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5.8 Quake Hits in Desert Area Near Ridgecrest


5.8 Quake Hits in Desert Area Near Ridgecrest : Seismology

17. The original quake is now considered a foreshock. There have been about 3,400 shocks in the sequence, but most of them were too weak to be ...

Inyo County 5.8 earthquake felt in Ridgecrest | News

At least four aftershocks were recorded in the area ranging from magnitudes 2.5 to 4.4. A series of smaller quakes hit Lone Pine on Tuesday, topping out at ...

5.8 earthquake in Lone Pine - YouTube

A magnitude 5.8 earthquake hit about an hour north of Ridgecrest in ... area between Fresno and Bakersfield, north of the Mojave Desert.

5.8 earthquake rattles Lone Pine, Eastern Sierra | News

Wednesday's earthquake was another in a series of large aftershocks that have hit the region since the July 4 and 5, 2019, earthquakes that rattled Ridgecrest.

5.8 magnitude earthquake in Central California is widely felt

Earthquake rumbles California — 5.8-magnitude temblor strikes near Lone Pine ... A strong earthquake Wednesday shook the eastern Sierra, and was ...

History of Earthquakes near Ridgecrest, Calif. - Mojave Desert News

RIDGECREST – According to the U.S. Geological Survey, Ridgecrest and the surrounding area is very seismically active; the area is situated ...

Earthquake hits north of Ridgecrest - KERO - Bakersfield, California

A magnitude 5.8 earthquake hit about an hour north of Ridgecrest ... area between Fresno and Bakersfield, north of the Mojave Desert. The ...

Rockslide triggered after M 5.8 earthquake struck central California

On June 24, 2020, a M 5.8 earthquake hit central California. Its epicenter was located near Lone Pine, Inyo County, California, a small town ...

Magnitude 5.8 earthquake shakes remote central California - KCRA

The U.S. Geological Survey said the quake struck at 10:40 a.m. and was centered 60 miles northwest of Ridgecrest in the Owens Valley region ...

For Ridgecrest, the 'earthquake capital of the world,' temblors shake ...

Ridgecrest is shaken by its second major earthquake in two days. People slept outside and assessed the damage, and some saw the quakes as a ...

Magnitude 5.8 earthquake hits California - NEWS.am

A Magnitude 5.8 earthquake hit Mojave Desert in California on Wednesday, the United States Geological Survey reports. According to the ...

2019 Ridgecrest earthquakes - Wikipedia

Eleven months later, a Mw 5.5 aftershock took place (the largest aftershock of the sequence) to the east of Ridgecrest. The first main shock (now deemed to be a ...

Where is Ridgecrest, CA? Kern County town hit by earthquakes

A second earthquake of 5.8 magnitude struck the area Sept. 20, the seismologist said, causing over 1,900 more aftershocks in the two weeks that ...

'It felt like the house was going to collapse,' Ridgecrest resident says ...

Later that year, a 5.8 quake struck the area, then the largest to hit Southern California since the Northridge quake. Thursday's temblor ...

Ridgecrest temblors increase chance of San Andreas earthquake

The 6.4-magnitude and 7.1-magnitude Ridgecrest earthquakes caused no deaths and modest damage because they were in a remote desert area of ...

Southern California's Strongest Quake Since 1999 Strikes the High ...

Centered near the High Desert town of Ridgecrest in Kern County, the Magnitude 6.4 quake was locally damaging but rattled only nerves in the Los ...

Looking back at California's shakers, 'Ridgecrest was known as the ...

This one was 5.8 in magnitude — at the time the largest earthquake to hit Southern California since the Jan. 17, 1994 Northridge Earthquake.

California shakes from 2nd big quake in 2 days | Earth - EarthSky

The second large earthquake in two days shook the Ridgecrest area of eastern California – in the Mojave desert – last night.

Ridgecrest earthquakes could cause a San Andreas chain reaction

The 2019 Ridgecrest quakes stressed the Garlock Fault. If it ruptured in a large shock, it would likely trigger a San Andreas earthquake north of Los Angeles.

Magnitude-5.8 Earthquake Hits Central California - YouTube

The quake was centered near the town of Lone Pine. Suzanne Marques reports.