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The earliest known earthquake in the U.S. state of California was documented in 1769 by the Spanish explorers and Catholic missionaries of the Portolá expedition as they traveled northward from San Diego along the Santa Ana River near the present site of Los Angeles. Ship captains and other explorers also documented earthquakes.
Measuring M w 6.7, it was the largest earthquake recorded in the Los Angeles area since the 1971 San Fernando earthquake (M w 6.7). However, unlike the Northridge earthquake, the San Fernando shock occurred on a north–northeast dipping thrust fault beneath the San Gabriel Mountains.
Los Angeles earthquake could refer to: 1933 Long Beach earthquake; 1952 Kern County earthquake; 1971 San Fernando earthquake; 1987 Whittier Narrows earthquake;
This was the largest earthquake to hit the Los Angeles area since a magnitude 4.6 struck near Malibu, California, on Feb. 9, 2024. ... Both earthquakes were felt in the Los Angeles region. Show ...
A magnitude 4.4 earthquake rumbled underneath Los Angeles on Monday, ... More than 277 aftershocks to the Aug. 6 quake, the largest in Southern California in three years, included two with a ...
It's been an unusually active year for earthquakes in Los Angeles, as Thursday morning's magnitude 4.7 Malibu temblor shows. ... The largest earthquake experienced in California this year was the ...
There were also large surface fissures. To the west in the Los Angeles Basin damage was much less severe. The majority of the damage in the Los Angeles area involved items that had fallen off shelves. Unlike the 1994 Northridge earthquake nineteen and a half months later, no freeway bridges collapsed because of the epicenter's remote location ...
LOS ANGELES (AP) — A magnitude 4.2 earthquake was felt widely across the nation's second largest city Friday and shook things off shelves near the epicenter in a small mountain community east of ...