The big earthquake that struck the Pacific coast of southern Mexico and northern Guatemala on Thursday night was the strongest temblor on our planet in two years. Its magnitude of 8.1 made it one of the rare, extremely powerful quakes which happen on average not more than once a year. The last quake of such […]
Berkeley Seismology Lab
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Oroville Dam Makes its own Earthquakes
February 17, 2017 – The immediate danger to the highest dam in the United States, the Oroville Dam, is over – at least for now. While more than 180,000 people who had been evacuated along the Feather River downstream from the dam were able to return home earlier this week, the future of the 770 […]