Another earthquake strikes southern California

Another earthquake has struck the Ridgecrest, California, area about 100 miles from Los Angeles. This latest quake, measuring 7.1 on the Richter Scale, struck at about 8:20 pm PDT Friday evening, July 5 (0320 GMT, Saturday morning, July 6), along the same fault as Thursday’s magnitude 6.4 quake.

Here is info from The Los Angeles Times

That’s terrifying. I hope no one was hurt.

For at least a year I was reading in news that scientists were warning on potential strong earthquake which will hit California, but they could not be sure about its timing. So, I would say in traders manner – the Earth behaved as per scientists expectations