- Author
- EQE Engineering
- Title
- Cape Mendocino Earthquakes of April 25 and 26, 1992.
- Coporate
- EQE Engineering, San Francisco, CA
- Keywords
- earthquakes | damage | lifelines
- Identifiers
- seismicity; ground motion; lifelines; Cape Mendocino area of northwest California, April 25-26, 1992; North Coast Region; Petrolia, California; Scotia and Rio Dell, California; Fortuna, California; Ferndale, California; Loleta, California; Eureka, California
- Abstract
- On April 25 and 26, 1992, three earthquakes of major importance to the study of earthquake engineering occurred in the Cape Mendocino area of northwest California. Records at Cape Mendocino indicate that the initial shock produced the largest ground motion ever recorded in California.