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List of earthquakes in California. The earliest known earthquake in the U.S. state of California was documented in 1769 by the Spanish explorers and Catholic missionaries of the Portolá expedition as they traveled northward from San Diego along the Santa Ana River near the present site of Los Angeles. Ship captains and other explorers also ...
30 gru 2009 · Nov. 22, 1800: The first recorded earthquake struck the San Diego Region. The quake, believed to have a 6.5 magnitude, occurred on the Rose Canyon fault offshore from Oceanside.
Earthquake Information. Chronological Earthquake Index. Like the clickable image, this list does not feature every earthquake ever recorded in southern California above a certain magnitude; these are selected events and they do not represent a complete list. Catalogs of all southern California events recorded since 1932 can be accessed elsewhere.
Historically significant earthquakes and future implications.
However, since 1984, earthquake activity in San Diego County has doubled over that of the preceding 50 years. Ongoing field and laboratory studies suggest the largest credible earthquake predicted for the coastal and metropolitan areas is a M7.2 on the Rose Canyon Fault and a M7.6 from either the Elsinore Fault or the San Jacinto Fault in the ...
27 kwi 2022 · Near the epicenter of the 1986 Oceanside earthquake, USGS scientists identified a 5-kilometer-long stepover (or short gap) in the San Diego Trough fault. Seafloor displacement along this stepover is different from regular strike-slip fault movement, which could explain some unusual characteristics of that earthquake, such as the long ...
27 maj 2012 · The earthquake of May 27, 1862 is of special importance in making seismic risk estimates for San Diego. Most earthquakes that have caused damage in San Diego have been located in the...
