California offers up to $13,000 to retrofit 'soft-story' homes in Berkeley, Oakland, SF Homeowners in Oakland, San Francisco and Berkeley whose homes include a living space above a garage, known as a "soft-story," may be eligible for thousands of dollars to retrofit the structure as par...
If you also want to be informed about the earthquakes as they hit many different places in the world, then you can use the “Earthquakes Today” extension for the Google Chrome web browser. Once installed, this extension replaces the new tab page in the Chrome browser. So now when you la...
Latest Quakes in or near Cupertino, California, USA: Today: 2 quakes | This week: 22 quakes | Latest quake: M2.8 16 km WSW of San Francisco Zoo, CA | Strongest today: Mag.2.8 16 km WSW of San Francisco Zoo, CA | Strongest past week: Mag.3.0 12 km SSW of
So, my personal experiences with earthquakes might be considered insignificant. There are three earthquakes that are difficult to forget. The first one was in 1955 and our oldest daughter was walking with me in our backyard in Redwood City in California. As the shaking became stronger I...
New research suggests that electricity generated by earthquakes might be the key to the formation of giant gold nuggets.The study by geologists at Melbourne’s Monash University is published in Nature Geoscience today.Humans have prized gold for mille... earthquakes geology gold Why Los Angeles Sits...
So I set out to explore the splitting of the earth’s crust, my designated batter for exploring the effect of nature on humans, first in a general overview and California-centered book,Magnitude 8, then in a wilderness setting,Wildest Alaska, and finally in an urban setting,The Great Earth...
For those outside the rocking and rolling of California’s tectonic plate, earthquakes probably don’t come up on a daily basis as a topic of conversation. Regardless, the instrument to measure them is called a seismometer, and it’s entirely possible to build one yourself. [Bob LeDoux] has...
Volcanoes display an immense diversity in subsurface and aerial structure, style of eruption, chemical composition or precursory signals. As a result, the underlying seismic-triggering mechanisms may vary from one seismically triggered eruption to another. Latter12already noted in 1971 that “the process...
According to theCalifornia Governor’s Office of Emergency Services, “The system uses ground motion sensors from across the state to detect earthquakes before humans can feel them and will notify Californians so that they can ‘Drop, cover and hold on’ in advance of an earthquake.” A similar...
Indeed,although the rat study found a link between cellphone radiation and cancer,it offers no clues to why such a link might exist,notes Jonathan Samet.He teaches preventative medicine and directs the Institute for Global Health at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles...