A strong 5.5 magnitude quake has struck southern California, some 189 km (117.5 mi) northeast of Los Angeles, with residents reporting tremors almost 200 miles away.
The jolt was felt in Ridgecrest – a metropolis some 120 miles (193 km) from San Bernardino, across the Searles Valley – on Wednesday night time, with the USA Geological Survey (USGS) reporting a shallow depth of 6.9 kilometers. There have been no studies of injury or accidents as of but.
EARTHQUAKE DETAILS: 6:32 P.M. 5.5 magnitude 14 miles east of Ridgecrest. pic.twitter.com/TDVq3NJWAN
— Tedd Florendo (@TeddFlorendo) June four, 2020
Netizens stated shaking may very well be felt as far-off as Culver Metropolis, a suburb of Los Angeles positioned a number of hundred miles south of the quake’s epicenter.
I felt that shaking from Culver Metropolis!#CAearthquake #earthquake #Ridgecrest #SearlesValley pic.twitter.com/66iPsfeC5q
— Leah Freeman (@leahmfreeman) June four, 2020
Because the coronavirus pandemic continues to take lives within the US and a wave of intense demonstrations and unrest over police brutality sweeps numerous cities, some commenters took to social media to slam nature itself for being tone-deaf to earthlings’ emotions.
absolutely the audacity of the earth to quake proper now
— keely flaherty (@keelyflaherty) June four, 2020
in fact there’s an earth quake … fuck you 2020
— Zedd (@Zedd) June four, 2020
Ridgecrest has been close to the epicenter of a couple of main earthquake, together with one in 1995 and a collection of quakes in July 2019. In accordance with one native seismologist, the jolt on Wednesday was an aftershock from final yr’s string of quakes, which reached a magnitude of seven.1 at its peak and has produced a lot of smaller tremors since.
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