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A large, 7.0-magnitude earthquake struck off the coast of Humboldt County in Northern California on Thursday morning, prompting a tsunami warning for part of the North Coast. The warning was later ...
The earthquake occurred at 10:44 a.m. with ... in the small communities south of Eureka. Another sequence of earthquakes hit exactly a year earlier, topping out with a magnitude 6.2 earthquake on ...
PETROLIA, Calif. – A magnitude 4.1 earthquake shook some Northern California communities early Tuesday morning. According to the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), a magnitude 4.1 earthquake was ...
Following destructive earthquakes in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, real estate developers, press, and boosters minimized and downplayed the risk of earthquakes out of fear that the ongoing economic boom would be negatively affected. [3] [4] California earthquakes (1769–2000)
The 1954 Eureka earthquake occurred at 11:56 am on December 21, just east of Eureka and Arcata, California in the United States. The unknown type shock had a moment magnitude of 6.5 and a maximum Mercalli intensity of VII (Very strong). Buildings swayed, windows were broken, and the Humboldt County Courthouse collapsed.
The 1932 Eureka earthquake occurred on June 6 at 00:44:26 local time along the northern coastal area of California in the United States. With a moment magnitude of 6.4 and a maximum Mercalli intensity of VIII (Severe), this earthquake left one person dead from a falling chimney and several injured. The shock was the largest in the area since ...
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 ...
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 earthquake; 1932 Eureka earthquake; 1933 Long Beach earthquake; 1940 El Centro earthquake; 1948 Desert Hot Springs earthquake; 1952 Kern County ...