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Last year, the community of Ridgecrest in Kern County, Calif., was rocked by more than 3,000 earthquakes — including magnitude 6.4 and 7.1 earthquakes — which in turn stressed the 160-mile-long Garlock fault that stretches along the Mojave Desert and connects the site of the Ridgecrest quakes to the massive San Andreas fault.
Last year, the community of Ridgecrest in Kern County, Calif., was rocked by more than 3,000 earthquakes — including magnitude 6.4 and 7.1 earthquakes — which in turn stressed the 160-mile-long Garlock fault that stretches along the Mojave Desert and connects the site of the Ridgecrest quakes to the massive San Andreas fault. While this earthquake wasn’t the massive seismic event seismologists have predicted, its impact focused attention on the need for continual improvements in the way we plan, construct and maintain our cities in the intermountain region of the U.S. The ongoing crisis of the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic confronting many major U.S. cities adds another level of risk — the potential for natural disasters to hit communities already experiencing other emergencies.
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