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In this aerial view, bent and charred metal remains after an explosion at the Jay paper mill Wednesday. The explosion shook the ground and produced a plume of black smoke that was visible for miles around.
In this aerial view, bent and charred metal remains after an explosion at the Jay paper mill Wednesday. The explosion shook the ground and produced a plume of black smoke that was visible for miles around.
High in the minds of some was the blast in Farmington in September that killed a veteran firefighter and injured seven others.
But when the smoke cleared Wednesday afternoon in Jay, fire officials announced, with evident relief, that no one had been seriously injured.
"After Farmington seven months ago, we were fearing the worst," state fire marshal's office Sgt. Joel Davis said, "but by the grace of God, it turned out much different today."
The explosion, Davis said, occurred in the digester area of the mill. A mill official described the digester as a large container used to cook the chips in order to reduce them into individual fiber for the paper-making process.
Time: 2020-04-16 08:04:37 (UTC)
Location: 16.933°N 85.710°W
Depth: 10.0 km
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The quake happened at 1:07 a.m. GMT in the Pacific Ocean, 1084 kilometres to the north-east of the town of Tauranga, which is located on the country's North Island, USGS reported.
According to the US Geological Survey, the epicentre of the quake was located at a depth of 10 km, 196 kilometres south-east of Raoul Island.
Magnitude : 6.1
Local Time (conversion only below land) : Unknown
GMT/UTC Time : 2020-04-12 06:57:48
Depth (Hypocenter) : 10 km
There were no immediate reports of injuries or major structural damage after the 7:36 a.m. temblor.
The quake's epicenter was located about 22 miles northwest of Benton, California, and 91 miles southeast of South Lake Tahoe, the USGS said. It was measured at a depth of six miles.
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Bricks and debris lay at the base of a building damaged by an earthquake on March 18 in Magna, Utah
Bricks and debris lay at the base of a building damaged by an earthquake on March 18 in Magna, Utah
That figure includes three quakes with a magnitude of at least four and another 30 with a magnitude of at least three, according to the University of Utah Seismograph Stations. Experts additionally determined there were no foreshocks ahead of the initial earthquake, which shook swaths of Northern Utah awake on March 18 around 7 a.m.
The biggest of the aftershocks, a 4.7-magnitude tremor, occurred an hour later and a second quake of the same size rocked region again around 1 p.m.
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The earthquake caused a rockslide on Highway 21 near Lowman, Idaho.
The earthquake caused a rockslide on Highway 21 near Lowman, Idaho.
Until Susie Baker looked up and saw all the hanging aisle signs swinging back and forth.
"Then I thought I heard a sound ... and the floor was moving," said Baker, a checker at the store.
It was the force of the most powerful earthquake to strike the Gem State since 1983, a magnitude 6.5 temblor that jolted people across Idaho and three neighboring states. No injuries or damage were immediately reported.
The quake was centered 73 miles northeast of Meridian, near Boise, according to the U.S. Geological Survey, and, for some, conjured up memories of the state's worst such natural disaster, the 6.9 magnitude Borah Peak earthquake nearly four decades ago that killed two people and resulted in millions in damages, according to the Idaho Geological Survey.
"At first I thought it was thunder, weird thunder, but then the house was moving and I realized this is an earthquake — a really big earthquake," said Melissa Hawkins, 44, who lives in northwest Boise with her family. "It felt like it was in Boise."
Comment: Some other earthquakes to hit the United States very recently include:
Shallow 5.0 magnitude earthquake rattles West Texas (March 26)
7 earthquakes rattle Oklahoma in 24 hours (March 23)
5.7M earthquake strikes Salt Lake City - First ever to directly hit Utah's capital (March 18)
The quake epicenter was about 27 miles west of Mentone, Texas, and was located 3 miles below the surface. It hit at 10:16 a.m CDT.
Residents of El Paso, about 175 miles west of the reported epicenter, felt the quake, which was originally rated at 4.7 magnitude.
The El Paso region isn't accustomed to being rattled by earthquakes, and incredulous residents wondered aloud on social media about what they had just felt.
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