There are generally two types of hay bales. With quite different weights. The most common ones that people buy at feed stores or the farmer, and can be moved by one person, are the type you may have bucked into the barn for your uncle who had a farm when you were a teenager. They are around 3-4 feet long by 24x18 inches square.
How Earthquakes Happen. An aerial view of the San Andreas fault in the Carrizo Plain, Central California. An earthquake is the vibration, sometimes violent, of the Earth's surface that follows a release of energy in the Earth's crust. This energy can be generated by a sudden dislocation of segments of the crust, by a volcanic eruption, or event by manmade explosions.
Earthquake Loma Prieta California 1989 The Loma Prieta earthquake was a major earthquake that struck the San Francisco Bay Area of California on October 17, 1989, at 5:04 p.m. local time.aused by a slip along the San Andreas Fault, the quake lasted 10â15 seconds and measured 6.9 on the moment magnitude scale, or 6.9 on the open-ended Richter Scale. The quake killed 63 people throughout northern California, injured 3,757 and left some 3,000-12,000 people homeless.