GTAV AC:G Y8 - Landforms and landscapes

Each year photographer Krystle Wright heads to the midwest, drawn by the majestic supercell storms and tornados that can turn blue skies into black fury

Holidaymakers flocking to coastal areas this long weekend have been urged to stay away from unstable cliffs after a huge hole opened up on South Australia's Limestone Coast without warning.

The Pacific Ring of Fire is a 40,000 km long belt of volcanoes, seismic activity, and mineral deposits that surrounds the Pacific Ocean like a necklace of pearls.

The fatal earthquake that hit Christchurch, New Zealand, on 22 February 2011 killed 185, wrecked the city’s CBD and undermined its eastern suburbs. Ten years on, Christchurch has learnt some valuable lessons in city planning.

Australia is a unique continent. This short video introduces the physical geography of Australia using a colourful topographic map. Viewers are shown the three major physical regions of the continent, the lack of large mountains and consider why relatively few people live in Australia given its size.
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Reykjanes peninsula’s last active period started in 10th century and lasted 300 years

The third large-scale coral bleaching of the Great Barrier Reef is under way, with regions of the centre and south more badly affected than in 2016 and 2017.

Scientists warn ‘hazardous eruption’ imminent as offices, schools and airports closed

The explosive event was “the actual worst-case scenario,” geologists report.

Less than a week ago, GeoNet, which monitors geological activity for New Zealand, said observations indicated the volcano may have been entering a period when eruptive activity was higher than normal.

If confirmed, the temblor would be a shock to geologists who thought rocks that deep inside Earth were too putty-like to break and shake.

This animated map shows the last billion years of Earth's tectonic plate movement in just 40 seconds, showing how continents formed.

Hadrian's Wall (Vallum Hadriani) was a defensive fortification built by the Roman Empire to seperate the province of Britainnia from the northern lands of Caledonia. Construction begun in AD 122 during the reign of Emperor Hadrian and ran from the River Tyne near the North Sea to the Solway Firth on the Irish Sea.

Detailed earthquake information - overview map, magnitude, time, depth, information source, shake map, list of reports. Feature interactive map: submit / read I-felt-an-earthquake reports and links to further info. / VolcanoDiscovery

Plate Tectonics poster from Geological Society of London

https://www.geolsoc.org.uk/~/media/shared/documents/education%20and%20careers/Resources/Posters/Plate%20Tectonics%20Poster%20KS4%20KS5.pdf?la=en