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Watch live aerial view of the California wildfires on Saturday (11 January) as the deadly blazes continue to rage. Officials continue to battle the stubborn blazes eating up more than 35,000 acres ...
EarthCam, Inc. is a company based in Upper Saddle River, New Jersey, United States, that provides webcam content, technology and services. Founded in 1996, EarthCam.com is a network of webcameras offering a complete searchable database of views of places around the world.
The San Gabriel River (right of the I-605 here) changes from dirt to concrete channel in Downey, near the Rio San Gabriel Park (right center) The San Gabriel River basin drains a total of 689 square miles (1,780 km 2) [3] and is located between the watersheds of the Los Angeles River to the west, the Santa Ana River to the east, and the Mojave Desert to the north.
It was the subject of the world's first webcam, created by Quentin Stafford-Fraser and Paul Jardetzky in 1991. To save people working in the building the disappointment of finding the coffee machine empty after making the trip to the room, a camera was set up providing a live picture of the coffee pot to all desktop computers on the office network.
In San Francisco, in early 2007, Justin Kan founded Justin.tv, a platform for live video streaming online. Wearing a webcam attached to a cap, Kan began streaming continuous live video and audio, beginning at midnight March 19, 2007, and he named this procedure "lifecasting," [35] apparently unaware of the accepted use of that term for a ...
Saddleback, sometimes called Old Saddleback or Saddleback Mountain, [1] is a natural landmark formed by the two highest peaks of the Santa Ana Mountains in the U.S. state of California, and the gap between them. Resembling a saddle as viewed from most of Orange County, California, this landform dominates the county's eastern skyline.
Of the most prominent summits of California, only Mount Whitney exceeds 3000 meters (9843 feet) of topographic prominence. Five peaks exceed 2000 meters (6562 feet), nine peaks are ultra-prominent summits with more than 1500 meters (4921 feet), and 35 peaks exceed 1000 meters (3281 feet) of topographic prominence.
Lake Oroville [1] is a reservoir formed by the Oroville Dam impounding the Feather River, located in Butte County, northern California.The lake is situated 5 miles (8 km) northeast of the city of Oroville, within the Lake Oroville State Recreation Area, in the western foothills of the Sierra Nevada.