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The magnitude 4.2 quake was reported at 6:16 p.m. 11 miles from Temecula, according to the U.S. Geological Survey.
A 4.4 magnitude earthquake was strongly felt Monday afternoon from the Los Angeles area all the way to San Diego, swaying buildings, rattling dishes and setting off car alarms, but no major damage ...
A 7.0-magnitude earthquake struck off the shore of Northern California Thursday morning. Tsunami warnings have been lifted across northern California and southern Oregon.. Aftershocks are ongoing ...
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 ...
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.
Until Sunday, the strongest earthquake in the past month to hit San Bernardino County's fourth most populous city occurred on Sept. 7, when a magnitude 3.9 earthquake caused "light" shaking to be ...
This region is dominated by major strike-slip faults one of them being the San Jacinto Fault which produced the 1968 earthquake. The mainshock's epicenter was near the unincorporated community of Ocotillo Wells in San Diego County. The moment magnitude (M w ) 6.6 strike-slip earthquake struck with a focal depth of 11.1 km (6.9
The magnitude 6.2 earthquake that occurred in Joshua Tree, California, on April 22, 1992, was a previously unmapped north-facing earthquake located about 20 km south of the Mount Pinto fault and about 10 km northeast of the mission and a maximum fault slip of 0.8 m (2 ft 7 in) was estimated.