More damaging than the earthquake was the fatal tsunami that swept the island’s shores shortly afterwards. Campers at Halape, ...

In 1979, the University of Minnesota’s Harold Mooney estimated that Minnesota’s average recurrence rate for a magnitude 4 ...

OROVILLE — Fifty years ago today, on Aug. 1, 1975 at 1:21 p.m., citizens in the City of Gold and surrounding areas were rocked by a 6.1 magnitude earthquake, the largest quake in the city’s history ...

OROVILLE — This year marks the 50th anniversary of the 6.0 earthquake that shook the city and its residents on the afternoon of Aug. 1, 1975. This newspaper is looking back in time to commemorate the ...