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The January 2010 North American winter storms were a group of seven powerful winter storms that affected Canada and the Contiguous United States, particularly California.The storms developed from the combination of a strong El Niño episode, a powerful jet stream, [7] and an atmospheric river that opened from the West Pacific Ocean into the Western Seaboard.
The 2010 Eureka earthquake occurred on January 9 at 4:27:38 pm PST offshore of Humboldt County, California, United States. The magnitude was measured 6.5 on the M w scale, and its epicenter was located offshore in the Pacific Ocean 33 miles (53 km) west of the nearest major city, Eureka .
Probabilistic seismic hazard map. The earliest known earthquake in the U.S. state of California was documented in 1769 by the Spanish explorers and Catholic missionaries of the Portolá expedition as they traveled northward from San Diego along the Santa Ana River near the present site of Los Angeles. Ship captains and other explorers also ...
California's free earthquake early warning app, MyShake, is now available for Mac computers and Chromebooks — a major expansion of access for the warning system. ... Weather. 24/7 Help. For ...
A magnitude 7.0 earthquake struck California near the town of Petrolia, about 265 miles north of San Francisco, Thursday morning generating a strong shake and a now-discontinued tsunami warning ...
California residents felt the impact of a major earthquake that occurred off the West Coast on Thursday. The U.S. Geological Survey reported that a magnitude 7.0 earthquake occurred off the coast ...
Freshly fallen snow blanketed the north side of the San Gabriel Mountains on the morning of January 23, 2010, northwest of Wrightwood, California, after the sixth storm had left. [104] [105] Snow was also reported in many parts of California. [104] During that week, the storms dropped 20 cm (8 in) to 25 cm (10 in) of rain in Los Angeles. [107]
The weather service issued an update around 2:30 p.m. EST saying the tsunami threat had passed, less than an hour after the earthquake hit. The U.S. Geological Survey said the earthquake…