New findings on small earthquakes in California’s San Bernardino basin reveals something odd is happening underground. The study, published in Geophysical Research Letters, looked at deformation patterns for thousands of quakes below the San Jacinto and San Andreas faults.
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On Monday Federal officials said a Salt Lake program received a $1.9 million grant from the Federal Emergency Management Agency that will help pay to protect 100 city homes from earthquakes. A survey released in 2016 from the U.S. Geological Survey and a Utah Geological Survey explained there is a […]
Nearly around 500 Pasadena property owners will receive a letter from the city informing them they may need to be seismic retrofit to meet new, toughened earthquake safety standards. The city has been working since May to develop an ordinance for “soft-story” structures. The ordinance is to appear before the […]
Early Sunday morning residents of Lake Henshaw were woken up by a small tremor of 3.3. Some light shaking was felt across San Diego County. It occurred on the Julian section of the Elsinore fault.
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Ab 2681 is a bill by Assemblyman Adrin Nazarian (D-North Hollywood) that is currently awaiting Governor Jerry Brown signature. The bill would require all the cities and counties of California to make a list of potentially vulnerable buildings that could be damaged or collapse in an event of an earthquake. […]
The death toll has risen to 39 people following the 6.7 earthquake on Thursday. Two people remain missing and at least 641 people were injured according to reports by CNN. The monstrous 6.7 tremor on Thursday morning moved people from their beds, collapsing roads and causing landslides that caused houses […]
After Japan’s 6.7 deadly tremor, emergency personnel in San Francisco are confident the city is prepared for a disaster. The truth is that residents will have to survive the first 4 days after a major earthquake before any help can arrive. San Francisco’s Department of Emergency Management tested its ability […]
Last Tuesday majority of Mountain View City Council agreed the city should adopt a mandatory seismic retrofit program to prevent older buildings from collapsing during an earthquake. The city council members main concern […]
Researchers at Harvard University with google developed an artificial intelligence system (AI) capable of forecasting aftershocks from earthquakes. Researchers say AI offered a marginally better system for predicting where an aftershock might occur.
For more info, please read the original article by USA Today:
https://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/nation-now/2018/08/31/harvard-google-team-up-ai-predict-earthquake-aftershocks/1155203002/
At 7:33 Southern California experience 4.4 quake 25 miles east of downtown Los Angeles. It was centered about 3 miles north of La Verne in the San Gabriel Valley.
For more info, please read the original article by Fox News:
http://www.foxnews.com/us/2018/08/29/earthquake-east-los-angeles-hits-magnitude-4-4-usgs-says.html
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