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A 3.5 magnitude earthquake struck Pacifica, California, on Tuesday morning followed by two smaller quakes, according to the United States Geographraphical Survey (USGS).. At around 6.01am PST, the ...
In 1933, the Long Beach earthquake occurred in a populated area and damaged or destroyed many public school buildings in Long Beach and Los Angeles. Some decades later, the San Fernando earthquake affected the San Fernando Valley north of Los Angeles with heavy damage to several hospitals.
That earthquake changed Northern California forever — causing heavy damage to downtown Santa Cruz, parts of San Francisco, and causing the collapse of sections of Interstate 880 in Oakland and ...
In Northern California, the magnitude 6.9 Loma Prieta earthquake of 1989 was centered in the Santa Cruz Mountains, yet still caused collapses in San Francisco and Oakland, about 60 miles from the ...
The most recent analyses support an offshore location for the epicenter, ... Although the impact of the earthquake on San Francisco was the most famous, the ...
The 2014 South Napa earthquake occurred in the North San Francisco Bay Area on August 24 at 03:20:44 Pacific Daylight Time.At 6.0 on the moment magnitude scale and with a maximum Mercalli intensity of VIII (Severe), the event was the largest in the San Francisco Bay Area since the 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake.
The earthquake's epicentre hit closest to the town of Ferndale, California, a small city in Humboldt County about 260 miles (418km) north of San Francisco.
Phones were alerted of the coming earthquake as far south as the San Francisco Bay Area. [23] As of 4:25 am. PST, PG&E revised the total of customers without power to 71,170. [24] Caltrans District 1 closed the Fernbridge over the Eel River on California State Route 211 due to four cracks which could cause the road itself to slide off. [25]