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06-60704. GNIS feature IDs. 1652783, 2410944. Website. www.ridgecrest-ca.gov. Ridgecrest is a city in Kern County, California, United States, along U.S. Route 395 in the Indian Wells Valley in northeastern Kern County, adjacent to the Naval Air Weapons Station China Lake (NAWS, or China Lake). It was incorporated as a city in 1963.
The July 2019 Ridgecrest earthquakes consist of three main shocks of magnitudes 6.4, 5.4, and 7.1, each followed by a flurry of aftershocks of substantially lower magnitude. The aftershocks of the Ridgecrest earthquakes reveal two fault zones. The July 4 M 6.4 event (orange dot) occurred on the SW-NE fault where it intersects the NW-SE oriented ...
October 8, 1999 [1] Designated NHLD. July 8, 2001 [2] Coso Rock Art District is a rock art site containing over 100,000 Petroglyphs by Paleo-Indians and/or Native Americans. [1] The district is located near the towns of China Lake and Ridgecrest, California. Big and Little Petroglyph Canyons were declared a National Historic Landmark in 1964.
The installation is located in the Western Mojave Desert region of California, approximately 150 miles (240 km) north of Los Angeles.Occupying land in three counties – Kern, San Bernardino, and Inyo – the installation's closest neighbors are the city of Ridgecrest and the communities of Inyokern, Trona, and Darwin.
Coso Volcanic Field. A basaltic lava flow that is typical of the process that created the stepped terraces of Coso as it flowed across the landscape, producing a more or less flat surface eroding to a sheer front. The Coso Volcanic Field is located in Inyo County, California, at the western edge of the Basin and Range geologic province and ...
State Route 178 (SR 178) is a state highway in the U.S. state of California that exists in two constructed segments. The gap in between segments is connected by various local roads and State Route 190 through Death Valley National Park. The western segment runs from State Route 99 in Bakersfield and over the Walker Pass in the Sierra Nevada to ...
630/sq mi (240/km 2) Time zone. UTC-8 (Pacific) • Summer (DST) UTC-7 (PDT) GNIS feature ID. 2804429 [2] Ridgecrest Heights is a census-designated place (CDP) in northeastern Kern County, California, United States, bordered in the north and east by Ridgecrest. The population of Ridgecrest Heights was 380 in the 2020 census.
English: ShakeMap from USGS for the magnitude 7.1, maximum intensity 9.37 earthquake with tsunami near 17.4 km (10.8 mi) NNE of Ridgecrest, CA (17 km NNE of Ridgecrest, CA), 8 km depth. Date 6 July 2019, 03:19:53