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Credit: Image courtesy of Costas Synolakis On September 28, 2018, an inexplicably large tsunami devastated the Indonesian coastal city of Palu and several others nearby. Between the tsunami and the magnitude 7.5 earthquake that caused it, some 4,340 people were killed, making it the deadliest earthquake that year. The tsunami’s waves reached around six meters high, which was a shock to geophysicists who had believed that earthquakes along a strike-slip fault could only trigger far smaller tsunamis for that particular region. Now, new research describes a mechanism for these large tsun...

 E-Mail IMAGE: Illinois researchers Mohamed Abdelmeguid, left, and professor Ahmed Elbanna collaborated with colleagues to model and simulate previously unrecognized tsunami risks worldwide. view more  Credit: Photo by L. Brian Stauffer CHAMPAIGN, Ill. --A new study found overlooked tsunami hazards related to undersea, near-shore strike-slip faults, especially for coastal cities adjacent to faults that traverse inland bays. Several areas around the world may fall into this category, including the San Francisco Bay area, Izmit Bay in Turkey and the Gulf of Al-Aqaba in Egypt. The stud...

Q&A: Locked-up kids and gov’t transparency in Wyoming Youth study at the Wyo10 Day Reporting Center in Fremont County in 2016. Some of the program’s funding recently came under the knife as Wyoming government slashes funding for programs, including those that keep juvenile offenders out of the court system. (Miles Bryan/Wyoming Public Radio) April 30, 2021 by Andrew Graham, WyoFile From now until the 2022 legislative session, the Joint Judiciary Committee  will study the state’s handling of kids who run into legal trouble with an eye toward improving Wyoming’s juvenile justice syst...

The Florida sightings follow a spike in general of UFO reports. Sightings of unidentified objects in 2020 rose by some 1,000 nationwide compared to 2019, to more than 7,200 sightings, according to the UFO center. Last week, The New York Post revealed that an ex-Pentagon official who says he ran the program probing unidentified aerial phenomena believes the government has been covering up the existence of UFOs. The controversial whistleblower, Luis "Lue" Elizondo, said he hasn’t been able to get the Defense Department to act on what he described as a serious national security risk. Eliz...

Last Updated: Unknown Creature Resembling Chupacabra 'takes A Walk' In Bolivian City Residents of Bolivia became witness to what local media termed as an “unusual UFO sighting” recently. The incident happened in the city of Santa Cruz. Representative Image: Pixabay Residents of Bolivia became witness to what local media termed as an “unusual UFO sighting” recently. The incident happened in the city of Santa Cruz, where people claimed that the “alien” not only hovered atop their houses but also landed on the planet. According to witness accounts reported by Argentine daily E...