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The epicenter of the quake was about 15 miles southwest of Lamont, Kern County. It struck at around 9.10pm PT, with people in Fresno, Bakersfield, Santa Clarita and as far afield as Los Angeles ...
The 7.0-magnitude quake is one of at least 17 events that rattled Northern California on Thursday, with most of the seismic activity concentrated around Humboldt County.
A magnitude 4.2 earthquake was felt widely across the nation's second largest city Friday and shook things off shelves near the epicenter in a small mountain community east of Los Angeles, but ...
The 1952 Kern County earthquake occurred on July 21 in the southern San Joaquin Valley and measured 7.3 on the moment magnitude scale. The main shock occurred at 4:52 am Pacific Daylight Time (11:52 UTC ), killed 12 people, injured hundreds more and caused an estimated $60 million in property damage.
A 7.0 magnitude earthquake was reported off the coast of Northern California on Thursday, according to the United States Geological Survey. The epicenter of the "strong" quake was off the coast ...
More than 5.4 million early-warning phone alerts went out Tuesday for the magnitude 5.2 quake that struck near Bakersfield in Kern County.
Throughout recorded history, severe earthquakes have struck Kern County, including the 1857 Fort Tejon earthquake. On July 21, 1952, an earthquake occurred with the epicenter about 23 miles (37 km) south of Bakersfield.
The 1952 Kern County earthquake (M s 7.5, M w 7.3 [118]), considered the biggest earthquake to hit California since the 1906 San Francisco earthquake, [119] occurred on the White Wolf fault south of Bakersfield, and likely connected with the Walker Pass earthquake via the Scodie Lineament. [120]