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A 4.4 magnitude earthquake was strongly felt Monday afternoon from the Los Angeles area all the way to San Diego, swaying buildings, rattling dishes and setting off car alarms, but no major damage ...
The magnitude 4.2 quake was reported at 6:16 p.m. 11 miles from Temecula, according to the U.S. Geological Survey.
A magnitude 4.2 earthquake rattled Southern California on Friday morning, less than a week after a magnitude 4.1 New Year's temblor that shook attendees at the Rose Parade in Pasadena.. The ...
Resnik's remains were recovered from the crashed vehicle cockpit by Navy divers from the USS Preserver [70] and they were cremated and scattered over the water. [71] The unidentified remains of the seven crew members were cremated and buried at the Space Shuttle Challenger Memorial in Arlington National Cemetery on May 20, 1986.
The crew compartment, human remains, and many other fragments from the shuttle were recovered from the ocean floor after a three-month search-and-recovery operation. The exact timing of the deaths of the crew is unknown, but several crew members are thought to have survived the initial breakup of the spacecraft.
The commission found that the immediate cause of the Challenger accident was a failure in the O-rings sealing the aft field joint on the right solid rocket booster, causing pressurized hot gases and eventually flame to "blow by" the O-ring and contact the adjacent external tank, causing structural failure. The failure of the O-rings was ...
Until Sunday, the strongest earthquake in the past month to hit San Bernardino County's fourth most populous city occurred on Sept. 7, when a magnitude 3.9 earthquake caused "light" shaking to be ...
A dive the following day confirmed that it was the cabin and that the remains of the crew were inside. [8] No official investigation into the Challenger disaster has determined the cause of death of the astronauts; it is almost certain that the breakup itself did not kill the entire crew as 3 of the 4 Personal Egress Air Packs (PEAPs) that were ...