24/7 Wall St. Posted: August 10, 2024 | Last updated: August 10, 2024 We associate earthquakes with specific areas of the world, like California, which lies along the San Andreas fault.

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

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 ...

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 ...