Northern California officials are back in clean-up mode after the second earthquake in two weeks struck the region, cracking walls and roads.
The 5.4 magnitude earthquake was shallow, striking at a depth of about 19 miles, the US Geological Survey said. It was centered about 30 miles south of Eureka and 9 miles southeast of Rio Dell, the USGS said. A 6.4 earthquake also shook the area, about 125 miles south of the Oregon border, on December 20, resulting in two deaths. Rio Dell Mayor Debra Garnes said the December quake also left 27 of the town’s homes red-tagged – meaning they were unsafe due to damage – and 73 homes yellow-tagged.
Things came out of the refrigerator. There’s a crack in my wall from the violence of it.” Garnes said a neighbor’s house also had a crack in the wall from the quake. The mayor said 30% of the town’s water is shut down and the town lost “pockets” of power. There is a 35-foot crack in one of the town’s main roads, she said. But the mayor said there has been a “tremendous response from the community,” in the form of state and local agencies as well as aid from neighboring towns.
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