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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.
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
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 ]
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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 ...
The New Madrid earthquakes of 1811 and 1812 were some of the largest earthquakes recorded in U.S. history, according to USGS. In slightly over a year, three earthquakes, all with a magnitude of 7. ...
An undated photo from the US Geological Survey depicts a landslide trench and ridge in the Chickasaw Bluffs, east of Reelfoot Lake, Tennessee, resulting from the 1811 to 1812 New Madrid earthquakes.
And the paper is "Irregular Recurrence of Large Earthquakes....", conventionally referred to as "Jacoby, Sheppard, and Sieh, 1988", or even "Jacoby et al. 1988". One of the benefits of using {Harv} is that it encourages this standard author-year naming, while a detriment of "named-refs" (and also {sfn}) is that WP editors have gotten into the ...