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In Southern California, the last major earthquake on the San Andreas fault was in 1857, estimated at somewhere around a magnitude 7.8. But even moderate quakes along the Puente Hills thrust fault ...
A magnitude-4.4 earthquake hit Los Angeles on Monday afternoon, rattling a wide swath of the city. The earthquake, which was initially measured at magnitude 4.7, struck at 12:20 p.m. local time (3 ...
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 ...
The epicenter region of the earthquake was located in the San Fernando Valley, about 30 km (19 mi) northwest of downtown Los Angeles. The United States Geological Survey (USGS) placed the hypocenter 's geographical coordinates at 34°12′47″N 118°32′13″W / 34.213°N 118.537°W / 34.213; -118.537 and at a depth of 11.31 mi ...
The Los Angeles Basin is situated along the coast of Southern California at the confluence of the Transverse Ranges and the Peninsular Ranges.The basin is under the influence of several strike-slip and blind thrust faults with geodetic studies providing evidence of the northern basin being shortened in the north-south or northeast-southwest directions at a rate of 4.5–5 millimetres (0.18–0 ...
[3] [8] It was the strongest earthquake to occur in the greater Los Angeles area since the 1994 Northridge earthquake. [7] 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. [9]
August 13, 2024 at 8:35 AM. A powerful earthquake struck near Los Angeles, California on Monday afternoon, shaking homes and startling residents for miles. The 4.4 magnitude quake's epicentre hit ...
ShakeAlert is an earthquake early warning system (EEW) in the United States, developed and operated by the United States Geological Survey (USGS) and its partners. [ 1] As of 2021, the system issues alerts for the country's West Coast (specifically the states of California, Oregon and Washington ). It is expected that the system will be ...