If you were living in the Morongo Basin in 1992, you remember the Landers earthquake, which struck on June 28. But do you remember a 6.1 magnitude earthquake that hit two months earlier on April 22? If you do, managing editor Tami Roleff says some graduate students want to talk to you…
Graduate students from Northwestern University in Illinois are working on an earthquake project sponsored by the American Geophysical Union in collaboration with the U.S. Geological Survey. They want to hear first-hand accounts from people who remember a 6.1-magnitude earthquake that was centered in Joshua Tree on April 22, 1992, and hit at 9:50 p.m. They’ll be conducting in-person interviews, collecting oral histories, and will have questionnaires for residents to complete. The researchers will be in the Morongo Basin September 11-15, and at the Joshua Tree library on Saturday, September 14, from noon to 2 p.m.
To contact the researchers, email:
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FROM THE RESEARCHERS:
We will be collecting first-hand accounts from people who experienced the M 6.1 earthquake of April 22, 1992 in Joshua Tree. These accounts will contribute to a database of seismic shaking observations in California going back 160 years. This database will be publicly available to scientists and researchers for a variety of purposes. We intend to use it to study how well seismic hazard maps, which are used to design earthquake-resistant buildings, actually predict shaking.
We will be stopping at places all over the area to conduct in-person interviews, collecting oral histories on tape and having questionnaires to fill out for those who remember the earthquake. We will be at the Joshua Tree Library on Saturday September 14 from 12-2 pm conducting interviews. We are looking for recollections about seismic effects and damage – for instance, did items fall off shelves, did furniture move, did buildings suffer any damage?
