What’s the difference between an active, dormant and extinct volcano?
(Image credit: Antonio Busiello/Getty Images) Volcanoes do not run on human timescales. They might go peaceful for centuries, just to rumble to life with ravaging eruptions. Their eruptions might last…
Read More »
What’s the difference between a tsunami and a tidal wave?
The 2011 tsunami wave striking the coast of Minamisoma in Fukushima prefecture. (Image credit:-/ JIJI PRESS/AFP through Getty Images) Tidal bores and tsunamis– the 2 most effective kinds of wave…
Read More »