Act Daily News
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An earthquake struck Northern California Sunday morning for the second time in lower than a two-week span, in line with the US Geological Survey.
The 5.4 magnitude earthquake occurred about 30 miles south of Eureka and was centered about 9 miles southeast of Rio Dell, the USGS stated. The earthquake was a shallow one, occurring at a depth of about 17.3 miles, in line with preliminary info from the company.
Rio Dell Mayor Debra Garnes stated the quake shook her home.
“It was crazy. The earthquake felt more violent this time,” Garnes informed Act Daily News. “It was shorter, but more violent. My refrigerator moved two feet. Things came out of the refrigerator. There’s a crack in my wall from the violence of it.”
Garnes stated a neighbor’s home additionally had a crack within the wall from the quake.
This is the second earthquake to strike the Northern California area in lower than a month. A 6.4 earthquake that shook the area on December 20 left two individuals useless. Garnes stated 27 properties had been red-tagged – which means they had been unsafe as a consequence of harm – and 73 properties yellow-tagged in Rio Dell from that quake.
“We are kind of starting over – we had moved from our response to recovery, and now we are basically in both,” Garnes informed Act Daily News’s Pamela Brown Sunday. “We have to be back in response because the southern end of town really took it hard this time.”
The mayor stated 30% of the city’s water is shut down and the city misplaced “pockets” of energy. There is a 35-foot crack in one of many city’s foremost roads, she stated.
Some properties and buildings that had been broken within the December quake had been broken extra Sunday and a few might need to be torn down, Garnes stated.
But the mayor stated there was a “tremendous response from the community,” within the type of state and native companies in addition to help from neighboring cities.
“Literally everyone is trying their best to help us get through this,” Garnes stated.
As of Sunday morning, the USGS stated the most recent quake is a inexperienced pager, indicating there have been no estimated fatalities and really low estimated financial losses.