- Northern California had its second earthquake in less than two weeks.
- There have been no injuries reported by the sheriff’s office.
- There was no tsunami risk.
On Sunday, Northern California had its second earthquake in less than two weeks, which officials claimed resulted in damage and power outages.
According to the U.S. Geological Survey, the New Year’s Day earthquake, which had a preliminary magnitude of 5.4, occurred about 9 miles southeast of Rio Dell in Humboldt County just after 10:30 a.m. local time (1:35 p.m. ET) on Sunday.
According to the Humboldt County Sheriff’s Office, there have been reports of home damage in Rio Dell, and on Sunday, 50% of the city’s residents were without electricity and 30% were without water. It indicated restoration work was in progress.
According to the online outage tracker PowerOutage.us, as of early Monday, just a small number of utility customers in the county appeared to be impacted by outages.
There have been no injuries reported by the sheriff’s office. There was no tsunami risk, it claimed.
The sheriff’s office advised of travel delays when the California Department of Transportation temporarily shut State Route 211 at Fernbridge Road to carry out safety inspections.
On December 20, a magnitude 6.4 earthquake that shook the area left thousands of people without power and killed two individuals.
Following the December earthquake, two persons, aged 72 and 83, died as a result of medical issues, Humboldt County Sheriff William Honsal earlier told reporters. He said that emergency personnel had not been able to transport them to the proper institution in time.
Rio Dell, which has a population of about 3,300, was one of the areas that was most severely affected by the earthquake and the dozens of aftershocks that followed, according to Honsal.
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