By Patric Hedlund, TME

Hold this thought: It has been 160 years since the massive 1857 Fort Tejon Earthquake.

That makes the next major rupture of the San Andreas Fault about 60 years overdue.

A breakthrough study that looks more than 1,200 years into the geologic past was published last week. The fieldwork for it was all conducted at the base of our very own Frazier Mountain, in the land acquired by the Hungry Valley State Park, just west of Frazier Mountain High School.

A series of trenches have been dug…(please see below to view full stories and photographs)

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This is a satellite image of the site of the geologic trenching to study the San Andreas Fault at the foot of Frazier Mountain.

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This is part of the March 10, 2017 online edition of The Mountain Enterprise.

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