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6.4 Magnitude Earthquake Hits Southern California

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Residents of Southern California were yesterday thronged into devastation as the largest earthquake hit the region. The quake, which occurred at 10:33 am was centred in the Searles Valley, a remote area of Kern County about 100 miles from Los Angeles.

 

The quake was the largest in Southern California since the 1994 6.6 Northridge quake, which caused deaths and destroyed properties worth billions of dollars.

Reacting to the tremor, Ava DuVernay tweeted: "Been living in Los Angeles all my life.

That was the longest earthquake I’ve ever experienced.

Not jerky. Smooth and rolling. But it was long. It was so long I thought for the first time ever “Is this the big one?” Damn. Respect Mother Nature. She’s the boss."

"I was in my kitchen trying to get some coffee and all the windows started rattling,"

said Emma Gallegos, a 34-year-old journalist in southwest Bakersfield.

"It was just a little bit at first — I thought something was going by, and then I realized all the windows were rattling. It was kind of a long gentle roll and I felt two distinct waves."

On her part, Gallegos said that the dried chiles hanging from a hook on her kitchen wall were all shaking. "It was surreal."

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