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- The Landers earthquake, with a magnitude of 7.3 Mw, was the result of the rupture of five major lateral faults near the southeastern California shear zone in the summer of 1992. Because of this rupture, this area experienced multiple earthquakes, with Landers being the largest.
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DateNameAreaMag.Humboldt County6.4 M wRidgecrest7.1 M wRidgecrest6.4 M wSouth Napa6.0 M wThe magnitude 7.9 Fort Tejon earthquake (1857) shook 631 times more intensely than did either of the magnitude 5.1 earthquakes in La Habra (2014) and Ojai (2023). The Tejon quake also released 15,849 times the energy than did either of the two smaller quakes.
YearDateLocationTime2024Aug 6Bakersfield Area ‡9:092024Jul 29Barstow**1:002023Aug 20Ojai ‡‡2:41pm2014Mar 28La Habra ††9:09pmJul 20, 2022 · In 1971, a 6.6 earthquake hit Sylmar. Its epicenter was the Magic Mountain amusement park, rattling outward 300 miles along the southern California coast. It killed 65 and injured 2,000.
Jul 4, 2019 · In October 1999, one of the largest earthquakes recorded in Southern California was centered in the desert east of LA. The magnitude-7.1 Hector Mine quake produced shaking throughout...
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Aug 25, 2014 · The well-known Richter scale was devised in the 1930s to describe the relative sizes of earthquakes in southern California.
Measuring Mw 6.7, it was the largest earthquake recorded in the Los Angeles area since the 1971 San Fernando earthquake (M w 6.7). However, unlike the Northridge earthquake, the San Fernando shock occurred on a north–northeast dipping thrust fault beneath the San Gabriel Mountains.
