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An earthquake that shook Temecula, Calif., on Friday evening was felt widely across San Diego. The magnitude-4.2 quake was reported at 6:16 p.m. about 11 miles from Temecula at a depth of 9 miles ...
By 10 a.m., more than 1,100 people said they had felt little to no shaking in parts of Placer, Sacramento, San Joaquin, Alameda, Contra Costa, Napa, Marin, San Francisco and San Mateo counties ...
A 4.2 magnitude earthquake was felt across California's Sacramento County and parts of the San Francisco Bay Area on Wednesday morning, according to the U.S. Geological Survey.
San Andreas Fault. / 35.117°N 119.650°W / 35.117; -119.650. The San Andreas Fault is a continental right-lateral strike-slip transform fault that extends roughly 1,200 kilometers (750 mi) through the U.S. state of California. [1] It forms part of the tectonic boundary between the Pacific Plate and the North American Plate.
Earthquake Seismogram of the earthquake. The earthquake measured 6.4 on the moment magnitude scale, and had a maximum Mercalli intensity of VIII (Severe). It came exactly a year after a 6.2 magnitude earthquake struck onshore in the Cape Mendocino area on December 20, 2021, causing only minor damage.
Since the three damaging earthquakes that occurred in the American Midwest and the United States East Coast ( 1755 Cape Ann, 1811–12 New Madrid, 1886 Charleston) were well known, it became apparent to settlers that the earthquake hazard was different in California. While the 1812 San Juan Capistrano, 1857 Fort Tejon, and 1872 Owens Valley ...
1906 San Francisco earthquake. / 37.75; -122.55. At 05:12 Pacific Standard Time on Wednesday, April 18, 1906, the coast of Northern California was struck by a major earthquake with an estimated moment magnitude of 7.9 and a maximum Mercalli intensity of XI ( Extreme ).
A 2.6-magnitude earthquake shook the San Francisco Bay Area in California, the U.S. Geological Survey reported. The 6-mile deep quake hit 2 miles from Piedmont at 12:13 a.m. Wednesday, Oct. 4 ...