BRIEFLY MORE QUAKES HIT KERN COUNTY AREA.TEHACHAPI - The largest of an ongoing swarm of earthquakes hit Kern County in rapid succession Thursday, but apparently caused no injuries or damage. Two minor earthquakes, both estimated at magnitude 3.4, struck at 8:11 and 8:15 a.m. They were centered 17 miles northwest of Tehachapi. Eight smaller quakes hit the area between 3 a.m. and 2 p.m. Thursday. The two largest quakes were felt in the farm town of Arvin 13 miles away, but the Police Department received no calls about them, dispatcher Software that determines what pending tasks should be done next and assigns the available resources to accomplish it. It may execute other programs or generate a list for human operators to follow. See scheduler. Kathy Lopez said. The two were the largest in a swarm of more than 80 micro to minor earthquakes to hit the area since Dec. 18, U.S. Geological Survey The term geological survey can be used to describe both the conduct of a survey for geological purposes and an institution holding geological information. A geological survey records show. The swarm appears to be centered on the eastern end of the White Wolf Fault The White Wolf Fault is a fault in southern California, located north of the intersection of the San Andreas Fault and the Garlock Fault, and north of the Tehachapi Mountains. The White Wolf fault was the source of the July 21, 1952 Kern County earthquake (M=7. , which ruptured in 1952's magnitude-7.5 Tehachapi Earthquake, said Lucy Jones Dr. Lucy Jones has been a seismologist with the US Geological Survey and a Visiting Research Associate at the Seismological Laboratory of Caltech since 1983. She is currently serving as the Chief Scientist of the USGS Multi-Hazards Demonstration Project for Southern California, developing , scientist in charge of the U.S. Geological Survey office in Pasadena. - Staff and Wire Services Sheriff's selection of church debated BAKERSFIELD - The decision of the new Kern County sheriff to be sworn in at a church has sparked complaints that he is mixing religion with his public role. ``What about the separation of church and government?'' said Lois Chaney, president of the League of Women Voters League of Women Voters, voluntary public service organization of U.S. citizens. Organized in 1920 in Chicago as an outgrowth of the National American Woman Suffrage Association, it had as its original nucleus the leaders of the latter organization. of Bakersfield. ``You don't mix those. That's a no-brainer. He needs to rethink that.'' Sheriff-elect Mack Wimbish is scheduled to be sworn in Monday at Calvary Bible Church, where his family attends services. Wimbish replaces Carl Sparks, who is retiring after 12 years as sheriff. - Associated Press Associated Press: see news agency. Associated Press (AP) Cooperative news agency, the oldest and largest in the U.S. and long the largest in the world. |
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