What’s going on in Wisconsin? No one seems to know, and residents are rattled. Authorities in Clintonville say they’re looking into unexplained noises and ground-shaking felt around the area from Sunday night into Monday. (UPDATE: SEE THE USGS EXPLANATION FOR THE STRANGE RUMBLINGS) Police say that around 9:30 p.m. Sunday night, people started reporting explosion-like [...]
Here are your top stories for this Wednesday morning, March 21, 2012: – Strong earthquake hits Mexico – Illinois voters cast ballots in GOP primary – Grand jury to convene in shooting death of Florida teen – Peyton Manning to join the Denver Broncos
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Residents rushed into the streets after a strong, prolonged earthquake rocked Mexico City this afternoon. The U.S. Geological Survey says it was a powerful, 7.6-magnitude quake. The temblor was centered 120 miles east of Acapulco. The earthquake was felt strongly in Mexico City, according to witnesses. Mexico’s National Seismological Survey said the earthquake had an [...]
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A 6.8-magnitude earthquake struck northeastern Japan today, causing the Japanese Meteorological Agency to issue a tsunami warning. The temblor struck about 170 miles off the east coast of Japan. A spokesman for Tohoku Electric Power, which operates two nuclear power plants in the area, said they were unaffected. A tsunami warning was issues and, in [...]
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2011 was quite a year for earthquakes. From the catastrophic damage caused by March’s 9.0-magnitude earthquake and subsequent tsunami in Japan to August’s unexpected East Coast earthquake, it was quite an eventful year. What do all those earthquakes sound like when plotted out on a map? Get ready to see (and hear) 2011′s earthquakes as [...]
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Some U.S. residents woke up with quite a start this morning as a 4.0 magnitude earthquake shook at least nine states, causing minor damage and a big commotion in the town of East Prairie, Missouri, near the earthquake’s epicenter. “I live on a main highway and five miles from the reported epicenter,” Rhonda Brack, a [...]
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What was it that shook Dalton County, Georgia yesterday? Residents don’t exactly know, and some of them were pretty scared. 911 phone lines lit up yesterday afternoon after a mysterious “boom” was heard in the southern county, followed by a shaking of the ground that experts are calling as “earthquake”. Officially, a 2.7-magnitude temblor rocked [...]
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