Highway 1 through Big Sur will be repaired. How long that takes is unclear
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Caltrans and construction crews work on the collapsed Highway 1 near Rat Creek in Big Sur on Thursday.LiPo Ching / Special to The ChronicleShow MoreShow Less
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Local residents Mark Readdie and daughter Fiona walk along Highway 1 and look at a Mill Creek debris flow on Thursday.Kodiak Greenwood / Special to The ChronicleShow MoreShow Less
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The washed-out segment of Highway 1 near Rat Creek is seen Thursday.Kodiak Greenwood / Special to The ChronicleShow MoreShow Less
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A bathtub sits amid the debris at Mill Creek.Kodiak Greenwood / Special to The ChronicleShow MoreShow Less
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Fifty Years Ago, A Major Earthquake Shifted the Course of Seismology in SoCal
February 9, 2021Caltech
The 1971 San Fernando quake led the USGS and Caltech to join forces, expanding seismic monitoring through the region
February 9 marks 50 years since the devastating 1971 San Fernando earthquake that rocked Los Angeles. The magnitude-6.6 temblor was the worst the region had experienced for decades. But out of the tragedy came a period of tremendous advances in earthquake science and also in increasing public safety during earthquakes in Southern California.
Just seconds after 6 a.m. on February 9, 1971, a 12-mile section of an under-appreciated fault along the San Gabriel Mountains suddenly and dramatically slipped. The entire Los Angeles region was rattled, but the shaking was particularly violent in the northeastern corner of the San Fernando Valley. By its end, two large hospitals (including one that was just months old) lay destroyed, powerlines had fallen, gas lines had explo