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A pair of modest earthquakes rattled Southern California on Saturday morning, with epicenters in Ontario. The earthquakes, of magnitudes 3.5 and 3.9, occurred within about a half hour of each other.
A map showing a 3.5-magnitude earthquake shaking the Ontario area on Sept. 7, 2024. (Credit: U.S. Geological Survey) ONTARIO, Calif. - A preliminary 3.5-magnitude earthquake shook Southern ...
First supershear earthquake observed in an oceanic plate boundary 2015-04-24 South of Haida Gwaii: 51.62 -130.77 0 0 6.2 V 2012-11-08 West of Vancouver Island 49.23 -128.48 0 0 6.1 IV [9] 2012-10-30 Haida Gwaii: 52.37 -131.90 0 0 6.2 Aftershock of 7.8 earthquake [10] 2012-10-28 Haida Gwaii 52.67 -132.60 0 0 6.3 V Aftershock of 7.8 earthquake [11]
A presidential debate hosted by ABC News between U.S. Vice President and Democratic nominee Kamala Harris and former president and Republican nominee Donald Trump takes place at the National Constitution Center in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States. (CNN) September 9, 2024 (Monday) edit. history.
San Andreas Fault. The San Andreas Fault is a continental right-lateral strike-slip transform fault that extends roughly 1,200 kilometers (750 mi) through the U.S. state of California. [1] It forms part of the tectonic boundary between the Pacific Plate and the North American Plate. Traditionally, for scientific purposes, the fault has been ...
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The 1949 earthquake was larger than the 1906 San Francisco earthquake, causing nearly a 500 kilometer-long segment of the Queen Charlotte Fault to break. The 1958 earthquake had a magnitude of 7.8 and led to a major landslide in Lituya Bay, Alaska. This resulted in a 1,720-foot (524-meter) tsunami that crashed into a mountainside, the largest ...
Brian Atwater, a U.S. Geological Survey scientist emeritus, shows off tsunami-deposited mud. COPALIS BEACH, WASH. — When Japan issued its first-ever “megaquake” warning last week, Harold ...