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A magnitude 4.2 earthquake was felt widely across the nation's second largest city Friday and shook things off shelves near the epicenter in a small mountain community east of Los Angeles, but ...
A magnitude 4.4 earthquake rumbled underneath Los Angeles on Monday, less than a week after a bigger one jolted much of Southern California. The U.S. Geological Survey placed the epicenter of ...
Los Angeles has widely felt two quakes in a week: Monday's magnitude 4.4 in El Sereno and last week's magnitude 5.2 about 18 miles southwest of Bakersfield.In both cases, the state's early warning ...
The 2008 Chino Hills earthquake occurred at 11:42:15 am PDT (18:42:15 UTC) on July 29 in Southern California. The epicenter of the magnitude 5.4 earthquake was in Chino Hills, c. 28 miles (45 km) east-southeast of downtown Los Angeles. Movement on an oblique-slip fault resulted in a maximum Mercalli intensity of VI ( Strong ).
In 1933, the Long Beach earthquake occurred in a populated area and damaged or destroyed many public school buildings in Long Beach and Los Angeles. Some decades later, the San Fernando earthquake affected the San Fernando Valley north of Los Angeles with heavy damage to several hospitals. In both cases, the perception of California policy ...
After the phase-out of the Nike Ajax system, sites B-05, B-36, and B-73 remained supplied with Hercules missiles. Army Air-Defense Command Post (AADCP) B-21DC established at Fort Heath, MA in 1960 for Nike missile command-and-control functions. The site was an AN/FSG-l Missile-Master Radar Direction Center.
A magnitude-4.4 earthquake hit Los Angeles on Monday afternoon, rattling a wide swath of the city. The earthquake, which was initially measured at magnitude 4.7, struck at 12:20 p.m. local time (3 ...
ShakeAlert is an earthquake early warning system (EEW) in the United States, developed and operated by the United States Geological Survey (USGS) and its partners. [ 1] As of 2021, the system issues alerts for the country's West Coast (specifically the states of California, Oregon and Washington ). It is expected that the system will be ...