2023-05-12 07:00:00
California is regularly rocked by tremors and seismologists say an earthquake capable of causing widespread destruction is almost certain within the next 30 years.
Several earthquakes have struck a large swath of northern California this week, but only minor damage has been reported so far.
A movement of 5.5 degrees, with an epicenter in the tourist region of Lake Almanor in the Sierra Nevada, occurred at 4:19 p.m. on Thursday with an aftershock of 5.2 at 3:18 a.m. on Friday, according to the United States Geological Survey.
Local businesses were cleaning up minor damage in the area, about 290 kilometers northeast of San Francisco, ABC10 television reported.
A movement of 5.5 degrees, with an epicenter in the tourist region of Lake Almanor in the Sierra Nevada, occurred at 4:19 p.m. on Thursday with an aftershock of 5.2 at 3:18 a.m. on Friday, according to the United States Geological Survey.
“A lot of broken glass, a lot of broken dishes, a lot of broken liquor upstairs,” Stephanie Hughes, a local restaurant manager, told the station after Thursday’s quake. “Everything was shaking. Customers were fleeing onto the grass outside,” Hughes added.
Plumas Pines Resort Restaurant (Facebook)Plumas Pines Resort Restaurant (Facebook)
People reported feeling the quake as far as Sacramento, about 260 kilometers to the south.
The magnitude 5.5 quake was the strongest in California since the 2019 Ridgecrest earthquake sequence, with one measuring a magnitude 7.1, reported Geological Survey seismologist Lucy Jones, who now runs a center that focuses on make communities more resilient to disasters.
In December of last year, a magnitude 6.4 earthquake struck off the northern California coast.
A user views an earthquake alert app on his iPhone (AP Photo/Richard Vogel, File)
Relatively shallow, the earthquake occurred 40 kilometers southwest of the port city of Eureka.
After the quake, more than 55,000 customers were left without power in the surrounding area, according to poweroutage.uswhich tracks outages across the country.
California is regularly rocked by tremors and seismologists say an earthquake capable of causing widespread destruction is almost certain within the next 30 years.
A magnitude 6.7 quake in 1994 in Northridge, northwest of Los Angeles, killed at least 60 and caused an estimated $10 billion in damage, while a magnitude 6.9 quake in San Francisco in 1989 claimed lives. of 67 people.
(With information from AFP and AP)
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