Yesterday’s hit the northern San Fernando Valley — some 22 miles from Downtown Los Angeles — but the After my bedroom in West Hollywood stopped rocking, and the trinkets that had bounced on the nightstand settled, and our nervous Pit Bull returned to her bed, I removed the pillow I had placed over my head and grabbed my phone — not to check on my parents, shamefully, but to join in on what has now become a post-earthquake ritual. Atlanta Austin Boston Chicago Detroit ... Lucy Jones, queen of Earthquake Twitter, referred to yesterday’s quake as the “garden variety” type. Temblors that happen in this region tend to impact a larger area than those on the west coast.“Eastern United States earthquakes travel farther. © 1998 - 2020 Nexstar Broadcasting, Inc. | All Rights Reserved. ATLANTA (WRBL) – The United States Geological Survey reported a minor earthquake caused some noticeable shaking 5 miles east of Stockbridge, Ga. “A magnitude 3 here radiates a lot farther, and shakes like a magnitude 4 in California.”There’s no east-coast counterpart to the San Andreas Fault, he continued.“There’s not a single fault line,” he said. The vehicle, named “Perseverance,” was “They panned over to JPL, and she said, ‘Sorry, we just had an earthquake here,’ and she sounded quite nervous,” says Celeste Labedz, a doctoral student of geophysics at the California Institute of Technology who was watching the NASA livestream while visiting family in Nebraska. “We don’t necessarily live in an ‘earthquake zone,’ but our earthquake risk is not zero.”No place is entirely free of such activity, he added, although certainly the west coast is far more commonly considered quake country.“Our topography is a lot older,” he said.
He didn’t actually realize metro Atlanta had experienced an earthquake until he read about it. Early yesterday morning, NASA blasted a new Mars rover into space from Florida’s Cape Canaveral.
Unlike other states and countries —including Japan and Argentina, which are struck less often but with more ferocity — California gets “There was an earthquake during an interplanetary rocket launch, so the entire East Coast was watching, and we got to be all dramatic about it,” says McKinnon. A 4.4 magnitude earthquake struck north of Decatur, Tenn., and could be felt as far south as Atlanta. “Slept right through it,” she said.The seismic activity - officially a quake and three aftershocks - emanated from a point in east Tennessee about 160 miles north of Atlanta. Neither municipalities here nor in areas closer to the activity reported damage.While we might not think of Georgia as quake country, the ground does shake with some regularity. By comparison, California routinely sees more than 150 earthquakes of magnitude 2.5 and above every year.Copyright 2020 Nexstar Broadcasting, Inc. All rights reserved. As of Friday morning, lawmakers seemed no closer to settling on a single plan despite sweeping agreement among Washington's top power players that Congress must pass further relief in coming days and weeks.OKLAHOMA CITY (KFOR) - Officials say both inmates, including an accused murderer, are back in custody after escaping from the Oklahoma County Jail on Friday morning.Just before 7 a.m. on Friday, the Oklahoma County Detention Center (OCDC) was notified by the Oklahoma City Police Department that they had detained an man found injured and walking. In December 2018, a late-night 4.4 magnitude quake in Tennessee woke many Atlantans. Rep. A.D. Candler, who would later become Georgia’s governor, was at the Kimball House, a hotel located where a Five Points area parking garage now stands.“I thought the building was going to fall in,” he said.It’s possible that other such events, or ones even more powerful, have been felt in this region, but records don’t exist to reflect it.“It’s really because we haven’t been around long enough,” is how Newman put it.As with hurricanes, measured in category 1-5 strength levels, earthquake strength grows exponentially from one magnitude to another. CALM TF DOWN, PEOPLE.” The this-is-how-it-felt-where-I-live tweet: “That was quite an early morning shake. 99.9% sure we just had an earthquake in Atlanta! Its epicenter was a couple of miles from the Watts Bar Nuclear plant, but no damage was detected at the site.“Engineers and site personnel are conducting detailed inspections at all of our facilities in the area including nuclear plants, fossil plants and dams as a precaution,” the Tennessee Valley Authority said in a statement. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.News Three is your local elections headquarters as we continue our look at the candidates trying to make history by becoming a member of Phenix City's first elected school board. They are outfitted with equipment to measure ground movement.No damage was reported at either of Georgia’s nuclear plants, Plant Hatch in southeast Georgia and Plant Vogtle south of Augusta, he added. Short but jolting in Hollywood. ATLANTA (WRBL) – The United States Geological Survey reported a minor earthquake caused some noticeable shaking 5 miles east of Stockbridge, Ga.The earthquake occurred just over 3 miles below the earth’s surface. “Eastern United States earthquakes travel farther.