Hundreds of weary residents from Ridgecrest and surrounding ... that pummeled this San Bernardino County town in recent days — and which were simply old and abandoned. “Some of this damage ...

and the largest earthquake to strike Southern California in nearly 20 years had just hit – a magnitude 6.4 temblor centered near Williams’ home in Ridgecrest, California. For a moment ...

Ridgecrest is a town in a California desert where the 28,000 residents are used to earthquakes. As California Institute of Technology seismologist Egill Hauksson pointed out Saturday, the city was ...

Ridgecrest was the epicenter ... registering a magnitude of 7.1 — California’s strongest quake in two decades — hit just outside of the Mojave Desert town Friday evening at 8:19 p.m ...