More funds were approved at Tuesday’s Eureka City Council meeting to repair some damage to city property from the Jan. 9 earthquake, but more money will be needed to make all the necessary repairs.
The Eureka City Council will look over the costs estimated to finish repairing damages from the Jan. 9 earthquake at its Tuesday meeting. City staff recommends the council appropriate more than $116,000 to cover the initial inspection,
- Vargas case continues, gag order lifted.
- Local healthcare providers aid Haitian earthquake relief effort.
- Vargas case continues, gag order lifted.
- Local healthcare providers aid Haitian earthquake relief effort.
Observers of the Eureka Balloon Track are noticing heavy equipment rolling through the toxic mud to move Schmidbauer’s log deck.
Thanks to recent weeks of heavy rain the log trucks sink into the sludge and then disperse it down Broadway.
This stirring of downtown’s dioxin stew comes at a time when property owner Security National is stonewalling the Coastal Commission over the property, and Humboldt County residents debate the danger of moving toxins around the property before full characterization of the site.
A 3.9-magnitude quake shook the Petrolia area Monday morning. The earthquake occurred at 8:10 a.m. about 38 miles south-southwest of Eureka and 13 miles west of Petrolia at a depth of 13 miles.
It struck at 7:10 am this morning and was centered approximately 8 miles West of Petrolia. Depth was at an unusually low 20 KM. No reports of damages or injury, and was felt as a fairly brief jolt in Eureka. For more info see the USGS website at http://earthquake.usgs.gov.
An Arcata-based doctor has made two trips to Haiti since a January earthquake devastated the country, and now he is trying to make it easier for other local doctors to help.
A series of small earthquakes has hit northern California. The U.S. Geological Survey says a 3.1-magnitude quake struck shortly before midnight Saturday and was centered about 10 miles northeast of San Jose.
At 2:39 a.m. Sunday, another 3.1 temblor hit about 25 miles northwest of Santa Rosa, the USGS said.
For decades, maybe a hundred years, the sturdy, nondescript building stood straddling Janes Creek, for most of its life playing a role in the Arcata Bottom’s booming dairy industry.
Humboldt State University geologist Lori Dengler is traveling with a team to parts of Chile ravaged by an 8.8-magnitude earthquake in February in an effort to learn how the North Coast might better prepare for a major quake and tsunami.
It wasn’t the photographs or television images of the destruction after the 7.0 earthquake. The numbers of deaths and sick/injured spoke for themselves in addition to the country being the poorest in the Western hemisphere: an estimated 230,000 people have died and an estimated 1.
Back in 1999, the state of California inventoried all the buildings on its university campuses for potential earthquake risks, and seven Humboldt State University buildings made the list, identified as likely to collapse in the event of a major
Helping out Chilean kids [Daily Triplicate]
Smith River Elementary School is raising money to help send Chilean children back to school after an 8.8-magnitude earthquake devastated much of the South American country Feb. 27.
It is estimated that more than 1 million children can’t attend classes because schools were so badly damaged by the earthquake.
All money raised will go to schools and educating children in Chile.
KHSU is counting on the love of its members to raise $120,000 during the Spring Membership Drive, which starts this Friday, March 19.
