Large and devastating earthquakes in the U.S. Louis for the annual Missouri Earthquake Summit to discuss the latest information on risks, preparedness strategies and recovery planning. Hundreds of emergency managers, transportation leaders, geologists and others devoted to earthquake preparedness gathered Thursday in St. They know that overcoming complacency is among their biggest hurdles. is at high risk for a devastating earthquake. LOUIS (AP) - Experts have warned for decades that a large swath of the central U.S. The pieces of it were swaying back and forth and rattling," Hoines said.ĭamon Arthur is part of a team of journalists who investigate wrongdoing and find the unheard voices to tell the stories of the North State.ST. "You know it had a little bit of a bump and some sway to a lamp here. He said it took him a few seconds to realize he was feeling an earthquake. Hoines said he had become accustomed to earthquakes when he was working in Southern California, but since he moved to the North State three years ago, quakes are less common here. "I felt it here in my office, but I haven't heard of any reports of damage," Hoines said. Josh Hoines, superintendent at Whiskeytown National Recreation Area, said he felt the earthquake hit. Officials with the California Department of Transportation said there were no reports of damage to any of the state highways in Humboldt, Trinity or Shasta counties. We do these monthly inspections, but it's kind of like a repeat of that but out of concern of the earthquake, though, of course," Bader said. We look at our facilities, our gate structures and everything else. With "embankment dams you're always looking for some erosion out of the ordinary. "It did not affect Shasta Dam to any point that we need to worry about it, but Trinity Dam and Whiskeytown Dam, we're going to go out and do field inspections because the (effects) are just on the threshold of us needing to go and do inspections, so we're going to go out of precaution," Bader said. Those dams are Whiskeytown, Trinity and Buckhorn Dam, a small structure on Grass Valley Creek in Trinity County. Bureau of Reclamation, initially said the effects of the quake were not felt strongly enough in the area north of Redding to trigger an inspection of Shasta Dam.īut due to ongoing aftershocks, the bureau added Shasta Dam to its inspection list, he said.īureau officials also planned to inspect three other dams in the area that are managed by the agency, he said. While Petrolia was near the epicenter of numerous quakes Monday, there was some building shaking that occurred in Redding as a result of the largest quake that hit shortly after noon.ĭon Bader, the area manager for the U.S. Redding rocks, North State dams inspected She was a little shook up from the quake, so she ran over to the postmaster, which shares the same building, and gave her a hug, Graves said. That's my first outside earthquake and I've lived in Humboldt my whole life," Graves said. My coworker was inside the store and she went out and I just rode it out outside. "Well, you know, I was out back taking a break, smoking a joint, and that's when it hit for me. She said she had just stepped outside the store when the earthquake hit. Yeah, so my pantry at home is all messed up," Graves said. "Yes, there are broken wine bottles and other products - one of them very stinky. Some items had fallen from store shelves, though. Other reports around town were similar, with no serious damage, she said. Kaitlin Graves, who works at the Petrolia General Store, said there didn't appear to be any serious damage from the quake.
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