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September 7, 2024 at 2:30 PM. The earthquakes, with epicenters in Ontario, occurred within about a half hour of each other. (U.S. Geological Survey) A pair of modest earthquakes rattled Southern ...
Since the three damaging earthquakes that occurred in the American Midwest and the United States East Coast (1755 Cape Ann, 1811–12 New Madrid, 1886 Charleston) were well known, it became apparent to settlers that the earthquake hazard was different in California. While the 1812 San Juan Capistrano, 1857 Fort Tejon, and 1872 Owens Valley ...
No one alive today has experienced the kind of seismic power early Californians faced more than a century ago. In 1906, an earthquake with an estimated magnitude of 7.9 ruptured 300 miles of the ...
A 4.7 magnitude earthquake struck in Southern California early Thursday, according to the United States Geological Survey.. The strong quake was recorded about 4.35 miles north of Malibu and about ...
An average of 25 earthquakes with magnitudes between 4.0 and 5.0 occur per year in California and Nevada, according to a recent three-year data sample. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 5.6 miles.
The Newport–Inglewood-Rose Canyon Fault Zone. The Newport–Inglewood Fault is a right-lateral strike-slip fault [1] in Southern California.The fault extends for 47 mi (76 km) [1] (110 miles if the Rose Canyon segment is included) from Culver City southeast through Inglewood and other coastal communities to Newport Beach at which point the fault extends east-southeast into the Pacific Ocean.
200–2,000 injured [4] The 1971 San Fernando earthquake (also known as the 1971 Sylmar earthquake) occurred in the early morning of February 9 in the foothills of the San Gabriel Mountains in southern California. The unanticipated thrust earthquake had a magnitude of 6.5 on the Ms scale and 6.6 on the Mw scale, and a maximum Mercalli intensity ...
Both earthquakes were felt in the Los Angeles region. A 4.4-magnitude earthquake shook Southern California Monday afternoon. It happened at around 12:20 p.m. PDT, about two miles from the city of ...