…could trigger the San Andreas north of LA.
Nice picture. It shows how the two faults define the Mojave desert, separating it from the Tehachapis and southern Sierra. A major quake on that fault would be bad for the LA basin, but not as much as a 7 on the Newport-Inglewood fault, which last acted up in the 1930s in Long Beach. It is just a few miles east of our house.
Yet another reason I’m glad I left California…Surviving 5 major earthquakes was sufficient.
The Southern part of the San Andreas runs through the San Bernardino Mountains. It passes within a few blocks of the home of some old friends of mine, and I really worry every time I hear of a quake in the region.
Ditto, Flight-ER-Doc.
I used to live in Santa Clarita…You can see the stress stratification from earthquakes right in the freeway cuts on Highway 14…
I used to live in SoCal. I think earthquakes are what I miss the most.
My whole family was nearly obliterated in the 1959 magnitude 7.5 Yellowstone earthquake in Montana. (Later I got caught up in the nearly as large, 1989 Loma Prieta quake in No. Cal.) It’s not just California.
I’ve been to Earthquake Lake, which was formed by that quake. A mountainside came down, blocked a river valley and obliterated most of a camping area. I didn’t grasp the scale until I saw it.
I lived in Ridgecrest and worked in Trona for almost 10 years. Glad I got out.