From the Archives: 4.6 quake hit San Diego in 1983
Forty years ago an offshore quake shook people awake in San Diego on June 29, 1983, but caused no reported injuries and little damage. The quake st...
Forty years ago an offshore quake shook people awake in San Diego on June 29, 1983, but caused no reported injuries and little damage. The quake struck at 1:09 a.m. PDT, registered 4.6 on the Richter scale and was centered about 10 miles west of San Diego in the Pacific Ocean. The strongest quake ever in San Diego was in 1862. It was estimated to be 6.0. It damaged adobe buildings in Old Town and the old lighthouse at Point Loma. The largest local quake since then was a 5.3 quake off the coast of Oceanside on July 13, 1986.