About LAist

LAist is a website about Los Angeles. More

Editor: Zach Behrens Publisher: Gothamist

About | Archive | Contact | Mobile | RSS | Staff

Entries from LAist tagged with 'magnitude'

October 2, 2008

There's no such thing as earthquake weather, but with yesterday's 3.0 and today's 4.0, it gives some people the jitters. Early this morning at 2:41 a.m., the 4.0 shaker struck 6 miles northeast of Yucaipa in the San Bernardino County. There were no reports of injuries or damage. But this one has got us thinking. Here's some food for thought: what if the big one happens and you're in bed with the flu?......

Continue Reading "4.0 Earthquake Strikes San Bernardino"

June 4, 2008

A magnitude 7.8 earthquake scenario could play out like this The Great Southern California ShakeOut was officially announced today where millions of Southern Californians will “Drop, Cover, and Hold On” (register at www.ShakeOut.org) as thousands of emergency responders statewide take part in the largest-ever earthquake response drill called "Golden Guardian." The hypothetical magnitude 7.8 earthquake will rupture the San Andreas Fault at 10 a.m. on November 13. "An enormous earthquake is definitely in our......

Continue Reading "Largest Earthquake Drill in U.S. History"

June 3, 2008

The media has been reporting various small quakes over the last week. But is that really something to worry about? "It’s not uncommon for Orange County to experience several microquakes every week," Sciencedude Gary Robbins said at the OC Register in a brief about the three recent microquakes in Orange County. His statement goes for all of Southern California -- small quakes happen all the time. A daily viewing of the USGS' recent earthquake map......

Continue Reading "Microquakes Keeping on Hitting SoCal"

May 21, 2008

Jan. 17, 1994: the covered body of Los Angeles motorcycle officer Clarence W. Dean lays near his motorcycle which plunged off Highway 14 overpass that collapsed onto Interstate 5 (AP Photo/Doug Pizac) Hollywood studios are not the ones behind the latest script detailing a massive future earthquake hitting Los Angeles. This time, it's scientists and other quake experts... over 300 of them. Specifically, the U.S. Geological Survey and California Geological Survey have collaborated to......

Continue Reading "The 'Big One,' Now Scripted"

October 30, 2007

Sister -ist site, SFist, is reporting a 5.6 magnitude earthquake in the Bay Area, south of San Francisco. The USGS says...A moderate earthquake occurred at 8:04:54 PM (PDT) on Tuesday, October 30, 2007. The magnitude 5.6 event occurred 8 km (5 miles) NNE of Alum Rock, CA. The hypocentral depth is 9 km ( 6 miles). To us, that's a pretty decent earthquake. And at 5.5 or greater (here's the teaching us part), this is......

Continue Reading "What tonight's San Francisco area 5.6 Earthquake can teach us"

August 9, 2007

Ohhh, that was a nice 20 to 30 second rumbler too. Tonight's 4.5 earthquake, minutes before 1:00 a.m., comes on the heels of last night's 7.5 quake in Indonesia, Southern Japan's 6.4 earthquake and a Earthquake Conference, sponsored by SCAG, that took place yesterday morning in Ontario. The epicenter is in the Santa Susana Mountains north of the intersection of the 118 freeway and Topanga Canyon Blvd. near the split of the San Fernando and......

Continue Reading "Now that was a 4.5 Earthquake, Los Angeles"

2003- Gothamist LLC. All rights reserved. Terms of Use & Privacy Policy. We use MovableType.