5.9 magnitude earthquake hits Northern California Reuters near Nevada

Steve Gorman

(Reuters)-According to the United States Geological Survey (USGS), a magnitude 5.9 earthquake occurred in the mountainous area bordering Nevada on Thursday, but no injuries or serious damage were reported immediately.

The U.S. Geological Survey said on its website that the quake originally recorded a magnitude of 6.2 and a focal depth of 6 miles (10 kilometers). The epicenter was located near the town of Walker, about 150 miles east of Sacramento, the capital of California.

According to the US Geological Survey, a series of smaller earthquakes occurred in the same area in the eastern Sierra Nevada after the earthquake. According to the released crowdsourced “Did You Feel?” map, as far as San Francisco, about 200 miles (322 kilometers) eastward, and as far as Carson City, the capital of Nevada, there were slight to slight vibrations. By the United States Geological Survey.

The California Governor’s Office of Emergency Services said on Twitter: “Although there are no preliminary reports of damage or injuries, this is a rapidly evolving situation and more details will emerge in the coming hours.” “We are working closely with local officials. To ensure that they have the resources and support to quickly respond to these earthquakes.”

Although earthquakes with magnitudes between 5.5 and 6.0 can cause some damage to buildings and other structures, a series of earthquakes on Thursday hit relatively sparsely populated areas.

In the seismically active California, earthquakes of this magnitude are not uncommon. But the earthquake on Thursday made local residents feel uneasy.

“This shocked us very much,” Su Wood, a waitress serving hamburgers to customers at a grocery store in Smith Valley, Nevada, near the epicenter of the earthquake, was quoted by the San Francisco Chronicle a few minutes later.

Wood told the newspaper that a loud noise was heard when the local board was rolling, and then the goods on the store shelves swayed for about 20 seconds, calling the incident “terrible.”