SAN FRANCISCO – An earthquake shook parts of the San Francisco Bay Area early Monday morning. According to the U.S.

the strongest quake ever recorded in the Golden State measured 7.9 magnitude and struck Fort Tejon on Jan. 9, 1857. On April 18, 1906, a 7.8-magnitude earthquake hit San Francisco, killing as many ...

A 2.9 magnitude shake — the strongest ... s still San Francisco’s deadliest and most destructive earthquake. But experts have made an effort to estimate the origin based on reports about ...

heavy damage was reported at Kern County General Hospital. Shaking from the 1952 earthquake was felt as far away as San Francisco and Las Vegas, and caused nonstructural but extensive damage to ...

SAN DIEGO COUNTY ... was analyzed in a 2020 report by the Earthquake Engineering Research Institute. Such an earthquake would be tied for the 13th-strongest to ever hit California.