LOS ANGELES -- A powerful 7.1 earthquake shook Southern California, cracking buildings, breaking roads and causing power outages on Friday, just one day after a magnitude 6.4 hit the same general ...

An earthquake with a magnitude of 7.1 shook Southern California on Friday, a day after the most powerful quake in 20 years in the region occurred Thursday.

The quake was the strongest to hit California since July 2019, when an earthquake with a magnitude of 7.1 hit near Ridgecrest in the Mojave Desert.

The temblor was the most powerful to hit California since a 7.1-magnitude quake hit Ridgecrest in 2019.

Aftershocks continued to rattle the North Coast Thursday night into Friday morning following the powerful 7.0 earthquake that prompted a tsunami warning across a large stretch of California.