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The epicenter region of the earthquake was located in the San Fernando Valley, about 30 km (19 mi) northwest of downtown Los Angeles. The United States Geological Survey (USGS) placed the hypocenter 's geographical coordinates at 34°12′47″N 118°32′13″W / 34.213°N 118.537°W / 34.213; -118.537 and at a depth of 11.31 miles ...
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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.
Last Tuesday, a magnitude 5.2 earthquake and a swarm of aftershocks in farmland almost 90 miles northwest of downtown Los Angeles didn't do much damage but did send the fire department's 106 ...
A 4.7 magnitude earthquake centered in Malibu, California, rocked the Los Angeles area Thursday morning, according to the U.S. Geological Survey. A 2.8 magnitude aftershock was registered in ...
An earthquake with a magnitude of 4.4 has struck near Los Angeles, California, according to the US Geological Service. The earthquake occurred at 12.20pm just 2 miles southeast of Highland Park, a ...
At Los Angeles High School (20 mi (32 km) from Pacoima Dam) where the exterior walls of the main pre-Field Act building (constructed 1917) were unreinforced brick masonry, long portions of the parapet and the associated brick veneer broke off and some fragments fell through the roof to a lower floor, while other material landed on an exit ...
Lessons from Ridgecrest. The difference in shaking was readily apparent during the 2019 magnitude 7.1 Ridgecrest earthquake, which had an epicenter 125 miles northeast of downtown L.A.. During ...