On March 9, 2014, a magnitude 6.9 earthquake struck 50 miles (80 kilometers) offshore from Eureka, California, with its focus about 10 miles (16 kilometers) beneath the Pacific Ocean.
Sources
- What Caused the California Earthquake? Faults Explained (nationalgeographic.com)
- https://www.cnn.com/2014/03/10/us/california-earthquake/index.html (cnn.com)
- https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/magnitude-6-9-quake-strikes-northern-california-n48676 (nbcnews.com)
- https://geotripper.blogspot.com/2014/03/magnitude-69-earthquake-offshore-of.html (geotripper.blogspot.com)
More in World Events
- The Under Secretary of Transportation for Security could not take an aviation security action if the Federal Aviation Administration Administrator notified the Under Secretary that the action could adversely affect an aircraft's airworthiness, unless the Secretary of Transportation subsequently approved the action.
- A Senate intelligence report found that Abd al-Rahim al-Nashiri was waterboarded at least three times while held in Thailand.
- The 2007 NIE's judgment that Iran halted its nuclear weapons program was reported even though Iran was testing missiles that could serve as delivery systems and had announced the resumption of uranium enrichment.
- Abd al-Rahim al-Nashiri was captured in Dubai in mid-October 2002.
- Following the COVID-19 outbreak in January 2020, Chinese universities prohibited outside food deliveries to campus.
- In ProPublica's analysis of Chicago camera tickets, households in majority-Black and majority-Hispanic ZIP codes were ticketed at higher rates than those in majority-white ZIP codes.