Two earthquakes rattled Santa Clarita early Thursday morning, causing no damage. Around 2:15 a.m. a 4.3 magnitude earthquake struck 15 miles from Ridgecrest, according to the United States Geologic Survey, (USGS).  A second 2.0 magnitude earthquake struck at just after 4 a.m. centered in Castaic. SCV residents reported feeling the jolt from both quakes. No damage from either earthquake was ...

After a 500-year slumber, the lesser-known Garlock Fault, near the infamous San Andreas Fault, is showing “unprecedented” movement after a series of earthquakes in July, according to a study published on Friday. The analysis by geophysicists from the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) and NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, both in Pasadena, documents a series of ruptures in a web of ...

A 4.9 aftershock was felt in Santa Clarita early Friday morning, one of hundreds from the major earthquake last week, officials said. The quake struck at about 6:11 a.m. Friday near Ridgecrest, near the same location of the 7.1 earthquake, the largest in Southern California in two decades, according to the United States Geological Survey (USGS). Aftershocks are expected in ...

A 5.4 aftershock was reported early Friday in the Mojave Desert near Ridgecrest, where a major earthquake struck just the day before, officials said. An aftershock of the quake that occurred on Thursday, the magnitude 5.4 aftershock was centered about 10 miles west of Searles Valley and was felt “throughout the SoCal region,” the Los Angeles Fire Department reported. The ...

A 6.4 earthquake has been reported Thursday in the Mojave Desert near Ridgecrest, officials said. The Ridgecrest earthquake was reported at about 10:33 a.m. about 12 kilometers southwest of Searles Valley, according to the United States Geological Survey (USGS). A foreshock of about a 4.2 magnitude occurred about 30 minuted before the major earthquake, according to Dr. Lucy Jones, a ...