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A string of earthquakes shook just south of the border Sunday and early Monday, with the largest measured at 4.9, according to the U.S. Geological Survey.
Shaking was widely felt in San Diego County and into Imperial County from the earthquake off the coast of Vicente Guerrero, Mexico. Magnitude 6.2 earthquake strikes off Baja California coast; no ...
A magnitude 7.0 earthquake struck California near the town of Petrolia, about 265 miles north of San Francisco, Thursday morning generating a strong shake and a now-discontinued tsunami warning ...
Mexico lies within two seismically active earthquake zones. The Baja California peninsula lies near the boundary of the Pacific plate and the North American plate, while southern Mexico lies just north of the boundary between the North American plate and the Cocos and Rivera tectonic plates. The Cocos plate is subducting under the North ...
The April 4 quake was the second largest earthquake in Baja California history after the 1892 Laguna Salada earthquake at a magnitude of 7.2–7.8 on the Richter magnitude scale, and was well recorded in Southern California, especially in the Imperial valley.
The Imperial fault was the source of the 1940 El Centro earthquake and the 1979 Imperial Valley earthquake. There was more than 30 km (19 mi) of surface rupture associated with the 1979 event along the northwest trending Imperial fault from just north of the Mexico–United States border to an area south of Brawley and the BSZ was found to have ...
Northern California was rocked by a 7.0 magnitude earthquake late Thursday morning.. After the tremor struck at 10:45 a.m., just over 60 miles to the west-southwest of Humboldt County’s Ferndale ...
The earthquake struck around 40 miles west-northwest of Petrolia, California, late Thursday morning, the U.S. Geological Survey said. Petrolia is about 275 northwest of Sacramento.