Loma Prieta is a Northern California mountain with elevation 3791 feet and located at approximately 37.114° N, 121.846 W. The peak is located about 11 miles west of Morgan Hill and within the boundaries of Santa Clara County. Northern California (sometimes NorCal) refers to the northern portion of the U.S. state of California, roughly covering all of those counties except for the ten counties which make up Southern California. ... Morgan Hill is a city located in the southern part of Santa Clara County, California. ... Location of Santa Clara County within California. ...
In this case LomaPrieta peak, the highest peak in the Santa Cruz Mountains, is several miles from the earthquake epicenter.
The occurrence of the LomaPrieta earthquake in the forecast area and with the size within a half magnitude unit of the forecast size has essentially served to validate the approach used to develop the probability estimates.
The section of fault that ruptured during the LomaPrieta earthquake compared with the area of fault that ruptured during the 1906 San Francisco earthquake is shown on Figure 5.
The LomaPrieta earthquake occurred on October 17, 1989 in the greater San Francisco Bay Area in California at 5:04 pm local time and measured 7.1 on the Richter magnitude scale (6.9 on the Moment magnitude scale).
Its epicenter was at geographical coordinates 37.04° N 121.88° W near LomaPrieta Peak in the Santa Cruz Mountains, about ten miles (16 km) northeast of the city of Santa Cruz, California, in the Forest of Nisene Marks State Park.
The LomaPrieta earthquake irrevocably changed the San Francisco Bay Area's transportation landscape.
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