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| | Catalog of Santa Barbara Earthquakes, 1800-1950 |
 | | Even then, the Santa Barbara area was on the edge of the network, and the azimuthal distribution of seismographs was not optimal for locating earthquakes with a precision of better than about 10 km. |
 | | Santa Barbara, located as it is between the sea to the south and the mountains to the north - and only scattered ranches to the west and east, is, in effect, only one datum for any given earthquake. |
 | | The earthquake of 1812 is regarded as one of the largest earthquakes in California history, based evidently on the size of the felt area, the extensive destruction to missions in Santa Barbara County, and the report of seismic sea waves. |
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