For the second time in two days, an earthquake rocked Southern California, Nevada and surrounding areas.
Friday night — during multiple sporting events in the Southwest — a 7.1 magnitude earthquake was felt and was centered near Ridgecrest, California, which is about 150 miles from Los Angeles, the Palm Springs Desert Sun reported. It happened at 8:20 p.m. pacific time, and based on that magnitude, it was largest earthquake in Southern California in 20 years.
Following the 6.4 earthquake on July 4th — which was, at that point, deemed the largest earthquake in two decades — the sports world felt what was happening Friday.
And the severity of it was captured by cameras at Dodger Stadium.
And the Dodgers and San Diego Padres just played through it.
Players and Dodgers manager Dave Roberts said they did not feel the earthquake, ESPN’s Alden Gonzalez reported. But Los Angeles outfielder Alex Verdugo did.
The earthquake was also felt in Las Vegas, leading to the NBA Summer League the New York Knicks-New Orleans Pelicans game and the Orlando Magic-San Antonio Spurs game to end early. Ahead at the time, the Pelicans and Magic were declared the winners.
Here’s Pelicans executive VP of basketball operations David Griffin’s reaction to feeling the earthquake.
Additionally, the Las Vegas Aces and Washington Mystics game was postponed just before halftime, and they plan to finish the matchup at a later date.
It also affected Rashad Evan’s UFC Hall of Fame speech
