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11 stories from Planck Standard. Latest: September 24, 2026.
Polo's winds peaked at 175 mph after what forecasters called a 'truly remarkable' burst of strengthening. It is expected to skirt the coast of Guerrero and Michoacán rather than make landfall.
Lowell reached Category 5 south of Hawaii, Karina held Category 4 to its east, and Marie churned off Baja California. The Atlantic has not produced a single hurricane this season.
Marines from the USS San Antonio cleared the vessel without a shot fired before an airstrike destroyed it. At least 227 people have now been killed in 68 boat strikes since the campaign began.
Beijing's first publicly acknowledged strategic SLBM test into open ocean sent a training warhead more than 8,000 kilometers and drew sharp protests from Washington, Tokyo, Canberra and Wellington.
The eyewall of one of the most powerful storms on Earth this year passed over Rota as residents of the Northern Mariana Islands and Guam were ordered to shelter in place against catastrophic winds and flooding.
The quake jolted Mindanao early Monday, collapsing buildings in General Santos City and prompting evacuation orders for nine provinces as waves of up to three meters were forecast.
A military campaign launched in September has killed more than 200 people in the Caribbean and eastern Pacific. Families and legal experts say the strikes lack any plausible legal basis.
The Trump administration's months-long campaign against suspected trafficking vessels in the Caribbean and eastern Pacific has now killed nearly 200 people. The Pentagon's watchdog is reviewing whether targeting rules were followed.
WatchWaves up to 1.8 meters struck harbor towns; Japan’s seawall network credited with limiting inland damage near 2011 disaster zone.
The deep-focus quake centered 95 miles west of Neiafu rattled nearby Pacific islands but caused no significant damage, its destructive power dissipated by a depth of 148 miles below the ocean floor.
A five-year, 160-day-at-sea expedition catalogued 788 species in the abyssal Pacific, while separate Southern Ocean and Argentine Basin surveys added dozens more potential new species.