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Today's Earthquake Fact:
Transform faults are found where plates slide past one another. The San Andreas fault, along the coast of California and northwestern Mexico, is an example of a transform-fault plate boundary. Earthquakes at transform faults tend to occur at shallow depths and form fairly straight linear patterns.

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Note: All earthquake dates are UTC, not local time.


Year Location Magnitude Comment
1989 Off the coast of Jalisco, Mexico

Epicenter
6.7 Felt along the coast of Jalisco. Also felt at Guadalajara and in the southern part of the Mexico City area.
From Significant Earthquakes of the World 1989.

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