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Climate News Archive
Find useful information in our climate news archive, which covers scores of climate-related topics highlighted between 2012 and early 2017.
Latest NCEI News
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The first World Tsunami Awareness Day promotes awareness to help curb the destruction these deadly natural forces can cause.
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Our Historical Magnetic Declination Map Viewer shows changes in Earth’s magnetic field and geomagnetic poles from 1590 to 2020.
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Gathered by a fleet of detection buoys, data about tsunamis stored by NCEI provide perspective about the rare but deadly hazard.
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On the evening of July 17, 1998, a 7 magnitude earthquake struck Papua New Guinea, followed by a series of three deadly tsunami waves.
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In 1960, the largest earthquake ever instrumentally recorded occurred in southern Chile.
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