Use controls or your thumb to move and zoom. Thousands of earthquakes are recorded in California annually, but the vast majority are incredibly minor. Several hundred reach a magnitude of 3.0 ...

A light, 4.1-magnitude earthquake struck in Southern California on Sunday ... prompt U.S.G.S. scientists to update the shake-severity map. An aftershock is usually a smaller earthquake that ...

Last year, Southern California experienced 15 seismic sequences with at least one magnitude 4 or higher earthquake — the highest total in 65 years. March 10, 2025 There’s been an uptick in ...

Such an earthquake would be tied for the 13th-strongest to ever hit California. The state's other 6.9M earthquake hit the Bay Area in 1989, causing up to $10 billion in damages, injuring 3,753 ...