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More than 13,000 people from as far away as Bakersfield and San Diego reported feeling the tremor to the agency.
Houses were shaken across Los Angeles after being hit with a 4.7 magnitude earthquake.. The quake occurred just before 2pm on Friday, in the wake of intense storms that have battered the city and ...
Southern California was struck by a “very strong” 5.2-magnitude earthquake on Tuesday evening, according to the US Geological Survey (USGS).. The epicenter of the quake was about 15 miles ...
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 2019 Ridgecrest earthquakes (more commonly referred to in scientific literature as the 2019 Ridgecrest earthquake sequence) of July 4 and 5 occurred north and northeast of the town of Ridgecrest, California, located in Kern County and west of Searles Valley (approximately 200 km [122 mi] north-northeast of Los Angeles).
The magnitudes of such earthquakes are considered to have been 7.2 – 7.5 M w. The highest magnitude in that range would be about fifteen times stronger than the 1994 Northridge earthquake in terms of energy release. That event was the strongest in recorded history for the Los Angeles metropolitan area. [3]
A magnitude 4.6 earthquake struck near Malibu on Friday and was felt across a wide swath of Southern California.
This is a list of earthquakes in 2020. ... Some damage was observed in Los Angeles, ... Argentina, Salta, 71 km west of San Antonio de los Cobres: 6.3 189.0 IV ...