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A magnitude 3.5 earthquake was reported at 3:48 p.m. Pacific time 22 miles from Bakersfield
An offset of 3 ft (0.91 m) was seen 17 miles (27 km) south of Bakersfield, about .5 mi (0.80 km) east of California State Route 99, and 3 miles (4.8 km) southwest of Arvin a north–south oriented row was offset with movement towards the west on the south side of the shift. At the same location, an east–west road was dislocated towards the ...
The outlook improved when Professor Andrew Lawson brought the state's first monitoring program online at the University of California, Berkeley in 1910 with seismologist Harry Wood, who was later instrumental in getting the Caltech Seismological Laboratory in Pasadena operational in the 1920s. [3] [5]
Crude Politics: The California Oil Market, 1900–1940 (U of California Press, 2005). Tompkins, Walker A. Little Giant of Signal Hill: An Adventure in American Enterprise (1964) * Welty, Earl M, and Frank J Taylor. The 76 bonanza: The fabulous life and times of the Union Oil Company of California (1966) 351pp
Bakersfield College ("BC") is a public community college located in Bakersfield, California. Its main campus is on a 153-acre (0.62 km 2 ) campus in northeast Bakersfield, with two satellite campuses : the Weill Institute in downtown Bakersfield, and the Delano Center in Delano, California , approximately 35 miles (56 km) north of Bakersfield.
The climate of California varies widely from hot desert to alpine tundra, depending on latitude, elevation, and proximity to the Pacific Coast. California 's coastal regions, the Sierra Nevada foothills, and much of the Central Valley have a Mediterranean climate , with warmer, drier weather in summer and cooler, wetter weather in winter.
Average monthly rent in all of California is $1341. Education: seven percent of Weed residents age 25 and older have a bachelor's or advanced college degree. Of the population 84.97 percent spoke English as their primary language, while 15.02 percent did not; of those 9.87 percent speak Spanish, 2.90 speak Italian, and 2.23 percent speak Laotian.
State Route 99 (SR 99) is a north–south state highway in the U.S. state of California, stretching almost the entire length of the Central Valley.From its southern end at Interstate 5 (I-5) near Wheeler Ridge to its northern end at SR 36 near Red Bluff, SR 99 goes through the densely populated eastern parts of the valley.