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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.
1700 Cascadia earthquake; 1769 earthquake; 1812 San Juan Capistrano earthquake; 1812 Ventura earthquake; 1838 San Andreas earthquake; 1857 Fort Tejon earthquake; 1868 Hayward earthquake; 1872 Owens Valley earthquake; 1892 Laguna Salada earthquake; 1892 Vacaville–Winters earthquakes; 1898 Mare Island earthquake; 1899 San Jacinto 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 early earthquake warnings [3] – they rely mainly ...
Humboldt County saw them in 2010 and 2022; the Mojave Desert in 1999 and 2019; Napa County in 2014; Imperial County in 2010, resulting from an earthquake centered in Baja California; and in San ...
What California earthquake felt like on the ground in San Francisco. Thursday 5 December 2024 19:49, ... an M6.4 occurred in December 2022 and an M6.2 in December 2021. Read more at:…
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, [7] causing only minor damage. [8]
Large earthquakes also occurred near the junction in northern California in previous Decembers, according to the geological survey. There were two, a 6.1 and 6.0, near Petrolia in 2021 and a 6.4 ...
The 2022 Cyprus earthquake was the largest earthquake on the island since 1996. [34] Minor damage occurred in some homes and objects fell from shelves in the Paphos and Lefke Districts . [ 35 ] [ 36 ] [ 37 ] Nearly 1,600 livestock were killed in Kallepeia due to the earthquake. [ 38 ]