quakes
New technology finds long-hidden quakes and possible clues about how earthquakes evolve
The Loma Prieta earthquake, which severely shook the San Francisco and Monterey Bay regions in October 1989, occurred mostly on a previously unknown fault. Credit: J.K. Nakata, USGS Measures of Earth’s vibrations zigged and zagged across Mostafa Mousavi’s screen one morning in Memphis, Tenn. As part of his Ph.D. studies in geophysics, he sat scanning …
The Latest: Naval station not fully operational after quakes
LOS ANGELES (AP) – The Latest on Southern California’s strongest earthquake in 20 years (all times local): 11:20 p.m. Naval Air Weapons Station China Lake says it is not fully operational after back-to-back major earthquakes hit Southern California. The station said Saturday in a Facebook post that its non-essential personnel were evacuated. The installation in …
‘We should expect more quakes’: a top seismologist on California’s tremor | World news
A 5.4-magnitude aftershock hit southern California on Friday morning, one day after the region experienced its largest earthquake in two decades. Thursday’s 6.4-magnitude quake landed in the small city of Ridgecrest, 100 miles (160km) from Los Angeles, and renewed fears about the potential for the “big one” to hit the west coast in the future. …
