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This is an alphabetically sorted list of cities and towns severely damaged by the 2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami. Cities and towns listed here reported at least US$ 100,000 in damage or at least one death.
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.
In 1933, the Long Beach earthquake occurred in a populated area and damaged or destroyed many public school buildings in Long Beach and Los Angeles. Some decades later, the San Fernando earthquake affected the San Fernando Valley north of Los Angeles with heavy damage to several hospitals.
The Concord Fault is a geologic fault in the San Francisco Bay Area.The reason it is called that is because it is located under the city of Concord. [1] It is connected to, and considered to be part of, the same fault zone as the Green Valley fault, which lies just a few miles to the north across the Suisun Bay. [2]
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 ...
Large earthquakes also occurred near the junction in northern California in previous Decembers, according to the geological survey. There were two, a 6.1 and 6.0, near Petrolia in 2021 and a 6.4 ...
The 1906 San Francisco earthquake reportedly triggered numerous landslides, including one at Devil's Slide, where the Ocean Shore Railroad had parked more than $1 million in construction equipment. All of that equipment was lost because of landslide movement. [6] Devil's Slide, an ongoing landslide in San Mateo County; Ferguson landslide
That earthquake changed Northern California forever — causing heavy damage to downtown Santa Cruz, parts of San Francisco, and causing the collapse of sections of Interstate 880 in Oakland and ...