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Aftershocks continued Friday after a strong earthquake that prompted a tsunami warning for parts of the U.S. West Coast Thursday. "At this time, there have been 59 earthquakes of magnitude three ...
California residents felt the impact of a major earthquake that occurred off the West Coast on Thursday. The U.S. Geological Survey reported that a magnitude 7.0 earthquake occurred off the coast ...
The quake, which hit at a shallow depth of 10 km (6.2 miles), was centered about 39 miles (63 km) west of the town of Ferndale, a sparsely populated portion of the northern California coast, the U ...
The maximum credible earthquake expected to be generated from the Healdsburg Fault is estimated to be about 7.5 on the Richter scale. [1] The last major event in Sonoma County were the 1969 Santa Rosa earthquakes, a magnitude 5.6 and 5.7 doublet that occurred on this fault. The county anticipates similar events every 20–30 years.
The Geysers is the world's largest geothermal field [15] spanning an area of around 30 square miles (78 km 2) in Sonoma, Lake and Mendocino counties in California, centered in the area of Geyser Canyon and Cobb Mountain. Power from The Geysers provides electricity to Sonoma, Lake, Mendocino, Marin, and Napa counties.
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 ...
The 2014 South Napa earthquake occurred in the North San Francisco Bay Area on August 24 at 03:20:44 Pacific Daylight Time. At 6.0 on the moment magnitude scale and with a maximum Mercalli intensity of VIII (Severe), the event was the largest in the San Francisco Bay Area since the 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake.
A large, 7.0-magnitude earthquake struck off the coast of Humboldt County in Northern California on Thursday morning, prompting a tsunami warning for part of the North Coast. The warning was later ...