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A massive submarine landslide structure was discovered along the southern slope of the Aleutian Shelf, about 16 km (10 miles) northwest of the 1957 M8.6 Andreanof Islands earthquake epicenter.
Severe thunderstorms with large hail and damaging winds are forecast to impact parts of the central and southern Plains, U.S., this morning, August 11, 2025, as an upper-level disturbance from the central Rockies interacts with a slow-moving frontal boundary.
Record August rainfall caused severe flooding and landslides in Kumamoto Prefecture, Japan, on August 10–11, 2025, leaving several people missing and prompting evacuation advisories for over 3 million residents and widespread transport disruptions.
A woman was killed and a man critically injured on August 9, 2025, when a large tree fell on their vehicle at Two Rivers State Park near Waterloo, Nebraska, during severe storms.
A boundary wall collapsed amid heavy rainfall in Delhi’s Jaitpur area on the morning of August 9, 2025, killing eight people, including two children, and injuring one, according to local authorities.
NASA’s Juno spacecraft has detected a new plasma wave mode in Jupiter’s auroral magnetosphere, where electron plasma frequency is lower than the ion gyrofrequency, an unprecedented condition in space plasma physics. The discovery was made during recent polar passes by Juno and is described in a study published last month by a team led by R. L. Lysak. Researchers propose this wave type, now called the Alfvén0-Langmuir mode emerges in extremely low-density, highly magnetized plasma.
A large-scale space hurricane observed over the magnetic North Pole on August 20, 2014, produced strong GPS signal scintillation and localized geomagnetic disturbances under geomagnetically quiet conditions, new research shows.
Severe thunderstorms threaten North Dakota, eastern Montana, and northwest Minnesota on August 8, 2025, with damaging winds, large hail, and possible tornadoes, while extreme heat affects over 40 million people across the central U.S. The National Weather Service forecasts continued storm risks into August 9, alongside flash flooding concerns in Iowa, southern Wisconsin, and northern Illinois.
The rapidly-spreading Canyon Fire near Lake Piru, California has burned nearly 2 023 ha (5 000 acres) since igniting on August 7, 2025, and triggered evacuation orders for 2 500 residents. Firefighters, with 400 personnel, 7 helicopters, and 11 fixed-wing aircraft, are battling the blaze as it spreads east toward communities and powerlines.
Indonesia’s Bur ni Telong volcano was placed on alert level II (Waspada) at 06:00 local time (LT) on August 2, 2025, following a rise in deep and shallow volcanic earthquakes between July 30–August 5, 2025. The last eruption at this volcano took place in 1937.
