This was a M7.1 on the same fault as has been producing the Searles Valley sequence.

Gavin Newsom said in a statement that he has asked President Donald Trump to declare a state of emergency so that federal aid arrives faster and more efficiently to the affected areas.Д®xperts have already said after the '4th of July earthquake' that there will probably be others of the same or greater magnitude. But we're out there searching,' he said.ДЇor his part, California Gov. 'Nobody was trapped, no major collapses that we know of. 'We do feel like there is damage but we don't know the extent of it yet,' Kern County fire chief David Witt told a press conference Saturday. Nonetheless, the earthquake in the Ridgecrest area, still shaken by the Thursday quake, caused several buildings to catch fire, rocks to fall on highways, electricity cuts, gas and water escapes, and telecommunications problems. The greatest material damage occurred in Ridgecrest and its surroundings, though by good fortune the epicenter of the temblors hit a sparsely populated rural region of California. The intensity of the new quake, which struck at 8:19 pm, shook millions of people in cities from Los Angeles to Las Vegas.

The epicenter of Friday's temblor was around Ridgecrest, a city of some 29,000 inhabitants located 250 kilometers (155 miles) north of Los Angeles, which was already the scene of what is now known as 'the 4th of July earthquake,' since it coincided with Independence Day celebrations in the United States. A 7.1-magnitude earthquake shook Southern California Friday night following the 6.4-magnitude temblor on the previous day, which together are the two biggest seismic movements to hit the state in recent decades.Д¬alifornia authorities said that neither of the two quakes, nor the hundreds of aftershocks of greater or lesser intensity that followed them, left any victims.

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