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During the predawn magnitude 6.7 Northridge earthquake of 1994, 16 people died when the ground floor of the Northridge Meadows apartment building collapsed, crushing sleeping residents in their ...
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 ...
The National Weather Service said that the tsunami warning that extended along 500 miles (800 km) of the California and Oregon coasts was called off about 90 minutes after the earthquake struck at ...
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 ]
Northern California was rocked by a 7.0 magnitude earthquake late Thursday morning.. After the tremor struck at 10:45 a.m., just over 60 miles to the west-southwest of Humboldt County’s Ferndale ...
Goulet said the USGS analysis suggests there is about a 5% chance that an earthquake greater than magnitude 6.0 could rupture in the area within the next week. “Following a 7, there could be ...
The 2015 Uniform California Earthquake Rupture Forecast, Version 3, or UCERF3, is the latest official earthquake rupture forecast (ERF) for the state of California, superseding UCERF2. It provides authoritative estimates of the likelihood and severity of potentially damaging earthquake ruptures in the long- and near-term.
A magnitude 5.2 earthquake, the strongest to strike the region in three years, shook Southern California on Aug. 6, with an epicenter northwest of the Grapevine.