240 earthquakes found. Click on location or map links for more details from the USGS Script by Saratoga-weather.org Map and data courtesy of United States Geological Survey.Estimate the Earthquake Magnitude by the Earthquake's Length of Time Earthquakes that last about fifteen seconds have a magni...
Geographical and historical treatment of Haiti, including maps and statistics as well as a survey of its people, economy, and government. Haiti was the second country in the Americas, after the United States, to free itself from colonial rule. Its capita
weather pattern known asEl Niñohas sometimes (but not always) produced more than twice the average precipitation in a given rainy season. Prolonged rains or shorter intense downpours can trigger mud slides (more properly debris slides), especially after fires have stripped hillsides of their ...
Varied other occurrences include volcanoes, and earthquake activity around the Pacific Basin, tsunamis, and forest fires in the western portion of the country. In northern Alaska there is permafrost, which is a major impediment to development. ...
Many of my friends who’d migrated to Jersey warned me about the NJ Transit app. It’s not good, they said. I didn’t take them too seriously. I was forged in the fires of the Metropolitan Transit Authority’s continually broken website circa 2001. After a seven-year stint in Tokyo ...
While mapping recorded fires, an additional 2,700 "unknown" or undocumented fires were discovered and assessed. It has become apparent that there are perhaps thousands of undocumented fires in the US that are yet to be mapped. Fire occurrence records alone are inadequate if MTBS is to provide ...
TheNew York Timesmaps ongoing wildfires in California—and the state of things is that I have to specifywhich: in 2019; the Easy, Getty and Kincade fires in Ventura, Los Angeles and Sonoma counties, respectively. The page also maps where PG&E engaged in preventative power outages to inhibit ...
Two new fires ignited Monday morning in Southern California, fire officials said. Ventura County Fire Chief Mark Lorenzen said at a press conference that the fires started within minutes of each other. The larger of the two fires, the "Peak Fire," started in Simi Valley sou...
Bull of the Woods Wilderness 5.0·Hard·50.1 km·Est. Multi-day Skookum Lake Trail Mount Hood National Forest 2.7·Moderate·4.7 km·Est. 1h 50m Whetstone Trail Mount Hood National Forest 2.4·Hard·6.3 km·Est. 2h 38m Butte Lakes Loop ...
Due to the frequently massive size of these fires, both wildfires and open burning have the potential to cause far-reaching air pollution. AIR POLLUTION IMPACT Can air pollution cause health problems? Air pollution refers to substances in the air that are detrimental to either human health and...