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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.
26 lip 2022 · The M w 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.
1 paź 2022 · In 1952, a place in Bakersfield California named Kern County expierenced a 7.7 magnitude earthquake. This Earthquake was one of the largest that has been recorded since it was felt throughout Nevada, Reno, and caused construction in Las Vegas to reinforce structural steel.
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?
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.
21 sie 2022 · In 10 terrifying, violent seconds the Aug. 22, 1952, quake steered Bakersfield’s brick-and-mortar future in a dramatically different direction, leaving behind many fallen landmarks of the city’s past.
1 sie 1999 · We have studied the seismograms recorded at the historic Berkeley (BRK) and Pasadena (PAS) stations for 20 aftershocks of the 21 July 1952 Kern County earthquake sequence.
