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In the Ridgecrest area these include a M L 5.2 [123] earthquake in October 1961 near Brown (approximately halfway between Ridgecrest and Little Lake) that was felt in Independence and Los Angeles; it was preceded by eight minutes by an M L 3.4 foreshock felt in China Lake (east of Ridgecrest). [124] Additional earthquakes struck near Walker ...
English: ShakeMap from USGS for the magnitude 7.1, maximum intensity 9.37 earthquake with tsunami near 17.4 km (10.8 mi) NNE of Ridgecrest, CA (17 km NNE of Ridgecrest, CA), 8 km depth. Date 6 July 2019, 03:19:53
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Moderately damaging earthquakes strike between New York and Wilmington, Delaware, about twice a century, the USGS said, and smaller earthquakes are felt in the region roughly every two to three years.
Earthquakes only happen due to friction between two blocks of the Earth's crust that suddenly slips, and sends shaking in all directions. However surface soils and hillsides can settle or slump ...
The second, a 7.1 magnitude earthquake on July 5, resulted in the facility being evaluated as "not mission capable". [5] The report shows that officials assessed all buildings, utilities, and facilities — 3,598 structures in all — for 13 days after the earthquakes and found damage totaled $5.2 billion.
A magnitude 4.0 earthquake rattled parts of Southern California Sunday morning. ... when a magnitude 3.9 earthquake caused "light" shaking to be felt close to the epicenter. Light shaking is ...