California Quake Storm: There Have Been 1,217 Earthquakes In The Ridgecrest Area Within The Last 24 Hours

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(Read More...)