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The temblor followed three earlier small earthquakes — a magnitude 2.7 that struck near the Hayward fault at 5:03 a.m., followed by a magnitude 3.3 at 11:52 a.m., then a 3.2 at 11:54 a.m.
SAN BERNARDINO, Calif. – A pair of earthquakes struck just minutes apart near San Bernardino, California, on Monday morning. The first earthquake, a magnitude 3.6, hit just before 9:45 a.m ...
About an hour later, a magnitude 3.7 earthquake was recorded, also near the suburb of San Francisco, with a depth of about 4 miles, according to the USGS. There are no initial reports of any ...
A magnitude 3.6 earthquake struck in the waters off Catalina Island on Sunday evening on the heels of two smaller quakes in the same area.
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 documented earthquakes.
[11] [12] [13] California refers to their system as the California Earthquake Early Warning System. On March 11, 2021, a statewide alert distribution system was rolled out in Oregon. [ 14 ] Rollout of the alert system for the West Coast was completed when a statewide alert distribution system went live in Washington on May 4, 2021.
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
Aftershock Closely Follows Earthquake East Of Los Angeles Two other notable tremors happened Monday morning. At 9:44 a.m. local time, a 3.6-magnitude earthquake shook San Bernardino, located about ...