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BIG BEAR LAKE >> A magnitude-3.4 earthquake was reported Tuesday moing in the Big Bear area, according to the U.S. Geological Survey. The shaker was reported at 7:25 a.m., almost 20 miles north northeast of the mountain community. There were no reports of damage as of 7:30 a.m. Advertisement Let's block ads! بخوانید...

AMATRICE, Italy — Rescue crews aided by sniffer dogs dug through crumbled homes Thursday looking for earthquake survivors as Italy again anguished over how to secure its ancient towns and mode cities from the country’s highly seismic terrain. After a night of uninterrupted, flood-lit search efforts, firefighters and rescue crews worked in teams around the hard-hit area in central Italy, pulling chunks of cement, rock and metal from mounds of rubble where homes once stood, searching for signs of life. Authorities say at least 241 people were killed and hundreds injured in the quake that struck at 3:36 a.m. Wednesday. At least 470 aftershocks have since rattled the area — one as strong as mag...

AMATRICE, Italy — A strong earthquake in central Italy reduced three towns to rubble as people slept early Wednesday, killing at least 73 people and injuring hundreds more as rescue crews raced to dig out survivors with bulldozers and their bare hands. • PHOTOS: Devastation after earthquake strikes Italy The toll was likely to rise as crews reached homes in more remote hamlets where the scenes were apocalyptic “like Dante’s Infeo,” according to one witness. Complicating matters was that the area is a popular vacation spot in summer, with populations swelling, making the number of people in the area at the time difficult to estimate. “The town isn’t here anymore,” said Sergio Pirozzi, the ma...

AMATRICE, ITALY >> A strong earthquake rocked central Italy early Wednesday, collapsing homes on top of residents as they slept. At least 11 people were reported dead in two hard-hit towns where rescue crews raced to dig out survivors from the rubble, but the toll was expected to rise as crews reached homes in harder-to-reach hamlets. “The town isn’t here anymore,” Amatrice mayor Sergio Pirozzi said. The magnitude 6 quake struck at 3:36 a.m. and was felt across a broad swath of central Italy, including the capital Rome where residents felt a long swaying followed by aftershocks. The temblor was felt from the Lazio region into Umbria and Le Marche on the Adriatic coast. The hardest-hit...

Kristin Armstrong had just put together another golden effort in an Olympic time trial, this time slicing through driving wind and rain, when her 5-year-old son approached her at the finish. “Mama,” Lucas asked, “why are you crying? You won!” Once again. The American cyclist made it three consecutive gold medals on Wednesday, the ageless wonder conquering a brutal course at the Rio Games. Her time of 44 minutes, 26.42 seconds topped reigning bronze medalist Olga Zabelinskaya of Russia by the slimmest of margins: 5.55 seconds. As for the tears, well, “that’s a great question from a 5-year-old,” Armstrong said with her now-familiar grin. “That’s what we do, we cry when we’re happy. “I’m going...

Small quake hits Califoia’s Central Coast By City News Service PASADENA — A small, exceedingly shallow earthquake rattled part of Califoia’s Central Coast today, the U.S. Geological Survey reported. The magnitude-3 quake struck at 8:45 a.m. at a depth of zero miles, its epicenter 10 miles northwest of Goleta and 8 miles southeast of Santa Ynez, according to a computer-generated report from the USGS. Advertisement Digital & Driveway Delivery - 50% Off Please enable JavaScript to view the comments powered by Disqus. Let's block ads! بخوانید...

SAN DIEGO >> Thousands of comic and pop culture fans cheered as Kylo Ren stopped battling with young Jakku scavenger, Rey, during Saturday night’s Comic-Con Inteational’s Masquerade costume contest, got down on one knee and asked her to be his bride and she said yes. “They were so loud you just couldn’t hear anything,” recalled Robert Monroe, 34, from Santa Clarita who convinced his usually shy and introverted girlfriend, Aly Ayers, 25, of New York to participate in the Comic-Con staple for cosplayers. “I got a little nervous because I couldn’t figure out what she said, but then a realized she had said yes and I picked her up and spun her around.” Monroe and Ayers aren’t the first to ...

WASHINGTON — Summoned before Congress, FBI Director James Comey on Thursday strongly defended the decision to not prosecute Hillary Clinton over her private email setup. He said there was no evidence that she or any of her aides knew that anything they were doing was against the law or had lied to federal investigators. Comey’s appearance before the House Oversight and Govement Reform Committee marked his first public statements since an FBI aouncement that removed the threat of criminal charges against the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee but also revived public scrutiny of her handling of classified information. It was the most detailed explanation to date about why the Justice...

PASADENA >> The Rev. Rick Eisenlord, a man familiar with violence against the LGBT community, had just concluded his service here Sunday moing when the enormity of the mass shooting at a gay nightclub in Orlando was begiing to sink in. “It has usually been centered around individuals,” he said, mentioning the death of Matthew Shepard in Wyoming in 1998. “I’ve been working with the LGBT community for 30 years, I can’t think of anything on this scale,” said the openly gay pastor who recently marched in the Long Beach Gay Pride Parade. • Related Story: 50 dead in Orlando nightclub shooting, worst mass shooting in US history Fifty were killed when Omar Mateen, carrying an AR-15 assault ri...

Friday’s early-moing wake-up call courtesy of a moderate earthquake in Anza-Borrego Desert State Park was triggered by a hitch on a feisty fault that slices through populated areas of Inland Southe Califoia. And the question some are asking in the wake of the 5.2 magnitude shaker centered 15 miles southeast of Anza: Could it unleash a far more damaging quake under Hemet or Moreno Valley or San Beardino? You probably can guess the answer. Scientists don’t know. “We can’t say anything based on this moing’s event, beyond the fact that we are going to have aftershocks,” Jeifer Andrews, a seismologist at the Califoia Institute of Technology in Pasadena, said in a phone interview Friday. Andrews ...

A 5.2 magnitude earthquake hit just after 1 a.m. Friday moing south of Palm Springs according to the U.S. Geological Survey. The agency’s website said the trembler hit at 1:04 a.m. and was centered at 13.7 miles north-northwest of Borrego Springs, 14.9 miles east-southeast of Anza, and 26.7 miles south of Palm Springs. Between 1:06 and 1:33 a.m. four more quakes ranging in size from 3.5 to 2.8 hit in the same general area. “San Jacinto is historically most active fault in SoCal. Today’s EQ near locations of M6 in 1937 and M5.3 in 1980,” tweeted seismologist Dr. Lucy Jones, USGS Scientist Emerita. The USGS received reports of people feeling the temblor from as far away as San Diego, Beaumont...

PALM SPRINGS >> A moderate earthquake hit the Palm Springs area early Friday and was felt across parts of Southe Califoia. The U.S. Geological Survey says the magnitude 5.2 temblor struck at 1:04 a.m. PDT and was centered about 20 miles south of Rancho Mirage. USGS geophysicist Amy Vaughan says there have already been a series of aftershocks. She says that it was strong enough to likely have woken people up. Facebook and other social media sites carried reports from people in San Diego and Los Angeles, about 100 miles to the west, reporting that they felt it. Rancho Mirage is in Riverside County about 10 miles south of Palm Springs. Advertisement Let's block ads! بخوانید...