Gov. Gavin Newsom unveiled an earthquake early alert app in California. The MyShake app created by UC Berkeley is the first statewide earthquake early alert app for California.
For more info, please read the original article by USC Annenberg Media:
http://www.uscannenbergmedia.com/2019/10/22/californias-first-statewide-earthquake-app-will-send-early-alerts-to-people/
A study released last Thursday warned that the Garlock fault, which runs through the Mojave Desert in southern California has been moving for the first time on record
For more info, please read the original article by Business Insider:
https://www.businessinsider.com/california-fault-creep-the-big-one-2019-10
A magnitude 4.6 earthquake hit Monday morning off the Oregon coast becomes the fifth to strike off the coast. It hit at 6.47 a.m. About 120 miles west of Bandon.
For more info, please read the original article by OregonLive.com:
https://www.oregonlive.com/news/2019/10/magnitude-46-earthquake-off-oregon-coast-marks-fifth-this-month.html
According to Pasadena Public Information Officer Lisa Derderian, the City anticipates sending out “notices to comply” will be sent to Priority 1 properties “next month or so.” The notice will require affected property owners to submit a screening application, unless they believe their structures do not require retrofitting. The screening […]
A lot of talk has been around the recent earthquakes to hit the Bay Area. One of them ruptured an area in Contra Costa County where no faults had been detected before. Small quakes may have little impact, but if they occur on mapped or unmapped faults, they should serve […]
Last night San Francisco Bay was hit with a 4.5 magnitude earthquake. It was felt all over the region. With the USGS said there was a 2% chance of one or more aftershocks larger than magnitude 4.5 over the next week, and as many as four aftershocks of magnitude 3 […]
At 2 am an earthquake hit San Jose. It was a 3.4 earthquake, where people reported to feel it on social media.
For more info, please read the original article by ABC 7 News:
https://abc7news.com/34-magnitude-earthquake-shakes-san-jose/5605063/
A new report came out stating some schools in the Berkeley area were unsafe in an event of a major earthquake, has some parents feeling uneasy. The school district says, its meets state safety standards. However, the school district says its plan is to move students off the campus after […]
More than 400 people from Denali National Park reported the 5.0 earthquake. It hit at 4:30 a.m. near Talkeetna Alaska.
For more info, please read the original article by Adn.com:
https://www.adn.com/alaska-news/science/2019/10/04/early-morning-50-earthquake-near-talkeetna-felt-widely-in-southcentral-alaska/
The state of Washington will finally roll out a ‘Shake Alert’ app that will give people seconds to fin safety ahead of a damaging earthquake. Before going live, researchers must figure out how to word the warnings and make them easy to read and understand.
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