The Ridgecrest aftershocks have also headed ... Perhaps the most famous example of triggered earthquakes in California occurred in 1992. An April 22 magnitude 6.1 earthquake in Joshua Tree ...

When an earthquake strikes ... a senior engineering geologist with the California Geological Survey. The Ridgecrest quakes occurred in a region already known to be profoundly complex, where ...

Hundreds of aftershocks rumbled in Southern California on Friday, the day after the region was rocked by the strongest earthquake in two decades, igniting fires, triggering a hospital evacuation ...

Ridgecrest is a town in a California desert where the 28,000 residents are used to earthquakes. As California Institute of Technology seismologist Egill Hauksson pointed out Saturday, the city was ...

Millions of people in Southern California are on edge and ... but the shock for residents in and around Ridgecrest where a 7.1 magnitude earthquake sent items flying off store shelves and people ...

I hope this is not the end': Trona, California, was trying to bounce back. Then an earthquake hit. Then a bigger one. For the Ridgecrest sequence, the USGS last updated its predictions on Monday.

The city of Ridgecrest, California was hit by the region's strongest earthquake in 20 years on Thursday. And while the area recovers from injuries, fires, and damaged homes caused by the 6.4 ...

In Ridgecrest, Calif ... “It was the locus of largest known California earthquake,” according to Romanowicz. At 2:30 a.m. on March 26, 1872, a 7.8 to 7.9-magnitude quake thrust the ground ...

As we’ve seen this holiday weekend, the whole state of California can mobilize to satisfy a small town like Ridgecrest’s needs. If a similar earthquake rocked the San Andreas fault ...

A new earthquake has been reported near Ridgecrest, California, according to the USGS. The 4.9-magnitude earthquake was recorded at 6:11 a.m. The earthquake originated about 5 miles northeast of ...

A magnitude-5 earthquake Thursday in Inyo County’s Coso Basin was California’s largest since July 6, the day of the 7.1 Ridgecrest quake. The 1:49 p.m quake was among a cluster of quakes ...