The department later released a statement saying that its ground and air survey had found “no major infrastructure damage”. “We have word of wires down… and *localized* power outages in several City of Los Angeles neighborhoods… besides a handful of apparently small issues, NO major damage to infrastructure has been identified,” the Los Angeles Fire Department tweeted. The earthquake was the largest in southern California since 1999 when a 7.1-magnitude quake struck the Twenty nine Palms Marine Corps base, according to The Los Angeles Times.
The tremor was felt more than 240 kilometers away in Los Angeles, where the fire department deployed vehicles and helicopters to check on damage and residents in need of emergency aid. The latest quake was 11 times stronger than the previous day’s “foreshock”, according to the United States Geological Survey, and is part of what seismologists are calling an “earthquake sequence”. The shallow quake struck near the small city of Ridgecrest at 8:19 pm (0319 GMT Saturday), US seismologists said, and follows a 6.4-magnitude quake that hit the same area the day before. Southern California was rattled by its largest earthquake in two decades late Friday, a 7.1-magnitude tremor that shook buildings and cut power supplies in parts of Los Angeles but did not cause major damage or deaths, officials said.
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