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Ship captains and other explorers also documented earthquakes. As Spanish missions were constructed beginning in the late 18th century, earthquake records were kept. After the missions were secularized in 1834, records were sparse until the California gold rush in the 1840s. From 1850 to 2004, there was about one potentially damaging event per ...
1979 Imperial Valley earthquake – magnitude 6.4 earthquake with an epicenter less than 1 km inside Mexico – significant damage and injuries on both sides of the border (60 in the US) 2010 Baja California earthquake (Mexico near S California) – magnitude 7.2 earthquake, 4 fatalities and 100 injuries, none in the United States
Print/export Download as PDF ... Largest earthquake by magnitude each year since 1907. Year ... 2010 Baja California earthquake: 47 2019-07-04 17:33:50: 616217956: 158:
The 1872 Owens Valley earthquake – also known as the Lone Pine earthquake – struck on March 26 at 02:30 local time in the Owens Valley (California, along the east side of the Sierra Nevada), with the epicenter near the town of Lone Pine. Its magnitude has been estimated at M w 7.4 to 7.9, with a maximum Mercalli Intensity of X (Extreme).
The activity really ramped up after that magnitude 4 last night.” Here are the locations and sizes of the earthquakes, according to previous Bee reporting: 5:15 p.m. (4.0)- 14 km south-southwest ...
A large, 7.0-magnitude earthquake struck off the coast of Humboldt County on Thursday morning. ... The earthquake was among the largest recorded in California in recent years.
The 1857 Fort Tejon earthquake occurred at about 8:20 a.m. (Pacific time) on January 9 in central and Southern California.One of the largest recorded earthquakes in the United States, [6] with an estimated moment magnitude of 7.9, it ruptured the southern part of the San Andreas Fault for a length of about 225 miles (350 km), between Parkfield and Wrightwood.
The last California seismic event that reached magnitude 7.8 was the great San Francisco earthquake of 1906. In Southern California, a magnitude 7.8 quake struck in 1857.