The findings also indicate that the Bay Area has a 51% chance of experiencing an earthquake with a magnitude of 7 and a 20% chance of measuring a magnitude of 7.5 or higher within that time frame.

California's largest recorded earthquakes since 1800, ranked by magnitude, according to the California Department of Conservation. 7.9 : Jan. 9, 1857 in Fort Tejon Two killed; created 220-mile ...

Having half a dozen earthquakes with a magnitude 2.5 or greater strike in a single week is not a common occurrence in Southern California. String of SoCal quakes: Are they telling us something bigger?

In Southern California, the 1994 Northridge earthquake (magnitude 6.7) resulted in nearly 60 fatalities and damaged over 112,000 buildings, with estimated damages of up to $20 billion.

Below California’s famed beaches, mountains and metropolitan areas lies a sinister web of earthquake faults — some so infamous that their names are burned into the state’s collective ...

Without the giant lake there, putting enormous pressure on the San Andreas and contributing to a more vulnerable fault, the coming big one — a Southern California quake that could cause some ...

The 6.4-magnitude earthquake that jolted Southern California on the Fourth of July and turned out be just a precursor to a bigger one, a 7.1-magnitude quake Friday night.

Big quake on Northern California coast follows cluster of smaller tremors farther south By Don Sweeney. Updated May 21, 2023 12:53 PM.

The quake was a big moment for Carter Krengel, a 27-year-old paralegal who moved from Minnesota to California in 2018. It was his first time experiencing an earthquake.

How Two Big Earthquakes Triggered 16,000 More in Southern California. By Derek Watkins July 19, 2019. Share full article. 2. ... Dots show every earthquake, of any size, in California this year.

By Stephanie Elam, CNN Los Angeles (CNN) — Beautiful beaches. Majestic mountains. Hollywood. One more thing Southern California is known for: earthquakes. Yet for a long time, and to the great ...