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ShakeMap is a product of the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) to map the shaking of earthquakes. According to the USGS, "ShakeMaps provide near-real-time maps of ground motion and shaking intensity following significant earthquakes. These maps are used by federal, state, and local organizations, both public and private, for post-earthquake ...
ShakeAlert is an earthquake early warning system (EEW) in the United States, developed and operated by the United States Geological Survey (USGS) and its partners. [1] As of 2021, the system issues alerts for the country's West Coast (specifically the states of California, Oregon and Washington ). It is expected that the system will be expanded ...
The current director of SCEC is Yehuda Ben-Zion . The Southern California Earthquake Center (SCEC) was founded as a Science & Technology Center on February 1, 1991, with joint funding by the National Science Foundation (NSF) and the U. S. Geological Survey (USGS). SCEC graduated from the STC Program in 2002 and has been funded as a stand-alone ...
A 4.1-magnitude earthquake shook the Southern California area, the U.S. Geological Survey reported. The nearly 1-mile deep quake hit about 5 1/2 miles southwest from Corona in Riverside County ...
A 4.0-magnitude earthquake shook Southern California, the U.S. Geological Survey reported.. The 6.5-mile-deep quake hit about 5 miles southeast of Ojai at 1:12 p.m. Friday, Nov. 3, according to ...
A 4.2 magnitude earthquake was felt across California's Sacramento County and parts of the San Francisco Bay Area on Wednesday morning, according to the U.S. Geological Survey.
US Geological Survey, Seismological Laboratory of Caltech. Dr Lucy Jones in 1994. Lucile M. Jones (born 1955) is a seismologist and public voice for earthquake science and earthquake safety in California. [1] One of the foremost and trusted public authorities on earthquakes, [2] Jones is viewed by many in Southern California as "the Beyoncé of ...
A magnitude 6.4 earthquake struck off the north coast of Papua New Guinea on April 1. [38] A magnitude 6.3 earthquake stuck near the Talaud Islands on April 4. [39] A magnitude 6.3 earthquake struck Abruzzo, Italy on April 6, killing 309 people. [40] [41] A magnitude 6.9 earthquake struck the Kuril Islands on April 7.