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A map showing the location of an earthquake in Ventura County, California, on 20 August, 2023 (US Geological Survey) “We are in the middle of the first tropical storm since 1939, and we just had ...
August 20, 2023 at 2:47 PM. A magnitude 5.1 earthquake was reported Sunday at 2:41 p.m. near Ojai. (U.S. Geological Survey) A magnitude 5.1 earthquake struck near Ojai on Sunday, rattling the ...
On Friday, at 10:26 a.m., a magnitude 3.6 earthquake — down from an original estimate of 3.8 — occurred with an epicenter just north of the Ojai Valley, causing weak shaking to be felt from ...
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 San Cayetano Fault in Southern California, United States. The San Cayetano Fault is an east-west trending thrust fault in Ventura County, Southern California. It stretches for 45 kilometers (28 mi), north of the city of Ventura, near the Topatopa Mountains, Piru, Fillmore, Santa Paula, Sulphur Springs, and Ojai .
UCERF3. The 2015 Uniform California Earthquake Rupture Forecast, Version 3, or UCERF3, is the latest official earthquake rupture forecast (ERF) for the state of California, superseding UCERF2. It provides authoritative estimates of the likelihood and severity of potentially damaging earthquake ruptures in the long- and near-term.
The May 31 Ojai Valley earthquake was in the same general area as the magnitude 5.1 quake on Aug. 20 — notable because it struck the same day Southern California was bracing for the arrival of ...
A 3.8-magnitude earthquake shook the Southern California area, the U.S. Geological Survey reported.. The nearly 11-mile deep quake hit about 4 miles east northeast of Ojai in Ventura County, about ...