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Dangerous Combination of Intense Wildfires and Extreme Rainfall Likely to Happen More Often, New Study Says

The dangerous combination of extreme wildfires followed by torrential rainfall that can lead to deadly flooding and landslides will likely become more common in western states as the world becomes warmer, according to a new study. The study, just released in the journal Science Advances, found that the double threat of extreme fires and rainfall could increase by 700% in the Pacific Northwest by the end of the century and […]

todayApril 27, 2022

Tech Made Simple

There’s an Earthquake. Did Your ShakeAlert App Warn You?

After the recent earthquake near Los Angeles, some residents were left wondering why their ShakeAlert LA app hadn’t notified them. After all, a magnitude 6.4 earthquake rocked Ridgecrest, California, about 150 miles away, and that quake was the first test of ShakeAlert since the app was released in 2018.  The system was working exactly as it was designed to, as the Los Angeles Times reported in the aftermath of the […]

todayJuly 9, 2019

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