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The incident occurred inside a 550-meter-long (1,800 ft) and 10-meter-wide (33 ft) pedestrian tunnel (tunnel Al-Ma'aisim) leading out from Mecca towards Mina and the Plains of Arafat. The tunnel had been worked on as part of a $15 billion project around Mecca's holy sites started two years earlier by the Saudi government. [2]
UTC time: 1990-02-28 23:43:36: ISC event: 380064: USGS-ANSSComCat: Local date: February 28, 1990: Local time: 23:43:37 UTC [1]: Magnitude: 5.7 M w [1]: Depth: 10 km (6.2 mi) [1] Epicenter: 1]: Fault: San Jose Fault: Type: Strike-slip [2]: Areas affected: Greater Los Angeles Area Southern California United States: Total damage: $12.7 million [2]: Max. intensity: MMI VII (Very strong) [3]: Peak ...
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2 July 1990: 1990 Mecca tunnel tragedy: Saudi Arabia: Mina, Mecca: A blockage at an exit of a pedestrian tunnel (Al-Ma'aisim tunnel) leading out from Mecca towards Mina and the Plains of Arafat led to deaths by suffocation of many religious pilgrims while they were traveling to perform the Stoning of the Devil ritual during the Hajj. 40: 13 ...
Concern over whether the tunnel-heavy line could withstand a major earthquake emerged as a sticking point for some board members after questions raised by Stanford seismic engineering experts who ...
The Reel Inn, one of the Pacific Coast Highway's most iconic landmarks, burned in the fires, according to a GoFundMe page shared by the restaurant's social media and its owners.
A magnitude 2.9 earthquake struck underneath the L.A. neighborhood of El Sereno on Monday, causing weak shaking throughout the Eastside and the San Gabriel Valley.
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 documented earthquakes.