San Francisco - No damage has been reported after an earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 3.4 rattled a rural area of Northern California.

The U.S. Geological Survey says the quake hit at 9:21 p.m. Thursday about 26 miles north of Santa Rosa, or about 75 miles north of San Francisco.

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Death Valley in California has plenty of hazards, ranging from searing temperatures to flash floods, rock falls, rattlesnakes and scorpions.

Now geologists say that one of its volcanoes is actually far younger and more active than previously thought and is due to go off, because it last exploded in 1200 and has an eruption cycle of 1,000 years or less.

A team based at Columbia University's Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory found that the half-mile-wide Ubehebe Crater, formed by a prehistoric volcanic explosion, was created just 800 years ago - and not 6,000 years ago as previously estimated.

5.4 magnitude earthquake strikes Scotia Sea near tip of Antarctica. Maybe soon we're discover the skyquakes, the cracking of the magnetosphere, the magnetic pole migration are all rooted in the same growing dilemma of a hastening planetary magnetic field reversal.

People in north Donegal were left shaken, but hopefully not too stirred, last night when an earthquake tremor hit the region. Tom Blake, a geophysicist at the Dublin School for Advanced Studies confirmed that a 2.2 magnitude tremor struck north Donegal at 1.04 am. The tremor was recorded at a seismic monitoring station in Inishowen.
The station was set up and is operated in association with LYIT and North West Electronics. The tremor was also recorded at St. Columba's National School and St. Egney's Desertegney, where equipment has been in place for some time. According to the Donegal Weather Channel, hundreds of people felt the tremor right across north Donegal, areas affected included Letterkenny, Buncrana, Kilmacrennan, Raphoe, Ramelton, Carrigard and Downings.

Dozens of people are feared to have been buried in a massive landslide in the Southern Highlands of Papua New Guinea. According to VOA, at least 40 bodies have been pulled from the debris and as many as 20 others are feared missing.


The landslide struck at 7am AEDT yesterday near the Nogoli base for a ExxonMobil-led liquefied natural gas plant site, northwest of Port Moresby. One local said three villages had been covered while another report said only a handful of homes were lost. Radio Australia reported dozens of people were feared buried, quoting a Tari resident as saying about 40 people were missing.

Date-Time:
Wednesday, January 25, 2012 at 00:46:00 UTC

Tuesday, January 24, 2012 at 03:46:00 PM at epicenter

Time of Earthquake in other Time Zones

Location:
52.809°N, 167.095°W

Depth:
39.4 km (24.5 miles)

Region:
FOX ISLANDS, ALEUTIAN ISLANDS, ALASKA

Distances:
119 km (73 miles) E of Nikolski, Alaska

127 km (78 miles) SSW of Dutch Harbor, Alaska

1395 km (866 miles) SW of Anchorage, Alaska

2121 km (1317 miles) W of WHITEHORSE, Yukon Territory, Canada

A magnitude 3.4 earthquake occurred at 2:51 a.m. Wednesday about 10 miles north of Mount St. Helens. The Pacific Northwest Seismic Network reports mild shaking was felt in Longview, Castle Rock and Morton. The University of Washington reports the quake was followed by a half-dozen small aftershocks in the next hour. Small quakes are common in the area around the volcano in southwest Washington.

A 5.1 magnitude earthquake struck the northern region of Italy at a depth of 10.2 km or 6.3 miles below the surface. The epicenter of the earthquake was about 13 km from Parma, Italy and about 368 km from Rome. The earthquake was preceded by a much shallower 4.0 foreshock some 47 km away. Italy has seen a growing amount of seismic unrest along the northern mountainous region of the country. The Alpide Belt which runs along the southern region of Europe and Asia continues to show signs of stress. In the meantime, we continue to monitor the stresses erupting along the planet's lower southern hemisphere. A 5.1 magnitude earthquake was reported west of New Zealand's South Island.

About 4,200 people have been evacuated from their homes on the New South Wales far north coast, after the same weather system that drenched Queensland moved south.

Ten flood warnings are in place for rivers in the state's north-east, where up to 550 millimetres of rain has fallen in some areas over three days.


People have been evacuated from parts of Chinderah, Fingal Head, South Murwillumbah, Condong and Tumbulgum.

The U.S. Southwest isn't particularly known for its seismic activity, but the Rio Grande Rift, a series of faults and basins that runs from central Colorado south through New Mexico, is alive and stretching, new research shows.

Scientists had suspected the rift might be dead, but measurements of its movement varied widely and were riddled with uncertainties. Now, thanks to state-of-the-art GPS technology, geophysicists have found the rift is indeed extending - just very slowly.

And of course, anytime a large chunk of the Earth's crust moves, the issue of earthquakes arises.