Several homes were knocked off their foundations. State Route 178 in Kern County was closed by a rockslide and had severe cracking. Roads were buckled or blocked, and police put out a call for bottled water for residents. Nearby, the tiny town of Trona, with about 2,000 residents, was reported to have at least one collapsed building. Two building fires - one involving a mobile home - were quickly doused, and there were several reports of natural gas leaks, but the lines were shut off, McLaughlin said.įor the second time in as many days, Ridgecrest Regional Hospital wheeled patients out of the building, some still hooked to IVs, CNN reported. But there was “nothing but minor injuries such as cuts and bruises, by the grace of God,” Ridgecrest Police Chief Jed McLaughlin said. Local fire and police officials said they were initially swamped by calls for medical and ambulance service. “There are significant reports of structure fires, mostly as a result of gas leaks or gas line breaks throughout the city” and daybreak Saturday could show even more serious damage, said Mark Ghilarducci, director of California Office of Emergency Services.
#JUNE 19TH 2019 SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA EARTH QUAKE CRACKED#
Several thousand people were without power, and there were reports of cracked buildings. The area in and around Ridgecrest, already trying to recover from the previous temblor, took the brunt of damage. The quake was felt as far north as Sacramento, as far east as Las Vegas and as far south as Mexico. Gavin Newsom activated the state Office of Emergency Services operations center “to its highest level” and announced he had requested that President Donald Trump issue an emergency declaration so the state could receive federal aid.
“These earthquakes are related,” Jones said, adding that the new quake probably ruptured along about 25 miles of fault line and was part of a continuing sequence. and was centered 11 miles from Ridgecrest in the same areas where the previous quake hit. However, the quake was unlikely to affect fault lines outside of the area, she said, noting that the gigantic San Andreas Fault was far away.
The chance of a 5.0-magnitude quake “is approaching certainty,” she added.Īftershocks from the new main quake could occur for years, Jones said.
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