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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 M s scale and 6.6 on the M w scale, and a maximum Mercalli intensity of XI ( Extreme ).
Pages in category "1971 in Los Angeles" The following 10 pages are in this category, out of 10 total. ... 1971 San Fernando earthquake; U. 1971 UCLA Bruins football ...
Dr Lucy Jones in 1994. Lucile M. Jones (born 1955) is an American seismologist and public voice for earthquake science and earthquake safety in California. [1] One of the foremost and trusted public authorities on earthquakes, [2] Jones is viewed by many in Southern California as "the Beyoncé of earthquakes" who is frequently called upon to provide information on recent earthquakes.
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Most of the 33 buildings are in the Los Angeles Basin, which has been spared the strongest shaking of L.A. County’s two most destructive earthquakes since World War II — the magnitude 6.6 ...
Two people walk toward Los Angeles City Hall in downtown L.A. Experts say shaking from an earthquake will be felt more strongly by people on a higher floor than on the ground floor. (Myung J. Chun ...
Los Angeles earthquake could refer to: 1933 Long Beach earthquake; 1952 Kern County earthquake; 1971 San Fernando earthquake; 1987 Whittier Narrows earthquake; 1991 Sierra Madre earthquake; 1992 Landers earthquake; 1994 Northridge earthquake; 2008 Chino Hills earthquake
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.