Oil put LA on the map, but may have heightened earthquake risk
By Julia Rosen Los Angeles Times Hoping to escape traffic on her way home from Los Angeles International Airport, Susan Hough drove down La Cienega Boulevard through the heart of the Inglewood Oil Field. It was a jarring scene. Scores of black pump jacks nodded in the scrubby hills, like a herd of mechanical giraffes. One hundred years ago, this would have been a common sight. Rows of derricks once