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Baja California state capital Mexicali was reported by Comisión Federal de Electricidad (CFE) Director General Alfredo Elías Ayub as being without electricity. [28] There were at least two fatalities in Mexicali, [29] one of which was caused by a collapsed house. [30] [31] At least 100 people were injured in Mexicali and its suburbs. [29]
The Baja California peninsula lies near the boundary of the Pacific plate and the North American plate, while southern Mexico lies just north of the boundary between the North American plate and the Cocos and Rivera tectonic plates. The Cocos plate is subducting under the North American plate at a rate of 67 mm (0.220 ft) per year, while the ...
1910 Costa Rica earthquakes: 1910-05-04: Cartago: 6.4 [10] 700 1822 Costa Rica earthquake: 1822-05-07: near Caribbean Coast 7.6 IX Unknown Note: The inclusion criteria for adding events are based on WikiProject Earthquakes' notability guideline that was developed for stand alone articles. The principles described also apply to lists.
The plate margin that remains in California is that of the strike-slip San Andreas Fault (SAF), the diffuse Pacific–North American plate boundary that extends east into the Basin and Range Province of eastern California and western Nevada (a seismically active area called Walker Lane) and southwest into the California Continental Borderland ...
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Temblor Creek, formerly Arroyo de Los Temblores (Creek of the earthquakes), [2] is a stream with its source on the east slope of the Temblor Range, California, United States. It flows east-northeast to its confluence with Salt Creek in the Temblor Valley , 44 miles west of Bakersfield in Kern County, California .
It was followed by dozens of aftershocks of magnitude 2.5 and up, including a magnitude 4.5 earthquake that occurred less than a minute after the first, and a magnitude 4.1 temblor at 9:17 p.m.
The 1987 Superstition Hills earthquake affected the Imperial Valley of California and Baja California on November 24, nearly 12 hours after a M w 6.0 foreshock, called the Elmore Ranch earthquake. The mainshock, measuring M w 6.5, struck at 17:54 PST, along the Superstition Hills segment of the San Jacinto Fault Zone.