An earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 4.5 shook a large portion of Southern California early Tuesday morning, authorities said.

As demand for natural gas continues to surge, huge extraction vessels are about to go into action.

The Big Island’s most active volcano is forcing thousands to flee, though officials say only a small area is affected.

Ryleigh Taylor found a rare, 475-million-year-old trilobite fossil while fishing with her family in Dandridge, Tennessee.

Jump to media player The eruption near a residential area has prompted a local state of emergency and evacuations.

Earthquakes continue to shake the east side of the Big Island and at 10:30 a.m. on Thursday, May 3, 2018, a 4.6-magnitude earthquake struck the Volcano area of the island.

The Pacific Tsunami Warning Center reported that the earthquake was not large enough to cause a tsunami for the island of Hawai’i.

Preliminary data indicates that the earthquake measuring a magnitude of 4.6 was centered in the vicinity of the south flank of Kīlauea Volcano.

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Fred Pearce

Thu 3 May 2018 09.00 EDT Last modified on Thu 3 May 2018 11.25 EDT.

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