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The 2003 San Simeon earthquake struck at 11:15 PST (19:15 UTC) on December 22 on the Central Coast of California, about 7 miles (11 km) northeast of San Simeon. Probably centered in the Oceanic fault zone within the Santa Lucia Mountains , it was caused by thrust faulting and the rupture propagated southeast from the hypocenter for 12 miles (19 ...
-The India-Bangladesh border region was struck by a magnitude 5.7 quake that occurred on July 26 at a depth of 10.0 km (6.2 mi). [94] Two people were killed. Fiji was struck by a magnitude 6.6 quake that occurred on July 27 at a depth of 212.9 km (132.3 mi).
Scientists have yet to pinpoint the fault that ruptured in New Jersey on April 5 and rattled much of the Northeast. Now, U.S. Geological Survey researchers are in the process of installing new ...
For example, a fault outside of Kalamazoo was revealed after a 4.2-magnitude earthquake in 2015 — the state's largest since a 4.6-magnitude quake along the same fault in Coldwater in 1947.
The earthquake occurred on May 1, 2003, with a depth of 15 km (9.3 mi). [7] It was a strike-slip event, lasting about 17 seconds with a magnitude of 6.4. It occurred at 3:27 am local time. [8] The strike-slip fault responsible was not the East Anatolian Fault; it ruptured a right-lateral strike-slip fault perpendicular to the East Anatolian ...
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The Puente Hills thrust fault system is the same overall fault network that produced the 1987 Whittier Narrows magnitude 5.9 earthquake, which killed eight people and caused some $358 million in ...
The 2003 Altai earthquake, or 2003 Chuya earthquake, occurred on September 27 at 18:33:26 local time with a moment magnitude of 7.3 and a maximum Mercalli intensity of X (Extreme). The epicenter of this oblique-slip shock was in Altai Republic , Russia near the borders of Mongolia , China , and Kazakhstan .