since. The first 5.5 quake was closer to Little Lake, Calif., the USGS said. The 7.1 quake could be felt as far north as Sacramento, east as Las Vegas and south as Mexico.
Lucy Jones, a seismologist at the California Institute of Technology and a former science adviser at the Geological Survey, tweeted that Thursday's earthquake was a "foreshock" and that Friday's quake was on the same fault system as the earlier quake. "You know we say we have a 1 in 20 chance that an earthquake will be followed by something bigger? This is that 1 in 20 time," she tweeted.
This year, Newsom said the state needed $16.3 million to finish the project, which included money for stations to monitor seismic activity, plus nearly $7 million for "outreach and education." The state Legislature approved the funding last month, and Newsom signed it into law. that it had stopped service in the wake of the earthquake. Late in the evening, Metrolink tweeted that it was undergoing "precautionary track inspections" due to the recent earthquake.
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LesterHoltNBC Just curious any fracking nearby?