West coast fires articles
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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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7.4 and 6.5 earthquakes hit eastern coast of Taiwan, no threat to West Coast
The National Weather Service sent out an alert that a 7.5 magnitude hit the eastern coast of Tawain on Tuesday.
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East Lansing Fire Dept. fights fire with fire
Fire officials were out in the Lansing area today with lit torches in hand. Normally we expect them to put out fires, but today, the goal was starting them.