I would say it's a very typical Imperial Valley swarm.

I was a typical Valley teen, in smoggy Van Nuys.

We know the quake was about magnitude 7.0, and we know the epicenter was located 32 miles north of Joshua Tree which would put it in the Mojave Desert area in Southern California,

We know the quake was about magnitude 7.0 and we know the epicenter was located 32 miles north of Joshua Tree, which would put it in the Mojave Desert area in Southern California,

One of the things that technology might get us is a number of seconds warning that the quake has already started, which might have stopped that train, for example.

It's entirely the location. There's nothing out there. It's a Marine base on one side, and BLM (Bureau of Land Management) land on the other.