The 7.1 magnitude earthquake that rocked Southern California on Friday night rattled buildings, fractured roadways and left residents on edge, but did not cause any fatalities or major injuries, officials said.
California’s second major earthquake in less than two days struck near Ridgecrest, a Mojave Desert town about 125 miles northeast of Los Angeles. The same area wasThe Friday night earthquake was about 10 times larger, seismologists said. Shaking was felt as far away as Phoenix, Las Vegas, Baja California and Reno, according to crowd-sourced data on theAs the sun rose Saturday, officials fanned out across the remote, high desert towns of Ridgecrest and Trona to determine the extent of the damage.
“We do feel like there’s damage,” said Kern County Fire Chief David Witt at a Saturday morning news conference, “but we don’t know the extent of it yet.” Tolbert said she raised 11 children in her home of 32 years in Trona. During the shaking, the fireplace collapsed, leaving bricks scattered across her living room floor. The ceiling tiles in one room had all fallen, and the windows had shattered. The floors were filled with magazines and books, bottles and food.
It has been two decades since residents of the area felt such a major earthquake. A 5.8-magnitude quake rocked Ridgecrest, home to about 30,000 people, in 1995. A 7.1 quake struck the Hector Mine area of the Mojave Desert about 100 miles to the southeast in 1999. After more than 30 seconds of violent shaking Friday night, drivers raced to get out of Ridgecrest, not stopping at stop signs, said Matt Warren, a mine superintendent who lives on West Dolphin Avenue with his wife and his Labrador retriever, Hallie.
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