The focus on older properties is due to their common lack of secure bolting to foundations and insufficient bracing in the wood-framed walls around crawl spaces, as detailed on the EBB website. These deficiencies can result in homes sliding or toppling from their foundations during earthquakes, ...
5.30.23 The 2022 Ferndale Earthquakes Public Hearing is available - The Painter St./Hwy 101 overpass seismic sensor measured a g-force of 1.485 during the December 20th quake (anything over .75 is considered a "real good shaker") 5.29.23 Happy Memorial Day! Thank you to all of our vetera...
earthquakes source parametersThe directivity function method is combined with an earthquake sequence study to obtain the reliable estimates of rupture area and rupture velocity of two right-lateral strike-slip earthquakes occurring along the San Andreas fault zone in central California. By utilizing a ...
As part of the Ring of Fire, California is subject to tsunamis, floods, droughts, Santa Ana winds, wildfires, and landslides on steep terrain; California also has several volcanoes. It has many earthquakes due to several faults running through the state, the largest being the San Andreas Fault...
Isoseismal Maps for Selected California EarthquakesKern County Earthquake - 7.3 - July 21, 1952 Kern County Earthquake, 1952: This earthquake was the largest in the conterminous United States since the San Francisco shock of 1906. It claimed 12 lives and caused property damage estimated at $60 ...
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Meanwhile, western California is on the Pacific Plate, headed north-west, as North America itself is still headed west. The Coastal Ranges are the long seam of the San Andreas Fault, along which most of the lateral motion is evident. This has made for the earthquakes that are so much a ...
Southern California has about 10,000 earthquakes each year, although only 15 to 20 of them have a magnitude greater than 4.0. Dr.Maya Angelouwas San Francisco’s first Black female streetcar conductor. The civil rights activist, poet and author ofI Know Why the Caged Bird Singswent on to re...