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Loma Prieta (from Spanish loma-hill, prieta-dark) is the highest peak in the Santa Cruz Mountains in Northern California, measuring 3,790 feet (1,160 m) in height. [ 3 ] Although the 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake was named for this mountain, the actual epicenter was five miles southwest of the peak, across the San Andreas Fault , in The Forest of ...
On October 17, 1989, at 5:04 p.m. local time, the Loma Prieta earthquake occurred at the Central Coast of California. The shock was centered in The Forest of Nisene Marks State Park in Santa Cruz County, approximately 10 mi (16 km) northeast of Santa Cruz on a section of the San Andreas Fault System and was named for the nearby Loma Prieta Peak in the Santa Cruz Mountains.
Los Gatos Creek originates at 2,350 feet (720 m) on Loma Prieta Mountain in the Santa Cruz Mountains and flows west to the minor Williams Reservoir above Lake Elsman (also a reservoir formed by Austrian Dam), where it is joined from the north by Austrian Gulch. Its next named tributaries are Hooker Gulch Creek, Moody Gulch and Hendrys Creek ...
The northernmost portion of the Santa Cruz Mountains, north of Half Moon Bay Road (), is known as Montara Mountain; the middle portion is the Sierra Morena, which includes a summit called Sierra Morena, [3] and extends south to a gap at Lexington Reservoir; south of the gap, the mountain range is known as the Sierra Azul.
Mount Whitney is the highest mountain peak in the Sierra Nevada, the State of California, and the contiguous United States. This article comprises three sortable tables of major mountain peaks [a] of the U.S. State of California. The summit of a mountain or hill may be measured in three principal ways:
The defect that can cause single-family houses to collapse has received little attention until now. Some California homeowners will soon be able to apply for grants to help pay for the retrofit.
During the 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake, one person died when a five-story tower collapsed. St. Joseph's College was a seminary of the Archdiocese of San Francisco at Mountain View, California opened in September 1924. [1] It was also referred to as St. Joseph's Seminary. It was run by the Sulpician Fathers. [2]
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