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The 1812 San Juan Capistrano earthquake, also known simply as the Capistrano earthquake or the Wrightwood earthquake, [6] occurred on December 8 at 15:00 UTC (07:00 local time) in Alta California. At the time, this was a colonial territory of the Spanish Empire .
The 1812 Ventura earthquake (also known as the Santa Barbara earthquake) occurred on the morning of December 21 at 11:00 Pacific Standard Time (PST). The M w 7.2 earthquake was assigned a with a maximum Modified Mercalli intensity of X ( Extreme ). [ 2 ]
1812 earthquake may refer to: 1812 Caracas earthquake (Venezuela) 1811–1812 New Madrid earthquakes (Mississippi River, US) (river tsunamis) 1812 San Juan Capistrano earthquake (California, US), also known as the Wrightwood earthquake; 1812 Ventura earthquake (California, US), also known as the Mission San Buenaventura or Santa Barbara earthquake
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The researchers found that approximately 30% of all earthquakes from 1980 to 2016 near the Missouri-Kentucky border, all magnitude 2.5 or greater, were likely aftershocks from the three major ...
The 1811–1812 New Madrid earthquakes were a series of intense intraplate earthquakes beginning with an initial earthquake of moment magnitude 7.2–8.2 on December 16, 1811, followed by a moment magnitude 7.4 aftershock on the same day. Two additional earthquakes of similar magnitude followed in January and February 1812.
Moderately damaging earthquakes strike between New York and Wilmington, Delaware, about twice a century, the USGS said, and smaller earthquakes are felt in the region roughly every two to three years.
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 discoveries of Earth's tectonic plates, [1] seismotomography imaging technique, [2] observations using space satellites from outer space, [3] artificial intelligence (AI)-based ...