BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KGET) — April is Earthquake Preparedness Month, and with constant seismic activity in California, both experts and officials want the Kern County community to be ready.
Matthew Herman, an assistant professor at CSU Bakersfield, said Kern County is on the boundary of two tectonic plates.
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“So if you go west of here, you get to the Pacific plate right here, we’re on the North American plate and they’re trying to move past each other. But along their boundary, which we know is the San Andreas fault, they’re stuck and they can’t move past each other,” Herman said.
Herman has studied seismology for years. While Kern County isn’t directly on the San Andreas Fault, it has seen its fair share of quakes…