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Here’s What France’s Largest Wildfire in Decades Looks Like

Prime Minister François Bayrou described the nearly 40,000-acre fire, which has killed one person, as a “catastrophe on an unprecedented scale.”

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A wildfire near in Saint-Laurent-de-la-Cabrerisse, southern France, on Wednesday.
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Aftershocks From 8.8-Magnitude Quake Rattle North Pacific

Dozens of small earthquakes were recorded, most off the coast of Russia’s Far East. Five of them have been above magnitude 6.

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An image released by the Sakhalin Region Government on Wednesday, showing the tsunami-hit Severo-Kurilsk on Paramushir island of Russia’s northern Kuril islands.
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Tsunami Warning Issued for Northern California

The area includes Crescent City, which is particularly vulnerable because of its low elevation. The rest of the state was under a lesser tsunami advisory.

© Scott Strazzante/San Francisco Chronicle, via Associated Press

Waves at Ocean Beach in San Francisco on Tuesday.
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8.8-Magnitude Earthquake Off Russia Could Be One of the Largest on Record

It is the most powerful quake since the 2011 earthquake off the coast of Japan that triggered a 50-foot tsunami and the nuclear disaster at Fukushima.

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The devastated Takekoma area in Iwate Prefecture, Japan, in 2011, three days after an earthquake and resulting tsunami hit the region.
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