6.0 Magnitude Earthquake Strikes California

Early Sunday morning a 6.0 magnitude earthquake struck California's Bay Area, dozens of after shocks followed with one of them reaching a magnitude of 3.6. The earthquake injured 87 people and three others are in critical condition. This earthquake was probably stronger than the earthquake that hit in 1989 which was during a World Series. The earthquake's epicenter is located 4 miles northwest of American Canyon, 6 miles southwest of Napa, and 9 miles southeast of Sonoma. There was many structural fires and a water main ruptured in the city of Napa. Some of its historical buildings received extensive damage. 15,000 customers around the epicenter of the earthquake lost power.

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The damage the earthquake did to a building

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If you had the time and the money would you go to California and try to help? If so, why?

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  • Good topic and nice summary but gain, be sure to reply more frequently. You did twice for this topic.

  • If the damage is so severe then I would possibly go. It would depend on if the damage is so severe that California would need people to help them. If they can clean up and rebuild the community and regain all that money that they lost repairing it, then why go to California? But I could still possibly go to give them some help to make it faster and give them some money if I had the money to put them back on their feet again in my own opionion. 

  • I would definitely go to California. I would go because I have family out there and live in one of the cities that were hit. I would want to make sure that they weren't hurt and if they had food and running water;.

  • If there was very severe damage, maybe I would. But, this earthquake, in my opinion, didn't do enough serious damage to have to have the need of people from far away states to come and clean up their area. 

    • That is also what I had in mind. I thought to myself, maybe the damage inst so terrible so maybe their own community should be able to clean the mess

  • Yes, if I had the time and money I would devastating things happen all around the world and this earthquake happens to be one of those events. I think it would be great to go and clean and rebuild.

  • I would end up helping them with the earthquake, the more people the faster it will get cleaned up. I want people to think of Americans as kind and helpful people.

  • Even if I had the time and money, I don't think I would go because the earthquake impacted California, not me. If there's extensive damage to that area, I think it should be that place's inhabitants to pick up the pieces because it would make them appreciate each other, their homes, and where they live that much more. Having people from other areas of our nation just does some of the work for them, then we'll all go home and feel great about ourselves because while we may have helped with damage control, having the people who were directly affected by this earthquake put their lives back together makes them grow stronger. Additionally, and maybe this sounds heartless, but very few Americans that are not in relief organizations (even with the time and money) go to help other countries clean up after a natural disaster, so I don't think we should be expected to do so for our country just because we're bonded together.

    • Even though it does sound a bit heartless this is a very good comment because like she said that community will grow even stronger. There will probably be other people that disagree with you but I find this to be a great opinion.

  • I would try to. When these natural disasters happen people are the ones who rebuild and clean everything back up. They need as many volunteers as they can. 

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