

- #June 19th 2019 southern california earth quake cracked
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#June 19th 2019 southern california earth quake cracked
local time and was centered in the Mojave Desert near the town of Ridgecrest, which is still recovering from a 6.4 quake on the Fourth of July. 08:14 AM EDT LOS ANGELES A quake with a magnitude of 7.1 jolted much of California, cracking buildings, setting fires, breaking roads and causing several injuries while. LOS ANGELES A quake with a magnitude as large as 7.1 jolted much of California, cracked buildings, set fires, broke roads and caused several injuries, authorities and residents said. Some looting was reported during the chaos, but it was not a widespread problem. The latest earthquake happened just after 8 p.m. Meanwhile, hospitals were evacuated as a precaution. Reluctant to return to their homes, hundreds of people camped out in public parks for several days. The seismic storm that unleashed more than 1,000 small earthquakes in San Bernardino and Riverside counties these last three weeks elicited what has become a typical. Despite the strong tremors, there were no major building collapses.Ī long series of aftershocks rocked Southern California for days after the earthquake. Past earthquakes in California, USA: 2019. Falling debris killed six people and the earthquake caused the area’s major highways to be shut down. Several fires were ignited when gas lines were severed by the earth’s movement.


#June 19th 2019 southern california earth quake full
on October 1, a 6.1-magnitude earthquake jolted Whittier and the surrounding area for a full 30 seconds, violently shaking people out of their beds and causing unsecured items to crash to the floors in homes throughout the region. Geological Survey says the quake occurred at 6:11 a.m. Whittier is a small town south of Los Angeles best known as President Richard Nixon’s hometown. The quake was the largest to hit Southern California since 1971, but not nearly as damaging as the Northridge quake that would devastate parts of Los Angeles seven years later. An earthquake in Whittier, California, kills 6 people and injures 100 more on October 1, 1987.
