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Whittier Narrows
The Whittier Narrows is located at the southern boundary of the San Gabriel Valley, in Los Angeles County, California. It is a water gap between the Puente Hills to the east and the Montebello Hills to the west. Both the Rio Hondo and the San Gabriel River exit the San Gabriel Valley here to enter the Los Angeles Basin.
The October 1, 1987 Whittier Narrows earthquake, which measured 5.9 on the Richter Scale, had its epicenter here.
==History==
The first European land exploration of Alta California, the Spanish Portolà expedition, discovered Whittier Narrows on its return journey to San Diego. On the outbound journey, the party had followed San Jose Creek, reaching the San Gabriel River north of the Narrows. Franciscan missionary Juan Crespi noted in his diary, "We started out in the morning through the gap of the valley of San Miguel (San Gabriel ), which is very full of trees. We traveled a long while to the southwest on the edge of the stream, which, rising from a copious spring of water in the same gap, merits now the name of river; its plain is covered with willows and some slender cotton woods."
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