Hurricane Irene, forecast to hit New York City this evening (August 27), brings a destructive combination of storm surge, damaging winds and flooding rain.
Hurricane Irene is pushing north and will cause significant impacts across North Carolina, Virginia, Maryland, New Jersey, New York, Philadelphia this weekend.
Hurricane Irene is now Category 2, but it could still cause billions in damages. New York City has ordered the first mandatory evacuations in its history.
Cameras on the International Space Station, 230 miles above the Earth, captured new views of powerful Hurricane Irene churning over the Bahamas on August 24.
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Yesterday's earthquakes in Colorado and Washington took place in areas of low earthquake hazard. But there is no area on Earth completely immune from seismic activity.