Earthquake In California Next Week. Ridgecrest residents have travelled to the Mojave Desert to see post-quake fissures. Thousands of them happen every day.
While seismologists can use historical records and geologic measurements to figure out where earthquakes are likely to hit, it is much harder to predict when the next tremors might occur.
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Earthquakes are naturally destructive effects of our planet's constantly changing surface. California can't know when or where the next earthquake will occur. The quakes were primarily "strike slip", meaning that one tectonic plate is sliding past or against another.
