Search results
Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
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.
Prior to the 2014 South Napa earthquake, it was the most powerful quake to hit the Bay Area since the Loma Prieta earthquake of 1989, and the largest on the Calaveras Fault since 1984. On October 25, 2022, at 11:42 PDT (October 25, at 18:42 UTC), a magnitude 5.1 earthquake occurred on the fault near Lick Observatory. [5]
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 ...
United States, California, 32 km south southwest of Smith Valley: 6.0 7.5 VII The earthquake triggered rockslides in California and Nevada. It is the largest earthquake to strike California since the 2019 Ridgecrest earthquake two years prior. [282] - - 10 [283] Indonesia offshore, Molucca Sea, 215 km northwest of Tobelo: 6.1 43.6 IV - - - 10 [284]
A map by the California Geological Survey shows faults near the Lake Almanor area in Plumas County, where a magnitude 5.5 earthquake struck Thursday, May 11, 2023, followed by a magnitude 5.2 ...
For premium support please call: 800-290-4726 more ways to reach us
1857 Fort Tejon earthquake; 1868 Hayward earthquake; 1872 Owens Valley earthquake; 1892 Laguna Salada earthquake; 1892 Vacaville–Winters earthquakes; 1898 Mare Island earthquake; 1899 San Jacinto earthquake; 1906 San Francisco earthquake; 1915 Imperial Valley earthquakes; 1918 San Jacinto earthquake; 1925 Santa Barbara earthquake; 1927 Lompoc ...
At 9:44 a.m. local time, a 3.6-magnitude earthquake shook San Bernardino, located about 60 miles east of Los Angeles. Four minutes later, there was a magnitude-3 aftershock .