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| x Loma Prieta earthquake |
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The Loma Prieta earthquake, also known as the Quake of '89 and the World Series Earthquake, was a major earthquake that struck the San Francisco Bay Area of California on October 17, 1989, at 5:04 p.m. local time. Caused by a slip along the San...
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| x The Forest of Nisene Marks State Park |
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The Forest of Nisene Marks is a State Park located in Aptos, California (37|03|N|121|90|W) and contains over 40 miles (64 km) of hiking trails and fire roads through approximately 10,000 acres (40 km) of variable terrain. The park was named for...
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| x Moment magnitude scale |
The moment magnitude scale (abbreviated as MMS; denoted as Mw, where w indicates work accomplished) is used by seismologists to measure the size of earthquakes in terms of the energy released. The magnitude is based on the moment of the earthquake,...
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The Richter magnitude scale, also known as the local magnitude (ML) scale, assigns a single number to quantify the amount of seismic energy released by an earthquake. It is a base-10 logarithmic scale obtained by calculating the logarithm of the...
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| x Alum Rock, CA USA 2007 earthquake |
Occurred on the Calaveras Fault. No major damage. Largest quake in the Bay Area since the 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake.
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Alum Rock is a census-designated place (CDP) in Santa Clara County, California, United States and a community of San Jose. The CDP, which excludes all annexed areas, had a population of 13,479 at the 2000 census. Alum Rock was named after a rock...
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| x Calaveras Fault |
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The Calaveras Fault is a major branch of the San Andreas Fault located in northern California in the San Francisco Bay Area. It runs east of the San Andreas, diverging from it in the vicinity of Hollister, California, and is responsible for the...
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| x Clayton-Marsh Creek-Greenvile Fault |
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The Clayton-Marsh Creek-Greenville Fault is located in the eastern San Francisco Bay Area of California. It is part of the somewhat parallel system of faults that are secondary to the San Andreas Fault. The 5.8 magnitude 1980 Livermore earthquake...
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| x San Andreas Fault |
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The San Andreas Fault is a continental transform fault that runs a length of roughly 800 miles (1,300 km) through California in the United States. The fault's motion is right-lateral strike-slip (horizontal motion). It forms the tectonic boundary...
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| x 1906 San Francisco earthquake |
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The San Francisco earthquake of 1906 was a major earthquake that struck San Francisco, CA and the coast of Northern California at 5:15 A.M. on Wednesday, April 18, 1906. The most widely accepted estimate for the magnitude of the earthquake is a...
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| x Hayward Fault Zone |
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The Hayward Fault Zone is a geologic fault zone capable of generating significantly destructive earthquakes. About 60 kilometers long, it lies mainly along the western base of the hills on the east side of San Francisco Bay. It runs through densely...
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| x Garlock Fault |
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The Garlock Fault is a left-lateral strike-slip fault line running approximately northeast-southwest in southern California. It runs for much of its length along the southern base of the Tehachapi Mountains. It marks the northern boundary of the...
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| x Tesla Fault |
The Tesla Fault is a seismically active geological structure associated with the Diablo Range in the vicinity of the Livermore Valley in California. This fault has been demonstrated to have a dextral offset of 8.5 kilometres (5.3 mi) and is closely...
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| x San Gabriel Fault |
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The San Gabriel Fault is a geological fault that forms the boundary of the southern portion of the San Gabriel Mountains and running about 87 miles (140 kilometers). The fault is a right-lateral strike-slip that was last active 1,000s of years ago ...
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| x Newport-Inglewood Fault |
The Newport-Inglewood Fault is a right-lateral fault in Southern California. The fault extends for 75 kilometers (46 miles) from Culver City southeast to Newport Beach at which point it runs out into the Pacific Ocean. The fault can be seen on the...
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| x Elsinore Fault Zone |
The Elsinore Fault Zone is a large geological fault structure in Southern California.
It runs from the mountainous region between El Centro and San Diego, northwest to Chino Hills. On the southern end of the fault zone is the southeastern extension...
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| x Raymond Fault |
The Raymond Fault is a fault in Southern California. It branches from the San Andreas Fault In the San Gabriel Mountains where it forms the fork of the San Gabriel River. It forms the wall of Monrovia canyon. The fault is very straight and follows...
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| x Silver Creek Fault |
The Silver Creek Fault is a potentially seismically active northwest-southeast trending geological structure in Santa Clara County, California. The Silver Creek Fault runs through and adjacent to the 25 miles (40 km) long and 5 miles (8 km) wide...
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| x Serra Fault |
The Serra Fault is the northernmost fault in a zone of northwest-striking range front thrust faults adjacent to and northeast of the San Francisco Peninsula segment of the San Andreas Fault (Kennedy, 2005). The Serra Fault is positioned...
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| x Healdsburg Fault |
The Healdsburg Fault is a seismically active geological feature associated with the Santa Rosa Plain and the Alexander Valley, in Sonoma County, California, USA. The eastern sides of these floodplains are bounded by strike-slip or transform faults....
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| x Whittier Fault |
The Whittier Fault is a geologic fault that is a branch of the Elsinore Fault Zone in southern California, U.S.A. It is a 40-kilometer (25 mi) right-lateral strike-slip fault that runs between the cities of Chino Hills and Whittier. The fault has a...
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The Mendocino Fracture Zone is a fracture zone and transform boundary off the coast of Cape Mendocino in far northern California. It runs westward from a triple junction with the San Andreas Fault and the Cascadia subduction zone to the southern end...
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| x White Wolf Fault |
The White Wolf Fault is a fault in southern California, located north of the intersection of the San Andreas Fault and the Garlock Fault, and north of the Tehachapi Mountains. It is classed as a reverse (vertical motion) fault with a left lateral ...
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| x 1963 Skopje earthquake |
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The 1963 Skopje earthquake (Macedonian: Скопски земјотрес 1963, transliterated Skopski zemjotres 1963) was an 6.1 moment magnitude earthquake which occurred in Skopje, SR Macedonia (present-day Republic of Macedonia) then part of the SFR Yugoslavia,...
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| x New Madrid earthquake |
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The 1811 and 1812 New Madrid Earthquakes are the most intense intraplate earthquake series to have occurred in the contiguous United States, beginning with an initial pair of very large earthquakes on December 16, 1811. These earthquakes, as well as...
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| x 2005 Sumatra earthquake |
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The 2005 Sumatra earthquake, referred to as the Nias Earthquake by the scientific community, was a major earthquake on 28 March 2005, located off the west coast of northern Sumatra, Indonesia. Approximately 1,300 people were killed by the earthquake...
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Parkfield earthquake is a name given to various large earthquakes that occurred in the vicinity of the little town of Parkfield, California, in the United States. The San Andreas fault runs through this town, and six successive magnitude 6...
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| x 2001 Gujarat earthquake |
The 2001 Gujarat earthquake occurred on January 26, 2001, at 08:46 AM, and coincided with the 51st celebration of India's Republic Day. The location of the epicentre was Bhuj (23.6° N 69.8° E) Gujarat, India. With a moment magnitude (Mw) of between...
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| x 1923 Great Kanto earthquake |
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The 1923 Great Kantō earthquake (関東大震災, Kantō daishinsai) struck the Kantō plain on the Japanese main island of Honshū at 11:58:44 am JST on September 1, 1923. Varied accounts hold that the duration of the earthquake was between 4 and 10 minutes....
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| x Northridge earthquake |
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The Northridge earthquake occurred on January 17, 1994 at 4:31 AM Pacific Standard Time in Reseda, a neighborhood in the city of Los Angeles, California, lasting for about 20 seconds. The earthquake had a "strong" moment magnitude of 6.7, but the...
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| x 1985 Mexico City earthquake |
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The 1985 Mexico City earthquake, a magnitude 8.1 earthquake that struck Mexico on 19 September 1985 at 7:19 local time, caused the deaths of about 10,000 people and serious damage in the nation's capital. This earthquake had significant long-term...
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