1898 Mare Island earthquake | Wikipedia audio article
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Date: 15/05/2019

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00:01:42 1 Tectonic setting
00:02:42 2 Earthquake
00:05:35 2.1 Intensity
00:07:18 2.2 Damage
00:08:16 2.3 Aftershocks
00:09:17 3 Tsunami
00:10:30 4 See also



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The 1898 Mare Island earthquake occurred in Northern California on March 30 at 23:43 local time with a moment magnitude of 5.8–6.4 and a maximum Mercalli intensity of VIII–IX (Severe–Violent). With financial losses of $350,000, its area of perceptibility included much of northern and central California and western Nevada. Damage was the most pronounced on Mare Island, a peninsula in northern San Francisco Bay. While relatively strong effects there were attributed to vulnerable buildings, moderate effects elsewhere in the San Francisco Bay Area consisted of damaged or partially collapsed structures, and there were media reports of a small tsunami and mostly mild aftershocks that followed.
Several independent investigations focused on different aspects to gain a better understanding of the intensity, magnitude, source fault, and epicenter of this pre-instrumental event. Most investigators placed it under or to the north of San Pablo Bay, though two earthquake catalogs gave specific coordinates that place it within the confines of the San Pablo Bay National Wildlife Refuge. One of the numerous strike-slip faults of the San Andreas Fault System in the North Bay are most often named as the source fault, but one seismologist's paper detailed how an unnamed dip-slip fault may have been responsible. Several more recent studies gave alternate perspectives that named specific faults as where the shock may have originated.