Southern California Regional Rocks and Roads
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In July 2010, I was able to go to Baja California with a friend. Part of our route traversed Federal Highway 2 (Mexico), which suffered some damage from the April 2010 quake. Hwy 2 had been repaired but the adjacent old alignment had not been. I was rather amazed at the amount of offset from …
From the USGS – Updated: http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eventpage/ci15481673#summary Event Time 2014-03-29 04:09:42 UTC 2014-03-28 21:09:42 UTC-07:00 at epicenter 2014-03-28 21:09:42 UTC-07:00 system time Location 33.919°N 117.944°W depth=7.5km (4.6mi) Nearby Cities 1km (1mi) S of La Habra, California 4km (2mi) W of Brea, California 5km (3mi) NNW of Fullerton, California 6km (4mi) E of La Mirada, California 546km (339mi) W of Phoenix, Arizona Tectonic Summary …
On April 4, 2010, a 7.2 earthquake struck the northern Baja California and Southern California region. I was in Oceanside at a friends house at the time. Initially, I didn’t feel it and thought the others at the party were joking. We had been talking about the Northridge Earthquake earlier in the day. Once I …
I took a trip out to the beach today (May 2). It has been a while since I’ve gone and I wanted to test out my new zipperless wetsuit. I decided on the beach between La Jolla Shores and Black’s Beach. The scenery is great and the beach is far less crowded. So, I put …
My friend Jake and I left San Diego rather early, about 4:30 am. Our goal was to get up to the San Luis Obispo area as early as we could, so that we could take our time north of there to the Gilroy / Hollister area. It seemed to have worked. As we were making …