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America's strongest earthquakes in history as 7.0 hits California

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The largest earthquake ever to hit the continental US struck the Cascadia Subduction Zone , a fault line off the Pacific coast of the Pacific Northwest , on January 26, 1700 .

In 1811 and 1812 , a trio of powerful jolts shook the central Mississippi River Valley .

In 1886 , a 7.3 -magnitude quake devastated Charleston , South Carolina , killing 60 people.

In 1964 , a powerful magnitude 9.2 earthquake struck Anchorage , Alaska , which is the second -most powerful earthquake ever recorded in the world.

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