Two earthquakes in two days | Strong earthquakes shake …

A magnitude 7.1 earthquake shook southern California less than 48 hours after another smaller earthquake struck the same region. The authorities have not reported any deaths so far, although the local press has reported the wounded and houses burned by gas leaks. It was five times more powerful than the Thursday earthquake, also located near Ridgecrest. The earthquake was reported at 8:19 pm 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 movement's It is 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.

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 in which 57 people died and 8,700 were injured.

Gas leaks have caused fires in Ridgecrest infrastructure, residents have reported disturbances in the water supply, as well as electricity and communications have been disrupted in some areas, has said Mark Ghilarducci, director of the government's Emergency Management Office. California Several wounded have been reported.

The state of emergency has been declared in Ridgecrest and in the counties of San Bernardino and seismologists are expecting more aftershocks, although these earthquakes have occurred along the way. a fault near Ridgecrest, California, but they reminded geologists of the imminent danger of another major earthquake. along the imposing San Andreas Fault, further west, which could cause significantly greater damage.