Worst Earthquake Zones In California. The Kern County Fire Department has responded to at least two dozen incidents, from fires to providing medical assistance. This earthquake was one of the worst earthquakes in history in terms of magnitude but caused relatively little loss of life or property since it occurred in a remote part of Alaska.
Theoretical physicist Michio Kaku, a professor at the City College of New York, has warned in an unearthed TV interview the earthquake is coming. From Disneyland to Dodger Stadium: Videos capture second earthquake in California. There are several lesser-known fault zones The biggest earthquakes in the country are not in California.
The town of Ridgecrest, Calif. was the worst hit.
A new earthquake mapping app shows liquefaction- or landfill-prone zones in California.
Earthquakes are naturally destructive effects of our planet's constantly changing surface. Apart from causing damage locally, it reached the coast of California, though the damage across the Atlantic was limited. US and World - USGS/NEIC = National Earthquake Information Center Northern California - UCB = University of California, Berkeley Southern California - Caltech.