Wednesday morning thousands of cell phones buzzed as an urgent message about a “TEST of the CA Earthquake Warning System. No action required. THIS IS A TEST.” At 11 a.m. the first residential deployment if the states earthquake warning system went out to phones in a 60-block zone of Oakland.
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Nearly 150 years ago, an earthquake estimated at 7.8 magnitude struck California’s Inyo County in the Owens Valley killing 27 people in 1872.
The quake struck at 2:30 a.m. while most people in the sparcely populated area were sleeping. […]
The 2016 Kaikoura earthquake in New Zealand caused damaged. A group if LMU researches have inspected its mechanisms revealing surprising insights. “Looking at the pattern of surface faults affected by the quake, one finds large gaps of more than 15 km in between them. Up to now, analyses of seismic […]
Residents of Castle Rock springs were going to bed, not before a 3.2 magnitude hit at 11:38 p.m. So, far no reports of any damages or aftershocks.
For more info, please read the original article by LA Times:
https://losangeles.cbslocal.com/2019/03/22/littlerock-3-1-earthquake/
-Appeared on Apartment Association California, Southern Cities (AACSC).
“Here’s who to thank that we all survived the quake on Friday,” a headline in the Anchorage Daily News read just days after the Nov. 30 2018 earthquake shook the region with a 7.0-magnitude force.
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-Appeared on Apartment Association Greater Los Angeles (AAGLA).
Anyone who lives in California knows that our state’s calamitous reputation for earthquakes is fueled by the intricate web of volatile fault lines that crisscross our landscape.
The closer you are to […]
-Appeared on San Diego County Apartment Association (SDCAA)
SDCAA Expo
Stop by Optimum Seismic’s booth or visit our presentation at the San Diego CAA Expo April 30 at the San Diego Convention Center for more information.
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On Sunday Indonesia was hit with a 5.5 magnitude earthquake that caused landslides and floods in killed dozens of people. Indonesia is exposed to many natural disasters because it is part of the Ring of Fire, where the majority of the world’s earthquakes and volcanic activity occurs.
For […]
Ribbonwood, California was hit with a quake of 3.3 magnitude at 1:55 am. According to the USGS the epic center was 17 miles from Palm Desert.
For more info, please read the original article by LA Times:
https://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-earthquakesa-earthquake-33-quake-strikes-near-ribbonwood-calif-zxcj-story.htmll
Washington state’s first statewide inventory of brick and stone structures built before 1958, have found that Whatcom County has 218 buildings at risk of collapsing during a major earthquake. John Gargett, deputy director of the Whatcom County Sheriff’s Division of Emergency Management said, “It would be a massive effort to […]
