California on alert as San Andreas fault hints at a quake
which was depicted having a mega earthquake in the 2015 film San Andreas. Quakes near Parkfield tend to be around magnitude 6 ...
35 years: A look back at the 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake
Exactly 35 years have passed since the 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake, a catastrophic disaster that killed 63 Bay Area residents ...
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Magnitude 4.2 earthquake rattles sleepers south of Bay Area
The quake occured near the San Andreas faultline in the Santa Cruz Mountains section. No damage or injuries were immediately reported. Katie Dowd is the SFGATE managing editor. She started her ...
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Puente Hills fault poses bigger earthquake threat than the San Andreas
Puente Hills fault poses bigger earthquake threat than the San Andreas A 4.4 magnitude earthquake in Los Angeles in August was along the Puente Hills fault system, a thrust fault that runs beneath ...
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California earthquakes: Preparing for the big one
However, the southern section of the San Andreas Fault has not recorded a major earthquake in over 300 years, according to Geoscientist and Civil Engineer Ignacio Sepulveda. According to Sepulveda ...
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How effective are earthquake early warning systems?
Seismologists modelled ground shaking along California's San Andreas Fault, where an earthquake of magnitude 6.5 or more is expected within 30 years. They found that warning time could be ...
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What Are Earthquake Hazards?
is built across a fault, the ground displacement during an earthquake could seriously damage or rip apart that structure. From the figure on the left you can tell that the San Andreas Fault is a right ...
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35 years later, Loma Prieta Earthquake recalled at Cal Academy event
"Actually, the Jewish Community Center in San Francisco and I was under a table at the community center." Lipton was just 7 years old when the quake happened. "October 17th is such a loaded date ...
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The San Francisco Earthquake
San Francisco - Earthquake & fire, 1906 "Ruins on Kearney St. near Post Office". Library of Congress. At 5:12 am on April 18, 1906, San Francisco residents were awakened by a 40-second tremor that ...
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What is an earthquake?
When an earthquake strikes ... type of area is known as a transformation plate boundary. An example is the San Andreas Fault in California, United States of America. Here, it is really easy ...
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The San Francisco Earthquake
San Francisco - Earthquake & fire, 1906 "Ruins on Kearney St. near Post Office". Library of Congress. At 5:12 am on April 18, 1906, San Francisco residents were awakened by a 40-second tremor that ...