{"id":18653,"date":"2019-07-06T15:55:04","date_gmt":"2019-07-06T10:25:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kashmir.today\/?p=18653"},"modified":"2019-07-06T15:55:04","modified_gmt":"2019-07-06T10:25:04","slug":"california-hit-by-quake-strongest-in-2-decades","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/?p=18653","title":{"rendered":"California hit by 7.1-magnitude quake, strongest in two decades"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Friday’s quake was 11 times stronger than the previous day’s ‘foreshock’, seen as part of an ‘earthquake sequence’.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Southern California has been rattled by its largest earthquake in two decades as a 7.1-magnitude tremor shook buildings and cut power supplies in parts of Los Angeles but did not cause major damage or deaths, officials said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The shallow quake struck near the small city of Ridgecrest on Friday at 8:19pm (3:19 GMT on Saturday), US seismologists said, and following a 6.4-magnitude earthquake that hit the same area the day before.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The latest earthquake was 11 times stronger than the previous day’s “foreshock”, according to the US Geological Survey, and is part of what seismologists are calling an “earthquake sequence”.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The tremor was felt more than 240km away, in Los Angeles, where the fire department deployed vehicles and helicopters to check on damage and residents in need of emergency aid.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The earthquake was the largest in southern California since 1999 when a 7.1-magnitude earthquake struck the Twentynine Palms Marine Corps base, according to The Los Angeles Times.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“We have word of wires down\u2026 and localised power outages in several City of Los Angeles neighborhoods\u2026 besides a handful of apparently small issues, NO major damage to infrastructure has been identified,” the Los Angeles Fire Department tweeted.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The department later released a statement saying that its ground and air survey had found “no major infrastructure damage”.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“There has been no loss of life or serious injury that we can directly attribute to the widely felt 8:19 PM earthquake,” LAFD spokesman Brian Humphrey said in the statement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The San Bernardino Fire Department tweeted that officers in the city east of Los Angeles were dealing with 911 calls, including one reported minor injury.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“Homes shifted, foundation cracks, retaining walls down,” it wrote.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

LA Police Chief Michael Moore posted on his official Twitter account that rail and bus services were not damaged, and that services were still working.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The ‘Big One<\/strong>‘
The tremor sent Ridgecrest residents fleeing outside for safety and reporting continued aftershocks, with one woman saying she was “not comfortable” about heading back inside for the night.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The shaking stops “for a minute, and then it starts rolling again \u2026 it’s pretty bizarre. But now at the moment, I’m not comfortable inside,” said Jessica Kormelink.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The earthquake revived fears of the “Big One” – a powerful tremor along the San Andreas Fault that could devastate major cities in southern California.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

On Thursday, Caltech seismologist Lucy Jones had warned a press conference that there was “about a one-in-20 chance that this location will be having an even bigger earthquake within the next few days, that we have not yet seen the biggest earthquake of the sequence.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

On Friday, Jones tweeted: “You know we say we 1 in 20 chance that an earthquake will be followed by something bigger? This is that 1 in 20 time.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

SOURCE: AFP NEWS AGENCY<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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