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The Statewide California Earthquake Center (SCEC) is a collaboration of more than 1,000 scientists across 100 research institutions focused primarily on conducting research on earthquakes in Southern California and elsewhere by gathering data, conducting theoretical studies, and performing computer simulations; integrate information into a comprehensive, physics-based understanding of ...
The Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors has ordered an inventory for soft-story apartment buildings owned or overseen by the county or its development authority, as well as in unincorporated ...
Simplified fault map of southern California The faults of Southern California viewed to the southeast, as modeled by the Southern California Earthquake Center. Highlighted in purple are the San Andreas Fault (left) and Santa Monica Bay complex (right). The foreground is in the Santa Barbara Channel, the east-trending zone marks the Transverse Range
In 1933, the Long Beach earthquake occurred in a populated area and damaged or destroyed many public school buildings in Long Beach and Los Angeles. Some decades later, the San Fernando earthquake affected the San Fernando Valley north of Los Angeles with heavy damage to several hospitals.
A hypothetical future magnitude 7.8 earthquake on the southern San Andreas fault, from the Mexican border to Los Angeles County, could result in 1,800 deaths and nearly 50,000 injuries, according ...
On June 2, a magnitude 3.4 earthquake was felt widely across Los Angeles and the San Gabriel and San Fernando valleys. Then, in almost the exact same location, a magnitude 4.4 earthquake hit on ...
Estimates predict a multi-segment rupture of the fault zone is capable of producing an earthquake of magnitude 7.6–7.9. [6] [3] An earthquake this large in such close proximity to densely-populated southern California would be devastating. [7] In 1986, a M s 5.8 earthquake struck off the coast of Oceanside, killing 1 and injuring 29 more.
The L.A. County Fire Department received no calls regarding the earthquake. The Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department locked down all of its jail facilities after the quake to do a damage ...