San Francisco Earthquake: Second Quake Hits Almost Exactly 22 years After Quake of '89

San Francisco earthquake: A reader board announces that trains will be halted for one minute at the Montgomery Street BART station as part of a statewide earthquake preparedness drill in San Francisco, Thursday, the same day two earthquakes actually hit the city.

Two earthquakes in the United States have taken place on the same day Thursday. The first one took place in Texas, the epicenter of the quake being near rural Karnes County, 47 miles southwest of San Antonio. The quake was a 4.8 magnitude, which was eye-opening because it was a record breaker.

The second one took place in California, the epicenter being two miles southeast of Berkeley near San Francisco. The quake was a 3.9 magnitude, causing a sharp jolt but no immediate signs of damages or injuries.

The quake struck at 2:31 p.m. local time and was at a depth of about 6.1 miles, according to the U.S. Geological Survey.
The quake was felt as a sharp jolt in the East Bay area, and across the bay in San Francisco. It came almost 22 years to the day after the Loma Prieta earthquake struck the Bay Area during the 1989 World Series.
The quake also came on the same day Californians took part in an annual earthquake preparedness drill at 10:20 a.m. Thursday. More than 8.5 million people signed up to participate in the 2011 Great California ShakeOut.

Urban Combat in Sirte, Libya: Gaddafi called to protest by "Millions"

The forces of the new Libyan authorities Thursday bombed heavily committed in Sirte and dangerous street fighting against supporters of Muammar Gaddafi. The former leader still at large, for its part called on Libyans to show "millions" against the new government, the National Transitional Council (CNT), in an audio message released Thursday by the chain Arrai based in Syria.

Rebels Sighted on Sirte

"I tell them not afraid of anyone, you are the people you belong to this land. Make your voice heard against the employees of NATO, "said the" Guide "fallen in this post where it was barely audible. "Some speak of the CNT as the legitimate representative of the Libyan people, but where does the legitimacy of the election by the people of Libya?", He pretended to consider.

Intense Fighting in the Northeast of the City

On the run since the fall of August 23 his headquarters in Tripoli, he has still not been located. His last audio message was dated September 20: he was then called "masquerade" current events in Libya, calling on the Libyans to "not believe" that regime change had occurred there. On the ground, his supporters were shown a stubborn resistance in Sirte, symbolic city located 360 km from Tripoli, forcing the pro-CNT to engage in street battles brought together, under the threat of snipers.

Intense fighting raged in the northeast of the city, where loyalist forces have attempted in the night to loosen the stranglehold imposed for more than three weeks by the pro-CNT. By late afternoon, the CNT forces tried to take a strategic avenue in the east of the city, reported an AFP journalist. This axis runs from the university "Mauritanians district" in the city center, a stronghold of forces loyal to Muammar Gaddafi.

"We will try tonight to get hold of this avenue to prevent enemy movement. The area is too dangerous here in the middle of homes, we must take this route, "said an officer told AFP the CNT, Nagib Mismar. The fighters of the new authorities have made progress in the day than a kilometer to the city center, entering on foot in the intertwining of homes.

Bombing

The Conference Centre in Ouagadougou, where there were highs and now pan-African stronghold of supporters of the old regime, was also still the target of heavy bombing, as well as the University and the "neighborhood of Mauritanians" where mercenaries would fight many naturalized Libyans but from that country, according to an AFP journalist.

A 130 km southwest of Tripoli, violent clashes between pro-and anti-Gaddafi to unfolded Ragdaline the hands of the faithful of the former regime, according to a military official of the CNT, Smail Atouchi. The fighters pro-CNT "face some 900 soldiers of the former regime," he said.

Moreover, a thousand men and a hundred military vehicles of the strengths of CNT Gargarech left Thursday morning, 10 km from Tripoli to Bani Walid (170 km southeast of the capital), where pro fighters Gaddafi-resistant for weeks, said a military commander. "We will first negotiate a peaceful surrender of pro-Gaddafi and try to remove the 10% of civilians who are still in the city before launching an attack," said Ali Moussa told AFP Younis, commander of Jado brigade, who runs the operation.

According to him, "Seif al-Islam (one of Gaddafi son) is located in Bani Walid and perhaps Muammar Gaddafi but there are doubts about 50% of presence (the deposed president). There are many close to Gaddafi in Bani Walid, but to Sirte, "birthplace of the" Guide, "he said. Despite nearly a month of fighting, the pro-CNT forces fail to make progress in this vast oasis in the rugged, due to the fierce resistance of pro-Gaddafi, but also a lack of coordination and resources.

In Brussels, U.S. Secretary of Defense, Leon Panetta, said the conflict "is nearing its conclusion, after the fall of the regime" of Muammar Gaddafi. "But there are still serious fights and threats against civilians." Before deciding to discontinue its operations, NATO, who took the reins of the international coalition on March 31, will consider four factors, he said: "The developments in Sirte, means that retain the strengths of the former regime to attack civilians, maintaining the ability to control these forces Gaddafi and the ability of the new authorities to ensure Security. "

Steve Jobs Passed Away at 56 - A Revolutionary Genius Stuck in a Garage

Johannes Gutenberg invented the printing press and put the man to read and write books and Steve Jobs created the Mac, Ipod, Iphone and the Iphone and revolutionized the way that man writes and designs on the computer and listening to music, talk by phone and surf the Net This is the impact that transcends borders and Jobs has changed forever stamped "Made in the USA".

Today when any American visiting Beijing inhabitants do not ask him about the cowboys or the Coca Cola but the Chinese want an iPhone in his hand. Jobs is the best you can give the world the United States. A genius, an innovator, a visionary and a man who never gave up his subordinates not to squeeze and make the best of their minds. The inventor of Cupertino, Calif.,tonight has succumbed to pancreatic cancer to be done with your life and your body but can do nothing to erase his legacy as one of the greatest geniuses of the twentieth century and the years of century.

He did not need a college education nor much money to create inside a garage along with Stephen Wozniak in 1976, a computer company called Apple. In 1984 introduced its Macintosh, a computer often, fast and modern love forever its users with its programs to write texts and graphics and drawings.

Apple was on the verge of disappearing when he was not in its management team and building for over a decade. In the ensuing dedicated to innovation and after buying a small business of computer graphics director George Lucas's full of software engineers and artists and created Pixar Studios.Where did in 1995, Toy Story, again revived the cartoons as six decades before Walt Disney had done with Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs.

Savior

Since 1996, when he returned to Apple to save it, changed forever the way we all listen to music or use the phone or walked on the Web.

In 2001 he presented his iPod, a CD player capable of storing all your favorite songs in the palm of the hand. And in 2007 changed the mobile phone with the Iphone. "Today Apple is reinventing the phone: the iPod, phone and Internet communicator. The Ipod, phone and the network he is caught ... These are not three different devices is a single device," he said when he showed, amid applause, the world.

Then in 2010 came with the Iphone, an experience like no other for browsing the Internet and traveling the virtual world with your fingers.

Jobs has died of cancer with which he has fought for several years and that ruined his body but did not dare get into his mind. Wake up, great and full of dreams until the end of his days. He was 56.