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Scientists: 99% Chance a 5.0 or Larger Quake will Hit Los Angeles Within 3 Years

NASA is warning Los Angeles-area residents to get ready: the agency says an earthquake of at least a magnitude 5.0 is a 99% certainty within the next 30 months.
Andrea Donnellan, a seismologist with NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, and colleagues arrived at the estimate based on data from a study conducted of the Puente Hills and Whittier faults, both of which were responsible for the 5.1 La Habra quake in March 2014. [1]

Hawaii Declares a Homeless State of Emergency

There are so many homeless people in Hawaii that Governor David Ige declared a state of emergency last Friday to address the problem. Hawaii has the highest per capita homeless rate in the country and the number of people without homes has jumped 23% in the last year.
The declaration will allow the state to build a homeless shelter capable of accommodating 15 families at a time at a faster rate. Four potential sites are currently being considered.

We Dodged an Asteroid, but What Unseen Dangers Lurk in the Skies?

If you were among those who predicted that a massive asteroid would slam into Earth last weekend, pour yourself a cup of coffee and relax. You’re still here, but it was a near miss.
The 2-mile-wide chunk of rock about a quarter of the size of Mount Everest zipped past the U.K. as Britons snuggled in their beds, passing about a million miles closer than NASA had predicted. The asteroid was more than 15 times larger than any of the other space objects being tracked by the space agency. [1]