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California hit by FOURTH earthquake in just over 24 hours
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California was rocked by an earthquake early Friday, marking the fourth to hit the state in over 24 hours.
A magnitude 2.8 was detected 180 miles north of Los Angeles, where fires are blazing, at 3:32am PT, which hit three hours after another 2.8 in San Jose.
The latest earthquake registered a 2.8 magnitude and occurred approximately 15 miles southeast of Avenal at 3:32 a.m.
The US Geological Survey also reported a third 2.8 magnitude San Bernardino County on Thursday and a 3.0 magnitude hit Salton City Wednesday.
The four quakes occurred along the San Andreas fault – the volatile boundary between two tectonic plates: the Pacific plate and the North American plate. It runs 800 miles along the coast of California.
Scientists have said that the West Coast is overdue for a massive quake along the San Andreas fault, which would measure magnitude 8 or higher.
While no injuries or damage was reported, the seismic activity followed a deadly stretch of wildfires in Southern California that began on January 7.

California was rocked by an earthquake early Friday, marking the fourth to hit the state in over 24 hours
Killing at least 25 people, the series of 30 wildfires has been reduced substantially to four fires as of Thursday. Two of the largest remain active.
Both the southern and northern sections of the San Andreas fault have a roughly equal likelihood of generating a high-magnitude earthquake in the next few decades.
The ‘Big One’ would measure an 8.0 magnitude or above, causing roughly 1,800 deaths, 50,000 injuries and $200 billion in damage, according to the Great California Shakeout.
Experts are ‘fairly confident that there could be a pretty large earthquake at some point in the next 30 years,’ Angie Lux, project scientist for Earthquake Early Warning at the Berkeley Seismology Lab, told DailyMail.co
Friday’s quake reached an intensity level of IV on the Community Internet Intensity Map, a level that indicates light shaking.
As of Friday morning, nearly 100 people submitted reports to the USGS, nothing that they had felt the earthquake.
Around the same number of people felt the other three earthquakes in the last few days.

While no injuries or damage was reported, the seismic activity followed a deadly stretch of wildfires in Southern California that began on January 7

Devastation was left behind by the Eaton Fire in a neighborhood on Friday in Altadena, CA, a city that felt Thursday’s earthquake
But earthquake that hit Thursday was just 65 miles away from Los Angeles.
Firefighters are still battling the Palisades Fire , which is the most destructive blaze in the city’s history, as well as the Eaton and Hurst fires. The three other blazes are now fully contained.
The National Weather Service added that the respite for fire-ravaged Los Angeles will be short, with high chances for renewed Red Flag warnings – when ideal fire conditions of high winds and low humidity dominate – starting again on Sunday.
The fires have damaged or destroyed more than 12,000 homes and other structures, and forced as many as 200,000 people from their homes.
Some 82,400 people were under evacuation orders and another 90,400 faced evacuation warnings as of Wednesday, County Sheriff Robert Luna said.
Entire neighborhoods have been leveled, leaving smoldering ash and rubble. Many homes only have a chimney stack left standing.
Some 8,500 firefighters from the western United States, Canada and Mexico have kept the growth of the fires in check for three days.
The Palisades Fire on the west edge of the city held steady at 23,713 acres burned, and containment nudged up to 19 per cent – a measurement of how much of the perimeter was under control. The Eaton Fire in the foothills east of the city stood at 14,117 acres with containment at 45 per cen
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Rivers State University Student detained following viral confrontation with DVC as eyewitness shares account.
The student filmed engaging in a confrontation with a lecturer at Rivers State University has been detained and video shows him locked up following the incident.
Now, an eyewitness has narrated what led to the altercation between the lecturer – a former Deputy Vice Chancellor – and the student.
The eyewitness said: “Yesterday while some year 1 students of computer engineering was just sitting free in their class doing nothing, a senior colleague student of theirs entered to share the gospel briefly with them and to encourage them on how to have high flying success as students and believers, which is a normal thing to do as a fellowship
“While this was going on, suddenly a lecturer from the department of physics entered. By name Prof Benjamin Senibo Pepple (former DVC) of the school.
“He started harassing the student in question and assaulting him, slapped him couple of times and dragged his shirt. He then eventually called CSO on the student and the student was arrested by the school security in their cell from morning till night through out the day
“So if a fellowship president can be assaulted like this, what then becomes the fate of the masses, ordinary students in such intense persecutions.
“Please we call on well meaning body to help us intervene and also petition that lecturer.
“They said that is how this lecturer in question has been bullying christian leaders on campus directly with his hand since. And no one is doing anything to him. Please help us.

“And also for the detained student who is in sick conditions now after the detainment.”
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Drama At Airport As Man Attempts To Sneak Between Aircraft Tyres To Escape To The U.S. (Video)
Security personnel at General Tunde Idiagbon International Airport in Ilorin, Kwara State, apprehended a suspected stowaway on Wednesday who tried to leave the country by hiding under a departing aircraft.
The suspect, identified as Segun Martins, was caught at exactly 3.02 p.m. after gaining unauthorized access to the restricted airside area of the airport.
Authorities said Martins was found at the base of an Overland Airways aircraft as it was taxiing for takeoff.
On his verified 𝕏 handle, the Director of Public Affairs and Consumer Protection at the Nigerian Civil Aviation Authority (NCAA), Mr Michael Achimugu, disclosed that the suspect had tried to conceal himself between the aircraft’s tyres in a desperate bid to escape the country.
He confirmed that the man was immediately arrested and handed over to personnel of the Airport Police Command for interrogation and further investigation.
Achimugu said, “At approximately 1502 hours, a male, identified as Segun Martins, gained unauthorized access to the foot of an Overland aircraft that was about to taxi for takeoff and attempted to conceal himself between the aircraft tires.
“Ground security apprehended the individual. He was immediately handed over to the Airport Police for further investigation.
“Mr Segun Martins stated that he believed the aircraft was bound for the United States of America and intended to escape by hiding on the aircraft.”
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Bayelsa Deputy Governor, Senator Lawrence Ewhrudjakpo, d!es hours after collapsing in his office
The deputy governor of Bayelsa state, Governor, Senator Lawrence Ewhrudjakpo, has been confirmed de@d after he collapsed earlier this afternoon, December 11.
He is said to have collapsed while in his office at about 1.30pm and was rushed to the Federal Medical Centre (FMC), Yenagoa where he has now been confirmed de@d.
Born on September 5, 1965, Senator Ewhrudjakpo was 60 years old at the time of his de@th.
Vanguard reports that the deputy governor collapsed in serious condition before being transported to the hospital’s emergency unit where has now been certified de@d.
Sources claim he has overtime maintained a demanding work schedule and have described him as a “workaholic” who rarely found time to rest.
May his soul rest in peace, Amen.
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