California Disasters

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Last updated: September 11, 2020

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Date	Description	Disaster
January 9, 1857	San Andreas Fault ruptures, causing a magnitude 7.9 earthquake - the largest ever recorded in California	Fort Tejon Earthquake
1861	The entire Central Valley is flooded up to 30 feet in snowmelt and rainwater	Great Flood of 1861
April 18, 1906	Earthquake and resultant fires destroy much of a city	San Francisco Earthquake
1914-1921	Until 1980, this was the most recent volcanic eruption in the contiguous United States	Mt Lassen
March 12, 1928	Dam break sends 140-foot wave down a canyon, killing around 450 people	Saint Francis Dam Collapse

Date	Description	Disaster
March 27, 1964	Alaskan earthquake triggers 21-foot tsunami, killing 12 people and severely damaging the town of Crescent City	Good Friday Tsunami
January 17, 1994	57 people die in the Los Angeles Area after this magnitude 6.4 earthquake	Northridge Earthquake
2011-2016	12 months are recorded as the driest on record in the state	2010's California Drought
January 9, 2018	Debris flows triggered by intense rain on slopes denuded by wildfires kill 21 people in Santa Barbar County	Montecito Debris Flows
August 2020	At 746,755 acres, this fire is the largest in recorded California history	August Fire

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