The California Office of Emergency Services brought in cots, water and meals and set up cooling centres in the region, Director Mark Ghilarducci said. Officials said most employees live off the base and in Ridgecrest, but they authorized the evacuation so those who live on base can be eligible for reimbursements. The epicentres of both quakes were on the base, and officials said they are continuing to assess damage.
Naval Air Weapons Station China Lake said in a Facebook post that nonessential workers were evacuated and operations halted. The Pentagon had been notified, and the entire California Military Department was put on alert, he said.
The California National Guard was sending 200 troops, logistical support and aircraft, Maj. With the possibility of aftershocks and temperatures forecast to reach 100 degrees (38 Celsius) over the next several days, officials were taking precautions. We heard glass breakage in the other rooms, but all we could do was stay where we were until it stopped." "But it just kept on intensifying," she said. She and her three kids initially thought it was another aftershock.įriday's magnitude 7.1 earthquake was centred 18 kilometres from the small desert town of Ridgecrest, Calif., about 241 kilometres from Los Angeles. But seismologists warned that the area could see up to 30,000 aftershocks over the next six months.Īpril Hamlin said she was "already on edge" when the second quake rattled her Ridgecrest home. Only 28,000 people live in the Ridgecrest area, which is sandwiched between more populated areas of Southern California and Las Vegas' Clark County. "He's committed in the long haul, the long run, to help support the rebuilding efforts," Newsom said of Trump. President Donald Trump called him to offer federal support in the rebuilding effort. Newsom estimated more than $100 million US in economic damages and said U.S. Gavin Newsom cautioned after touring Ridgecrest that "it's deceiving, earthquake damage. The light damage was largely due to the remoteness of the area where the earthquake occurred, but Gov.
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It left behind cracked and burning buildings, broken roads, obstructed railroad tracks and leaking water and gas lines. local time Friday and was centred 18 kilometres from Ridgecrest, Calif., the same area of the desert where a 6.4-magnitude temblor hit just a day earlier. No fatalities or major injuries were reported after Friday night's 7.1-magnitude earthquake, which jolted an area from Sacramento to Mexico and prompted the evacuation of the Navy's largest single landholding, Naval Air Weapons Station China Lake in the Mojave Desert. Officials in Southern California expressed relief Saturday that damage and injuries weren't worse after the largest earthquake the region has seen in nearly 20 years, while voicing concerns about the possibility of major aftershocks in the days and even months to come.
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