It was the strongest SoCal quake in three years. Here's why it ...

Southern California Earthquake Data Center at Caltech

Catalogs of all southern California events recorded since 1932 can be accessed elsewhere. The earthquakes which are listed here are marked with colored squares ...

Southern California earthquakes and faults - Putting Down Roots in ...

About two-thirds of this movement occurs on the San Andreas fault and some parallel faults- -- the San Jacinto, Elsinore, and Imperial faults (see map). Over ...

Aftershocks hit California following strongest earthquake in 20 years

LOS ANGELES — The strongest earthquake in 20 years shook a large swath of Southern California and parts of Nevada on the July 4th holiday, ...

After California earthquake, how powerful were the aftershocks?

Hundreds of aftershocks rumbled in Southern California on Friday, the day after the region was rocked by the strongest earthquake in two ...

1952 Kern County Earthquake Information

The largest earthquake in southern California since the Fort Tejon earthquake of 1857 and the Owens Valley earthquake of 1872, the Kern County earthquake of ...

Future Earthquakes

For powerful quakes of magnitude 7.5 or greater, there is a 37% chance that one or more will occur in the next 30 years in Southern California. Expected Shaking ...

6.9-magnitude quake rocked California 35 years ago. Now experts ...

The 6.9 Loma Prieta earthquake, which “severely shook the San Francisco and Monterey Bay regions” just after 5 p.m. on Oct. 17, 1989, was the ...

Earthquake centered in Malibu rattles Southern California

A 4.7 magnitude earthquake shook California, with the epicenter near Malibu. Residents said this quake was stronger than others they experienced ...

Facts about the New Madrid Seismic Zone | Missouri Department of ...

Due to the nature of the bedrock in the earth's crust in the central United States, earthquakes in this region can shake an area approximately 20 times larger ...

Here's How A Few People Knew The Strongest Earthquake In Years ...

Seconds before the strongest earthquake in years shook Southern California, hundreds of people received an alert on their cell phones, giving them crucial time ...

Earthquake Measuring 5.1 Hits Malibu; SoCal Breaks Single-Year ...

Jones added during her Q&A today, “It is striking that some of the strongest shaking — not surprisingly — but it's right there on the Westside ...

LA rattled by a 4.7 magnitude quake centered in the Malibu hills | LAist

A 4.7 magnitude earthquake struck at about 7:28 this morning in the hills above Malibu, about three miles inland from Point Dume. It was 6.8 miles deep.

Major Historical Earthquakes in Southern California - Voice of OC

Eight people were killed, along with nearly $360 million in property damages. While the quake wasn't especially powerful, the historic district of Uptown ...

Series of earthquakes shake SoCal: Are we prepared for 'the big one'?

Besides the long-overdue quake on the southern San Andreas Fault, San Diego County also has parallel faults that could be less powerful but ...

Magnitude 5.2 earthquake strikes Southern California - ABC7 Chicago

Earthquake expert Lucy Jones said the quake did not occur on a known fault that is already mapped in the USGS database. She said that area of ...

Every three minutes, an earthquake strikes in California

A powerful idea ... Earthquakes in California are not uncommon. The region is locked in a slow-motion tectonic collision, as the Pacific plate ...

The San Andreas Fault: Is the Big One Coming? | HowStuffWorks

The 2014 Working Group on California Earthquake Probabilities predicted that there was a 72 percent probability of a 6.7 or larger magnitude quake hitting the ...

LA shares key similarity with region jolted by Taiwan earthquake

There's at least one striking similarity between Southern California and the location of the shaking in eastern Taiwan from Wednesday's powerful ...

Magnitude 5.2 earthquake strikes Kern County, with shaking felt ...

A magnitude 5.2 earthquake struck in Kern County Tuesday night, with significant shaking felt throughout Southern California.

30 Years Ago ... the Northridge Quake

the 1994 Northridge Earthquake occurred on ... According to the California Earthquake Authority, the purpose of retrofitting for earthquakes ...