The quake hit the town of Ridgecrest on the edge of Death Valley National Park 202 km (125 miles) northeast of Los Angeles. The San Bernadino County Fire Department reported that the quake had caused some damage to buildings. Only a few injuries were reported in Thursday's quake but two houses caught fire from broken gas pipes, officials said. Thursday'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: bd News24 July 06, 2019 04:18 UTC