Late last night there was a sequence of earthquakes in southern California. The mainshock is a M 4.5 earthquake. https://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eventpage/ci38695658/executive This temblor was widely felt across the southland (including by my mom, who was warned by earthquake early warni...
since 1952, when a very large earthquake (Ms = 7.7) broke along the White Wolf fault near Bakersfield, Calif. It was the largest event on the San Andreas since the 1906 (M = 8.3) San Francisco event.doi:10.1029/89EO00345Karen C. McNally...
Magnitude and Intensity:The earthquake was 7.3 and is considered a major event. It caused strong shaking in the affected areas. Location:The epicenter was near Arvin in Kern County, California. Damage:The earthquake caused significant damage in several communities, including Bakersfield, Tehachapi, ...
The idea that it just took somebody to say 'let's look back and see if there's a pattern' is pretty shocking to me."--Scott Cox, KERN, Bakersfield, 6/3/14"Nabhan's forecasts nailed three of the largest seismic events on the West Coast in 1996."-- Erin Aubrey, Staff Writer, ...
3D Fault Geometry and Basin Evolution in the Northern Continental Borderland Offshore Southern California Catherine Sarah Schindler, B.S. A Thesis Submitted to the Department of Physics and Geology California State University Bakersfield In Partial Fulfillment for the Degree of Masters of Science in ...
Matt Herman, California State University-Bakersfield, mherman2@csub.edu William Barnhart, USGS Earthquake Hazards Program, wbarnhart@usgs.gov Kevin Furlong, Pennsylvania State University, kpf1@psu.edu Harley Benz, USGS Geologic Hazards Science Center, benz@usgs.gov ...
In contrast, however, the Kern General Hospital was damaged heavily. Multistory steel and concrete structures sustained minor damage, which commonly was confined to the first story. Similar kinds of damage also occurred at Arvin, which lies southeast of Bakersfield and west of Tehachapi. Reports ...
California is a land of variety and contrast (对比). Almost every type of physical land feature, sort of arctic ice fields and tropical jungles can be found within its borders. Sharply contrasting types of land are often very close to one another. People 1iving in Bakersfield, for instance,...
Southern California has been rattled by several quakes in recent days. On Monday, amagnitude 4.4 temblor in El Sereno, on the Eastside of Los Angeles,hit. Last week, a magnitude 5.2quake near Bakersfieldand the Grapevine was widely felt. ...