China Lake Earthquake (27 years after Landers, CA)



Feeling like 7.1 in China Lake 
The Ridgecrest Earthquake Sequence began with a magnitude 6.4 foreshock on July 4, 2019, followed by a magnitude 7.1 mainshock the next day with more than 100,000 aftershocks. The sequence rattled most of Southern California, but the strongest shaking occurred about 120 miles (190 kilometers) north of Los Angeles near the town of Ridgecrest in Mojave desert where legendary Naval Air Weapon Station "China Lake' is based. Ridgecrest is a booming city inside that sprawling base
A new study of Southern California's largest earthquake sequence in two decades provides new evidence that large earthquakes can occur in a more complex fashion than commonly assumed. The analysis by geophysicists from Caltech and NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, both in Pasadena, California, documents a series of ruptures in a web of interconnected faults, with rupturing faults triggering other faults. 
The dominoes-like sequence of ruptures also increased strain on a nearby major fault, according to the study, which was published today in the journal Science

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