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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 ...
There were no immediate reports of damage or injury from the quake, which struck at 2:41 p.m. local time (2141 GMT), roughly 7 km (4.35 miles) southeast of the Southern California community of ...
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 ...
It was the strongest earthquake to occur in the greater Los Angeles area since the 1994 Northridge earthquake. As reported by The Orange County Register, three microearthquakes, all less than magnitude 3.0, occurred in Anaheim Hills, 7 miles (11 km) southwest of Chino Hills, two months before the Chino Hills earthquake.
The 1812 Ventura earthquake (also known as the Santa Barbara earthquake) occurred on the morning of December 21 at 11:00 Pacific Standard Time (PST).The M w 7.1 earthquake, with a Modified Mercalli intensity scale rating of X (Extreme), along with its resulting tsunami, caused considerable damage to present-day Santa Barbara and Ventura County, California, which was at the time a territory of ...
A magnitude 2.6 earthquake struck Newport Beach on Wednesday afternoon, resulting in weak shaking in Orange County. The epicenter of the quake, just southeast of Costa Mesa, was underneath ...
The 1812 San Juan Capistrano earthquake, also known simply as the Capistrano earthquake or the Wrightwood earthquake, [6] occurred on December 8 at 15:00 UTC in Alta California. At the time, this was a colonial territory of the Spanish Empire. Damage occurred at several of the missions in the region of Pueblo de Los Ángeles, including Mission ...