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Before Saturday, the last earthquake in this area of magnitude 3 or greater was almost exactly a week ago — a magnitude 3.1 earthquake just north of Malibu, which hit on Sept. 21 at 2:15 p.m.
Following destructive earthquakes in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, real estate developers, press, and boosters minimized and downplayed the risk of earthquakes out of fear that the ongoing economic boom would be negatively affected. [3] [4] California earthquakes (1769–2000)
One more thing Southern California is known for: earthquakes. Yet for a long time, and to the great relief of millions, the many active faults that claw and tear through the earth have been ...
Mega Disasters is an American documentary television series that originally aired from May 23, 2006, to July 2008 on History Channel.Produced by Creative Differences, the program explores potential catastrophic threats to individual cities, countries, and the entire globe.
A magnitude 4.2 earthquake was felt widely across the nation's second largest city Friday and shook things off shelves near the epicenter in a small mountain community east of Los Angeles, but ...
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
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) -An earthquake of magnitude 4.7 shook the southern California city of Malibu and other parts of the Los Angeles region, the U.S. Geological Survey said on Thursday, but there ...
Estimates predict a multi-segment rupture of the fault zone is capable of producing an earthquake of magnitude 7.6–7.9. [6] [3] An earthquake this large in such close proximity to densely-populated southern California would be devastating. [7] In 1986, a M s 5.8 earthquake struck off the coast of Oceanside, killing 1 and injuring 29 more.