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• What Makes a Disaster "Natural"? The Equation Behind Every Headline
  Earthquakes do not kill people; buildings do. Floods do not drown cities; houses in the wrong place do. Disaster science has carried one deceptively simple formula since the 1970s — hazard times exposure times vulnerability — and using it changes how every headline about catastrophe should be read.
• What Causes a Tsunami, and How Warnings Work
  A tsunami is not a wave in the ordinary sense — it is the whole ocean being displaced at once. Understanding what sets one off, why it looks harmless in deep water, and how minutes of warning can save lives, is the difference between curiosity and survival.
• Plate Tectonics: How the Continents Move and Why It Explains Everything
  Mountains, earthquakes, volcanoes, the shape of coastlines, even the distribution of oil and ancient fossils — one theory accounts for all of it: the broken, drifting shell of the Earth. Here is how geologists figured it out, and how slow a revolution of ten centimetres a year really is.
• "Planets Are Aligning and the World Will End" — What an Alignment Actually Is
  Every few years a viral post claims a rare planetary alignment will trigger earthquakes or doom. Here is what the planets really do, in geometry you can check with your own eyes.
• How Earthquakes Are Measured: Magnitude Versus Intensity
  "A 7.0 earthquake" and "very strong shaking here" are two different measurements answering two different questions. Here is the logarithmic maths of magnitude, why the Richter scale was replaced, and what intensity really tells you.
• Six Free World-Data APIs That Need No Key (and What to Build With Them)
  Country facts, population history, live earthquakes, satellite imagery of Earth right now — the genuinely free, keyless data sources we use to run our own pages, with the honest fine print.