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On March 2, 1973, the Skyline Plaza tower was under construction in a suburb of Washington, DC. Crews had just placed a portion of the floor slab for the 24th story, just two floors short of the project’s final height. Shortly after lunch, workers noticed that the new slab w...
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Niagara Falls is one of the most spectacular waterfalls in the world. With a vertical drop of more than 50 meters or 164 feet and a flow rate that often exceeds 2800 cubic meters per second or 100,000 cubic feet per second, it’s one of North America’s crown jewels. Roughly t...
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In 1974, a new world record was set for the tallest structure on Earth. Soaring to 646 meters or 2,120 feet, the Warsaw Radio Mast was built to broadcast radio programs to Polish-speaking audiences across Europe. If the atmospheric conditions were just right, those signals c...
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This is an animation of the weather radar in central Texas starting at noon on July 3, 2025. You can see there was torrential rain across the state throughout the afternoon from remnants of Tropical Storm Barry. But focus on this area northwest of San Antonio. Around midnigh...
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In 1989, the Loma Prieta earthquake shook the central coast of California, collapsing buildings and damaging infrastructure across the Bay Area. Bridges, in particular, suffered extensive damage. In one case, a major section of the eastern span of the Bay Bridge's deck colla...
