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The Alpine slide, for which the park is named, has riders go down one of two 0.25 mi (0.40 km) cement slides on wheeled sleds. The Mineshaft Coaster is approximately 1 mi (1.6 km) long and lasts 7 to 9 minutes, peaking at 30 mph (48 km/h). [5] [6] The track includes hairpin turns, tunnels, and corkscrew turns that are built into the mountain ...
UTC time: 1999-10-16 09:46:45: ISC event: 1643776: USGS-ANSSComCat: Local date: October 16, 1999 (): Local time: 02:46:45 PDT [1]: Magnitude: 7.1 M w [1]: Depth: 20 km (12 mi) [1] Epicenter: 1]: Type: Strike-slip [2]: Areas affected: Southern California United States: Total damage: Limited [3]: Max. intensity: MMI VII (Very strong) [2]: Casualties: 4–5 injured [2] [4]: The 1999 Hector Mine ...
Long Beach, California: Coordinates: Status: Operational: Construction began: Units 1-6: Late 1950s Block 1: July 2017 [1] Block 2: Late 2020 (planned) [2] BESS: June 2019 [1] Commission date: Units 1-6: Late 1950s Block 1: February 7, 2020 [3] Decommission date
The field runs roughly southeast to northwest through the Los Angeles Basin, stretching from the middle of San Pedro Bay through Long Beach and east of the Palos Verdes Peninsula. The field originally contained approximately 3 billion barrels (480,000,000 m 3 ) of reserves.
Detail of the Long Beach field, on an aerial photograph base, showing its position within Long Beach and surrounding communities. Signal Hill oil field in 1926 Signal Hill oil field, c. 1941-1947 The Long Beach field is one of many in the Los Angeles Basin now largely overbuilt with dense urban development.
In 1975, the state of California and the city of Long Beach sued the THUMS oil companies for artificially depressing oil prices. A federal jury cleared Exxon of all charges, and the other four oil companies settled out of court for "hundreds of millions of dollars". [4] A peak of 148,495 barrels per day (23,608.8 m 3 /d) were produced in 1969.
In July 1955, Mine Division 92 deployed to the Western Pacific and reported to Commander Mine Flotilla 1 for operational control. Type training was conducted off the coast of Korea. In February 1956, the division returned to Long Beach. From then until January 1958, the division operated in the Long Beach area conducting type training.
Empire Mine State Historic Park is a state-protected mine and park in the Sierra Nevada mountains in Grass Valley, California, U.S.The Empire Mine is on the National Register of Historic Places, a federal Historic District, and a California Historical Landmark.