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The California Coastal Records Project, founded in 2002, [1] documents the California coastline with aerial photos taken from a helicopter flying parallel to the shore. Their webpage provides access to these images. One photo was taken every 500 feet. [2] [3] Each photo showed a few hundred yards of the coastline, with frames overlapping. [4]
Protection Island mining disaster: A mine-shaft elevator cable snapped causing the elevator to plunge to the bottom of the mine. [112] Protection Island near Nanaimo, British Columbia, Canada: 13 27 November 2023 A mine elevator fell 200m in the Impala Platinum mine shaft accident. [113] [114] Rustenburg, South Africa: 12 30 October 2008
The Centralia mine fire is a coal-seam fire that has been burning in the labyrinth of abandoned coal mines underneath the borough of Centralia, Pennsylvania, United States, since at least May 27, 1962. Its original cause and start date are still a matter of debate. [ 1][page needed][ 2][ 3][page needed] It is burning at depths of up to 300 ft ...
Jun. 28—MEYERSDALE — While gathering alongside fellow U.S. Route 219 supporters to mark the project's latest $53 million milestone, Somerset Trust's Henry Cook recalled a day more than 30 ...
Current fires in California have burned 687,191 acres so far, Cal Fire said. Nationwide 102 large active wildfires, the vast majority in the West , are blamed for charring more than 2 million ...
July 29, 2024 at 9:26 PM. A man has faced court accused of starting a California wildfire that has burned through more than 370,000 acres of land, destroyed scores of buildings and forced ...
The maritime history of California can be divided into several periods: the Native American period; European exploration period from 1542 to 1769; the Spanish colonial period, 1769 to 1821; the Mexican period, 1821 to 1847; and United States statehood period, which continues to the present day. In the history of the California coast, the use of ...
The Park Fire, which began in Northern California in late July, has destroyed close to 45,000 acres of forests for the state’s carbon offset program, according to the nonprofit climate tracker ...