File photo: Construction crews repair public facilities damaged by the Ferndale earthquake in Humboldt County, California, United States on December 21, 2022. A magnitude 6.4 earthquake shook parts of northern California on Tuesday, causing two deaths and 11 injuries and leaving tens of hundreds without power.
Xinhua News Agency | Xinhua News Agency | Getty’s paintings
An earthquake hit northern California on Sunday for the second time in lower than two weeks, causing power outages and damage, officials said.
The Latest 12 months’s quake had an initial magnitude of 5.4 and struck about 9 miles southeast of the Rio Dell in Humboldt County just after 10:30 a.m. local time (1:35 p.m. ET) Sunday, in response to the US Geological Survey.
The Humboldt County Sheriff’s Office said damage to homes was reported in town of Rio Dell, while half of town’s residents were without power on Sunday and about 30% without water. He said repair work was underway.
As of early Monday, only a handful of utility customers were affected by outages within the county, in response to online outage tracker PowerOutage.us.
The sheriff’s office reported no injuries from the quake.
It has been assured that there isn’t any tsunami threat in consequence of the earthquake.
As a precaution, the California Department of Transportation temporarily closed State Route 211 on Fernbridge Road for security checks, the sheriff’s office said, warning of traffic delays.
An earthquake occurs a couple of days after a earthquake with a magnitude of 6.4 it hit the region on December 20, killing two people and injuring at the least a dozen others, leaving hundreds in darkness.
Two people, aged 72 and 83, died in an emergency after December’s earthquake, Humboldt County Sheriff William Honsal told reporters earlier. He said rescuers were unable to get them to the suitable facility in time.
Honsal said Rio Dell, with a population of about 3,300, was considered one of the communities hardest hit by the earthquake and the handfuls of aftershocks that followed it.