northern

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Led by geology professor Keith Koper, the team reexamined waveform data from the 1979 earthquake along with eight other suspected deep earthquakes that had occurred in northern Utah and southwestern Wyoming.

From Science Daily • Jun. 3, 2026

She has decried revelations of the recent participation of CIA officials in a raid on a drug lab in northern Chihuahua state, saying it was a breach of sovereignty.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 3, 2026

During the northern hemisphere summer, warm waters associated with El Nino can fuel hurricanes in the central and eastern Pacific, while hindering their development in the Atlantic Ocean.

From Barron's • Jun. 2, 2026

It was a particularly rapid movement up the Iron Pipeline, the name for the trafficking channel from southern states with lax gun laws to northern states with stricter ones.

From Salon • Jun. 2, 2026

“The glimourie of their northern seas has gone, so they move. When the krakens panic, then we all have cause to fear. And now: her. The one they look for. In my ocean.”

From "Impossible Creatures" by Katherine Rundell