At the American Association for the Advancement of Science’s annual meeting, experts say Seattle would be okay if the ‘big one’ would hold off for a little bit.
For more info, please read the original article by Geekwire:
https://www.geekwire.com/2020/earthquake-researchers-lay-latest-outlook-really-big-one-thatll-hit-seattle/
The quake struck at 7:33 p.m., about 12 miles northwest of Hollister in San Benito County.
For more info, please read the original article by Fresno Bee:
https://www.fresnobee.com/news/california/article240253221.html
ShakeAlert is a USGS app for your phone, the USGS also feeds the data to Federal Emergency Management Agency, which distributes applicable alerts through the U.S. Emergency Alert System on mobile devices.
For more info, please read the original article by The Washington Post:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/weather/2020/02/08/californians-can-now-get-earthquake-early-warnings-their-phone-heres-how-alerts-work/
The City of Carpinteria is considering doing a seismic retrofit ordinance for their soft-story buildings built before 1991. They city believes 14 buildings would be affected by this ordinance.
For more info, please read the original article by Coastal View:
http://www.coastalview.com/news/city-considers-mandatory-seismic-retrofitting/article_3fa3a738-4390-11ea-bca9-af474176cd89.html
Many hospitals fit the criteria and are not ready for the “Big One”. The Seismic Safety Act originally gave hospitals until 2008 to make their buildings safe in a major quake. Many hospitals applied for an extension until January 1st, 2020 and have now applied and been granted new extensions, […]
The Northridge earthquake showed the vulnerability in the welded and bolted connections of what are called moment frames. Until then, they had been considered seismic-proof. And this wasn’t just at the Getty.
For more info, please read the original article by Curbed.com :
https://la.curbed.com/2020/1/17/21068895/los-angeles-earthquake-steel-buildings-getty
Research geophysicist Brad Aagard from the United States Geological Survey Center says there’s no such thing. It’s just a common myth that earthquakes occur in certain weather.
For more info, please read the original article by KALW:
https://www.kalw.org/post/there-such-thing-earthquake-weather#stream/0
10 years ago a devastating 7.9 earthquake hit Haiti leaving their capital city, Portau-Prince destroyed in seconds. “A lot of money was spent after the earthquake, but the results are meager,” Haitian President Jovenel Moise told CNN in an interview Sunday.
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According to the U.S. Geological Survey, there have been more than 950 earthquakes and aftershocks recorded on Puerto Rico since Dec. 31, though many were weak and could not be felt.
For more info, please read the original article by USA Today:
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2020/01/10/puerto-rico-earthquake-swarm-tectonic-plates/4420857002/
Two months after expanding across California, the state’s Earthquake Early Warning system sent out its first real alert, notifying residents of shaking in Monterey and San Luis Obispo counties, along the San Andreas fault. While the quake eventually registered at 4.3 on the Modified Mercali scale, the USGS […]
