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Ariana Baio. March 28, 2023 at 11:38 AM. A 3.5 magnitude earthquake struck Pacifica, California, on Tuesday morning followed by two smaller quakes, according to the United States Geographraphical ...
A 2.6-magnitude earthquake shook the San Francisco Bay Area in California, the U.S. Geological Survey reported. The 6-mile deep quake hit 2 miles from Piedmont at 12:13 a.m. Wednesday, Oct. 4 ...
A 4.2 magnitude earthquake was felt across California's Sacramento County and parts of the San Francisco Bay Area on Wednesday morning, according to the U.S. 4.2-magnitude earthquake rattles ...
Since the three damaging earthquakes that occurred in the American Midwest and the United States East Coast ( 1755 Cape Ann, 1811–12 New Madrid, 1886 Charleston) were well known, it became apparent to settlers that the earthquake hazard was different in California. While the 1812 San Juan Capistrano, 1857 Fort Tejon, and 1872 Owens Valley ...
The Imperial fault was the source of the 1940 El Centro earthquake and the 1979 Imperial Valley earthquake. There was more than 30 km (19 mi) of surface rupture associated with the 1979 event along the northwest trending Imperial fault from just north of the Mexico–United States border to an area south of Brawley and the BSZ was found to have ...
The Hayward Fault Zone is a right-lateral strike-slip geologic fault zone capable of generating destructive earthquakes. The fault was first named in the Lawson Report of the 1906 San Francisco Earthquake in recognition of its involvement in the earthquake of 1868. [1] This fault is about 119 km (74 mi) long, [2] situated mainly along the ...
An earthquake took place near San Jose, Calif., late Tuesday morning, causing ground shakes for Silicon Valley and Bay Area residents, though apparently not inflicting major damage. The U.S ...
The California Independent System Operator (CAISO) declared a transmission emergency. Phones were alerted of the coming earthquake as far south as the San Francisco Bay Area. As of 4:25 am. PST, PG&E revised the total of customers without power to 71,170.