6.4 magnitude earthquake struck near Ridgecrest, CA Kern County Fire Department sent out predicting Emergency Alert. Another possible earthquake has been predicted within the next 15 minutes in or near Kern County – Kern County Fire (@kerncountyfire) July 4, 2019 The tweet was posted at 12:18pm PT, so that means the predicted quake would have occurred at 12:33pm. Thankfully, the fire department was wrong. Here is a United States Geological Survey (USGS) map showing some of the earthquakes that hit around that time: Caltech scientists later confirmed that nobody can successfully predict when an earthquake will occur, although they did state there is an 80% chance a magnitude 5 aftershock and 9% chance a jolt bigger than 6.4 might happen within the next week. Main Image Credit: NBC News 1,210 views 4,378,170 views