Coast articles
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Oaklawn Handicap lures shippers from coast to coast
Skippylongstocking leads a barrage of Florida shippers in the Grade 2, $1.25 million Oaklawn Handicap on Saturday, a race that also drew Reincarnate and Highland Falls out of the Santa Anita Handicap and Red Route One off a win in the New Orleans Classic.
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East Coast quakes are felt farther than West Coast ones. Here’s why
Earthquakes in New York are even rarer than snowfall in Los Angeles. The one that struck the East Coast last Friday was one of the largest in the region in a century. And yet on the grand scale of things — no longer the Richter scale, by the way, but the Moment Magnitude Scale — it was relatively minor, with a magnitude of 4.8. The MMS is exponential: A 5.0-magnitude quake is the equivalent of 475 tons of TNT exploding, while 6.0 equals 15,000 tons, and 7.0 is 475,000 tons. While this quake and...
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Coast to remember those who made the ultimate sacrifice
Communities across the North-West and West Coasts are gearing up for Thursday's commemoration of the 109th anniversary of the ANZAC landing...