I have my dad and grandson who live in the Chico Area just a bit north of Oroville. The sad: the spillway is Earth, so a portion of the dam is Earth with no concrete support. the concrete portion is in no danger. they are experiencing very noticeable erosion.
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I happen to live in something of an earthquake zone and it seems that these things do happen quite randomly, such as when you're sitting at home watching TV.
However, some in Italy feel that it's about time seismologists were held responsible for their supposed ability to recognize when a...
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From a high school girl living in Minami-Soma City of Fukushima
The most disastrous earthquake on record hit northern Japan
Harsh natural threats have suddenly stripped off our daily life
However,
It was not the end of disaster
Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant
It became...
Thousands of people are still missing and fires are burning out of control due to gas explosions .
Hole observed in reactor 2 following fresh blast . People within 20 KMS told to stay indoors .
Melt down now seems to be imminent !
Blast at reactor 4
Link Removed Sailors aboard the US 7th Fleet command ship USS Blue Ridge move pallets of humanitarian relief supplies across the ship's flight deck during an underway replenishment in the South China Sea on Saturday, March 12.
Mass Communication Specialist 3rd Class Fidel C. Hart/US...
It somehow doesn't surprise me.
NEW ORLEANS — Oil spewed uncontrolled into the Gulf of Mexico again Wednesday after an undersea robot bumped the cap being used to contain it, forcing BP engineers to remove the device and then scramble to reattach it.
The latest setback left nothing to stem...
US President Barack Obama has said it is "way too early to be optimistic" as he makes his third visit to the oil-hit Gulf of Mexico coast.
Earlier BP expressed confidence that a new cap placed over the ruptured well in the Gulf would capture most of the leaking oil.
But it said it could...