Yet another powerful earthquake has rattled the Earth today as a powerful 6.8-magnitude quake shook Myanmar on Thursday. The earthquake hit in eastern Myanmar, about 55 miles north of Chiang Rai, Thailand, according to the U.S. Geological Survey. The USGS says it was a relatively shallow temblor, occurring at a depth of about 6 miles, which [...]
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A large aftershock hit Japan on Saturday, just one day after one of the largest earthquake’s in recorded history rocked the region. The 6.6-magnitude aftershock hit near the Fukushima nuclear power plant, which was already under close scrutiny for fear of a possible meltdown after a large explosion rocked the plant. The aftershock on Saturday [...]
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As if birds and fish dying off by the thousands wasn’t enough to scare the bejeezus out of us, a group of more than 100 scientists and experts have issued a new report guaranteed to get people worked up into a 2012-like frenzy. According to this new report, experts say that the state of California [...]
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Just our luck. Our home state of Maryland gets hit with an earthquake and all of us here at Blippitt slept right through it. Granted, it was nothing to write home about – just a minor temblor, but it would have been interesting. A 3.6-magnitude earthquake with an epicenter near Gaithersburg was reported around 5 [...]
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The U.S. Geological Survey has reported a massive 7.6 magnitude earthquake in the Indian Ocean, about 160 miles north of Port Blair in India’s Andaman Islands. A tsunami watch is now in effect for India, Myanmar, Indonesia, Thailand and Bangladesh. The Andaman Islands earthquake is said to have occurred about 20.6 miles deep, the U.S. [...]
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An earthquake registering 6.9 on the Richter Scale shook Baja, California late Monday morning and could be felt in the San Diego area, prompting the evacuation of a downtown office tower. The quake struck approximately 360 miles south of the California border, according to the USGS earthquake center. Local news reports showed office workers milling [...]
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