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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.
Kern County Earthquake of 1952. Kern County, California 7/21/1952 at 4:52 AM. Magnitude 7.3. This earthquake was the largest in the conterminous United States since the San Francisco shock of 1906. It claimed 12 lives and caused property damage estimated at $60 million.
26 lip 2022 · The Mw 7.3 1952 Kern County earthquake was one of California’s biggest earthquakes to date. Seventy years after the main event on July 21st, 1952, it has been forgotten by many, but still remains a significant event in the history of seismology.
21 lip 2022 · Seismic activity shook chandeliers and nerves for 33 long days that summer, culminating in what we remember today as the Bakersfield earthquake of August 22, 1952, the Tehachapi quake’s deadly bookend. What happened over that uncertain, nerve-testing 33-day stretch, and how did it change the face of Bakersfield?
19 sie 2017 · Authorities survey damage to Lerner's Department Store on 19th Street in downtown Bakersfield following the Aug. 22, 1952, earthquake. Edna Ledbetter, 26, lost her life in the collapse.
21 lip 2022 · Houses shook, roads split, lives were turned upside down. The third strongest earthquake in recorded California history – then or since – changed Bakersfield and Kern County in ways no political movement or economic calamity ever could. 33 days of terror and uncertainty had begun.
