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1954 - A North Coast Earthquake Enigma/Blue Lake Earthquake
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Brown Bag Lunch Online Presentation with Lori Dengler, Director, Humboldt Earthquake Education Center, Cal Poly Humboldt :
On Dec. 21, 1954, a magnitude 6.5 earthquake struck somewhere south of Blue Lake. It’s the only quake in our historic catalog that may have been centered on a mapped surface fault. For the past three years, a team of seismologists has been digging into this earthquake. What they've found provides a glimpse of seismologic history, a better picture of regional earthquake sources, and what a shallow surface rupture could mean on the North Coast.
A campus institute since 1984, the Humboldt Earthquake Education Center works closely with the Redwood Coast Tsunami Work Group to develop preparedness materials and outreach to improve earthquake and tsunami prepareness in the three Northern California counties - https://kamome.humboldt.edu/, https://rctwg.humboldt.edu/
Lori Dengler is an emeritus professor of geology at Cal Poly Humboldt and an expert in tsunami and earthquake hazards. Since retiring in 2015, she continues to work on earthquake and tsunami preparedness efforts on North Coast through the Redwood Coast Tsunami Work Group and nationally as a member of NOAA’s Tsunami Science Technical Advisory Panel. She writes the weekly “Not My Fault” column in the Times-Standard and recently spearheaded the newest edition of "Living on Shaky Ground".
The presentation will begin promptly at noon.
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