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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 ...
In response to the 1933 Long Beach earthquake (California), the city of Los Angeles adopted the first earthquake design provisions enforced in the U.S., enacted by City Council under Ordinance No. 72,968 published on September 6, 1933.
Los Angeles earthquake could refer to: 1933 Long Beach earthquake; 1952 Kern County earthquake; 1971 San Fernando earthquake; 1987 Whittier Narrows earthquake;
The event was one in a series that affected Los Angeles County during the late 20th century. Damage was locally severe in the northern San Fernando Valley and surface faulting was extensive to the south of the epicenter in the mountains, as well as urban settings along city streets and neighborhoods. Uplift and other effects affected private ...
A magnitude 4.4 earthquake rumbled underneath Los Angeles on ... the Highland Park neighborhood in the city's northeast and three miles from Pasadena, California, site of the New Year's Day Rose ...
The Los Angeles Fire Department, as well as Ventura County officials, reported no damage. The L.A. County Fire Department received no calls regarding the earthquake.
Historical earthquakes is a list of significant earthquakes known to have occurred prior to the early 20th century. As the events listed here occurred before routine instrumental recordings — later followed by seismotomography imaging technique, [1] observations using space satellites from outer space, [2] artificial intelligence (AI)-based earthquake warning systems [3] — they rely mainly ...
LA County Sheriff’s Deputy Jose Gomez said he did not feel any tremors on his drive into work in the neighboring city of Santa Clarita, according to the Los Angeles Times. Earthquakes with ...