A 7.1 earthquake has been reported Friday in Searles Valley near Ridgecrest, officials said. Originally reported as 6.9 on the Richter scale, the Friday evening quake has been upgraded to 7.1. The Ridgecrest earthquake was reported at about 8:19 p.m. about 17 kilometers southwest of Searles Valley, according to the United States Geological Survey (USGS). The earthquake was felt across ...

Multiple small earthquakes struck around Santa Clarita Saturday, prompting officials to remind residents to download an earthquake-detecting app. On Saturday morning, a magnitude 1.3 earthquake struck northeast of Santa Clarita, just north of Acton. Later that evening, a magnitude 1.5 earthquake and a magnitude 1.6 earthquake occurred on both sides of the 5 Freeway, just south of Santa Clarita, according ...