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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.
(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 ...
OLDWICK, N.J.----The 2008 National Seismic Hazard Maps by the U.S. Geological Survey are changing the perception of earthquake risk in the United States. Catastrophe modeling firms have updated their models with research from the latest maps, bringing potentially significant implications for how insurers and reinsurers manage, underwrite and price U.S. earthquake risk.
The U.S. Geological Survey has recorded a small earthquake near Choctaw -- just east of Oklahoma City.
A small earthquake shook people out of bed in at 11:45 p.m. Sunday.
BIG BEAR - A small temblor hit the Big Bear Lake area this morning, waking some residents with a rolling motion, authorities said.
3.7 magnitude quake hits Big Bear Lake in California
The U.S. Geological Survey says a magnitude-3.9 undersea quake struck at 6:34 a.m. west of San Diego.
LOS ANGELES - An earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 3.7 struck the Big Bear Lake region at 7:55 a.m. today.
Small earthquakes struck both ends of California on Tuesday but no damage or injuries are reported. The U.S. Geological Survey says a magnitude-3.9 undersea quake struck at 6:34 a.m. west of San Diego. It was centered 23 miles southeast of Navy-owned San...
A veteran dissident was sentenced Monday to three years in prison after casting a spotlight on poorly built schools that...
SAN DIEGO (AP) - Small earthquakes struck both ends of California on Tuesday but no damage or injuries are reported. The U.S. Geological Survey says a magnitude-3.9 undersea quake struck at 6:34 a.m. west of San Diego. It was centered 23 miles southeast of Navy-owned San Clemente Island.
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