...Earthquake The strongest earthquake in 25 years in Northern California's Bay Area struck early Sunday, injuring dozens of people, damaging historic buildings in downtown Napa and turning fireplaces into rubble. The 6.0-magnitude quake struck just six miles southwest of Napa, California's famed wine country. Nearly 160 were treated for minor injuries at the emergency room at Queen of the Valley Hospital, though hospital CEO Walt Mickens could not confirm that all of those patients were injured in the earthquake. Plate tectonic California San Francisco seems like a city living on the brink of disaster. Its residents know that I lies along the San Andrea’s fault, where the pacific moves north westwards past the North American plate. The two move in the same direction but the pacific plate moves more quickly, this creates friction. This is called a conservative plate boundary. The San Andreas Fault is the fault line between them. It runs along the Californian coast from Los Angeles north to San Francisco. Other fault lines run parallel to the major fault; San Francisco is built over two of them. The 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake * Date and time- 5;04pm, 17th October 1989 * Magnitude and locations 7.1; epicenter -loma prieta in the Santa Cruz mountains * A magnitude 5.2 aftershock struck the region 37 minutes after the main earthquake * 63 people died and 13757 were injured (most were killed when a freeway collapsed) * 1018 homes were destroyed...
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...Los Angeles Los Angeles is located on an area of approximately 502 square miles. The city within itself is flat and hilly. However, it is located in a large coastal basin, surrounded on 3 sides by mountains over 10,000 feet high, Santa Monica Mountains on the East, San Gabriel Mountains on the North, and northeast of San Fernando Valley. The Los Angeles River begins in the Canoga River and runs east from the San Fernando Valley, turns by the north edge of the Sana Monica Mountains, and through the city center, to finally finish at the mouth of the port in Long Beach at the Pacific Ocean. Southern California lies on the boundary of the Pacific Plate and the North American Plate. At this boundary the plates are moving past one another creating a transform boundary. These plates move past each other about fifty millimeters (two inches) per year. The San Andreas Fault, San Jacinto, Elsinore, and Imperial faults are all results of this boundary type, and pose great risks of natural hazards in and near the city of Los Angeles. Aside from the probable risks, the overall climate in Los Angeles in my opinion is decent. In the year of 2016 the average temperature in Los Angeles was 63.5 with an annual high temperature of 71.9 and an annual low of 55.1. The annual rainfall is 1.44 inches. The temperatures have been pretty similar throughout the past few years, although there has been drastic changes in the amount of rainfall over the years. Recently there has been less rainfall in...
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...San andreas is an American drama/disaster film released on May 29, 2015. It stars Dwayne Johnson, Carla Gugino, Alexandra Dadario, Hugo Johnstone-Burt and Art Parkinson. Paul Giamatti, Will Yun Lee, Ioan Gruffudd and Kylie Minogue also participated in this phenomenal movie. Dwayne Johnon who played the role of Ray Gaines is a rescue pilot who is trying to find his daughter Blake, who is in the middle of chaos in San Francisco.Ray’s e-wife Emma, is forced to turn to Ray for help because there’s no other possible choice to sae herself from the chaos. When Ray get Emma out of the building, they make a long and dangerous journey to save their daughter. The movie was directed by Brad Peyton. The screenplay was written by Carlton Cuse with Andre Fabrizio angd Jeremy Passmore. The film was shot in different places like Australia, Los Angeles, Bakersfield, Lockyer Valley, Fisherman’s Warf, Embarcadero, AT&T Park, and also in San Francisco. Actors and actresses who played the role of the characters in the film were absolutely perfect for the roles for they touched the hearts of the audiences in their acts. Though San Andreas is a drama/disaster film, they still succeeded in bringing out the romance of the two of five main characters of the story. San Andreas is another accomplishment in the face of Hollywood films, for they grossed $473 million worldwide. Last February 2016, the producers, New Line Cinema announced a sequel reportedly focus on the Ring of Fire. Johnson, Gugino...
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...Instructor: Allen Fronabarger According to the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) one of the leading agency that monitor real time earthquake in the state of Los Angeles, states it is a very high risk for frequent damaging earthquakes. These earthquakes are results from many fault systems that moving through Los Angeles that leads to earthquakes of many different types and sizes. South California has more than 10,000 earthquakes every year; many of them are very small and sometime never even cause any damage or even felt. However, Los Angeles do have large earthquake that create after shocks the causes many damages and sometimes these aftershock can create sequence of additional earthquake that can occur for months. On March 10, 1933 at 5:54 p.m. magnitude 6.4 earthquakes hit the Newport-Inglewood Fault, causing serious damage in Long Beach and other communities. The earthquake resulted in 120 deaths and more than $50 million in property damage. Most of the damaged buildings were of unreinforced masonry. The most recent earthquake in South California caused severe structural damage to buildings but did not caused any deaths, however, on February 9, 1971 caused the city about $500 million in damages and 65 deaths. On October 1, 1987 at 7:42 a.m. an earthquake of the magnitude 5.9. struck the city causing eight deaths and $358 million property damages. Earthquake is caused when the two sided of a fault slip suddenly against each other. The frictions between the plates will cause stress...
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...Director of Earthquake Preparedness, Los Angeles FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE 05th September 2012 Earthquake Preparedness Los Angeles, California – Earthquakes usually occur without any warning given to public and has the capability of enormous destruction which could lead to severe loss of lives and huge destructions. Natural disasters like earthquakes-preparing ahead of time can help us to save lives, protect our property and increase the pace of recovery. There are few simple steps that should be followed for preparing for such natural calamities like earthquakes. Southern California has a very high seismic activity. The San Andreas Fault is the largest and very famous fault in California. Because of a number of such faults, California is highly prone to earthquakes. In the past 100 years, there have been 4 major earthquakes in Los Angeles: Long Beach in 1933, San Fernando in 1971, Whittier Narrows in 1987 and the Northridge Quake in 1994. One of the most well-known earthquakes of California is the earthquake of San Fransisco in 1906. The magnitude of 7.8 collapsed the buildings in this region. Only after this quake, earthquake measuring instruments were developed and scientific techniques were created. The long beach earthquake very narrowly avoided a major disaster because of the timing. It could have led to severe life losses if it happened sometime before the actual one. In this area of Los Angeles, small tremors are always felt. The greatest Southern California earthquake...
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...Education on Earthquake Preparedness By Krystle Wilson March 28, 2014 Los Angeles, CA – Earthquakes occurs frequently in Los Angeles and its surrounding areas in California. I would like to take some time today to discuss earthquake preparedness and discuss descriptions of hazards associated with earthquakes in Los Angeles. I will also discuss the origin and causes of earthquakes, relation to the shifting plates to the natural process of mountain building, relation of earthquakes to plate tectonics and faults in Los Angeles. I will share some historical disasters associated with past earthquakes and discuss potential of future earthquake events. Descriptions of hazards associated with earthquakes in Los Angeles Earthquakes occurs and it occurs where there are tectonic plates or fault lines. The main earthquake hazard is the effect of ground shaking. The ground shaking can create hazards with buildings that may potentially collapse, roads may be unleveled, ground may split open. Because of Los Angeles being a large city with large population of people and buildings, there are gas lines running underneath the city. If an earthquake occurs, it may cause rupturing of the pipe line which could lead to fires and explosions. (Michigan Tech, n.d.). Origin and causes of Earthquakes “The earthquakes in California in general are caused by the movement of huge blocks of the earth’s crust – the Pacific and the North American plates.” (Earthquake County...
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...San Francisco 1906 Earthquake In San Francisco California a major Earthquake had occurred on 1906 which result to fires that had cause an estimated of 3,000 deaths and $524 millions of property loss. The damaging cost in the city of San Francisco were $20 million and outside the city was $4million.The Earthquake vibration lasted for about 1 minute. The quake ruptured a total of 290 miles of the earth's surface along the San Andreas Fault, from northwest of San Juan Bautista to the triple junction at Cape Mendocino. Though most of the damage was focused in San Francisco the quake was felt all the way from Oregon to Los Angeles. Many building were destructed and several hundred of people got killed. The earthquake happened on the San Andreas Fault, which is the major fracture of the Earth's crust. It is trending northwestward through southern and northern California, US for 650 miles (1,050 km) and passing seaward in the vicinity of San Francisco. Movement along this transform fault is of the strike-slip type and is characterized by occasional large earthquakes originating near the surface along the path of the fault. The disastrous San Francisco quake of 1906 and the less serious earthquake of 1989 were both caused by movement along the fault. According to the theory of plate tectonics, the San Andreas results from the abutment of two major plates of the Earth's crust, the Northern Pacific and the North American. Along the fault, the Northern...
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...The third game of the world series on October 17, 1989 to see the giants try to bounce back against Oakland at Candlestick Park wasn’t the only match to be done that evening. Eighteen kilometers beneath the ground another contest was also beginning in an arena known as the San Andreas Fault. Here two enormous plates of the earth’s crust had been locked in a planetary pushing match since the great San Francisco earthquake of 1906. These players were tiring, reaching the breaking point. Their game was in its last inning. As the fans finally found there seats at Candlestick Park. Expectantly they watched the teams warm up. The clocks had reached 5:04. And deep beneath the ground a section of weak rock had snapped. The two sides of the San Andreas shot past each other. Simultaneously the West Side of the fault rose, and it had seemed to be lifting the mountains themselves. The ripping of the faults was dangerously unstoppable. And for about eight seconds the earth’s crust unzipped at more than two kilometers per second, twenty kilometers to the north and south. The bucking Santa Cruz Mountains flicked houses off their foundations like eggshells. The faulting released a frenzy of seismic waves. Setting seismometer needles scribbling around the world, and carrying a lethal message to Californians. Waves rolling to the south bludgeoned the city of Santa Cruz, which was only 16 kilometers from the epicenter. They took out its commercial heart and had swiped four lives. ...
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...One” means: a tremendous earthquake that scientists predict will rock the state of California, which sits on the famous San Andreas Fault line, an 800-mile line of weakness that runs through California. Overland, it runs for 625 miles, running north-south from Point Arena in north San Francisco to the border with Mexico. The most risky stretch of this fault, the southern part, passes about 35 miles from Los Angeles. Being the biggest and most populated city closest to the fault, Los Angeles is a high-risky region in the event of a big earthquake. There are over four million residents and 400, 000 businesses within Los Angeles city, an area of 475 square miles. It is one of the City’s greatest responsibilities to protect the public and ensure that all responsible agencies are prepared for immediate response and rescue operations in the event of earthquakes and other related disasters. The starting point, the focus of this press release, is educating the public about the causes of earthquakes, associated disasters, and vulnerability of Los Angeles to future earthquake events. Hazards Associated Earthquakes in Los Angeles The common disasters associated with earthquakes include the disruption of public, social and business activities, as well as destruction of property, and in serious cases, loss of life. In addition, earthquakes destroy infrastructure such as electricity lines, roads, water, and sewage drainage systems. Consequently, if an earthquake strikes it will paralyze...
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...The Economic Disaster of a 7.8+ Earthquake on The San Francisco Bay Area Christina Sotelo Geology 6 – Jefferis- Nilsen November 21, 2012 Over the many decades the economic standing of the United States, specifically California, had fluctuated due to many unforeseen factors. One huge factor that cannot be anticipated, and often causes drastic effects on the economy, are geologic disasters. The state of California is notorious for having earthquakes that shake up the state quite often and leave the affected area with a substantial amount of damage. The 1906 earthquake of San Francisco was the largest geologic disaster known to the nation at the time it occured. Destroying about 80% of the city, this earthquake also caused an enormous amount of fires to break out throughout the city. Not only did the state of California have to build up funds to reconstruct the city, but also other states and nations provided economic relief to help rebuild the ninth largest city in the United States. As one of the most metropolitan areas in the West Coast of the US, San Francisco had a humongous task at hand to make this once financial, trade, and cultural center flourish once again. The magnitude of the earthquake caused widespread destruction due to the geologic setting of San Francisco, but also the destruction of buildings was due to the makeshift quality of the construction of the city. If there were to be a repeat of the quake today, it could possibly be more devastating than the first...
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...The Loma Prieta Earthquake of 1989 struck the San Francisco Bay Area on October 17th, resulting in mass eradication while encouraging safer apparatus for future generations. The 6.9 magnitude shock was centered near Loma Prieta Peak, which is pinpointed northeast of Santa Cruz on the San Andreas Fault Line. The shock took account for about sixty-seven deaths and four thousand injuries, resulting from collapsing structures; it is said that most injuries eventuated on and near the collapsed double-decker Bay Bridge structure that connects San Francisco and Oakland, California. Just fifteen seconds of extreme force triggered gas mains and pipes to crack, igniting fires, and additional liquefaction of some ground areas that also brought down a number of structures....
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...The Great 1906 San Francisco Earthquake At 5:12 a.m. on April 18, 1906, the people of San Francisco were abruptly awaken to one of the world’s most expensive and impacting earthquakes of the 20th century. The magnitude of the earthquake is debatable, ranging from 7.7 to as high as 8.2. However, the most accepted Richter measurement is 7.9. This is debated because Charles Richtor developed his scale in 1935, after the killer quake. The main shock epicenter occurred offshore 3.2 km from the city, near Mussel Rock. It ruptured along the San Andreas Fault northward and southward for 476 km (296 miles). The quake was felt from Oregon to Los Angeles, inland as far as Nevada. Though the earthquake was impacting in itself, it lasted less than a minute and the most damage was done by the resulting fire that lasted 4 days. The earthquake bears inexhaustible remembrance as one of the worst natural disasters in the history of the United States and has had lasting social, fiscal, and political impact. The death toll is uncertain, but modern calculations approximate about 3,000 deaths at a minimum. The death toll alone is a very debated topic, and has had a large impact by itself. Initially it was said that only 478 people had died. It is speculated that the official tally of 478 was employed by the city coroner, who added 100 to the 378 bodies that showed up at the morgue. Some uncertainty in the toll exists because government officials felt that reporting the true death toll would lower...
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...The Carrizo Plain SCI 256 02FEB2013 The Carrizo plain is a large enclosed grassland area that is approximately 50 miles long and 15 miles across. Its location is in California spread between the Kern and San Luis Obispo counties. The Carrizo plains national monument is the single largest native grasslands that remain in California. Its unique ecosystem is home to much wildlife and has the largest concentration of some of the most endangered species of animals in California. The San Andres fault line runs through the plains and is unique because of the ease on is able to view the fractures of the fault from the plains floor. The plains are home to many archeological sites as well that have been named national historic landmarks. The Geography of the Carrizo plains has a lot of diversity. It lies in the valley in between tow mountain ranges, the Caliente range on south west and the temblor range on the north east. One of the major features in this ecosystem is Soda Lake. This is the only closed basins in the southern California coastal ranges; all other valleys have drainage to the sea. The water runoff soda lake comes from the Carrizo and carries sediment from the basin into it. The lake is a shallow ephemeral, alkali Endothecia Lake, which means it’s a short lived closed basin the high alkali level. The water and surrounding areas are home to many creatures to include brine and fairy shrimp as well as lots of migratory nesting birds as well as the salt bush which thrives...
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...analysis is Los Angeles CA and the hazard that is the highest risk to the city is an earthquake. L.A. is the second largest city in the United States; it encompasses over 498 square miles and is surrounded by mountains and ocean. L.A. is a very urban environment, its high concentration of infrastructure makes it vulnerable to earthquakes, but at the same time it also gives it the resources it needs to respond to earthquakes or any other hazards. L.A. has had a few large scale earthquakes in the last decades and some geological experts predict it will suffer a major quake in the near future. How it has responded to those disasters in the past is what has laid the foundation as to how the city will deal with future earthquakes or other hazards and attempt to minimize their impact on the city. Los Angeles lies around 60 miles from the San Andreas Fault. This fault line is one the most active fault lines in the world and as such is capable of producing severe earthquakes. And even though Los Angeles doesn’t lie directly underneath it like the city of San Francisco, the fault line does pose a great danger to the city. But even more of a threat to the city is the many unknown smaller fault lines that run beneath it. With a population of over 4 million people, a large size earth quake would cause substantial damage and injure or kill a large number of people. L.A. has had around six major earthquakes that were 6.0 or stronger in the last hundred years. It does also have thousands of...
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...FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE LA Galaxy Players Will Participate in Beach Clean Up Carson, CA (Wednesday, April 8, 2015) – In celebration of 20 years in Major League Soccer, the LA Galaxy will be participating in 20 acts of community service within Los Angeles throughout the 2015 season. All of these events will be open to the community, fans, players, alumni, and supporters of the LA Galaxy. This Friday, April 10 from 1-4 p.m. the team will take part in cleaning up Redondo Beach. Several well-known players, such as AJ DeLaGarza, Alan Gordon, Tommy Meyer and Todd Dunivant are taking part in this event. Team Manager, Becky Patterson says, “This will be a great way for the team members to interact with and give back to their fans and supporters. It will be a day filled with fun and charity and we encourage everyone who is interested to come. All of the boys are vey excited; we are hoping to make this an annual event.” The team is pairing with Heal the Bay for this event, which is a nonprofit environmental organization making Southern California coastal waters and watersheds, including Santa Monica Bay, safe, healthy and clean. The team and Heal the Bay purposefully scheduled this event on Friday, April 10 in celebration of Earth Day. Throughout the day, Galaxy Star Squad will be hosting Galaxy giveaways and other fun and interactive activities for the volunteers to participate in. In order to support the LA Galaxy Foundation, there will also be merchandise, such the LA Galaxy...
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