She said the local seniors centre was holding a July 4th event when the quake hit and everyone made it out shaken up but without injuries, she said.
The Kern County Fire Department said it was responding to “nearly 2 dozen incidents ranging from medical assistance to structure fires in and around the city of Ridgecrest,” according to its Twitter account. Lucy Jones, a seismologist with the California Institute of Technology's seismology lab, said the earthquake was the strongest since a 7.1 quake struck in the area on October 16, 1999. “There is about a 1 in 20 chance that this location will be having an even bigger earthquake in the next few days, and that we have not yet seen the biggest earthquake of the sequence,” she said.
But that was centred on the San Fernando Valley, while the latest quake hit a much less developed area.“You can see some cracking in the seams of the drywall and stuff was knocked off the shelves — books and CDs and stuff.” He told the LA Times.
I think you mean 'wreaked havoc'...
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