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This is a list of earthquakes in 1957. Only magnitude 6.0 or greater earthquakes appear on the list. Lower magnitude events are included if they have caused death, injury or damage. Events which occurred in remote areas will be excluded from the list as they wouldn't have generated significant media interest. All dates are listed according to ...
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 documented earthquakes.
The 1957 Guerrero earthquake occurred on 28 July at 08:40 UTC. [3] It had a magnitude of 7.6 M w and a maximum perceived intensity of VII (very strong) on the Modified Mercalli intensity scale. Mexico City and Chilpancingo were particularly badly affected. It caused the deaths of between 54 and 160 people. [4]
Shaken residents cleaned up on Sunday from two of the biggest earthquakes to rattle California in decades as scientists warn that both should serve as a wake-up call to be ready when the long ...
Aftershock Closely Follows Earthquake East Of Los Angeles Two other notable tremors happened Monday morning. At 9:44 a.m. local time, a 3.6-magnitude earthquake shook San Bernardino, located about ...
1906 San Francisco earthquake; 1915 Imperial Valley earthquakes; 1918 San Jacinto earthquake; 1925 Santa Barbara earthquake; 1927 Lompoc earthquake; 1932 Eureka earthquake; 1933 Long Beach earthquake; 1940 El Centro earthquake; 1948 Desert Hot Springs earthquake; 1952 Kern County earthquake; 1954 Eureka earthquake; 1957 San Francisco earthquake
SAN BERNARDINO, Calif. – A pair of earthquakes struck just minutes apart near San Bernardino, California, on Monday morning. The first earthquake, a magnitude 3.6, hit just before 9:45 a.m ...
Earthquake Greater Los Angeles area, California $23,000,000,000 57 1999 1999 Oklahoma tornado outbreak: Tornado outbreak Oklahoma, Kansas, Texas, Tennessee: $1,500,000,000 (2005) 66 tornadoes, including the 1999 Bridge Creek–Moore tornado, which killed 36 people; also including seven non-tornadic deaths 57 2007