New earthquake sensors installed along Inland area’s San Andreas fault line
When the southern San Andreas Fault wakes from its long slumber one of these days, Terry Cornett may be one of the first to know about it.
He lives on a patch of land in San Bernardino County’s Cajon Pass, where he regularly sees and shoots rattlesnakes and where the famous fault passes beneath the 120-year-old stone house he lives in.
“The fault runs right through the front door,” said Cornett whose long gray hair, headband and wooden walking stick, topped with a polished gold hame ball from a horse harness, give him the look of both a mountain man and an aged hippie. “Sometimes I’ll be sitting at night and there’ll be a 1 or 2 (magnitude quake), just ‘Thumph!’ ” Now, when Cornett feels the earth shift, scientists at the U.S. Geological Survey in Pasadena will see the same motion in real-time data.
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