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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.
The 1994 Northridge earthquake affected the Los Angeles area of California on January 17, 1994, at 04:30:55 PST. The epicenter of the moment magnitude 6.7 ( M w ) blind thrust earthquake was beneath the San Fernando Valley . [ 3 ]
A California Highway Patrol officer checks the damage to cars after the upper deck of the Bay Bridge collapsed in the Loma Prieta earthquake on Oct. 17, 1989. ...
The January 17, 1994, Northridge earthquake caused the southbound SR 14 to northbound I-5 connector to collapse and a bridge crossing San Fernando Road farther north along I-5 to partially fail. It also caused the southbound SR 14 to southbound I-5 overpass to collapse directly onto the main I-5 freeway and the southbound I-5 truck bypass ...
Highway overpasses, office buildings and parking garages collapsed in the violent shaking that lasted a painful 10 to 20 seconds along a fault scientists didn’t even know existed.
During the predawn magnitude 6.7 Northridge earthquake of 1994, 16 people died when the ground floor of the Northridge Meadows apartment building collapsed, crushing sleeping residents in their ...
The 1980 Eureka earthquake (also known as the Gorda Basin earthquake) occurred on November 8 at 02:27:34 local time along the northern coastal area of California in the United States. With a moment magnitude of 7.3 and a maximum Mercalli intensity of VII ( Very strong ), this strike-slip earthquake was the largest to occur in California in 28 ...
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 ...