'If we have another quake, I am not going to have a house,' said a resident coping with damage in the 1,500-person town of Trona, California.
Chris WoodyardTRONA, Calif. – The biggest earthquake to hit California in two decades chose one of smallest, hardscrabble towns in the state as a prime target.
Bernard Brush steps over a new crack from the 7.1 M quake on Friday near the Old Guest House Museum in Trona, Calif. on Saturday July 6, 2019.To many of residents of tiny Trona, the quake was a knockout. Even if they escaped the toppled chimneys, broken kitchen crockery – or worse – of their neighbors, the town's residents are left with streets and sidewalks with webs of cracks that look from above like so many spider veins.
Bill Harvey contemplates what it will take to rebuild his stone fireplace after the damage it sustained in the earthquake that hit Trona on July 5, 2019.And the quake comes as the town's more active citizens were trying to stage a civic comeback that would include a lush new park, community center and a cleanup campaign called"Trona Care.
On Saturday morning, Jamie L. Acevedo, 42, was sitting outside her home with son Jeremy Chute, 17, and daughter Sammy Chute, 15, their dogs Misha and Petey and their cats Aries and Kiki. They're moving because the quake destroyed their home, knocking it off its foundation. But the quake took its toll. The bricks deck for the patio buckled. Tremors dug a hole around the gas meter, which Witherell was having inspected. He can point to how the quake created undulations in the road in front of his house and recall how the temblor was so powerful that it moved his truck 3 feet. His biggest problem, however, is the chimney.
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