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A second view of Yucca Bowl (bowling alley) located on the eastern edge of the Yucca Valley business district. The Yucca Bowl was housed in a north-south oriented, steel-frame, masonry building. The east wall of the reinforced masonry building pulled away from the building and fell on the adjacent vacant lot. Portions of the roof also collapsed and the interior of the building was exposed. The west wall of the structure had reportedly been strengthened to withstand the prevailing strong westerly winds. The failure of the east wall has been attributed to inadequate roof-to-wall connections. The west wall was only lightly cracked by the earthquake. A K-Mart department store, located about 1/2 mile west of the Yucca Bowl, was the other heavily damaged building. Image Credit: Lindie Brewer. U.S. Geological Survey June 28, 1992 Landers and Big Bear USA earthquake Southern California residents were rudely awakened Sunday morning June 28, 1992 at 04:57 am (June 28 at 11:57 GMT), by an earthquake of magnitude 7.6 (Ms) followed by a smaller 6.7 (Ms) magnitude earthquake about three hours later (June 28 at 15:05 GMT). The largest shock occurred approximately 6 miles southwest of Landers, California and 110 miles east of Los Angeles. The second earthquake was entered approximately 8 miles southeast of Big Bear City in the San Bernardino Mountains near Barton Flats. A distance of 17 miles and 7,000 feet in elevation separate the two earthquake locations. Event Data:
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