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International relations Canada–United States relations The immigration website of Canada crashes due to overflow, coinciding with the election in the United States. (CNN) Law and crime The Supreme Court of the United States hears arguments on a case regarding whether the citizenship claim of a child is different if there is an unmarried father versus an unmarried mother who is a U.S. citizen ...
August 2 – A charter bus crashes on Highway 99 in Merced County, California, killing four people. [159] August 4 – A wildfire occurs [160] in California, Montana, Nevada, Oregon, Washington and Wyoming. [161] August 5 – Suicide Squad, directed by David Ayer, is released as the third film in the DC Extended Universe.
This is a list of earthquakes in 2016. Only earthquakes of magnitude 6 or above are included, unless they result in damage and/or casualties, or are notable for some other reason. All dates are listed according to UTC time.
In 2016, as an earthquake swarm topped out with a magnitude 4.3 quake in a different part of the region — directly beneath the Salton Sea, just south of where the mighty San Andreas fault ends ...
A magnitude 7.0 earthquake struck off the coast of Northern California at 10:44 a.m. PST, with shaking felt across the region. The epicenter was 39 miles west of Petrolia, California, and was very ...
International relations Ukrainian crisis, Russian military intervention in Ukraine (2014–present) Ukraine starts a missile test near Crimea, annexed by Russia in 2014, while Russia puts its air-defense and naval forces in the region on high alert. (Reuters) Israeli–Palestinian conflict The Israeli Ministry of Transportation orders a bus company in Beersheba to remove Arabic -language ...
A tsunami warning was issued Thursday for the coast of Oregon and Northern California, according to the National Weather Service’s (NWS) tsunami tracking site. The weather service issued an ...
Following destructive earthquakes in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, real estate developers, press, and boosters minimized and downplayed the risk of earthquakes out of fear that the ongoing economic boom would be negatively affected. [3] [4] California earthquakes (1769–2000)