Ridgecrest residents survey damage after powerful earthquake jolts Southern California
by Alexa Díaz, Alejandra Reyes-Velarde, Hannah Fry and Rong-Gong Lin II, Los Angeles Times
Jul 05, 2019
4 minutes
RIDGECREST, Calif. - Bill Sturgeon sat alone at his kitchen table on Friday surveying the damage unleashed on his longtime home in Ridgecrest a day earlier by the largest earthquake to strike the region in years.
Beads of sweat ran down his face as he pointed to a pile of shattered glass and broken planks of wood that lay on the warped floor, wreckage from the magnitude 6.4 temblor that picked up his Trousdale Estates mobile home and slammed it back to the ground, knocking it off its foundation.
"That hutch there held 40 years' worth of knickknacks promised to our grandchildren," he said.
Sturgeon, 79, has lived
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