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Sierra Madre Earthquake | ||||
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TIME June 28, 1991 / 7:43 am PDT LOCATION 34° 15.54' N, 118° 00.06' W 19 km (12 miles) northeast of Pasadena MAGNITUDE ML 5.8 TYPE OF FAULTING reverse FAULTS INVOLVED Clamshell - Sawpit Canyon Fault DEPTH 11.97 km
This earthquake occurred on the Clamshell -
Sawpit Canyon fault, an offshoot of the
Sierra Madre fault zone in the San Gabriel
Mountains. Because of its depth and moderate size, it caused no surface
rupture, though it triggered rockslides that blocked some mountain roads.
Roughly $40 million in property damage occurred in the San Gabriel Valley.
Unreinforced masonry buildings, like those seen in the photographs below,
were the hardest hit.
Two deaths resulted from this earthquake -- one person was killed in
Arcadia, and one person in Glendale died from a heart attack. In all,
at least 100 others were injured, though the injuries were mostly minor.
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The aftershock sequence of this earthquake was very small, with
none of the aftershocks large enough to cause additional damage.
This scarcity of aftershocks can be seen on a
map of all earthquakes in 1991.
Normally the symbol for a large earthquake is completely buried
by the symbols of its aftershocks. That's not the case with the
Sierra Madre earthquake; its symbol (the bright yellow circle)
shows up quite clearly on the map.
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