The quake hit the town of Ridgecrest on the edge of Death Valley National Park 202 km north-east of Los Angeles. Southern California rocked by strongest quake in two decades“Homes shifted, foundation cracks, retaining walls down,” the department said on Twitter. Pools in Los Angeles sloshed wildly and TV cameras at baseball’s Dodger Stadium were shaking as they filmed the night game with the San Diego Padres. Powerful Indonesian quake felt in AustraliaThursday’s quake during America’s Independence Day celebrations was the largest in Southern California since the 1994 magnitude 6.6 Northridge earthquake, USGS geophysicist Paul Caruso said. That quake, which was centred in a heavily populated area of Los Angeles, killed 57 people and caused billions of dollars of damage.

Source: The Express Tribune July 06, 2019 05:37 UTC