September 2019 is National Preparedness Month

By Patric Hedlund, TME

Hold this thought: 162 years have passed since the magnitude 7.9 Fort Tejon earthquake struck in 1857. That makes the next major rupture of the San Andreas Fault about 62 years overdue.

A breakthrough study that looks more than 1,200 years into the geologic past was published in the spring of 2017.

From 2010 to 2016 a team of geologists from all over the United States spent their summer vacations living in Pine Mountain cabins and doing fieldwork at the base of Frazier Mountain, just west of…(please see below to view full stories and photographs)

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A USGS study of the San Andreas Fault said two years ago that ‘The Big One’ is due. Scientists took six years to dig back in time 1,200 years at the base of Frazier Mountain. September 2019 is National Preparedness Month.

September is National Preparedness Month, to promote family and community planning now, and through the year. The 2019 theme is “Prepared, Not Scared.” At left: Annotated photo of a 13-foot wide section of backhoe exposure at the base of Frazier Mountain shows prehistoric faulting in red lines that offset older layers, highlighted in other colors.

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This is part of the August 30, 2019 online edition of The Mountain Enterprise.

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