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The magnitude 7.1 earthquake began at an epicenter 15 km northeast of Ridgecrest's center. But it occurred on a fault that led to the worst waves of Ridgecrest and Trona, respectively northwest and southeast of the epicenter, and in sparsely populated areas, said Egill Hauksson, seismologist at Caltech.
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