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15 killed and 9 injured in China coal mine explosion
Los Angeles Times   18 November 2019   China   Pingyao County  
Rescuers carry a victim at the site of a coal mine explosion in China’s northern Shanxi province early Tuesday.(AFP/Getty Images)
<p>BEIJING &mdash; A gas explosion inside a coal mine in northern China has killed 15 miners and left nine injured, authorities said Tuesday.<br />The blast occurred Monday afternoon at a mine operated by the Feng Yan Group in Shanxi province&rsquo;s Pingyao ...
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Watch as the Ridgecrest earthquake shatters desert floor in stunning before-and-after images
Los Angeles Times   23 July 2019   USA   California  
Sotiris Valkaniotis / Google Earth / DigitalGlobe
<p>Millions felt the shaking from the Ridgecrest earthquake.<br>But new satellite images offer a dramatic and instructive view of the immense power of the magnitude 7.1 quake, showing how California’s biggest earthquake in nearly two decades caused the ground ...
Magnitude 6.6 earthquake strikes off El Salvador’s coast; no injuries or major damage
Los Angeles Times   30 May 2019   El Salvador  
A magnitude 6.6 earthquake struck off the coast of El Salvador on Thursday. (Los Angeles Times)
<p>A strong earthquake struck off the coast of El Salvador early Thursday, sending frightened residents running out of their homes in the predawn hours.<br>Authorities initially said a small tsunami was possible, but it did not appear. Civil defense employees ...
For years, engineers have warned that Houston was a flood disaster in the making. Why didn't somebody do something?
Los Angeles Times   29 August 2017   USA   Texas  
Huston flooding incidents
<p>Houston is built on what amounts to a massive flood plain, pitted against the tempestuous Gulf of Mexico and routinely hammered by the biggest rainstorms in the nation.</p> <p><br />It is a combination of malicious climate and unforgiving geology, along ...
Latest landslide adds to ‘unprecedented’ damage along scenic Highway 1 in Big Sur area
Photo: John Madonna, Associated Press
<p>Some longtime residents of Big Sur figured nature hadn’t finished with them this year. Over the weekend, they were proved right.</p><p>With a loud boom and a cloud of dust, part of a mountainside slid into the Pacific Ocean on Saturday night, swallowing ...
Santa Monica seeks to pass the nation's most extensive earthquake retrofit plan
Los Angeles Times   14 February 2017   United States   Americas  
Structures seismic vulnerablity indicative map (source: Los Angeles Times)
<p>Santa Monica is poised to require safety improvements to as many as 2,000 earthquake-vulnerable buildings in what would be the nation’s most extensive seismic retrofitting effort.</p><p>Santa Monica’s safety rules would go beyond what Los Angeles has done ...