18 May 2012 15:09:35

Latest Virginia news, sports, business and entertainment

Latest Virginia news, sports, business and entertainment WJTV (AP) A foundation working to repair earthquake damage at a historic home in Culpeper County is getting help from the federal government. The Federal Emergency Management Agency has agreed to provide nearly $750000 to help pay for repairs to Salubria ...
18 May 2012 06:43:56

Dumbarton Bridge closure planned Memorial Day weekend

Dumbarton Bridge closure planned Memorial Day weekend Fremont Bulletin Milionis said Caltrans began looking at all Bay Area bridges for retrofit soon after the Loma Prieta Earthquake of 1989. Since the program began in 2010, she said the Antioch, Benicia and Carquinez bridges have experienced closures for retrofit ...
17 May 2012 19:41:07

Earthquake Future Holds No Simple Answers

Earthquake Future Holds No Simple Answers Mission Local Living in the Bay Area , I've heard this again and again, but when I recently moved and the landlord couldn't tell me how old or earthquake -safe the house was, I decided to do some digging into how hazardous it is to live and work in this neighborhood ...
17 May 2012 16:43:28

4.3 magnitude earthquake rattles east Texas

4.3 magnitude earthquake rattles east Texas KEYC TV Sporting crumpled catwalks and smashed lifeboats, the US Navy vessel USS Essex managed to glide into San Diego Bay on Thursday, 24 hours after colliding with a tanker in the Pacific Ocean when the aging warship's... The Reno Air Racing Association has ...
17 May 2012 15:43:40

Bay Area rocker Greg Kihn chooses his old stomping grounds at the Catalyst for ...

Bay Area rocker Greg Kihn chooses his old stomping grounds at the Catalyst for ... Santa Cruz Sentinel The popular Bay Area rocker made the Catalyst a kind of home base back during the greatest successful period for the Greg Kihn Band when it was scoring such hits as "Jeopardy" and "The Break-Up Song They Just Don't Write Them Like That Anymore." Which ...
17 May 2012 07:12:51

Bay Area repertory film picks, May 17-20

Bay Area repertory film picks, May 17-20 San Francisco Chronicle "Deadline Every Second": A sports photographer shoots a game and an hour later jumps on a plane to cover the Haiti earthquake . Another risks his life covering Palestinian-Israeli clashes. San Francisco State Professor Ken KobrГ traveled with a dozen ...
11 May 2012 11:13:37

Earthquake scientists trying to pinpoint the 'big one'

Earthquake scientists trying to pinpoint the 'big one' Salt Lake Tribune The results, expected to be released next year, "will put some real numbers on" Utah earthquake probabilities within given time frames, as has been done in the past quarter century by California. For instance, the most recent forecast in the Bay Area ...
11 May 2012 09:47:19

What's Oklahoma's Earthquake Number?

What's Oklahoma's Earthquake Number? news9.com KWTV The San Francisco bay area is all too familiar with earthquake destruction. A magnitude 7 earthquake will have widespread damage and quite a bit of catastrophic failure in older buildings. We're in the heart of tornado alley. But lately, Oklahoma's ...
09 May 2012 20:22:11

Earthquakes & Science Made Simpler at USGS Open House, May 19-20

Earthquakes & Science Made Simpler at USGS Open House, May 19-20 United States Geological Survey (press release) Many Bay Area residents know what it's like to experience an earthquake , but fewer of them know why earthquakes happen. The concepts behind earthquakes and living safely in earthquake country are as simple as a fishing line hooked to a stack of bricks ...
26 Apr 2012 11:18:28

A landmark retrofit for the Golden Gate Bridge

KGO-TV A landmark retrofit for the Golden Gate Bridge San Jose Mercury News That's probably what would have happened several years ago if an earthquake the magnitude of the 1906 San Francisco earthquake had struck the Bay Area . But that's before the bridge district began a $660 million project to seismically retrofit the ... Golden Gate Bridge Retrofits Designed to be Undetected The Source: Doyle Drive and the Father of the Golden Gate Bridge Traffic headache looms between North, South Bay