Time: 1:49 p.m. Pacific Time
Magnitude: 4.1 (revised)
Depth: 0.9 mi (1.5 km)
Epicenter: 5.6 mi (9 km) SW of Corona, CA (Riverside County, 38 miles SE of Downtown Los Angeles)
Source: Southern California Earthquake Data Center
The "Big One" (envisioning at least a magnitude 7.0) is projected to be at least 794 times bigger and 22,387 times stronger (energy release) than the May 1 Corona earthquake.
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Photo by Cal Montnay, from the L.A. Times Photographic Collection at UCLA Digital Library.
1970. UCLA graduates at commencement protest the Vietnam War with peace signs and "Peace Now" armbands. The tradition of political activism by UCLA students dates back to 1934, when Provost Ernest Moore declared the campus "one of the worst hotbeds of communism in the U.S." Then, students were quick to protest actions taken by administrators against politically outspoken professors. Through World War II and the 1950s, however, UCLA students became relatively quiet. That changed in 1967, when students protested Dow Chemical's recruitment of graduates on campus. Students took acception to the company's manufacture of napalm weapons for the Vietnam War. Anti-war protests escalated from thereon, only dissipating after U.S. involvement in Vietnam came to an end. By the 1980s, UCLA students were again engaged in protest. The new issues became apartheid in South Africa, a lack of a Chicano studies program at the university, Proposition 187, rights for student instructors, ROTC discrimination against LGBTQ students, college fee hikes, and affirmative action rollbacks. More recently, in 2024, students are protesting violent conflict between Israelis and Palestinians in Gaza.
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