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Alert: Desk-Phone Outage, Tuesday, August 20, 2019 WHAT IS IT? The Network Operations team will be performing upgrades to the network as part of the Center's ARCLAN Distribution upgrade project. Desk-phone outages will be experienced as new switch connections are made during the upgrade. ... WHAT IS THE IMPACT? During the upgrade, brief interruptions to internal and external network resources will occur. This includes inbound and outbound calling during the maintenance window. If at ARC, during the upgrade, please use mobile phones to make all calls, including calling 911 for emergencies, during the outage window. WHEN IS IT HAPPENING? This network upgrade is scheduled to be performed, Tuesday, August 20, 2019, 7:00 p.m. - 9:00 p.m. (Pacific). WHAT ACTIONS ARE REQUIRED? If you are at ARC during the upgrade, please use mobile phones to make all calls, including calling 911 for emergencies.

Really good information for those who live in and around the urban-interface zones.

Tectonic Summary: On July 5th, 2019, at 8:19pm PST a magnitude 7.1 earthquake occurred as the result of shallow strike slip faulting in the crust of the North A...merica plate in eastern California, southwest of Searles Valley. Focal mechanism solutions for the earthquake indicate rupture occurred on a steeply dipping fault as the result of either right lateral slip on a plane striking NW-SE, or as left lateral slip on a plane striking SW-NE. At the location of this earthquake, the Pacific plate moves to the northwest with respect to the North America plate at a rate of approximately 2 inches/yr. The location of the earthquake falls within the Eastern California shear zone, a region of distributed faulting associated with motion across the Pacific/North America plate boundary, and an area of high seismic hazard. More detailed studies will be required to precisely identify the causative fault associated with this event, though seismic activity over the past 2 days has been occurring on two conjugate fault structures in the Airport Lake Fault Zone. This earthquake occurred approximately 34 hours after and 6.8 miles northwest of a M6.4 event in the same region, on July 4th, 2019, at 10:33am PST. The July 4th event was preceded by a short series of small foreshocks (including a M4.0 earthquake 30 minutes prior), and was followed by a robust sequence of aftershocks, including almost 250 M2.5+ earthquakes (up until the M7.1 event). Those events aligned with both nodal planes (NE-SW and NW-SE) of the focal mechanism solution of the M6.4 event, which was very similar in faulting style to today’s M7.1 earthquake. The sequence includes two other M5+ earthquakes, one of which occurred 20 seconds before the M7.1 event. The M7.1 earthquake occurred at the NW extension of the prior sequence. While commonly plotted as points on maps, earthquakes of this size are more appropriately described as slip over a larger fault area. Strike-slip-faulting events of the size of the July 5, 2019, earthquake are typically about 45x10 miles (length x width). This region of eastern California has hosted numerous moderate sized earthquakes. Over the past 40 years, prior to the July 4th event, 8 other M5+ earthquakes have occurred within 30 miles of the July 6th, 2019 earthquake. The largest of these was a M5.8 event on September 20, 1995, just 1.8 miles to the west of today’s event, which was felt strongly in the China Lake-Ridgecrest area, and more broadly from Los Angeles to Las Vegas.

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Major fire in apartment complex under construction.