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- Severe thunderstorm warning: Plumas, Shasta, Lassen, Tehama Counties
- Salinas: Fire and Explosion Industrial Warehouse
- Lake Tahoe: Past due for a magnitude-7 temblor + huge tsunami
| Severe thunderstorm warning: Plumas, Shasta, Lassen, Tehama Counties Posted: 30 May 2009 01:17 PM PDT
EXTREME NORTHWESTERN PLUMAS COUNTY IN NORTHERN CALIFORNIA... SOUTHEAST CENTRAL SHASTA COUNTY IN NORTHERN CALIFORNIA... NORTHEASTERN TEHAMA COUNTY IN NORTHERN CALIFORNIA... THIS INCLUDES THE CITY OF MINERAL... * UNTIL 145 PM PDT * AT 1248 PM PDT... NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING PENNY SIZE HAIL OR LARGER. THIS STORM WAS LOCATED NEAR MANZANITA LAKE...OR ABOUT 18 MILES NORTH OF MINERAL...AND MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 5 MPH. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR... MANZANITA LAKE AND 7 MILES EAST OF VIOLA BY 115 PM PDT... Instruction: THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM. IF YOU ARE IN ITS PATH...PREPARE IMMEDIATELY FOR STRONG WINDS...LARGE HAIL...AND DEADLY CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING. PEOPLE OUTSIDE SHOULD MOVE TO A SHELTER... PREFERABLY INSIDE A STRONG BUILDING BUT AWAY FROM WINDOWS. Area: NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SACRAMENTO CA Affected Counties or parts of: Shasta, Plumas, Lassen, Tehama
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| Salinas: Fire and Explosion Industrial Warehouse Posted: 30 May 2009 12:44 PM PDT
SALINAS, Calif. -- An explosion took place at a large industrial warehouse in south Salinas on Friday. Equipment inside the building, which is owned by Excelligence Learning Corp., exploded at about 6:45 p.m., causing the warehouse to go up in flames, fire officials said. At least one person was taken to a local hospital with minor burn injuries. Firefighters were getting a handle on the blaze as of 7:50 p.m. When the explosion first took place, a plume of smoke could be seen coming from the building at Dayton Street and Harkins Road. The area of south Salinas where the warehouse is located is highly industrial, and other buildings may have been affected by the flames. There were about 50 employees working at the warehouse when the explosion took place. Excelligence Learning Corp. is an international educational supply company.  | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Lake Tahoe: Past due for a magnitude-7 temblor + huge tsunami Posted: 30 May 2009 08:43 AM PDT
Two new studies suggest the Lake Tahoe region has gone longer than usual without a large earthquake and may be due for a magnitude-7 temblor capable of spawning a tsunami that could flood shoreline communities. The research targeting three major faults was conducted by scientists at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography at the University of California-San Diego. They determined that earthquakes as large as magnitude-7 historically have occurred every 2,000 to 3,000 years in the Tahoe basin. But they found that the largest fault in the basin — the West Tahoe Fault running along the west shore of the lake and out the south end just west of South Lake Tahoe — appears to last have ruptured between 4,100 and 4,500 years ago. The new data suggests that the most recent ruptures along the West Tahoe and Incline Village faults each produced nearly offsets of about 13 feet. The most recent event along the Incline Village Fault occurred about 575 years ago, they said. "These studies taken together show that the West Tahoe Fault is capable of a magnitude-7 earthquake — similar to large earthquakes that have occurred on the nearby Genoa Fault — but with the added danger of nearly 500 meters (1,600 feet) of overlying water, which is capable of spawning a large tsunami wave," said Graham Kent, a research geophysicist at Scripps. The analysis suggests an upper limit of a magnitude-7.3 earthquake for the basin's most dangerous fault. Whole article at: CBS5.com - Link  | |||||||||||||||||||||
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