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The Lost Coast is a mostly natural and undeveloped area of the California North Coast in Humboldt and Mendocino Counties, which includes the King Range. It was named the "Lost Coast" after the area experienced depopulation in the 1930s. [ 1 ]
Petrolia is an unincorporated community in Humboldt County, California, [1] 10 miles (16 km) southeast of Cape Mendocino. [3] The site of the first oil well drilled in California, [ 2 ] it lies at an elevation of 121 feet (37 m) above sea level, [ 1 ] within ZIP Code 95558, [ 4 ] and area code 707 .
Mattole Road is a 61.4-mile-long (98.8 km) county road in Humboldt County, California. [2] It originates at Ferndale, passes through Capetown and crosses the Bear River, then reaches the Pacific coastline at Cape Mendocino and follows the beach for seven miles (11 km), [3] passes through Petrolia and Honeydew, crosses Panther Gap at 2,744 feet (836 m) elevation, [4] and terminates near U.S ...
The epicenter of the "strong" quake was off the coast near Petrolia, in Humboldt County, the USGS said. Also, a tsunami warning that had been issued for coastal areas in California and Oregon ...
Location of Humboldt County in California. This is a list of the National Register of Historic Places listings in Humboldt County, California. This is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Humboldt County, California, United States. Latitude and longitude coordinates are ...
Regional Seismicity 1985–2003. The Cape Mendocino region of California's north coast is one of the most seismically active regions in the contiguous United States.Three earthquakes with epicenters nearby at the town of Petrolia and offshore west of Cape Mendocino, 25–26 April 1992, were outstanding, one reaching 7.2 M w; [8] shaking the town so badly, fires broke out and burned down ...
The 1992 Cape Mendocino earthquakes (or 1992 Petrolia earthquakes) occurred along the Lost Coast of Northern California on April 25 and 26. The three largest events were the M7.2 thrust mainshock that struck near the unincorporated community of Petrolia midday on April 25 and two primary strike-slip aftershocks measuring 6.5 and 6.6 that followed early the next morning.
Nearly 40 of his regulars had lost their homes, he said. Velazquez's uncle, Jose Medina, 64, was at home the night the fire broke out. He remembers hearing a loud boom, which he later realized ...