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...Andreas a 40% chance of snapping sometime in the next 30 years. At the same time, they warned that a rupture of this part of the fault & could trigger earthquakes along neighboring segments, possibly as far west as San Bernardino and nearly as far north as Bakersfield. Result: the long-feared Big One -- an earthquake of magnitude 8, five times as powerful as Landers -- on the doorstep of the populous Los Angeles Basin. Now, in the seismic spoor of the Landers earthquake, scientists have found reason to suspect that the timetable for this disaster may have been fast-forwarded...
...afternoon in early January, Captain Robert Woods, head of the Los Angeles police department's air-support squad, was monitoring a high-speed car chase from his downtown office. A taxi was speeding south from Bakersfield along Interstate 5, pursued by several highway-patrol cars. Suddenly, after following the chase for more than an hour, Woods looked out his window and could see where it had ended. Nearly a dozen helicopters were circling the area -- six of them from local TV stations, which had been broadcasting the chase live. "Enough is enough," Woods said to himself. "Next...
...after the convention, Ganz returned to Bakersfield a different...
...grew up in Bakersfield but never saw it like I saw it after working in Mississippi," he says. "It was such a transforming experience. I saw things I didn't see before...
...When I went to Bakersfield ...Marshall was there," Chavez says. "After my talk, he came up to say hello, and someone told me he had just come from Mississippi. I made a point of talking to him some more...