LEBANON, Oh. - A 7.0 earthquake shook millions awake early Saturday in the tri-state region and derailed an
Amtrak train.
The quake jolted residents out of their beds and shook buildings as far away as Pittsburgh. Over 90,000 people
lost their power, and a highway bridge was cracked in downtown Cincinnati. This 2:46 A.M. earthquake was more
than the ordinary and caused a little more than incidental damage.
“Did you ever play a pinball machine and see the ball get stuck in there and go bam-bam-bam-bam? It just threw
my body back and forth as I ran down the hallway,” Dick Dale said from his home.
Four of the passengers on the Amtrak train suffered minor injuries. “I was sleeping. It felt like the train jumped
off the track...and I fell out of bed,” said passenger Colleen Broome, who suffered a separated shoulder.
The quake was centered 32 miles north of Cincinnati in a small town called Lebanon. After the main blow from
the earthquake there were after- shocks that rolled through the region for hours. A 5.8 and a 5.3 were two of the
dozen aftershocks recorded.
Authorities in Cincinnati and in Columbus said that there were no serious damage or injuries reported. They
received a few calls, but none of them were too serious. “It shook everything pretty good, but that was about it,”
said Lt. Rich Paddock of the Warren County Sheriff’s Department.
The effects of the earthquake were more serious near the epicenter located near Lebanon. John Fabian, a
Lebanon visitor, did not know what it was.
Fabian’s wife woke him in the middle of the morning and told him they had to get out of there. “The whole place
was shaking like crazy,” Fabian said.
Although the earthquake was powerful, it did not cause that much damage at all. The Hampton Inn in Mason,
Oh., about 5 miles away from the epicenter just suffered a power outage and no sign of any type of damage. The
owner of the motel later said that he got lucky no structural damage was done.
When one of the worst earthquakes ever hits the town of San Francisco panic ensues, but not for everyone. On April 18, 1906, at 5:15 am the city of San Francisco was demolished by a 7.8 magnitude earthquake which also led to many fires being started. There was $350m in estimated damages, and 400-750 people perished in the earthquake and fire. Around 490 city blocks were destroyed, causing 250,000 people to become homeless (A Brief Account, SF Tourism Tips). In the aftermath of the earthquake there were many eyewitness accounts written about it. The eyewitness account, “Comprehending the Calamity,” by Emma Burke and the eyewitness account,"Horrific Wreck of the City" by Fred Hewitt both describe the same event, but they both have very different
An earthquake felt throughout the Midwest on June 18 was a shaky reminder that earthquakes can occur anywhere.
In 1910 a series of fifty-two earthquakes struck Arizona between September 10th-23rd and it caused much of the Flagstaff residents to flee the area as even strong households cracked and chimneys crumbled. The fifty-two earthquakes were all light-shock earthquakes with magnitudes between 4.0-4.2 that came right after another. If only one earthquake occurred in that timespan then it is likely that only objects would be knocked from shelves but no damage would be done to infrastructure, but the earthquakes happened right after another causing significant slight
Half of the affected businesses reopened by mid-afternoon. There’s no word yet on what caused the water main to break.
For example, on October 1, 1987, at 7:42 a.m. the residents of the Los Angeles basin got a jolting reminder of the perils of "living on the fault line." This was due to the so-called Whittier Narrows earthquake. Hardest hit by the quake, was Whittier (pop. 72,000). Whittier is twelve miles from downtown Los Angeles and was the community closest to the epicenter.
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The epicenter of this earthquake is in San Francisco, hence the name of it. The cities that were affected by it included Santa Rosa, San Jose, and Santa Cruz. It awakened the city of San Francisco with a population of 400, 000 people with a magnitude of 7.8 (Frantz, 2016). Today, the current population of the city is twice as much compared to the population in 1906. Reconstruction of San Francisco
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Before examining the Northridge event, understanding the naturally occurring hazard that is an earthquake will help to better understand exactly what happened and why it was such an important geological event. With four distinct layers, two layers, the crust and upper portion of the mantle, compose the skin that is the surface layer of the Earth. The crust is not a single, continuous piece. It is actually several different pieces, or plates, that come together to form the puzzle that comprises the surface of the Earth. These plates are in constant motion rubbing against one another. These areas, known as fault lines, where the plates rub up against one another have spots where one plate ”gets stuck while the rest of the plate keeps moving. When the plate has moved far enough, the edges unstick and is how most of the earthquakes around the world occur” (Wald, 2012). The energy stored from the friction of the two plate...
October 17, 1989. Damage for this San Francisco Bay Area quake are close to 4 billion. The
The Great Kanto Earthquake also known as the Tokyo-Yokohama Earthquake of 1923 hit the metropolitan area of Kanto on September 1st, 1923 around 11:58 pm. It was a 7.9 on the Richter magnitude scale, killing over one-hundred and forty thousand people due to its high magnitude and the time it happened. The earthquake struck around lunch time, when many Japanese people were at home cooking at their charcoal or gas fueled stoves. At the moment the earthquake hit, it knocked down buildings that caught flames from the stoves that fell over, enflaming the city. The fire was swept up and able to spread due to the gusts of wind that occurred for two days afterwards, resulting in firestorms. Charles Blauvelt experienced the ordeal of the fire describing the flames as “[covering] the whole city [as they] burned all day and night.” In addition to the firestorms and the earthquake itself, there was a shock because of all the fallen debris which triggered tsunamis to fill and flood Japanese cities. These tsunamis, that were about thirty feet tall, destroyed central Tokyo and immensely added to the death toll.
"The Great Quake: 1906-2006 / Rising from the Ashes." SFGate. N.p., n.d. Web. 10 May 2014.
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