Word: tehachapi
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Water by Phone. The changing face of the desert reflects the great migration. New cement plants have sprung up in the Mojave's Ivanpah, Oro Grande and Tehachapi. There are a new steam plant and expanded manganese mine near Las Vegas, Molybdenum Corp. of America's new 50-million-ton "rare earth" mine at Mountain Pass, Calif., a $28 million Hughes guided-missile plant and a Douglas Aircraft experimentation plant at Tucson, industry" new plants at aviation, Phoenix, electronics and a and brand-new, "smokeless $120 million Magma Copper mine, mill smelter and town at San Manuel, Ariz...
Like most of Southern California, the flat San Joaquin Valley city of Bakersfield (pop. 35,000) had been trembling with minor settling shocks ever since the earthquake of July 21, which centered in the nearby Tehachapi Mountains (TIME, July 28). One afternoon last week, while the air was hot and still, Bakersfield heard the familiar, low-pitched rumble, this time louder than ever. Floors, sidewalks, streets and front yards gave an extra hard jolt and a twist. In the downtown areas, timbers and masonry crashed down and plate-glass windows shattered...
...California Institute of Technology rated the Bakersfield quake at Intensity 6 (on the Richter scale of 10) as compared with 7.5 for the shake last month. They figured that both quakes originated along the Garlock fault, a major fracture in the earth's structure paralleling the Tehachapi range. The flat motion in both quakes indicated that both resulted from a slight horizontal slipping of the fault, instead of a vertical slippage...
...jumped from their beds, felt the floor move eerily under their bare feet, heard an unearthly jangle of church bells, burglar alarms and shattering window glass at 4:52 a.m. They learned that they had felt the waves of a major earthquake, centering near the little mountain town of Tehachapi, Calif, (pop. 1,685), 75 miles north of Los Angeles...
...daylight, the first word from Tehachapi reached the outside world. Telephone lines had broken, and people had had to go miles to put in their calls for help...