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The event was then the largest in the San Francisco Bay Area since the 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake, which measured 6.9 on the moment magnitude scale, but was later surpassed by the 2014 South Napa earthquake. Ground shaking from the Alum Rock quake reached San Francisco and Oakland and other points further north.
While the 1812 San Juan Capistrano, 1857 Fort Tejon, and 1872 Owens Valley shocks were in mostly unpopulated areas and only moderately destructive, the 1868 Hayward event affected the thriving financial hub of the San Francisco Bay Area, with damage from Santa Rosa in the north to Santa Cruz in the south.
The 2007 Peru earthquake was the deadliest with 595 fatalities. The September 2007 Sumatra earthquake was the largest in 2007 with an 8.4 on the moment magnitude scale. The 2007 Solomon Islands earthquake caused a significant tsunami that killed 52 people. There were four 8.0+ earthquakes in 2007 which is the most ever recorded for a single year.
Those findings were based on how, in 1964, a 9.2-magnitude earthquake in Alaska sent a tsunami toward California and did heavy damage along the coast near San Francisco.
SAN FRANCISCO ‒ A magnitude 7.0 earthquake struck near the town of Petrolia on Thursday at 10:44 a.m. local time, generating a now discontinued tsunami warning that stretched from southern ...
The tremor occurred just after 7 a.m. local time, according to the U.S. Geological Survey. It was felt throughout the Bay Area, as far south as San Jose, according to the USGS shake map.
The hydrant is celebrated for being one of the few functioning hydrants after the 1906 San Francisco earthquake. [1] [3] The earthquake broke many of the cisterns and water mains, and most of the damages from the earthquake came from the subsequent fires in the eastern part of the city that lasted for three days. [4]
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