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List of earthquakes in California. 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 ...
Catalogs of all southern California events recorded since 1932 can be accessed elsewhere. The earthquakes which are listed here are marked with colored squares indicating magnitude. The scale is as follows: Under magnitude 4.5. Magnitude 4.5 to 5.4.
Aug 12, 2024 · The magnitude 7.9 Fort Tejon earthquake (1857) shook 631 times more intensely than did either of the magnitude 5.1 earthquakes in La Habra (2014) and Ojai (2023). The Tejon quake also released 15,849 times the energy than did either of the two smaller quakes.
YearDateLocationTime2024Aug 6Bakersfield Area ‡9:092024Jul 29Barstow**1:002023Aug 20Ojai ‡‡2:41pm2014Mar 28La Habra ††9:09pmJul 20, 2022 · In 2019, a 7.1-magnitude quake hit near Ridgecrest, Calif. Thirty million people from Sacramento to Baja Mexico felt its 24 shocks and aftershocks over three terrifying days. In 1994, a 6.7...
Jul 25, 2019 · But along with familiar names — like Loma Prieta and Northridge — that can evoke frightening memories, there are thousands of earthquakes each year in California that are too small to be felt.
- Jonathan Lloyd
Nov 22, 2021 · The 1994 Northridge earthquake struck to the west of Los Angeles, in the San Fernando Valley area with an estimated magnitude of 6.7 on the Richter scale.
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Feb 9, 2021 · Just seconds after 6 a.m. on February 9, 1971, a 12-mile section of an under-appreciated fault along the San Gabriel Mountains suddenly and dramatically slipped. The entire Los Angeles region...
