I'm going to be argumentative about this one, at least about the reasoning... Looks like there are some large roots there that just broke away. I won't argue all the concrete/paving and destruction of the soil biome isn't bad for the tree and maybe the roots took some damage but, I know coastal weather very well. Sustained winds over 125 miles per hour with even higher gusts are not at all uncommon. Areas with large multistory buildings make it even worse by focusing that wind into a tunnel. Sometimes a tree can only take so much. Looks like it was pretty old, probably predates even the first thought of a modern sprinkler system. Likely laughed off a lot of serious storms through the decades.
I have zero experience with desert environments but I tend to doubt the trees there see the kinds of storms & winds coastal areas do. Having hiked/camped the deep woods & mountains up and down the east coast, I see lots of large trees in wilderness areas laying on their sides with giant root balls upturned and craters where they once sat. Superstorm Sandy in 2012 snapped two foot diameter healthy trees in half ten feet and more up the trunk, the roots still in the ground.
. Unfortunately my chainsaw is back in VA….time for a round trip road trip later this week. I’ll be taking a break from what I should be doing and processing some cherry 
