Monday, October 21, 2024

Three earthquakes hit Los Angeles island


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(Travel The Top) July 30, 2022: Looking for the best things to do on Catalina Island in Los Angeles, California? Look no further: This video shows the endless possibilities on this "hidden paradise in Southern California."
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We came to Morocco and found the same thing.
Los Angeles is a strange and wonderful place. It is massive and misunderstood. First of all, there are two Los Angeleeses, the city and the county. The city has more than 4 million people crammed in it, and the county has a population of over 10 million. These numbers fluctuate and are probably underreported because not everyone is documented or staying. There are 100,000 tourists on any given day, more in the summer. And people are constantly abandoning the megalopolis for other states then coming back. "Going to California" is a popular song for the band Led Zeppelin, and one has to wonder why of all the places in the world (Kashmir, Ireland, Shangri-la, etc.) they chose the Golden State to sing about. It has to be because everyone wants go there. Everyone is going to California eventually, even if just to visit. In its strangeness, apart from its size (roughly parallel to Bangkok, Thailand, at about 50 miles across), it has islands. We have snowy peaks, thick forest cover, desert, (asphalt) jungle, municipal wastelands, oil rigs, caves, Beverly Hills, Hollywood, beaches, and islands. One of those islands is Catalina that got hit by:

Three earthquakes, including a magnitude 3.6, hit off the coast of SoCal
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(KABC Los Angeles) A 3.6-magnitude earthquake struck off the coast of Southern California Sunday, according to the U.S. Geological Survey.

The 3.6 quake struck around 5:32 pm and was centered about 27 miles from San Clemente Island and 29 miles from Avalon on Santa Catalina Island, Los Angeles County, the USGS said.

Two smaller quakes (pre-shocks) had hit the same region about an hour-and-a-half earlier. The first measured at 3.1 and hit around 4:11 pm, and another 2.5-magnitude quake struck a few minutes later.

There were no immediate reports of damage. Source: KABC
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