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State of emergency declared in San Bernardino County due toearthquakes near TronaJul 6, 2019

San Bernardino County Board of Supervisors Chairman Curt Hagman praised the e�orts of �rst responders and otherpersonnel in assisting the public following the huge earthquakes that a�ected Trona in the northwestern area of thecounty.

San Bernardino County signed a declaration of local emergency on July 6 to assist the San

Bernardino County communities a�ected by two days of earthquakes.

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County Board of Supervisors Chairman Curt Hagman praised the e�orts of �rst responders and

other personnel in assisting the public after the July 4 and 5 earthquake swarm, which included

quakes measuring 6.4 and 7.1 in the areas of Trona in San Bernardino County and Ridgecrest in

Kern County.

“We appreciate the outreach and support from the governor’s o�ce and White House. FEMA

has also provided resources to a�ected areas,” said Hagman.

Gov. Gavin Newsom declared a state of emergency for San Bernardino County following the 7.1

quake, which was the strongest quake to hit Southern California in 20 years.

Under the coordination of the County O�ce of Emergency Services, county o�cials and

departments have been working around the clock to assess the situation in Trona and provide

vital services to residents.



“Rapid response within 30 minutes from our departments, Sheri�, County Fire, O�ce of

Emergency, Caltrans, ICEMA, Public Health, Building and Safety, County Purchasing and the

County Administrative O�ce ensured that our residents received our full support following this

earthquake,” said Hagman. “We appreciate the e�orts from everyone working on this incident

and are doing all we can to assist those a�ected."

There were numerous injuries and damaged residences reported in Trona, but no fatalities. The

county is working to determine the number of injured and damaged homes. County public

works crews continue to assess and repair the road damage and per SCE, power has been

restored.

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Members of the Witcher family clean up in Trona, Calif., after last week's earthquakes. (Giulia McDonnell Nieto del Rio / Los Angeles Times)

On Saturday afternoon, a family of five was seeking shelter from the scorching Trona,Calif., sun under one of the lone patches of shade that could be found in the town.

They had slept in their cars by the churchyard Friday night and weren’t planning onreturning to their house until a couple of days had passed.

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Their home had not suffered immense structural damage, but it was impossible to walkthrough the hallways, the entrances to the rooms were blocked, and the floor was litteredwith toys, food, plates and everything else that had fallen out of cabinets and off thewalls.

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When the magnitude 7.1 earthquake hit Friday, they said, there was nothing they coulddo — not even hide under a table.

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“My mother is in a wheelchair,” said Cynthia Thompson, 43. “So we just stood still, wecouldn’t move.”

Thompson’s father recently had a bone marrow transplant to treat his bone cancer, andhe wasn’t physically able to maneuver his way to safety either.

During the earthquake, Thompson didn’t want to leave her parents alone in the house —but she did send her 8-year-old daughter, Brooke, out the window.

“It was really scary,” Brooke said. “I thought I was going to die.” In front of them was adeflated air mattress, which some of them planned to sleep on outside that night.

The Thompson family suffered no major injuries, but they are scarred and overwhelmedby having to clean everything they had accumulated over the decades living together.

Others in the neighborhood were doing the same. Thompson and her father drove backto her house, along with Brooke, leaving the rest of their family back in the shade.

They wanted to take a look, once again, at the damage.

On the way, they ran into their neighbors — Susan Witcher and ten other familymembers were cleaning up their own house.

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The Witcher family could not stay in their home. Their chimney had collapsed andfissures lined the walls and roof of their home.

They were scared their home could crash down at any moment — it was time to go.

“I have lived here for 35 years,” said Susan Witcher, 67, as she carried out boxes ofkitchenware to her truck. “And I just had to throw away 45 years’ worth of stuff. We don’tknow if we will ever be able to move back in.”

They family was headed to her father’s house for the time being.

Thompson chatted with the Witcher family, then made her way to her own house aroundthe corner. In her home, the TV lay face down on the floor, broken china glasses wereeasy to step on, and sinkholes had formed by the outside walls of the house.

“Currently, it looks like a tornado just hit,” Thompson said. Brooke pointed to theaperture through which she made her escape during the earthquake. “I had to jumpthrough the window,” she said, navigating through her toys and books strewn across thefloor.

Thompson seemed exhausted.

She had been back and forth to Los Angeles to take her father to the hospital for the lastseveral weeks and had been hoping to get some rest before the earthquake hit.

“It’s just been a lot,” she said, locking up the door to her house.

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Brooke Thompson, 8, plays on the sleeping bag that her family slept in after a pair of earthquakes drove them out of their home in Trona, Calif.(Irfan Khan / Los Angeles Times)

Under the shade of a salt cedar tree, next to a shipping container and near a sign thatsaid “Prayer Changes Things,” the Byrds of Trona had camped out overnight and plannedto for the foreseeable future.

A sleeping bag was laid out on the patchy grass. Bags of chips and candies surrounded abasket of green apples and fruit on a picnic table. The Byrds — mother Kay; father Fred;sisters Karen and Cynthia Thompson; and the latter’s daughter, Brooke — were trying tore-create a household after two major earthquakes. A magnitude 6.4 foreshock onThursday, then a magnitude 7.1 rumbler the following evening had wrecked their town of2,000 and left them scared.

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They refused to return to their home of 21 years.

“The first one was devastating,” said Karen, as her niece played with Littlest Pet Shopdolls on a sleeping bag. “The second one was terrifying. And they say a bigger one mightcome. They were right about the second one, so why risk it?”


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Across Trona, an unincorporated community on the edge of Death Valley longmythologized in California for its desolate location and tough character (the high schoolfootball team is one of the few, possibly the only, in the United States to play on an all-dirt field), residents are still cleaning up after the quakes.

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Earthquakes shown had a magnitude of at least 4. Sources: U.S. Geological Survey, Nextzen, OpenStreetMap (Jon Schleuss / Los Angeles Times)

And though it’s hard enough to live here even in the best of conditions, many Tronanssay they now face a reckoning about their future.

The twin temblors cracked the very foundations of the town. A chimney stack at theSearles Valley Minerals plant, long Trona’s economic lifeblood, partially toppled. Gravescaved in at the cemetery. The sign at the only park crumbled. At Esparza FamilyRestaurant, where locals gather at 5:30 in the morning every day, a massive fractureblights its outside mural.

Water is inaccessible. Electricity is spotty. Dozens of homes have broken walls, splitdriveways or interiors that look like one of the hard winds that regularly sweep throughtown blew right through them. As of Sunday afternoon, cars still needed escorts in andout of Trona on Highway 178 from Ridgecrest, about a half-hour drive away, because of aphalanx of construction crews placing new asphalt.

Even the sulfur stench that usually pervades the air in Trona is more noticeable by itsabsence. The Searles Valley Minerals plant is shut down.

“If they don’t get up the mine,” Kay said, “the town is finished.”

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A partially collapsed chimney stack at Searles Valley Minerals, the company that has long dictated the economic livelihood of Trona. (Irfan Khan /Los Angeles Times)

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Trona sits at the edge of a dry lake from which various companies have extractedminerals such as borax and soda ash for over a century, and its neighborhoods areroughly planned around four plants, all connected by long, winding Trona Road.

In the 1950s, it had the makings of any respectable town: bowling alleys, a Fox movietheater, a hospital, a large pool. At its height, it had 6,000 people.

But Trona’s fortunes soured as the Navy expanded its China Lake station and nearbyRidgecrest grew. Mining jobs became scarcer; many residents grumble that the currentplant owners, Nirma Ltd., are based in India and don’t care about their well-being likeprevious bosses did.

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The population has declined dramatically, along with the aesthetics; abandoned homeslitter the already parched landscape. On the way into town, someone spray-painted a signadvertising a San Bernardino County Sheriff’s Department substation with the face of apig.

“The town is not too good right now,” said 80-year-old Gail Austin, who has lived inTrona nearly his entire life and retired in 2000 as a Searles Valley Minerals plantmanager.

“There is a bit of a drug class,” admitted Larry Cox, pastor at First Baptist Church ofSearles Valley, which had to cancel its 65th anniversary celebration after the roof of itsfellowship hall caved in.

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“It’s gone from being a great town where we had everything to one where we only haveourselves,” said Ralph “Zeb” Haleman, who was eight stories up at the main mineralsplant when the second quake hit.

People had tried to rally community spirit in recent years. The nonprofit Trona Care hasbought abandoned houses to tear them down. There were plans for a new park,redeveloped apartments. A Family Dollar opened in 2015.

It hasn’t been open since Thursday.

In front of Trona High School, where residents lined up to get cases of water, oatmealcookies and vegan Chinese food brought by good Samaritans from Perris, Ricardo Romotended to his four pit bulls. They were in a cage in the back of his truck. He was on hisway to Joshua Tree, accompanied by his dad and other family members.

“My house is wrecked,” he said. “And I don’t know if we’re going to have a job onMonday.”

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“If there’s another big one, Trona will be gone,” said 76-year-old RoseAnn Austin, whohas lived here since 1963. Her main house didn’t see much damage. But a property acrossthe street saw its front fence completely ruined; cinder blocks were spilled across thesidewalk and covered a large pile of wood that the Austins had left for chipmunks to livein.

“Our chipmunks don’t know what to do,” Austin said. “They don’t know where to go. Ihope they have enough food stored away.”

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RoseAnn Austin, 76, who has lived in Trona since 1963, worries that Trona can't withstand another big earthquake. (Irfan Khan / Los AngelesTimes)

Community spirit

Other residents have buckled down.



Tommy Channell, originally from Victorville, has lived in Trona only since October butsaid he quickly found a community groove he had never previously experienced. After thesecond quake, he immediately got a crescent wrench and went around his neighborhoodvolunteering to shut off gas lines.

“I’m 40, but this is the first time I’ve found a real home,” he said. “It looks ugly from theoutside, but inside, it’s a lot of love.”

First Baptist Church served as a water station and had the men of its congregation gofrom home to home to check in on “widows and shut-ins,” Cox said. St. Madeleine SophieBarat Catholic Church, usually open only twice a month, planned to hear confessions.

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At the Christian Fellowship of Trona, where the power was out, about 12 congregantsstood in the sanctuary room to gather information they’d pass along to others aroundtown. Tips came fast: The Red Cross was going to have a bigger presence from now onafter a miscommunication the day before. Beware of price gouging in town. People fromaround the world want to donate money, so who can help set up a GoFundMe page?

Julia Doss, who runs a Trona Neighborhood Watch Facebook page, did most of thetalking. She said that 40 sack lunches someone had donated were “grabbed in no time,”and that what the town needed most besides water and ice were diapers, wipes andgallon-sized Ziploc bags.

Doss, who works at Searles Valley Minerals, noted that there were a lot of newcomers intown. “As a community, we’ve gotten used to keeping to our friends,” she said. “Now is atime to learn who [strangers] all are.”

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Those present nodded. They were enthusiastic but tired. Seven aftershocks withmagnitudes of at least 3.0 had already struck Trona on Sunday morning.

“Try to get a little bit of rest,” Doss said with a smile, “between the shivers and shakes.”

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TRONA, Calif. — In this tiny and isolated desert settlement with survival

tied to a potash mining company, an Americana spirit �ashes in its people

despite the town’s severe socioeconomic struggles.

When Searles Valley Minerals conducted signi�cant layo�s in 1982, the self-

su�cient community on the route to Death Valley National Park was

devastated and, over the next nearly four decades, reduced to a skeleton of

its former self.

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“It’s never been the same since then,” said resident Zana Eisenhour, whose

retired husband worked at the plant like many in Trona, an unincorporated

community about 25 miles northeast of Ridgecrest.

So after two major earthquakes struck nearby, residents here — upset with

early media coverage focused on Ridgecrest — wondered aloud whether

they may again be forgotten.

“This is the �rst time that we’ve been acknowledged at this magnitude,”

said Julia Doss, president of Trona Care, a local community group collecting

and assisting drop-o�s of food, water and necessity items on Sunday.

Following Thursday’s 6.4-magnitude earthquake, Trona’s roughly 1,800

residents were left without power and water. It was momentarily restored.

Then a 7.1-magnitude temblor hit Friday night. Both quakes were felt in Las

Vegas, a nearly four-hour drive from Trona.

Since then emergency crews have been working on a �x. By early afternoon

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broken line carrying water from Ridgecrest to Trona along Highway 178 was

still causing headaches, and a boil-water order was in e�ect. A water station

manned by emergency response teams and National Guard members at

Trona High School o�ered temporary relief as o�cials issued a high heat

advisory.

Still, residents reported homes �ooded by snapped water-heater supply

lines and chimneys that collapsed. Rooms are o�-limits until a blockade of

tipped hutches and scattered household items are cleared. Without water for

swamp coolers — many cannot a�ord air conditioning — some camp

outside to escape nighttime heat and the persistent clutter.

“This is going to be a several-month endeavor,” Doss said, “I would

suggest, at a minimum.”

But in the face of adversity, the community has rallied together, which

residents say is simply a re�ection of its closeness that goes overlooked by

most outsiders. San Bernardino County 1st District Supervisor Robert

Lovingood, whose district includes Trona, described the town as “really

Americana” with “an incredible sense of pride.”

“People know their neighbors,” he said. “It’s still where kids listen to

adults, and adults correct kids even if they’re not their own.”

Lovingood toured the damage Saturday amid a “very heavy response” from

local o�cials. The response included Victor Valley Transit Authority busing

residents without transportation to the American Red Cross shelter in

Ridgecrest.

He relayed that the entire valley had been cloaked in dust from boulders and

dirt falling from mountains.

“It’s amazing that there wasn’t serious injury,” Lovingood said. “If that

would have been a major city, if that would have been Las Vegas — yeah.”



Long after parachuting journalists skip town and even as experts downgrade

the likelihood of a more serious earthquake soon rocking the region,

residents in Trona will have no choice but to contend with the aftermath.

“There’s enough damage to go around,” said Todd Owens, a lifelong

resident and member of the Christian Fellowship of Trona, where Trona

Care operated Sunday. People as far away as Las Vegas and Visalia had

dropped o� goods.

Eisenhour, 65, a member of the Trona Municipal Advisory Council, agreed

with his sentiment.

“We’ve never had anything like this before,” she said.

Too much in her home was toppled over to be livable Sunday, so she and her

husband planned to spend another night in their RV parked in the front

yard. But she underscored that they did not face a lonely predicament.

“We’re not the only ones,” she said. “Everyone I’ve talked to is in the same

boat.”

The earthquakes had knocked many of their household items to the �oor. A

heap of nonperishable food was bundled in front of a larger-than-usual

pantry. It comes in handy since the nearest grocery store is in Ridgecrest.

Eisenhour planned to donate much of it.

“Anytime people are in need,” she said, “we take care of it.”

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TRONA, Calif. -- Gov. Gavin Newsom has declared a state of emergency for a section ofSouthern California that saw significant damage after Friday night's magnitude 7.1earthquake.

The declaration provides immediate state assistance to San Bernardino County, citingconditions of "extreme peril to the safety of persons and property" in the county due to theearthquake.

In the small town of Trona, as many as 50 structures were damaged by the quake, fire officialstold the AP.

Julia Doss, who maintains the Trona Neighborhood Watch page on Facebook, said residentsreported that chimneys and entire walls collapsed during the quake. She said the only foodstore in town has been shuttered.

In addition, San Bernardino County Supervisor Robert Lovingood said Saturday thatdamaged water lines prompted FEMA to deliver a tractor-trailer full of bottled water to thetown, and firefighters were checking numerous reports of gas leaks.

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Robb Campbell was inside a Marshall's when the latest big quake hit: "Forget yesterday's 6.4 earthquake,today's 7.1 really brought the house down!"

The town was temporarily cut off after the earthquake when officials shut down a highwayconnecting Trona to Ridgecrest because of rockslides and cracks in the roadway.

The hardscrabble town with 1,500 residents on the edge of a dry lake bed is considered thegateway to Death Valley.

Eugene Johnson was cleaning his home Saturday after the 7.1 magnitude earthquake broughtdown his brick chimney and fireplace.

The 61-year-old Trona resident told the AP that he and his wife were in bed watching TVFriday night when the quake started. They rushed into their living room to hold onto theirfish tank and big-screen TV and watched the fireplace collapse.

Dishes crashed out of cabinets, boxes of macaroni fell to the floor and spilled everywhere, andthe refrigerator careened halfway across the kitchen.

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TRONA — San Bernardino County Supervisor Robert Lovingood issued anupdate on the status of Searles Valley in the aftermath of the 6.4 earthquake thatrattled area on Thursday and the series of aftershocks that followed.

In an update from his office, Lovingood noted:

“The State Water Resources Control Board Division of Drinking Water, the SanBernardino County Health Department, and the Searles Domestic WaterCompany are advising residents of Trona to only use boiled tap water or bottledwater for drinking and cooking purposes.  The affected area includes Westend,South Trona, Argus, and Trona Village.”

Lovingood also noted that a comfort and care shelter has been opened at theKerr McGee Community Center, 100 W. California Ave. in Ridgecrest. Hewrote that two mobile American Red Cross units with comfort kits, clean-upkits, and water will be deployed to the community of Trona today, July 5, andwill also conduct additional needs assessments. The mobile units will be roamingthrough Trona. A fixed location is not planned at this time.

— ICEMA continues to communicate with hospitals as needed

— Trona currently has no unmet needs

— Service has been restored to the affected areas of Trona

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SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Senate Republican Leader Shannon Grove (R-

Bakersfield) issued the following statement as first responders in Kern and San

Bernardino Counties transition to the recovery phase after two powerful

earthquakes rattled Ridgecrest, Trona, and surrounding areas:

"Over the last few days, residents, families, and business owners of California's

16th Senate District have been put to the test with two massive earthquakes.

But our faith in God remains strong as we support each other and move

forward.

"Through it all, residents of Kern and San Bernardino Counties remain resilient

and are undeniably strong. I am proud of our families and thankful for the first

responders who have remained steadfast over the past several days to help

those in need.

"The recovery phase is now in effect, whether it is rebuilding a home or calming

frazzled nerves, it will take time. I cannot stress enough the importance of being

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ready with emergency services should Mother Nature strike again," said Senate

Republican Leader Shannon Grove.

Later today, a town hall will be held at Kerr McGee Community Center in

Ridgecrest at 4:00PM to share information with residents, families, and

business owners. Representatives from local, state, and federal agencies will be

in attendance to answer questions and provide information on various services

to help communities impacted by the earthquakes. Senator Grove's staff will be

in attendance to provide constituent services to anyone in need.

In the meantime, Senator Grove's office remains open today to help Bakersfield

and Ridgecrest families.

District office hours in Bakersfield:

Address: 5701 Truxtun Avenue, Suite 150

Bakersfield, CA 93309

Sunday, July 7th: 9:00AM-5:00PM

Mobile office hours in Ridgecrest:

Address: Continental Labor Resources

509 W. Ward Avenue

Ridgecrest, CA 93555

Sunday, July 7th: 9:00AM-5:00PM

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TRONA — Shawn Dodson was still in bed when his wife came in to tell him heneeded to get up.

She had just felt a fairly moderate earthquake — a magnitude 4.0, according toUnited States Geological Survey officials.

Then, just 30 minutes later, at 10:33 a.m., an even bigger quake hit.

Dodson said that when the shaking started, it was loud. He and his wife got outof the house.

“I never sat through an earthquake that big as long as I’ve lived here,” he said.

The magnitude-6.4 temblor that shook Southern California on IndependenceDay was the strongest one to strike the region in 20 years, USGS officials said.

Its epicenter was located in a remote area known as Searles Valley, whichincludes the unincorporated community of Trona, northeast of the Kern Countycity of Ridgecrest, which has a population of about 28,000.

Neighboring responding agencies answered the city’s request for help by sendingfire engines, urban search and rescue teams, K-9s and other resources. Gov.Gavin Newsom declared a state of emergency in the area.

The quake forced the evacuation of the local hospital, at least one house fire,water main breaks, gas leaks and at least two dozen fire and medical calls,swamping the dispatch centers there. Viral video footage showed a houseburning while a lone firefighter worked to put it out.

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While most of the attention was focused on embattled Ridgecrest, the powerfultremor originated in San Bernardino County, just 6 miles west from whereDodson lives, and County officials had to spring into action to make sure theirown were taken care of as well.

Searles Valley, with a population of around 1,800, lies in a somewhat isolatedarea in the northwest corner of San Bernardino County. Trona is located about20 miles away from Ridgecrest, on State Route 178.

San Bernardino County Fire Department Captain Jeremy Kern said that after themain quake stopped shaking, an engine, ambulances, a chief officer and a heavyrescue truck from Hesperia were sent to the site. The heavy rescue is staffed withurban search and rescue firefighters.

USAR teams are specially trained to rescue people trapped in structures that havecollapsed and can assess “whether a building is habitable or needs to be red-tagged for non-occupancy,” Kern said.

They also carry equipment, such as a specialized camera that can locate potentialvictims.

Until responders arrived, community residents had to deal with the effects of thequake on their own.

Dodson said that he and six others immediately went to staff Trona’s fire stationafter the shaking “mellowed out.” He said he’s part of a team of 10 paid-callfirefighters who respond when emergencies arise.

Power was knocked out in the area so the crew started a generator. Dodson saidTrona was without electricity until about 9:30 Thursday night.

A cooling center and cell phone charging area was set up at Trona’s golf courseclubhouse, since it’s powered from a nearby raw materials processing plant,Searles Valley Minerals.

The plant was the cause of some concern by County Fire officials at first, Kernsaid, due to a potential hazardous materials incident. Searles Valley Mineralsprocesses materials such as borax and soda ash from minerals gathered from thenearby dry lakebed.



It also uses chemicals that if released in a damaging earthquake could be harmful,he said.

The safety systems in place for the chemicals worked, and plant safety officialscooperated with firefighters.

Dodson said he and other firefighters began to drive around in their apparatus toassess the damage. He reported a couple water main breaks, block walls that hadfallen over, and buildings with external cracks, including a local restaurant.

Water officials were also advising residents to use only boiled tap water orbottled water for drinking and cooking purposes, according to a statement fromFirst District Supervisor Robert Lovingood.

Dodson said this was likely due to a broken water line that feeds the area whichmay have become contaminated after the quake.

But despite minor damage and power loss, Dodson said he noticed people wereout in their yards barbecuing on the Fourth and in “pretty good spirits.”

In an area straddling the Kern County-San Bernardino County line, however,firefighters found heavier damage.

Known as Windy Acres, just east of Ridgecrest and south of SR 178, Kern saidthe area received “most of the impact from the earthquake.”

Crews discovered multiple trailers that had slipped off their foundations,fireplaces shifted away from buildings, rock slides and smaller residentialelectricity lines downed.

Firefighters could be heard doing an exhaustive block-by-block assessment of thedamage, per scanner traffic.

Ultimately, no injuries were reported in the county directly caused by seismicactivity itself, Kern said.

Officials still warn that a larger earthquake may be on the way.



“There is about a 1 in 20 chance that this location will be having an even biggerearthquake within the next few days,” USGS Seismologist Lucy Jones said at apress conference Thursday.

She also predicted plenty of aftershocks. A magnitude-5.4 earthquake hit the areaat about 4:07 a.m. Friday morning.

A USGS map showed over 150 earthquakes since the 6.4 quake as of 6:00 p.m.

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Residents of Ridgecrest and surrounding communities attend a town hall meeting following two big earthquakes in the area. (Irfan Khan / Los Angeles Times)

Hundreds of weary residents from Ridgecrest and surrounding communities packed a town hall meetingSunday afternoon to discuss top concerns — including mental health, building inspections and access tobasic services — in the aftermath of the area's two recent big earthquakes.

Officials from the Ridgecrest police and fire departments, the mayor’s office and others addressed thecommunity’s pressing needs after the 6.4- and 7.1-magnitude temblors that struck the region on July 4and a day later.



“Let’s try to start recovering now,” Ridgecrest Police Chief Jed McLaughlin told the crowd, which eruptedin applause.

Ridgecrest Regional Hospital is open again, McLaughlin said. He urged residents to start reentering theirhouses and asked them to recognize the emotional toll of the earthquakes.

“PTSD [post-traumatic stress disorder] is a real thing and we are all suffering it right now,” he said.

Officials reminded residents to keep using boiled water if they couldn’t access bottled water, out ofconcerns that the quakes cracked water mains, creating a risk of contamination.

The gas in some buildings — particularly in mobile home communities — is still not working, residentstold leaders. Gas operations officials said they would send teams to fix utilities upon request.

Two women asked how residents with disabilities could access relief services given the lack oftransportation in the area.

“I’ll take you in my car,” McLaughlin told Teresa O’Malley, a resident who has a broken back and can’ttravel far. The police chief offered the same help to anyone else who needed it.

Ridgecrest Mayor Peggy Breeden asked residents to keep checking on their friends, family and neighbors.

“I know we have heroes in this community,” she said.

Earlier in the day, a trio of researchers assessed the damage of buildings in nearby Trona. It was hard forthem to tell which were battered by the earthquakes that pummeled this San Bernardino County town inrecent days — and which were simply old and abandoned.

“Some of this damage was already here,” said Kenneth O’Dell, 55, a structural engineer.

But he nonetheless noted that the earthquake had hit Trona hard, particularly because the walls of mostbuildings were not reinforced with steel or other material that can keep them upright, or prevent crackingduring severe tremors.


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“It looks like most of these structures were built during the 1930s and 1940s,” O’Dell said. “So it makessense that they weren’t ready for this kind of shaking.”

O’Dell had arrived from Los Angeles on Saturday with engineer Martin Hudson and his 25-year-old son,geologist Kenneth Hudson, to assess earthquake damage in Trona and nearby Ridgecrest after massivequakes rocked the region.

Their goal was to study the structural damage of the buildings in Trona so they could understand howexactly the earthquakes affected those structures and surrounding areas. These findings, they hoped, couldsomeday be published in a research paper and help guide future geologists and engineers.

They stopped Saturday afternoon on California 178 between Trona and Ridgecrest, where the elderHudson stood on one of the fault ruptures caused by Friday’s magnitude 7.1 quake.

“It’s moved everything three feet to the right,” said Hudson, 52, an engineer who forms part of theEarthquake Engineering Research Institute, an organization based in Oakland that brought researcherstogether in the Ridgecrest area to study the effects of the earthquakes.

After assessing the fault rupture, the three researchers hopped in their car and headed to Trona, aboutthirty miles northeast of Ridgecrest. At the side of a faded pink house at the community’s entrance, theresearchers noted that soil liquefaction had caused portions of the ground to crack and collapse — some ofthe soil had started turning into a liquid state, the researchers explained. Nearby, a chimney had caved inon one of the houses.

“We saw a lot of this type of damage in the ‘94 Northridge earthquake,” O’Dell said.

In the end, the three anticipate that their research could help prevent future building damage duringearthquakes.

“The goal of our research is to improve the designs of these structures so that they are not as susceptible,and we’re hoping that our work today can contribute to that,” Kenneth Hudson said.

More than 45 researchers, including engineers, geologists and others, met Saturday night in Ridgecrest todiscuss findings from the weekend, according to the California Geological Survey. At least four moreresearchers arrived Sunday to study the grounds near Ridgecrest and Trona, said Cynthia Pridmore, chairof CGS’ California Earthquake Clearinghouse.

Geologist teams from USGS and CGS have been invited over the last three days to survey the Naval AirWeapons Station China Lake in Ridgecrest, near the epicenter. Pridmore said that one of their goals is tomap out the length of the surface rupture from Friday’s quake.

In Ridgecrest and surrounding areas, the tremors have subsided, and officials don’t expect any of theupcoming aftershocks to cause serious damage.

“The dangerous side of the hazard is tapering off,” Pridmore said.

On Saturday, USGS calculated a 27% probability the region will be hit by a magnitude 6 or greater quakein the coming days, Caltech seismologist Egill Hauksson said. The probability that another earthquake will



strike with a magnitude 6 or higher is dropping by the minute, he said.

As scientists try to glean lessons in the quakes’ aftermath, residents are still sorting through the damage.

In Trona, a family of five sought shelter from the scorching sun on Saturday afternoon under the shade ofa tree. In front of them was a deflated air mattress, which some of them planned to sleep on outside thatnight.

None of them were injured in the quake, but they felt overwhelmed by the work ahead, cleaning upeverything they had accumulated over the decades. Cynthia Thompson and her father decided to driveback to their house, along with her 8-year-old daughter, Brooke, to take another look at the damage.

On the way, they ran into their neighbor Susan Witcher, who was cleaning up her home, along with familymembers, before heading to stay with her father. Their home’s chimney had collapsed and fissures linedthe walls and roof.

“I have lived here for 35 years,” said Witcher, 67, as she carried out boxes of kitchenware to her truck.“And I just had to throw away 45 years’ worth of stuff. We don’t know if we will ever be able to move backin.”



Karen Byrd points out damage to the inside of her Trona, Calif., home after the recent earthquakes. (Giulia McDonnell Nieto del Rio / Los Angeles Times)

The Thompsons headed around the corner to their home, where broken glasses, toys and food littered thefloor. A television had landed face down. Although the home did not seem to have suffered severestructural damage, it was impossible to walk through hallways, and rooms were blocked by belongings.Sinkholes had formed near the exterior walls.

“It looks like a tornado just hit,” Thompson said.

Staff writer Laura Newberry contributed to this report.



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By KIM GUIMARIN | [email protected] | Daily BulletinPUBLISHED: July 6, 2019 at 11:22 am | UPDATED: July 6, 2019 at 7:46 pm

After two major earthquakes in as many days, the communities ofRidgecrest in Kern County and Trona in San Bernardino County arecoping with the aftermath.

During a Saturday morning, July 6, news conference, public officialsaddressed the need for support. Right now, following emergencydeclarations and recovery efforts underway in San Bernardino and KernCounty, monetary support is what’s most needed, they said.

Ridgecrest police Chief Jed McLaughlin said Saturday morning, July 6, during a newsconference in Ridgecrest, that there have been no fatalities due to the two major quakes thatstruck near the Kern County city in the past two days. (Photo by Brian Rokos/The Sun/SCNG)

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Please do not bring supplies, they said, that would require handling byworkers needed elsewhere.

Here’s how you can help:

• Monetary donations are necessary at this time, officials said during thenews conference. “Cash donations really are the best right now” so theycan be distributed as needed, Mimi Teller of the Red Cross said duringthe news conference. The link is available at Redcross.org/donate.

• The Ridgecrest Police Department was collecting bottled water Fridaynight, July 5, for residents of Trona. A facebook post late Friday, saysthat those who are able, can drop off cases of boxed or wrapped waterat the department, 100 W California Ave., Ridgecrest. A trailer will be onsite in the east parking lot and they will then deliver the water to Tronaresidents.

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2 Earthquake in Ridgecrest areminder for Southern Californto prepare for emergencies

3 Ontario man shot, wounded by Bernardino police officer afterreported assault and foot chas

4 This new community center inwestern San Bernardino is prohomeless population resources

5 Looking back at California’sshakers, ‘Ridgecrest was knowthe earthquake capital of the w

6 12 small earthquakes hit Ridgearea overnight

7 What if a 7.1-magnitude earthqhappens in L.A.? Expect ‘signifdamage’

8 Woman dead, driver arrested abrief chase and crash in Highla

9 6.4 magnitude earthquake neaRidgecrest rattles SouthernCalifornia

10 Gov. Newsom visits Ridgecresdeclaring state of emergency inwake of 2 major quakes

11 How to help Ridgecrest and Trresidents following 2 majorearthquakes

12 Emergency responders from athe state will stick around inRidgecrest

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What if a 7.1-magnitude earthquakehappens in L.A.? Expect ‘significantdamage’

Emergency responders from around thestate will stick around in Ridgecrest

Life is tough in Trona – and a pair ofearthquakes just made it tougher

Looking back at California’s shakers,‘Ridgecrest was known as the earthquakecapital of the world’

Earthquakes: ‘Foreshock,’ ‘mainshock,’‘aftershock,’ ‘pre-shock’ – what’s thedifference?

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SoCal Residents Recover From 2 Major Quakes as ScientistsWarn of the ‘Big One’POSTED 6:54 AM, JULY 7, 2019, BY ASSOCIATED PRESS, MEGAN TELLES, ERIN MYERS, STEVE KUZJ AND CARLOS SAUCEDO,UPDATED AT 11:17PM, JULY 7, 2019

Shaken residents were cleaning up Sunday from two of the biggest earthquakes to rattle California indecades as scientists warn that both should serve as a wake-up call to be ready when the long-dreaded "BigOne" strikes.

California is spending more than $16 million to install thousands of quake-detecting sensors statewide thatof�cials say will give utilities and trains precious seconds to shut down before the shaking starts.

Gov. Gavin Newsom said it's time residents did their part by mapping out emergency escape routes andpreparing earthquake kits with food, water, lights and other necessities.

"It is a wake-up call for the rest of the state and other parts of the nation, frankly," Newsom said at aSaturday news conference on efforts to help a desert region jolted by back-to-back quakes.

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