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LOS ANGELES - A magnitude 3.7 earthquake has rattled Southern California's Big Bear Lake area, followed by a sharp aftershock. The U.S. Geological Survey says the first quake struck at 7:55 a.m. Sunday, about seven miles north of Big Bear City.
Huang Qi, founder of a human rights Web site, had been charged with illegally possessing state secrets. The veteran dissident cast a spotlight on poorly built schools that collapsed and killed thousands of children during China's massive earthquake last year.
Wellington - A powerful earthquake of magnitude 6.8 on the Richter scale shook the Pacific island state of Tonga early Wednesday but there were no immediate reports of damage or casualties. The Pacific Tsunami Warning Center said there was no threat ...
A Chinese dissident who campaigned for the parents of children killed in last year's Sichuan earthquake was sentenced Monday to three years in jail on a state secrets charge, his wife said.
A magnitude 3.9 earthquake occurred 9.3 miles beneath the seafloor south-southwest of Orange County at 6:43 a.m., generating seismic energy that was lightly felt in about a half dozen local cities, the U.S. Geological Survey says.
3.9 magnitude quake rattles off shore.
U.S. Geological Survey is reporting a 6.8-magnitude underwater earthquake off the Pacific island nation of Tonga. There was no
By KATHERINE ROSENBERG, Editor LUCERNE VALLEY - A magnitude 3.6 earthquake rattled Lucerne Valley and Big Bear Sunday morning. read more
A 3.4 magnitude earthquake struck near The Geysers, a region prone to minor seismic activity. The U.S. Geological Survey reported that the earthquake hit about 3:59 a.m., with an epicenter about two miles northeast of The Geysers and 26 miles north of Santa Rosa. It was centered about 0.1 miles deep, according to the report.
A veteran dissident was sentenced to three years in prison after casting a spotlight on poorly built schools that collapsed and killed thousands of childrenduring China's massive earthquake last year - an apparent government...
(RTTNews) - A court in the Chinese city of Chengdu on Monday sentenced Huang Qi, an activist who tried to help parents of children killed in last year's devastating Sichuan earthquake, to three years in prison for "illegally holding state secrets".
Using a technique normally used for detecting weak tremors, scientists at the Georgia Institute of Technology discovered that the 2004 magnitude 6 earthquake along the Parkfield section of the San Andreas fault exhibited almost 11 times more aftershocks than previously thought. The research appears online in Nature Geoscience and will appear in print in a forthcoming edition.“We found almost 11 ...
Huang Qi was investigating the role shoddy school construction may have played in the deaths of thousands of children in the Sichuan quake last year. An activist who was investigating the role shoddy school construction played in the deaths of more than 5,000 children in the 2008 Sichuan earthquake was given a three-year prison sentence Monday on charges of possessing state secrets.
Jack Batchelor and his wife Carol returned home to the Eugene-Springfield area a week ago for a two-week respite and to spend Thanksgiving with family after living through the 8.3-magnitude earthquake and subsequent tsunami that hit Samoa on Sept. 29. They say they have much to be thankful for.
SAN DIEGO (AP) — Earthquakes struck both ends of California Tuesday morning but no damage or injuries are reported. The U.S. Geological Survey says a magnitude-3.9 quake struck at 6:34 a.m. off the San Diego County coast. It was centered 23 miles southeast of San Clemente Island and 67 miles west of San Diego. Earlier, a magnitude-3.4 earthquake struck about 75 miles west of Sacramento. That 3 ...
Associated Press - November 23, 2009 8:45 AM ET CHOCTAW, Okla. (AP) - The U.S. Geological Survey has recorded a small earthquake near Choctaw - just east of Oklahoma City.
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