California shook again with magnitude 7.1 earthquake | Chronic

A magnitude 7.1 earthquake shook southern California less than 48 hours after another smaller earthquake struck the same region. Meanwhile, the authorities have not announced the death of the deceased, although the local press has reported wounded and houses burned as a result of gas leaks, the newspaper reported. EFE.

The earthquake was reported at 8:19 pm on Friday (after midnight in Argentina), according to the US Geological Survey, 17km from the small town of Ridgecrest, 240km northeast of Los Angeles, where the move also felt. .

In the same region, a magnitude 6.4 earthquake was recorded Thursday morning, the strongest in two decades, and more than a hundred tremors have rocked the region in the last ten days.

Impressive images such as swimming pools that move like brave seas or the shock that live TV presenters felt when everything started shaking were among the images left by the last telluric movement.

The seismologist Lucy Jones explained in his account Twitter that both earthquakes occurred in the same fault and "They are part of the same sequence."

The two earthquakes are the largest in 20 years in southern California since the 7.1 earthquake in 1999, known as the Hector Mine.

In 1999 and today, both were recorded in sparsely populated rural areas of California, unlike Northridge, in 1994 in Los Angeles, a magnitude of 6.4 in which 57 people died and 8,700 were injured.