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A small earthquake rattled the Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta region of Northern California on Wednesday morning, prompting a widespread early warning and shaking residents near Isleton but ...
San Andreas Fault. / 35.117°N 119.650°W / 35.117; -119.650. The San Andreas Fault is a continental right-lateral strike-slip transform fault that extends roughly 1,200 kilometers (750 mi) through the U.S. state of California. [1] It forms part of the tectonic boundary between the Pacific Plate and the North American Plate.
The Cascadia subduction zone is a 960 km (600 mi) fault at a convergent plate boundary, about 110–160 km (70–100 mi) off the Pacific coast, that stretches from northern Vancouver Island in Canada to Northern California in the United States. It is capable of producing 9.0+ magnitude earthquakes and tsunamis that could reach 30 m (98 ft).
On April 5, 2024, at 10:23 EDT (14:23 UTC), a M w 4.8 earthquake occurred in the U.S. state of New Jersey, with the epicenter in Tewksbury Township.While it was felt across the New York metropolitan area, Delaware Valley, the Washington D.C metropolitan area, and other parts of the northeastern United States between Virginia and Maine, it had a relatively minor impact, with no major damage ...
A magnitude 3.5 earthquake struck Sunday about 2.3 miles southwest of South Pasadena, according to the U.S. Geological Survey. The earthquake struck around 9:56 a.m. and was felt across the region ...
A 3.2 magnitude earthquake shook part of San Luis Obispo County near Diablo Canyon Power Plant on Wednesday. The earthquake occurred at 12:05 p.m. approximately five miles northwest of Avila Beach ...
1962. 1967. 1989. 1992. 2020. This is a list of moderate to large earthquakes that have occurred in Utah. Only earthquakes with a magnitude of 5.0 or greater are listed. Aftershocks are not included, unless they were of great significance or contributed to a death toll. Earthquakes occur frequently in Utah, though they tend to be small (below a ...
List of earthquakes in Oklahoma. The following is a list of historical earthquakes with epicenters located within the boundaries of Oklahoma. Only earthquakes of greater than or equal to magnitude 4.5 are included. Information pertaining to time, magnitude, epicenter, and depth is retrieved from the United States Geological Survey or, when USGS ...