Quake

A shallow, magnitude 3.3 earthquake was reported Wednesday morning near Lake Tahoe, according to the U.S. Geological Survey. The temblor occurred at 6:58 a.m. Pacific time at a depth of 0.6 miles. According to the USGS, the epicenter was 11 miles from Gardnerville Ranchos, Nev., 21 miles from South Lake Tahoe, Calif., 29 miles from Carson City, Nev., 48 miles from Truckee, Calif., and 55 miles from Reno, Nev. In the past 10 days, there have been no earthquakes magnitude 3.0 and greater centered nearby.

A shallow magnitude 3.3 earthquake was reported Saturday morning 12 miles from Rancho Palos Verdes, according to the U.S. Geological Survey. The temblor occurred at 2:41 a.m. PDT. According to the USGS, the epicenter was 13 miles from San Pedro, 16 miles from Lomita and 16 miles from Palos Verdes Estates. In the past 10 days, there have been two earthquakes magnitude 3.0 and greater centered nearby. Read more about Southern California earthquakes . ALSO: Court will decide how many UC workers can strike Private security patrols pull out of downtown Arts District Huntington displays artwork from East Los Angeles high school  

The Washington Monument is closed today after cracking in stones at the top of the structure was discovered Tuesday. The cracking was possibly caused by the magnitude 5.8 earthquake that shook the East Coast Tuesday afternoon.  The National Park Service inspected the monument after the quake and has temporarily closed the monument and the surrounding area.  “The NPS will have structural engineers evaluate the cracks on Wednesday to...

A shallow magnitude 3 earthquake was reported Tuesday evening 12 miles from Hawthorne, Nev., according to the U.S. Geological Survey. The temblor occurred at 9:24 p.m. Pacific time at a depth of 5 miles. According to the USGS, the epicenter was 62 miles from Gardnerville Ranchos, Nev., 70 miles from Carson City, Nev., 70 miles from Fernley, Nev., and 76 miles from South Lake Tahoe, Calif. In the past 10 days, there has been one earthquake of at least magnitude 3 centered nearby.

A 5.6-magnitude earthquake struck near the U.S. naval base at Guantanamo, Cuba, Saturday, but officials said there was no damage reported. The quake was centered 27 miles southwest of Guantanamo and had a depth of 14 miles, the U.S. Geological Survey reported. A magnitude-5 quake can cause considerable damage, but Chief Petty Officer Bill Mesta, a spokesman at the base, said there was none reported. There was no tsunami warning issued for the region. The U.S. base in southeastern Cuba was used to transport supplies and personnel to the aid effort after the devastating 7.0-magnitude Jan. 12 quake in Haiti, about 200 miles away.

A major earthquake of 7.7 magnitude struck off the coast of Aceh on the Indonesian island of Sumatra on Wednesday triggering panic and power blackouts, although a tsunami alert was later lifted. Neighbouring Thailand and Malaysia, lying east of Sumatra, also cancelled tsunami warnings. A Reuters photographer in Sinabang on Simeulue island, south of Aceh, said that electricity was cut in the area and that he saw four injured people, including a child with a head wound who had been hit by fallen masonry.

Shipments of food, water, clothing and other basics finally began pouring in Wednesday to this earthquake-devastated town, where increasingly hungry and frustrated residents have harshly criticized what they term a tardy response by the national government. Still, fear and anger continued to stalk the community as well as other hard-hit coastal cities, such as Concepcion -- where false reports of a tsunami alert after a particularly strong aftershock sent panicked residents rushing uphill toward the mountains.

The two earthquakes that struck Beverly Hills and shook a good portion of Los Angeles this week occurred at the intersection of two dangerous faults. Although both faults are capable of producing a 7.0 temblor, experts said the quakes are probably not foreshocks to a larger quake. U.S. Geological Survey geophysicist Doug Given said the quakes occurred near the junction of the Santa Monica fault, which runs underneath Pacific Palisades, Santa Monica, Westwood and Beverly Hills, and the Newport-Inglewood fault, which produced the deadly 1933 Long Beach quake.

Idon't know about you, but images of the tragedy in Haiti made me feel pretty silly about having paid so much attention recently to Tiger Woods' sex life, Harry Reid's gaffes or Conan O'Brien's future. There's nothing like real pain and suffering to make us realize that the stuff we tend to obsess about can be pretty meaningless. I was interviewing a writer in a hotel lobby in Bucharest, Romania, last October, when he glanced at the CNN coverage of the "balloon boy" aftermath and interrupted himself to ask, "Is that what you people in America care about?"

A 5.9 magnitude earthquake shook Chile Friday near the city heavily damaged in a devastating February quake, but there were no immediate reports of damage. Residents in Bio-Bio region were woken up by the tremor that lasted 25 seconds, Radio Cooperativa reported. "There is no reported damage to infrastructure or injuries, but people were shaken up," said a spokeswoman for the state National Emergency Office. The U.S. Geological Survey said the quake had a magnitude of 6.1 and struck at 6:03 a.m. (1003 GMT)

A shallow magnitude 1.4 earthquake was reported Tuesday morning three miles from Meiners Oaks, according to the U.S. Geological Survey. The temblor occurred at 2:06 a.m. PDT at a depth of 6.8 miles. According to the USGS, the epicenter was 13 miles from Carpinteria, 14 miles from Ventura and 16 miles from Santa Paula. In the last 10 days, there have been two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater centered nearby. Read more about Southern California earthquakes . [Updated at 5:30 p.m.: The USGS had earlier reported the quake was magnitude 3.7. ]

TEHRAN - A powerful earthquake hit southeastern Iran near Pakistan on Tuesday, but the extent of damage and casualties was not immediately clear. Iranian state television initially reported at least 40 people had died in the quake, which Iranian seismologists estimated at magnitude 7.7. But authorities later said no one was known to have died in Iran. State TV said 27 people had been injured. The quake struck at 3:14 p.m. local time, with its epicenter in Saravan, an isolated region not far from Iran's borders with Pakistan and Afghanistan.

The tandem theme parks of the Tokyo Disney resort were scheduled to return to full operation Thursday for the first time since a devastating earthquake and tsunami struck Japan on March 11. Photos : Tokyo Disneyland reopens after the quake The Tokyo DisneySea theme park is expected to reopen at 9 a.m. Tokyo time Thursday, 47 days after being shut after the disasters, which also triggered a nuclear crisis....