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LOS ANGELES (AP) — A magnitude 4.2 earthquake was felt widely across the nation's second largest city Friday and shook things off shelves near the epicenter in a small mountain community east of ...
An average of 25 earthquakes with magnitudes between 4.0 and 5.0 occur per year in California and Nevada, according to a recent three-year data sample. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 5.6 miles.
An earthquake that shook Temecula, Calif., on Friday evening was felt widely across San Diego. The magnitude-4.2 quake was reported at 6:16 p.m. about 11 miles from Temecula at a depth of 9 miles ...
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 current director of SCEC is Yehuda Ben-Zion . The Southern California Earthquake Center (SCEC) was founded as a Science & Technology Center on February 1, 1991, with joint funding by the National Science Foundation (NSF) and the U. S. Geological Survey (USGS). SCEC graduated from the STC Program in 2002 and has been funded as a stand-alone ...
A magnitude 4.4 earthquake rumbled underneath Los Angeles on Monday, less than a week after a bigger one jolted much of Southern California. The U.S. Geological Survey placed the epicenter of ...
A 4.0-magnitude earthquake shook Southern California, the U.S. Geological Survey reported.. The 6.5-mile-deep quake hit about 5 miles southeast of Ojai at 1:12 p.m. Friday, Nov. 3, according to ...
The California Office of Emergency Services (Cal OES) coordinated the responses of local governments (including tribal authorities), Cal Fire, Caltrans, the California Geological Survey, and the California Highway Patrol. [25] Cal Poly Humboldt University was closed to all except essential personnel as of 7:16 am. [26]