OPINION (MS) – What in the world is happening to southern California? Could it be possible that all of the shaking that we have seen over the past couple of days is leading up to something even bigger? I was curious, and so I went to the USGS website and I pulled up a map that is very tightly focused on the Ridgecrest area. According to that map, there have been 1,217 aftershocks in the Ridgecrest area in the last 24 hours. By the time you view the map, that number will inevitably have changed. Normally aftershocks begin to
subside after a while, but right now they just keep hitting one after another. In fact, a rather sizable aftershock rattled Ridgecrest at the same moment when Ridgecrest Police Chief Jed McLaughlin was briefing reporters about the aftershocks… “We’re getting aftershocks every few minutes. There are hundreds of them,” Randy Baldwin, a geophysicist at the U.S. Geological Survey’s National Earthquake Information Center in Golden, Colorado, said early on Friday. “There’s a chance of some larger ones, in the magnitude 5 range.” One aftershock struck even as Ridgecrest Police Chief Jed McLaughlin briefed news reporters about the emergency response to the earthquake on Thursday afternoon PDT. READ MORE