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The focus of the earthquake was located 17 km beneath its epicenter, on the northern end of Awaji Island, 20 km away from the center of the city of Kobe. At least 5,000 people died as a result of this earthquake; about 4,600 of them were from Kobe. [ 7 ]
Probabilistic seismic hazard map. 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 ...
A major earthquake struck near California's coast on Thursday, and aftershocks are still ongoing. The 7.0-magnitude earthquake struck at about 10:44 a.m. Pacific Time.
The Hanshin Expressway (阪神高速道路, Hanshin Kōsoku-dōro) is a 239.3-kilometer-long (148.7 mi) network of expressways surrounding Osaka, Kobe and Kyoto, Japan. Operated by Hanshin Expressway Company, Limited ( 阪神高速道路株式会社 , Hanshin Kōsoku-dōro Kabushiki-gaisha ) , it opened in 1962.
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California's free earthquake early ... set to trigger alerts if a quake is estimated at magnitude 4.5 or higher and the intensity of shaking at the phone’s location is expected to be ...
The 1994 Northridge earthquake affected the Los Angeles area of California on January 17, 1994, at 04:30:55 PST. The epicenter of the moment magnitude 6.7 ( M w ) blind thrust earthquake was beneath the San Fernando Valley . [ 3 ]
The USGS and the Southern California Earthquake Center in 2005 said that a magnitude 7.5 quake on that fault system, which runs underneath downtown and broad swaths of Southeast L.A. County, the ...