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/
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.
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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 […]
This week marks the eighth anniversary of Japan’s earthquake that was destructive. It occurred on March 11, 2011 when a 9.1 magnitude earthquake hit Japan. It caused 15,890 deaths and 2,590 missing people.
For more info, please read the original article by Decode Science:
https://www.decodedscience.org/the-2011-japan-earthquake-old-faults-reactivated-and-the-impact-of-climate-change-geoscience-7-13-march-2019/64430
A new report from the Washington State Department of Commerce is warning that 4,500 buildings in Washington are at risk of collapsing if a major earthquake were to strike. It is confirmed 1,100 of the buildings are Unreinforced Masonry buildings. The buildings were identified using certain criteria.
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Recently, Geophysicists at Caltech have created a new method for determining earthquake hazards. They applied this new method to the fault underneath Los Angeles found the strongest earthquake is likely to occur along between 6.8 and 7.1 and a magnitude 6.8 about 50% stronger than the 1994 Northridge earthquake can […]
Many users of the ShakeAlert app are worried about the app crashing in a moment of need and are wondering why their location has to be on with the app. Since the app hasn’t been put to the test yet, since there hasn’t been a major earthquake. When Mayor Eric […]
The Pasadena City Council approved the creation of an ordinance requiring retrofit for wood soft-story residential buildings citywide. The council amended the original recommendation to remove buildings with four or fewer units and adjust the timeline.
For more info, please read the original article by Pasadena Now :
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