Beginning on April 18, 1906, most of San Francisco was leveled by a horrendous earthquake and the fires that followed. Photographers captured scenes of the devastation. Now Shawn Clover has merged those photos with his o...
http://www.neatorama.com/2012/09/05/Composite-Photographs-of-the-1906-San-Francisco-Earthquake-and-Today/
When Mount Pelee erupted and killed the entire population of 30,000 people on the island of Martinique, only one man survived, a prisoner who happened to be locked up in a partially underground jail cell. Learn more...
http://www.neatorama.com/2011/07/03/how-one-man-survived-the-pelee-eruption/
On September 4th, a 7.1 magnitude earthquake struck New Zealand. Pictured above is a railroad track that crossed the fault line near Rolleston. Geographer Dave Petley of the American Geophysical Union writes: The se...
http://www.neatorama.com/2010/11/10/earthquake-twists-railroad-tracks/
Younghwa Lee, a graduate student in design at Kingston University, designed this door. In the event of an earthquake, it folds in half to create a crude shelter from falling objects. The doorframe contains a wind-u...
http://www.neatorama.com/2010/10/07/special-door-serves-as-earthquake-shelter/
On its face, April Fools’ Day seems like a lighthearted opportunity to play practical jokes and pranks on your friends and coworkers, but it’s easy to see the problem with having such a wacky day filled with falsitie...
http://www.neatorama.com/2010/04/01/non-foolery-on-april-fools-day/
