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The Northridge Earthquake was the subject of the 1995 film Epicenter U., a first-hand account of healing from the natural disaster, directed by Alexis Krasilovsky. [71] [72] The Earthquake Haggadah (1995) was a video excerpt from Epicenter U. narrated by Wanda Coleman. Distributed in 3/4" and VHS by the Poetry Film Workshop circa 1998.
It is one of the official regions in the Great ShakeOut Earthquake Drills movement. [1] The first drill, known as The Great Southern California ShakeOut, took place on November 13, 2008, [2] was the largest earthquake drill in U.S. history up until that time, and involved 5.3 million participants. [3] The Earthquake Country Alliance organized ...
The 1959 Hebgen Lake earthquake (also known as the 1959 Yellowstone earthquake) [4] occurred in the western United States on August 17 at 11:37 pm (MST) in southwestern Montana. [4][5] The earthquake measured 7.2 on the moment magnitude scale, [1] caused a huge landslide, resulted in over 28 fatalities and left $ 11 million (equivalent to $115 ...
A magnitude 4.7 earthquake north of Malibu rattled Southern California on Thursday, jolting stunned on-air anchors during the morning's live news broadcasts. The earthquake struck at around 7:28 a ...
An earthquake struck the East Coast of the United States on Friday morning, according to the U.S. Geological Survey, causing buildings to shake and rattling nerves from Maryland to Maine.
The U.S. Geological Survey reported the 4.7-magnitude earthquake, initially reported as a 5.1, struck just before 7:30 a.m., with an epicenter located about 3.5 northwest of Malibu.
A USGS team determined in the last week of April that a 1.5 mi-diameter (2.4 km) section of St. Helens's north face was displaced outward by at least 270 ft (82 m). [20] For the rest of April and early May, this bulge grew by 5 to 6 ft (1.5 to 1.8 m) per day, and by mid-May, it extended more than 400 ft (120 m) north. [20]
Contents. Earthquake light. An earthquake light also known as earthquake lightning or earthquake flash is a luminous optical phenomenon that appears in the sky at or near areas of tectonic stress, seismic activity, or volcanic eruptions. [ 1 ] There is no broad consensus as to the causes of the phenomenon (or phenomena) involved.