All posts tagged "Earthquakes"

NEW YORK — An earthquake rattled parts of Queens Tuesday morning and may have sparked a series of underground explosions reported on Roosevelt Island, city officials said. “The United States Geological Survey (USGS) reports that a 1.7 magnitude earthquake has occurred near Astoria, Queens,” Notify NYC reported. “The earthquake has reportedly been felt in the New York City area, but there are no reports of injuries or damage in New York City at this time.” Residents of both Manhattan and Queens reported hearing multiple explosions just before 6 a.m. centered Main St. in Roosevelt Island just so......

TOKYO (Reuters) -A massive earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 7.6 hit central Japan on Monday, triggering a tsunami warning and advisories for residents to evacuate. A tsunami around 1 metre high struck parts of the coast along the Sea of Japan with a larger wave expected, public broadcaster NHK reported. The Japan Meteorological Agency has issued tsunami warnings for the coastal prefectures of Ishikawa, Niigata and Toyama. Hokuriku Electric Power said it is checking for any irregularities at its nuclear power plants, NHK reported. A spokesperson for Kansai Electric Power said there we......

A pair of small earthquakes occurred one second apart late Sunday on different fault systems south of the U.S.-Mexico border, producing light shaking in areas of San Diego County, according to the U.S. Geological Survey. "That's absolutely crazy," said Tom Rockwell, a seismologist at San Diego State University. "It's very random that quakes on separate faults happen at about the same time." The first quake was a 3.4 temblor that hit at 5:13 p.m. about 5 miles west-southwest of Tecate, Mexico, and 15 miles west-southwest of Campo. It was immediately followed by a 3.6 quake about 23 miles west-s......

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — A moderate earthquake, with an initial magnitude measuring 5.5, rattled parts of Northern California on Thursday afternoon. The quake, centered in the waters of Lake Almanor in northwestern Plumas County struck at 4:19 p.m. Pacific time, according to the U.S. Geological Survey. The epicenter was 23 miles southeast of Lassen Peak, 28 miles west-southwest of Susanville and 50 miles northeast of Chico. It was felt about 120 miles south in Sacramento and Elk Grove, north to Redding and east to Reno. Several aftershocks have been reported, the largest of which registered a magn......

A magnitude-3.6 earthquake shook up residents in upstate New York on Sunday, officials said. The small earthquake happened in Jefferson County shortly after 2 p.m., according to the United States Geological Survey. The organization recorded the quake within a mile of Adams Center, a hamlet about 10 miles south of Watertown. “We felt it here in Fowler (east of Gouverneur),” resident Brenda Maxson commented on a Facebook post by the local news station WWNY. “House rattled, heard vibration/rumble. My Son who lives in Troy NY said he felt a slight rumble even out there (nothing big, just as if a .......

The scenes of tilted, crumbled and collapsed concrete buildings after powerful earthquakes jolted Turkey and Syria last month are sobering. In Turkey alone, the shaking wrecked some 185,000 buildings, and the death toll in both countries has topped 48,000 people. Could the Bay Area’s concrete buildings suffer a similar fate when The Big One strikes? Fortunately, experts say California wouldn’t see the level of devastation like that in Turkey and Syria. But there is a danger, and experts say some buildings erected before 1980 using inflexible or “nonductile” concrete construction will fall. The......