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What was initially reported to be a 4.0 earthquake Friday morning 16 miles from the city of Avalon on Catalina Island was, in fact, not an earthquake, the U.S. Geological Survey said.
[6] [4] The northern part of the fault zone is complex, as it is the meeting point between two fault zones: the San Pedro Basin Fault Zone and the Santa Catalina Fault Zone. [7] They bound the Santa Catalina island platform with the Santa Catalina Fault Zone running to the west, and the San Pedro Basin Fault Zone to the east. [7]
People on Catalina Island were warned to evacuate ahead of Tropical Storm Hilary. Thousands of visitors boarded Catalina Express boats for the mainland, while most residents stayed put.
The Northridge Earthquake was the subject of the 1995 film Epicenter U., a first-hand account of healing from the natural disaster, directed by Alexis Krasilovsky. [71] [72] The Earthquake Haggadah (1995) was a video excerpt from Epicenter U. narrated by Wanda Coleman. Distributed in 3/4" and VHS by the Poetry Film Workshop circa 1998.
Santa Catalina Island (Spanish: Isla Santa Catalina; often shortened to Catalina Island or Catalina, and also known as Pimu [1] as the traditional name of the Indigenous people of the Tongva Tribe) is a rocky island, part of the Channel Islands, off the coast of Southern California in the Gulf of Santa Catalina. The island covers an area of ...
L.A. coastline and Catalina Island brace for damaging impact of Hurricane Hilary. The giant surf projected along the storm's path could exacerbate beach erosion and sand loss.
A magnitude 4.6 earthquake struck near Malibu on Friday and was felt across a wide swath of Southern California.
After the 1933 Long Beach earthquake, Biscailuz was called upon to send fire fighting personnel and equipment, but needed more information about where to send them and what was needed. There were also rumors that the city had been struck by a tidal wave, and that Catalina Island had sunk 369 feet.