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New earthquake sensors installed along Inland area's San Andreas fault line -

When the southern San Andreas Fault wakes from its long slumber one of these days, Terry Cornett may be one of the first to know about it.

He lives on a patch of land in San Bernardino County's Cajon Pass, where he regularly sees and shoots rattlesnakes and where the famous fault passes beneath the 120-year-old stone house he lives in.

"The fault runs right through the front door," said Cornett whose long gray hair, headband and wooden walking stick, topped with a polished gold hame ball from a horse harness, give him the look of both a mountain man and an aged hippie.

"Sometimes I'll be sitting at night and there'll be a 1 or 2 (magnitude quake), just 'Thumph!' "

Now, when Cornett feels the earth shift, scientists at the U.S. Geological Survey in Pasadena will see the same motion in real-time data.

A sensor installed last week a few yards from his house is one of 17 to be set up along the San Andreas from the southern Salton Sea to just north of Wrightwood   Read Full Article...