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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 ...
California's worst tsunami disaster in modern times occurred in 1964, when a magnitude 9.2 earthquake in Alaska spawned a tsunami that inundated Crescent City, near the Oregon border.
The 7.0-magnitude quake is one of at least 17 events that rattled Northern California on Thursday, with most of the seismic activity concentrated around Humboldt County.
Probabilistic seismic hazard map. 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 ...
A 7.0 magnitude earthquake was reported off the coast of Northern California on Thursday, according to the United States Geological Survey. The epicenter of the "strong" quake was off the coast ...
At 9:44 a.m. local time, a 3.6-magnitude earthquake shook San Bernardino, located about 60 miles east of Los Angeles. Four minutes later, there was a magnitude-3 aftershock .
PETROLIA, Calif. – A magnitude 4.1 earthquake shook some Northern California communities early Tuesday morning. According to the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), a magnitude 4.1 earthquake was ...
Shake map provided by the US Geological Survey of the earthquake. / Credit: USGS The earthquake was first registered as having a preliminary magnitude of 6.6, but USGS updated it to 7.0.