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Kitchen in the same house, after the earthquake. Appliances moved several inches away from the wall. Items were shaken off the shelves in the pantry, a room just off the kitchen. In other rooms, the damage was extremely variable. For example, a glass china cabinet in the living room was not damaged nor was its contents. Some windows were cracked, others were not. Some pictures fell from walls, other shifted out of place. Homes in the area moved as much as two to three feet off their foundations. Image Credit: Lindie Brewer. U.S. Geological Survey April 25, 1992 Cape Mendocino USA earthquake On April 25, 1992 at 11:06 am local time (April 25 at 18:06 GMT), a magnitude 7.1 earthquake occurred in the Cape Mendocino area. Two additional earthquakes, magnitudes 6.6 and 6.7 occurred the next morning (April 26 at 00:41 and 04:18 am local time). The first earthquake was located six miles north of Petrolia, California, in a sparsely populated part of southwestern Humboldt County. Five small communities were located within a 50-mile radius of these events: Honeydew, Petrolia, Rio Dell, Scotia, and Ferndale. Event Data:
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