Two days after a first earthquake, California suffered the largest earthquake in 20 years

Authorities they do not report deceased until now, although the local press reported injuries and homes burned by gas leaks, the news agency reported.

The tremor it was reported at 8:19 pm on Friday (after midnight in Argentina), According to the United States Geological Survey, 17 km from the small town of Ridgecrest, 240 km northeast of Los Angeles, where the movement was also felt.

In the same region, a magnitude 6.4 earthquake was recorded Thursday morning, until that time, the strongest in two decades, and more than a hundred earthquakes have rocked this region over the last ten days.

Among the images left by the last telluric movement, impressive images, such as swimming pools that move as if they were brave seas or the shock that live television presenters took when everything was shaking

Seismologist Lucy Jones explained in her Twitter account that the two earthquakes had occurred in the same fault and that they "were 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, killing 57 and injuring 8,700.