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A 4.4 magnitude earthquake was strongly felt Monday afternoon from the Los Angeles area all the way to San Diego, swaying buildings, rattling dishes and setting off car alarms, but no major damage ...
The magnitude 4.2 quake was reported at 6:16 p.m. 11 miles from Temecula, according to the U.S. Geological Survey.
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.
The epicenter was near Lytle Creek in the Cajon Pass, seismologist Lucy Jones wrote on social media. Jones noted this is where "the San Andreas and San Jacinto faults come together. In 1970, there ...
The Northridge Earthquake was the subject of the 1995 film Epicenter U., a first-hand account of healing from the natural disaster, directed by Alexis Krasilovsky. [71] [72] The Earthquake Haggadah (1995) was a video excerpt from Epicenter U. narrated by Wanda Coleman. Distributed in 3/4" and VHS by the Poetry Film Workshop circa 1998.
The San Diego Trough Fault Zone is a group of connected right-lateral strike-slip faults that run parallel to the coast of Southern California, United States, for 150–166 km (93–103 mi). The fault zone takes up 25% of the slip within the Inner Continental Borderlands.
The magnitude 5.2 earthquake near Bakersfield was felt over a wide area of Southern California. ... in the Los Angeles area and damage to at least one building in San Diego, according to the USGS ...
The main shock was reportedly felt as far south as San Diego, and Tijuana, Mexico, [6] [7] and as far east as Las Vegas, Nevada. [3] [8] It was the strongest earthquake to occur in the greater Los Angeles area since the 1994 Northridge earthquake. [7]