Earthquake Swarm Rocks Westmorland Area
The situation An ongoing swarm of earthquakes is shaking up Imperial County, just south of the Salton Sea.
Magnitude 7.1 Ridgecrest Earthquake
RIDGECREST โ Structural engineers from Miyamoto International conducted earthquake reconnaissance in the Searles Valley immediately after Californiaโs magnitude
KUOW: The ‘death box’ where Seattle earthquake researchers work
When the next major earthquake roils our region, University of Washingtonโs civil engineers and seismic experts will not be safe.
Thatโs because their building is vulnerable to earthquakes.
More Hall was built in 1946 before modern building codes were in place and, as a result, the buildingโs concrete columns could explode like a fallen fine china during an earthquake.
M-8.1 Earthquake Strikes Mexico
The magnitude-8.1 earthquake on 7 September 2017 offshore of Chiapas, Mexico was a magnitude-8.1 event at a depth