temblor

The Big Bear earthquake of 1992 was the second of a one-two punch of temblors that occurred on the same day.

That temblor significantly damaged 25 such structures, including the then-brand-new Automobile Club of Southern California building in Santa Clarita, which almost collapsed.

Small temblors are also common around the Geysers geothermal steam field in California.

The temblors have coincided with viral panic stemming from the 2021 reprint of a comic book that many are now interpreting as a clairvoyant prediction of a major earthquake.

And the Santa Barbara temblor revealed just how dangerous brick buildings built in that era could be.