{"id":133853,"date":"2024-12-06T05:53:46","date_gmt":"2024-12-05T22:53:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/?p=133853"},"modified":"2024-12-06T05:53:46","modified_gmt":"2024-12-05T22:53:46","slug":"california-earthquake-live-updates-tsunami-warning-canceled-after-7-0-quake","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/?p=133853","title":{"rendered":"California Earthquake Live Updates: Tsunami Warning Canceled After 7.0 Quake"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"fluid\"\r\n     data-ad-layout-key=\"-fb+5w+4e-db+86\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"7910942971\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div data-testid=\"live-blog-post\" data-url=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/live\/2024\/12\/05\/us\/earthquake-california#earthquakes-measured-magnitude-richter-scale\" data-source-id=\"100000008473519\">\n<div class=\"live-blog-meta css-1g3itdy\">\n<div class=\"css-yf9s2t\" data-testid=\"live-blog-byline\"><a class=\"css-13xl2ke\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/by\/henry-fountain\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Henry Fountain\" src=\"https:\/\/static01.nyt.com\/images\/icons\/t_logo_291_black.png?quality=75&amp;auto=webp\" height=\"40\" width=\"40\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"css-1ppjtba\"><span class=\"css-xtl8uk\"><time class=\"css-iqvqz5\" datetime=\"2024-12-05T20:46:51.000Z\"><\/p>\n<p><span aria-hidden=\"true\" data-time=\"abs\" class=\"css-1656jku\">Dec. 5, 2024, 3:46 p.m. ET<\/span><span data-time=\"rel\" class=\"css-xwx5dt\"\/><\/p>\n<p><\/time><\/span><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"css-14uetg2 e1jsehar1\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/by\/henry-fountain\" class=\"last-byline css-ojhyzr e1jsehar0\" itemprop=\"name\">Henry Fountain<\/a><\/p>\n<div id=\"enhanced-byline\" class=\"css-1d0weq8\">\n<p class=\"css-ac0b2 e1wtpvyy0\">Henry Fountain spent a quarter century covering science for The Times. He retired in 2023.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"imageblock-wrapper\">\n<figure class=\"img-sz-small css-dtmmiv e1g7ppur0\" aria-label=\"media\" role=\"group\"><figcaption data-testid=\"photoviewer-children-caption\" class=\"css-13ytnnu ewdxa0s0\"><span class=\"css-14fe1uy e1z0qqy90\"><span class=\"css-1ly73wi e1tej78p0\">Credit&#8230;<\/span><span><span aria-hidden=\"false\">United States Geological Survey<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"live-blog-post-content css-h61jh5 evys1bk0\">Seismologists register the intensity of an earthquake in units known as moment magnitude, which measure how much energy was released when the rocks along a fault moved during the quake.<\/p>\n<p class=\"live-blog-post-content css-h61jh5 evys1bk0\">The moment magnitude scale, as it is known, replaced one developed by an American seismologist, Charles Richter, that was used until the 1970s. The Richter scale was found to be inaccurate for very large earthquakes.<\/p>\n<div class=\"css-1dv1kvn\">\n<p class=\"live-blog-post-content css-h61jh5 evys1bk0\">The moment magnitude scale can be hard for nonexperts to decipher. It is logarithmic, meaning that each whole number of magnitude represents about a 32-fold increase in the amount of energy released during a rupture.<\/p>\n<p class=\"live-blog-post-content css-h61jh5 evys1bk0\">So, for instance, an earthquake with a magnitude of 2.0 is not twice as strong as a quake with a magnitude of 1.0. Instead, the amplitude of shaking would be 10 times as great, and it would release 32 times as much energy.<\/p>\n<p class=\"live-blog-post-content css-h61jh5 evys1bk0\">The strongest earthquake ever recorded, a 9.5-magnitude one that occurred in Chile in 1960, was 30,000 times more powerful than a 6.5-magnitude quake, which itself can be very destructive.<\/p>\n<p class=\"live-blog-post-content css-h61jh5 evys1bk0\">Magnitude is far from a complete measure of a specific quake\u2019s destructiveness, however. Other geological factors, like the location and depth of the fault and the type of rocks and soil it occurs in, can affect the amount of shaking and destruction that an earthquake can cause.<\/p>\n<p class=\"live-blog-post-content css-h61jh5 evys1bk0\">Construction methods and building standards can also play a major role in the amount of damage and the number of casualties. The timing of the event and whether people are at home, at work or out and about are also factors.<\/p>\n<p class=\"live-blog-post-content css-h61jh5 evys1bk0\">Scientists calculate a quake\u2019s moment magnitude by using data from a network of instruments, called seismometers, spread across the world. Those instruments record the waves of shaking from the quake\u2019s point of origin moving through the earth.<\/p>\n<p class=\"live-blog-post-content css-h61jh5 evys1bk0\">Worldwide, the frequency of earthquakes has remained largely unchanged over many decades of study. On average, there are about 1,500 quakes of a magnitude of 5.0 or higher every year. Of these, about 15 have a magnitude of 7.0 or higher.<\/p>\n<p class=\"live-blog-post-content css-h61jh5 evys1bk0\">People nearby might not feel a tremor of less than 4.0 magnitude. A 5.0 event might rattle nerves but do only light damage. At 6.0, moderate damage can be expected, especially to older and less resilient structures.<\/p>\n<p class=\"live-blog-post-content css-h61jh5 evys1bk0\">Strong quakes of 7.0 and up can do major damage over a wide area, and a quake of 8.0 or greater anywhere near a population center would probably cause catastrophic damage and loss of life.<\/p>\n<p class=\"live-blog-post-content css-h61jh5 evys1bk0\">Theoretically, a quake of magnitude 10 is possible, but the fault would have to be about 8,000 miles long, or about one-third of Earth\u2019s circumference.<\/p>\n<p class=\"live-blog-post-content css-1smqmx3 etfikam0\">Kenneth Chang<!-- --> contributed reporting.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><button class=\"css-182hr0m\" data-testid=\"Show-More\" type=\"button\" aria-hidden=\"true\">Show more<\/button><\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"fluid\"\r\n     data-ad-layout-key=\"-fb+5w+4e-db+86\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"7910942971\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><div data-type=\"_mgwidget\" data-widget-id=\"1660802\">\r\n<\/div>\r\n<script>(function(w,q){w[q]=w[q]||[];w[q].push([\"_mgc.load\"])})(window,\"_mgq\");\r\n<\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/live\/2024\/12\/05\/us\/earthquake-california\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dec. 5, 2024, 3:46 p.m. ET Henry Fountain Henry Fountain spent a quarter century covering science for The Times. 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