RIDGECREST, Calif. — A magnitude 5.5 earthquake in the desert city of Ridgecrest rattled homes hundreds of miles away in Los Angeles Wednesday evening according to the USGS.
Did you feel the M5.5 #earthquake about 11 miles south of Searles Valley just after 6:32 pm PT? The #ShakeAlert system issued a message and passed it along to our delivery partners. Let us know if you got an alert. Thank you! pic.twitter.com/WEHvldUOPe
— USGS ShakeAlert (@USGS_ShakeAlert) June 4, 2020
The temblor was located 10 miles south of Searles Valley.
Seismologist Dr. Lucy Jones described the quake as an aftershock following the 2019 Ridgecrest earthquakes.
Yes, an earthquake. A M5.5 at the very southern end of the 2019 Ridgecrest aftershock zone. This is a large late aftershock - do you remember that I said these are common?
— Dr. Lucy Jones (@DrLucyJones) June 4, 2020
A dispatcher with the Ridgecrest Police Department said there were no immediate reports of damage or injury.
The quake was felt as a bump and rolling motion in a high-rise building in downtown Las Vegas. Local television news broadcasts stopped as anchors reported seeing lights sway in their studios.
It also shook buildings in downtown Los Angeles.
A magnitude 7.1 quake on July 5, 2019, and a magnitude 6.4 foreshock the day before strongly shook the region.
Damage from those quakes occurred to facilities on the sprawling Naval Air Weapons Station China Lake as well as in the nearby communities of Trona and Ridgecrest.
The Associated Press contributed to this story.\
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