Word: bernardino
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...stuck plates along the southernmost section of the San 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...
...houses from their foundations and was felt as far away as Colorado and Washington. But it was centered in the sparsely populated Mojave Desert, some 100 miles east of Los Angeles. A second quake, with a Richter rating of 6.5, struck an even more remote region in the San Bernardino Mountains, 20 miles closer...
...must reduce smog-forming hydrocarbons by 5.8% a year, nitrogen oxides by 8% and sulfur dioxide by 8.5%. Companies that exceed the reductions can sell emission "credits" to other firms. The market covers 2,800 businesses that account for one-fourth of the pollution in Los Angeles, Riverside, San Bernardino and Orange counties...
...than anyone else how difficult it will be to clean up the smoggy skies of Southern California. As executive officer of the South Coast Air Quality Management District (AQMD), Lents is charged with enforcing antipollution regulations in the 6,600-sq.-mi. area that encompasses Los Angeles, Riverside, San Bernardino and Orange counties. The 12 million people, 8 million motor vehicles and 31,000 businesses in the area spew 1,246 tons of noxious gases into the air every...
...influx has ushered in a vibrant multicultural society, it has also had dire effects. Smog, from smokestacks and refineries but most of all from the 25 million vehicles on the freeways, was already fouling the air in Los Angeles; now it has billowed east as far as San Bernardino. In the inland reaches, near Los Angeles, from Burbank to Riverside, it is not unusual to schedule high school track and football practice at night after the evening cool dispels the pollution. Glendora, a middle-class town in the San Gabriel Valley, at times has visibility of scarcely a quarter-mile...