Source Record 466
| Description: | Source Type} Newspaper | Family History} Olson | ||
| Los Angeles Times, May 26, 1997, Sec.A, p. 21, col 6. "Like the Landers quake, the huge, magnitude 8.0 Owens Valley earthquake of March 26, 1892, which killed 27 people near Lone Pine, was an Eastern California Shear Zone quake." From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia The 1872 Owens Valley earthquake – also known as the Lone Pine earthquake – struck on March 26 at 02:30 local time in the Owens Valley (California, along the east side of the Sierra Nevada), with the epicenter near the town of Lone Pine. Its magnitude has been estimated at Mw 7.4 to 7.9, with a maximum Mercalli Intensity of X (Extreme). It was one of the most powerful earthquakes to hit California in recorded history and was similar in strength to the 1906 San Francisco earthquake. Twenty-seven people were killed and fifty-six were injured. | ||||
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