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Almost 100 earthquakes shook Iceland from midnight today, as the country remains apprehensive about an imminent eruption.. The strongest earthquake with a magnitude of 3.35 hit Vatnafjoll in South ...
Another video from California shows plants and overhead lights in a cannabis grow room rattle as the magnitude 7.0 quake strikes. Fernando Cervantes Jr. is a trending news reporter for USA TODAY.
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The 1987 Whittier Narrows earthquake occurred in the southern San Gabriel Valley and surrounding communities of Southern California, United States, at 7:42 a.m. PDT on October 1. The moderate magnitude 5.9 blind thrust earthquake was centered several miles north of Whittier in the town of Rosemead , had a relatively shallow depth, and was felt ...
The 1968 Illinois earthquake (a New Madrid event) [4] was the largest recorded earthquake in the U.S. Midwestern state of Illinois. Striking at 11:02 a.m. on November 9, it measured 5.3 on the Richter scale . [ 5 ]
Although this earthquake was much more powerful than the 1994 Northridge earthquake, the damage and loss of life were minimized by its location in the sparsely-populated Mojave Desert. The earthquake was a right-lateral strike-slip event, and involved the rupture of several different faults over a length of 75 to 85 km (47 to 53 mi).
Earthquake activity in Reykjanes Peninsula decreasing Monday 13 November 2023 06:30 , Maroosha Muzaffar Earthquake activity in the Reykjanes Peninsula has decreased, according to local reports.
Due to the remoteness of the area, there were few sensor stations near the earthquake and this resulted in the M W 6.0 earthquake incorrectly being split into "phantom quakes" by the system – a M W 4.8 near Lee Vining, M W 4.8 near Stockton, and M W 4.3 near Mammoth Lakes. Additionally, it took the system 25 seconds to declare an earthquake ...