Amanda Ripley
California prepares for next big earthquakeScientists have discovered that two fault lines link together north of San Francisco, creating a new risk for the nearly seven million people living in the Bay Area. Some 1,200 emergency responders took part in an earthquake drill Thursday, and hundreds ...
Solid Bond in Your Heart: A People’s History of The Jam is set for publication this September, celebrating an explosive three-piece that conquered hearts and minds all around the world, working their way up from Surrey’s working men’s club and pub scene, properly launching their first as...
Earth is a big planet covered by large, uninhabited areas. When you consider the empty versus occupied planetary surface area, you have pretty low-if-wide-ranging odds--between 1 in 3,000 and 1 in 250,000, according to one estimate--of beingkilled by a ...
It took a lot of autographs to make this one of the most expensive guitars of all time. In 2005, this Fender Strat was auctioned for $2.7 million in support of the nonprofit Reach Out to Asia following the 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake and tsunami. As noted by the Telegraph, the guitar ...
The mercurial Kaye came 17-months ago from northern California to work on a new novel (his third) and immerse himself “deep” in a fictional Omaha subplot. “I wanted to take a risk with what I was doing. The best decision I made,” he said from his writing-reading perch at Wohlner...
A California Highway Patrol officer checks the damage to cars that fell when the upper deck of the Bay Bridge collapsed onto the lower deck after the Loma Prieta earthquake in San Francisco on Oct. 17, 1989. (George Nikitin / Associated Press) ...
Whether it be drinking songs ("Tequila Sunrise"), chill jams ("Peaceful Easy Feeling"), heartbreak ballads ("I Can't Tell You Why") or story songs ("Hotel California"), the Eagles captured the imagination of a generation of late boom teens transitioning to life as adults. Crank it ...
The big shake up: in the early morning hours of April 18, 1906, an earthquake with a magnitude of nearly 8.0 shook the city of San Francisco and the surrounding bay area. Even one hundred years later, this quake is still one of the most significant seism
Vivien He is a high school student from Southern California,USA.Earthquakes often happen in Southern California.They give people lots of trouble sometimes.Vivien saw this and decided to do something. Vivien created the Qube.It is a take-home earthquake detector.It can warn...