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This is a list of earthquakes in 2005. Only earthquakes of magnitude 6 or above are included, unless they resulted in significant damage or casualties, or were notable for some other reason. All dates are listed according to UTC time. To prevent this list from becoming unmanageable, only earthquakes of magnitude 6 or above are included, unless ...
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.
2003 San Simeon earthquake: June 15, 2005: California 7.2 M wc 0 [28] September 10, 2006: Florida: 5.9 M wc 0: 2006 Gulf of Mexico earthquake: October 15, 2006: Hawaii: 6.7 M d 0: 2006 Kiholo Bay earthquake: October 30, 2007: California: 5.5 M w 0: 2007 Alum Rock earthquake: February 21, 2008: Nevada: 5.9 M w 0: 2008 Wells earthquake: April 18 ...
There's now an entire generation of Californians who have grown up without experiencing the damaging earthquakes we saw in the 1980s and 1990s.
2019 Ridgecrest earthquakes: California, Nevada, Arizona: Three earthquakes struck California between July 4 and July 5. The main earthquake was a 7.1 magnitude, as two others were 5.4 and 6.4 magnitudes. At least one was killed and several others were injured. The main earthquake was the strongest earthquake to hit the region in 20 years. [28 ...
Parkfield earthquake is a name given to various large earthquakes that occurred in the vicinity of the town of Parkfield, California, United States. The San Andreas fault runs through this town, and six successive magnitude 6 earthquakes occurred on the fault at unusually regular intervals, between 12 and 32 years apart (with an average of ...
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 ...
On Monday, southern California was rattled by a 4.4-magnitude earthquake that was felt all the way from Los Angeles to San Diego.Though no major damage occurred, the quake was caused by a fault ...