1992 Landers earthquake

Magnitude-7.3 tremor in California October 2024 1992 Landers earthquake 1992-06-28 11:57:35 ci3031111 289086 June 28, 1992 4:57:35 am PDT USGS_ShakeMap_-_1992_Landers_earthquake.jpg USA California 7.3 w y 0.68 mi km us on 34.217 N 116.433 W region:US inline, titleLanders Earthquake http://www.data.scec.org/significant/landers1992.html Southern California Earthquake Data Center August 15, 2014 https://web.archive.org/web/20140305033256/http://www.data.scec.org/significant/landers1992.html March 5, 2014 dead Strike-slip 9M 7.3 – Landers, California Earthquake https://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eventpage/ci3031111/impact $92 million Southern California United States 6.1 w y April 23 at 4:51 2−3 minutes 3 killed 400+ injured Landers quake bowling alley.jpg Damage to the Yucca Lanes Bowling Center from the 1992 quake USGS ShakeMap made for the event The 1992 Landers earthquake occurred on Sunday, June 28 with an epicenter near the town of Landers, California, in San Bernardino County.http://www.scecdc.scec.org/chrono_index/landersq.html Landers Earthquake November 4, 2007 Southern California Earthquake Data Center https://web.archive.org/web/20071025002708/http://www.scecdc.scec.org/chrono_index/landersq.html October 25, 2007 dead The shock had a moment magnitude of 7.3 and a maximum Mercalli intensity of IX (Violent). Earthquake At 4:57 a.m. local time (11:57 UTC) on June 28, 1992, a magnitude 7.3 earthquake awoke much of Southern California. Though it turned out it was not the so-called "Big One" as many people would think, it was still a very strong earthquake. The shaking lasted for two to three minutes. Although this earthquake was much more powerful than the 1994 Northridge earthquake, the damage and loss of life were minimized by its location in the sparsely populated Mojave Desert. The earthquake was a right-lateral strike-slip event, and involved the rupture of several different faults over a length of 75 to 85 km mi on.Sébastien Leprince François Ayoub Yann Klinger Jean-Philippe Avouac 2007 IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium Co-Registration of Optically Sensed Images and Correlation (COSI-Corr): An operational methodology for ground deformation measurements July 2007 1943–1946 10.1109/IGARSS.2007.4423207 http://www.tectonics.caltech.edu/slip_history/spot_coseis/pdf_files/LeprinceIGARSS2007.pdf IEEE International 978-1-4244-1211-2 10413144 The names of those that were involved are the Johnson Valley, Kickapoo (also known as Landers), Homestead Valley, Homestead/Emerson, Emerson Valley and Camp Rock faults. The surface rupture extended for 70 km mi on, with a maximum horizontal displacement of 5.5 m ft on and a maximum vertical displacement of 1.8 m ft on.https://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/hazel/view/hazards/earthquake/event-more-info/5328 Significant Earthquake Information National Geophysical Data Center / World Data Service (NGDC/WDS): NCEI/WDS Global Significant Earthquake Database. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information. 10.7289/V5TD9V7K March 21, 2024 Damage Damage to the area directly surrounding the epicenter was severe. Roads were buckled. Buildings and chimneys collapsed. There were also large surface fissures. To the west in the Los Angeles Basin damage was much less severe. The majority of the damage in the Los Angeles area involved items that had fallen off shelves. Unlike the 1994 Northridge earthquake nineteen and a half months later, no freeway bridges collapsed because of the epicenter's remote location. Electricity was cut to thousands of residents but was generally restored within two to three hours. There was also some damage to homes from water displaced from swimming pools. Loss of life in this earthquake was minimal. Two people died as a result of heart attacks, and a 3-year-old boy from Massachusetts, who was visiting Yucca Valley with his parents, died when bricks from a chimney collapsed into a living room where he was sleeping.Gebe Martinez June 30, 1992 The Landers and Big Bear Quakes : Death of Toddler Touches Many in Close-Knit Town Los Angeles Times https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1992-06-30-mn-1287-story.html live December 10, 2021 https://web.archive.org/web/20110502061355/http://articles.latimes.com/1992-06-30/news/mn-1287_1_desert-town May 2, 2011 More than 400 people sustained injuries as a result of the earthquake.M7.3 – Southern California https://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eventpage/usp00059sn#general_summary United States Geological Survey Related events 300px|thumb | Recording of the June 28 earthquakes on a seismograph at Griffith Observatory The quake was preceded by the 6.1 magnitude Joshua Tree earthquake at 4:51 on April 23, 1992 (UTC), which was south of the future Landers epicenter.http://www.agu.org/pubs/crossref/1993/93JB02384.shtml The 1992 Landers Earthquake Sequence: Seismological Observations November 5, 2010 September 29, 2012 https://web.archive.org/web/20120929070819/http://www.agu.org/pubs/crossref/1993/93JB02384.shtml deadBoyer Edward J. Reich Kenneth 6.1 Quake Felt in Wide Area of Southland Los Angeles Times April 23, 1992 https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1992-04-23-mn-1286-story.html April 12, 2020 The 6.5 magnitude Big Bear earthquake, which hit about three hours after the Landers mainshock, was originally considered an aftershock. However, the United States Geological Survey determined that this was a separate, but related, earthquake. These two earthquakes are considered a regional earthquake sequence, rather than a main shock and aftershock.https://neic.usgs.gov/neis/eq_depot/2001/eq_010213 El Salvador USGS Earthquake Hazards Program October 10, 2008 August 11, 2014 https://web.archive.org/web/20140811174312/http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eqarchives/year/2001/2001_02_13.php dead The magnitude 5.7 Little Skull Mountain (LSM) earthquake the following day, June 29, 1992, at 10:14 UTC near Yucca Mountain, Nevada, is also considered part of the regional sequence and may have been triggered by surface wave energy produced by the Landers earthquake. Foreshock activity, in the form of a significant increase in micro-earthquakes, was observed at Little Skull Mountain following the Landers earthquake, and the activity continued until the main LSM earthquake.https://pubs.usgs.gov/dds/dds-058/Ch_K.pdf The 1992 Little Skull Mountain Earthquake Sequence, Southern Nevada Test Site Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America 91 6 1595–1606 2001BuSSA..91.1595S Smith K. D. 2001 10.1785/0120000089 Theories The Landers earthquake and the other large quakes associated with it in the Mojave region have been attributed to two possible long-term trends. One of these is that the San Andreas Fault may be in the process of being replaced as the plate boundary (between the North American plate and the Pacific plate) by a new trend across the Mojave and east of the Sierra Nevada Mountains. The other is that these quakes were a manifestation of the propagation of rifting coming up from the Gulf of California.Diane LaMacchia Yucca Valley earthquake surprised experts http://www.lbl.gov/Science-Articles/Archive/yucca-valley-earthquake.html Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory July 17, 1992 November 4, 2007 https://web.archive.org/web/20071012013512/http://lbl.gov/Science-Articles/Archive/yucca-valley-earthquake.html October 12, 2007 live In popular culture The earthquake is featured in the television documentary series produced by GRB Entertainment, aired on The Learning Channel and other television channels around the world, about natural disasters titled Earth's Fury (also known internationally as Anatomy of Disaster) in an episode entitled "Earthquake!"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QRXO39SHOa8 https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211214/QRXO39SHOa8 December 14, 2021 live Earthquake! Anatomy of Disaster 1 3 1997 The Learning Channel October 6, 2020 YouTube See also California List of earthquakes in 1992 List of earthquakes in California List of earthquakes in the United States 1999 Hector Mine earthquake 2010 Baja California earthquake 2019 Ridgecrest earthquakes References The 1992 Landers Earthquake Sequence: Seismological observations E. Hauksson L. M. Jones Lucy Jones K. Hutton Kate Hutton D. Eberhart-Phillips 1993 Donna Eberhart-Phillips Journal of Geophysical Research 98 B11 19835–19858 10.1029/93jb02384 1993JGR....9819835H https://authors.library.caltech.edu/42750/1/jgrb9241.pdf Further reading Reconnaissance field investigation of the Landers earthquake (Ms 7.5) of June 28, 1992, San Bernadino County [sic], California, USA http://www.nzsee.org.nz/db/Bulletin/Archive/25%283%290230.pdf K. Berryman 1992 Bulletin of the New Zealand Society for Earthquake Engineering 25 3 230–241 10.5459/bnzsee.25.3.230-241 free Triggered Surface Slips in the Coachella Valley Area Associated with the 1992 Joshua Tree and Landers, California, Earthquakes http://bssa.geoscienceworld.org/content/90/4/832.abstract? M. J. Rymer 2000 Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America 90 4 832–848 10.1785/0119980130 2000BuSSA..90..832R subscription External links Landers Earthquake at the Southern California Earthquake Data Center Big Bear Earthquake at the Southern California Earthquake Data Center Studying the M7.3 1992 Landers, California earthquake: original forms and initial modifications – Ramon Arrowsmith 289086 1992 Category:1992 earthquakes Category:Strike-slip earthquakes Category:1992 in California Category:History of the Mojave Desert region Category:Geology of San Bernardino County, California Category:History of San Bernardino County, California