One week after the two major quakes that hit Ridgecrest, a 4.9 earthquake struck this Friday morning. The worst part is that it’s hasn’t just been in Ridgecrest, there was some seismic activity in Los Angeles, Long Beach, Anaheim, and San Bernardino.
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On Friday morning Washington state was hit with a 4.6 earthquake in Washington’s Puget Sound region. A few minutes later not far from the quake there was a 3.5 aftershock near Monroe, Washington. More than 6,700 people reported feeling the quake.
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After the Ridgecrest earthquakes, structural engineers went to the scene to see the damages, and to their surprise there was not a lot. Why is that? It is because Ridgecrest is not the populated and it is all relatively new construction. According to Ken O’Dell, president of the Structural Engineers […]
Last week The Washington Department of Natural Resources (DNR) sent individual assessments of earthquakes risk to administrators for 222 school buildings. Saying that their building is in high risk of collapsing and killing students in an event of a major earthquake.
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A day short of 94 years today was the 6.8 magnitude Santa Barbara earthquake. Thirteen people were killed and a damage of 8 million was recorded, with only a few buildings on State Street escaped damaged.
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If you are in San Diego County today at 11 am you will receive Shake Alert at 11 a.m. as part of a test of the California Early Warning Program. Rachel Sierer Wooden with the California Governor’s Office of Emergency Services said, “It’s going to allow us to reach out […]
Last Thursday inside Fire Station 6 in Menlo Park, California an alarm went off, followed by an announcement by the loudspeaker, “Earthquake Warning. Serve shaking expected in 30 seconds.” The new system was triggered by the 7.8 magnitude earthquake in Bodega Bay, California 64 kilometers away. The systems immediately opened […]
the biggest earthquake to hit California in 2019 so far hits this weekend off the Humbodt County coast. The last time the area saw a similar earthquake was in January 2015 said, Elizabeth Cochran, a geophysicist with the U.S. Geological Survey in Pasadena. The region is known for having a […]
Several earthquakes have hit in the last 24 hours. The strongest hit in Indonesia with a 7.3. In Chile a 4.6 hit. In the U.S., in California a couple of quakes were felt, nothing over a 5.0 on the Richter Scale. Many thank this is a sign that the “Big […]
A 5.1 earthquake hit northern France, this morning. France is not use to a lot of seismic activity. The earthquake was the talk of the day, no damage has been reported so far. Since France doesn’t experience a lot of seismic activity a lot of their homes and historic buildings […]
