U.S. Geological Survey Breaks Down Monster Quake
Here’s the USGS preliminary report on the massive quake that smashed northeastern Japan last night/today depending on your time zone (when you see pictures of damage in Tokyo, bear in mind that’s 230...
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Japan Quake-Tsunami Aftermath: Fears About Nuclear Plants
In Japan, attention is focusing in two places: First, search and rescue operations and the massive recovery ahead in the large sections of the northeastern coast devastated by Friday’s earthquake and...
View ArticleWhen the Tsunami Arrived in San Francisco Bay
By way of the excellent Berkeleyside blog, some striking video—fascinating, not frightening—of a tsunami wave rolling past the Bay Bridge approach and into the Emeryville mudflats Friday morning:
View ArticleJapan’s Great Quake: The California Perspective
It goes without saying that in California, the fascination, the fear, and the horror of seeing the impact of Friday’s earthquake in Japan all lie in how closely we can identify with the calamity...
View ArticleMore Maps and Images of Japan’s Great Quake
The death toll from Friday’s earthquake and tsunami are now expected to top 10,000. Having seen a relative handful of the flood of images that captured the disaster, that number is not surprising; it...
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Japan’s New Crisis: Fighting to Avert a Nuclear Disaster
Fukushima Dai-ichi Nuclear plant after earthquake and tsunami. (Photo: DigitalGlobe via Getty) Japan has barely begun responding to Friday’s earthquake and tsunami, and already the government has been...
View ArticleStudy Suggests Atmospheric Changes Signaled Japan’s Monster Quake
A team of Russian and American scientists is attracting worldwide attention with a paper that finds that Japan’s devastating March earthquake was preceded by marked atmospheric changes near the quake’s...
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3.6 East Bay Quake Felt Throughout Region
If you think you felt an earthquake at 7:05 p.m. in the Bay Area, you did. The U.S. Geological Survey reports that it was magnitude 3.6 tremor with an epicenter just outside the northwest Contra Costa...
View Article3.2 Quake Rattles East Bay
(Bay City News) A 3.2-magnitude earthquake shook the East Bay this afternoon, according to the U.S. Geological Survey. The quake struck at 2:52 p.m. in roughly the same area that has experienced...
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5 Tips If You’re on the New Bay Bridge in an Earthquake
The Bay Bridge’s new eastern span (Isabel Angell / KQED) By Joshua Johnson It’s the reason Caltrans upgraded the Bay Bridge in the first place: After the 7.1-magnitude Loma Prieta earthquake of 1989,...
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6.8 Quake Shakes Northern California Coast; No Tsunami Threat
NOAA depiction of the epicenter of Sunday night’s earthquake off the Humboldt County coast. 11:45 a.m. Monday Update: The U.S. Geological Survey has revised its assessment of last night’s quake off the...
View ArticleThree Years After Disaster, Crescent City Sports a New ‘Tsunami-Resistant’...
A wave generated by Japan’s monstrous Tohoku earthquake destroyed Crescent City’s fishing harbor. Engineers say the new design should withstand a 50-year event. …read more Source: Science News
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Dramatic Photos of 1906 San Francisco Earthquake Aftermath
The shaking started at 5:12 a.m. the morning of April 18, 1906 — 108 years ago today. The 7.8-magnitude earthquake destroyed more than 80 percent of San Francisco and killed about 3,000 people. The...
View ArticleNapa-North Bay Earthquake: Social Media Coverage
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How to Prepare for the Bay Area’s Next Earthquake
The South Napa Earthquake is a sobering reminder that the Bay Area could be hit by a devastating earthquake at any time. Are you prepared? Prepare your earthquake kit now, so you will have it ready...
View ArticleWhat Causes Earthquakes?
You may have felt a jolt in the middle of the night when the South Napa Earthquake struck at 3:20 a.m. The earth is constantly shifting and the Earth’s crust is broken up into many rocky plates, like...
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South Napa Earthquake Photos
Nicholas George looks under a buckled highway just outside Napa. (Josh Edelson/AFP/Getty Images) Kids skateboard over buckled roads in a residential neighborhood of Napa. (Josh Edelson/AFP/Getty...
View ArticleMore Maps and Images of Japan’s Great Quake
The death toll from Friday’s earthquake and tsunami are now expected to top 10,000. Having seen a relative handful of the flood of images that captured the disaster, that number is not surprising; it...
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Japan’s New Crisis: Fighting to Avert a Nuclear Disaster
Fukushima Dai-ichi Nuclear plant after earthquake and tsunami. (Photo: DigitalGlobe via Getty) Japan has barely begun responding to Friday’s earthquake and tsunami, and already the government has been...
View ArticleStudy Suggests Atmospheric Changes Signaled Japan’s Monster Quake
A team of Russian and American scientists is attracting worldwide attention with a paper that finds that Japan’s devastating March earthquake was preceded by marked atmospheric changes near the quake’s...
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