Wednesday, April 7, 2010 as of 11:14 AM ET
Even a century after one of the world's largest volcanic eruptions, a strong wind still whips up the ash that rained down on what became known as Alaska's Valley of Ten Thousand Smokes.
Pumice chunks still dot the beaches of Kodiak Island across Shelikof Strait.The three-day explosion that began June 6, 1912, spewed ash as high as 100,000 feet above the sparsely populated Katmai region, covering the remote valley to depths up to 700 feet. The volcanic cloud spread across the United States and traveled as far as Algeria in northern Africa in the most powerful eruption of the 20th century and one of the five largest in recorded history."Every minute we are awaiting death," John Orloff wrote to his wife from Kaflia Bay, 30 miles east of the explosion. Remarkably, there were no eruption-related deaths. However, the eruption killed an untold numbers of animals and plants outright and decimated salmon populations in the region until they began recovering in the 1920s.An estimated three cubic...Maria Sharapova won another easy match at the French Open on Friday, beating Ayumi Morita of Japan 6-1, 6-1.The second-seeded Sharapova won her opening match 6-0, 6-...
Tokyo Governor Shintaro Ishihara says low support for the city's bid to host the 2020 Olympics is an "idiosyncrasy" of Japanese people and that enthusiasm for the bi...
U.S. auto sales remained a bright spot in May even as the economy darkened.Many of the biggest carmakers reported double-digit sales gains last month compared with a...
A flat-footed Ana Ivanovic and a completely out-of-sorts Polish third seed Agnieszka Radwanska bade an early farewell to a cool and blustery Roland Garros on Friday....
A flat-footed Ana Ivanovic and a completely out-of-sorts Polish third seed Agnieszka Radwanska bade an early farewell to a cool and blustery Roland Garros on Friday....
A Turkish court on Friday formally charged an internationally known pianist and composer with insulting Islamic religious values in comments he made on Twitter.The c...
The Pentagon will shift more Navy warships to the Asia-Pacific region over the next several years, and by 2020, about 60 percent of the fleet will be assigned there ...
Even though Roger Federer was again far from his best, he still managed to advance at the French Open.Novak Djokovic and Victoria Azarenka, the top-ranked man and wo...
A flat-footed Ana Ivanovic and an out-of-sorts Polish third seed Agnieszka Radwanska bade an early farewell to a cool and blustery Roland Garros on Friday.Roger Fede...
Tom Paris called encouragement over his picket fence to about 400 small school children walking past his house in line in this Oregon coastal community's first tsuna...
Two straight months of disappointing job growth have raised fears that the U.S. economy is stalling for the third year in a row.But don't despair just yet: This year...
Fears of a sharp slowdown in the world's two largest economies, the U.S. and China, and concerns over the stability of Europe's currency union combined to batter glo...
Iran is finishing construction of a new space center that will allow it to soon launch more domestically made satellites into orbit, the country's defense minister s...
The Pentagon will shift more Navy warships to the Asia-Pacific region over the next several years and by 2020, about 60 percent of the fleet will be assigned there a...
Another year, another jobs slowdown.Is the U.S. economy stalling again, as it did last year and the year before? Two straight months of disappointing job growth have...
Top seed Victoria Azarenka was a third-round winner and second seed Maria Sharapova posted a second-round victory, while world No. 3 Agnieszka Radwanska was a third-...
A strong earthquake has hit eastern Indonesia. There are no immediate reports of damage or casualties.Indonesia's Meteorology and Geophysics Agency says the 6.2 magn...
Last year's tsunami disaster in Japan clouded the nation's nuclear future, idled its reactors and rendered its huge stockpile of plutonium useless for now. So, the i...
Last year's tsunami disaster in Japan clouded the nation's nuclear future, idled its reactors and rendered its huge stockpile of plutonium useless for now. So, the i...
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