Palos Verdes Fault could trigger 7.8-magnitude earthquake, study shows According to a new study, a fault system running along the coast of Los Angeles and Orange counties could trigger a 7.8 ...

The last earthquake above 7.0 in California was a 7.1 temblor in Ridgecrest in 2019. It killed one person and caused $5.3 billion in damage. The only thing that prevented a far greater toll was ...

As Jacob Margolis, LAist's resident earthquake expert has previously noted: ShakeAlerts are part of California's robust ... and 11 times stronger than the Ridgecrest quakes in 2019.

A 5.5-magnitude earthquake in California could be felt throughout ... of the thousands of aftershocks that took place after the Ridgecrest earthquake. A 5.5 magnitude aftershock also took place ...

the director of the Seismological Laboratory at the University of California, Berkeley, told Business Insider. "The two Ridgecrest earthquakes were fairly large-magnitude earthquakes and they're ...

In this paper, the authors investigated low-magnitude seismicity before two major earthquakes: the 2019 Ridgecrest sequence ...