Earthquakes
A shallow, magnitude 3.7 earthquake was reported Saturday morning five miles from Greenville, Calif., in Plumas County in the Sierra Nevada, according to the U.S. Geological Survey. The temblor occurred at 11:43 a.m. PDT at a depth of 0 miles …
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The largest earthquake to shake California since 2008 occurred in a less studied area of the state, prompting seismologists to head to the Northern California region with more monitoring equipment, officials said Friday. Thursday's magnitude 5.7 quake …
An 8.3-magnitude earthquake struck Russia's Far East on Friday, sending tremors that prompted evacuations as far away as Moscow, more than 4,000 miles to the west of the epicenter. The United States Geological Survey recorded the earthquake at 5:44 …
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Fault map (left) and seismicity between 1986-2006 (right) for the Mohawk Valley and nearby fault systems in California and Nevada. The current Greenville earthquake swarm is marked with an arrow in the left panel. Image: Modified from Kreemer and …
An earthquake in far north-eastern California was felt by thousands of people as far away as San Francisco and in two other states, but there have been no reports of injury or serious damage. The magnitude-5.7 quake broke dishes and shook mirrors when …
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Yet on Friday, a great big earthquake let loose deep under the Sea of Okhotsk, way off by the Pacific Ocean, and a seismic wave hurtled across Siberia and through the Ural Mountains and under the Volga River and past the endless potato fields and shook …
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