Lateral to the artery, inside the carotid sheath with the common carotid, are the internal jugular vein and vagus nerve. At the lower part of the neck, on the right side of the body, the right recurrent laryngeal nerve crosses obliquely behind the artery; the right internal jugular vein diverges from the artery.
Alaska had the largest earthquake ever recorded in North America, but that's not part of the continental states.. Whenever anyone mentions the largest, they always mention the one on Good Friday in 1964 in Anchorage, Alaska. As far as Lower 48 (continental) probably 1906 in San Francisco. Wintergirl Â· 9 years ago.
Tehachapi is best known for the 7.3 1952 Kern County earthquake on the White Wolf Fault in 1952. At the time, the earthquake was the largest in Southern California in the twentieth century and the largest since the 1872 Lone Pine earthquake. It was felt as far away as Reno, Nevada.