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The Statewide California Earthquake Center (SCEC) is a collaboration of more than 1,000 scientists across 100 research institutions focused primarily on conducting research on earthquakes in Southern California and elsewhere by gathering data, conducting theoretical studies, and performing computer simulations; integrate information into a comprehensive, physics-based understanding of ...
Simplified fault map of southern California The faults of Southern California viewed to the southeast, as modeled by the Southern California Earthquake Center. Highlighted in purple are the San Andreas Fault (left) and Santa Monica Bay complex (right). The foreground is in the Santa Barbara Channel, the east-trending zone marks the Transverse Range
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.
The USGS and the Southern California Earthquake Center in 2005 said that a magnitude 7.5 quake on that fault system, which runs underneath downtown and broad swaths of Southeast L.A. County, the ...
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 ...
The L.A. County Fire Department received no calls regarding the earthquake. The Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department locked down all of its jail facilities after the quake to do a damage ...
Considered the most active fault in Southern California, 36 notable earthquakes have been associated with it since 1857. Between 1915 and 1954, five earthquakes of magnitude 6.0 or greater were damaging. Seismic activity on the SJFZ is greater than on the SAF. [2]
Southern California was struck by a ... Wolf fault in Kern County, where an earthquake registering 7.5 on the Richter scale killed 12 people in 1952. ... in the City of Los Angeles.” LA County ...