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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.
An earthquake struck west of Paphos, Cyprus on 11 January 2022, with a moment magnitude of 6.6. The earthquake was the largest tremor to occur in the Mediterranean Sea since the 2003 Boumerdès earthquake, and the largest to occur in Cyprus since 1996.
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Affected a wide area of Egypt, Sinai, Hejaz. The location given is the macroseismic epicenter, although the earthquake was probably located in the Gulf of Aqaba: September 2, 1754 Cairo see 1754 Cairo earthquake: 30.8 31.0 40,000 The death toll is questioned, but is not unreasonable for a shallow earthquake in an area of high population density [2]
In an earthquake, damage to buildings and infrastructure is related more closely to ground motion, of which PGA is a measure, rather than the magnitude of the earthquake itself. For moderate earthquakes, PGA is a reasonably good determinant of damage; in severe earthquakes, damage is more often correlated with peak ground velocity. [3]
A cluster of earthquakes struck in the early hours of Wednesday morning along the border of southeast New Mexico and West Texas, felt as far east as San Antonio and as far west as El Paso.
The 1952 Kern County earthquake occurred on July 21 in the southern San Joaquin Valley and measured 7.3 on the moment magnitude scale.The main shock occurred at 4:52 am Pacific Daylight Time (11:52 UTC), killed 12 people, injured hundreds more and caused an estimated $60 million in property damage.