Local Earth Quakes

Live Seismographs

USGS Stanford Telescope Live Seismograph

USGS Laurel Hill Live Seismograph

See real-time recorded earthquakes as they happen on a seismograph for the past day. Fun to correlate with the next web-link to USGS Santa Cruz recent earthquake map report.

USGS Santa Cruz, California Recent Earthquakes

Real-time update of all earthquakes that have occurred during the past week for the Santa Cruz and SF South Bay regions in California.
Boulder Creek houses after the Loma Prieta earthquake in 1989. These houses sat on top of a mountain overlooking the town of Boulder Creek.

USGS California Recent Earthquakes

Real-time update of all earthquakes that have occurred during the past week for the entire state of California.

USGS California Earthquake Forecast

USGS San Francisco Bay Region Project

Information and links to geological mapping, landslides, paleontology, geophysics and 3-D modeling.

An account of the Great San Francisco 1906 Earthquake in Boulder Creek written by a young high school teacher at the time.
The Deer Creek Landslide caused by the Great Quake. Scroll to near the bottom.

"Since the mission days of the early 1800s, the occurrence of earthquakes of varying severity in the Half Moon Bay-Monterey Bay area has been a part of California's written history. Before that time the local Indians experienced earthquakes. Thus, the area has been one of seismic activity as long as man has been here and geological information indicates that the Earth shook here long before he arrived." - G. B. Griggs

Earthquakes and other Disasters

One person's story about the 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake. A good number of earthquake links can be found at the bottom of the page.

Detailed USGS map on different geological features of Santa Cruz County. BTW: The nearest fault to Boulder Creek is the Zayante Fault is just north of town.