th anniversary of the Cascadia earthquake.Doug Toomey with the University of Oregon says about 20 to 30 years ago, geologists along the coa
324 years ago--on January 26, 1700--a megaquake rattled the Pacific Northwest. Lydia Staisch, Research Geologist with United States Geological Survey, joined us
Scientists are sailing into New Zealand’s largest fault zone to get a deeper understanding of its potential to trigger enormous earthquakes. Over the past...
of teenagers and three others were struck when a gunman opened fire in times square. nearly 60 kids under 18 were shot during the first six months of 2023. >> the day of her disappearance, birmingham bus station was searched. on july 13th, a search for the movie taken, a film about subduction, was conducted. there are many questions to be answered but only carly can provide those answers. >> she disappeared for two days after calling 9112 report seeing a toddler on the side of an alabama interstate. when she came home, she told police she had been abducted. investigators say they have no evidence to support her claim. our next -- christopher joins us
you have no idea how that conversation is going to go. >> he is willing to take risks, but risks he is comfortable with, and people do that when they plan things out. >> suggesting that he knew that if amy's mom received a phone call, she would not start looking for her right away. >> right. and he bought himself also some time to make sure amy still felt comfortable. >> police do not know where amy was when she made that call, because back then, local calls within an area code were not even logged. we do know this. amy was in the hands of a calculating and devious planner. >> we are talking about somebody who is intelligent and yet will commit a heinous crime. it's a very unusual pairing. >> fbi agent phil torsney wondered if amy might have called from the westgate mall, which was about six miles from the shopping plaza where amy was last seen. >> it is very likely during the initial part of the subduction,
For decades, officials from the Pacific Tsunami Warning Center and International Tsunami Information Center, the Pacific Tsunami Museum, and other government officials have used April for a month-long campaign to educate the public on recognizing and mitigating hazards from tsunamis, a series of waves generated when a large volume of ocean water is displaced.
-- the movie portrays a gut wrenching detail mrs. till's journey from excruciating pain and anguish, to steal a determination in her quest for justice for her only child. her son, emmett, who was just a 14-year-old boy, was abducted, tortured and lynched in mississippi after being accused of making advances at a white woman, caroline -- the two white men accused of this barbaric crime, -- and his half brother -- both world war ii veterans, were acquitted by an all white jury. a year later, they proudly admitted to murdering emmett till for money, from look magazine, saying they did it because they wanted black people to stay in their place. caroline bryant, who accused -- later admitted to lying about what happened that. earlier this summer, a grand jury in mississippi declined to indict bryant, who is still alive. even though there was an served arrest warrant for her role until subduction.
An apartment building in Chile after a magnitude 8.8 earthquake in 2010. Scientists at The University of Texas at Austin have joined a multinational effort to better understand tectonic hotspots (called subduction zones) that caused this and similarly powerful earthquakes, tsunamis and volcanic eruptions around the world.