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Phones were alerted of the coming earthquake as far south as the San Francisco Bay Area. [23] As of 4:25 am. PST, PG&E revised the total of customers without power to 71,170. [24] Caltrans District 1 closed the Fernbridge over the Eel River on California State Route 211 due to four cracks which could cause the road itself to slide off. [25]
Calaveras Fault. The Calaveras Fault is a major branch of the San Andreas Fault System that is located in northern California in the San Francisco Bay Area. Activity on the different segments of the fault includes moderate and large earthquakes as well as aseismic creep. The last large event was the magnitude 6.2 1984 Morgan Hill event.
The Hayward Fault Zone is a right-lateral strike-slip geologic fault zone capable of generating destructive earthquakes. The fault was first named in the Lawson Report of the 1906 San Francisco Earthquake in recognition of its involvement in the earthquake of 1868. [ 1 ] This fault is about 119 km (74 mi) long, [ 2 ] situated mainly along the ...
A 2.6-magnitude earthquake shook the San Francisco Bay Area in California, the U.S. Geological Survey reported. The 6-mile deep quake hit 2 miles from Piedmont at 12:13 a.m. Wednesday, Oct. 4 ...
Many residents were given several seconds' warning before the shaking arrived from a magnitude 5.1 earthquake that struck east of San Jose this week. Bay Area earthquake came with early warning ...
A 4.2 magnitude earthquake was felt across California's Sacramento County and parts of the San Francisco Bay Area on Wednesday morning, according to the U.S. Geological Survey.
2024 Kiteezi landslide. The death toll from a landslide at the Kiteezi Rubbish Dump in Kampala, Uganda, increases to 21. (Reuters) Two people are killed and twelve families are displaced in an explosion possibly attributed to a gas leak in Bel Air, Maryland, United States. (AP) International relations.
The 1984 Morgan Hill earthquake (also known as the Halls Valley earthquake) [ 6] occurred on April 24 at 1:15 p.m. local time in the Santa Clara Valley of Northern California. The shock had a moment magnitude of 6.2 and a maximum Mercalli intensity of VIII ( Severe ). The epicenter was located near Mount Hamilton in the Diablo Range of the ...