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An employee cleaning an aisle floor scattered with toppled bottles in a convenience store in Ridgecrest, Calif., on Saturday.<\/span>Credit<\/span>Mario Tama\/Getty Images<\/span><\/p>\n Second Powerful Earthquake Rattles Southern California<\/strong><\/p>\n Just one day after a 6.4-magnitude earthquake, Southern California was hit with a stronger 7.1-magnitude temblor. Experts warn more episodes may be expected.<\/span>CreditCreditJenna Schoenefeld for The New York Times<\/p>\n By\u00a0Tim Arango<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0Thomas Fuller<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n LOS ANGELES \u2014 In the bottom of the fourth inning, Dodger Stadium swayed. Rides at Disneyland were evacuated, and so were movie theaters in Los Angeles. Near Palm Springs, pools sloshed and chandeliers at a casino rocked. And in the Mojave Desert town of Ridgecrest, Calif., fires roared, power went out and grocery store shelves came crashing down.<\/p>\n For the second time in two days, a powerful earthquake struck Southern California on Friday night, shaking a large area already on edge, from Las Vegas to Sacramento to Los Angeles to Mexico, rattling nerves and disrupting plans on a holiday weekend. There were no reports of fatalities and no significant damage to infrastructure, but as day broke rescue crews were still surveying damage in Ridgecrest, near the earthquake\u2019s epicenter, and putting out fires.<\/p>\n The 7.1-magnitude earthquake that rattled Southern California on Friday came one day after the strongest recorded quake there in 20 years \u2014 and seismologists warned that more episodes are expected.<\/p>\n To a large degree, navigating life in California means making peace with Mother Nature. Wildfires and mudslides are yearly events, made worse in recent years amid climate change. But Californians live in constant awareness, if not outright fear, of the possibility of a devastating earthquake \u2014 the \u201cBig One,\u201d as everyone says. And so as people across Southern California woke up Saturday morning grateful for being spared this time, there was the sense that Friday night\u2019s temblor could have been just a foretaste of something bigger. Officials were urging residents to keep supplies handy \u2014 batteries, flashlights, a pair of sneakers \u2014 if they hadn\u2019t already.<\/p>\n \u201cDon\u2019t be paralyzed by fear,\u201d Josh Rubenstein, the spokesman for the Los Angeles Police Department, wrote on Twitter. \u201cArm yourself with knowledge and a plan. Talk about what you would do when a big one hits. I myself just did that with my daughter and my wife.\u201d<\/p>\n California<\/p>\n The United States Geological Survey reported that the latest earthquake\u2019s epicenter was in the Mojave Desert, 11 miles from Ridgecrest \u2014 near where a 6.4-magnitude quake had hit about 36 hours earlier. Since Thursday\u2019s earthquake, the area had been jolted by rolling aftershocks, including one of a 5.4 magnitude that had roused Californians on Friday morning.<\/p>\n \u201cHold on, it\u2019s going again,\u201d Jade Alexander, the manager of the Rodeway Inn & Suites in Ridgecrest, about 150 miles northeast of Los Angeles, said in a phone interview after another aftershock on Friday night. She said the aftershocks had been coming every five minutes.<\/p>\n Although the area where the earthquake struck is sparsely populated, the navy has a weapons-testing facility, the Naval Air Weapons Station China Lake, just outside Ridgecrest.<\/p>\n ADVERTISEMENT<\/p>\n \u201cIt\u2019s constant,\u201d said Ms. Alexander, whose hotel in Ridgecrest is less than a five-minute drive from the naval station. \u201cMy anxiety level is over the limit.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cThe floor is cracked,\u201d she added, saying that bookshelves, lockers and televisions had been thrown to the ground.<\/p>\n The aftermath of a rockslide in Kern County, Calif., caused by the earthquake on Friday.<\/span>Credit<\/span>Lisa Walker\/Social Media via Reuters<\/p>\n The quake, which struck at about 8:20 p.m. local time, was felt across a much wider area than Thursday\u2019s quake, with reports of power failures in Los Angeles and of some damage in San Bernardino County. Gov. Gavin Newsom of California declared a state of emergency for the Ridgecrest area, and is asking for an emergency declaration from President Trump so federal funds can be made available.<\/p>\n In a news conference late Saturday morning, Mark Ghilarducci, the director of California\u2019s Office of Emergency Services, said power was back on for most of Ridgecrest, but warned that hot weather and winds forecast for the coming days would heighten the risk of wildfires. And Kern County Fire Chief David Witt said that it appeared that no buildings had collapsed.<\/p>\n Lucy Jones, a seismologist, said during a Friday night briefing by the United States Geological Survey that there would be more aftershocks. \u201cIt is clearly an energetic system,\u201d Dr. Jones said.<\/p>\n Leena Panchal, a manager of Americas Best Value Inn & Suites, another hotel in Ridgecrest, said people had rushed outside because they had felt unsafe being indoors.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n [\/et_pb_text][et_pb_text admin_label=”Re Blog ” background_layout=”light” text_orientation=”left” use_border_color=”off” border_color=”#ffffff” border_style=”solid”]<\/p>\n Re Blog from<\/strong><\/span>:- The New York Times\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2019\/07\/06\/us\/california-earthquake-7-1.html\u00a0By\u00a0Tim Arango<\/span><\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0Thomas Fuller<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n Thank you Thomas for your reporting, The Firefly Innovations<\/p>\n The purpose of the 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