| 1899 |
Hemet-San Jacinto, California
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6.4 |
Property damage from this
earthquake was most severe at Hemet
and San Jacinto, west of Palm
Springs. Six people were killed by
falling adobe walls at Saboba, a few
kilometers east of San Jacinto. The
estimated property loss of $50,000 appears to be low.
Only two chimneys remained standing in
Hemet, where brick buildings partly
collapsed and wood-frame buildings
shifted off their foundations. A
ground fissure about 46 meters long
extended under a house near Hemet;
the house was wrenched and twisted
severely. The fissure may have been
surface rupture in the San Jacinto
fault zone. Many brick buildings
were partly wrecked at San Jacinto.
At Riverside, chimneys were
overthrown, and brick buildings were
cracked. This severe shock was felt
north to Bakersfield (Kern County),
south to Jacumba (San Diego County),
and northeast to Needles (San
Bernardino County). It also was
reported felt at Seligman, Arizona
Many aftershocks occurred on December 25
and 26.
Abridged from Seismicity of the United States, 1568-1989 (Revised), by Carl W. Stover and Jerry L. Coffman, U.S. Geological
Survey Professional Paper 1527, United States Government Printing Office, Washington: 1993.
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| 1932 |
Changma, Gansu (Kansu), China
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7.6 |
275 deaths.
Over 1,100 houses collapsed in the
Changma area. Damage occurred from
Dunhuang to Gaotai. Surface rupture or
deformation observed from Changma east
intermittently for more than 110 km
(65 mi). There were landslides, ground
fissures and sandblows in the area.
Also felt in parts of Qinghai
(Tsinghai) and Xinjiang (Sinkiang).
One source [145] lists the death toll
as 70,000, but this does not seem to be
confirmed by the damage descriptions
nor by other sources.
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